How Young Rush became a conservative

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Washington Whispers: Obama gets an A in week 63

Do socialists allow for offshore oil exploration?

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Politico: The Constitutional Basis for Health Care

The following is a summary of legal arguments that two attorney generals say allows the US Congress to reform heath care.

Does Congress lacks authority to address the health care issue by mandating coverage? Some people believe they have a right to refuse to buy health insurance. Others see it as an affront to their basic freedoms in the Bill of Rights.

Two attorney generals from Ohio and Iowa take issue with the constitutional arguments being made against this new legislation. Under long-settled Supreme Court precedents, Congress has ample power under the commerce clause of the Constitution to legislate on health care.

Congress has the authority to regulate anything that affects interstate commerce “among the several States.” This is bolstered by the supremacy clause of the US Constitition, which explicitly makes the Constitution and the laws of the United States “the supreme Law of the Land” for all Americans.

Congress clearly has the power to pass this legislation if the health care affects interstate commerce.

Health care now accounts for one-sixth of our gross domestic product. The costs of health insurance pose fundamental economic challenges to the competitiveness of our American common market. Presidnet Obama has stated health care will bankrupt the nation if its costs are not contained.

Although nearly 16 per cent of Americans lacked health care coverage and the insurance industry was protected with pre-existing conductions and lifetime cap clauses, Americans pay about twice as much for health insurance as the other industrialized nations of the world do.


If the commerce clause authorizes Congress to prohibit the cultivation of marijuana for personal medical use because it has economic effects, as the Supreme Court ruled in Gonzales v. Raich, then surely it authorizes Congress to regulate health care

Take the Teabagger Socialist-Free Purity Pledge

I, ________________________________, do solemnly swear to uphold the principles of a socialism-free society and heretofore pledge my word that I shall strictly adhere to the following:

I will complain about the destruction of 1st Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 1st Amendment Rights.

I will complain about the destruction of my 2nd Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights by legally but brazenly brandishing unconcealed firearms in public.

I will forswear the time-honored principles of fairness, decency, and respect by screaming unintelligible platitudes regarding tyranny, Nazi-ism, and socialism at public town halls.

Also, I pledge to eliminate all government intervention in my life. I will abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:

*Social Security *Medicare/Medicaid
*State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP)
*Police, Fire, and Emergency Services
*US Postal Service
*Roads and Highways *Air Travel (regulated by the socialist FAA)
*The US Railway System *Public Subways and Metro Systems
*Public Bus and LightRail Systems
*Rest Areas on Highways *Sidewalks
*Public libraries
*All Government-Funded Local/State Projects (e.g., see Iowa 2009 federal senate appropriations--http://grassley.senate.gov/issues/upload/Master-Approps-73109.pdf)
*Public Water and Sewer Services (goodbye socialist toilet, shower, dishwasher, kitchen sink, outdoor hose!)
*Public and State Universities and Colleges *Public Primary and Secondary Schools
*Sesame Street
*Public TV and NPR
*Publicly Funded Anti-Drug Use Education for Children
*Public Museums
*Public Parks and Beaches
*State Parks
*Public Zoos
*Unemployment Insurance
*Municipal Garbage, Water and Recycling Services
*Treatment at Any Hospital or Clinic That Ever Received Funding From Local, State or Federal Government (pretty much all of them)
*Medical Services and Medications That Were Created or Derived From Any Government Grant or Research Funding (again, pretty much all of them) *Socialist Byproducts of Government Investment Such as Duct Tape and Velcro (Nazi-NASA Inventions)
*Use of the Internet, email, and networked computers, as the DoD's ARPANET was the basis for subsequent computer networking
*Foodstuffs, Meats, Milk, Produce and Crops That Were Grown With, Fed With, Raised With or That Contain Inputs From Crops Grown With Government Subsidies
*Clothing Made from Crops (e.g. cotton) That Were Grown With or That Contain Inputs From Government Subsidies

If a veteran of the government-run socialist US military, I will forgo my VA benefits and insist on paying for my own medical care. I will not use my VA education or mortgage benefits. I will not apply for a VA disability that is service connected under any circumstances or use a VA hospital to cure my service connected illness, disease or condition. I will tear up any disability checks I receive from the VA.

I will not tour socialist government buildings like the Capitol in Washington, D.C. I pledge to never take myself, my family, or my children on a tour of the following types of socialist locations, including but not limited to:

*Smithsonian Museums such as the Air and Space Museum or Museum of American History
*The socialist Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Monuments
*The government-operated Statue of Liberty
*The Grand Canyon and other national parks
*The socialist World War II and Vietnam Veterans Memorials
*The government-run socialist-propaganda location known as Arlington National Cemetery which was formerly the estate of Robert E. Lee.
*All other public-funded socialist sites, whether it be in my state or in Washington, DC

I will urge my Member of Congress and Senators to forgo their government salary and government-provided health care.

I will oppose and condemn the government-funded and therefore socialist military of the United States of America.

I will boycott the products of socialist defense contractors such as GE, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Humana, FedEx, General Motors, Honeywell, and hundreds of others that are paid by our socialist government to produce goods for our socialist army.

I will protest socialist security departments such as the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, TSA, Department of Justice and their socialist employees.

Upon reaching eligible retirement age, I will tear up my socialist Social Security checks. Upon reaching age 65, I will forgo Medicare and pay for my own private health insurance until I die.

SWORN ON A BIBLE AND SIGNED THIS DAY OF ____________ IN THE YEAR ______________.
___________________________ ___________________________ Signed Printed Name/Town and State 

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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 22:52:59 -0400

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Florida urologist Tells Obama Supporters to find a new doctor

Democrats are upset with Dr. Jack Cassell for posting an anti-Obama sign in his window. The sign asks patients who voted for Obama to go elsewhere.

The Orlando Sentinel reported that the doctor, who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country, posted this sign on his office door. 

“I’m not turning anybody away — that would be unethical,” Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan. The doctor told the Orlando Sentinel,  “But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it.”

The sign reads:

“If you voted for Obama … seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years.”

Estella Chatman, 67, of Eustis, whose daughter snapped a photo of the typewritten sign, sent the picture to U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the Orlando Democrat who riled Republicans last year when he characterized the GOP’s idea of health care as, “If you get sick, America … Die quickly.”

She said her friend did not want to speak to a reporter but was dismayed by Cassell’s sign.

“He’s (the friend) going to find another doctor,” she said.

Cassell may be walking a thin line between his right to free speech and his professional obligation under the Hippocratic oath, said William Allen, professor of bioethics, law and medical professionalism at the University of Florida’s College of Medicine.

in addition. Central Florida around the I4 corridor voted Democratic in the last election. This doctor could easily lose more than half his patients for his outburst. This sign appears to represent the GOP health care plan for America which is "Get lost, it's my way or the highway. "

source: http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/florida-doctor-tells-obama-supporters-to-get-lost/blog-292428/

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Editorial: Why the Democrats must win in 2010

First of all, the Democratic Party is the majority party. It has been this way since the Great Depression. Oh sure, the GOP has had their victories, but this is because Democrats did the right things when they were in power.

For example, The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States. Many reactionary Democrats in the South left the Democratic Party after the law passed and the so-called Reagan Revolution followed. President Lyndon Johnson thought it would take 10 years for Democrats to recover, but it took nearly 25 years.

Conservative Joe Scarborough o the Morning Joe has even admitted that Democrats should win every election. Rightardia agrees.

Second, the Republicans are a minority regional party. The GOP actually functions better as a minority party. If you examine the last three Republican Administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, all of those administrations ran in the red and all of them sponsored expensive wars and insurgencies. The Republicans have been able to win elections, but they have never been able to govern effectively. The GOP has always left wars and a financial mess for the Democrats to clean up.

The Great Recession is by far the worst crises conservatives have created in the past 60 years. It will probably take the Democrats four to six years to fix the damage done to the United States by wayward conservatives.

Third, the GOP lives in the past and view the world in black and white. Many Republicans think they are still fighting the Civil War. Others think the US is fighting the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Most Republicans don't even realize the USSR is now called Russia.

Republicans prefer a bi-polar world with big enemies such as Russia and China. They wants to defeat communism, although few communist states still exist and the ones that do are not direct threats to the US.

We trade with Vietnam, Russia and China. The Russians launch our satellites and sell us their rocket motors. Seventy per cent of Wal Mart's goods come from China. Giving the devil his do, Richard Nixon and his diplomat, Henry Kissinger, were greatly responsible for the thaw in relations with the Chinese.

George W. Bush could have smoothed over relations with the Russians, but instead tried to antagonize them by wanting to install NATO missile defense systems in former Warsaw pact countries. This pig headed conservative belligerency eventually led to a confrontation between Russia and Georgia. The US proxy, Georgia, was badly defeated.

President Obama wisely went to Russia to reopen diplomacy afterwards. The missile defense system is on hold and a new START Treaty will be signed next month. Rightardia hopes the GOP in the Senate will show some bi-partisanship and confirm the treaty. Rightardia would also like to to see the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which a Cold War relic, rescinded. We need to resume trade with Russia.

Fourth, the GOP has no clear agenda that can help the financial crises and unemployment in the US. The Party of No is made up of two diverse components: the Ditto heads and Tea Partiers; and the Major Donors. The Tea Party movement is not strongly influenced by the RNC. Dick Morris recently said

“when you give money to the Republican National Committee, you're wasting your money."

The GOP agenda over the years has had three components: 

1. Attack or destabilize perceived international enemies.
2. Cut taxes for the affluent and corporations
3. Deregulate corporations

It is clear that with the present economic crisis in the US that tax cuts would create larger deficits. Because many of the states succumbed to conservative pressure to cut taxes, they did not maintain reserves for the 'seven years of famine. ' Many states, particularity Southern are strapped for cash and looking for new taxes to generate revenues.

Florida Republicans refused to raise the corporate unemployment tax as all of the other US states had done and quickly spent the states limited reserves for unemployment during the Great Recession.

Florida has had to borrow $ 100s of millions of dollars to pay for unemployment. Initially the corporate unemployment tax was substantially raised, but the Republicans backed off due to corporate pressure. This is unfinished business because the tax will have to be raised to pay the federal government back

President Obama would be wise to raise taxes on the affluent who have been the biggest beneficiaries or GOP tax cuts since the 1970s. If you look a the the lessons learned from World War 2 and the Great Depression, the affluent were taxed at the 90 per cent level to fund World War 2 and to pay for the social programs that were needed during the depression.

According to a Federal Reserve study, the middle class was greatly weakened during the Reagan years because of regressive tax cuts.The middle class doea not have the resources because of these regressive tax cuts to help as much as the most fortunate Americans.

Congress and Senate are working on bills to regulate the financial industry and Wall Street. The deregulation efforts of the GOP since the Reagan era failed and it clear that the naive belief that industries can regulate themselves is foolish.

Likewise, the US can no longer afford to launch preemptive $ one trillion wars on foreign nations. We need to let nations develop without the threat of US military interference. Recessions invariably follow wars so the suggestion that wars are good for the economy is bogus.

It would also be advisable for the president to reform the Intelligence Community so that intelligence is less partisan can be provided to the President and the Armed Forces.

The CIA recently arranged for the defection of an Iranian nuclear physicist. The US has a good idea of Iranian nuclear intentions. We need more successes like this and fewer intelligence failures which result because Republican presidents want conformity between intelligence and conservative foreign policy.

Conclusion: It should be clear that the GOP has little to offer America in 2010. The GOP hasn't really proposed any new ideas in the past year and preferred to stonewall the Democratic agenda. Until the health care bill passed, the number one objective of the GOP was to derail the Obama presidency.

President Obama never even got the six months Honeymoon that past GOP presidents have enjoyed. The new priority of the GOP now appears to be the repeal of health care that would require 67 votes in the Senate after President Obama's veto. Senator Bob Corker made the following comment on health care repeal:

"The fact is that's not going to happen, OK?"

If Republicans were to retake either House, the net affect would be that the recovery would slow down. Americans need bold action, not watered down bi-partisanship. The Democrats cannot waste anymore of its political capital on one item agendas like health care.

Numerous problems need to be hastily resolved. If the Democrats need to get the job done by using reconciliation, then by all means do it. The Republicans have set a Senate record for filibusters. The Democrats should return the favor by passing a record number of bills using reconciliation.

American has always trusted the Democrats in a time of crises. During World War 1, Woodrow Wilson was elected president and during the Great Depression and World War 2, the public elected FDR. FDR realized increased government spending and taxing the affluent was the only way out of the Great Depression.

The Tea Partiers suggest that balancing the budget and reducing the size of government will resolve the problems the country is facing. However, the government didn't create this crises, private enterprise did after years of government deregulation. Conservatives also whine about Income Tax, but the US Income tax is about 28 per cent of the GDP, well below other industrial nations of the world.

Do the Tea Baggers, most of whom are Baby Boomers, want their Social Security Benefits cut? The new health care law got rid of Medicare Advantage, the Republican Medicare private option that was heavily subsidized by the federal government . The big ticket item for Income tax is the Armed Services which eats up about 36 per cent of the Income Tax pie. Obama is pulling the US out of Iraq this year that will cut some of the costs in the defense budget.

We are now recovering form the Great Recession and will need further Democratic majorities in the House and senate for this country to pull itself up by its bootstraps. The voters gave George W. Bush six years of Republican control of the House and Senate to run the United States into the ground. The public should give Obama and the Democrats the same mandate and time line to rebuild America.

Switching horses mid-steam will not benefit the country. Rightardia suspects it will take more than the coarse rhetoric of the GOP and the staged events of Tea Partiers to win back the trust of the voters again. The last thing this nation needs at this critical time is more grid lock.

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Dick Morris: Don't contribute to RNC

 
Fox News commentator and fired Clinton staffer, Dick Morris, cited the excessive spending under RNC Chair Michael Steele, and the RNC's 'lesbian voyeur' scandal.

Morris said that  "when you give money to the Republican National Committee, you're wasting your money."

He says donors should instead send money to other conservative organizations that directly contact voters on behalf of GOP candidates. In other words, give money to the Club for Growth or directly to a specific political campaign in your city or state.

Morris did not say that RNC Chairman Michael Steele should step down. Steele has endured harsh media criticism following the news that $2,000 of RNC money was spent at a lesbian bondage-themed nightclub in West Hollywood.

source: NewsMax

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A Saturday on the Fringe: Scenes from the Right's Rallies in Nevada and Florida

Rightrdia chuckles when it sees this sort of right wing rhetoric.  Latley we've heard a lot of righties tlaking about the constitional rights being violated, but they rarely identify which specific right that is.

Glen Beck talks about hammering on the anvil of truth which is quite abstract. What truth are you talking about, Glen? I was wating for Beck to pull out a sickle, too, in his dog and pony show.

Most of this right wing demagoguery is high on style , but low on facts. There is lots of emotion, but little content. it has been this way in US politics for along time.

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2 Million Eager For Health Care On Parents' Plans

 Since Congress voted to overhaul the health care system, many parents have e-mailed their employer's human resources office to ask how soon they could get their children back on health insurance.

In about six months, the new law will allow at least 2 million young adults to be covered under their parents' policies. These are the "millennials," those who came of age in the new century and now are struggling to get on their feet during the worst slump since the Depression.

Many can't find jobs, and many who are employed don't have health coverage from their employers.

The law will allow young adults to stay on or return to their parents' insurance until age 26. To qualify, young people must be "dependents" of their parents. They don't necessarily have to live under the same roof.

Regulations still have to be written, but here are some of the crucial specifics of the new law, based on a reading of the measure and interpretation by various experts:

• It applies to young adults up to their 26th birthday who don't have access to insurance through their employer.

• There is no dispute the measure applies to young people away at college. It is widely assumed the law also covers other young people living on their own.

• It will include married children but not their spouses or their kids.

• It is unclear whether parents must wait until their health plan's next open enrollment period to sign up their uninsured older children.

• Young adults who live in a different state from their parents should check to see if their parents' health plan covers medical services where they live.

This is the first time the federal government has forced insurance companies to let young adults stay on their parents' policies. More than half the states already have laws that extend the age of dependent coverage. New York and New Jersey push it all the way to age 30 and 31 and would be allowed to keep those provisions.

The new federal law "provides a minimum, not a maximum," said law professor Timothy Jost of Washington and Lee University. Also, while many state laws do not apply to coverage from self-insured employer plans, the federal law will, experts say.

Much will depend on regulations to be written by federal health officials.

Among other things, Health and Human Services will have to decide what constitutes "dependent," and the definition will not necessarily be the same one used by the Internal Revenue Service for tax purposes. Also, HHS will have to clear up the issue of whether young people who live far from home can stay on their parents' plans.

Young adults in their 20s are the most likely age group to be uninsured, and nearly 30 percent of them lacked insurance in 2008.

Before the law takes effect, some young adults who are graduating from college or otherwise becoming ineligible to stay on their parents' plans may want to buy insurance through COBRA to bridge any gap in coverage. But that can be expensive; there are also short-term plans that can be found through Web sites like http://www.ehealthinsurance.com

source: Huffington Post

Extra resources to learn about health care

1. Enter the health care work force by studying medical coding. There will be an increase in demand with the aging baby boomer generation.
2. Another analysis of the health care reform and how it relates to families.
   

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Hillbilly Report: Where the jobs have gone

 The HillBilly Report has a great article about the job loss to China.

source: http://www.hillbillyreport.org/diary/1354/every-state-in-america-has-lost-jobs-to-china

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