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POPSTop 10 GOP Moderate Moments (via Rush) As I was in the car I switched him on and he was just beginning his countdown. Yes. Either the 'moderates' form their own party or the true conservatives must. I'm tired of voting for the lesser of the 2 evils and violating my true convictions. While these 'moderate' Republicans may be very nice people with good intentions...few actually shared my values. And he's right! The #1 'moderate' revealed so much about himself.
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POPSThe Baucus Healthcare Bill You Can Not Believe In
Instead, Baucus' proposed concessions consist primarily of modest financial givebacks to middle class taxpayers who would be hit hard by his bill's proposed penalty on the uninsured. Baucus' original bill appears to be the White House's preferred model for three reasons: (1) it appears less expensive, under CBO scoring rules, than any alternative other than single payer, which Obama has decreed is off the table; (2) unlike any of the others working their way through the legislative process, it meets the terms of an apparent agreement negotiated privately among the White House, Democratic conservatives, and the pharmaceutical manufacturers' lobby PhRMA (headed by Blue Dog co-founder and Democrat-turned-Republican Billy Tauzin); and (3) it may win the vote of Republican senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME), which will allow Obama to claim nominal "bipartisanship" and, more importantly, may set the stage for Snowe to follow Arlen Specter's example and switch parties,
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POPSSmartest President Evah Please Mr. Postman Oh yes, wait a minute, Mr. Postman Way-ay-ay-ait, Mr. Postman Please, Mr. Postman, look and see If I qualify for surgery I've been waiting a mighty long time Just to hear from that doctor of mine There must be some word today About my much-needed hospital stay Please, Mr. Postman, look and see What are my chances of mortality? I've been standing here waiting, Mr. Postman So-oh-oh unhealthy For just a word from my physician Saying he'll be getting 'round to me Please, Mr. Postman, look and see If it's a gurney or a hearse for me I'd like to ask, if you really don't mind For just a minute of a specialist's time So many days you passed me by If I don't get help soon, I'll probably die You wouldn't stop to make me feel better I've got worse health care than an Irish Setter Please, Mr. Postman, look and see What are my chances, oh yeah, of recovery? You know, it's been so long Yeah, since I heard 'bout those lab tests of mine
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POPSRasmussen poll: Toomey crushing Specter, Sestak I'm not sure I'd call it "crushing" but I'm encouraged. After that *display* at his health care townhall meeting it's hard to believe he has any support. The poor man seems pitifully senile; but then there are a lot of those in Congress.
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POPSGrass Roots? Check again...
Who funds Americans for Prosperity? The AFP is the third largest recipient of funding from the Koch Family Foundations, …Before 2003, when the AFP was still named the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, it received $18,460,912 in funding. 84% of that funding came from the Koch Family Foundations ($12,906,712) and the Scaife Family Foundations ($2,510,000). Koch Family Foundations is funded by Koch Industries. According to Forbes, Koch Industries is the second largest privately-held company, and the largest privately owned energy company, in the United States. Koch industries has made its money in the oil business, primarily oil refining. Presently, it holds stakes in pipelines, refineries, fertilizer, forest products, and chemical technology. Americans for Prosperity is also connected to oil giant ExxonMobil. According to ExxonSecrets, between the years 1998-2001, Citizens for A Sound Economy and Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation received $380,250 from ExxonMobil.
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POPSBrief Bio of Head of Tea Party Committee The New York Times interviewed some people at Arlen Specter's health care town hall. It turns out, the head of the local Tea Party committee is an unemployed man who's actively voting to shoot himself in the foot. Apparently, this is what happens when you spend all your off-time listening to conservative talk radio.
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POPSObamaCare Opponents News Round Up One day after announcing a challenge to U.S. Senate fixture Arlen Specter, Congressman Joe Sestak faced another tough cookie: Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert. Colbert asked if military people were unaware of this because of secret experiments. Sestak explained he meant that members of the military make great use of their health-care and educational benefits. To access article click on title
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POPSAbout Compassionate Conservatism I know Bush was crazy with the spending, but that’s not really an excuse for Obama to airdrop gasoline on a wildfire. The conservative blogosphere really should start a fundraiser to buy everyone at Daily Kos helmets to keep them from hurting themselves. That’s compassionate conservatism right there. In Africa, newborn sons are named after George W. Bush. Yet his legacy to this country is the election of a black man — whose father was a true son of Africa. Bush saved over a million lives in Africa from HIV related illnesses. If that kind of compassion is "a contradiction in terms," or troubling, perhaps the bar is set too high.
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POPSObama Administration Gives Landowners One Week To Accept Deal For Flight 93 Memorial "After meeting with the landowners and the Park Service today, I have high hopes that the parties are close to agreement and will be able to reach consensus over the land in the next week so we can keep the memorial on track without using eminent domain," Salazar said. "Only if the parties are not able to reach agreement will we have to use the last resort of eminent domain to acquire land." The decision by the National Park Service last month to pursue eminent domain touched off fierce criticism in an area where local residents have been deeply involved in efforts to plan the park and establish and staff the temporary memorial at the crash site. Two local members of the Flight 93 Federal Advisory Commission were so angry about the government's seizure plans that they resigned. U.S. gives Flight 93 site landowners one week to sell http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20090606_U_S__gives_Flight_93_site_landowners_one_week_to_sell.html
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POPSU.S. gives Flight 93 site landowners one week to sell
The hypocrisy here is that the government is forcing these land owners to give up their property for a monument to people who gave their lives protecting US freedoms. Why the heavy-handed action when most are willing to work out a deal? I am all for honoring these victims of fate who did more than just sit in their seats and take it. They are heroes of the highest degree. Monuments are a place of pride, a physical presence where family members can mourn, remember, and actually feel they are connecting with the spirits of their loved ones. But somehow a chunk of marble just doesn’t seem to be enough of a tribute. Before long fast food restaurants and stands selling trinkets will only trivialize their memory. And how many people will visit it? How long will anyone remember? Couldn’t that $58 million be better spent elsewhere, like maybe as settlement to the victims families for our ‘caring’ governments’ lack of motivation to prevent it from happening in the first place?
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POPSRebuilding the Republican Party And what about moderates? I know this won’t make me popular with the Republican base, but we have to make every effort we can to get as many moderates into the Republican Party as possible. Let’s bend on any issue necessary and soften our rhetoric to get every squish behind us. Let’s even invite Arlen Specter back; we can tell him we were wrong and trillions in wasteful spending is a great idea right now. We need all the moderates we can get to join us, because when everything goes to hell, they’ll be a great source of cheap labor and — in a worse case scenario — food. So for the future survival of the party, moderates are very important.
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POPSThe Future of the Republican Party In the post-apocalyptic wasteland, resources will be scarce and the strong will crush the weak — and frankly, those are conditions in which Republicans should thrive. The Republican Party will need to cement its rule through force, destroy the weak, and take their resources. Back to basics for the party, really. I know this won’t make me popular with the Republican base, but we have to make every effort we can to get as many moderates into the Republican Party as possible. Let’s bend on any issue necessary and soften our rhetoric to get every squish behind us. Let’s even invite Arlen Specter back; we can tell him we were wrong and trillions in wasteful spending is a great idea right now. We need all the moderates we can get to join us, because when everything goes to hell, they’ll be a great source of cheap labor and — in a worse case scenario — food. So for the future survival of the party, moderates are very important.
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POPSFuture of the GOP? Kill It! The GOP is similar to a champion thoroughbred with a broken leg. It will never race again to the level of it's former glory. It is time to put it out of it's misery.
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POPSBought & Paid For By The UAW * The PAC spent $ 13.1 million, making it the #14 PAC in the country, and placing it ahead of all business PACs except for the National Association of Realtors * $4.9 million in reported independent expenditures, all of it dedicated to helping elect Barack Obama * More than $2 million in direct contributions to candidates, with 99% of it going to Democrats
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POPS Specterenfreude DailyKOS: "Keep it up Arlen, your Joe Lieberman impersonation is so spot-on, that we can't wait to take you on in the Democratic primary." Whiskey Fire: "... because he's just overall kind of a douchebag." The news hasn't been this much fun since Monica remembered she kept that blue dress. UPDATE: The hits just keep coming. Asked whether he regretted any of the roughly 10,000 votes he has cast as a Senator, Specter could think of just one: Sen. Arlen Specter said Tuesday he regrets his vote against Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) two decades ago that helped kill his nomination to the federal bench. Sessions, who has now assumed Specter's former position as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 to be a federal judge — but Specter provided a key "no" vote after allegations were made that Sessions had a poor record on race relations as Alabama attorney general. Sessions has called those allegations false and unfound
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POPS“NewsBusted” 5/05/09 — Fake News from the Right by NewsBusters In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Swine Flu, Mexico, Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Arlen Specter, President Obama’s press conference, Chrysler, George Stephanopoulos, Sean Penn, and Daily Show Host Jon Stewart. via Big Hollywood blog http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/05/05/%E2%80%9Cnewsbusted%E2%80%9D-50509-%E2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/
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POPSWhy Are Bankers Still Being Treated As Beltway Royalty? Twelve Democrats sided with the banks -- Max Baucus, Michael Bennet, Robert Byrd, Tom Carper, Byron Dorgan, Tim Johnson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, and Jon Tester -- as did every Republican who voted.Twelve Democrats sided with the banks -- Max Baucus, Michael Bennet, Robert Byrd, Tom Carper, Byron Dorgan, Tim Johnson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, and Jon Tester -- as did every Republican who voted.
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POPS A Reverse Souter, I Entreat Thee residual Republican standing. If that’s in fact the case, its exercise could be an integral part of Thy Twisted Will, O Foul Ones! Protein Wisdom, channeling Allahpundit on Twitter, wickedly suggests Michelle Obama. Hear, hear! Allahpundit at HotAir, Farewell, Old Mistake! PoliGazette: “Precedent says that a liberal judge will stay liberal.” Jinx! Daily Kos helpfully posts a rogue’s gallery of mountebanks. Malkin narrows it to three and provides the horrible details. photo via AMERICAN DIGEST Surber, dejectedly, “Great start to the weekend.” O, ye of little faith!
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