Pres. Obama calls Huckabee's attention grab what it is

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Monday July 27, 2015 · 7:15 PM PDT

2015/07/27 · 19:15

Let's give Mike Huckabee a little credit: he's not completely clueless. So when he says something completely repulsive and offensive to decent people, one must begin with the assumption that it wasn't just a colossal gaffe.

Tell Congress to do their constitutional duty & reject the Obama-Kerry #IranDeal --> http://t.co/... pic.twitter.com/2rFJgdDHhV
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) July 26, 2015

The very fact that Huckabee's campaign went to all this trouble to make a graphic shows that Huckabee intended his flagrant disregard for common decency to be spread far and wide.

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Wednesday June 18, 2014 · 1:20 PM PDT

2014/06/18 · 13:20

Writing from an alternate reality in the Wall Street Journal, liar, war criminal, and all around not-nice-person Dick Cheney had this to say about President Barack Obama's strategy in Iraq, apparently without a hint of irony or self-awareness:

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

Ah, yes. The Bush Administration's rank incompetence and the consequences thereof are rare indeed, but that's not what Cheney was talking about.

This fact was not lost on White House press secretary Jay Carney, who, at his last press briefing before stepping down, answered a question from ABC's resident rightwing troll, Jonathan Karl.

Video is here, credit Tommy Christopher. (Not sure how to embed DailyMotion videos, but I will if someone tells me how.)

KARL: I wonder if you've had the chance to see this op-ed piece that former vice president Dick Cheney has written in the Wall Street Journal that has a rather critical tone to it toward the White House. He says, "rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many," talking about the situation in Iraq and in the Middle East generally.
CARNEY: Which president was he talking about?

[laughter]

That'll leave a mark.

How nice of Carney to shove that quote back in Dick's face during his last day as press secretary. Oh, and rightwing troll and Benghazi fraudster Jonathan Karl as well. They both got what they deserved.

Now if Cheney would just crawl back into his undisclosed location and shut up, we'd all be better off.

Study: ACA provides 97% of Americans with equal or more affordable coverage

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Thursday October 31, 2013 · 1:47 PM PDT

2013/10/31 · 13:47

Much hay has been made over President Obama's "if you like your insurance, you can keep it" campaign-style pledge. Lately, there has been some blowback over this pledge: some Americans are getting letters in the mail saying their coverage has been canceled, and they are being "forced" into more expensive insurance plans. But just how prevalent is this issue?

An MIT economist and health insurance expert says it's not as common as it has been portrayed in the media and elsewhere.

Hit me up below the fold for more.

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Monday November 21, 2011 · 2:40 PM PST

2011/11/21 · 14:40

In a misguided way to celebrate Veteran's Day, Mitt Romney opined that perhaps veterans' health care would be better addressed by giving them the option to use a voucher to buy private insurance.

Sometimes you wonder if there would be some way to introduce some private-sector competition, somebody else that could come in and say, you know, that each soldier gets X thousand dollars attributed to them, and then they can choose whether they want to go in the government system or in a private system with the money that follows them.

Romney apparently didn't remember that the Paul Ryan proposal of turning Medicare into a voucher program went over like a dead fish to the American public. It was so extreme that even Newt Gingrich called it "right wing social engineering," that is, before he changed his mind.

Romney's idea never had time to get off the ground, as the VFW stated that “[it] doesn’t support privatization of veterans health care. This is an issue that seems to come around every election cycle.”

Democrats, who sometimes are NOT as stupid as they look, pounced with a web video hammering Romney for his position.

Finally today, Romney backed away from voucherizing the VA, saying "I don’t have any proposal of that nature. We have a VA system that needs to be improved and I’ve got no plans to change that other than to make it better and to invest more money in providing for our veterans."

Is anyone surprised that we can chalk up yet another flip flop in Romney's presidential run? I'm only surprised it took him a full 10 days to do so.

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Trickle down fantasy: Government by the rich, for the rich

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Thursday March 03, 2011 · 3:12 PM PST

2011/03/03 · 15:12

You've heard the refrain by now. If it weren't for those burdensome taxes on millionaires and corporations, we'd be swimming in jobs. You say we have a budget deficit? Well we can't possibly raise taxes on millionaires, or they'll move out of the country. Forget about raising taxes on corporations, they'll pass those costs onto the consumer. The only solution is to cut government services.

Right?

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FoxNews.com echoes right-wing blogs, calls it "news"

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Wednesday February 24, 2010 · 5:18 PM PST

2010/02/24 · 17:18

Of all the laziness in today's media, there's nothing lazier than finding "news" on the Internet. CNN is really good at this. They find something on the Intertubes that may generate "controversy" and report it as news. As we Internet connoisseurs know, this is an extremely simple task. You could easily play with Google and find dozens of "controversies" daily.

FoxNews.com did one better today. Not only did they report on an Internet controversy, but one directly lifted from right-wing blogs.

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Tell Boehner: Real Americans Support the Public Option!

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Thursday October 01, 2009 · 12:22 PM PDT

2009/10/01 · 12:22

Boehner really asked for it.

Politico's Glenn Thrush:

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has just more or less dared proponents of a public option to bombard his office with their expressions of support of the plan.

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"I'm still trying to find the first American to talk to who's in favor of the public option, other than a member of Congress or the administration" said Boehner, whose sole recent foray into a public discussion of health care reform was a tea-party-style event in Ohio a few weeks back.

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