Republican Jackass of the Week

His name is Judd Gregg. He's from New Hampshire. ("Pepp-ridge Fahm Remembuhs") And he wants the Republicans in Congress to use every possible tool to keep Health Care Reform from passing. You may recall the Republicans ran Congress for 12 years and did absolutely nothing to reform health care in America. Now that Democrats run Congress, the Republicans' only goal is to stall and keep health care reform from passing. That way, during the mid-term elections next year, they can say "the Democrats didn't accomplish anything. Vote Republican." Of course, they are to blame for blocking health care.

Here's an excerpt from the Huffington Post:

Sen. Judd Gregg, (R-NH) has penned the equivalent of an obstruction manual -- a how-to for holding up health care reform -- and has distributed the document to his Republican colleagues.

Insisting that it is "critical that Republican senators have a solid understanding of the minority's rights in the Senate," Gregg makes note of all the procedural tools the GOP can use before measures are considered, when they come to the floor and even after passage.

He highlights the use of hard quorum calls for any motion to proceed, as opposed to a far quicker unanimous consent provision. He reminds his colleagues that, absent unanimous consent, they can force the Majority Leader to read any "full-text substitute amendment." And when it comes to offering amendments to the health care bill, the New Hampshire Republican argues that it is the personification of "full, complete, and informed debate," to "offer an unlimited number of amendments -- germane or non-germane -- on any subject."

Wanda Sykes on Health Care

Wanda takes on the republicans in Congress who have health care (that you're paying for) that they don't want anyone else to have.

They got it; why should you?

Why do republicans hate America?

Fox Lies (Surprised?) to Make Protest Seem Bigger

...and they wonder why nobody takes them seriously.

Last week's far right-wing Teabagger protest against health care reform in Washington had thousands of people bussed in, literally, on 40 buses. The Fox Channel promoted it heavily. Still, only about 10,000 people attended according to the Washington Post. Not a bad turnout, but not the hundreds of thousands they expected.

Nonetheless, to make the crowd seem bigger, Fox used a dishonest editing trick. Watch Jon Stewart from The Daily Show on Comedy Central explain it. It's hilarious.

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Big Deal: It Covers 3 Million out of 45 Million Uninsured

I couldn't have put it better than a recent letter to the editor in the Miami Herald:

Rep. John Boehner`s Nov 4 Other Views column, Republicans have a much better plan: The Republican leadership have finally come forward, albeit nine months late and at the 11th hour, offering a plan to address health care reform.

Unfortunately for Boehner, analysis of the Republican alternative by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office determines that the proposed plan will, over 10 years, reduce the number of uninsured -- currently 45 million -- by three million. This projects leaving a full 17 percent of our population lacking coverage by 2019, exactly the same rate of uninsured we have today.

According to the CBO, the Democratic plan will cover 12 times as many people and save approximately $36 million more than the Republicans' "better plan."

Even First Graders Know the Pledge of Allegiance

It happened in front of a crowd of right-wing Teabaggers, shipped in on 40 buses paid for by right-wing billionaire CEO David Koch who runs the organization "Americans for Prosperity," which spends millions opposing health care reform.

Kicking off yesterday’s tea party protest at the Capitol, Missouri Republican Rep. Todd Akin tried to whip up the crowd to join him in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance because it “drives the liberals crazy.”

Then he botched it.

So eager to scream the words “one nation UNDER GOD,” Akin skipped right over the next word – “indivisible” – before stumbling into “with liberty and justice for all.”

Another Republican Storms Off the Set

Former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo (R-of course) couldn't stand the heat, had an on-camera temper tantrum and walked off the set on MSNBC yesterday (11/6/09).

The subject was the republican leaders who attended, but did not condemn, the inappropriate, hateful signs held at an anti-health care rally. These, of course, were held by the Teabaggers who are "for" nothing and "against" everything that Congress and the President are trying to accomplish. Get this -- at this particular rally in Washington DC, these right-wing crazies were holding pictures comparing health care reform to the Nazi death camps. Great. To these sickos, giving a government option to people with no health care equals Hitler killing 6 million people. Bizarre.

Well, it was pointed out to Tommy Tancredo that the military itself uses government-run health care. Tancredo became flustered and, speaking for the veterans, claimed they would rather not have health care supplied by the US military! Markos Moulitsas from the Daily Kos reminded him that he, Moulitsas, actually is a veteran and Tancredo is not. (Tancredo pushed for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and pushed for the war in Vietnam, although he used "depression" to get out of serving. Kinda like Chickenhawk Dick Cheney, who never met a war he didn't like, unless it was his turn to fight. Then he managed to pull off FIVE deferments to stay out of Vietnam.)

So what happens when you use truth and facts with a republican? They panic and run off. Watch for yourself.