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Monthly Archives February 2010

PALIN CHEAP SHOT ON … “FAMILY GUY”?

I once thought that a federal statute requiring insurance companies to provide mental health insurance parity, like all benefit mandates, was an exceptionally bad idea.
After watching the following clip from “Family Guy,” however, I think the rapid spread of Sarahphobia justifies it. In this episode, the show’s writers mock Sarah Palin AND her son. 
During a VERY unflattering depiction of a […]

Posted 15 February 2010 † Catron § Palin BS ‡ Comments (0)

SENATOR STABENOW WANTS OBAMA TO ENACT “REFORM” VIA PRESIDENTIAL FIAT

It’s less and less likely that Obamacare is going to get through Congress, even with a two-step process involving all manner of procedural skulduggery, including the ”nuclear option.”
In order for that to work, the House must first pass the Senate reform bill, and the votes aren’t there. But Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow has an app for that:
The administration […]

Posted 14 February 2010 † Catron § Obama BS § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (1)

CHENEY’S PALIN COMMENT MISREPRESENTED BY “NEWS” MEDIA

The “newsâ€? media and the nutroots are deliberately misrepresenting Dick Cheney’s Palin comments to ABC news. He did NOT (as claimed at the Huffington Post, Think Progress and other “legitimate” news outlets) â€?rebukeâ€? Palin, say she was “wrongâ€? or “take issueâ€? with her Iran comments. He merely said that such decisions should be made based […]

Posted 14 February 2010 † Catron § Journalistic BS § Palin BS § Political BS ‡ Comments (1)

GOP STILL KVETCHING ABOUT REFORM SUMMIT

House Minority Leader John Boehner released another statement today calling on the President and congressional Dems to engage in GENUINE bipartisanship on health care reform:
A productive bipartisan discussion should begin with a clean sheet of paper. We now know that instead of starting the ‘bipartisan’ health care ’summit’ on Feb. 25 with a clean sheet […]

Posted 13 February 2010 † Catron § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

KRAUTHAMMER TELLS GOP HOW TO AVOID BEING TAKEN AT THE HEALTH REFORM SUMMIT

In this Fox segment, Krauthammer literally phones in his advice because he’s stuck in a snow-created traffic jam:
Here’s what you do: you show up and you designate one guy who knows a lot about all this health care stuff as your only spokesman. You don’t have people raising their hands and shouting questions. You pick Paul […]

Posted 13 February 2010 † Catron § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (1)

PALIN & FEINSTEIN: TWO PALM READERS, TWO MEDIA STANDARDS

By now, everyone in the galaxy knows that Sarah Palin had a few crib notes written on her hand during her Tea Party speech in Nashville. How do do we know this? Because the media and the nutroots talked about little else for a solid week. 
It would appear, however, that Palin is in good company where “palm reading” is concerned. […]

Posted 13 February 2010 † Catron § Journalistic BS § Palin BS § Political BS ‡ Comments (1)

INVITE LIST FOR BLAIR HOUSE REFORM SUMMIT

The White House issued its official invitation to the February 25 health care reform summit to be held at the Blair House:
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Senator Reid, Senator McConnell, and Representative Boehner:
We are writing to ask that you join President Obama for a bipartisan meeting at the Blair House on Feb. 25 to discuss health reform legislation … […]

Posted 12 February 2010 † Catron § Obama BS § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

WHY THE DEMS WON’T “GO NUCLEAR” TO PASS OBAMACARE

IBD’s David Hogberg provides four reasons the Democrats will not use reconciliation, a once-obscure parliamentary maneuver that only requires 51 votes, to pass Obamacare. First, if “going nuclear” were a real possibility, we would have seen the mushroom clouds by now:
This is the same tactic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer hinted at over three weeks ago, on the eve […]

Posted 12 February 2010 † Catron § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

REID KILLS “JOBS” BILL & AMA BRIBE

This is interesting. Combined with Nancy Pelosi’s increasing irritation with the White House, Reid’s move suggests that there is SERIOUS trouble in Paradise:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led colleagues and the White House to believe he supported a bipartisan jobs bill — only to scuttle the plan as soon as it was released Thursday …
He […]

Posted 12 February 2010 † Catron § AMA BS § Political BS ‡ Comments (0)

DUMBEST PALIN-BASHING POST OF THE WEEK

It’s sometimes difficult to escape the impression that most journalists are … ah … I’m trying to avoid Rahm Emanuel’s favorite epithet … er … kinda slow. A case in point is Bonnie Erbe, who posted the following at U.S. News & World Report:
I ask you, dear readers, is this the end of Sarah Palin’s presidential quest … The so-called […]

Posted 11 February 2010 † Catron § Dumb BS § Palin BS § Public Opinion BS ‡ Comments (5)