Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.
It's hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. Conservatives may cheer themselves that they'll compensate for today's expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections.
(1) It's a good bet that conservatives are over-optimistic about November – by then the economy will have improved and the immediate goodies in the healthcare bill will be reaching key voting blocs.
(2) So what? Legislative majorities come and go. This healthcare bill is forever. A win in November is very poor compensation for this debacle now.
Tea Party members are misinformed about taxes, Bruce Bartlett writes in Forbes "According to the CBO, the highest figure for all federal taxes since 1970 came in the year 2000, when they reached 20.6% of GDP. As we know, after that George W. Bush and Republicans in Congress cut federal taxes; they fell to 18.5% of GDP in 2007, before the recession hit, and 17.5% in 2008. Tuesday's Tea Party crowd, however, thought that federal taxes were almost three times as high as they actually are. The average response was 42% of GDP and the median 40%. The highest figure recorded in all of American history was half those figures: 20.9% at the peak of World War II in 1944."
Naughty, naughty, naughty. Using a faked memo to catapult your propaganda? Smells of desperation:
The memo, first reported by Politico and Big Government and pushed hard by Drudge, allegedly shows the Dem leadership telling rank and file Dems to stay hush-hush about a scheme for a “doc fix” later this year that, in essence, would make the bill's deficit-reduction meaningless.
After Dems alleged to TPM that the memo is fake, Politico pulled down the story.
The memo, however, was pushed to some reporters by the office of GOP leader John Boehner. A source forwards an email sent at 12:58 PM by Boehner spokesman Michael Steel to The Daily Caller's Jon Ward and other reporters, with the original memo attached.
Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his influential work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, died Wednesday. He was 59. Chilton died at a hospital in New Orleans after experiencing what appeared to be heart problems, said his long time friend John Fry.
Mark Morford: ey, kids! Here's something I bet you didn't know: Black people? Back in 1800 or whenever? They liked being slaves. True! Many savvy, industrious Negroes actually volunteered for that fine, desirable position. It was a completely balanced, fair, hugely successful system, until those damn liberals came along and ruined everything. Do you know what else? America was wholly victorious in Vietnam. It's a fact! Kicked some serious enemy butt! read more
I guess that's why you never see tea party contestants on Jeopardy.
Alex, can I have 'Who's That Nig@&*' for $200?
It's quite apparent that emoguy has his head buried in the sand. Restraining students to the point of suffocation is indeed child abuse, even the staunchest apologist for the GOP should be able to see this. Also, the bill proposed byAl Franken succeeded in spotlighting the 30 pro-rape shitstains in all their glory.
Typical racist Liberal. What else would we expect?
#32 | Posted by mitch
Listen to the women-hating queef roar.