A tad corny, but I like this little video for the message it conveys. For conservative (and especially the Religious Right) trying desperately to get the country to return to a 19th century mentality, they should all be forced to sit in a dark room and watch it repeatedly until the message gets firmly implanted in their little minds.
Why does scientific knowledge terrify conservatives as much as it does? The answer might be in the fact that science destroys some of their basic beliefs so they’d rather mock what they don’t understand than ever admit they’re wrong (e.g. climate change).
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Canadians have all bases covered on this one. If they win the game, they’re champs. If they lose, well…
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John McCain will be on Meet The Press for the zillionth time since he took a trashing in the elections. Why? Can this guy be any more irrelevant?
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Here’s an explanation we don’t hear often enough on how conservative media plays their game. Media consultant Joel Silberman…
To begin with, talk shows[..] are popular and powerful because they appeal to a segment of the population that feels disenfranchised and even victimized by the media. These people believe the media are predominantly staffed by and consistently reflect the views of social liberals. This view is by now so long-held and deep-rooted, it has evolved into part of virtually every conservative’s DNA.
To succeed, a talk show host must perpetuate the notion that his or her listeners are victims, and the host is the vehicle by which they can become empowered. The host frames virtually every issue in us-versus-them terms. There has to be a bad guy against whom the host will emphatically defend those loyal listeners.
This enemy can be a politician – either a Democratic officeholder or, in rare cases where no Democrat is convenient to blame, it can be a “RINO” (a “Republican In Name Only,” who is deemed not conservative enough). It can be the cold, cruel government bureaucracy. More often than not, however, the enemy is the “mainstream media” – local or national, print or broadcast.
Silberman expounds on “The Big Lie” (liberal media bias). Good stuff. .
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Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits next month.
As Democratic senators asked again and again for unanimous consent for a vote on a 30-day extension Thursday night, Bunning refused to go along.
And when Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) begged him to drop his objection, Politico reports, Bunning replied: “Tough shit.”
Bunning says he doesn’t oppose extending benefits — he just doesn’t want the money that’s required added to the deficit. He proposes paying for the 30-day extension with stimulus funds. The Senate’s GOP leadership did not support him in his objections.
When a Republican gets the disapproval of his own party, you know he’s screwed up big time.
With the unemployment rate in Kentucky at 10.7 %, Bunning also had this to say about missing a basketball game.
“I have missed the Kentucky-South Carolina game that started at 9:00,” he said,
“and it’s the only redeeming chance we had to beat South Carolina since they’re the only team that has beat Kentucky this year.
Because of a single Republican senator jerkoff, more than 1 million unemployed are in jeopardy of losing unemployment insurance and health benefits.
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As for the next one, while it illustrates exactly what the broken health care system is doing to the uninsured and underinsured, it does not depict what the yelling in the back office is all about. It makes it appear that the two sides are having a justifiable disagreement…that somehow Dems and Repubs are both too busy fighting with each other than to actually care about those waiting for reform. Reality says something differently.
Dems do care about fixing the health care system. It has only been Democratic administrations that have taken on the task of substantially reforming health care. Republicans on the other hand have ignored the problem and blocked reform for the last sixty years. Nothing has changed. Their latest talking point about doing change incrementally is just another transparent ploy in an attempt to block any serious attempt at negotiating a compromise.
The perfect illustration of what is happening is to take the above image and place it in the back office behind the glass. People are dying and Republicans don’t care. The interests of health care industry lobbyists takes clear precedent over the dying of innocent Americans.
Bill Maher made an important point last night. He spoke about Republicans being in rage over the deaths caused by Toyota’s faulty brake system. They’ve helped convene congressional hearings and investigations and have vowed to do right for Americans. Good. That’s exactly what should be done but here’s the irony.
Total number of Americans killed by Toyota’s errors: 34
Number of Americans killed by being uninsured: 45,000 EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
Republican approach? The Toyota problem must immediately be rectified. As for the broken health care system, leave it be, because according to them, it is the “best health care system in the world.”
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The City of Temecula, California removed the above art work created by artist Jeff Hebron from an exhibit being held in a public space. The mayor gave the following reason for doing so.
“The city’s not in the censorship business. But neither does the city want the reputation of exposing children to art that’s not appropriate.”
“I’m not concerned about adults viewing art,” he said. “They can take care of themselves. It’s the children I’m concerned about.”
Concerned about what? About allowing children to view a part of the human body by way of art? Is society not yet over outdated Victorian era mores which do nothing more than instill shame and embarrassment in individuals over their own bodies?
Nudity for the mere sake of shock value is wrong. But nudity by way of artistic impression is not something anyone should ever fear. Geez, what is this? The 1850s?
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At the health care summit, Democrat Louise Slaughter was making a case for the plight of the uninsured and brought up a story about a woman who was forced to wear her dead sister’s dentures because she lacked the means to purchase her own. Here’s how the scum in wingnuttia responded.
Pigboy Limbaugh
“You know I’m getting so many people — this Louise Slaughter comment on the dentures? I’m getting so many people — this is big. I mean, that gets a one-time mention for a laugh, but there are people out there that think this is huge because it’s so stupid. I mean, for example, well, what’s wrong with using a dead person’s teeth? Aren’t the Democrats big into recycling? Save the planet? And so what? So if you don’t have any teeth, so what? What’s applesauce for? Isn’t that why they make applesauce?”
Glenn Beck
“I am wearing George Washington’s dentures right now. I’m wearing his teeth right now. I just like wearing dead people’s teeth. But in America — I’m sorry, I didn’t know that that was — I’ve read the Constitution before. I didn’t see that you had a right to teeth.”
“The environmentalists should be all over Slaughter. ‘How dare you say that?’ My gosh, they’re just recycling. They’re just reusing.”
When it comes to the point where mocking the uninsured is acceptable fodder for conservatives, you know you’ve reached dirt bottom in this debate.
As for Pigboy and Beck, they make it so easy to despise them. And what does it say for Republicans and teabaggers when Limbaugh and Beck are their main respective spokesmen?
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Obama’s closing remarks from the health care summit…
What I do know is this: If we saw movement — significant movement, not just gestures — then you wouldn’t need to start over because essentially everybody here knows what the issues are. And procedurally, it could get done fairly quickly. We cannot have another year-long debate about this.
So the question that I’m going to ask myself and I ask of all of you is, is there enough serious effort that in a month’s time or a few weeks’ time or six weeks’ time, we could actually resolve something. And if we can’t, then I think we’ve got to go ahead and make some decisions and then that’s what elections are for. We have honest disagreements about the vision for the country and we’ll go ahead and test those out over the next several months till November.
MediaMatters has a story on how a number of right-wing pundits have interpreted the President’s remarks as a threat that he is willing to have reconciliation used if the need be.
Michael Gerson
“But the reality is that — the political reality is that the president at the end — as you point out — ended with a threat, which is, yeah, we want bipartisanship, and if you don’t do what we want, we’re going to pass this through reconciliation, which marginalizes even moderate Democratic voices in the Senate debate.”
Foxnews.com
“Obama ended Thursday’s White House summit by threatening to push for passage of health care reform without Republican support.”
Gateway Pundit
“Barack Obama ended the bipartisan summit today at the Blair House by threatening Republicans to accept the democrat’s plan. (He will not start over.) Or, he will ram it through Congress without them.”
“…based on his closing remarks at the summit, he [Obama] just about gave his blessings for passing a health care bill via reconciliation.”
…I agree with these guys. It was a threat…and why the hell not? Passing health care reform with Republican support is not going to happen tomorrow, next week or next month. It won’t happen this year or in the next hundred years. These vermin are holding the country hostage and as noted a dozen times before, for every twelve minutes that this nonsense drags on, another American dies from lack of health insurance.
Enough already. The time has come for Democrats to take a stand or forever be branded as the party of cowards. It’s not a fucking game anymore. People are dying. Dems have the majority. Get it done.
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