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News/Politics 10-3-13

What’s interesting in the news today?

First up, “The Water Carriers”.

Or If you prefer an alternate headline, “Remember Folks, Liberal Bias is a Myth”.

From TheWashingtonExaminer  “The nation’s big three news networks are falling right into place for President Obama and the Democrats, blaming the Republican Party for the government shutdown by a whopping 21-0 story count.

According to a survey by the conservative media watchdog Media Research Center, in 39 stories during the two weeks leading up to the shutdown, CBS, ABC and NBC blamed the failure to cut a budget deal on the Republicans 21 times, both parties four times, and Democrats zero times. In 14 stories, nobody was to blame.”

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Really? Good grief. More from the RINO faction. 🙄

From TheChristianScienceMonitor  “The tea party created an existential threat to America, not Obamacare”

By pretending that the Affordable Care Act poses such an existential risk to the republic that it merits dragging our national character through the mud of a government shutdown, tea party Republicans are belittling the very real crises America soon may face.”

Harry Reid called Justin, he needs those talking points he gave you back for his evening press conference. Thanks.

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Two words Mr. President…… Bad Optics….

From Breitbart  “The Obama Administration has decided to block access to public memorials on the National Mall as a result of the government shutdown. Like its decision to end White House tours when the sequester cuts took effect, there is no rational reason for this. The Park Police, nominally in charge of monitoring these spaces, isn’t even effected by the shutdown. Shutting off access to these sites is gratuitous and petulant. “

“Having lived in DC for 18 years, I can tell you, the WWII Memorial is simply an architectural structure in an open public space. There is no official “access” to it. There are no guards. It’s a building in a park. Yet, the Obama Administration tried to block veterans from viewing the public memorial, even after hearing about the planned visit.”

“This is nothing more than a petulant response by the Obama Administration to the government shutdown.”

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Have these veterans, and the bad PR Obama and Dems have received as a result, caused them to blink?

From LegalInsurrection  “Everything has changed since the Obama administration Barry-caded the World War II Memorial and tried to keep out a group of visiting WWII Veterans, and then the Democrats in the House killed funding for the Veterans Administration.”

“Democratic hubris and Harry Reid’s fisticuff-style of politics were no match for elderly WWII Vets seeking to pay homage to their fallen comrades in what for many of them would be a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the WWII Memorial.

Everything changed overnight.  Even the biased mainstream media is being forced to cover the protests today.

Harry Reid has blinked in the face of the Scooter and Wheelchair Brigades, pathetically tweeting out blame for the Republicans even though the barricades were on order of OMB and funding for National Parks was killed by Democrats in the House.”

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More on the failed launch of ObamaCare.

Not what we would expect? Speak for yourself Junior.

And don’t you just love the Govt shutdown clock CNN is running? 🙄

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At least somebody is enjoying the ObamaCare launch….. Oh, wait….

From AmericanSpectator  “If you’ve been listening to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show today, you know this already: President Obama’s old friends in the ACORN crime syndicate have decided to get a piece of the big-money Obamacare action.

United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 100 in New Orleans, which is run by ACORN founder Wade Rathke, announced on its Facebook page that it’s gearing up “to do mass enrollment and help navigate people into the marketplaces in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas under the Affordable Care Act!”

“Wherever Rathke goes, lawlessness follows.

Before his calamitous 38-year tenure as ACORN chief organizer ended in his expulsion from the group in 2008, Rathke covered up a million-dollar embezzlement involving the nonprofit’s pension funds. He presided over massive campaigns involving identity fraud in furtherance of voter fraud. (ACORN even knowingly hired felons convicted of identity theft to work on voter registration drives, giving them custody of sensitive voter information.)”

And these are the guys and types of groups the Obama admin has hired to help “navigate” the system. Just give them your personal info, I’m sure it’ll be fine…. 🙄

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And last today, blood money is trying to buy the Virginia governorship. He’s promised taxpayers funds as repayment for the abortion mill money.

From TheWashingtonPost  “Planned Parenthood Votes has spent more than $1 million on television and radio ads that will soon air in the Norfolk and Richmond areas, telling women that they should not trust Ken Cuccinelli II, the Republican candidate for Virginia governor.”

“Planned Parenthood’s various political advocacy groups have been heavily involved in the Virginia race for more than eight months, pushing a campaign dubbed “Keep Ken Out” and endorsing the Democratic candidate, Terry McAuliffe. Women’s issues, especially those related to abortion, have dominated campaign commercials and debates.

Planned Parenthood Votes plans to release its television ad on Wednesday. It will hit airwaves in the Richmond and Norfolk areas later this  week. The ad warns voters about Cuccinelli’s stances or actions that the group considers dangerous to women’s health, including limiting access to birth control, opposing emergency contraception and banning abortions.”

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16 thoughts on “News/Politics 10-3-13”

  4. I don’t even know how to respond to that. In the realm in which you must live you must make sense. I used to think that if I listened I could find common ground, but I am becoming convinced that I am wrong and it’s a waste of time to try.

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  6. CB,

    So do any of those workers have any anger towards the President and Dems who are just as responsible as anyone else? Or is it just for R’s? After all, it’s the President who is trying to make this as painful as possible. R’s have tried to put you folks back to work, but it’s Senate Dems and the President who won’t play ball. They’ve offered funding bills to put you folks back to work, but because they don’t include his failure ObamaCare, he stomps his feet and cries. Really, that doesn’t bother you?

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  7. CB, some of us really, really, really believe that Obamacare will be bad for the country. It’s thousand of pages long and was put together by hundreds of politicians. People will get over the shutdown in a few weeks. We will be paying for Obamacare for generations.

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  8. Thanks to everyone who commented on my questions about paying for healthcare yesterday. I pretty much agree with much of what you all were saying, & was kind of thinking out loud with some of my comments/questions.

    With my young friend on Facebook, I was taking more of a conservative stance. One of the things I said was similar to one of the things Ricky pointed out – that government-run healthcare/insurance would bankrupt an already nearly-bankrupt nation. With the gov’t (taxpayers) paying all the bills, healthcare costs would probably rise even more, & eventually there would have to be some sort of rationing of services.

    There seems to be no good solution at this time. We can talk about how things used to be, but they aren’t that way anymore, & insurance & medical costs are highly expensive, & out of reach for some.

    BTW, this wasn’t about Lee & I & our lack of health insurance. We’ll find something sometime, & in the meantime have a payment plan for his endoscopy. (Turns out he has gastritis, which is already getting better, & should be easy to treat.)

    When we were raising our daughters, we went through a period of about seven years with no health insurance. We were not making a lot of money, but were able to keep up with well-child visits, visits when a child was ill, yearly visits to a pediatric cardiologist, & paying for a broken arm. We found that doctors & hospitals were amenable to payment schedules.

    My concern, & my young friend’s, is about “the least of these”, the ones who fall through the cracks.

    Can you imagine, if American Christians actually tithed (I know all of you don’t believe in tithing, but the general idea of giving generously is still biblical), how much we’d be able to help those who need help? I think I’ve seen the statistic (I could be mistaken) that giving to churches averages out to about 2% of church-goers’ income. If true, that is a shame.

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  9. Most Texans and many other Southerners hate and are embarrassed by much of what the US government is doing at home and abroad. My worldview is much closer to that of the average Mexican, Chilean or Russian than it is to that of the average citizen of Boston.

    We are going to keep having these deadlocks, with increasing bitterness, until there is a separation.

    CB, I respect you and I have always enjoyed our conversations. We would get along much better if we lived in different countries. Maybe I will emigrate, but I am not giving up on Texas just yet.

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  10. Does anybody really think that a law as large as the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) should have been enacted without Republican input? Does anybody think it can work without bipartisan agreement and support?

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  11. Bob Buckles – I don’t think it can work even if it had bipartisan agreement & support.

    And here’s a very brief article about more Obamacare failure…

    http://nosurrenderbreastcancer.blogspot.com/2013/10/this-cancer-survivors-experience-with.html

    “I had a private plan. I paid a lot of money for it. But as a person who has had breast cancer twice, I am grateful I had the coverage.

    “I received a letter a while back that my carrier was canceling my policy due to the ‘Affordable Care Act.’ I was told to go to the New York Health Care Exchange.

    “I have.

    “I am not eligible for coverage. …

    “Ask a metastatic breast cancer patient who is on Medicare who has now lost her oncologist because of the ‘Affordable Health Care Act.’

    “Ask the person who is now being denied life-saving/prolonging chemotherapy because of the ‘Affordable Health Care Act.’

    “Ask the physician who is scrambling to find a way to treat patients the way they should be treated. …

    Yes. Today is historic. Today is the day that patient centered medical care died.”

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  12. Forget about the shutdown, forget about the football game, forget even about the evil Ted Cruz. It’s over. I tell you it’s over. 200 degrees. That’s hotter than Fort Worth in August.

    The UN’s climate panel (IPCC) released its latest warning about “catastrophic” climate change on Sept. 27, garnering the frantic attention of all three broadcast networks that night. CBS even aired a claim about temperatures rising “more than 200 degrees.”
    Predictably, the evening news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC Sept. 27 repeated the IPCC’s dire warnings without including any skeptics and without mentioning past failures such as their inability to accurately predict warming or sea level rise.

    http://mrc.org/articles/networks-embrace-catastrophic-warnings-latest-ipcc-report

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  15. Rick

    I encourage you to spend quite bit of time in Mexico, Russia or Chile before deciding that you have more in common and moving there. I think you might be surprised. If you opt for Russia, please do keep in touch with the American Embassy so the consular officers can help when you get arrested. Out of the bunch your best bet would be Chile. But be advised, they have socialized medicine, support LGBT human rights and respect the work of the UN. You would probably do better in Alberta, Canada.

    Linda – hard working patriotic Americans come in all political stripes. Some are conservative, some are liberal, some are moderate, some libertarian and some apolitical. For me as a civil servant, I tire of hearing about how we are a problem – the stunt yesterday from a republican Congressman calling out a park ranger was despicable but unsurprising. The Republican party has spent years denigrating public servants and sowing hatred of a class of people who love their country and opted to serve it. They yammer on about such great benefits etc. I don’t do my job for money — if I wanted money and benefits I’d be working for a corporation making at least 3 times what I do now.

    KBells, I understand that. I also understand that conservatives would eliminate social security and medicare if they could. You all don’t like large government programs. I think the rest of us get it. I think the rest of us also want a government that works and tire of a group of people who seek to govern but despise governing.

    Bob and Karen — I definitely agree that the ACA has issues. So why doesn;t the party actually come up with ideas to replace it? Or to fix it? Do you really think the prior system is better? Having a spouse with pre-existing conditions, I can tell you that I don’t think the previous system was better. As for the ACA, we don’t know how it will work. If it really is that terrible wouldn’t you be better served to let it fail of its own weight?

    Lastly AJ, sorry no. For two years the republicans have been shouting shut it down, and on sites like hot air and the NRO saying burn it down, much like Rick’s first post. So no, no amount of political maneuvering to reopen the popular programs that make consitituents happy will cause me to cast more blame to the democrats. Not that the dems are blameless, but the Senate did ask for budget conference 18 times in the past fiscal year. They got 18 noes from the House. I am unimpressed with the plaint of Eric Cantor now. And if the President got more involved I am not sure that would help. If the man says the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, NRO, hot air, Rush, Fox, daily caller, newsmax (almost every source of “news” you use) will all line-up to bitterly complain that he is wrong and will cite to “experts” to prove it.

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  16. CB – Have you read my comments on this issue from Wednesday, & what I wrote above? I don’t think the ACA is going to be the answer people wish it to be, & I also know that the current system is faulty. More than one person here has pointed out that one of the reasons medical costs are so high is because the gov’t or insurance has payed the bill for most over the last several decades. At this point, I don’t see a workable solution, & yes, that bothers me.

    My own spouse, my husband, also has a pre-existing condition. Right now we have no health insurance.

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