Rep. Gabrielle Giffords WAS THE TARGET...

It's too soon for me to speak about motive in the killing of 6 people and the wounding of Gabby Giffords in Arizona today, but I will put up for you the press release of  Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupniks opinion......

Sheriff Dupniks offered an emotional, angry assessment of the state of America in the wake of the shootings in Arizona, saying that two of his close friends -- Ms. Giffords and Judge John Roll - were among the victims.
Mr. Dupnik called the shooting a "very sad day for Tucson" and a "horrendous, horrendous, senseless, unbelievable crime." And then he blamed the crime on the rhetoric -- presumably political rhetoric -- in the country.
"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government," he said. "The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on this country is getting to be outrageous and unfortunately Arizona has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry."
Mr. Dupnik said it is time for the country to "do a little soul searching."
He added: "The vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business ... This has not become the nice United States that most of us grew up in."
Later, he said: "It's not unusual for all public officials to get threats constantly, myself included. That's the sad thing about what's going on in America: pretty soon we're not going to be able to find reasonable decent people willing to subject themselves to serve in public office."

Of course Sheriff Dupnik is speaking about rightwing radio and cable TV hosts. Let me add to that group SARAH PALIN and her map of targeted Congressmen and women.  Conservatives like Glenn Beck warned the people violence is coming and it's coming from the left. Sorry GB, you and your ilk have blood on your hands and they will only get bloodier unless you stop the government bashing. GOVERNMENT bashing is what is bringing these mentally ill individuals out of the closet and into crowds with their fuckin precious GUNS! That's all I'm gonna say for now.....

Not only are they stupid, they are liars too...

The Rethuglicans don't care about reducing the deficit, how can they when their very first vote in the House will be a vote to repeal the healthcare reform bill?!  Repeal of the HC bill will ADD at least 230 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years, this is a CBO estimate which the GOP ignores.  The GOP are still trying to convince you the people want them to repeal the HC bill, amazing since Americans love the new provisions like keeping their kids on their plans til age 26, not being dropped from coverage should you get sick, no denying coverage because of preexisting conditions, tax credits to small businesses that cover their employees.

From Salon...Republicans on the healthcare repeal warpath might want to take a hard look at a recent Los Angeles Times article reporting a surprising -- to the insurers -- uptick in the number of small businesses offering health insurance to their employees. The businesses are taking advantage of a tax break in the Affordable Care Act that is designed specifically for enterprises with fewer than 25 employees and moderate pay scales.

"We certainly did not expect to see this in this economy," said Gary Claxton, who oversees an annual survey of employer health plans for the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation. "It's surprising."
... In the six months after the law was signed in March, UnitedHealth Group Inc., the country's largest insurer, added 75,000 new customers who work for companies with fewer than 50 employees. The Minnesota company called the increase notable but declined to reveal further details.
Coventry Health Care Inc., an insurer in Maryland that focuses on small businesses, signed contracts to cover 115,000 new workers in the first nine months of this year, an 8 percent jump.
In California, Warner Pacific Insurance Services in Westlake Village, a major servicer of insurance brokers, has seen business grow more than 10 percent this year, a company executive said.
And Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, the largest insurer in the Kansas City, Mo., area, is reporting a 58 percent jump in the number of small businesses buying insurance since April, the first full month after the legislation was signed into law.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius warned on Tuesday that repeal of the health-care overhaul law would not only add to the deficit but would also bring back the "worst abuses of the insurance industry." Her remarks came in a telephone press conference with regional reporters in response to a potential early vote by House Republicans to scrap the landmark Affordable Care Act. She said the agency would send Congress a letter on Wednesday showing how Americans are adapting to the first steps taken to carry out the law. She expressed confidence that the law would prevail because she says Americans are now seeing its benefits. She suggested that Republicans needed to have conversations with their constituents to appreciate those benefits. Republicans have argued that Congress overstepped its powers by enacting the law, and that the law itself would add to the deficit. In Washington, incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor defended the GOP's upcoming effort to repeal the health-care law, reported the Washington Post, saying, "The American people are expecting quick action from the Republican majority." Sebelius said legal challenges are likely to end in a series of "mixed rulings" over years. She added that two key rulings so far have sided with the law. Another took issue with one provision, the insurance mandate, but did not call for a complete dismantling of the law. She said the Congressional Budget Office's study found that the law would save $1 trillion, adding that the number refutes GOP arguments that the law would add to the deficit. "There is no question that repeal would be a huge step backward that we can't afford," she said. She said her agency would distribute state-by-state data on how the law has benefited individuals, families, seniors and small businesses. She says the data would "show what will happen if Republican leaders in Congress got their way and the law was repealed." She singled out Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City as an example of how the new law had brought relief to businesses and workers. The insurer, she said, had already enrolled more than 9,000 new members who are insured through 400 employers. About one-third of the new members didn't have health coverage before, she said, and have it now because of tax credits that make it possible for small businesses to help workers get health coverage. In her home state of Kansas, she said, 50 employers and unions have been able to maintain health coverage for early retirees because of the act's early retiree reinsurance program. "If repeal succeeds, it would put care for those retirees in serious jeopardy," she said. She said repeal also would mean 16,000 young Kansans would lose health insurance under their parents' health plans "We know that countless people would continue to see their premiums rise without new rules that now limit the amount of health-care premium dollars that insurers can spend on administrative costs, like marketing and CEO salaries," she says. She added that 30,000 seniors in Kansas had received $250 checks to cover the so-called doughnut hole in prescription drug coverage. This year, she said these seniors would get 50 percent discounts on brand name drugs. "Repeal would take tax credits away from 4 million small businesses," she said, adding that "what's happening in Kansas we can see replicated across the country. We can't afford to take benefits away from families, to bring back all of the worst practices of the insurance industry, to deny coverage to 32 million and add a trillion to the deficit by the end of the next decade." She said Republicans needed to look at the evidence that "reforms are working for millions of Americans." She said HHS would continue carrying out the law and added, "What we intend to do is focus on continuing to implement the law effectively, improving it where we can." SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY SURVEY Also on Tuesday, the Small Business Majority released a poll showing that the health-reform law would make most of them more likely to provide health insurance for their workers. The organization, a national nonprofit advocacy group for small businesses, said the survey included 619 business owners with fewer than 50 workers. It said 33 percent of businesses that don't offer insurance said they'd be more likely to do so because of the tax credits. To qualify for the credits, the businesses must have fewer than 25 workers whose average annual wages must be under $50,000. The law allows small businesses to get tax credits of up to 35 percent of their health insurance costs, beginning in the 2010 tax year. "These findings are very encouraging," said John Arensmeyer, CEO of Small Business Majority. The poll found that only 31 percent of small business owners were familiar with the insurance exchanges. Insurance exchanges, which go into effect in 2014, will allow small businesses and individuals to band together to buy insurance. Among the survey's other findings: 33 percent of respondents said they would be more likely to offer health insurance because of insurance exchanges. 31 percent said the tax credits would make them more likely to continue providing insurance.  Republicans aren't listening to the American people, if they were they would be voting on improving the HC reform bill, not trying to repeal it. The GOP is playing to the teabaggers, who by the way have been awfully quiet these past few months. Even the teabaggers are full of shit, read the reports, the bill reduces the deficit. Isn't that what the tea party is supposed to be about? How do you explain that one lisa??

We are a shameful, shameful nation of greed and hate...

Something is terribly wrong in our country when the public service workers are losing their average wage jobs while Wall Street fat cats are swimming in their billions. We thought it would change under President Obama but so far, no change.....All we keep hearing from the Republicans is denigration of union workers.....The rich in this country abhor the working class Americans who just want a decent job with a decent pay......

Republicans are STUPID.....

 Oh Nancy, do ya have to hand over the gavel to THAT????

Those dumb Republicans, standing and cheering on John Boehner today. Ya gotta pity them, they really don't have a formidable leader, someone with a little brain power. They keep saying they are listening to the American people but they are not. They don't care what the people want, they care about power. The next 2 years will be more than enough time to prove that. The next 2 years will also show us the real Barack Obama. Will he cave to the GOP demands or will he use his veto power when they throw repeal after repeal at him?  It's gonna be an extremely interesting two years, I'm ready for it.

The Republican Party is not only stupid, I think they are fractured. Here's proof the Republican Party is broken, they are out in LaLa Land, there is not a single credible Republican who can hold a candle to President Barack Obama.....

Michele Bachmann??? PRESIDENT of the greatest nation on Earth?? Sarah Palin?? PRESIDENT??

According to ABC News, Tea Party maven Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is “seriously weighing whether to seek Republican nomination for president in 2012.” Bachmann will travel to Iowa to meet with “political forces” and “party elders close to the caucus process” before making her final decision.

This has to be a joke. NO??  I don't care how much you conservatives hate Barack Obama, if you put Palin or Bachmann up against President Obama in a debate look for your party to be humiliated and irrelevant for decades to come. Go Ahead, make our day....

Romney, Huckabee, Jindal, Pence, Palin, Gingrich, Bachmann........has it ever been more clear, Republicans are STUPID. These people don't scare me. They want you to believe they are a force to be reckoned with but no,  they are counting on fear and stupidity to steal some power, I don't believe Americans are that stupid.....

Hello Mr. President, what's happening??

I GOT NUTTIN' TO SAY.......

 
EXCEPT I MISS MY BLOG AND MY BLOGGY FRIENDS SOOOOO MUCH!!

I HOPE TO BE BACK THIS WEEK WITH SOME THUG BASHING, BEEN WAY... TO..... LONG!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Changes are a comin'

My Life....

Did you all have a nice Christmas day?  I want to thank all my friends who came by to wish me a Merry Christmas and apologize for not visiting your blogs.  And to ALL my friends in blogland I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

My Life... it's gonna be sooooo different from this day forward.  My 80 yr old mother has begun to move in with me......

We had this stairglide installed a few weeks ago... this is what it looks like.....

this is the big ugly intrusive  rail the big ugly chair glides on .....(she is right here looking at what I write, so NO, she is not offended, LOL. She still has to walk up another 4 steps once she gets to the first landing so my brother has to come and install a railing for her to hang onto so I don't have to go up the steps with her every single time....the woman has to pee like every friggin half hour....

Yup she is moving in, her cat too. I bought a new litter box and scooper, bag of litter at the dollar store yesterday, the cashier asked if someone was getting a new kitty for Christmas, I said no, my mom is coming for the weekend and bringing her cat....She has her basket of meds, and paper, pens, lotions, meds, meds and more meds sitting on my usually bare clean kitchen table, her walker, her tub chair, her nebulizer(?) machine.....ALL her STUFF, it's coming here....well most of it will go in storage because I have a small house. One bathroom too which does not please her, but can't help that. She insists she needs her walker to walk 10 feet to the bathroom 2 or 3 times during the night. Poor husband heard it all, but I sleep with earplugs so I didn't....

She stays up late and wants me to keep her company, she keeps the TV on half the night, the volume way too loud.  But I have my earplugs in.......

She is a political junkie like me so we can watch MSNBC all day and evening without getting on each others nerves. I can blog on the computer that is in the bedroom she'll be taking over and she doesn't mind because I'm good company. I'll be calling the cable company to have the computer hooked up downstairs this coming week though because I thought Santa would get me a laptop for Christmas, but so far it ain't happenin'.

 Today was our first day, I cooked ALL day practically non-stop. Company in and out, presents to open, wine to drink, my son and his girl got engaged.....yup they surprised me with that news when just yesterday he called to say he was leaving her....

My Life from this day forward will be so different, but I'm looking forward to it. I am blessed to have my mother here, have her spend time with her great grand daughter will be so nice too. She's happy, I'm happy, all is well here in New Jersey.....

Oh BTW, did I mention a blizzard is coming through tonight? They say 12 to 18 inches of glorious SNOW, YAY!! I'm a happy girl, easy to please too.....

Good night y'all, I promise I will be by to visit soon. I need Ed Schultz to get me fired up for a long overdue post...

UGH.....

Obstruction-Obsessed McConnell To Democrats: If You ‘Think It’s Bad Now, Wait Till Next Year’

Eeeeewwwwww!!!

Two years of this, it's gonna be quite a ride....

This post from American Thinker tells it all,

Stopping Obama: A Republican Game Plan
By Ed Lasky,
Barack Obama may have had a licking, but he keeps on ticking.  How will the new Congress deal with a president who is relentless in his agenda to create a transformed America?

It's funny actually, this article and the comments shows the far right really does fear our "socialist" far left president. The comments  are expressing doubts the GOP can stand up to President Obama.  Like this one....

Posted by: dlgd  

Dec 20, 10:40 AM

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I hate to be so pessimistic, but I REALLY doubt the Republicans have the stick-to -it-ness and the gut instincts to carry all of your great ideas out. The Republican Party is way too genteel to street fight, which is what is needed. All you hear out of them is "our friends on the other side" junk. The Repbs need to be able to get down and dirty and call things as they are. As a group, they have NEVER known how to fight with no holds bared! They don't know how to fight like the Dems do. It's about time they learned, but will they!?!

and this shows the mentality of the right wing weirdos...

Posted by: RICHARDAS  

Dec 20, 07:22 PM

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Merry Christmas to one and all. A word of caution, Congressman Darrell Issa it has been reported recently, has visited the White House several times in the last few weeks -- WHY--? He is not going to do what so many of you wish for, that is , lay waste to the BARRY Regime, after all he is from !!?where. A first class Rhino if I ever saw one. all talk, no do and the perfect Republican blue Blood who will do or say anything to go along to get along with the democrats. Do not raise your expectations. The Republicans will blow it within 6 months when the 'new' ones have been' educated' into the washington system. When you have a 'leader' who crys at the drop of a hat what on earth can we expect from this lot --exactly nothing-- Barry will rule as though the Republicans are not even there, thier Majority will mean nothing in short order, because no one in the party has any GUTS to FIGHT this very real war for the very survival and heart of this country. Where Are our Fighters ? Where Is Our Ideology ? Certainly not in this Republican Party.
As we approach 2012 who will be our candidate? Well we already know that dont we, aw shucks, it 's mittens Romney why? -- Because the lame stream media has already selected him for us ( even the Economist) and we would not want to disappoint them now , would we! Plus the Blue Bloods think he's just the perfect ticket because he is NEXT in line . HE will LOSE magnificently for the party of yesterday. No problem nothing to see here, move along now , to 2016 , if we still have a Republic by then. What we need to do is recognize that there is one true American Republican Fighter amongst us, a true believer in Americas exceptionalism. One of us not one of them. SARAH PALIN 2012. Now is our time make it so America 

 

 

LMAO! Relax liberals, the conservatives are scared shitless of us and President Obama. I find comfort in that...