DCCC Ad Shows Fate of Seniors if GOP Kills Medicare
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spot is running this Speaker Boehner’s district in Ohio.
Day: April 20, 2011
Georgia Preacher Leads Prayer Vigil at Gas Pumps
I don’t understand how anyone can say God doesn’t have anything to do with the gas prices. God has everything to do with the country…I believe in my heart of hearts that faith should always be the answer.
-Pastor Marshall Mabry of the Beacon of Light Christian Center in Dublin, Ga., a small town 130 miles southeast of Atlanta, who is leading prayer vigils at gas pumps asking God to lower the price of gasoline. “We are praying that God…will first, stabilize the economy, two, bring peace to the Middle East, and three bring down gas prices,” he said.
H/t: DBM
BP: Turning Adversity to Triumph
$10 billion
Tax break rewarded BP for “losses” from its massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico
$4 billion
Amount paid out so far from BP’s Victim’s Fund
$8.97 billion
Entire proposed FY2012 budget for the Department of Environmental Protection. The figure is a 13% decrease from FY2011’s budget of $10.3 billion.
Most Americans Can’t Name GOP Prez Candidates
53%
Of all Americans could not name anyone when asked which Republican presidential candidate they have been hearing the most about, according to a new Pew Research survey.
Jindal’s Birther Gamble
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer did something good —
She vetoed the “birther bill,” as she should.
But when it comes to birther bill signing,
Not everyone’s declining —
Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal says he would.
Trump Is GOP’s Sharpton
Trump is the Al Sharpton of the Republican party — provocateur and clown. Unserious. I think he’s going to harm the party if he runs for the same reason that Sharpton harmed the Democrats. In the debates, he’ll be up there … like Sharpton, he’s going to monopolize the discussion, draw it away on issues that are irrelevant like Obama’s birth, and that can only hurt the party.
— Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer.
Is Medicaid GOP’s Waterloo?
80% to 18%
Margin by which Americans oppose cuts in Medicare, the government health program for the elderly, or Medicaid, the program for the poor, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. Even among conservatives, just 29% supported cuts, and 68% opposed them. House Republicans voted nearly unanimously last week to drastically restructure and reduce those programs, while President Obama called for trimming their costs but leaving them essentially intact.
Rockefeller Regrets Voting for Iraq War
When I voted for the Iraq War, it was one of the worst votes in my life. Today, I have grave misgivings about being in Iraq for another week. We should be out of Iraq this year altogether. We are not going to win. It is not in the cards.
— Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), quoted by the Charleston Gazette.
Big Government Republicans: Michigan Fiscal Martial Law Czar Seizes Assets of Predominantly African-American Town
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Benton Harbor, MI is 10,235 population town. 85.5% of the residents are African-American. The per capita income is among the lowest in the state: $10,235.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder recently castrated the city government of the struggling town, using his controversial “Emergency Financial Managers” law. The law, as Raw Story previously reported, allows Snyder to “take over municipalities that don’t pass a financial stress test.”
On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow made the case that Snyder, Whirlpool (global headquarters in Benton Harbor), Harbor Shores (a developer) and assorted political cronies are using the newly enacted law to grab prime beachfront property deeded to the city’s residents in 1917 in order to develop it into a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and luxury “signature” homes.
