Best of the Week: The Daily Show on Limbaugh, Hannity, and more…

March 10, 2012 by 3 Comments

MONDAY (March 5, 2012)

What was Jon Stewart’s main complaint about Rush Limbaugh and the Fox News folk assaulting Sandra Fluke for her advocacy on female health care?

I’m just saying to the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like, “Welcome to the f#$@ing club.” Everyone pays for sh@$ they don’t want to all the time. You know what? Reimburse me for the Iraq War and oil subsidies and guess what, then — diaphragms are on me.

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Melissa Harris-Perry on the Choice of Motherhood

March 4, 2012 by 2 Comments

The most recent push by the right-wing to limit birth control and to force unwanted medical procedures on women seeking abortions reminds me of how much I dislike the term “pro-life”, because most of the people in that movement are not. They presume that life begins at conception, but their commitment is selective, fading quickly when it comes to anything other than preventing women from making decisions about whether or not to bear children.

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Employer Authorization for Contraception

March 2, 2012 by 2 Comments

I love the “Employer Authorization for Contraception” form that President Obama’s people put up at his Tumblr site.

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Republicans Push For the Supremacy of Religious Law

February 8, 2012 by 1 Comment

Upcoming health care reforms will require health care plans to cover birth control…finally. While this is long overdue nationwide, it is not a new concept for many individual states.

In a conference call, Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., who said she spoke as a nurse, mother and grandmother, pointed out that 28 states have similar rules on coverage for birth control.

One of those states? Massachusetts, which had these regulations in place while Mitt Romney was governor.

The Republicans ignore two key points when they gin up outrage over the move to broaden access to health care.

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Big Government Republicans – Health Scare

January 18, 2012 by Leave a comment

When Democrats do big government healthcare, it looks like an attempt to provide more private health care options for the country. Sure, I’d prefer a single payer option, but it’s certainly better than when Republicans do big government healthcare. Current example: the Texas law currently working its way through the conservative court system which would force women seeking an abortion to have a sonogram, regardless of their personal wishes or the doctor’s advice.

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The Huffington Post Headlines Game, Episode 2

January 10, 2012 by 6 Comments

In which I provide the answers to what HuffPost tries try to hide behind the headlines. Appropriately enough, the headlines are after the jump.

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Conservative Hypocrisy (On Federal Power)

December 12, 2011 by Leave a comment

Another hour, another incisive Talking Points Memo article, this time on how the challenge to Obama’s health care expansion exposes conservative hypocrisy. On logical grounds, we know that most political conservatives are lying liars who lie, but of course they don’t care about the purity of their ideals. It’s about power, not logical consistency.

On the other hand, reading about the expansion of Medicare is a good reminder of some of the good that Obama has done. His fight against a single payer option was stupid in terms of both politics and policy, but every step towards, you know, helping sick people is a healthy step.

TPM: ObamaCare Challenge Exposes Conservative Hypocrisy On Federal Power


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