Miller needs to shave!

Then please make the news rounds and start talking so the Democrat can win the second senate seat in Alaska.

Thank you again Ms. Palin. You are a gift that keeps on giving!

Will Murkowski endorse Miller?

A curious question.

Ronald Reagan, whom, it seems, the Tea Party holds in some kind of god-like regard, had a very simple rule that governed his politics within his own party. It's become known as the "Eleventh Commandment".

"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

Joe Miller broke that commandment last week with his "Tweet" that implied that Senator Murkowski was a prostitute.

So, how does one endorse a candidate who is sees fit to call you a whore?

This is what we can expect no matter who the dopes of nope run for office.

Boehner's runaway deficit spending plan

by kos

Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 01:40:04 PM PDT

And here I thought Republicans actually cared about the deficit! An analysis by NDN shows otherwise:

The Fiscal Impact of the Boehner Plan

1. Fully Extend the Bush Tax Cuts.

Increase deficits and debt by $3.8 trillion over ten years.

2. Have the president veto the Employee Free Choice Act, a carbon tax or cap and trade, and “any other tax increases on families and small businesses” if passed during a lame-duck session of Congress.

Unable to assess impact of hypotheticals, but the provision impairs ability to address deficits and debt, including the potential loss of $624 billion in revenue over ten years from a carbon regime.

3. Health Care Agenda: Repeal the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/Repeal the provision in healthcare reform mandating that small businesses file IRS 1099 forms on purchases of over $600.

In his Cleveland speech, Boehner called for the repeal of what some call the “1099 mandate” as included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in order to close the business tax gap. This would increase the deficits and debt by $17 billion over ten years per Congressional Budget Office estimate. However, since our last analysis, the Congressional Budget Office has released an analysis of the costs of repealing the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Boehner has previously referred to repealing this legislation as his “No. 1 priority.” Doing so would add $455 billion to the deficit over the next ten years.

4. Reduce non-defense discretionary spending to 2008 levels.

In 2008, non-defense discretionary spending was approximately $522 billion. Boehner’s office has stated it wants a “hard cap” on such spending and claims a total of $340 billion in savings over ten years, but does not document such savings. Our analysis reveals that, against current policy such a hard cap would actually yield a savings of $67 billion over ten years. Most of these savings come at the end of the decade. Against the President’s budget, which includes a three year freeze on non-security discretionary spending, savings are negligible.

5. Resignations of the President’s economic team, starting with Secretary of the Treasury Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers.

The position of NEC Director is not Senate confirmed, so it is fair to estimate that it would take the Administration two weeks to fill that position. Estimating for the taxes paid on his $172,000 annual salary , two weeks without an NEC Director would save the Federal government between $5000 and $6000.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner makes an annual salary of $191,300. Because he is Senate confirmed, it is safe to estimate that it will take two months for his confirmation. Therefore, two months without a Treasury Secretary would likely save the Federal government between $25,000 and 26,000. Therefore, these resignations amount to a fiscal impact of $30,000 - $32,000 of deficit reduction over the next two months.

Total Fiscal Impact of the Boehner Plan: Increase Deficits and Debt by roughly $4.188 trillion over ten years.

And the teabaggers supposedly opposed to deficits? Don't expect them to harass Republican members at town hall meetings, because as we already know, deficit spending is perfectly okay, so long as you're a Republican.

When the Senate reconvenes in September, John McCain's GOP colleagues should thank him for picking Sarah Palin as his V.P. He created a monster.

I believe it's called "The Law Of Unintended Consequences".

Poor John McCain...he just can't catch a break.

See, he tried to run for President in 2000 as a moderate Republican but ended up getting his campaign derailed in South Carolina thanks to Karl Rove and his cronies who started the rumor that McCain's adopted daughter was the illegitimate child of an affair with a black woman.

So, instead he's had to adopt this hard-right Neo-Con personna to try and become President again in 2008 and he makes Sarah Palin his running mate to try and bolster his Conservative bona fides...values that his 2000 true personna would never vote for.

Well, alas, now Sarah Palin thinks she's "All That" and she and her flock of sheep have declared Open Season on all moderates. Hell, it's gotten so outrageous that Senator Lindsey Graham is now considered to be "Not Conservative Enough"!

Next time John McCain shouldn't do the GOP any favors.

More of what we can expect from the GOBP. SEE MMFA

Right-wing "cannot wait" for gov't shutdown, "just like in '95 and '96"

August 31, 2010 11:44 am ET — 22 Comments

The right-wing media is "giddy" over the possibility of winning a Republican majority in Congress in order to shut down the government. The shutdowns cost the government at least $800 million, furloughed over a million workers, delayed veterans benefits, shut down federally funded research, and suspended certain law enforcement activities, among other things.

Can't wait to hear MSNBC discuss the left wing nut in Silver Spring Maryland today. If he was a republican or conservative it would be talked about to no end!

This false equivalency between left and right is bogus, we have none that compares to the reichwing hate talkers led by the Lying King and the drugster Rush etc. Whatever lable you put on this guy wrong is wrong however here is the reichwing in action

Right-wing media's pathetic attempt to spin the Discovery Channel hostage situation

September 01, 2010 4:21 pm ET by Media Matters staff

As the horrifying hostage situation at the Discovery Channel building in Maryland continues to unfold, some in the right-wing media have chosen to use the incident for political gain.

For example, conservative columnist and regular Fox News commentator* S.E. Cupp tweeted that "Discovery terrorist's ideas, if not his methods, make him ideal WH adviser," http://mediamatters.org/research/200911180056">invoking smears that have been pushed by the right against science advisor John Holdren.

Similarly, Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft has http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/09/gunman-with-bomb-strapped-to-chest-takes-hostages-at-discovery-channel-building/">dubbed the gunman a "leftist activist."

Though at this point we know very little about Lee, his apparent http://tmz.vo.llnwd.net/o28/newsdesk/tmz_documents/0901_demands.pdf">demands indicate that his views are far from being grounded in a definable mainstream ideology, either liberal or conservative. Instead, they show a clearly disturbed individual. While Lee calls for "solutions" to problems that liberals typically highlight, such as global warming and unemployment, his lengthy rant is mainly composed of absurd demands such as the following: "All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions."

Additionally, Lee echoes http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008190031">right-wing http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008180071">talking http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008040005">points with his attack on "anchor baby filth":

5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)

Not one word about Senator Wyden, (who is up for re-election, I presume) calling for Oregon to opt out of HCR?

The bias on this site is breathtaking.

No jo, here is the rest of the story, all states have this option, whooops the facts and no baloney.

State Waivers: How a State Could Do Health Reform Its Own Way

Authored by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Section 1332 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -

the “Waiver for State Innovation” – will allow states to waive out of some of the requirements of federal

health reform if they meet certain standards.

Here’s how it would work:

Step 1: The state passes a law to provide health insurance to its citizens.

Step 2: The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Treasury review the law,

and determine that the plan meets the following tests:

a) The state plan provides insurance coverage that is at least as comprehensive as provided

under federal law;

b) The state plan provides insurance coverage that is as affordable (i.e. cost-sharing and

protections against out-of-pocket spending) as it would otherwise be under federal law;

c) The state plan covers as many people as the federal plan would; and

d) The state plan will not increase the Federal deficit.

Step 3: Starting in 2017, if the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Treasury find that the

state’s law can meet the above requirements without certain federal requirements, states can get a

waiver from having to comply with those federal requirements. Depending on the specifics, the state

plan could waive out of the following aspects of federal health reform:

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The individual mandate.

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The employer penalty for not providing coverage.

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The exact standards for a basic health insurance policy.

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The health insurance exchange.

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The design for how federal subsidies would have to reduce premiums and copays for people

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for co-pays, and the tax credits for small businesses – in total, and put the money into financing

coverage for individuals in its own way.

A state could then collect all of the federal money – the subsidies for premiums, the subsidies

•

1332 includes a coordinate

(e.g. Medicaid) to be waived through this coordinated process.

The Section 1332 waiver doesn’t affect other requirements of the health reform law. However,d waiver process that allows other programs that allow state waivers

What could a state plan look like under the state waiver?

Here are some ideas for what states might do under the state waiver provision:

1) Set up a state-run public option that would compete with private insurance companies and hold

them accountable. The state could use the total federal dollars it gets to subsidize coverage for

low-income folks in the public option as well as in private plans.

2) Waive out of the individual mandate. If a state has its own way of making the insurance market

competitive and insurance is affordable enough that people will end up buying into the pool

anyway, a state could decide to do away with the federal penalty that applies to people that do

not purchase coverage.

3) Come up with a voucher system that allows people to take the amount employers now

contribute to their workers’ health coverage with them to new insurance exchanges.

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Why should Mrs. Murkowski support a rival she is utterly opposed to? She and Mr. Miller are on opposite sides of the political pole, he hasn't a platform to start with except full and complete opposition to anything Obama, and she was a politician with a sense of purpose for her party and her state. It may feel good now to the tea party folks but they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. Anger and opposition is no intelligent platform to bring to informed voters. And making the government the enemy is a really naive and further, stupid way to do business in the 21st century. Those folks have nothing of substance to offer to anyone who reads and thinks .

Interesting - This great, great supporter of all that is good LOST HER ELECTION.  She is OLD NEWS. Who cares who she supports - the people do not support HER.