Stupid Republican idea of the day

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Submitted for your consideration as today's nominee:

http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001953/
 
Give us a few days. We'll see which one plays better with our [del]local morons[/del] constituents and get back to you.
 
Crafter_Man said:
Correct. I would much rather have the current system vs. a government-controlled system. With a government-controlled system, costs will increase and quality will decrease.
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Tell that to George Will who says that a government-run health plan will outperform the private insurance companies.
 
Lookee here, Michele Bachmann is now pro-choice:

That's why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress," said Bachmann, "and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions."
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Now all we need is an admission that the Pubs meddled in Terri Schiavo's medical decisions and we've won!
 
I can't get to Facebook from work. Is Eric Pike(r) serious, or is he pulling a Steven Colbert? Just before the "coons" comment, he posted "wal mart is a klan anyway...a cult and its sad...i hate wal mat". Not that a person can't write that kind of thing unironically, but I wonder if he goes around trying to get people to take his bait like Shay evidently did. Something about it just seems like a kind of reverse trolling, where he's trying to get people to react positively to ridiculous crap.
 
Captain Carrot said:
It's not a push poll. It's a fundraising effort.
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I have to agree. The Republican party's branding is up front and very clear. The most deceptive thing I can see that they can do with this is to trumpet "X% of Americans think Y!" The polled themselves certainly aren't being deceived.
 
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Originally Posted by elucidator View Post
Big Bird is in Eastasia. Big Bird has always been in Eastasia.
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I remember that one. The episode was brought to us by the numbers 19 and 84. The Count went mad after being forced to declare the sum of 2 and 2 to be 5.
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BIG BIRD IS WATCHING YOU!




Smith, Winston! I can see you through the Telescreen! You're not giving enough! I'm the mother of two children and I give $200 a month! Give more so we can send you a Tote Bag!
 
Biggirl said:
Obama and his cult are looking past 2016.



Ya know, the crazy commie librul lefties waited until after the wiretapping, habeas corpus removing, lying to the UN and the American people, 8 months had passed timeframe before they started with the Bush-is-gonna-declare-martial-law nonsense. And they didn't have their own radio show with dittoheads hanging on every word, either.
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Is Limbaugh already giving up on 2012? He's assuming that Obama is going to win a second term? Weird. Instead of "We gotta make sure we take back the White Hose in 2012!" he's saying "Fuck it, it's all over. Those crazy minorities are going to make sure he's made El Presidente for Life." I'm not sure exactly where this rhetoric leads, but you know, it's probably not motiovating the faithful to seek satisfaction at the ballot box.
 
Boyo Jim said:
Can it be the Republicans have gone for 5 days without a stupid outbreak?
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Oh god no. I started a post last week in a Notebook page and kept adding on to it. I intended to post it but real life got in the way. I might still post it (later) even though much of it is out of date now, replaced by other more current stupid.

Never fear, the stupid is always on the move.
 
Really Not All That Bright said:
Actually, it sounds like a precis of a Democratic campaign platform.

Access to healthcare for all Americans. Job creation. Equal opportunity for education and affordable secondary education.

It's a rhetorical towel toss.
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You folks have missed the news. This is the group that started the "listening session" tour to get input from "normal Americans". Then Limbaugh trashed that idea, saying they need to do "teaching sessions" instead. Now Cantor has repudiated the "listening" idea -- interesting in that the whole thing was supposed to be non-partisan, but that was a sham from day one.

Since the Republicans have decided they don't need any more input, I'm pretty sure this organization is going to die a quiet death.
 
What Rep. Issa is talking about is the Federal Advisory Committee Act ("FACA") (5 USC Appx 2). FACA applies to any committee that is (1) convened or controlled by the executive, (2) makes a consensus recommendation to the Agency head or President AND (3) includes at least one person who is NOT a officer or employee of the U.S.

If all three conditions apply, then FACA applies and the committee meetings must be open to the public (and the public must be given notice that they are occurring), the committee must include representatives from all interested groups, and certain recordkeeping requirements must be met. Basically, its a much bigger pain in the neck to be a FACA committee than not.

In 1993, this came up when Mrs. Clinton championed health care reform efforts. Her commission consisted entirely of federal officers & employees, except for her. The U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia found that the First Lady is, for purposes of FACA, a federal officer or employee.

The point is, this area of law is getting a hard look by Congress for several good reasons (which can be referred to as "Cheney" and "Mrs. Clinton", to save time).

I do think Rep. Issa is taking the wrong course with the most popular first lady in 40 years (he's gonna get stomped like a grape in Napa), but the topic is one where reasonable (but geeky) lawyers are having meaningful discussion about what should be done.
 
Should bureaucrats in Washington, DC be in charge of making your health care choices instead of you and your doctor?
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Hell yeah!

Should Republicans unite to block new federal government bureaucracy and red tape that will crush future economic growth?
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Hell no!
 
It's something that appeals to their stupid constituents who are too stupid and lazy to question it, like that "Amen" ditz in Frostillicus's link, or anyone who went to the teabagging events for anything other than a free ride and a day out.
 
Leaper said:
Captain Carrot said:
It's not a push poll. It's a fundraising effort.
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I have to agree. The Republican party's branding is up front and very clear. The most deceptive thing I can see that they can do with this is to trumpet "X% of Americans think Y!" The polled themselves certainly aren't being deceived.
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And I have a feeling that the object of the "poll" is not so much to measure public opinion as to raise the potential donor's FUD level to the point that he/she digs that much deeper into his/her dwindling resources in order to help stave off the SocialistCommunistLiberalFascist Apocalypse that looms on the horizon. . . .
 
How come I can't find anyone anywhere making fun of Charlotte Allen's latest bucket o'nonsense in the Los Angeles Times?

Here's a way for America to cut its spiraling healthcare costs: ice floes.

This idea isn't mine. It's President Obama's. Or rather, it's where we're likely to end up if the president prevails on Congress to pass the adventurous healthcare reform proposal currently being discussed...
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In looking for a way to fund healthcare, Obama has set his eye on the oldest and sickest.
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The Eskimos used to set their elderly and sickly adrift on the ice or otherwise abandon them during times of scarcity, and that, metaphorically speaking, is what Obama would like us all to start doing.
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Now, I'm well aware that having 47 million people who can't afford medical care is a genuine social problem -- although many of those millions are illegal immigrants, people between jobs and young folks who choose to go insurance-bare. I'm also aware that I can't necessarily have everything I want, whether it's a dozen pairs of Prada boots or a pacemaker at age 99.
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Young illegal immigrants between jobs who keep buying dozens of pairs of Prada boots...well, they've made their decision.
 
Equipoise said:
This dickhead having that name upsets me because Issa is the name of one of my favorite singers (formerly Jane Siberry)
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[flashback]Hours and hours of my holiday being bored to tears by my cousin insisting we listen to Jane Siberry albums. Bleargh.[/flashback]
 
Originally Posted by Really, seriously a dumbass
So in the end this is something that has to come with a, if there's a push for a socialist society, a society where the foundations of individual rights and liberties are undermined and everybody is thrown together, living collectively off of one pot of resources earned by everyone. That is, this is one of the goals they have to go to is same-sex marriage because it has to plow through marriage in order to get to their goal. They want public affirmation. They want access to public funds and resources. Eventually all those resources will be pooled because that's the direction we're going. And not only is it a radical social idea, it is a purely socialist concept in the final analysis.
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So, what, he's saying there was actual analysis involved in this patchwork of, uhm . . . ideas?
 
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