Month: September 2013

Stock Market Not Into Obamacare Delay

Trish

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Points the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as it closed on Monday, after House Republicans continued to threaten a government shut-down if implementation of the Affordable Care Act isn’t delayed a year. What would happen during that year to change the ACA, which was passed by Congress, upheld by the Supreme Court, and signed by the president, is unspecified.

Justice Dept. Takes Action Against North Carolina GOP’s Voter Suppression Laws

Jon Ponder

Another humiliation for my old home state. Until now, North Carolina was one of the few Old Confederacy states that was not covered by the Voting Rights Act, because, unlike the others, the Democrats who ran the state insisted that voting be open to all who were eligible. Now, just 10 months electing the first Republican-controlled government since the 1870s, those days are over. If the Justice Department prevails, NC will be covered by the VRA just like every other state run by neo-Confederates, and will have to submit its plans for changing voter regulations to the courts in advance for approval.

Charlotte Observer:

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GOP Still Trying to Ram Through Romney’s 2012 Economic Plan

Buck Banks

The fact that a major party could even propose anything like this is a display of astonishing contempt for democratic norms. Republicans ran on this plan and lost by 5 million votes. They also lost the Senate and received a million fewer votes in the House but held control owing to favorable district lines. Is there an example in American history of a losing party issuing threats to force the majority party to implement its rejected agenda?

— Jonathan Chait, looking at the Republican list of demands to raise the debt ceiling and concluding, “It’s Mitt Romney’s 2012 economic plan. Almost word for word, in fact.”

‘Tailgunner’ Ted Cruz Is the Wingnut’s Choice for GOP Prez Candidate in 2016

Buck Banks

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Of Republican primary voters said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is now the top choice to be their presidential candidate in 2016, a new Public Policy Polling survey finds. Cruz’ 20% is followed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) at 17%, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) at 14%, Jeb Bush at 11%, Sen. Marco Rubio at 10% and Rep. Paul Ryan at 10%.

Polls Show That It’s Actually Ted Cruz And His Kamikaze Caucus Who Are Not ‘Listening to the People’

Jon Ponder

Prior to a new spate of polls released this week, a core element of rhetoric by Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz and Speaker John Boehner was that Pres. Obama should “listen to the people” and kill the Affordable Care Act.

Now, however, polling indicates that it is the GOP that is not listening to people. They are on the wrong side of public opinion about defunding Obamacare as well as on their threats to close the government and/or ruin the credit-worthiness of the United States by forcing a default on the national debt.

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