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Home Front: Politix
'Every Democrat Should Be Scared' of this Obamacare Ad, Really Scared
The ad begins with footage of Shaheen on the Senate floor echoing President Obama by saying, "if you like your insurance you can keep it." An overlay graphic points out that Obama was given the "Lie of the Year" award from a fact-checking group for that whopper.

The ad then shifts to a local focus: It notes 20,000 people in New Hampshire have lost their insurance to date and that Obamacare exchanges offer only a single provider on the state's individual market.
That's the whole point!
The ad ends with a zinger sign-off: "Next November, if you like your senator, you can keep her. If not, you know what to do."

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 12/18/2013 10:29 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  O-Care is a great issue. It's the sort of thing that will motivate independents and low-info voters. It's the kind of thing that can really motivate the base. Really the only way to lose on this is to run the man who invented it at the top of your ticket...
Posted by: Iblis || 12/18/2013 10:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Or run candidates that sound crazy and talk about "legitimate rape", lets not sell the R's short they are capable of snatching defeat when this should be another shellacking
Posted by: Beavis || 12/18/2013 11:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Yup, they don't call the Pubs the "Stupid Party" for nothing.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/18/2013 12:46 Comments || Top||

#4  "President Obama's approval rating is down to 39 percent. And Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who admitted to smoking crack cocaine, went up to 49 percent. How does this make Obama feel? He'd be better off smoking crack than passing Obamacare." –Jay Leno

Wait a minute, didn't he already do the cocaine thing?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2013 17:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Love it! :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 12/18/2013 20:43 Comments || Top||


Dem Bill Would End Death Penalty for Espionage, Treason, Assassinations
[BREITBART] Eight Democrats have proposed a bill that would take the death penalty off the table for a variety of serious federal crimes, including espionage, treason and assassinating federal politicians.

The Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act. (HR 3741) would "end the death penalty for liquidation or kidnapping that results in the death of the president or vice president, and also ends it for the murder of a member of Congress."

The list goes on: "using a weapon of mass destruction, or murder done via torture, child abuse, war crimes, aircraft hijackings, sexual abuse, bank robberies or the willful wrecking of a train."

And there is even more like "using chemical or biological materials to kill could also no longer result in the death penalty, nor could deaths related to treason or espionage. The death or injury of an unborn child could not result in the death penalty either."

Sponsors of the bill include Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), Elijah Cummings
...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious...
(D-MN), Barbara Lee (D-CA) Hank Johnson (D-GA), John Lewis (D-GA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and José Serrano (D-N.Y.).

Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IOW, the families of 3000 killed on 9-11 will not see justice done evar! in the name of the lost.

The above may not only never know the truth of 9-11 + whomdunnit, but even iff they did the perpetrators will NOT be punished like they should be.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/18/2013 2:03 Comments || Top||

#2  REAL American Values.

Just what we all need. And the Palestinians are a real people with their own language and a long proud history and culture.

Real is just what you suppose you think it is. Maybe. But be PC when you say it.
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 || 12/18/2013 4:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Sponsors of the bill include Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), Elijah Cummings (D-MN), Barbara Lee (D-CA) Hank Johnson (D-GA), John Lewis (D-GA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and José Serrano (D-N.Y.).

These sponsors all appear to have something in common besides their workplace and political affiliation. If it's alright with everyone here, I'll just call this bulshi*t what it actually is, 'communist incrementalism.'

Suspension of the death penalty is simply step one. Amnesty for all "political prisoners" is the ultimate goal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2013 6:06 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm surprised that they proposed removing the death penalty for murdering a Congress critter.

Must protect the privileged class, ya know.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/18/2013 8:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Right wing terrorism (like going to church on Sundays)?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/18/2013 9:16 Comments || Top||

#6  I can see why this issue might be close to home for many Democrats.
Posted by: Iblis || 12/18/2013 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  The Democrats REALY, REALLY want Snowden back.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 12/18/2013 11:08 Comments || Top||

#8  They don't need the death penalty. They don't need no stinkin' trial by a jury of your peers. If they want you whacked, you'll get whacked.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 12/18/2013 11:53 Comments || Top||

#9  Preemptive preparation for a Republican admin & congress.

Once the camoflage is lifted on this regime treason & espionage trials will be commonplace and the soon to be defendents want to change the laws before they have to face them.


Am I being a) too cynical or b) too optimistic?
Posted by: AlanC || 12/18/2013 12:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Yes.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/18/2013 12:54 Comments || Top||

#11  They want to do away with the death penalty? Are there any Federal crimes where the death penalty still applies? We will probably find after he is out of office that Obama was really born in Kenya and that he is as phony as that deaf interpreter at Mandela's funeral.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2013 17:34 Comments || Top||

#12  J'Accuse!
/Madam LeFarge knitting
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/18/2013 18:37 Comments || Top||

#13 
Dem Bill Would End Death Penalty for Espionage, Treason, Assassinations


In other words, the Democrat Triathalon.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/18/2013 22:11 Comments || Top||


Texas congressmen take aim at Affordable Care Act's navigators
[DALLASNEWS] Four Texas congressmen took aim Monday at the federally paid navigators who are helping Texans access insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

Their criticism came during an unusual "field hearing" by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

The hearing focused on required navigator training and the lack of background checks and fingerprinting for those on the job.

"There are many problems with the Affordable Care Act, but I don't think we ever expected it would be this bad," said committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.

The committee's other member at the hearing, Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, called North Texas "ground zero" for navigator problems.

He and Issa were joined by three noncommittee members, all Republicans, who spoke against President Barack Obama
Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back...
's signature law.

"This is one of a series of field hearings by Congressman Issa investigating the shortcomings of Obamacare," Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas, told nearly 200 people at the Eisemann Center.

Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Lubbock, and Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, were the other two Texans speaking against the new law.

Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, another noncommittee member, spoke in favor of the law. He urged the gathering to focus on the Texans who remain uncovered because state leaders decided not to expand Medicaid.

But the hearing focused on navigators and an undercover video that purported to show several North Texas women urging an insurance applicant to lie. They were training as navigators in Irving.

As proof, the committee played a video clip from a Fox News report. It showed two women telling an applicant that he should hide his extra income and the fact that he was a smoker. Such lies would lower his insurance premiums, they said.

Dr. Randy Farris, regional administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, testified that his agency took the video seriously. The agency oversees the new law's rollout.

"CMS took immediate action to decertify the navigators and issue a detailed corrective-action plan," he said.

The employees were subsequently suspended. Farris declined to specify whether they were fired.

The Urban League of Greater Dallas employed the two women. The group beefed up navigator training to assure they follow the law, Farris said. His agency promised to make unannounced visits to observe the agency's work.

The Republican congressmen did not sound appeased. They described wider potential for problems, given the number of agencies providing navigators.

The federal government is paying nearly $11 million to eight community organizations that supervise navigators, said Farris. The agencies have good standing and no reason to flout the law, he said.

Issa said the potential for navigator abuse was so great that Texas insurance regulators should take further action. He urged the state to move forward with rules that would prevent identity theft and other criminal behavior.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Urban League of Greater Dallas employed the two women.

Positions for guides and mentors in a program which will ultimately control one sixth of the nation's economy go to the Urban League? Ok, I believe I've got it now. :-(
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2013 6:13 Comments || Top||

#2  RICO their asses.
Posted by: Iblis || 12/18/2013 10:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Nonsense, Iblis.RICO is used to persecute enemies of the stare, not agents and favored cronies.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/18/2013 11:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Got my first call (actually, I've ignored several previous calls from same phone #) today asking how they could help me enroll in Medicare (I'm a lot younger than retirement age). Weird thing was the phone # was based in Deerfield Beach, FL, whereas I live in metro ATL, GA.
Posted by: BA || 12/18/2013 14:45 Comments || Top||

#5  I understand that it takes far less time to become a navigator than to sign up for ObamaCare.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2013 17:41 Comments || Top||


Government
This is the ad every Democrat should be scared of in 2014
*Snipped - Duplicate*
Posted by: Beavis || 12/18/2013 09:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Senators clash with DOJ lawyer over Klingon intelligence memos
[The Guardian] CIA director John Brennan, who was a senior CIA official during the years scrutinized by the committee, is resisting release of the report.
The arrogance of the DOJ, Brennan and the Klingons is fully illustrated here. It is instructive to note that Kraus "worked alongside Brennan at the White House" during the attack on US Gov't facilities in Benghazi.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2013 06:21 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Denver Council Makes Move To Decriminalize Marijuana For Minors
[DENVER.CBSLOCAL] The Denver City Council has made a move to try and make sure minors who are caught with pot aren't punished too harshly.

A law voters passed last year decriminalized marijuana possession for adults but it didn't consider the legal repercussions for a minor.

People under 21 with pot were left open to criminal charges that would stay on their permanent record.

Denver city councilors want it to become a civil charge still enforced by a petty fine but with no lasting legal consequences.

"We do not want this age group to be to have their legs cut off before they get started in life," said City Council Member Albus Brooks.
Next step, I think, will be to make the stuff mandatory.
Brooks sponsored the city's newest marijuana regulation, calling it in the spirit of the new law.
You'll probably have to take a blood test to make sure you have the required level of cannabis in your blood stream.
The city council is also considering a law banning the marijuana industry businesses within 1,000 feet of a school.
Except for dealers, of course.
It is the latest in a series of marijuana laws to go on the books before the new year when the legal sale of marijuana goes into effect.

"All of the priorities that we've had have taken a backseat because we are the first city in the world to put this regulatory framework the way we're doing it," said Brooks.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ummm.... I am ummm... ummm PepsiCo. No... wait MCD, umm... I want 6, no 8 plain burgers, 6 small fries, 2 apple pies and a small igauna. Ummmm... no that's the driver's order, dupe mine, leave out the igauana, sub a ummmm... Yeah. 2 orders like that. No wait, make it 4 igauanas and one of the fries should be large, and extra turnips pls. Thanks.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/18/2013 17:43 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2013-12-18
  Iran nuke deal implodes
Tue 2013-12-17
  Ansar Al-Sharia homes attacked in revenge for Benghazi kiilling
Mon 2013-12-16
  Assailants stab Japan diplomat in Yemen
Sun 2013-12-15
  Six killed in US drone strike in Khyber Agency
Sat 2013-12-14
  Deadly clashes in Bangladesh after top JI leader hanged
Fri 2013-12-13
  Bangladesh executes Islamist leader and convicted war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah
Thu 2013-12-12
  Boko Haram slaughters nine people in Borno
Wed 2013-12-11
  French Army Kills 19 Islamist Militants in Mali
Tue 2013-12-10
  MILF, Manila reach power-sharing agreement
Mon 2013-12-09
  Top Hizbullah Military Commander Ali Bazzi Killed in Syria Fighting
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  Gunmen Kill Nine at Baghdad Alcohol Shops
Sat 2013-12-07
  Gunmen kill ASWJ Punjab chief in drive-by shooting in Lahore
Fri 2013-12-06
  52 Killed as Militants Storm Yemen Defense Complex
Thu 2013-12-05
  At least 20 killed in attack on Yemen's defense ministry
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