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Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower on Texas Governor Rick Perry’s ‘1 million jobs’ claim. (via kileyrae)(Source: trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com, via stoneagechronicles)
Letting Us Die: Republican Governors Are The New “Death Panel”
Meet the newest “Death Panel” on the block.
They are the six Republican governors who have vowed refuse the Medicaid expansion that will happen most other states, under the Affordable Care Act — Rick Scott (FL), Rick Perry (TX), Phil Bryant (MS), Nikki Haley (SC), Terry Branstad (IA), and Bobby Jindal (LA). These Republican governors are opening the “trap door” that the Supreme Court installed in the Affordable Care Act, even at it upheld most of the law. But it’s the poorest residents in these states, many of whom are African American and Latino, and who would have gained health coverage and access to care, that will fall through that trap door.
While the Court upheld the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, it weakened the Medicaid expansion written into the bill. Since Medicaid is a federally-funded, state-administered program, under the health care reform law, the federal government would pay 100% of the state governments’ additional costs for the first three years of the Medicaid expansion, and 93% each year after that. As the law was written, the federal government could take away the existing Medicaid funding of states that refused the Medicaid expansion. However, the Supreme Court ruled that states could refuse to expand their Medicaid programs, and the federal government can’t penalize them by taking away their existing Medicaid funding.
In other words, the Supreme Right Wing Court left the “carrot” but took away the “stick,” and in the process cut a hole in health care reform just big enough for millions of Americans who need its benefits the most to slip right through.
GOP and GOP Supreme Court Scum Are Shit
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How’s that Voter I.D. law workin’ out for ya, GOP? 1.5 million Texas citizens don’t meet the laws’ eligibility requirements, and GW Bush is one of them
First thought: lol
Second thought: *slaps self because voter suppression ain’t a laughing matter*
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Literally a few steps from an authoritarian state.
Fucking tell me about it.
I don’t even think I’m joking anymore. Banning words? Fuck.
It’s madness.
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Remember the GOP Primary? Neither do we. But this mash-up strongly suggests it happened.
I honestly thought on more than one occasion during the GOP Primaries that we were being punked. Usually every time Cain or Bachmann opened their mouths, but the others weren’t much better.
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Important Internet Milestone of the Day: It’s official: Rick Perry’s homophobic campaign ad has more dislikes than Rebecca Black’s “Friday” (embiggen), making it the most hated video in YouTube history.
Congrats, Rick. No one has ever deserved anything more than you deserve this.
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Impressive. Great work everyone.](http://i.imgur.com/lKDGP.jpg)
Important Internet Milestone of the Day: It’s official: Rick Perry’s homophobic campaign ad has more dislikes than Rebecca Black’s “Friday” (embiggen), making it the most hated video in YouTube history.
Congrats, Rick. No one has ever deserved anything more than you deserve this.
[youtube.]
Impressive. Great work everyone.
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Rick Perry’s desperate attack on gays. I’m laughing so hard because I have no idea what else to do
des·per·ate/ˈdespərit/
Adjective:
- Feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.
- (of an act or attempt) Tried in despair or when everything else has failed; having little hope of success.
Is Rick Perry, this fucking ignorant ingrate, this stupid fucking homophobe, this dickface shitwit asshole serious about this?
Fuck you, Rick Perry, and fuck you if you vote for this Texas-sized prick of a human fucking being.
I seriously can’t believe he thinks that doubling down on hating gays is a political platform.
-Joe
sdjfksjdfjsd rage
I support gay rights 110%. However, you can’t shove a way of life down people’s throats! yes this video is very wrong. But not every person HAS to like homosexuals. Just like every person does not HAVE to like redheads, blondes, atheists, black, asians, whites, boy, girls. And there is no way, shape or form nothing wrong with that, AS LONG that the person is not hurting anyone in any way. Which is why this video is wrong. But people need to understand this. Because apparently people don’t
“I support gay rights 110%. However, you can’t shove a way of life down people’s throats!”
Nice “I’m not a racist but…” there, especially throwing in the oldest anti-gay cliche to ever exist.
Yeah it’s his right to be a bigot, just as it’s my right to hate his fucking guts for promoting hatred against homosexuals, the kind of hatred that turns into violence across our nation. It’s our right to tell him that his destructive fundamentalism has no place in 21st century America.
Not everyone has to like everyone but you have to respect their rights. That’s what his message is about, that gay people don’t deserve the right to serve openly, that non-christian kids don’t deserve the right to a public school free from religious practices (also honestly, what kid is not allowed to celebrate Christmas). You need to understand this, because apparently you don’t.
-Joe
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A statement by Rick Perry • Criticizing President Obama over a memorandum he issued today, which stated broad support for advancing LGBT rights and protecting them from violence. It explicitly mentions the efforts of foreign governments to criminalize LGBT persons (the state of affairs in Uganda the last few years being one such galling example), and states that foreign aid will be directed to promote LGBT human rights. Rick Perry (clearly attempting to spark some momentum for his flat-lined bid for the GOP presidential nomination), decided to pounce, saying further: “Investing tax dollars promoting a lifestyle many Americas of faith find so deeply objectionable is wrong. President Obama has again mistaken America’s tolerance for different lifestyles with an endorsement of those lifestyles. I will not make that mistake.” source (via • follow)
Do you know what’s really out of touch with modern America? Calling anything non-heterosexual and non-cissexual a “lifestyle”.
-Joe
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It’s over.
Summary:
- Rick Perry had a meltdown. His train of thought derailed multiple times and he was slurring his words slightly.
- Mitt Romney’s hair was jauntily tousled and he probably gets a boost from this.
- Herman Cain proved he’s not a misogynist by referring to Rep. Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy” and gave Jim Cramer a stroke by referencing 9-9-9 when Cramer said specifically not to at all.
- Michele Bachmann insulted poor people by saying they could pay taxes by buying “two less Happy Meals.”
- Ron Paul suggested students pay for college like they pay for cell phones and that getting rid of student loans will make the price go down. He alternated between Grandpa Simpson and soothsayer.
- Rick Santorum was lost because he couldn’t talk about abortions and gay people killing America.
- Newt Gingrich got his ass handed to him by moderators for claiming “media is not reporting accurately how the economy works.” At a CNBC debate.
- Jon Huntsman was the grown-up in the room, reminding everyone Americans watching this debate are hurting. They’re losing their jobs, their houses, and there’s no simple solution. He had ideas versus talking points. So he’s going to sink further than 1% in the polls.
Flawless summary.
Like I said last time, Comedy Central seriously needs to hold one of these debates. Moderated by John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. They are pure comedy.
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-Rick Perry basically asks “Have you ever tried not being a homosexual?”
Man, that awful book of his is the hateful gift that just keeps on giving.
-Joe
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Rick Perry. The Texas governor conceded his book, “Fed Up!”, published last year, continues to be a goldmine for his detractors.
Knowing about how Perry thinks is bad for his career. Interesting concept. (via liberalsarecool)
He later added “This is making it really hard to lie about what I plan to do to the country.”
-Joe
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This man says things like this and he’s still a contender for the Presidential nomination of a major political party?! What is wrong with this country?!
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