The comparisons of Walker to the Grinch all over the internet prove the stupidity of the idea.
The woman who came up with it has been fired. The supposed reason was not for coming up with that boneheaded fundraising idea, but rather some racist tweets she’s issued while still in college two years ago. Right.
I’d be surprised if it did, actually.
From our good friends over at ThinkProgress, news that will not surprise you in the least…
No, not at all. It’s easy to get confused because he was channeling Sarah Palin while spewing that mash-up, but what he was doing was disparaging people with pre-existing conditions. IOW, creating another class of “47 percenters” the right can look down their nose at with disdain.
In his twisted worldview, someone who has a pre-existing illness who has been denied insurance coverage previously and wants to buy insurance now (because the insurance companies are now being forced to sell it to them) is the same as a person who chooses not to carry legally-mandated auto insurance, then calls up an agent after they’ve had an accident to buy it. IOW, a “taker.” A Very Bad Person. “Irresponsible.”
I thought he was referring to the “lucky duckies” who they claim would wait until they got hurt, then buy the policy in the ambulance.
Nope. From his filthy remarks:
“*f you don’t really understand what covering pre-existing conditions would be like, it would be like in Georgia we have a law that says you have to have insurance on your automobile …”
Hey, this is cool! I knew the character of “Lucky Ducky” from the comic strip “Tom The Dancing Bug,” but didn’t know the origin of the term. Thank you!
(Dang! That Bolling bloke is cleverer and cleverer!)
[URL" http://huff.to/1dUDXV8 "]Rick Santorum compares Obamacare to apartheid:
He compares Apartheid to the GOP’s fight against the “injustice” of Obamacare, because racial minority rule, discrimination, and prejudice is the same as covering health care costs for sick people, the poor, and paying into a communal bank so that more people can be treated and cost less overall. What must the crack in Santorum’s world taste like I wonder?
Santorum. What else?
What he was advocating for was exactly what SA ultimately got, and it worked out pretty well. How was that not the right anwer, Rick?
Please refrain from using the words “Santorem”, “crack” and “taste” in the same sentence, I’m eating my lunch here.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who caught that.
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“Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That’s the reason he’s mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed,”
Santorum said. “But you’re right, I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people’s lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that.”
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So tell me, Rick. How is a peaceful transistion to a full democracy where everyone has equal rights regardless of skin color not “the right answer”?
Senator Cruz shows a moment of class and dignity – his followers show their true colors:
(To be fair, the mouth-breathers have gotten some push-back.)
It’s not just Cruz - Rubio, Boehner, Cantor and the guy trying to primary Mitch McConnell Matt Bevin have all taken flak for praising Mandela.
And this is why the GOP can’t escape from the Quagmire of Crazy.
Holy shit. Is there any event the GOP can’t stick their dicks in?
Presumably, Santorum decided to throw the racists a bone to avoid…
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It’s not just Cruz - Rubio, Boehner, Cantor and the guy trying to primary Mitch McConnell Matt Bevin have all taken flak for praising Mandela.
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I recall back in the 1980s, Congress was debating whether to impose economic sanctions on South Africa, and Jesse Helms on the floor of the Senate warned that ending Apartheid would lead to “minority rule, that is, Commernist rule!”
But it didn’t, did it?
But some people still haven’t learned their lesson from that. Some people never do.
It was the same thinking that allowed American segregationists in the 1950s and 60s (and in some cases to this day) to call civil rights activists “Communists.” Some of them were Communists, after all, and all Communists and socialists and lefties in general were anti-segregation, and segregation was a stick the USSR used to beat the U.S. But all of that rather reflected well on the lefties, not badly on the civil rights movement; and none of it constituted any good reason to keep segregation.
Pat Buchanan’s nativist-paleocon magazine The American Conservative, where I have sometimes seen articles about how life in post-Apartheid SA sucks and even some blacks miss the old days, has nothing but praise for Mandela.
Learn, Pubs.
Christ, even Buchanan gets it right. How fucked are we?