Month: September 2013
North Carolina Republicans’ Feelings Are Hurt by Moral Monday Protests
News report from August on the Moral Monday protest in Charlotte
After systematically gutting education and public welfare in North Carolina, hobbling the state’s economy, passing the worst voter suppression laws in the country and turning their once great state into a national laughing stock, Republicans in North Carolina took time out this week to whine about the rhetoric used against them by the people whom they are bent on oppressing:
A Rose is Not a Rose If FOX Calls It Obamacare
5 points
How much Republican approval of health care reform increased when FOX News survey administrators changed the question from asking about “Obamacare” to the “Affordable Care Act.” Democratic support only jumped 1 percent, while Independents improved by 4 percent. To clarify, Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing.
Obama: Faction of GOP Threatening ‘Economic Chaos’
I cannot remember a time when one faction of one party promises economic chaos when it doesn’t get everything it wants.
— President Obama, quoted by NBC News, on threats by some Republicans to force a government shutdown over Obamacare.
Simpson: GOP Out to ‘Stop’ Government
This is a sense of madness. You have people in my party who didn’t come to limit government, but to stop it.
— Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY), quoted by Politico.
There is ‘Something Evil’ in American Society
There’s something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate … There’s something wrong here when we have these multiple shootings, these multiple injuries, there’s something wrong … I’d like you to put my trauma center out of business.
— Chief Medical Officer Dr. Janis Orlowski of the Washington Hospital Center, during her press briefing yesterday following the shootings of 13 people at the Washington Naval Yard.
Guns in America: “There’s Something Wrong Here”
“This is not America. This is not Washington, D.C. This is not good.”
Better than Average Odds the Government Will Shut Down
60%
The chance that the federal government will shut down this month, according to Stan Collender, a budget expert.
Majority of Americans Approve of Job Kerry is Doing
60%
Of Americans approve of the job John Kerry is doing as secretary of state, while 31% disapprove. His job approval rating eclipses those of President Barack Obama (45%) and Vice President Joe Biden (51%).
The Mysogeny Prodigy
Not getting the Fed nod must’ve been a bummer
For former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
But his sexist comments on women
Opened the door for Janet Yellen,
And just proved of the two Summers is dumber.
