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GOP giving up the health insurance reform fight?

By on March 9, 2010 in Democrats, MI-07, Obama, Organizing For America, President Obama, Republican-Fail

It’s starting to look like the Republicans are finally seeing the handwriting on the wall with regard to health insurance reform.

The signs are everywhere.


First we have the Club for Growth’s “Repeal It!” campaign. In this campaign, they are urging their candidates to sign the following pledge:

“I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government.”

When you quit fighting the reforms themselves and move to vowing to repeal the reforms months from now, that smacks of a tacit admission that they know the fight is all but over.…


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Republicans: More of this please

By on March 5, 2010 in GOP, Republican-Fail, Republicans

Hoo boy. The GOP in Michigan has taken “lame” to a new level. Seriously, people, THIS is the best you can do???

If that’s the pinnacle of their marketing suave, the Dems in Michigan may be in better shape in the fall midterm elections than I thought. This isn’t even worthy of some high school kid with a video editing program he stole off the internets.

Oh, and check this out. It’s their new logo:

Look at all familiar? Does to me. It’s a blatant rip-off of the Obama logo. Fail!

Well done, Republicans. More please.

I’m just sayin’…

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Democrats: More of this please

By on March 5, 2010 in Democrats, GOPocrisy, Republican-Fail, Republicans

I first read about this over at Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog! Go! and was pretty stunned. Seems they held a Republican strategy meeting at which a 72-page presentation was given that laid out their electoral strategy for the remainder of the year until midterms. What tactics will they use? Fear of Democrats of course!

Seems some doofus left a copy of the presentation in the hotel which was then quickly dispatched (sold?) to Politico who picked it up and shed some light on it. Their headline is “RNC document mocks donors, plays on fear’”

The images and languages, while not surprising, are still pretty shocking.…


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Yet more Republican lies

By on March 4, 2010 in Conservatives, GOP, GOPocrisy, Politics, Republican-Fail, Republicans

Have you heard the one about how “most Americans are against health insurance reform (HIR)”. When you hear this endless repeated by Republicans and right-wing radio and television pundits, know this:

THEY ARE LYING.

The Republicans and anti-HIR forces have spent months demonizing this legislation to the point that they have effectively freaked people out about it. But when you poll people on the individual elements like the Kaiser Family Research Center did, the results are stunning. As you can see in this graph from their report (pdf) large majorities of Americans support the individual elements of the bills.

They also found that 58% of Americans would be “disappointed” or “angry” if Congress doesn’t pass HIR legislation.…


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Brian Rooney “proud” of Erick Erickson’s endorsement

By on March 4, 2010 in Conservatives, GOP, MI-07, Michigan, Politics, Republican-Fail

Republican hopeful Brian Rooney, a Tea Partier running for the nomination in MI-07, recently received an endorsement from Erick Erickson of RedState.com. Unlike most people who would flee from such an endorsement, Rooney says he is “proud” of it.

“I am proud to have Erick’s endorsement,” said Iraq veteran Rooney. “RedState.com has become one of the most influential voices in the conservative movement and Erick has been a principled advocate for adherence to our party remaining committed to freedom and liberty. I look forward to working with him to bring common sense back to the Congress.”

Erick Erickson, a man who once called Supreme Court Justice David Souter “a goat f*&king child molester”, is not someone most people would seek for an endorsement and Rooney’s pride is cause for pause.…


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More Republican lies

By on March 4, 2010 in Politics, Republican-Fail, Republicans

When you hear Republicans call health insurance reform “a trillion dollar hole in our nation’s budget”, know this:

THEY ARE LYING

This legislation is not only paid for, it doesn’t add one penny to our national debt and it will lower our deficit by $2 TRILLION over the next two decades.

I’m just sayin’…

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Republican lies about reconciliation

By on March 4, 2010 in Conservatives, Democrats, GOP, GOPocrisy, Politics, Republican-Fail, Republicans

The next time you hear some Republican say that Democrats are using the budget reconciliation process to ram through health insurance reform and that is an unprecedented use of it that affects 1/6 of our economy, know this:

THEY ARE LYING

Not only have they used it for gigantic, party line votes themselves, the way it will be used for health insurance reform is very small. Congress will pass the Senate version that passed with a SUPER MAJORITY and then reconciliation will be used for very small fixes of that legislation.

Do NOT let these lies get perpetuated. Republicans are desperate and freaking out and, like a cornered wild animal they are using desperate measures and are behaving erratically and unpredictably in response.…


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O(bama) NOOOOES!!!

By on March 1, 2010 in Bwahahahahaha, Republican-Fail

Can you believe it? More proof that Obama is a Kenyan Muslim Islamofascistcommunazi.

Look, just LOOK at the new logo for the Missile Defense Agency.

Not only does it look like the Obama campaign logo, it has an Islamic crescent, too.

Well, that’s what the freakazoids on the right are saying.

The Obama administration’s determined effort to reduce America’s missile defense capabilities initially seemed to be just standard Leftist fare — of a piece with the Democratic base’s visceral hostility to the idea of protecting us against ballistic missile threats. A just-unveiled symbolic action suggests, however, that something even more nefarious is afoot.…

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It’s the Obamalympics!

By on February 28, 2010 in GOP, GOPocrisy, Republican-Fail, Republicans

I’m pretty sure it’s a new sporting event: you have to maintain a position that is the opposite of President Obama on absolutely everything.

Must be exhausting.

I’m just sayin’…

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Republicans demand “scrapping the bill” TWENTY times!

By on February 26, 2010 in Democrats, GOP, GOPocrisy, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Republican-Fail, Republicans

Yup. Twenty demands by Republicans at yesterday’s bipartisan Health Care Summit to scrap all existing legislative efforts and start anew. And there were only ten of them there.

Sheesh.

Pat Oliphant nailed it:

My name is Eclectablog and I am a politaholic. I actually took a vacation day yesterday to watch all seven hours of President Obama’s bipartisan Health Care Summit so that I could live-blog it.

In the course of the day, I made a drinking game out of it where everytime a GOPosaur demanded, in one fashion or another, that the President and Democrats start over and scrap all of the work that has been done in the past year to assemble a health insurance reform package to pass out of Congress for the president’s signature.…


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