unintended consequences: States enrolled in ACA will have women signing up. A baby spike in Sept 2014 and for the following 12 months. A bunch of the babies will be from married couples and another from women who want to have a baby without a daddy (see urbanbaby)
I really wonder if the man ever gets embarrassed by anything. Watching him speak those words is is amazing. Imagine the SNL skit that you could make out of that. You wouldn't even need to write any dialogue, just have a cast member repeat it all word for word.
Run of the mill shoveling these days but it needs to be archived -- sort of benchmark for what's coming.
Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law passed. So we wrote into the Affordable Care Act, you're grandfathered in on that plan. But if the insurance company changes it, then what we're saying is they've got to change it to a higher standard
Plus, the bonus of a succinct summation of the shoveler:
Never did I expect a guy like this, the head of a country, to blatantly lie to your face, and then not only lie to your face, then lie about the fact that he never lied. Then lie again about the next lie he told.
What? Buying Votes? Can't believe it ? No one "buy's" votes any more. Booze is already very cheap, even the good stuff.
Speaking of booze, The grapes are excellent this year, but the problem is getting the grapes off before this weekend when the weather will be entering our normal winter pattern. This year's fruit has been exceptional; Typically when the first tree fruits are good, the later fruits will be good too. Made 6 apple pies Monday, no sugar added because the fruit is exceptionally sweet.
The Chanterelle mushroom guy is setup again. I missed him last year but he said there wasn't a mushroom to be found. At $6/lb, I am going to buy a bunch over the next several weeks. When Mom was younger we would get 10-20# on an outing.
I can not count the number of wineries within 10 miles. And the local beer breweries, OMG.
The R's will get their chance in 2017, but doubtful since they are screwing up the economy. They are going to be lucky to survive 2014.
Just believe different things, lp. I may very well be wrong, but I think there's a consequence that hasn't arrived yet - what with QE and the like - and that it'll eventually show up for those who haven't trimmed their portfolios and even for those haven't a clue as to what one is.
Four years of cleaning up wouldn't have got Obama re-elected nor would it have stood a chance of keeping a democrat majority in either house, so they set out to reward supporters and buy votes. Not a bad strategy at all: as long as the can's still bouncing when he goes out, he stands a fair chance of history not seeing him as an utter disaster for the economy.
Well, the deficit is huge. But my portfolio is also way up and so is my heir's. I fully expect the R party to institute a means testing for SS or a lower tax threshold on SS recipients.
I can hardly wait for next Monday, Oct 1 when I get to choose health plans other than the state's insurance pool (2 choices: 80/20's with drugs 1)High deductible $2000, 2) low deductible $500) Do you know what I'm going to do with any savings--SPEND IT. And if the cost is higher than what I'm paying now, I'm going to take money out of the IRA's and give it to the insurance company.
He might be a big fat talking head but he's just parroting the same things you'll find on the liberal opinion sites, the bell cow ones. That it was the war and a lack of determination to raise taxes, that it was worse than we thought and that if we hadn't spent all that money on "shovel-ready", green dreams and obamaphones, we'd all be eating dog food warmed over trash can fires.
What is the national debt nowadays, anyway? 15 trillion? 16 trillion?
The difference is that the Congress went along with the spending spree without compensating taxes and/or budget restraints. The Republican Congress in 2001 reneged on Pay-As-You-Go instituted in early Clinton-Late Bush1. The difference is that The Wars wasn't in the Budget-now it is. The difference is the Housing-Credit Bubble 2008 bust was a whole lot bigger than the Tech Bubble of 2000. The difference is that in 2001-2008 there was no attempt in paying down the debt or minimally try to control it-Now with the Liberaterians-TeaParty, there is some pressure on the President and Congress to get a balanced budget and some fiscal restraint. Santini is a big,fat, talking head that gets 60 seconds a day to rant&rave-that's what he gets paid to do.
-- Edited by longprime on Tuesday 24th of September 2013 04:16:50 PM
The problem is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years, take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents. Number 43 has added $4 trillion by his lonesome. So that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we're going to have to pay back. $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.
Well, not really, not anymore, but he claimed to... until he got his hands on that damn credit card.
He does shovel it, doesn't he?
-- Edited by catahoula on Tuesday 24th of September 2013 02:57:38 PM
Occasionally, the boss has to roll up his sleeves and get after it, because there's just too much crap for the minions to shovel:
So raising the debt ceiling, it doesn’t cost a dime. It does not add a penny to our deficits. All it says is you've got to pay for what Congress already said we're spending money on.
DeLay's prosecution is an interesting story, lp. I doubt Wiki, MediaMatters, etc., bother to include all the little details so you might want to slog your way through the archives of the Houston Chronicle before you start summarizing. Don't forget to keep a list of all the pertinent facts as you go, because the Chronicle occasionally does a passable dementia imitation and forgets all about them in the later pieces.
Speaking of dementia, I wonder what Pelosi would say if asked about Bush era debt?
Sugarland, TX. Home to Imperial Sugar. Anyone want to guess the amount of dollars that Imperial Sugar and its sugar farmers got from direct and indirect federal subsidies and protected by import sugar tariffs. So glad we have professional Republicans to look after our capitalist system.
Had to Wiki, Tom Delay. I didn't realized that he was found guilty by a jury with approval by a judge. Now according to wiki, apparently we have an "activist" judge. Surely a Democrat judge.
Now that I think about it, House Speaker Delay, ran up a big spending House, Big Deficits, and approved fake wars that was funded outside of the budget process and ultimately by debt bought by China. No wonder there is a Tea Party and why I am a pissed-off Republican.
Some California immigrants need to take it easy - spend a little time in Austin, first - but the braver ones could probably dive right into Tom DeLay's hometown, Sugarland.
Speaking of DeLay : now that the appeals court has set him free he might be available to head west and gerrymander California to the point the Monterrey formation could be developed. That would be so entertaining to watch, I'd kick in to his slush fund.
Oh Jeez, I'll keep McDermott then! He actually does seem to be a pretty sincere guy, though I disagree with him a lot. Uh oh, living here is making me awfully liberal.
Probably like a baby, I'm afraid, but he should think of his eyesight. Shoveling that much loopy bs can make you go blind, if Pelosi is any indication:
Striking a tone of disgust, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi ridicules the GOP as obsessed with its loathing of President Obama and hell-bent on hurting him politically, regardless the cost. She assigns little to no blame to the president (even though Democrats privately say that’s laughable) and instead portrays him as saintly, above reproach and the victim of jealousy or something worse.
After 26 years in the House, she says, “I haven’t seen anything like it. I haven’t seen anything like it.”
