waxing blogosophical
In advance of the Health Care Summit tomorrow held at The Blair House, the NRCC launched this ad. I give them points for creativity. But, with “teabaggers” and now this quote, “They’re going to ram it down our throats,” I just can’t help but feel that a bunch of horny Republicans need to get laid and relax a little.
Bob Dole recently gave a speech in which he supported healthcare reform: “This is one of the most important measures members of Congress will vote on in their lifetimes,” Dole said, according to the Kansas City Star. “I want this to pass… I don’t agree with everything Obama is presenting, but we’ve got to do something.”
Other Republicans who’ve endorsed healthcare reform are:
Bill Frist (former Republican Senate leader)
Tommy Thompson (former Gov of Wisconsin and Bush’s HHS Secretary)
Mike Bloomberg (Republican turned Independent Mayor of NYC)
Salon.com has a good analysis of why and how these endorsements might matter:
“None of that is likely to make any difference in terms of attracting votes from Republicans in Congress now, of course. The current GOP caucus in both the House and Senate has made it clear that’s not in the cards. But the more support from prominent Republicans the legislation draws, the likelier it is that independent voters watching from home will feel comfortable with the reform proposals. And the more comfortable voters are with the reform proposals, the more comfortable moderate Democrats will be. So expect to hear quite a bit about all these various endorsements as the legislation moves along.”
(Insert cliched white-boy rapper joke here)
Mike Huckabee cracks me up: “Russell Simmons, eat your heart out. These guys are good!”
Seriously Mike?! Is this the future of your party? Is this how the Republicans plan on reaching out to the youth demographic? Take a word of advice: Stick with Megan McCain instead.
The clip everyone is talking about. Tell it like it is, Bill!
Lene sent me this comic and it was LOL hilarious:
Then Lene sent me this Letter to the Editor on SFGate, and I nearly peed my pants from laughing so hard. This dude uses almost all of the 11 tactics in the comic above. Almost too ironic to be true. Alas, Republicans are actually that ironic.
From SFGate:
Karl Hodges (Letters, March 6) wants Republicans to apologize for America’s problems. He is correct; the GOP owes America an apology, and also a promise to make amends.
As chairman of the San Francisco Republican Assembly, I apologize to every man, woman and child in America. We Republicans failed to do our job to defeat the most unaccomplished and unqualified presidential candidate in history. We Republicans expected the media to expose a glib community organizer from Chicago who never held a job. We apologize for failing to convince rational adults that mindless slogans will not protect the life, liberty and property of the American people and the free world.
America’s investors know this president is using the present crisis to dismantle capitalism. That’s why the stock market is crashing and Americans are losing their retirement savings. America’s adversaries: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and al Qaeda know this president opposed liberation of 25 million Iraqis, and heads the party that whined, “this war is lost.” That’s why the world is a more dangerous place.
But an apology is not enough; the GOP also must make amends for what it failed to do in November 2008. Therefore, we Republicans will work harder to ensure that this president fails to impose European socialism and second-rate health care on America. We will also tell every American what this president never will tell: “We will pay any price, bear any burden to assure the survival of liberty,” and with no apologies.
MIKE DeNUNZIO
San Francisco
Republicans have been claiming election fraud related to Acorn activities. The Guardian has a great piece on why these claims are a crock. What’s more, the piece covers the true voter fraud and disenfranchisement that aren’t getting covered by the MSM. What’s the Republican’s strategy with all these false claims? Author of the article Brad Friedman puts it this way:
If you can’t win it, steal it. If you can’t steal it, claim the other guy stole it. If you can’t claim the other guy stole it (yet), say they’re about to and then kick up smoke that maybe someone will believe you. (Heckuva job, CNN.)
My buddy Reg also sent me this disgusting piece of California Republican hate propaganda. Why?! Why must Republicans resort to the politics of fear? Makes me sick to my stomach that this happened in my state and in my country.
via Andrew Sullivan
I loved today’s How the World Works by Andrew Leonard titled: Gas prices and offshore drilling. Here’s a snippet:
But what is the truly “conservative” position on offshore drilling, or energy policy in general? Recklessly exhausting all available resources now, and letting the future take care of itself — or conserving those resources, investing carefully for the future, and thinking about the long term? Where does prudence reside — in attempting to shave a few pennies off of gas prices now, or on planning on how to cope with high gas prices for the foreseeable future?
If you’re looking for a metaphor, try the competing fortunes of Toyota and General Motors on for size. George Bush and John McCain are like the fin-de-siecle executives of GM, living only in the present, catering to their customer’s worst impulses in pursuit of maximizing profit in the short term. But Democrats are like Toyota, making a bet on what makes economic sense for the future.
