Cherokee Chief Demands Apology From Scott Brown

Ryan Questioned On Defense Cuts He Voted For But Is Campaigning Against

let's hope so ! .. . ;)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Mitt Romney's offhanded comment that as a candidate he doesn't worry about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income taxes has quickly entered the bloodstream in the presidential campaign's most hard-fought states.

His comment, in a video revealed this week, is prompting expressions of shock — but also shrugs — from Nevada to Florida to New Hampshire and the handful of battleground states in between. Will it sway an election expected to be close?

Flip Flop Mitt...

I am going to send this Video to CNN MSNBC CBS

Get the word out

This guy is a Joke

no way this guy will get elected

BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Puts Voter ID Law In Jeopardy

Paul Ryan Heckled During Value Voters Summit Speech

The Term “Teabagger” Is Vulgar, It IS Always Allowed Here ;)

getting worried!

CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida's most active branch in the Middle East called for more attacks on U.S. embassies Saturday to "set the fires blazing," seeking to co-opt outrage over an anti-Muslim film even as the wave of protests that swept 20 countries this week eased.

Senior Muslim religious authorities issued their strongest pleas yet against resorting to violence, trying to defuse Muslim anger over the film a day after new attacks on U.S. and Western embassies that left at least eight protesters dead.

The most difficult thing in life to do is say "I'm sorry, please forgive me".

Another difficult thing is to say "I forgive you".

And, Pride and Ego will always disrupt a natural path to peace.

Think.

Deeply.

Scott Walker Loses Court Ruling On Key Legislation

Romney Campaign Turns On The Press

Media Doubles Down On Romney: 'He Looks Like Richard Nixon'

Romney Rips Paul Ryan: Calls Running Mate’s Vote For Defense Cuts ‘A Big Mistake’

Ryan: I Didn’t Vote For The Defense Cuts I Voted For

Romney, Ryan Refuse To Identify A Tax Loophole They’d Close

"Ryan's problem is he got too many Atomic Wedgies as the class geek in High School
" - ME


"You know what the only business experience Paul Ryan guy has? As a teenager he drove the Oscar Mayer Wienermoble. A Republican inside a wiener. Usually it's the other way around." –Bill Maher


"Mitt's running mate Paul Ryan — who has dropped out of nowhere and has energized the Republican ticket — he looks like the guy you see on packages of underwear." -David Letterman

Fear Spurs GOP Delegates In Fight For Nominee They Don't Like

Romney Campaign Defends Lack Of War Talk In RNC Speech

Kristol: Romney Didn’t Make ‘A Positive Case’ For His Candidacy At The GOP Convention

Romney On Whether We’re Better Off: ‘Of Course It’s Getting Better’

RYAN GOES REVISIONIST: I WASN'T BLAMING OBAMA FOR GM PLANT CLOSURE

Ryan's History Of Lies Finally Catches Up With Him

dow has doubled under obama

how could that happen if he was bad for business?

answer that gop

Paul Ryan Speech Built On Demonstrably Misleading Assertions

Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says he didn't run a marathon in less than three hours as he claimed in a nationally broadcast interview.

Paul Ryan Speech Built On Demonstrably Misleading Assertions

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mitt Romney launched his fall campaign for the White House in a Republican National Convention finale Thursday night, declaring "what America needs is jobs, lots of jobs" and promising he has a plan to create 12 million of them.

"Now is the time to restore the promise of America," Romney said in excerpts released in advance of his prime-time speech to a nation struggling with 8.3 percent unemployment and the slowest economic recovery in decades.

"Many Americans have given up on this president, but they haven't ever thought about giving up. Not on themselves, Not on each other. And not on America," Romney said. Romney muted his criticism in the advance excerpts of President Barack Obama, his quarry in a close and unpredictable race for the White House.

"I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed," he said. "But his promises gave way to disappointment and division." "This isn't something we have to accept," he said, appealing to millions of voters who say they are disappointed in the president yet haven't yet decided to cast their votes for his Republican challenger.

In a speech that blended the political and the personal, Romney talked in his excerpts of the importance of the love he felt from his parents and that he and his wife Ann have sought to give their children and grandchildren.

"All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers," he said. Yet the economy is issue No. 1 in the race for the White House, and Romney presented his credentials as the man better equipped than the president to help create jobs.

"When I was 37, I helped start a small company," he said. "That business we stated with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story." More than the political hoopla, the evening marked one of a very few opportunities any presidential challenger is granted to appeal to millions of voters in a single night.

The two-month campaign to come includes other big moments — principally a series of one-on-one debates with Democrat Obama — in a race for the White House that has been close for months. In excess of $500 million has been spent on campaign television commercials so far, almost all of it in the battleground states of Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada.

Romney holds a fundraising advantage over Obama, and his high command hopes to expand the electoral map soon if post-convention polls in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and perhaps elsewhere indicate it's worth the investment.

Romney's aides scripted a Thursday night program that included a video tribute to Ronald Reagan, the two-term president revered still by conservatives. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush also had his moment on the podium, and Newt and Callista Gingrich shared one of their own.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was tapped to introduce Romney. Romney aides said the convention's final night was designed to fill out a portrait of the GOP nominee as a successful businessman, last-minute savior for a troubled 2002 Olympics and a man of family and faith. A portion of the convention podium was rebuilt overnight so he would appear surrounded by delegates rather than speaking from a distance, an attempt to soften his image as a stiff and distant candidate.

But these aides did not say whether he would offer any new information on what has so far been a short-on-details pledge to reduce federal deficits and create 12 million jobs in a country where unemployment stands at 8.3 percent.

Romney has called for extension of tax cuts due to expire at all income levels at the end of the year, and has proposed an additional 20 percent cut in tax rates across the board. But he has yet to sketch out the retrenchment in tax breaks that he promises to prevent deficits from rising.

Nor has he been forthcoming about the trillions in spending cuts that would be needed to redeem his pledge of major deficit reduction, or about his promise to rein in Medicare or other government benefit programs before they go broke.

His vice presidential running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, has called for remaking Medicare into a program in which the government would send seniors checks to be used to purchase health care insurance.

Under the current approach, beneficiaries pay premiums to the government, which then pays a part of all of their medical bills, and Democrats say the GOP alternative would expose seniors to ever-rising out-of-pocket costs.

Romney said in his fundraising email, as he often does in his speeches, "We believe in America, even though President Barack Obama's failed policies have left us with record high unemployment, lower take-home pay and the weakest economy since the great Depression."

Obama's surrogates missed no opportunity to criticize Romney, the convention proceedings or Ryan's own acceptance speech. "He lied about Medicare. He lied about the Recovery Act," Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, emailed Democratic donors in a plea for cash.

"He lied about the deficit and debt. He even dishonestly attacked Barack Obama for the closing of a GM plant in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin — a plant that closed in December 2008 under George W. Bush."

For Romney, 65 and the first Mormon to become a major party presidential nominee, the evening sealed a triumph more than five years in the making. He ran unsuccessfully for the nomination in 2008 after a single term as a moderate Republican governor of a liberal Democratic state.

This year, as then, he was assailed as a convert to conservatism, and a questionable one at that, as Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and other rivals battled him for the nomination. With a superior organization and an outside group that spent millions criticizing his foes, Romney eventually emerged as the nominee in early spring.

His selection of Ryan, a young lawmaker admired by fellow conservatives for his understanding of the federal budget, reinforced Romney's appeal to the right. The economy alone makes the race a close one, and polling makes clear that Romney enters the fall campaign with strengths and weaknesses.

In the most recent Associated Press-GfK poll, conducted Aug. 16-20, some 48 percent of registered voters said Romney would do a better job handling the economy, while 44 percent chose Obama. The Republican was also favored narrowly on job creation and held a 10-point advantage on the issue of reducing federal budget deficits.

Yet by 51-36, registered voters said Obama better understands the problems of people like them, that the president is a stronger leader and also a more honest and trustworthy candidate. Polls also show Romney trails Obama among female voters and Hispanics, and the convention was scripted from beginning to end to try and cut into the GOP ticket's disadvantages in those areas.

The first night of the GOP convention drew an estimated 22.3 million TV viewers, the vast majority over 55. The Nielsen ratings company said that figure was down from the 23.1 million who watched the first full night of the 2008 convention, which nominated John McCain. Nielsen said just 1.5 million of those who watched Tuesday's convention session were in the 18-34 age group.

6 Worst Lies In Paul Ryan’s Speech

By Aviva Shen posted from ThinkProgress Election on Aug 30, 2012 at 9:38 am

Vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is taking flack on the morning news shows for his keynote address at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. His speech was riddled with false claims, so much so that even Fox News wrote, “To anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech.”

Here are the most glaring lies from his speech:

1. “A downgraded America.” Ryan blamed the president for the nation’s credit downgrade in August 2011 after Republicans threatened to allow the government to default on its debt for the first time in history. But the ratings agency explicitly blamed “Republicans saying that they refuse to accept any tax increases as part of a larger deal.”

2. “More debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined.” Romney has made the almost identical claim, that Obama has amassed more debt “as almost all of the other presidents combined.” But their math doesn’t add up: when Obama took office, the national debt was $10.626 trillion. It has increased to slightly above $15 trillion.

3. Shuttered General Motors plant is “one more broken promise.” Ryan described a GM plant that closed down in his hometown, Janesville, Wisconsin, and blamed Obama for breaking his promise to keep the plant open when he visited during his campaign. But Obama never made that promise, and the plant shut down in December 2008, before Obama even took office.

4. Obama “did exactly nothing” on Bowles-Simpson. Ryan said, “He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing.” In fact, Ryan was instrumental in sabotaging the commission, leading the other House Republicans in voting against the plan.

5. “$716 billion, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama.” Ryan’s favorite lie is a deliberate distortion of Obamacare’s savings from eliminating inefficiencies. Furthermore, Ryan’s own plan for Medicare includes these savings. Romney has vowed to restore these cuts, which would render the trust fund insolvent 8 years ahead of schedule.

6. “The greatest of all responsibilities is that of the strong to protect the weak.” Ryan closed the speech with an invocation of social responsibility, saying, “The truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.” However, numerous clergy members have condemned Ryan’s budget plan as “cruel,” and “an immoral disaster” because of its devastating cuts in social programs the poor and sick rely on. Meanwhile, Ryan would give ultra-rich individuals and corporations $3 trillion in tax breaks.

its congress as well you know going from 10 trillion to 17.5 Trillion next year in 5 years time from 2008 to 2013 that's 75% growth rate in debt in 5 years time that's unsustainable.

Amazing we can have record debt at record low interest rates... and with record breaking budget deficient its really record breaking if you do it according to GAAP Accounting and include unfunded liabilities like social security and medicare liabilities...

Anyway it's a Huge Debt Bubble and when it goes bust and by bust i mean when interest rates start to rise and the value of bonds start to fall and all the banks and everyone is caught holding the bag then the party will be over.

If you think that the house bubble bust was bad just wait till the debt bubble bust happens you haven't seen nothing yet that will send the economy into a tail spin...

17.5 Trillion Every 1% rise in rates would cost the federal goverment a extra 175 Billion a year in intrest payments

2% 350 Billion in increased payments

3% 525 Billion

4% 700 Billion or about what we spend on Defense each year

5% 875 Billion anyway you see how this spirals out of control

7% like Spain today 1.2 Trillion Dollars or Half the federal tax revenues

anything higher then that and yeah over half every tax dollar goes to just pay interest on the national debt its a receipt for bankruptcy

and hell like i said they dont even include the debt numbers for social security or medicare in those figures start to figure that crap in and hell the numbers goes off the charts its astronomical

We're a bankrupt national spiraling out of control in debt and its a ticking time bomb that will one day explode in all our faces

what if the Republicans win the election?

Well I am old enough to have lived through many Republicans administrations and here what I would expect

1 - Republicans have stated they would move to repeal the health care law, therefore about 30 million people would lose their healthcare and insurance companies would go back to denying coverage for pre existing conditions, etc ...

2 - US will wage 1 or 2 wars probably on Iran or Syria or both

3 - New administration will make the Bush tax cuts permanent and give additional tax cuts at the expense of adding the poor to the pool and removing some tax breaks (home mortgage insurance, etc ... )

4 - Give the oil companies rights to drill wherever they can find oil

5 - Cut welfare to the poor and students

6 - Try reforming medicare and social security by doing means testing and vouchers.

Now balancing the budget and reducing the debt would remain VERY ELUSIVE (in my opinion) because their idea of cutting the deficit is based on the hopes that all of a sudden the growth would be between 4 and 8 percent.

If you like what you read then by all means you should vote Republican

And while at it, if the Republicans so strongly believe that government should stay out of our personal lives, then why are they so bent on telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies?

Ron Paul supporters put dent in unity at GOP convention

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/28/ron-paul-supporters-put-dent-in-unity-at-gop-convention/

Tampa, Florida (CNN) - The always-vocal supporters of Ron Paul made one final push to support the Texas congressman's bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination Tuesday, and in the process made their displeasure at the GOP establishment known as official proceedings at the Republican National Convention got underway.

Paul's supporters shouted and booed when rules were adopted as part of the Republican Party's official platform that would hinder the kind of grassroots campaign that carried Paul to the national convention.

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The booing turned to cheers, however, when Paul stepped out onto the convention floor. Shouts of "let him speak" broke out from his supporters, who are fervently loyal to the libertarian congressman who is making his third and, he says, final bid for the presidency.

When their candidate received any delegates in the state-by-state roll call, Paul's supporters delivered loud cheers. However, convention organizers ultimately made a decision to stop calling out the Paul delegates.

That decision was met with furious cries from Paul's supporters, who said their voices weren't being heard at the Republican Party's official gathering. When states listed delegate votes for both Romney and Paul, party officials at the podium listed only the votes assigned to Romney, who secured enough delegates Tuesday to officially clinch the GOP nomination.

At one point, delegates from Maine walked off the convention floor in protest of a Republican National Committee decision to replace 10 of the 20 delegates Paul had secured in the state. That move prevented Maine from submitting Paul's name for nomination.

"I wanted to see the chairman keep it fair," Tom Bronza, a delegate and Ron Paul supporter from Pennsylvania, told CNN. "I just wanted to see the yeas and nays on the rolls. I knew it would be close. I wanted to record the numbers and wanted the chair to announce it. He didn't. I am disappointed in that. But that's the way the cards fell."

Bronza said the treatment from national Republicans toward Paul supporters had him seriously weighing whether he would vote for Mitt Romney in November.

"The way I was treated here today, I felt like I was picked on a lot by a number of different people, so I'm not too happy about that, and you know, if I was well received and no shenanigans, I would have considered it in November," Bronza said.

am beginning to believe that no one in the GOP has an education.

Mitt Adviser: We Won't 'Let Campaign Be Dictated By Fact Checkers'

S.F. archbishop-designate arrested for DUI in San Diego - San Francisco's incoming archbishop for the Roman Catholic Church was arrested for drunken driving early Saturday in San Diego, according to news reports.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/08/incoming-sf-archbishop-arrested-for-dui-in-san-diego/1#.UDvjk_bXGSo

Paul Ryan: Rape Is Just Another 'Method Of Conception'

Analysis on Republican problems and amusing/enlightening events

According to the drum beats going on. Republicans are:

A. Unhappy
B. Frustrated
C. Not enthusiastic about Romney (regardless of the Ryan effect)

Romney has been running a campaign championing himself as a Washington outsider. Pairing up with Ryan who has over 10 years of Washington insider action has nullified the effect of this broadcast.

The Romney team has asked Romney to never leave Ryan's side. Because of exhaustion and the lack of personal enthusiasm for the job Romney (increasing gaffes, and political fallout) seems to only come alive while in proximity to Ryan.

Obama was asked to say something nice about Romeny. He said that he liked his Massachusetts Healthcare System Romney built.

Medicare Redux:

And it all goes back to the Bush administration who created the Part D program that essentially subsidized pharmaceutical companies and paired them with insurance companies to screw over the elderly by making the process expensive and as complicated as possible (and put all the applications online) and as we know now was a veritable windfall for both Pharma and Insurance. The older medicare recipients who grew up on black and white TVs and rotary phones were in essence put in a hopeless situation. Remember the donut-hole? The terrifying period of time where the elderly recipient has to pay full price for drugs while paying their premiums? Seniors are mistrustful of anything with an (R) after it's name that utters the word medicare.

I vote Republican for you:

It seems the GOP has had their voter law project leaked. Apparently the game plan is to Block the voter (if the voter is a Dem), then assign them to the other party which then allows them to fill out an absentee ballot for the Republican on the voters behalf with out their knowledge (and yes they are making it confusing and as complicated as possible). I'll give you three guess to which state is being targeted but you'll only need one. Ok, lets make it fun:

Is it:

A. Oklahoma
B. Kansas
C. Florida (cough this one)

What voter fraud looks like: http://www.wgbhnews.org/post/galvin-calls-voter-fraud-allegations-pretty-extreme

http://jacksonville.com/business/columnists/2012-07-25/story/broaden-voting-national-id
http://jacksonville.com/opinion/letters-readers/2012-08-18/story/absentee-voting-big-fraud-risk-and-other-letters

What is that ripping sound?

Beyond that the Republicans as a holistic voting block apparently are not walking lock-step with the R&R express. Apparently the party of No has a trickle down effect that is now playing out to be one of the most contentious primaries in recent history. The Republican national Convention is going to be a fiasco. Palin is running and could cost R&R the woman vote. As we know he has to have 15% more woman nationwide than Obama or else he loses the election. To add insult to injury. Ron Paul and his supporters are expected to go rogue and tear 1/3 of registered republicans into a totally different direction. A huge party is being planned in Tampa, and everyone is curious to what he is going to do or say. As we know RP is a loose cannon. Romney is also a Mormon which, as we know the true republicans don't understand or trust (especially the church voters) which could cause a slew of people to stay home on election day. A split of republicans down the Paul side along with Palin and the woman vote, along with Mormon-a-phobia from the base would mean that they would have to come up with a whopping 20% voter block from the 2008 totals to fill the void. But where will they get them from?

Hispanics are having problems in Arizona and Nebraska, apparently the executive order to allow for illegals to file documentation and stay (if they were anchor babies), is not being honored in those two states. Giving the finger to this Federal mandate could have a two fold problem for Republicans and our ever growing Hispanic population. They won't forget and some day down the line (around election day) will repay Arizona and Nebraska for the gesture in the form of a nationwide vote against the Republicans.

In an amusing poll the greatest voting block for Obama are non-voters. 65% of people who are not expected to vote would vote for Obama, but they are too busy to do so. They also cannot name the vice president. 25% would not vote for Romney...

Are these voters:

A. 18-25 (cough this one)
B. 25-35
C. 35-45

Hope this gives everyone enough to gristle to chew on until the opening bell on Monday. Have a great weekend.

Bold Obama Speech--'trickle-down fairy dust'

tell me conservatives....where is he wrong?

'“The centerpiece of my opponent’s entire economic plan is a new, $5 trillion tax cut, a lot of it going to the wealthiest Americans. '

And his new running mate, Congressman Ryan, put forward a plan that would let Governor Romney pay less than 1% in taxes each year.

Here’s the kicker: he expects you to pick up the tab. Governor Romney’s tax plan would actually raise taxes on middle-class families with children by an average of $2,000.

Not to reduce the deficit, or grow jobs, or invest in education ­but to give another tax cut to people like him.

“Ask Governor Romney and his running mate when they’re here in New Hampshire on Monday if they think that’s fair. Ask them how it’ll grow the economy, or strengthen the middle-class.

They have tried to sell us this trickle-down fairy dust before.

It didn’t work then and it won’t work now. It’s not a plan to create jobs. It’s not a plan to cut the deficit. And it’s not a plan to move our economy forward.”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-romney-taxes-1-percent-paul-ryan-budget-plan-2012-8#ixzz23wEPsP1d

Romney is not going to be on the Washington State ballot. Libertarians Suing the Republican Party...

Washington State has a jungle primary system (think of it as Louisiana North, although California has gone over to it also). As well as denying Democrats and Republicans the right to choose their own nominees for all offices, it has a few other strange effects. In 2010, the Republican party did not officially nominate any candidate for the Senate for internal reasons. As a consequence, the party did not get 5% of the vote in the Senate election and under state law, does not qualify as a major party entitled to get its presidential candidate on the 2012 ballot automatically. While this may seem absurd, the Libertarian Party is now suing the state to make sure it actually follows its own law.


http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/08/16/mitt-romney-might-not-be-on-the-washington-state-ballot-in-november/

We are working on the issue of some functions reported to be not working properly.

A Mormon and and atheist Randroid trying to get elected by a party with a base consisting mostly of evangelical Christians.

What could possibly go wrong?

I had thought/hoped that Shrub/Cheney might have finally nailed the coffin shut on the GOPers.

Now Romney/Ryan might put a stake through its heart.

McCain: Obama Attacks Succeeding At Painting Romney As Unacceptable

Obama Casts Ryan As Face Of Do-Nothing Congress

Ryan Could Make a Romney Victory Harder

The party increasingly depends on the types of voters who don't like Ryan's plans for Medicare and Social Security.

Last week, London’s Evening Standard reported that a $78,000 bottle of cognac was accidentally broken by a wealthy patron at an exclusive club after he asked to study the bottle. The two-century-old brandy was scheduled to be included in a Guinness World Record-breaking cocktail later in the week. “Accidents happen,” said the bottle’s owner­­, rather than evoking the old rule of “you break it, you buy it.” If you break a product on display, can the owner really make you pay for the damage?

Yes—even if the shop hasn’t posted a warning sign.

If you break something that doesn’t belong to you there are two legal ways in which you can be made to pay for the item. If you break something in a store that has a “you break it, you buy it” sign, the sign is considered a contract. If the sign is big enough, and prominently displayed, it can be argued that you were given what lawyers call “sufficient notice.” In this case, just by entering the store you agree to the terms of the sign, even if you didn’t read it. Similar contracts are entered into all the time on the Internet. By simply using Facebook you agree to the site’s terms of use, even if you’ve never read them.

If a “you break it, you buy it” sign isn’t displayed, you can be made to pay for something you break under tort law, with the claim that you were negligent. Take, for instance, the 2006 case of Nick Flynn. As the BBC reported, Flynn was touring a museum in Cambridge when he tripped over an untied shoelace and broke three Chinese vases. The vases were valued at over $400,000. The museum banned Mr. Flynn, but they probably could have made a case to sue for damages. When in a museum or a store with lots of valuables, it’s your responsibility to be careful; walking around with an untied shoelace is careless and could be deemed negligent.

Despite the legal means by which “you break it, you buy it” can be enforced, it rarely is. A store or museum can’t hold you hostage until you pay for damages. This leaves a potentially pricey lawsuit as the only means of money collection. In the case of breaking a really expensive object—like the $120 million Picasso in which a museumgoer accidentally tore a six-inch hole—it’s probably not worth it to sue, as the negligent individual almost certainly wouldn’t have enough money to pay. (Really rich people have to be more careful.)

If anything, “you break it, you buy it” signs act to encourage people to be more careful when handling property that’s not theirs. According to the Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, the phrase dates back to at least 1952, when a Miami Beach gift shop posted the message “If you break it, you've bought it” above rows of fragile items.

More recently, the proverb has been called the “Pottery Barn Rule,” reportedly after a statement from former Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to a 2004 book by investigative reporter Bob Woodward, Powell used that term to warn President George W. Bush that he would own all of Iraq’s problems if the United States invaded. Shortly after Woodward’s book came out, the Pottery Barn responded with a statement of their own: "This is very, very far from a policy of ours,” a public relations rep for the store told the St. Petersburg Times. “In the rare instance that something is broken in the store, it's written off as a loss.”

Romney Says He Sympathizes With Struggling Middle Class Workers, But His Policies Would Make Them Worse Off

"If crazy was people, Michele Bachmann would be China."
-- Ron Reagan Jr with on of the best slaps ever, on Tweety last night

The Affordable Care Act Is the Greatest Achievement for the Middle Class Since Medicare.

Health care in the United States was actually socialized in the dumbest possible way through a law signed by Ronald Reagan. ObamaCare fixes that broken system and strengthens Medicare for decades to come.

This is the greatest progressive achievement in half a century. Unfortunately, because of all the silly namecalling and labeling and fear-mongering, the people who will benefit most from this landmark bill have no idea what’s in it.

Since hollering won’t do me any good, I think I should at least describe why ObamaCare was such a victory for you and your family.

1. A Harvard study found that 45,000 Americans die every year for lack of insurance.

2. After a century of trying, President Obama was the first president to sign a law that would achieve near universal health insurance coverage.

3. For the first time, health insurers are required to spend 80 to 85 percent of customers’ premiums on actual care. More than $1.3 billion in overcharges will be returned to consumers and employers this year.

4. The law allows many Americans under age 26 to stay on their parents’ health plans. Today, as many as three million young people have already taken advantage of this benefit.

5. Tens of millions of people now getting preventive care at no extra cost, including cancer screenings and vaccinations. Last year, 32.5 million Americans on Medicare and up to 54 million Americans with private insurance received one or more free preventive services

6. 3.2 million small businesses — employing 19.3 million workers nationwide — were eligible last year for tax credits worth $15.4 billion or $800 per employee.

7. 3.6 million Medicare beneficiaries saved on average of $600 each as part of the phasing out of the donut hole.

8. Health care fraud prosecutions are up 27 percent. Recoveries are up 58 percent, taking in $4 billion last year.

9. Most health plans cannot deny coverage to children under age 19 because of pre-existing conditions.

10. Insurance companies can no longer cap the dollar amount of care you can receive in a lifetime

11. Insurers cannot drop your coverage due to a mistake on your application when you get sick.

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Thursday, June 28, 2012 -- 10:43 AM EDT
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Supreme Court Allows Health Care Law to Largely Stand

The Supreme Court on Thursday largely let stand President Obama’s health care overhaul, in a mixed ruling that Court observers were rushing to analyze.
The decision was a striking victory for the president and Congressional Democrats, with a majority of the court, including the conservative chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr., affirming the central legislative pillar of Mr. Obama’s term.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/supreme-court-lets-health-law-largely-stand.html?emc=na