Why Does Mitch McConnell Want To Kill Kentuckians And Cause Higher Unemployment In Kentucky?

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The reason for the title is in the video. He wants to do away with the ACA (ObamaCare) and black lung insurance benefits for coal miners. DESPICABLE to say the least!

He, like other reTHUGliCONS, seem intent on making life as hard on America, and Americans, as they possibly can.

What I can't understand is how reTHUGliCONS and Teabaggers can vote against their own interests by voting for This Koch brothers backed slimeball. Someone needs to ask him why he is so intent on killing Kentuckians? On second thought I, and everyone with functioning brain cells, know why they vote like they do. It's sad and disgusting.

The video won't post but you can see it here.
https://animoto.com/play/pYS28KmOGAa47oyP0UnpxA
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This guy sums up what the republican party is all about since President Obama was elected, and before, while he was running. And, he's a republican.

 

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If you want to know what this pic is about, go here.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80498.html 

I was so disappointed in Clint Eastwood. I'd never have thought that he was racist and an asshole.
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For more context on the republican thought process...
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/04/conservative_tribalism_conservatives_hate_anything_barack_obama_and_liberals.html

From the article;
"“Common Core,” the name for a set of national education standards, is the latest rallying cry for right-wing activists. Derided as “Obamacore,” it’s been attacked as a government attempt to usurp local curriculums and impose liberal values on conservative communities. Glenn Beck calls it a plot to turn children into “cogs” under a police state, and several Republican politicians have jumped on the bandwagon, denouncing the Obama administration for supporting the standards.

If this is confusing to ordinary observers—there’s nothing totalitarian about guidelines for what students should know at the end of each grade—it’s bewildering for Common Core advocates, who just four years ago were a boring part of the American policy landscape. Common Core was a bipartisan initiative, with support from the vast majority of governors, including Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, who has since reversed course as he preps for a potential 2016 presidential run.

What happened to make Common Core an object of hate for conservative activists? The answer is easy: “The Republican revolt against the Common Core,” noted the New York Times on Saturday, “can be traced to President Obama’s embrace of it.”
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House Speaker Boehner's Insurance Premium Nearly Doubles Under The ACA

Lying by omission and half-truths.

I don't know if it's a politician thing or a republican thing.

All I know is that the rethugs seem to lie about everything. If they open their mouth...They lie.

If it can put President Obama in a bad light, so much the better.

Poor boehner. The drunken sot is being asked to pay his fair share because of an amendment by Rethuglican Sen. Chuck Grassley.

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In his weekly press conference on Dec. 5, Boehner bemoaned the cost of his new insurance. “My health insurance premiums are gonna double,” Boehner said. “My co-pays and deductibles tripled under Obamacare.” He added, sarcastically, “I’m thrilled to death as you can tell.”

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Boehner reported that, under his current plan, he pays premiums of $433 a month for him and his wife, with a $700 deductible. But Boehner doesn’t need a joint health plan next year because his wife just turned 65, and is therefore eligible for Medicare. Fox News reported that Boehner’s wife, Debbie, had already applied for Medicare Part A, the premium-free hospital care program. Boehner’s office reported that in order to enroll in Medicare Parts B and D — to make the switch comparable — she’d have to pay up to $400 per month.

That left Boehner shopping for a plan just for himself. He selected a Blue Cross PPO plan with a $1,000 deductible — one described by Care First Blue Cross as the one “that most closely matches the benefits” in the current federal employee plan. It’s got the same network of doctors. The plan has a monthly premium of $875.32 for someone 64 years old, like Boehner. The federal government picks up 75 percent of the premium (up to a maximum of $426 per month) — so the cost to Boehner is $449 per month.

To sum up, Boehner is paying $433 a month now. His new plan will cost $449 a month plus up to $400 a month for his wife’s Medicare plan, for a total of $849 — nearly twice his current premium of $433.

The couple’s combined cost is comparable, Boehner said, to what he would have paid for a joint plan on the exchange that is similar to the one he has now. He said that would have cost $802 per month in premiums, with a $2,000 deductible.

The bottom line could have been worse for Boehner. Under the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies can charge smokers, such as Boehner, up to 50 percent more — unless a state expressly prohibits charging higher premiums based on tobacco use. Washington, D.C., happens to be one of the few that does not allow insurance companies to charge extra for smokers.  There are seven states with a similar policy, according to WebMD.com, including: California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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But there’s a big caveat with the Medicare cost for Boehner’s wife.

As columnist Michael Hiltzik explained in the Los Angeles Times, Medicare premiums are based on income. Boehner’s office declined to tell us the married couple’s combined salary, only that their income would result in Medicare premiums of around $400 per month. In order to have to pay that much for Medicare Part B and D next year, a couple would have to earn more than $428,000 a year. If a couple had a combined income above $428,000, they’d have to pay $336 per month for Medicare Part B and another $69 per month for Part D (the drug premium) in 2014.

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Boehner is paying more for his insurance, and he has a higher deductible. There’s no denying this is a bad switch for him.  But, again, that’s mostly because he’s an anomaly. He’s paying more for his wife’s Medicare because the Boehners earn far more than most Americans. And he pays more for his premium because he’s 64 years old.

Article at link:
http://www.factcheck.org/2013/12/boehner-vs-castro-on-the-exchange/

I have two words for you boehner...

FUCK YOU!!!

My wife and I are disabled. We get $809/month on my disability. At the moment that's all the money we get a month. We get $270/month food stamps(SNAP).

Starting on Jan. 1, 2014 that goes down to $265/month. Last month(Nov.) it went down $20. A year ago November, we were getting $316/month.

That's $51.00 less that we can't buy milk or fresh vegetables with. Which, because of my medical problems(heart being the worst), my doctor says I should eat.

We are now surviving on $1.45 per person, per meal.

That's a lot pasta and more processed food full of salt, sodium and starch. All bad for my heart.

So the money that I get from SS won't even pay for your insurance premium.

And you're bitching???

FUCK YOU!!!!

Although on the upside for you rethugs I'll probably die sooner rather than later because of my, now worse, diet.

But then that's part of the teabaggers and rethugs health plan.

• Don't get sick.

• If you get sick...

• DIE QUICKLY!

And what's a few lies if it furthers your agenda of hating President Obama and obstructing everything that he is trying to accomplish.

Go to hell you bastard.
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Rep. Steve King Says Government Shutdown Will Be President Obama's Fault

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These guys aren't even pretending to live on this planet anymore.



http://www.forwardprogressives.com/rep-steve-king-says-any-government-shutdown-will-be-the-fault-of-obama-tantrum-not-republicans/

"This is by far my favorite argument that I’ve seen coming from Republicans when it comes to pretty much anything.  It’s so absurd that it just makes me wish for a moment I could be inside their heads, because I would love to see what reality is like on their planet.

Because, based on comments such as those of Republican Rep. Steve King, many of them sure as heck aren’t living on this one.

See, according to Rep. King, if the government does end up getting shut down it won’t be the fault of Republicans—it’ll all be President Obama’s fault.

Let’s take a look at his “reasoning” for this:

“So the House will make sure that the funds are available.  And if the president should decide he’s going to shut down the government, it will never be the House of Representatives, if this happens it will be either an act of either Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate or the president or them working in conjunction with each other.  If the president decides to shut the government down, it will be the equivalent of a political tantrum, saying ‘I will have my piece of signature legislation even if the American people reject it and I’ll punish you by shutting the government down if I don’t get my way.’”

And he’s dead serious.

Basically, because the House passed legislation that funds the government but strips funding for the Affordable Care Act (which the president has clearly stated he would veto if it ever reached his desk — and it won’t), that’s King’s reasoning behind how this is President Obama’s fault.

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Their reasoning is that the American people have "spoken" and we don't want 'ObamaCare'.

Desipte all the data coming in that it(ACA) is popular once people know that it will help them.

They keep spouting teabagger and Faux News taliking points that are pushed by the likes of the Koch(sucking) brothers that all of America is against.

I hope they keep this idiocy up through 2016.

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The Boehnering Of America

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Or more aptly, 'The Boehnering(Boning?) Of America ', under his leadership as The Speaker of the House.
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By now isn't it up to 40 times?

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The hell of it is, President Obama will probably negotiate more of the middle class, poor, disabled and elderly benefits away under the guise of "bipartisanship".

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 I can only hope that President Obama and more democrats find a spine somewhere.

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The Attack on the Middle Class

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   I found this in my favorites from 2 years ago and finally got around to reading it. It is Al Franken at the Netroots Nation in Minneapolis.
   I have always liked Al Franken. When he gt into politics I thought if he put the insight and intelligence into politics that he did on SNL that he would be able to do some good.
   That is if the obstructionists aka (The Grand Obstructionist Party) in Washington didn't continue with their way of voting NO on every thing that the democrats proposed. Especially if President Obama gave any inkling that he was for it.
   Most of the things that Mr. Franken talks about are as true today as they were then. As a matter of fact, many of the issues still haven't been addressed because of the way the GOP has continued to block, with filibusters or whatever type of stalling tactic that they can dream up.
   Well enough of my ramblings. Here is the link to his speech. In both text and video. With a couple of excerpts.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/6363-focus-al-franken--the-attack-on-the-middle-class

  

"This is the state that sent Hubert Humphrey, the middle-class son of a pharmacist, to the U.S. Senate, where he cheerfully waged - and usually won - great battles in the name of the young and the old, the poor and the vulnerable, the oppressed and the disenfranchised.

   This is the state where Walter Mondale - who, at the age of 20, had helped to organize Humphrey's first Senate campaign - rose to become the living embodiment of common-sense Midwestern progressive values.

   And this is the state where Paul Wellstone, a professor down at Carleton College in Northfield, became my hero - and the hero of a generation of progressives who believed, as he did, that we all do better when we all do better. We all do better when we all have health care. We all do better when we all can get a good education. We all do better when we all can earn a fair wage at a good job. We all do better when we all can find a good home and economic security and justice when we're wronged.

  Today, 100 years after Hubert Humphrey was born, nearly half a century after Walter Mondale began his legendary career in public service, and two decades after Paul Wellstone won his first race for the Senate, we gather in Minnesota to take stock.

  We all believe that we all do better when we all do better. The question is: How are we doing?

  And if we're talking about the fate of ordinary families, the answer is clear: We're losing.

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  The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens. Say you have a parent who suffers from dementia and lives in a nursing home. If Republicans pass these Medicaid cuts, you'd better be ready to take that parent in. That is a radical change to our society.

  The Republican vision is one in which we cut billions from job training and education and infrastructure - the things that enable ordinary Americans to find good jobs, enable businesses to find the customers and trained workers they need to grow, and enable middle class families to build real economic security. All these cuts, just to fund more tax cuts for people who are richer than any people have ever been in the history of the world.

  It's a vision in which workers have no protections from their employers, ordinary Americans have no access to the courts when they're wronged, and big corporations control everything from our media to the Internet to our democracy.

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  The right wants America to be a nation of social Darwinism in which the powerful are protected by the government, and the rest of us are on our own.

  To achieve it, they'll say things they know aren't true, disown ideas they used to support, contradict themselves on everything from how the legislative process should operate to how weather works. They'll let the government shut down, let us default on our debts, bring our country to its knees to fulfill their ideological fervor.

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   The republicans, The TEA Party, and right wing nuts don't care about the country. As long as President Obama is president it will be that way because as much as they say that they aren't racist many of theways that they act and things that they say are.
    That is why they get so upset when they are called out on it and start talking about "taking our country back" or "Obama isn't really American" or the ever popular "He wants to turn this country into a Muslim/socialist/communist/dictator/king/sharia law abiding nation".
   C'mon people, PICK ONE!!! It's like they don't know that almost all of those things are diametrically opposed to each other.
    So it's either that they don't know, don't care or they do know and don't care because they are truly racist assholes.

  

USS GEORGE W. BUSH

USS GEORGE W. BUSH
   While the ship was destined for failure from the very start because of poor leadership and cost over runs that wiped out all money surpluses, construction continued, paid for by borrowing staggering amounts of money from China, cutting taxes on the wealthiest in America and letting banks and large corporations do whatever they pleased.

• Even after starting two illegal, unfunded wars that killed and wounded thousands of American troops because weren’t supplied with the right equipment like armored vehicles and bullet proof vests for years after the fighting started, construction continued.

• Even after passing an unfunded medicare drug program that made the drug companies millions while making it harder on medicare recipients, construction continued.

• Even after pouring millions upon millions of dollars into Iraq that kept disappearing because there was no accountability on where the money went or how it was used, construction continued.

• Even after stagnating the economy by catering to the rich while letting most of  America continue to work for just above poverty wages and letting millions of jobs leave the country so corporations could make even bigger profits while putting millions of Americans out of work and increasing the federal deficit, construction continued.

   Construction only stopped when it was realized that the American people were tired of all the money disappearing in the two wars and no one being held accountable and that they were going to be out of office soon.
   But being the arrogant bastards that they are, even though the ship wasn’t finished, they decided to launch the ship anyway and when it sank they blamed everybody but themselves for their failures.

• But don’t worry.

• Americans know why the ship sank.

   Except for those delusional, out-of-touch-with-reality-people that still wonders why the ship sank and thinks that the same failed policies will somehow fix everything.
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   I posted this because of a teabagger email that is going around that has the baggers all tingly but I won’t post any links to it. If you want to know about  them you have to get the info yourself. I won't advertise for them. But be warned. It’s more of that “teabagger intellect” that they are so famous for.

   Okay, I just searched online and found out that there is a video from August 19, 2008 that has all the basics of this “new” email. Only the last picture is changed because the teabaggers think that just because they changed the last picture no one will see them for the racist assholes that they are.

• The video is three and a half years old!!!!

• Almost three months before he was even elected!!!!

  But with the economy and America getting a little better the teabaggers have to dig deep to find out anything to trash President Obama instead of being happy that things are getting a little better.
   I have seen some republicans smile when talking about the gas prices going up.

• Why do the republicans and teabaggers hate America and the American people?

• Why do they hate President Obama so much that they want to see America and/or the whole world fail just so they can say…

“SEE, WE TOLD YOU SO!!!!!