The End of the American Century?

[sonnyt111]

Make that two...

I'd like a copy too.

[pussybear]

I wish Hunter Thompson were still alive and writing for RS. He'd have something colorful to say about that cover, one way or the other.

Edited July 25, 2013 by pussybear

[harmless0810]

what many people forget is that the constitutionally protected freedoms we have 1) extend to all people - conservative or liberal, 2) come with responsibilities, and 3) are not unlimited. just as you have the right to carry a gun, you are charged to use it responsibly without infringing on other citizens' rights. words can hurt, too, and just as you are free to say what you feel or believe, others are free to respond in kind.

personal responsibility is usually set aside for economic considerations. the data is in, rolling stone's sales are up 20% this month. some people take risks and succeed, others rely on sensationalism, and others just manufacture controversy. i'll try to recall some from memory. sometimes, i just roll with the punches and add some humor if i think it's appropriate:

 

hugh hefner - why are there so many guys buying his mag? i only read the articles. i'm only after the naked truth.

 

van halen - they have an album titled For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. david lee roth was out from the band then. i wanted to be a rock star, drive fast cars, and be with faster company. i always wanted to embarrass myself singing roth's "just a gigolo" among friends, but never found the guts yet.

 

shock jock howard stern - he made explicit comments about his wife during his shows.

 

roseanne barr - she sang the star spangled banner off-key then spat on the field before a baseball game. she got booed for her efforts. she was even the vice-presidential bet of the green party last year. i guess barr was the sane one in that party because they made her their nominee.

 

eve ensler - she created a play about a female body part. she can use every "flowery" rhetoric in its defense, but it setback women's achievements by focusing the play on their anatomy. good job, eve. who will bite your poison apple next?

 

britney spears - she has a song, if you seek amy. it's a code for a suggestive language normally said on porn vids.

 

nypd blue - the first network tv show to have scenes with the bare backsides of the cast. well, some detectives are defective in that department.

 

michael jackson - he used the derogatory word "kike" in his song 'they don't care about us." i remember a religion studies professor saying that a racist god only allows white people in heaven. i think jackson outsmarted us all. he escaped his rap on child abuse and now he's with celestial beings. bleach anyone?

 

g c b - it was originally titled good christian bit**es. it lasted for 8 episodes. they got the horns because they messed with something more powerful than a bull.

 

the westboro baptist church - they put up offensive signs during some funerals for service members killed in iraq or afghanistan. go away.

 

msnbc's chris matthews called michelle malkin a "mixed bag of skin and bones."

 

msnbc's ed schultz called a laura ingram a 'talk sl*t." is there a pattern here? can we say misogyny?

 

david letterman joked about sarah palin's then 16 year old daughter piper, as "getting knocked up by alex rodriguez in the dugout." michelle malkin led the boycott and posted the show's sponsors online. a few days later, letterman made a lame apology.

 

an "artist" put a plastic crucifix in a jar filled with his urine and called it "Piss Christ." it was the late 80s, a republican was president. the national endowment for the arts was almost abolished for this blatant act of disrespect by an individual that receives funding from them.

 

a british-african "artist" surrounded a Black Madonna with elephant dung and called them "ornaments." the new york metropolitan was crowded with patrons. again calls were made to abolish the nea in the late 90s.

 

and now, Carlos Danger:

 

 

 

Bipartisan praise abounds for New Yorker's Weiner cover

 

By Patrick Howley 9:12 PM 07/26/2013

 

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This week's New Yorker cover featuring Anthony Weiner straddling the Empire State Building taking a selfie is earning well-deserved praise from across the media landscape, as even liberal and mainstream publications pile on the embattled, "perpetually horny" Democrat.

 

Weiner's recent sexting scandal, and revelations that he had a "controlling" online and over-the-phone relationship with 23-year old Sydney Leathers while using the alias "Carlos Danger," has earned the New York City mayoral candidate some front-page mockery from America's most vaunted middlebrow newsweekly.

 

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"With a topic like Anthony Weiner, how can you find anything broad or funny that he hasn't already personally breached?" said artist John Cuneo, who created the cover, in the issue's Culture Desk. "Free association made me think of the Empire State Building, and then King Kong, the iconic image of him straddling it."

 

"And then Weiner sexting, his head tilted and looking a certain way — I just stumbled upon the image as I was sketching. But all I could think about while working on this piece was, 'Will Weiner still be in the race by the time it runs?,'" Cuneo wrote.

 

"The New Yorker's Anthony Weiner cover needs little introduction — it's just that good," wrote The Huffington Post. "Tabloids, including the New York Post, ran Anthony Weiner-related front pages throughout the week, but the New Yorker probably just won the week's unofficial (but totally official) Carlos Danger cover competition."

 

"Is Weiner really going to be upset The New Yorker used the Empire State Building as a stand-in for his junk?" Slate.com tweeted. Hollywood.com wrote that the cover is reminiscent of past "favorite political sex scandal parodies."

 

So remember, folks: if you find yourself in a Starbucks in a few months flipping through some pretentious magazine filled with David Remnick-penned Obama apologisms and esoteric editorial cartoons, just remember that it was funny once.

 

Weiner, meanwhile, currently trails City Council speaker Christine Quinn in the New York mayoral race by nine points among registered Democrats. The New York Times editorial board has called for Weiner to drop out of the race.

[dungeonbaby]

does the white house press corps still have a pulse? is the tonight show the new briefing room?

[harmless0810]

does the white house press corps still have a pulse? is the tonight show the new briefing room?

none. maybe, until leno hits them with a zinger.

 

More bad news for the Liberal press: Libertarian buys WaPo; the Koch brothers (Republican donors), targeting the LA Times

 

Fire Sale: Washington Post Lost 87% of Value In Ten Years

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by John Nolte 6 Aug 2013

The announcement that the Washington Post Co. sold its flagship paper to billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million, surprised everyone. And in an era when the Washington Post sells Newsweek for $1 and the New York Times sells the Boston Globe at a 93% loss; $250 million might sound like a lot of money. But buried in the Post's own reporting of its sale is the news that ten years ago the Post would have sold for $2 billion with a -B-.

That represents an 87% loss in just a decade. You figure in ten years of inflation and we are probably over 90%.

 

Like most print media outlets, the Post has had to struggle with the rise of the Internet and competition from New Media. That certainly hurt its value, but the Post is also guilty of a number of unforced errors that resulted in untold damage to the credibility of its once legendary brand.

 

Over the years, the fake fact checks, the apparent coordinating with the Obama campaign to destroy Romney, the phony smears leveled at Republicans, the non-stop pushing of leftist causes, the unforgivable stealth-corrections, the laughably biased polls… All of this added up in a way that devastated the Post's credibility and left it a shell of itself.

 

You can't wade into an online world where competition is everywhere and behave in this way. When people have options, they are not going to stand for the absurd deception that they are paying for and giving page views to an "objective" news outlet.

 

To millions and millions of potential customers, the Post became something that wasn't vital; something they no longer trusted. Millions more see the Post as an outright antagonist out to undermine who they are and what they believe in.

 

In a free market, when you alienate most of the customers, you end up on the wrong end of a fire sale.

 

 

 

Someone grew a spine:

 

 

RNC Chair: Hillary Projects Last Straw Against NBC, CNN

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by John Nolte 6 Aug 2013

During an appearance on "Hannity" Monday night, RNC Chair Reince Priebus expanded on his decision to cut off CNN and NBC (including MSNBC) from hosting and moderating debates during the 2016 GOP presidential primary season:

I think it's time that our Party stands up and protects our Party and candidates from networks that are not in the business of promoting our party; they're not in the business of promoting our candidate; they're not in the business of doing anything but promoting the Democratic Party. And I'm not going to sit around and watch this happen anymore. A couple of years ago we had a 23-debate traveling circus, and I think it's about time we cut out those people that are actually spending time and money promoting our opponents.

 

Monday, in an exclusive to Breitbart News, Priebus sent a letter to CNN and NBC informing them that unless they cancel their respective projects about Hillary Clinton, they will not be allowed to host any of the GOP presidential primary debates. CNN is planning a two-hour Hillary documentary that will enjoy a limited theatrical release. NBC is producing a four-hour miniseries; Academy Award-nominee Diane Lane is already signed to play the former Secretary of State.

 

Both networks have already said that they have no intention of cancelling anything. This is undoubtedly good news for tens of millions of Republicans who are tired of seeing their candidates defined by news organizations dedicated to their destruction.

 

Priebus went on to make another round of compelling points, including the fact that during the 2008 presidential primary, Democrats froze Fox News out from hosting debates. Moreover, many of the same leftists ridiculing the RNC's decision to avoid CNN and NBC due to these Hillary projects, are the same leftists who raged against Citizens United over its 2008 Hillary documentary.

 

The best news, though, is that Priebus made clear that the RNC is grabbing hold of these debates. He said, It is "our own right to choose who deposes and filters our candidates. I think I'm very reasonable here."

 

Reasonable and sane. Outside of CNN and NBC, hopefully that means Priebus won't allow the likes of a George Stephanopolous (a former Clintonite turned ABC News "reporter") to ever again have access to a debate so he can lay the foundation for Obama's phony War on Women narrative.

 

During the 2012 primary debate season, the mainstream media was relentless in its use of wild hypotheticals and gotcha questions that were mostly designed to focus on non-issues like gun control, abortion, race, birth control, and gay marriage. In debate after debate, biased moderators did everything in their power to avoid topics that might hurt Barack Obama and make our candidates shine: jobs, the deficit, and the overall economy.

 

Time and again, the moderator's questions would play right into the hands of whatever anti-GOP narrative the Obama campaign was cooking up.

 

Moreover, too many of these unprofessional moderators repeatedly stole the spotlight, intentionally pitted our candidates against one another, and worked overtime to make the field look like the gang that couldn't shoot straight.

 

It was a suicide mission our candidates were on, and they accomplished it.

 

At any rate, based on their appalling track records, Priebus didn't need yet-another reason to show CNN and NBC the door. But with these high-profile Hillary projects, they sure gave him one.

[dungeonbaby]

Bernard McGuirk said Al Jazeera is planning new shows for its American audience:

 

How I Met Your Mullah

Larry the Carbomb Guy

Dancing With the Shahs

Big Bang Theory (not a comedy)

The Real Housewives of Damascus

 

***

 

Todd ("gun toting, chicken eating, son of a baptist") Starnes' piece on a nation of savages. Sadly, the piece is about America today.

[harmless0810]

Clinton Mistress: Bill Told Me Hillary Is Bisexual

 

by Tony Lee 22 Sep 2013

Bill Clinton's former mistress alleged that Hillary Clinton is a bisexual in a recent interview.

 

Gennifer Flowers, who reportedly had an affair with Bill Clinton for 12 years, told the Daily Mail that the former President did not care that his wife had sexual relations with men and women.

 

"I just know what Bill told me and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexual and he didn't care," Flowers told the publication. "He should know. He said Hillary had eaten more p*ssy than he had."

 

She also claimed Bill Clinton was the love of her life, and they would be together had Chelsea Clinton not been born.

 

"Bill and I would be together today if it wasn't for politics," Flowers said. "It was me, Bill, and Hillary. Then they had Chelsea and the stakes got too high."

 

 

I thought the Clintons will never surprise me again. I was wrong.

[Bugatti Veyron]

Clinton Mistress: Bill Told Me Hillary Is Bisexual

 

by Tony Lee 22 Sep 2013

Bill Clinton's former mistress alleged that Hillary Clinton is a bisexual in a recent interview.

 

Gennifer Flowers, who reportedly had an affair with Bill Clinton for 12 years, told the Daily Mail that the former President did not care that his wife had sexual relations with men and women.

 

"I just know what Bill told me and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexual and he didn't care," Flowers told the publication. "He should know. He said Hillary had eaten more p*ssy than he had."

 

She also claimed Bill Clinton was the love of her life, and they would be together had Chelsea Clinton not been born.

 

"Bill and I would be together today if it wasn't for politics," Flowers said. "It was me, Bill, and Hillary. Then they had Chelsea and the stakes got too high."

 

 

I thought the Clintons will never surprise me again. I was wrong.

 

You think there's any through to this article? Even if there were, I don't think it should play any role by the oppostion to discredit the demorcrats. Hillary's lifestyle is really none of our business.

[dungeonbaby]

You think there's any through to this article? Even if there were, I don't think it should play any role by the oppostion to discredit the demorcrats. Hillary's lifestyle is really none of our business.

 

except for when her suspected lover works with organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and also serves as her assistant.

 

Hillary has been lying since she was a young lawyer thrown out of the Nixon trials for unethical behavior.

[harmless0810]

You think there's any through to this article? Even if there were, I don't think it should play any role by the oppostion to discredit the demorcrats. Hillary's lifestyle is really none of our business.

it was spreading on both spheres. i took it with a grain of salt. i read or heard most of the names they called hillary clinton before, "carpet muncher" was absolutely not one of them. the comments on the sites were hilarious.

[maxiev]

except for when her suspected lover works with organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and also serves as her assistant.

 

Hillary has been lying since she was a young lawyer thrown out of the Nixon trials for unethical behavior.

Well that's another thing altogether. Any documentation to show that Hillary's suspected lover has links to the Muslim Brotherhood?

[wackyracer]

Score a win for the Republicans:

 

U.S. Government shuts down

[sonnyt111]

Score a win for the Republicans:

 

U.S. Government shuts down

Yes but the ire of the American people may be focused on the Republicans especially Democrats who will side with Obama. Many will say that the intransigence of the Republicans is what to blame for the shut-down.

 

This is sure to polarize Americans. Hope, for the sake of the American people, the American economy and the world in general, that some sort of compromise is arrived at. The sooner the better.

[wackyracer]

After causing the U.S. Government to shut down by not passing the budget,

the House Republicans have the gall to complain about the adverse effects the shutdown is causing the American people.

 

What a bunch of Tea Party morons.

[oscartamaguchiblackface]

After causing the U.S. Government to shut down by not passing the budget,

the House Republicans have the gall to complain about the adverse effects the shutdown is causing the American people.

 

What a bunch of Tea Party morons.

I'll take a bunch of Tea Party morons any day over a bunch of plundering politicians.

[dungeonbaby]

After causing the U.S. Government to shut down by not passing the budget,

the House Republicans have the gall to complain about the adverse effects the shutdown is causing the American people.

 

What a bunch of Tea Party morons.

 

are you, in effect, saying you like Obamacare? if so, what about it do you like? do you also like that Nancy Pelosi has given waivers in her district, mostly to friends? what do you think about the individual mandate, do you like that individuals can pay a $100 fine for not buying into it, and then get insurance on the day they need it, sans screenings?

 

besides, hasn't the GOP made 3 proposals on keeping the fed funded? who shot that down?

[dungeonbaby]

Well that's another thing altogether. Any documentation to show that Hillary's suspected lover has links to the Muslim Brotherhood?

 

her assistant's links to the brotherhood? yes, those are searchable.

 

her assistant being her lover, too? that's just my take. though i might not be completely off-base on this one. gumshoeing hillary. thanks for the follow-up q.

[harmless0810]

 

Palin Calls for Civil Disobedience at WWII Memorial 'Barrycades'

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by Tony Lee 2 Oct 2013

 

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has called on Obama administration employees to engage in civil disobedience and allow veterans to access Washington's World War II memorial during the federal government's ongoing partial shutdown.

Palin wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday that it is "beyond shameful to see Barack Obama disrespect and mistreat our World War II veterans so blatantly," charging that he sent more guards to bar World War II heroes from seeing their memorial after the government shut down than he sent to Benghazi to protect Americans under assault by terrorists.

 

"Obama’s political stunt to 'shut down' their memorial by barricade is to elicit an angry response," she asserted, "to generate bad publicity for people the president uses in his continual blame game."

 

To make her point, Palin linked to a photo of a singular barricade at the World War I memorial. "The difference is obvious. There aren’t any World War I veterans alive today to mistreat in a shameful political stunt," she wrote. "He’s deployed more guards to bar our World War II heroes from their memorial than he sent to Benghazi when our consulate was under attack."

 

She told "Obama employees who know in your hearts and souls that punishing our veterans is wrong" that "we have your backs when you say 'enough is enough' and then allow our vets to gaze upon our memorials that honor America’s finest."

 

"This simple act of civil disobedience will galvanize our nation against atrocious political games, and I promise you’ll sleep well tonight," she said to them.

 

Palin also said Obama is "treating our veterans the same way he treated school kids when he cancelled their White House tours" by closing down certain Washington memorials and threatening veterans who go past the barricades (or "Barrycades") with arrest.

 

"When times called for obvious government belt-tightening, he took it out on kids rather than look for anything that would affect him personally," Palin wrote. "And while our vets are barricaded from the memorial they built with their heroism, the government 'slim down' won’t affect Obama’s golf game or his family’s White House chefs."

 

 

 

 

Service Academy Football Games Cancelled For The 'Optics'

by Debra Heine 2 Oct 2013

In response to During Sequester, Park Ranger Claimed Supervisors Wanted People to 'Feel the Pain': Ace has unleashed his flaming skull for this NRO story, calling it "government by spite."

 

The Naval Academy Athletics Director said that he was told that reason the cost-free Navy/Air Force game had to be cancelled was for "the optics".

 

Asked why the Department of Defense was suspending intercollegiate athletic contests if government funds are not required, Gladchuk said he was told it was about “optics.”

 

 

 

“It’s a perception thing. Apparently it doesn’t resonate with all the other government agencies that have been shut down,” Gladchuk said.

This is how the Regime rolls, and it's really quite vexing because this nonsense didn't help Obama win the Sequester argument earlier this year. They overplayed their hand, and Obama's approval rating actually tanked as a result.

 

To me, it just looks spiteful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

During Sequester, Park Ranger Claimed Supervisors Wanted People to 'Feel the Pain'

by John Sexton 2 Oct 2013

 

I mentioned this earlier but I think it deserves its own post. During the debate over the sequester cuts a park ranger came forward to claim that his supervisors seemed to be trying to insure the public would feel the pain:

A U.S. park ranger, who did not wish to be identified, told FoxNews.com that supervisors within the National Park Service overruled plans to deal with the budget cuts in a way that would have had minimal impact on the public. Instead, the source said, park staff were told to cancel special events and cut "interpretation services" -- the talks, tours and other education services provided by local park rangers.

 

"Apparently, they want the public to feel the pain," the ranger said.

 

This seems relevant now that park rangers are once again being used to shut down open air memorials in Washington D.C. These memorials, including the Lincoln Memorial, WWII Memorial and MLK Memorial, are normally open to the public 24/7 with no ranger supervision after hours.

 

A park service spokesman claimed he had "never heard of guidance given like that."

 

 

The job of an opposition party is to provide checks and balances. They're now called arsonists, terrorists, blackmailers, anarchists, and every insult you can think of. The tea party were the ones responsible for the Republicans taking over the House of Representatives in 2010. We have yet to see how effective they are in 5 weeks in Virginia, in 2014, and in 2016.

 

I despise all of the establishment Republicans. Most of them are in the Senate. They're going against their constituents while the statists have taken over. Only the ordinary people can stop them. Their champion, Senator Ted Cruz, has a solution to this shutdown; fund the government piecemeal.

 

We are also witnessing the worst job killer in history. They say Obamacare is the law of the land. So was the Fugitive Slave Act. Bad and unjust laws must be repealed.

 

[wackyracer]

are you, in effect, saying you like Obamacare? if so, what about it do you like? do you also like that Nancy Pelosi has given waivers in her district, mostly to friends? what do you think about the individual mandate, do you like that individuals can pay a $100 fine for not buying into it, and then get insurance on the day they need it, sans screenings?

 

besides, hasn't the GOP made 3 proposals on keeping the fed funded? who shot that down?

 

 

Intertwining the Obamacare issue with the Congressional duty to pass a budget is what is wrong with the Tea Party move. The Tea Party is basically holding hostage the U.S. government unless it capitulates to the Tea Party whims on Obamacare. Obamacare is a distinct and separate issue that has been subject of debate for the longest time. It was passed as law in 2009 by both Chambers of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the U.S. President. It was brought to the U.S. Supreme Court and the body deemed it constitutional. The Republican Tea Party tried to pass a law repealing Obamacare 41 times and failed to do so 41 times these past 4 years. Just imagine the waste of U.S. taxpayers money and the wasted time that should have been diverted to other pressing issues in crisis America. No wonder, the House has a measly 10% approval rating from the American populace.

 

Plain and simple, the Republican-dominated House did not pass a "clean" budget proposal. It wants to put a rider on it to sabotage the Affordable Health Care Act.

 

I don't need to debate Obamacare with you. The 2009 Affordable Health Care Act was debated upon and passed into law in the United States. It is the law. Whether we like it or not, it has to be implemented. If the Tea Party Republicans despise it, they should pass another law to repeal it. But as long as no such law is passed repealing Obamacare, leave it out of the Appropriations Act.

 

The Republicans are luring the American public to an Obamacare debate when it has really nothing to do with the current Appropriations Act. The result is that the first few days, several U.S. agencies and services were shut down. Ironically, the implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act proceeded as other government agencies shut down.

 

As if America can afford it, the Republicans yet again hand it another self-inflicted crisis. Credit downgrade, sequestration, government shutdown, what's next?

[wackyracer]

Shutdown

 

Philippine Daily Inquirer

9:55 pm | Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

 

To many, the shutdown of the US federal government is baffling. The consequences are as obvious as they are damaging, the way to a solution open and clear. And yet on Oct. 1, at midnight, the massive bureaucratic apparatus that runs the US federal government all but ground to a halt. Altogether, some 800,000 “nonessential” employees have been placed on unpaid furlough, many services have been rendered unavailable, the websites of such iconic institutions as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Library of Congress have been shuttered—and (the consequence with the most immediate impact in this part of the world) the scheduled visit of US President Barack Obama to the Philippines and Malaysia next week has been cancelled.

 

How did the world’s lone superpower come to such a sorry pass?

 

The long and short answer is: A minority of Republicans in the US Congress wanted it that way. Senior American journalist James Fallows pinpoints “two basic facts” about the shutdown that “would come as news to most of the public.” First: “If the House of Representatives voted on a ‘clean’ budget bill—one that opened up the closed federal offices but did not attempt to defund the Obama healthcare program—that bill would pass, and the shutdown would be over.” And second: “So far House Speaker John Boehner has refused to let this vote occur.”

We will not pretend that both the Democrats and the Republicans are equally at fault; as the title of an influential op-ed by scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein in the Washington Post in April last year phrased it: “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.” Their key paragraph reads: “The GOP [Grand Old Party] has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”

 

What has become clear in the slow-motion descent into shutdown limbo is that only a handful of Republican congressmen—maybe 30 to 40 “true hardliners,” according to National Review’s Washington editor Robert Costa—stand between a vote on a “clean” funding bill and a continuing shutdown. They are applying pressure on Boehner, to link a delay in the implementation of Obama’s signature healthcare program with a vote on the bill necessary to keep the US federal machinery working. By almost all accounts, Boehner has the numbers necessary, from enough Republicans and most of the Democrats, to pass the bill; but he hasn’t allowed a vote, precisely because it would pass. Passage, in all likelihood, would mean a second attempt among Republicans to unseat him.

 

In this sense, the politics of the shutdown of 2013 is not a true guide to the difference between money (in the form of the pork barrel and other incentives) and ideology, as drivers of political action. The hardliners in the US Congress, many of them elected into office on surging Tea Party momentum in 2010 and 2012, are correctly described as extreme not because of their ideology but because of their dismissiveness of the fundamental legitimacy of the Obama presidency. Let’s just say it: Insurgent Republicans have a problem with their country’s first black president.

 

That the link the hardliners insist on is to the Affordable Care Act is the giveaway. The so-called Obamacare represents a true landmark in the American political experience, a hard-fought legislative victory that no other American president had achieved. Since its enactment into law, it has been upheld by a Supreme Court with a Republican majority and validated by a presidential election. And yet the Republicans in the House of Representatives have voted again and again to try to repeal the law, to defund it, and finally “just” to delay its implementation by a year. By any measure of democracy the United States holds itself to, Obamacare has passed the test.

 

The irony is: Obamacare took effect on Oct. 1, the same day the US federal government shut down. Millions of Americans tried accessing the online marketplaces that the new law had made possible, resulting in server crashes and technical glitches. Policy wonk Ezra Klein summed up the situation nicely: “Washington was shut down because Republicans don’t want Obamacare. On the other hand, Obamacare was nearly shut down because so many Americans wanted Obamacare.”

 

Unfortunately, extremists will remain unmoved by the facts and the evidence.

 

[dungeonbaby]

he is one of ten in homeland security with high positions. apparently.

[maxiev]

 

 

Hi, all. Meet Mohamed Elibiary. He's an open supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and Sharia'a. He's a close friend and supporter of Shukri Abu Baker, who was convicted of using a charity to fund our friendly terrorist organization, Hamas. He was a staunch supporter and contributor.

 

He is also a member of our Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council and unequivocal has complete access to classified information. Beautiful.

 

he is one of ten in homeland security with high positions. apparently.

How was a guy like this able to rise to such a high position in the DHS given the very stringent screening in hiring and promotion? Especially in sensitive positions such as that found in the Department of Homeland Security.

[dungeonbaby]

I don't need to debate Obamacare with you. The 2009 Affordable Health Care Act was debated upon and passed into law in the United States. It is the law. Whether we like it or not, it has to be implemented. If the Tea Party Republicans despise it, they should pass another law to repeal it. But as long as no such law is passed repealing Obamacare, leave it out of the Appropriations Act.

 

no, you don't need to debate anything with me. i just thought you might relish the chance to explain which among the tea party's arguments vs implementing Obamacare is moronic. thought you might also know, since it is the law like you rightly say, why or how the president changed the law so that certain corporate entities got a waiver? and if corporations got it, why can't individuals get the same waiver? after all, isn't that what republicans want? a one-year waiver until they figured out all the effects the act would have?

 

The Republicans are luring the American public to an Obamacare debate when it has really nothing to do with the current Appropriations Act. The result is that the first few days, several U.S. agencies and services were shut down. Ironically, the implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act proceeded as other government agencies shut down.

 

and what a success that implementation was. so successful that the president himself had to disavow major aspects of its implementation. or maybe i'm wrong. i could be wrong.

 

 

As if America can afford it, the Republicans yet again hand it another self-inflicted crisis. Credit downgrade, sequestration, government shutdown, what's next?

 

speaking of being able to afford anything, what about these nasty, selfish republicans, making the people buy things the country can't pay for.

 

Philippine Daily Inquirer

9:55 pm | Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

...

 

Let's just say it: Insurgent Republicans have a problem with their country's first black president.

 

new high for the inquirer - calling republicans racist without proof. i wonder, too, if the editors were aware that obamacare was upheld by the supreme court because it was considered a tax which, while within the government's right to impose, was an appellation that, if i remember correctly, the white house was avoiding attaching to obamacare. wonder why.

 

Philippine Daily Inquirer

9:55 pm | Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

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Policy wonk Ezra Klein summed up the situation nicely: "Washington was shut down because Republicans don't want Obamacare. On the other hand, Obamacare was nearly shut down because so many Americans wanted Obamacare."

 

beautiful spin in the light of recent news. bravo.

[Ryuji_tanaka]

he is one of ten in homeland security with high positions. apparently.

 

Who is the other 9?

[sonnyt111]

Who is the other 9?

As far as I know Elbiary is a consultant with the Department of Homeland Security.