Massachusetts healthcare workers are scheduled to launch a radio advertising blitz on Friday calling on Bay State Republican Sen. Scott Brown to change course on his plan to vote in favor of a Republican budget plan that would privatize the Medicare system and implement a controversial voucher system. Caregivers say that voucher system would put their senior patients at the mercy of private insurers and drive up costs for Medicare consumers. Brown has made conflicting statements about the upcoming...
Monthly Archives: May 2011
The Audacity of Hate: Birthers, Deathers, Deniers, and Barack Obama
The latest garbage spewing hate as it circles the Internet in a viral state of panic continues a three year smear against Barack Obama. The attacks had begun with the extreme right wing spitting out Obama’s full name—Barack HUSSEIN Obama, as if somehow he wasn’t an American but connected to the Iraqi dictator who, despite the Bush Administration’s best efforts, had no connections to 9/11. When the right-wingers and Tea Party Pack get tired of their “cutesy” attempts to...
Late Night Must Reads
There’s a few pieces in news that I feel are must reads… First on the list: At I.M.F., Men on Prowl and Women on Guard And two in my inbox from a reader… Adultery and the politician Making Things in America Last but not least… I hope everyone’s ready… From Oakland to the World, Words of Warning: Time’s Up Time might be up but I am so not ready for The Rapture… My house is a mess, my bags...
To Push Medicare Plan, GOP Playing Fast And Loose With ‘Utter Catastrophe,’ Schumer Warns
By using the impending need to raise the federal debt limit as a political bargaining chip in their desire to push through a controversial plan to privatize Medicare, Republicans are willing to risk serious damage to the U.S. economy, a senior Senate Democrat warns. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Wednesday became the latest and highest-ranking Republican so far to dismiss the looming threat of a U.S. default as no big deal, joining a chorus of Republicans who continue...
GOP Senators Flip Flop, Let Big Oil Keep Subsidies
Two Republicans stood by their vows to end the federal subsidies of Big Oil, but in the end, it wasn’t enough. The rest of the Senate GOP voted to allow the largest oil companies to keep their taxpayer handouts even as they post near-record profits. Senators voted 52-48 on Tuesday to block a bill that would have stripped the oil companies of more than $20 billion in subsidies that many argue amount to corporate welfare, particularly when the companies...
Arnold’s Love Child
So… Arnold has a love child… Now we know those rumors about Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was running for Governor in California in the 2003 recall election all had to be true. I’m not surprised, I’m not shocked. I saw it coming and I felt in 2003 that Maria Shriver knew full well who her husband was, but she was going to stand by him regardless. It’s sad what women do for men. Bright, smart, intelligent, beautiful women stand...
Harry Reid: Raising Debt Limit ‘Isn’t About A Penny Of New Spending’
Although Republicans are insisting on approval of trillions of dollars of cuts to federal spending in exchange for an increase in the government’s debt limit, raising that limit has nothing to do with new spending, according to the Senate’s top Democrat. Rather that increase is needed to meet the government’s obligations for past borrowing approved by policymakers of both parties, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada insists. Reid took to the Senate floor to make his remarks on...
Senator Scott Brown Says “Thank God” for Ryan Budget Plan
In a speech at the Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s annual luncheon at Black Swan Country Club in Georgetown last week, Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) told the crowd “Thank God” for Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan: Brown went on to say about the Ryan budget… “The leaders will bring forward (Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s) budget, and I will vote for it, and it will fail,” he said. “Then the president will bring forward his budget, and it will...
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