August 13, 2013
Why Republicans Must Repeal Obamacare
Because if they don’t, they know they’re fucked.
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August 12, 2013
Conservative Bubble: Republican Congressman: We Probably Could Get The Votes To Impeach Obama
Speaking in Luling, Texas on Saturday, Republican Representative Blake Farenthold said Republicans could probably get the votes to impeach Obama. He apparently ignored the small detail that President Obama is in his second term, and that’s because more Americans voted for him over Romney. That doesn’t phase these Republicans. They live in their own little world, and world we affectionately call the conservative bubble. They talk like they speak for all Americans. — Well of course Obama is a joke, and we need to do something about it. And so yeah, we could impeach him if we decided to vote on it.
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August 11, 2013
Observation of the Day: Conservatives Fear Social Justice
Conservatives who respond in opposition to social justice are not behaving with a clearly defined philosophy or ideology. Conservatives who oppose or deflect away from any discussion of equal rights or miscarriages of justice do so out of fear. And this fear fuels their backlash against change in social order. Their neat little world is rocked, as they thrash about in response.
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August 10, 2013
Obamacare Won’t Kill Grandma, But Republicans Still Want To Repeal It
Before I talk about Obamacare and irrational Republicans, I have to remind everyone that we need to fight back against the false narrative that says both sides are the same. Right now in Washington, Republicans are not about governing. They aren’t about solutions. They aren’t about helping people, especially minorities of any group. Both sides might cater to their special interests and both sides might feed at the trough of big business, but both sides DO NOT have the same philosophy when it comes to governing and looking out for the disenfranchised.
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August 10, 2013
NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: Get The Money Out Of Politics
On Thursday’s “Daily Show,” New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said, “I think we should get the money out of politics. Period.”
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August 9, 2013
Obamacare Repeal: At Least Republicans Dropped The Pretense
As President Obama said today, Republicans no longer rely on a pretense to replace Obamacare with something else. Republicans are simply opposed to the Affordable Care Act, nothing more. There is no Republican alternative. The Republican Party might be fracturing in other areas, but repeal of Obamacare is indeed their unifying issue.
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August 7, 2013
The Conservative Long Con In 4 Easy Steps
Next time you hear a Republican elected official say something foolish, or vote for the 50th, 60th, or 100th time to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), remember this — many of these Republicans are not as ideological as you might believe. Oh sure, there are the true believers, but others are simply playing a long con on the conservative voting base. And this con has four simple steps.
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August 3, 2013
Conservatives Are Unable To Mitigate Expectations When Reality Conflicts
Cognitive dissonance theory explains human behavior by positing that people have a bias to seek consonance between their expectations and reality. – Wikipedia
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July 31, 2013
Observation of the Day: Robert Reich Says ‘Regressives’ Have Taken Over Republican Party
The fundamentalist constituency, eating the Republican Party alive, should be known collectively as “regressives,” according to a Facebook post by Robert Reich. There is nothing conservative about them. They do not wish to preserve the status quo, they wish to destroy it, and with it, all the progress over the past century. Reich calls them “regressives” while I have referred to them as “extreme right-wing radicals.”
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July 29, 2013
Gallup: 52 Percent Of Americans Support Same-Sex Marriage In All 50 States
A new gallup poll shows 52% of Americans support legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states.
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