The Right Wing GOP Loses it on HCR

Woo hoo! The GOP, tea party & right wing wacko consortium are losing it after the passage of health care reform that guarantees coverage for Americans. They seem to find concepts like no lifetime caps on coverage, no insurance rescission if you get sick, no pre-existing disease exclusions as alien rights that should not be part of the American social net. With candidates and office holders alike jumping on the “Kill the Bill” bandwagon, it is clear that they don’t value the sanctity of life unless it is a cluster of cells in the uterus. [...]

Hypocrisy of the highest order

Here’s some staggering hypocrisy on health care reform, courtesy of the Texas Attorney General.

Greg Abbott, the Texas Attorney General, has joined the federal lawsuit against health care reform, claiming government can’t order the purchase of health insurance. However, in 2009, Abbott got the Texas Legislature to give him the authority to order families in [...]

T. Wall sings the praises of tax shelters, loopholes, and gimmicks

Not shockingly, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Terrence Wall is singing the praises of tax shelters, loopholes, and accounting gimmicks, this time in the most recent edition of “Against the Wall,” his monthly column for In Business magazine. Wall, who’s never found a tax loophole he didn’t like, and notes Mike Tate, Chairman of the Democratic [...]

Waterloo indeed!

Back in July of 2009, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) famously said health care reform would be President Barack Obama’s “waterloo,” noting, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” As David Frum, a former GWB speechwriter, noted in an entry on his blog on Sunday, health [...]

This is a big f***in’ deal!

Vice President Joe Biden is right; the health care reform legislation signed into law by President Obama is a big f***in’ deal:

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