Courtesy of Raw Story:
Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist and regular Fox News panelist Charles Krauthammer warned over the weekend that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was leading Republicans on a “suicide” mission to defund President Barack Obama’s health reform law with an attempted government shutdown.
Over the past month, Cruz has been joined Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and the Heritage Foundation in insisting that Republicans pass no continuing resolutions to fund the government unless the president agrees to repeal or defund the Affordable Care Act.
“It would be over a cliff for the GOP,” Krauthammer said on Sunday’s edition Inside Washington. “I admire the sincerity and the passion of those who don’t want to pass the budget unless you get rid of Obamacare, but it is utterly impossible in the real world. And the only thing it will do is to undo all the gains the Republicans have made over the past year, and undo their very real chances of having great successes next year.”
“I think it’s a suicide caucus, and I hope enough of them will realize that so that [House Speaker John Boehner] will have a majority, even if it’s a bare majority, to pass a continuing resolution,” he added.
I don't often agree with Krauthammer on much of anything, but occasionally he is dead right on an issue and this is one of those times.
The only question to ask is are the Right Wing nutjobs willing take the noose from around their necks and listen? I bet you know what I think.
Starbucks CEO publishes open letter on blog to ask customers to quit bringing firearms into their facilities and dragging them into 2nd Amendment debate.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.starbucks.com/blog/an-open-letter-from-howard-schultz/1268
Krathaummer was throwing a bone to hopeful Palinophiles early on in 2008 when he said Sarah was "an authentically independent, tough-minded reformer." Adding, "She has the unique potential of energizing the base while at the same time appealing to independents."
ReplyDeleteHe also defended her infamous response to the Charles Gibson Bush Doctrine question by evoking class warfare - one of the most potent weapons in Palin's arsenal: "he captured perfectly the establishment snobbery and intellectual condescension that has characterized the chattering classes’ reaction to the mother of five who presumes to play on their stage."
But he was an early critic of the decision to add Governor Palin to the 2008 Presidential ticket, Krauthammer asserted in his first Palin column that she was "deeply problematic" and "not ready" to be President. He also asserted that Palin was unnecessary as a "game-changer."
There was some capitulation in admiration for Queen Esther, but he grew wary of her not being a serious candidate for the presidency.
"She had to go home and study and spend a lot of time on issues in which she was not adept last year, and she hasn't. She has to stop speaking in clichés and platitudes."
In short, she could NOT "do the magic -- unteleprompted extemporaneous magic, from now on --" to sustain her star power and electability. She just needs to "leave the room."
Now he's called it on another wing-nut neophyte, Ted Cruz. Will he flame out just as spectacularly as Sarah? Or is his intellect, bravado and degree's actually cloak his insanity enough to keep him in the Senate or in a Cabinet post for decades to come?
"According to the legend, Johnson admitted to White House aides that his signing of the Civil Rights Act would hand the South to the Republican Party for generations to come." -Slate
ReplyDeleteI will speculate that if the Republicans shut down the government over de-funding Obamacare, they will hand the Nation over to the Democrats for many generations to come. -Gra*ma Banana
Hope you're right!
DeleteWe need to get some semblance of sanity back into our government before we implode.
It will take decades to repair the damage the GOP has done to our country.
Carnival Cruz and Sparklemoose do have something in common: they are both narcissists to the nth degree. According to a Time mag article, he was obnoxious at Harvard, always wanting to argue and debate whatever issue was at hand, just to prove to everyone that HE was the smart one. He has a photographic memory, which helped enormously in getting good grades, but he simply does not have the EQ necessary for, not only a good politician, but also a decent, caring human being. I'm grateful the Cruz family left Canada, but so very sorry that he and his equally obnoxious (and crazy) father took up residence in your fair land. He's dangerous, and I dare say he's heading right for obscurity, where he most certainly belongs.
ReplyDeleteIs this the "death panel" we've heard so much about?
ReplyDeleteWheee....kamikaze baggers!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, if they DO decide to continue on this tack of refusal, the country as a whole will suffer. I would be more than willing to bet that our national credit rating will drop again.
ReplyDeleteThese idiots scream bloody murder about the deficit and yet they appear too stupid to recognize that the actions they wish to take will increase our debt drastically due simply to interest increases. And these people keep getting elected?
A little media roundup on 'Obamacare':
ReplyDeleteMental Health, ObamaCare and GOP Guns in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il61X1yUQsk
Conservatives Eat Their Own for Profit
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brian-walsh/2013/09/12/the-senate-conservative-fund-and-the-heritage-foundation-profit-from-attacking-republicans
The right’s self-defeating new business scheme
The "Shutdown Obamacare!" strategy conservatives are pushing may be political suicide, but it's great for donations
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/17/for_conservatives_the_obamacare_fight_is_great_for_business/
Under Obamacare, Millions Of Americans Will Pay Less Than $100 Per Month For Health Insurance
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/17/2631881/obamacare-premiums-100-dollars-month/
The Republicans Who Are Learning to Embrace Obamacare
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114740/obamacare-polling-badly-gop-governors-embracing-it
Health Reform in Action: 6 in 10 Uninsured Eligible Obamacare Premiums Under $100
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/09/there-goes-affordable-care-act-making.html
Latest Obamacare Lie Claims Doctors Will Be Forced To Ask Patients About Their Sexual History
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/17/2633581/obamacare-sex-history/
'This is about political cash, not political principle'
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/09/17/20546220-this-is-about-political-cash-not-political-principle?lite
For GOP, is yielding to this fringe viewpoint of undermining #Obamacare really worth recklessly hurting the economy?
https://twitter.com/Jordan44/status/380000763990138880/photo/1
Republicans Foolishly Try to Get People to Reject Paying $100 a Month for Healthcare
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/17/thanks-obama-ten-pay-100-month-health-insurance.html
Deluded Conservatives Run with Poll That Shows Only 23% Want to Destroy ObamaCare
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/16/deluded-republicans-run-poll-shows-23-americans-destroy-obamacare.html
and finally:
Am I REALLY hearing this? What the hell are they good for except interjecting their own stupid opinions on things? How is it NOT the media's job?
Chuck Todd: It's Not Media's Job To Correct GOP's Obamacare Falsehoods (VIDEO)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chuck-todd-it-s-not-media-s-job-to-correct-gop-s-obamacare-falsehoods-video
Obamacare Is Going To Change The Way You Work And Retire
ReplyDeleteThe biggest effect of Obamacare is obvious: Starting this winter, it will make it easier for tens of millions of Americans without health insurance to get it.
But Obamacare will also lead to big changes for workers who do have health insurance and for the firms that employ them.
Workers will find it easier to change jobs, and to enter and leave the labor force at will, without worrying that doing so will cause them to lose access to health insurance.
In other words, Obamacare will tilt power in the labor market away from employers and toward employees.
http://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-will-change-how-you-work-and-retire-2013-9
And THIS is why they are fighting so hard, the bosses don't like to give up their power.
Damn straight. My husband, who has been diabetic for 43 years, is aiming at retirement next year at the age of 62. I will continue to work, carrying him on my insurance, until I turn 65 and am eligible for Medicare. The problem? I don't LIKE my job. I get up every day and hate it. I do not want to spend five more years working there. If we are able to get insurance, I'll look into retiring earlier. Our financial planner says it's feasible. Life is too short to spend it working for a living.
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Five Things To Take Away From The New Census Data On Health Insurance In America
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday released its annual report on U.S. wages, poverty, and health demographics. The full 2012 report is available here and an accompanying assortment of charts may be found here.
While the Census data largely did not find statistically significant differences in American insurance statistics from 2011, it did highlight some areas of improvement — and several where the health care safety net still has a long way to go.
1. Millions of young Americans aged 19 to 25 are getting health insurance thanks to Obamacare.
In the U.S., the older you get as an adult, the more likely you are to have health coverage. Part of that is because younger people, while valuing health insurance, largely can’t afford it. Part of it has to do with the types of job opportunities (and the accompanying health benefits) that become available as you age. Public entitlement programs hold down uninsurance rates for most senior citizens and children.
The 2008 financial crisis and ensuing global recession led to a big rise in the numbers of uninsured young Americans, causing the uninsurance rate for 19 to 25-year-olds to surge from 29.3 percent to 31.4 percent between 2008 and 2009. But after Obamacare was passed in 2010, that percentage began falling and is now tied with the 26 to 34-year-old cohort for the second year in a row:
uninsured by age
This is largely due to the Obamacare provision that allows adults up to age 26 to remain on their parents’ health insurance. A Commonwealth Fund study from April found that the provision has extended health benefits to 3.4 million young Americans since 2010. This new-found insurance coverage ended up saving them $147 million in higher medical bills for expensive emergency room care that can’t be anticipated in advance, such as broken bones and accidental poisonings.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/17/2634141/learn-census-data-health-insurance-america/
And you have to ask WHY? Why is this being attacked and fought so hard other than it's OBAMAcare and how DARE a BLACK democratic president insist on doing something to help people who are LITERALLY dying and suffering due to lack of healthcare???
ReplyDeleteThe Fight Over Obamacare Was Completely Unprecedented
http://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-was-completely-unprecedented-2013-9
I'm always amused when I see their commercial during Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC. Talk about a waste of advertising dollars!!!
ReplyDeleteThey hate Obama more than they care about this country.
ReplyDeleteMisguided fools.
Charles Krauthammer is a physician and a board certified Psychiatrist.
ReplyDeleteHe knows crazy when he sees it.
The Pyromaniac sect of the Republican Party led by
Ted Cruz , Palin , Limbaugh and Hannity
are trying to burn the Republican party and the whole
country to the ground
with their gas and matches.
It doesn't appear that there are enough Republicans with a spine willing to stand up to the unhinged weirdos , even though
the non Tea Party Republicans
are actually in the majority.
The Democrat Party would never allow the sick and disturbed to overrule the rest of the party.
The ACA is the law of the land.
It was passed by the House and Senate,
signed into law by the President
and upheld by the USSC.
It cannot be defunded with a Democrat Senate and a Democrat President and even if in some unthinkable scenario,
they all agreed to it,
there would be court challenges for years.
Ted Cruz actually knows this -Palin and the Tea Party do not seem to understand basic Civics.
Cruz and the Heritage Foundation have played the far right for suckers just to get donations and they have paid
Limbaugh and Hannity big advertising fees to wink, wink ..keep the scam going.
This was never about defunding the ACA, it was always about enriching the bottom lines of Cruz , Palin, Hannity ,Limbaugh
and the unelected Tea Party crooks.
They should all be audited.
Even Dr. Strangelove has moments of lucidity.
ReplyDeleteI`m really hoping that one of the things a government shutdown would entail, is to cease any payments to members of congress.
ReplyDeleteWouldn`t it be a total goof, to watch such dimwits as Ted Cruz, come to the realization that they screwed THEMSELVES, with this move.
Mr Krauthammer said:
ReplyDelete"And the only thing it will do is to undo all the gains the Republicans have made over the past year, and undo their very real chances of having great successes next year.”
What "gains" are he talking about?
O.T. On her official first day on "Flux and Fiends", former reality show loser and ten year alum of the "Barbara Walters School of Acting Somewhat Sane", Sparkle Plenty Ditzy Peroxide blonde, Lis Hassledork, rails against violent video games, which caused the deaths/injury and terror in Washington DC yesterday. Her male co dependents nodded and drooled all over themselves.
Apparently, guns don't kill people, Sony play station controllers do.
She's (Hassledork! LOL!) always been so worldly and such a deep thinker, hasn't she?
DeleteI read recently that the comparable stats to Japan and the UK, whom both have violent video games in their countries, are laughable. It seems to correlate to access to guns. So surprising, isn't it?