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Reagan In Name Only

by Jsmog
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 12:03am

GOP says No to Reagan

This is too much. OMG! The Republicans are now trying to get Ronald Reagan kicked out of the party by invoking his name even! So frickin hilarious. Not only would Abraham Lincoln have been long booted from the party awhile ago, but now they’re trying to kick their hero, Ronald Reagan out on his ass.

Conservative RNC member James Bopp Jr. is circulating a draft resolution listing 10 positions Republican candidates should support if they wish to have party backing. The resolution calls on the Republican National Committee to end funding and endorsements for any candidate who deviates from three or more of the positions. RNC chairman Michael Steele will now have to choose a side between those who would expand the party ideologically and those more concerned with conservative purity at the next RNC meeting in January.

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Fox News Made Their Bed, Now Sleep In It

by Jsmog
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 05:39pm

What the Fox!?

I don’t think there is anything more hallow than listening to Fox News cry about the White House claiming they aren’t a real news agency. Three weeks ago White House Communications Director Anita Dunn appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources and said:

“The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it is not ideological… what I think is fair to say about Fox, and the way we view it, is that it is more of a wing of the Republican Party.”

“Obviously [the President] will go on Fox because he engages with ideological opponents. He has done that before and he will do it again… when he goes on Fox he understands he is not going on it as a news network at this point. He is going on it to debate the opposition.”

“[Fox is] widely viewed as a part of the Republican Party: take their talking points and put them on the air, take their opposition research and put it on the air. And that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news organization like CNN is.”

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Where Do Our Premiums Go?

by Jsmog
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 04:12pm

When insurance companies are paying over half their profits for lobbyist and legal fees, that’s obviously money not going to provide benefits to policy holders with their health care bills. Because of their lack or regulation they legally have the right to hike up their rates whenever they want. Because of this their membership rates are down but they are still able to make huge profits off less customers. In three years the profits of Wellpoint, the nation’s largest health insurance company, went up 90% while their memberships rates were down 3%. Netting $2.5 billion in profits last year wasn’t enough for WellPoint. Now, WellPoint’s affiliate, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, is suing the state of Maine for refusing to guarantee it a profit margin in the midst of a painful recession:

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Socialism That Helps People: Bad. Socialism That Helps Property: Good

by Jsmog
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 03:55am

[Transcript (edited):]

The Republicans who oppose health care reform and the conservative Democrats who oppose a public option have deeply principled, philosophical objections to the concept of government insurance—except when insurance companies benefit from it.

The big arguments against the public option have been these: that the government is incapable of running an insurance plan, that the free-market provides consumers with better choices, that socialized insurance will have unfair advantages. But as Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston recently reported, these arguments do not stop some of the big opponents of socialized insurance for voting for socialized insurance when that insurance is not for the well being of people, but for the well being of property.

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Sarah Palin Tribute

by Jsmog
Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 01:03pm

In celebration of Sarah Palin’s new ghostwritten book, “Going Rouge“, already becoming a best-seller before even being released, I thought I’d repost some of Palin’s highlights from Saturday Night Live.

Palin Opener with Hillary Clinton

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