progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
July 7, 2012 4 Comments
There’s been considerable speculation as to why Chief Justice John Roberts voted to uphold Obamacare as constitutional. Some on the right have blamed his epilepsy medication, which is only slightly less absurd than the idea that David Axelrod was planning on having Roberts offed. Really, if President Obama wanted one justice off the Supreme Court, wouldn’t it be the Giant Gas Bag of Righteous Rightwingness, Antonin Scalia? And if Roberts was dumbed down by his epilepsy medication, why didn’t the prescription work its magic when it came to him unnecessarily and without precedent limiting the commerce clause of the Constitution?
John Roberts – Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)
July 3, 2012 Leave a comment
The idea that the health care mandate is the biggest tax increase in the history of the United States is a duplicitous charge that is wrong on so many levels. Let’s start with the factual level, and let’s look at it visually. The good folk at Talking Points Memo put together a graph that demonstrates how the health care mandate compares to the tax increases passed by Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan. Yeah, of course you knew the conservatives were lying, but it’s still productive to see it all laid out in bright blue bars.
July 2, 2012 Leave a comment
I found the ending a little weak, but overall a strong representation of the objections to Obamacare.
April 11, 2012 2 Comments
On Monday, Stephen Colbert noted that the Republican primary contest is coming to a close.
COLBERT: After a bruising Republican primary season, the foreplay is over, and like all Republican foreplay, it was expensive, vindictive, and ended with something pretty predictable.
April 4, 2012 9 Comments
President Obama’s recent warning about the conservative Supreme Court potentially overturning Obamacare was the right thing to say, and long overdue.
Ultimately I’m confident the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected congress.
