Crossposted at Daily Kos and The Stars Hollow Gazette
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Tag: Pledge To America
Nov 01 2010
The Week in Editorial Cartoons – Republican Thuggery on Full Display, Part I
Oct 13 2010
The Week in Editorial Cartoons – Exorcism, InsaniTea, and Helping Jerry Brown
Crossposted at Daily Kos and The Stars Hollow Gazette
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Christine O’Donnell has wiggled her nose and put a hex on the GOP establishment. The novice Tea party candidate turned lots of heads, Linda Blair-like…But Karl Rove, the Warlock of W, has been taken aback by O’Donnell’s victory. Even he thinks this girl is bat$#!+ crazy and that the Republicans have been given a Tea Party roofie.
Personally, I think she’s the best thing to happen to political satirists since her mentor, Sarah Palin. Republicans, on the other hand, are fingering the Yellow Pages looking for an exorcist. And maybe an antidote.
Sep 24 2010
Imagine it’s the year 2020
Imagine it’s election season in 2020 … you look around the economic and political and media landscape in America — and you’re asking yourself “What Happened?”
VP Paul Ryan is Leading in all the Insta-Polls.
Ryan is considered a shoe-in after spearheading President Pence’s Ultimate Govt Diet Plan for the last 8 years. Even though Ryan’s only real accomplishment was leading American Prosperity’s many market research programs.
Ryan must be credited with figuring out exactly How to Sell the Dog Food — and making it “palatable to the majority of the people”. Afterall, the Pundit Class was stunned when Mike Pence eked out that Win in 2012 — given how he insisted on running on the GOP original slogan: Time to Deconstruct Run-away Government.
With that surprise upset-win, which sent Obama packing, VP Paul Ryan seized the opportunity to get out of the number-crunching business, and move into the world of high-octane Messaging …
Who knew that an Ultra-Conservative — turned Marketing Guru — could actually become the “Leader of the Free-Market World“?
The 2020 Polls are ticking …
Sep 24 2010
GOP Pledges to Replace Health Care Reform with more Health Care Reform
GOP’s ‘Pledge To America’ Replaces Affordable Care Act With Provisions From Affordable Care Act
By Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress.org — Sept 22, 2010
Ironically, today Republicans are also unveiling a new “Pledge To America,” an agenda that promises to “repeal” all of these benefits — as well as the entire health care law — and replace it with “reforms that lower costs for families and small businesses, increase access to affordable, high-quality care and strengthen the doctor-patient relationship.”
The document provides almost no specifics about what the [GOP] party would do to control health care spending, improve quality, or pay for its reforms.
And at least 7 of the GOP’s ideas on health care are already included in the health care law:
Insurance Across State Lines
High-Risk Insurance Pools
Pre-Existing Conditions
Lifetime and Annual Caps
Recissions
State Innovation
Conscience Protections
WTF! What Kind of Pledge is that?