Very funny exchange on Twitter between the Washington Post and some crazy Tea Party person.
(via AmericaBlog)
Washington Post vs raging Tea Bagger
Jon Stewart on Ted Cruz’ misguided 21 hour waste of tax payers time
Jon Stewart is on a classic roll with Sen. Ted Cruz’ rambling, useless 21 hour diatribe on the floor of the US Senate:
In response to Cruz’ now famous reading of Green Eggs and Ham – “So to express your opposition to Obamacare, you go to the book about a stubborn jerk who decides he hates something before he’s tried it, and when he finally gets a taste, he has to admit after he’s tasted it, ‘This is pretty fucking good.’”
President Obama quotes the absurd lies used by crazed GOP opponents of Obamacare
Quoting the opponents, kids. Quoting them.
Democrats say “Let’s sit down and negotiate” and the Tea Baggers rabidly yell “Shut down the government!!!”
Watch the clip, folks. The President quotes the opponents and in doing so underlines why the anti-Obamacare folks have no credibility. They just MAKE STUFF UP.
“One congressman said that Obamacare is the most dangerous piece of legislation ever passed,” Obama said in Largo, Md. “Ever, in the history of America, this is the most dangerous piece of legislation. Providing — creating a marketplace so people can buy group insurance plan, the most dangerous ever.”
“You had a state representative somewhere say that it’s as destructive to personal and individual liberty as the Fugitive Slave Act,” he added. “Think about that. Affordable health care is worse than a law that lets slave owners get their runaway slaves back. I mean, these are quotes. I’m not making this stuff up.”
“And here’s one more that I’ve heard. I like this one. We have to, and I’m quoting here, we have to repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens,” an incredulous Obama said. “Now, I have to say, that one was from six months ago. I just want to point out we still have women, we still have children, we still have senior citizens. All this would be funny if it wasn’t so crazy.”
(via Talking Points Memo)
House Republicans vote to defund Obamacare with threat to shut down the government
House Republicans passed legislation today to defund Obamacare while keeping the federal government open until December 15, sending the fight to the Senate.
The vote was 230-189. Two Democrats and one Republican broke party lines.
“Let’s defund this law now and protect the American people from the economic calamity that we know Obamacare will create,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said in a speech before the vote on the House floor. “We should pass this continuing resolution so the Senate can finally begin to do the same.”
There is virtually no chance Obamacare will be defunded. Senate Democrats have ruled it out, and the White House has threatened to veto legislation that does so.
And so continues the House Republicans’ constant waste of taxpayers time when our lawmakers should be working to improve the economy, not attack ObamaCare as a way to a try and “bring down” a President who has been elected and reelected. It happened, folks. It happened. You’ll never change that history. Get to the work of the people.
Best line from the debate – “I invite my colleagues wake up from this radical, ideological wet dream,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said before the vote.
(from Talking Points Memo)
Teabaggers enlist “Creepy Uncle Sam” to scare young people from Obamacare
Well, if this doesn’t make the teabaggers look crazy. Now they introduce “Creepy Uncle Sam” giving an exam to a young woman at a OB/GYN exam. From Yahoo News:
Generation Opportunity, a Virginia-based group that is part of a coalition of right-leaning organizations with financial ties to billionaire businessmen and political activists Charles and David Koch, will launch a six-figure campaign aimed at convincing young people to “opt-out” of the Obamacare exchanges. Later this month, the group will begin a tour of 20 college campuses, where they plan to set up shop alongside pro-Obamacare activists such as Enroll America that are working to sign people up for the insurance exchanges.
Generation Opportunity intends to host events at college football tailgate parties festivals, where “brand ambassadors” (read: hot young people) will pass out beer koozies that read “opt out,” pizza and literature about the health care law. Some events may have impromptu dance parties with DJ’s, complete with games of cornhole and competitions for prizes, organizers said.
Men don’t get off scot-free either. There’s a similar video for men where “Creepy Uncle Sam” shows up to apparently give a prostate exam.
Creepy, creepy, creepy.
And hard core teabaggers aren’t happy about it either. Check out the comments on Twitchy.
(h/t JMG)
Tea Party speaker: “Sex isn’t about fun”
Maybe what he meant to say was sex with HIM isn’t about fun…
Jerome Corsi, the World Net Daily contributor and Tea-Party activist, spoke during a conservative event in Oregon earlier this month, and claimed leftist atheists like the American Civil Liberties Union were trying to use same-sex marriage to “take God out of Church.”
But the really interesting part is, as LiberalAmerica points out, that Corsi said, “Sex isn’t about fun.”
Obviously I’ve been doing it wrong.
Coris further said “If you want to have fun, read a book, go to a movie. Sex is about the procreation of children. It’s a sacred responsibility that is meant by God to have men and women commit their lifetime to children.”
Now, am I to believe that Republican men never have any sex that doesn’t procreate? Never got a bj? SRSLY?
(source)
Teabaggers on President Obama seeking congressional approval for Syrian military action
Alabama: Tea bagger lady says Obama wants to “gay-doctrinate” your kids
Is it just me or is her voice and phrasing just a bit creepy?…
“Run to the light, Carol Anne!”
(via JMG)
Florida: Gov. Rick Scott announces expansion in Medicaid
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has outraged Tea Party members after announcing his new – completely different – position on Obamacare:
Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday he supports expanding Medicaid and funneling billions of federal dollars to Florida, a significant policy reversal that could bring health care coverage to 1 million additional Floridians. “While the federal government is committed to pay 100 percent of the cost, I cannot, in good conscience, deny Floridians the needed access to health care,” Scott said at a hastily called news conference at the Governor’s Mansion.
Scott, a former hospital executive, spoke with unusual directness about helping the “poorest and weakest” Floridians — a stunning about-face for a small-government Republican who was one of the loudest voices in an aggressive, and ultimately unsuccessful, legal strategy to kill a law he derided as “Obamacare.”
The Tea Party – “I’m Pro-Life”
