New ad from Americans For Stable Quality Care According to a study by the American Journal of Medicine, some 62% of bankruptcies in the US in 2007 occurred as a result of crushing medical expenses. In 2001, the percentage was 46.2%. CNN estimates that for 2009, the number of bankruptcies could reach 1.5 million. Multiply that by the number of individuals …
Darth Cheney’s ancestor getting the story Last month, I wrote: 3. The “brainwashing” techniques from which the Bush Administration’s torture regime was derived was specifically DESIGNED TO PRODUCE FALSE CONFESSIONS FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES. HuLO-OH… (I still recall grainy black and white film of harried looking POWs from the Korean War, denouncing America; dozens of videos of John McCain doing the …
Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique” In 1999, Bush‘s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda. (That would include the privatization of social security whose blood rich corpse would be served …
A giddy menagerie of Republicans trod down Constitution Avenue following the spirit of the GOP and surrounded by their little blue dogs and assorted vermin, after gutting the Senate stimulus package with a butcher knife, their weapon of choice. Wrong to really wrong: “Big John” Cornyn, “Little John” McCain, “Two-Holer John” Ensign, “Teh Stoopid John” Boehner, “Jimmy John” DeMint, and “Douchebag Dave” Vitter with “Mitch the Bitch” McConnell.
“The greatest threat to American democracy today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the nation.” So says psychology professor Robert Altemeyer, who provided Wateregate whistle-blower John Dean with forty years of study on the authoritarian personality type that roughly 28 percent of Americans proudly call their modus operandi. John Dean: During the 2008 presidential campaign, …
So this is how it’s gonna be. President McCain has said that Palin is qualified, and his way of “assuring the nation” is to let Vice -President Palin run the Joint Chiefs Staff. The first meeting got off to a volatile start when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates tried in vain to explain to Vice-President Palin why it is innapropriate …
Sarah did a sitdown phone interview with James Dobson.
She may have even had some notes, but they didn’t have anything in them about the very very strong planks that form the floor foundation of the Republikin party. I can’t be sure if these are direct quotes, but ya know, I think they’re viry viry close.
