On This Day: President Barack Obama, with Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Mona Sutphen, talks on the phone with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, while in the motorcade during a trip to Richmond, Va., Sept. 29, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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The Week Ahead:
Today: The President has no public events scheduled
Monday: The President will host Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House.
Tuesday: The President will attend meetings at the White House.
Wednesday: The President will deliver remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 36th Annual Awards Gala at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The First Lady will also attend.
Thursday and Friday: The President will attend meetings at the White House.
Saturday: The President will depart on his trip to Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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Government at work
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Steve Benen: House Republicans Embrace Government-Shutdown Plan
…. House Republicans, apparently acting at Sen. Ted Cruz’s behest, have demanded a temporary spending bill that would (a) delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act for a year; (b) repeal the health care law’s medical device tax, which means Republicans hope to add over $100 billion to the deficit over the next decade; and (c) provide funds to U.S. troops in the event Republicans shut down the federal government.
And if Democrats fail to accept this offer, Republicans will, of course, have shut down the government, just as they did in 1995, and just as they said they wouldn’t do if given power again.
Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) reportedly told his fellow conservative colleagues, “I said, like 9/11, ‘let’s roll!'”
You see, in the deluded minds of unhinged lawmakers, they’re the heroes, vowing to shut down the federal government unless Democrats start taking away health care benefits from working families…..
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America faces another manufactured crisis thanks to #GOPshutdown. Here are 5 consequences of GOP irresponsibility: pic.twitter.com/PXgVIaNf6i
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) September 28, 2013
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ThinkProgress: The Complete Guide To The GOP’s Three-Year Campaign To Shut Down The Government
As the nation races toward another budgetary crisis, Republican leaders are using the prospect of a government shutdown and the need to raise the nation’s debt ceiling as leverage points to undermine the Affordable Care Act — just days before uninsured Americans are expected to sign up for health care coverage — and extract additional cuts to government programs.
Past Congresses have used the debt ceiling as a “vehicle for other legislative matters” or nongermane amendments, but as the timeline below demonstrates, the Republicans that came to power after the 2010 midterm elections demanded something entirely different: they threatened to push the nation into default and shut down the government unless Congress approves deep structural budget cuts during a period of economic recession.
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ThinkProgress: Senator Bashes House Republicans: ‘They Hate Government. They Don’t Want Government To Work.’
Sen. Angus King (I-ME) tore into House Republicans on Saturday for roadblocking passage of government funding, saying that “they hate the government,” and are “holding the entire United States hostage” because they “don’t believe government can or should work.”
….”there is a pernicious inner logic to what these characters are doing. They hate government. They don’t want government to work. They don’t believe government can or should work. Crashing the economy, crashing the government, is a kind of weird success and it’s very hard to reach agreement with people who don’t share a kind of basic appreciation of the institution. This is dangerous. We’ve never been here before.”
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“Having a black President can really suck sometimes.” – My mother, breaking down the impending Government shutdown in a nutshell.
— HumanityCritic (@HumanityCritic) September 29, 2013
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Noam Scheiber: The House GOP Wants To Throw A Temper Tantrum, And Boehner Can’t Stop Them
Here’s the question to ask yourself while watching the government shutdown/debt-limit insanity play out these next few days: Is the congressional GOP a global menace, bent on destruction of an epic scale, or merely a goofy, intermittently-competent-at-best, primarily self-destructive force?
Since Republicans took over the House in early 2011, my assumption has been Choice A, “global menace,” despite some pretty chronic displays of goofiness. Among other things, this has been the basis for my view that our best hope for avoiding a debt default is for John Boehner to shut down the government by holding fast to conservative demands on defunding health care reform, thereby engineering enough political blowback to demonstrate how isolated his lunatics really are, and forcing them to sober up in time to raise the debt limit by the mid-October deadline. In this view, Boehner is a Hurt Locker-esque bomb disabler who must navigate around improvised explosives that will detonate with a single false move.
There are times, however, when the alternative rings far truer – when the clownishness becomes so laughably self-sabotaging you struggle to take these guys seriously.
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NBC: Quitting For Obamacare: Trapped Workers May seek Relief In New Health Exchanges
As millions of Americans wait to see how the federal health exchanges shake out, some who’ve been hanging onto their jobs just for the insurance say Obamacare gives them a new reason to bid their old employers goodbye.
One Arizona couple, Claudia and Joseph Schulz, just quit their jobs, in fact, and launched a husband-and-wife real estate team, largely because they can sign up this week for health insurance not tethered to any position.
“That was the fear before. We felt too much on our own,” says Claudia Schulz, 33, of Phoenix. “Now, if we’re able to make our dream come true of owning our own business, or at least giving it a shot, it’s worth it.”
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NBC: Arizona Nurses Prep Would-Be Patients On New Health Care Law
Figuring out what the Affordable Care Act means for you and your family can be intimidating, to say the least. If only someone would sit down and explain this to you in person.
Actually, that’s exactly what volunteers from the Hispanic and Black Nurse Association of Arizona are doing.
They’re visiting small businesses in their region and talking with owners, employees and customers to counsel them on what the different options mean, and the importance of signing up.
More here
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Jonathan Cohn: ObamaCare Is About To Go Live. Here’s Why It Was Worth The Wait
Obamacare’s new insurance marketplaces are scheduled to open for business on October 1, just a few days from now. For all the attention that date has received, it is less important than it might seem. Because new coverage won’t actually begin until January 1, most people looking to get insurance on their own won’t start shopping until the end of the year. But October 1 is still a milestone.
Probably the most surprising news about Obamacare is about medical costs: All of a sudden, they are rising more slowly than at any time in recent history. And while that reflects many factors, including the recession, there are signs that Obamacare is starting to have an influence, too. One intriguing piece of evidence comes from statistics on hospital readmissions. Under the health care law, Medicare now penalizes hospitals when re-admit certain kinds of patients.
The idea is that hospitals will better prepare patients for what happens after discharge—and maybe even monitor their progress—if money is on the line. Sure enough, readmissions are down. And some hospitals have started innovative programs for follow-up care, like sending visiting nurses to check on patients after they’ve gone home. It’s just one development, andfar from clear-cut. But many experts see a trend. At the very least, the fact that medical inflation has slowed undermines one common argument against Obamacare—that it would cause health care spending to spiral out of control.
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https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/384166628729958400
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Lee Fang: Tea Party Lawmaker Letter On Med Device Tax Repeal Authored By Lobby Group
Today, House Republicans pushed one more step towards a government shut down by coalescing around a continuing resolution that delays the implementation of the Affordable Care Act by one year, while permanently repealing one of the primary funding mechanisms for the law, a 2.3 percent excise tax on medical device companies. The medical device industry, led by AdvaMed, a trade association that spends $29 million a year, has pushed aggressively to ensure that medical device companies contribute nothing to the financing of the Affordable Care Act.
After the Tea Party catapulted House Republicans into the majority, seventy-five right-wing lawmakers wrote a letter to Speaker Boehner demanding that a vote to repeal the device tax occur “as soon as possible.” The metadata of the letter shows that it was authored by Ryan Strandlund, a member of AdvaMed’s government affairs team
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https://twitter.com/laurenarankin/status/384300367913050114
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/384163129602482177
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Lisa Desjardins: GOP Adds ‘Conscience Clause’ To Spending Bill
House Republicans have added a measure aimed at limiting contraceptive coverage to the spending bill. The so-called “conscience clause” would allow employers and insurers to opt out of preventative care for women which they find objectionable on moral or religious grounds. That prominently includes birth control, which most insurers are required to provide for free under current Obamacare rules.
With this move, House Republican leaders would give any employer or group health plan the ability to opt out of contraception coverage for the next year. That time frame syncs up with the larger measure in which this is included: a one-year delay of Obamacare provisions not yet in effect.
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Political Wire: Obamacare Exchanges Still Set For Launch
“Barring some last-minute deal, which gets less likely with each passing moment, the federal government will shut down on Tuesday because of the House and Senate’s inability to pass a spending bill that resolves their deep and persistent differences over Obamacare,” Politico reports.
“But Tuesday is also the day that Obamacare’s new health insurance marketplaces — some run by the states, many run by the feds — are scheduled to start signing up customers. And President Barack Obama has made it clear that, even if the government closes, the health care show will go on.”
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What has Obamacare done for me lately?
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On This Day:
Sept. 29, 2011 – Pete Souza: “When a White House staff member leaves their job, the President usually invites the staff member and his family to the Oval Office for a family photo to thank them for their service. Here the President walks with William Jones, son of departing aide Luke Jones, before a family photo.”
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President Barack Obama gives Make-a-Wish child, Chase Kerr, a high-five during a greeting with Chase and his family in the Oval Office, Sept. 29, 2009. (Pete Souza)
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As I said in last thread
Indeed zizi. I push back hard on this false meme about PBO not “selling” this, that or the other. It’s an intellectually dishonest or lazy assessment and I’ve occasionally heard it coming from even PBO-supporters on Twitter. I’ve been blocked or unfollowed by several simply because I refuse to allow people to push this false narrative and then hide behind “oh I support Obama.” This is a FALSE narrative that has been peddled by the media and its corporate sponsors after they’ve gone out of their way to distort, bury, spread lies about PBO. Instead of repeating their bull shit, we should be forcefully pushing back against this drivel.
Thanks so much for your tweets and TOD posts zizi – I want to be like you when I grow up!!!!
Ha haa! Naw I’m just an Obamabot who voraciously consumes all things related to PBO since 2004
I want to be an Obot when I grow up!
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Indeed…it is not because the President has not got the word out…there is a multi-million dollar campaign to mislead…distort….and lie about the ACA…in the beginning…the PL was all in a tizzy because there was no single payer and talked bad about the law…then of course there were the obstructionists in Congress…and then there are the KOCH brothers and finally the MSM backing up the obstructionists….in those places in which the governors have embraced the health care law …wonderful things are happening….in those places where the governors continue to obstruct…the challenge remains…I live in one of those states…Toomey, the Sen. from my state is on full blast against the health care law….found an email this morning from his office full of lies from the ACA…but that I expected from him….where is Casey…Schwartz who wants to run for Gov…my own Congress person Fatah…no emails from them supporting the law…
so this is the uphill battle that PBO and his administration…has to wage…but despite alllllllllllllllllllllllll of this…..PBO says….that the Health Care Law is here to stay…and I am very grateful that now my daughter and my two grandsons will have health insurance
I’m bringing this over from the last thread, as I want some good information to counter when this comes up again:
I’d like some information. I got my hair done yesterday and the woman who does my hair railed about ACA. She hasn’t had insurance and said for her to get medical insurance here in CA, she’d have to pay $588.00 a month. She’s thinking she’d be better off paying the penalty, although as we all know, the penalty gets steeper every year. When I quesitoned her about this, she sited that because of her taxes, it would make it go up to $588.00, although it didn’t start out that high. She said she knew a manager who worked at Pacifcare (now United Health care) who told her she was screwed basically. This is someone who is very fear driven unfortunately, and very right wing, believing in conspiracy theories; and that government is a bad thing. She thinks things such as the Boston shooting and Sandy Hook started with the government, that the government is trying to “take away our guns”. So obviously, there’s no talking rationally to her about this. But I want to know some facts about the ACA plan, so if I come accross this again, I can have logical things to say in response, although obviously someone has to be willing to listen, which isn’t always the case.
Hear, hear!
Good Morning Yardarm!
I was catching up on posts from yesterday and was very glad to see your comments. Hope things continue to look up. 🙂 Stay positive!
And it is so. TY.
SNL and Bill Maher are also pushing the President hasn’t sold ACA. Hahahahahahah. These folks still don’t get POTUS.
In my view what you are seeing is the latest version of “give the opponent all the rope he/she needs and watch him/her knock themselves out.”
Meanwhile the clock is ticking and in 2 more days all bs will have to take a walk.
PBO never uses more strength than what is necessary to get the job done.
The President was gentle with Hillary and if you were paying attention back in the spring of 2008 perhaps you remember the Saturday meeting of the Rules and Bylaws committee where Clinton supporters fought over every delegate vote . It was crazy. And at that time there was a loud chorus criticizing candidate Obama’s effort. lots of people urged him to flatten Hillary.
ACA is and will remain law. There is nothing the dopes on the other side or the dopes on our side can do.
President Barack Obama knows exactly what he is doing. We at TOD all know that, right?
Yes, he does know exactly what he is doing! Best.President.EVER!!!
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/384305090787414016
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/384297407996907520
Thank yoooooOOOOooooOOOOoooooOOOooooo UT!
Thank YooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooooou you Mrs. Rooney!
Happy Birthday to me today!
My birthday wish is to be first…..and if not..I wish that my extended family here at TOD are all happy and healthy. I pray for our Yardarm and Jovie are well and may God bless them and that they return to us soon.
Good morning all. And the beat goes on and on.
Happy Birthday Jojo. Wishing you many more!
Happy birthday Jojo. May you live healthily and happily for ever. Cheers 😆 😆
Have a perfect day JoJo!!!!!
Thank you everyone…..so blessed to spend this morning with my TOD family.
Another year, another grey hair! Just kidding, Jojo – ♥ ♥ ♥ Have a WONDERFUL, EXTRA-SPECIAL, MEMORABLE DAY! ♥ ♥ ♥
Thank you vc….yes, another grey hair and I happy for each and every one of them….love you allllllll.
Well g’morning and happy birthday to you dear jojo 🙂
Glad that you are able to start this morning with us in good spirits. I echo your thoughts on Yardarm and Jovie.
Happy Birthday, jojo. I hope you have a blissful day.
Happy Birthday JoJo – what wonderful thoughts for your birthday – enjoy the day
happy BD Jo!! May you have many, many, more.
Happy Birthday …JoJo….hoping you have a Fooooooootabulous Day….smilin
and ditto to your comments about Jovie and Yard
Happy Birthday Jojo! Hope you have a wonderful day, in spite of these crazy Repubs. It is a beautiful fall day.
Hey jojo. I’m on the scene and wishing you the best in birthday wishes.
TY for your prayers.
Nice! Happy Birthday Jojo! #ANDMANYMORE
Oh a very Happy Birthday jojo ~ my fellow Libra (mine is Friday- and my middle name just happens to be : Jo) Hope your day is wonderful, bright & sunny ~
Happy Birthday JoJo
Thank you family…..I am also thankful that we have President Barack Obama and VP Joe Biden and all their administration working hard and making us safe and a better country inspite of the cray cray rethugs and msm.
Have a wonderful birthday JoJo!!! 🙂
Happy Birthday jojo. Have a great one.
Hope you’re having a marvelous birthday, JoJo!
G’morning UT, Chips, TOD, lurkers, everyone, and congrats zizi on #1! 🙂
MoooOOOooooOOOooorning Hopefruit!
Good Sunday Morning, everybody. Whoa, another excellent, chock full of Obamacare info to share. Thanks, UT.
MoooOOOoooOOOoooorning Africa!
That’s right oldgran!!!
With all its tantrums throwing, this new DSM-5 diagnosis, although for children 6-18, could very well be applied to our petulant drunks.
I believe Obamacare covers this disorder.
LOL.
Ha! Africa I saw your tweet on this earlier! How true 🙂
Does the conscience clause include a ban on vasectomies ? If not, why not…..they are also a form of contraception.
I don’t think vasectomies have always been allowed as a medical need and has never been given the same level of limitation as women’s abortions or contraceptions.
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT & HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE 101 (3 videos, 1 hour)
Anyone wanting a basic overview and understanding of the ACA and the new health insurance marketplace can watch the three videos below. It will take approximately 60 minutes, but it will be an hour well spent. Knowledge is power.
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1) What ObamaCare Means For You (3 minutes)
2) The Changes Coming Your Way Under the Affordable Care Act (7 minutes)
http://kff.org/health-reform/video/youtoons-obamacare-video/
3) President Obama explains the ACA and Health Insurance Marketplace (50 minutes)
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Meaningful gathering together, LadyH! Very handy for any TOD, visitor or lurker to grab and go. Well done!
TY VC
Good Morning All …
In the age of “Obama” there is so much stuff happening that it gets difficult to keep up.
I have been trying to catch up for over three days and FINALLY, I am here. I have to read everything!
Thank you all for keeping us updated and having all the fact s on hand. We are going to need this ammunition to combat all the crazies out there.
Have a great day everyone… love you all.
GM, Marlz. You can tell me the truth, did you actually read everything to catch up, or did you hop, skip and jump all over like I did? 😉 Of course, I hate doing that because then I invariably miss out on a key piece of info, but a girl’s gotta survive as best she can. 😀
Hi VC… I actually try to read everything. There are some skipping and jumping yes, but just a little as I need to know everything Obama. 🙂
Well you are leaps ahead of me, Marlz! Over the last couple of days I mostly get about halfway through reading every. thing. then suddenly pop out of a daze and realize everyone has moved on. At which point I drop everything, run to catch up, and the process starts all over again. On occasion I open another TOD window and try to read from both the old and new posts, flipping from one to the other. I tell you truly, this addiction is a time consuming, brain gobbling kind of thing! 😉 😉
Hi VC… I actually try to read everything. There are some skipping and jumping yes, but just a little as I need to know everything Obama. 🙂
Hi VC… I actually try to read everything. There are some skipping and jumping yes, but just a little as I need to know everything Obama. 🙂
Hi UT – thank you for the R&S – wonderful family pics with PBO – did we EVER see such photos with previous Presidents? It is no wonder that everyone he ever meets loves him forever – amazing wonderful man.
PBO has no events on his schedule, which means that he will be popping up at any time today/tonight to give the GOP (and their craven MSM allies) a major public tongue-lashing…. Stay tuned….
Oooh, can’t wait. 😉
I find it amazing that the media continually attacks the President about not “selling” healthcare. It is the law – there have to be 100s of people with the role of implementing the system – PBO is not a leader who refuses to use his subordinates (BIG problem with Kevin Rudd our ex PM – a micro manager – sent everyone who worked for him crazy – NOTHING got done and the ministers were not encouraged to do their jobs).
The President went way beyond the call in getting the legislation passed – despite the constant media attacks as they supported the lies of the GOP. The media considers itself to be the point of call to get the message out – so the sooner the President tells the WHPC they can shape up or ship out the better. Their role is to INFORM the people as to what is happening at the White House – that they think their role is to support the GOP means they should just be shut down – the sooner the better.
Is there legislation that says the WHPC must exist?
At this point, anyone who is interested in health care and claims to not know about the basic benefits or tenets of the ACA is lying or willfully ignorant. PERIOD.
If you are motivated enough to call CSPAN late on Saturday night complaining about ACA, you should be motivated enough to get the CORRECT information about ACA.
There is a significant % of the population who take little notice of anything the government does. They get their information from friends, neighbors and the TV/Radio – these are the folks with all the WRONG information. and these are the folks the media targets. People who call CSPAN and complain are trolls – they know what is happening and simply want to spread the lies.
Happens also in my world, fortunately we don’t have a dysfunctional Parliament – despite we have one with the wrong political leanings for the next few years.
Funny how the media had no problem selling us on Medicare Part D, the Tea Party crazy, all the GOP candidates, and Mitt Romney?
I reprise some points I made in my post from Thursday for emphasis:
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ACA:The 3rd Revolutionary Safety Net
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An important distinction to note is that the earlier 2 pillars of the social safety net, Social Security & Medicare, were severely limited in scope at their inception because FDR & LBJ had to make concessions to Dixiecrats, segregationists who did not want certain populations benefiting from those laws. So SS initially excluded coverage to majority of those professions that happened to be filled mostly by people of color, immigrants. Pegging Medicare’s eligibility age at 65 similarly cutout groups who had much lower life expectancy.
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But the ACA is the first law that does NOT limit access demographically, right out of the gate. Think about that. No one is excluded from participating, not by race, ethnicity, region, profession, or income. Taxation-wise it is the most progressive, unlike SS or Medicare taxes that absolve the wealthy from paying more. The wealthy pony up for the ACA, and they hate it.
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The ACA also breaks the stranglehold of employers on workers, who until now have hung onto miserable jobs for dear life cuz of healthcare, and have traded real wages for “benefit packages” whose worth start depreciating the very moment you start clocking into work. Paltry salaries will be revealed for what they truly are.
The boon will be for those raring to strike out on their own but have dared not take the risk because of healthcare security their employer provides, and the fear of illness bankrupting them should they leave.
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https://twitter.com/theosmelek/status/384319082381590528
Well we know that it’s not just the GOP who wants the ACA to fail. The “librul” MSM certainly did their part in 2010 to prevent this bill from passing…
I don’t watch either show….
That they did HF – if they had supported the majority of the people who WANTED health care it could have passed in 2009 as single payer – but the media was out there spreading the Palin stories and willing the legislation to fail.
Oh yeah! I haven’t even located my TOD running shoes yet and action in the village has already picked up speed. Woweeeeeeee! Gotta grab my wrist strap and try and hang on for the ride over the next two days!
Thank you, Ms AustinLiberal!
And thanks from now to ALL OTHER BT posters over the next couple of days. /waving the hand that’s not in a wrist strap/ I suspect I might not have enough breath to pause for a ….hel…loooo…! Seeeeeeeeeee you….la…t….
https://twitter.com/deaconmill/status/384322418086395905
https://twitter.com/deaconmill/status/384322075285929985
Brilliant points Japa, that’s exactly it, from day one MSM gave this monster a legitimacy it didn’t deserve.
I know you are too young to remember the 60’s, but the media really almost made fun of the John Birch Society. Beginning in 2009 they actually lionized the Tea Party. They would have given Christ less legitimacy for His second coming than they did the TP.
“I know you are too young to remember the 60′s”
Thank you.
The contrast with the treatment of the Birch Society is a fascinating one.
“They would have given Christ less legitimacy for His second coming than they did the TP.”
That line is actually beyond perfect.
You can say that again and again! Pundits and media don’t care about repeating lies without stating that they are lies. As Good Old Chuckie stated it is not their job to dispel lies. I would agree only if they didn’t repeat them or provide a platform to liars. It’s unbelievable.
Good Morning Everyone. Happy Sunday.
https://twitter.com/JamesFallows/status/383635805303869441
oooo read this last night – a good article Zizi!
Hello everybody,
As promised, here are the links to the Obamacare coverage our newspaper did. I have copied the link of each of the stories, but also have the main link to the site. Please let me know what you think about the coverage. I am not well versed on the law, so after reading the main bar, let me know your thoughts. I want to write a letter to the editor.
The also published the complete text of the law in PDF, but I can’t open it on my computer. You will be able to access it from the link to the main sight, which is the last in the listing here. Again, please let me know your thoughts.
http://www.pnj.com/article/20130929/HEALTHCARE/309290017/Health-care-overhaul-here-What-you-need-know
http://www.pnj.com/article/20130929/HEALTHCARE/309290019/ACA-aside-we-already-need-more-doctors
http://www.pnj.com/article/20130929/HEALTHCARE/309290029/Local-navigators-can-guide-you-enrollment
http://www.pnj.com/article/20130929/HEALTHCARE/309290027/Medicaid-gap-hit-local-clinics-hospitals
http://www.pnj.com/article/20130929/HEALTHCARE/309290022/Are-there-exemptions-ACA-
http://www.pnj.com/viewart/20130929/HEALTHCARE/309280027/Applying-insurance-Do-your-homework
http://www.pnj.com/article/20130929/HEALTHCARE/309290023/Fact-check-you-think-you-know-law-
http://www.pnj.com/ — They also published the complete text of the law here.
Awesome africa. Thanks for posting. This will go on my broadcast channel.
Say whaaat!!!
“Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is moving 35,000 part-time workers to full-time status and is elevating another 35,000 to part-time from temporary……”
“The new full-timers will be eligible for health benefits and will be “getting the consistent full-time hours they’re looking for,” Lundberg said. The new part-timers will have the job security they lacked as temps with contracts that typically last 90 or 180 days….”
http://www.app.com/viewart/20130923/NJBIZ/309230036/walmart-hires-holiday
I still won’t shop there, but imo, this is a direct result of ACA. An employer is gonna have to offer something other than part-time or temp to get good employees. The good employees won’t have to settle, because insurance or the lack of it, is no longer the incentive to work for any company.
GM Cookemom…
and to add to your point…it is also a result of the Union movement to organize low wage workers…oftentimes an employer will offer better but not as good concessions to workers as way of keeping the Union out….
Yep, and in the end, the workers get a fairer share of the pie. At least it won’t be healthcare that will hold them at a job. They are free to offer their services of employment to the highest bidder. Let the employers fight, through fairer wages and other benefits, for the cream of the crop.
Better late than never. If Walmart can do it, so can others who had wanted or planned to resist the ACA employer mandate. And that story will kill the narrative of some in the media who enjoy saying that a growing # of employers are cutting FT employment because of the costs associated with the ACA. Only those honest(?!)pundits in the media would report this story; it is a great one. We’ll see. I am not holding my breadth.
Yep, all because of the ACA from now on an employeer must provide a good salary to keep good employees. long are the days of employeers f**king over employees and paying them sh*t wages.
yep, ACA will be the unions that these folks couldn’t get. End result the same, better pay and benefits, or you lose your work force.
Wow, that is amazing news. I also don’t shop there but have friends who work for them because that is all they could get. I think pressure is starting to get to some of the corporations. Sure hope so.
Good morning TODbots! This is always such a great place to wake up to. I love the Early Bird Chat. I can wake up slowly and read in bed. I am really lazy some mornings. Still not easy to type on my droid. The font is back to normal on my phone too. Thanks for working on it Chips. And I do believe it is great to change every now and then. Even though change isn’t always easy, as we all well know.
Now back to reading the R & S.
Moooooorning mtmarilyn, sooooooooo relieved all’s good on your phone again!
That item is dated Sep 23 – no sign of the media discussing it – funny they always discuss folks getting moved from full time to part time – or unemployment going up or Walmart not supporting the DC rise in the minimum wage. If Walmart could combine full time jobs with a decent minimum wage – this would be good news.
I got it from Melissa Harris Perry’s show on MSNBC.
Glad someone was discussing it – thanks cookemom
Yup. These corner cutting, bull-shyting “job creators” will have to deliver or go under unless they hire ex-cons!
Excuse me, but did Chris Matthews just say that the Clintons almost got health care passed?
Sorry, Don, this should not be here. I wanted to ask where and when he said this nonsense?
On MTP, about 15-20 minutes ago.
Don…the operative word there is ALMOST… If it was almost, then it was not done! I really really dislike Chris Matthews.
I’m so sick and tired of the Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill fake love affair, it wasn’t a love affair. Ronald Reagan was a tax cutting war-monger just like every other Republican President in history.
GM Don,
You can’t be sicker than I. The sainthood of Ronald Reagan is something of the Twilight Zone. If I weren’t alive to live it, I would have been convinced. No. With this guy began the attacks on the middle-class and the poor.
I remember when I was elementary and junior high school reading about this guy and his attempts to label ketchup a vegetable. This f**king guy put shredding machines on the map.
G’day mates. This little ditty kinda mirrors my feelings today.
Shipmate!! How are you doing today?
I’m sitting up and drinking coffee. Beyond that I make no predictions. 🙂
Ha, okay, well that’s a start! Keep well, Shipmate.
I’m workin’ on it Admiral, thanks.
Gooood Morninggggggg…..
what kind of creamer do you drink in your coffee…I like chocolate creamer with a dollop of whipped cream….esp on lazy Sunday Mornings…
TY for the HBD wish and that you are doing better. Have a great day Yard…
This is another way of criticizing PBO and as Fallows says in his Atlantic article…
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/your-false-equivalence-guide-to-the-days-ahead/280062/
As a matter of journalism, any story that presents the disagreements as a “standoff,” a “showdown,” a “failure of leadership,” a sign of “partisan gridlock,” or any of the other usual terms for political disagreement, represents a failure of journalism*** and an inability to see or describe what is going on
I’m a federal employee, so I guess tomorrow morning when I get to work it will be very interesting.
Actually I’m at work now on this Sunday morning, it is so peaceful, the quiet before the storm. LOL
GM Don…
hoping that Boehner gets an Epiphany and pokes his crazy caucas and Cruz in the eye….by disregarding the Hassert Rule and puts the Senate CR bill on the floor…which will pass….
now there would be an uproar…I wonder if the so called moderate GOP would help him hold onto the Speakership….
Boner unfortunately does not have the balls…..
Remember this? Still as true today as it ever was.
Is it me, or did Marsha Blackburn really think that she could hold a candle to Chris Van Hollen on Face the Nation? She did a disservice to her party if she thought she was the one who could make sense out of what they’re doing. Marsha dear, you don’t bring a finger nail file to a jack hammer fight. He chewed her up and left her bones on the table for all to see.
So in essence, Chris Van Hollen “ate the bones.”
gnawed ’em then spit ’em out!
zizi makes wonderfully clear the benefits to society of ACA.
Unfortunately, bigoted Americans will tune out when they hear the words “safety net.”
So, because I am slow at understanding and retaining all the ACA benefits, I’m wondering why @chucktodd and others who claim “it’s the President’s job” to “sell Obamacare” don’t consider it their journalistic duty to simply inform Americans of the following:
How hard would it be to repeat this every time you mention “Obamacare?”
NOTE: I don’t have the figures on the numbers of Americans affected, so “x” is substituted for those figures.
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1) If you currently have medical insurance via your employer or your spouse, or receive Medicare benefits, ACA does NOT affect the cost of these plans or those covered by these plans.
Any changes to the cost or what is covered in your health care coverage should be discussed with you/your spouse’s employer and/or whichever insurance company currently administers your plan.
Medical insurers are now required to provide additional coverage. More on this in a bit.*
About x million Americans currently receive these benefits
2) ACA will ONLY affect the x millions of Americans who currently do not have medical coverage, or those who change jobs and either become self-employed or begin working for another employer.
The cost of ACA plans are determined by insurance companies and the government will provide assistance to those Americans who cannot afford the premiums.
* Additional coverage (pre-existing conditions, lfetime caps, insurance extended to children of beneficiaries up to age 26, etc.)
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Please correct anything that I got wrong in this, but it seems to me that MSM is purposely misguiding Americans and misleading them on what the actual “controversy” is. Specifics of any insurance coverage is always complicated (and strewn with legalese), but they should be required to give a brief overview (or disclaimer if you will) of which viewers may or may not be affected by ACA provisions.
Nigeria: Islamic militant extremist gunned down 50 students in their dorms as they slept. The dorms were then set afire.
My goodness, tragic, I hope these extremist face justice.
I know a few people were wondering about SmartyPants, so I’m just posting her recent tweet here:
Oh, thanks so much for that Hopefruit, sooooo much craziness for Smartypants to deal with it, what a horrible time for her.
Indeed Chips. I hope things work out for her. 😦
Just DM’ed ya Hopefruit!
Replied – thanks!
Thanks HF
A reminder that we are in promising FP waters in the ME.
Naturally, not everyone in Iran is ready to go #FORWARD.
The only thing ” Reliable ” on the show ” Reliable Sources ” is that we can rely on that show being ” Unreliable ” as to their ” Sources ”
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What a joke it is. Ryan Lizza just said that the problem with the media is they want to stick to the ” Both Sides Do It ” talking point. !
I missed the final vote in the House on the amendment to keep military pay funded during the shutdown. Else where in cyberdom, I’m reading that all the House Dems voted for that provision. I guess I should go and do the googly woogly to verify, but thought maybe someone here may know.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/29/i-hug-you-you-hug-me/
I just found this article from the Boston Globe written back in April about a community in Kansas. This is the area I grew up in and still have lots of relatives. Everything he says is true. It is very frustrating for me to go back to family reunions and keep my mouth shut. This is why we are having so much trouble with the Tea Party. No open minds. The picture could be of my hometown.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/04/03/conservative-kansas-district-cheers-its-congressman-for-being-thorn-side/CFIcoTVhIzzPMUAYoSVh1J/story.html