10 posts tagged “gop”
This story is so fitting and so telling of the hypocrisy and duplicitousness of the Republican party...vote them out and do it in such a way that it will be a long, long time before they can come back....
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/02/scaife200802
This morning Paul Simon's simple, compassionate letter touched my heart. It appeared on the Huff Post. Why not take a moment to send it to the Republican official near you, perhaps it will change his or her thinking and something good will actually come from Washington. BTW, one of the reasons Bush vetoed this bill is he, and others, don't want to increase taxes on tobacco prodcuts to help fund SCHIP....is there no end to their heartless thinking?
My name is Paul Simon.
I earn my living by writing and singing songs. It's a very old and low-tech profession that feels increasingly age-appropriate. I am honored to have the opportunity to express my opinions concerning SCHIP.
I am the father of four healthy children, knock on wood, but if they get sick or need medical attention I don't knock on wood; I take them to a doctor whose care and attention I am, fortunately, able to afford. Millions of American children do not receive the same medical care. They are uninsured.
Twenty years ago, I co-founded The Children's Health Fund with Dr. Irwin Redlener. Our organization provides mobile medical units with doctors and staff to serve the pediatric needs of poor communities across the United States. In the twenty years since we began, we have grown incrementally, but as of last year we had recorded over 1.2 million doctor/patient visits.
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew devastated a large portion of Southern Florida. Our medical units were there to help. When Hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast with an almost Biblical force, The Children's Health Fund had units working in those communities within a week. There was very little outside help -- no FEMA, no Red Cross.
But there were scores of mini-vans and trailers loaded with food and supplies from hundreds of churches around the country. I watched with wonder and admiration as the church people opened their hearts and got to work helping people on the Gulf Coast whose lives has been destroyed. They did not debate whether they could find a compromise or alternative way of helping. They opened their hearts and started to repair a dire emergency.
The president's veto of the re-authorization of SCHIP was a heartless act.
Thanks to groups like Families USA
and the Children's Health Fund, Congress is getting closer and closer to overriding the President's veto -- and children of hard working American families are getting closer to receiving affordable health care through SCHIP.
I am asking those of you who supported the veto to reexamine your conscience, to find compassion in your heart for our most vulnerable and sweetest citizens -- our children. I am asking you to change your vote. If you do, I believe it will be one of the proudest days of your life.
Thank you,
Paul Simon
To learn more about this issue and to take action, please visit www.familiesusa
This morning's Huff Post breaks a story that has had me chuckling early on....apparently Nixon once claimed Fred Thompon was dumb as hell. No kidding.
Yes, Nixon was an immoral shit, but he wasn't stupid. Which leads one to the conclusion that it must be very difficult to impeach a dumb and immoral president.
This election maybe we should just vote out anyone in Washington who has been in their position for more than four years. Cleaning house and starting over from scratch makes more sense than letting the rot spread via the career politicians who are easy prey for shrill lobbyists who find it easier to buy there vote the longer they stay in DC.
This election, think about what you can and should do rather than simply show up and punch a chad for the same old party.
Just in from Yahoo News: DES MOINES, Iowa - Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is launching a radio ad touting the strength of his opposition to gay marriage.
1. To use anothers lifestyle to garner votes is as reprehensible as co-opting Jesus for a vote. Way to go Mitt, you do both.
"As Republicans we must oppose discrimination and defend traditional marriage: one man, one woman," Romney says in the spot.
2. What about the gay Republicans who have supported this crap-assed party and worked tirelessly for it...are you screwing them as did Bush and Rove, Mitt? What about your colleague looking for sex in a public bathroom, do you think he is risking all because he's bored? Oh,I know the devil got him in a weak moment so some prayer and voodoo curses over chicken bones and all will be right with his soul. (How incredibley stupid you people are.)
The ad is meant to set him apart from Fred Thompson, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in the minds of conservative voters.
3. Does this mean your distancing yourself from Darth Vader Cheney too, you remember him, the real president who is a stalwart voice of power in your crap-ass party and can kill your campaign with a phone call, and who loves his lesbian daughter, who also works tirelessy for this crap-ass party? You're too dumb to be president Mitt and we're tired of dumb presidents.
Conclusion: Republicans will eat their young for a vote....
Action: Vote 'em out, everyone of the them, and a lot of the Dems too. In 2008 use your vote to remove the incumbent bullshit and hate mongering from Washington...
When rock band Pearl Jam sung the lyrics "George Bush, leave this world alone" at a music festival over the weekend, fans following along online didn't hear the message chanted from a Chicago stage. AT&T Inc., which broadcast the performance on its Blue Room Web site, edited the lyrics from its live Webcast of the Sunday performance at Lollapalooza, leaving the musicians to cry censorship. HuffPo: Your world, censored.
Tough enough to execute Karla Fay Tucker -- and then laugh about it. Tough enough to sign a death warrant for a man whose lawyer slept through the trial -- and then snicker when asked about it in a debate. Even tough enough to execute a great-grandmother who murdered her husband -- after he abused her. A friend of mine at the time asked Bush to commute her sentence, telling him, "Betty Lou ain't a threat to no one she ain't married to." No dice.
Mr. Bush is tough enough to invade a country that was no risk to America, causing tens of thousands of civilian deaths and shedding precious American blood in the process. Tough enough to sanction torture. Tough enough to order an American citizen arrested and held without trial.
But if you're rich and right-wing and Republican, George is a real softie. As George W. Bush demonstrated in giving Scooter Libby a Get Out of Jail Free Card, he is only compassionate to conservatives.
by Paul Begala, The Huffington Post, July 3, 2007
Albania loves Bush, who knew...Bawbra Walters interviews Paris Hilton...a brain fest if there ever was one...Saudian Arabian semen and more at daddawg today....
There's a game of chicken going on in the middle east, something has to give...www.daddawg.com
