July 11, 2009 07:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
The Washington Independent: Long-awaited warrantless surveillance report finally released
Emptywheel: US government covered up war crimes committed by CIA's warlord
AlterNet: Hedge Fund would rather shut down a plant than pay it's workers a fair wage
Fired Up! Missouri: Roy Blunt says it would have been "best" if Medicare and Medicaid never existed. Then there's this idiot, and this braying jackass
alicublog: The airing of grievances
The Birmingham Free Press: How to argue with a Global Warming denier
Obama to Africa: End Corruption & Tyranny.
Here? Eh, let's move forward.
Africa to Obama: You first.
everything Republicans and and some of their Democratic pals want for America. No government healthcare, plenty of guns and no more taxes, and where government doesn't intrude into the business of business because it was small enough to have drowned in Grover Norquist's bathtub...Somalia. That is their vision for America.
Yay!! Fired Up Missouri rocks!!! Show Me Progress rocks too!
Here is Ed Schultz and Randi Rhodes ravaging Sen. Al Franken:
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2009/07/al...
Note:***This is worth a thread of its own.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
that goes with that article? because if they're intimating he's going to be her kind, or is all pals with her, then he deserves to be eaten, and not in the way we all hope for.
I like Franken, I own his R. Drugbo book, but when I saw him say that we were right to be in Afghanistan, that it was a 'Good War' I shat myself. That is not a left sentiment.
me-oww!
Other than the recent big push for health care reform on his radio program, Schultz is pretty much the centrist he's been since flipping from the GOP side. He's still a BIG coal guy.
Add to that the way Franken used to mock Ed for his centrism in the past...
And Randi's probably still pissed because it was Al and his twelve-man writing staff at Air America that cost her her time-slot. Al was the cornerstone of the network. Randi and Mike Malloy were the old radio pros at the network, and they were axed for financial reasons while Al was paid a seven-digit salary. Battle of egos there, and little else.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Wealth creates poverty…
Michael Parenti
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Some of the wingnuts Roy has been writing on lately are even more insane than usual.
And management screwing over workers. Shocking! It'd be nice if Congress cared, huh?
I'll try to read the actual IG report this weekend. Some good posts are up on it, though, including that set by Ackerman.
"Roy Blunt says it would have been "best" if Medicare and Medicaid never existed."
I went to the link and listened to the interview. Blunt is wrong on so many levels, I hardly know where to start.
- Yeah, right; free market competition solves all problems. Sort of like Wall Street did. Remember that financial meltdown?
- Blunt says government-run health care would mean government interference in health care; you need more power in the hands of patients and physicians. With private health care, medical decisions are made by insurance company bureaucrats who get bonuses for coming up with creative excuses to deny you benefits.
And government-run health care does not mean government interference in your health care decisions. That is a big lie that Repugs are spreading. I'm a 50-year-old Canadian gal, and I've never had any government bureaucrat butt into any of my health care decisions. It really is left to the patient and doctor(s).
Back in 1992, I found a lump in my breast. I went to my GP, who examined me and referred me to a specialist. The specialist examined me and scheduled me for biopsy surgery on the spot. A couple of weeks later I went to the hospital for the surgery. Shortly after, the specialist's office phoned to tell me the lump was benign.
At no point did anybody have to contact any bureaucrat, private or government, for permission for exams, surgery, or tests. Ya hear that? No bureaucratic interference! All I had to do was show my Medicare card.
So don't listen to the lies about how the private sector can do everything best. Americans damn well deserve better health care than they're getting now.
Comments are closed on this entry