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When I came upon the poster of TR pointing out (from long ago) a Republican with a heart, I was pretty moved. I’ve felt that way for a long time, and the feelings are turning to seething anger. The hypocrisy, the lying, the growing “heads up the asses of corporations,” the lack of simple understanding of life, the feigned morality – the list goes on and on.
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Then I heard Boehner talking and I admit it: I want him gone, not just from the House, but from this planet. He exemplifies so much of what is wrong with the right wing today and his attempt to discredit anything that might resemble health care reform was just pitiful. He lies, then lies some more, and then lies about the lies. At least his fake tan was somewhat even and he didn’t sound as drunk and psychotic as most days. (What a blessing for all of us, right?)
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We all need to get mad, very damned mad and swear to God in heaven that these thieves and liars have to GO! They have taken their lust for power and camera time too far and they need to be stopped, rejected at election time, and blanketed with emails and snail mails and calls that say “You have sinned against humanity, against your country, against your fellow citizens, against God himself, and you need to atone NOW and get out, for if you don’t we will defeat you and send you packing!”
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I plan to spend some time sticking rusty nails in a Boehner doll, holding it over the kitchen stove flames, and perhaps urging my two hunting dogs to urinate on it, then bury it in the far back part of the property where the cats shit.
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Is that a purification ritual? Nope, just an angry man who has had too much Boehner, too much right wing crooks in action, too much corporate evil, and far too many lies.
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Stephanie Miller (on her radio show) tries to make the a$$hole funny, to use humor to make us want him GONE, and I realized that the only thing that will really deal with the Boehner-types is sending them packing, perhaps to Somalia on a cargo ship marked, “Ransoms paid by huge corporations!”
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There I feel a little better.
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CBO Chief Elmendorf Releases Report Hours After Pelosi Unveils House Bill
... Pelosi Mum On Obama's Support For Public Option ... Conrad: Bill Is Much
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Super Saver: CBO Says
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The CBO has weighed in with a preliminary cost estimate of the House's health care bill--and there are almost certainly some very happy people in House leadership.
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At $894 billion, the bill's 10 year cost comes in a hair under President Obama's $900 billion red line. But, more politically and substantively important, the bill is projected to reduce the deficit in both the first 10 years and the second 10 years after enactment, just as Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) told me earlier today.
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Over the first 10 years, revenues and savings are projected to exceed new spending (aka it reduces the deficit) by $104 billion. Projections into the following decade are, as CBO chief Doug Elmendorf always notes, very dicey. But Elmendorf says that, from 2020-2029, "the added revenues and cost savings are projected to grow slightly more rapidly than the cost of the coverage expansions." In other words, though the government will pay more and more each year in subsidies and expanded entitlements, it will be realizing savings and collecting revenues at a greater rate.
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Boehner Won’t Pledge To Offer GOP Health Care Plan,
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Republicans have been insisting for months that Democrats are shoving a secret bill down the throats of the American public. The health reform legislation “should be posted online for 72 hours so members and the American people get a chance to see what’s in these bills,” House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) told Fox News. “But it seems to me that Democrat leaders want to rush these bills through Congress before anybody has a chance to read them.”
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In fact, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) “has repeatedly pledged to Republicans that the health bill and any manager’s amendment would be posted online for at least 72 hours before the House votes,” and he promised again this week.
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Lieberman Marching Further Right in 2010
Subway Series: Former Dem Veep Candidate Plans to Campaign for GOP
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Sounding more like an independent than a Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., tells ABC News he will campaign for some Republican candidates during the 2010 midterm elections and may not seek the Democratic Senate nomination when he runs for re-election in 2012.
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"I probably will support some Republican candidates for Congress or Senate in the election in 2010. I'm going to call them as I see them," Lieberman said in an ABC News "Subway Series" interview aboard the U.S. Capitol Subway System.
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Lieberman infuriated fellow Democrats in 2008 by supporting Republican presidential nominee John McCain as well as congressional candidates Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
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Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics
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During today's forged letter investigation hearing in the House, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) rebuked the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in a "continuing effort to deceive the American public" on the science of climate change. Inslee condemned the coal industry's effort to "hoodwink, defraud, and deceive the American public now to cover up the toxicity to the world environment" of global warming pollution. Inslee then pivoted to authors Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, criticizing them for "absolute deception" in their work on global warming:
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The second thing I want to note is this is not the only continuing effort to deceive the American public. I want to note a book called Freakonomics, or SuperFreakonomics, that some authors wrote, that basically said or asserted we don't have to control CO2, we'll just pump sulfur dioxide up into the atmosphere and that will solve the problem.
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Huge Explosion Was Biggest
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Time Inc. to Cut $100 Million; Extensive Layoffs Are Expected
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Signaling that worse times are ahead for magazines, Time Inc. is expected to announce next week that it will cut $100 million from costs, including another big round of layoffs.
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Time Inc., publisher of Fortune, Sports Illustrated and Time, among other titles, is expected to announce layoffs next week.The timing is coordinated with the third-quarter earnings announcement from its parent company, Time Warner, sources said. That is scheduled for Wednesday morning.
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Time Inc., the publisher of magazines like Time, Fortune, and People, has already cut costs drastically: a year ago, it announced it was dismissing 6 percent of its work force, or about 600 people.
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Barney Frank:
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Every action taken by federal regulators against large, systemically-important financial firms -- those commonly referred to as "too big to fail" -- will be made public, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank told the Huffington Post.
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This is a sharp break from current practice.
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Currently, federal banking regulators can secretly get banks to modify their behavior and practices. For example, regulators can tell a bank to stop a particular activity, beef up lending standards, or increase the amount of capital they keep to protect against potential losses --
all hidden from public scrutiny.
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Now, Frank says, his legislation, which would establish for the first time a way for the federal government to deal with those firms deemed "too big to fail," will call for the elimination of these secret agreements between regulators and those they regulate. For these firms, every action taken by regulators will be public.
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Diet, Exercise Thwart Diabetes: Study Lifestyle
changes really do work to prevent type 2, experts say
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Diet and exercise can keep diabetes at bay for a decade, cutting the risk for the disease by more than a third in the most susceptible people, a new study finds.
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But new research, published in the Oct. 29 online edition of The Lancet, shows that losing weight and exercising can delay or prevent the onset of diabetes more effectively than the prescription drug metformin or a placebo.
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First lady Michelle Obama walks with children from
White House in
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The students were divided into groups of three and paired with an adult who showed them what to do. All told, they spent about a half-hour jabbing and digging at the plot on the South Lawn with pitchforks and other tools.
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HARVEST TIME AT THE WHITE HOUSE – Click here for video.
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Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
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There's An App For That?
House Republicans Launch BlackBerry 'WhipCast'
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House Republicans today launched a new "communications tool" that House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and Deputy Whip Kevin McCarthy say will help them
distribute up-to-the-minute information.
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The BlackBerry application is called WhipCast and it's designed to give "instantaneous alerts, audio updates, video features, and additional messages to users."
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'Not At All Uncommon' During Hunting Season
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Several media sources have reported that shots were fired at the residence of CNN's Lou Dobbs. While Dobbs and his anti-immigrant supports were quick to jump to conclusions about the motive of the shooting, Sgt. Stephen Jones confirmed to ThinkProgress this morning that the New Jersey State Police are stilling "looking at all the possibilities" and that a hunting-related accident has not been ruled out.
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Sgt. Jones, a spokesperson for the New Jersey State Police, confirmed that a bullet was found which struck the siding of Dobbs' house. However, he pointed out that Dobbs' residence is located in a "very rural" area. "With hunting season starting up," such incidents are "not at all uncommon," Jones told us.
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Nonetheless, anti-immigrant groups are already claiming that "the lies and hate coming from these radical pro-illegal alien groups is now manifesting in the form of gunfire." Dobbs was quick to start pointing fingers at Fox News' Geraldo Rivera and "ethnocentric interest groups" for "creating an atmosphere" that led to a shot being fired at his house...
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One Year Post-Election: The Cable Ratings Drop-Off
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We took a look at October ratings for Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and HLN earlier this week. Much of cable news viewing is tied to public interest in the world events covered by the networks, and the lack of a major event like last year's presidential election has not been kind to MSNBC and CNN.
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Chaz Bono: I love being a man
‘It’s a long process going back almost a decade,’ says Bono
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Now that he’s finally in the body he always felt he belonged in, Chaz Bono says he’s enjoying something that took decades to accomplish.
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“It’s a long process going back almost a decade. I got clean and sober in 2004 and I couldn’t have done this before that,” Bono, formerly known as Chastity, tells, “Entertainment Tonight” in an interview airing Thursday and Friday.
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Gates
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Remember when Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley and President Barack Obama all sat down for the major news event of the summer? For those still wondering about the long-term efficacy of the "beer summit" strategy, well, the proof is in the pudding. On Wednesday night, Gates and
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William Rivers Pitt | Motivation
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "George W. Bush made his debut as a motivational speaker to a packed house of adoring fans in Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday. Mr. Bush, who has been all but invisible since last January's inauguration of Barack Obama, is apparently trying to raise his profile before the release of his book. He spoke about prayer, challenges and walking his dog. 'I can tell you that one of the most amazing surprises of the presidency was the fact that people's prayers affected me. I can't prove it to you. But I can tell you some days were great, some days not so great. But every day was joyous."
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