Year: 2012

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Health Care Nancy Pelosi Politics Repeal

Nancy Pelosi Predicts Health Care will Survive Supreme Court

In a vote of 6 to 3, the Supreme Court will uphold President Obama’s healthcare reform law, the top House Democrat predicted this week.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she’d respect whatever the high court decides, but forecasts the verdict would fall for the Democrats.

“I’m predicting 6 to 3 in favor,” Pelosi said during a long interview Tuesday with The Paley Center for Media in New York City, without specifying which justices would rule on which side.

The detailed prediction is something of a change for Pelosi, who has long said the Democrats’ reform law is “ironclad” constitutionally, but has also warned that speculation about Supreme Court decisions is just that — speculation.

Source: The Hill

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Mitt Romney Paul Ryan Politics

President Obama – Republicans Plan for America is “Social Darwinism”

WASHINGTON (AP) — In combative campaign form, President Barack Obama accused Republican leaders on Tuesday of becoming so radical and dangerously rigid that even the late Ronald Reagan, one of their most cherished heroes, could not win a GOP primary if he were running today.

Obama, in a stinging speech to an audience of news executives, had unsparing words for Republicans on Capitol Hill as well as the man he is most likely to face off against in November, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The president depicted the election as a choice between a Democratic candidate who wants to use government to help people succeed and Republicans who would abandon a basic compact with society and let most people struggle at the expense of the rich.

He framed his address around a new House Republican budget plan, saying it represents a bleak, backward “radical vision.”

“It is thinly veiled social Darwinism,” Obama said to the annual meeting of The Associated Press. “It is antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who’s willing to work for it … It is a prescription for decline.”

Republicans shot back that the president had offered a deeply partisan speech devoid of accountability.

Source: The Associated Press

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Mitt Romney Politics

What Do Wisconsin, Maryland and DC Have in Common?

They are examples of places where Mitt Romney will win primaries, but will lose to President Obama in the fall.

For people who follow politics, there’s a certain heaviness to the Republican race for delegates. Most prominent Republicans, including such conservatives as Marco Rubio, have endorsed Romney, and the trading markets are assuming that he’ll win the nomination. Is this news? No. But we have to write something every few hours, so why not make it interesting?

Even Mitt has turned his attention to Obama and is basically ignoring Santorum. Newt’s so far out of it that the press isn’t even making a big deal out of the fact that he hasn’t made a formal announcement. It’s very tidy. Just like the GOP wanted it in the first place.

But once again, some of the biggest states will have little influence on the contest. The story might have been different if California, New York, Texas, New Jersey and Pennsylvania had voted much earlier in the process. As it is, they’re afterthoughts. Too bad for the runners-up.

After tomorrow, all eyes will be on the two man race most of us envisioned months ago. Mitt will try to reinvent himself into a likeable everyman and President Obama will continue the Passion Offensive he launched last September. Their success will largely determine which one of them wins in November.

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EzKool Hate-Mail – “In Your Face With the Truth” banner.

We get a lot of hate-mail here at EzKool. Sometimes we reply to the author through email, but the majority of times, we ignore the hate and keep on moving. But the absurdity of this email prompted us to post it here. It’s amazing that there are people like this out there.

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Richard Bridwell

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Dishonest banner

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Could you please remove the word “truth” from your banner? All I can see from your pages are hypocritical distortions of actual ‘truth’. For instance, in reporting the Limbaugh-Fluke controversy, you failed (an oversight, I’m sure) to note that Limbaugh was making a satirical point ridiculing Fluke’s TESTIMONY regarding students in law school needing $3,000 for contraception (despite the availability of inexpensive…as low as $9 per month…contraception within a couple of blocks of Georgetown University).

Limbaugh used her ‘testimony’ at face value to show the absurdity of her ‘argument’, saying what 99% of people would agree with…that either Fluke is a liar, an useful (but uninformed) idiot, or a slut…a word commonly used to describe a promiscuous woman.

When people wanting to make political hay objected to his satire, he made it even more obvious by saying that anyone wanting someone else to pay for her to have sex would qualify as a “prostitute’ (again, a point about which few would argue even though it was obviously a satirical statement). When that didn’t work, he went for even greater absurdity, demanding that Fluke post videos so the taxpayers could see if they were getting value for the spending of their revenue.

Even yesterday, Hilary Clinton dishonestly (and extremely hypocritically considering her approval of her friend and adviser James Carville’s savage mocking of the young women sexually harassed by her husband) continued this farce. I suppose that today’s liberals would vilify Jonathan Swift for his satirical “A Modest Proposal”…although liberals rarely read & think for themselves, evidently. I won’t be clicking on your site again and adding to your revenue since you don’t offer honest discourse. ‘Tis a shame…another wasted opportunity by those who know better.

Just goes to show you that no matter how wrong Rush Limbaugh is, wrong even to the point of him issuing an “apology,” there are those who will go out of their way to defend his sexiest, racist rants.

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contraception Nikki Haley Politics war on women women

Nikki Haley – “Women Don’t Care about Contraception”

Appearing today on The View, Nikki Haley – the Republican governor of South Carolina – did her best to promote her new book, Can’t Is Not An Option, but managed instead to somehow continue the Republican war on women. Haley, considered a future star in the Republican party, informed the women of the view that women in general do not care about contraception.

“Women don’t care about contraception,” Haley said, “they care about jobs and their families…” She was cut off by Joy Behar, who bristled along with the rest of the panel and noted that women should care about contraception. “The media cares about contraception,” Haley tried again, and then concluded that while women might care about contraception, they just want to be able to make those decisions themselves, without government involvement.

Interesting position for a female Republican governor!

Indeed!

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Barack Obama Politics

Bill Clinton – President Obama is “Gonna Win Handily.”

Former President Bill Clinton told ABC News that unless something catastrophic happens, he predicts President Obama will win his re-election “handily.”

Former president Bill Clinton told ABC News that he largely agrees with this assessment, that President Obama will be re-elected.

“I think that he’s gonna win handily, and I have for a long time,” Clinton told ABC News in an exclusive interview. “I actually have since the 2010 elections. Which made me sad, but…what the right-wing says always sounds better when they’re sayin’ it than when they’re doin’ it. So I thought after the 2010 elections, they basically assured his reelection.” As for the unknowns, the former president said, “you could have a crisis in the Eurozone, and because American banks have big investments in European banks, that could hurt us. You could have a crisis in Iran blow up in a way that, you know, added $50 a barrel to oil prices. Even though we’re producing more oil than ever before, you see? And the world is clearly worried about that. ‘Cause you saw all those people talkin’ about takin’ down their oil reserves.”

“There’s always something that could happen,” he continued. “But even if that happens– most Americans believe the president’s done a good job on national security. I obviously think he’s got a great national security team….So I’d be very surprised if an intervening event derailed the path I think this election’s on.”

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Mitt Romney Politics Rick Santorum

Mitt Romney’s Health Care Mandate Included “$50 Abortions” – Ad

Rick Santorum’s new ad against Mitt Romney is a doosey!

The ad begins with a picture of President Obama and a female narrator asking viewers if they would vote for someone whose health care included “$50 abortions and killed thousands of jobs.”

She then asks if voters will vote for someone who supported “radical” cap-and-trade legislation, the Wall Street bailout or higher taxes.

At the end of the video, the woman reveals that the person she was talking about was not President Obama, but Mitt Romney.

Yes, this video is a doosey alright!

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Politics Repeal

President Obama Confident Supreme Court will Uphold the Affordable Care Act

While the Judges on the Supreme Court lose sleep over the upcoming health-care decision – they’re not really losing sleep. We already have a pretty good idea what this historically activist court will do – President Obama chimed in today for the first time with his opinion on what he believe the Court will do.

“Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” Obama said at a news conference with the leaders of Canada and Mexico.

Conservative leaders say the law, which once fully implemented will require Americans to have health insurance or pay a penalty, was an overreach by Obama and the Congress that passed it.

The president sought to turn that argument around, calling a potential rejection by the court an overreach of its own.

“And I’d just remind conservative commentators that, for years, what we have heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism, or a lack of judicial restraint, that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law,” Obama said.

“Well, this is a good example, and I’m pretty confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step,” he said.

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Voice Analysis Say Person Screaming for Help On 911 Tape Is Not Zimmerman

While the Sandford police continues their fumble allowing George Zimmerman to walk as a free man, the case against the murderer of Trayvon Martin continue in the public forum. Today, the Orlando Sentinel introduced us to two independent voice analysis, both saying that George Zimmerman was not the voice heard on the 911 tapes asking for help.

Zimmerman and his supporters have maintained that Trayvon was the attacker and George was justified in pulling the trigger, ultimately taking Trayvon’s life. They also claim that the voice heard on various 911 tapes screaming for help is that of George Zimmerman.

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health care law Politics Repeal

Here are Five Ways the Health Care law Helps Young Adults

Republicans have been on a successful campaign to repeal the Affordable Health Care Law, the signature piece of legislation passed by the Obama administration. They have managed to bring their case all the way to the Supreme Court and now a decision on the future of the law is expected sometime in June.

But one thing Republicans cannot deny – although they will try – is the immediate help the law is bring to both Seniors and young adults. Listed below are just some of the benefits young adults are presently experiencing because of the Affordable Health Care Law.

  1. Young adults can stay on their parent’s health insurance up to the age of 26. This is the case even if they’re married or live on their own. This provision resulted in 2.5 million young people gaining coverage. For young adults, this new protection means that they will have the freedom to make career choices based on what they want to do, not on where they can get health insurance. And for parents, it means they can breathe a little easier knowing their children are covered.
  2. The law offers free prevention benefits that keep people healthy. Now, young adults can receive recommended preventive  services, like flu shots, HIV and cancer screenings, contraceptive counseling and FDA-approved birth control, with no cost sharing. Visit  www.healthcare.gov/prevention for a full list of services and plan dates.
  3. Coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. For people who have been uninsured for six months and can’t buy private insurance because of a pre-existing condition, they may be able to join the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan. And under the new law, no plan can deny coverage to people under age 19 because of a pre-existing condition. To find out about plans available in your State, please visithttp://www.pcip.gov.
  4. Insurers cannot put limits on coverage. In the past, some people with cancer or other chronic illnesses ran out of insurance coverage because their health care expenses reached a dollar limit imposed by their insurance company. Under the health care law, insurers can no longer impose lifetime dollar limits on essential health benefits and annual limits are being phased out by 2014. Also, insurance companies can no longer drop people when they get sick due to a mistake you made on your application.
  5. Starting in 2014, there will be more options through the Affordable Care Act for coverage for young adults. New Affordable Insurance Exchanges, tax credits and the improvements to Medicaid will result in at least 30 million more insured people, including as many as 10 million young adults. For young adults, lacking affordable health care will soon become a thing of the past.
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Politics Tax weekly address

President Obama Once Again Ask Rich America to Pay Their Fair Share

And yet another call to our elected leaders to do what’s right for the huge majority of Americans and not just the richest among us. President Obama once again called on Congress to pass the Buffett rule, a law that would make our tax system more fairer requiring the richest 2% of Americans – those making over $1 million in yearly income – to pay a more appropriate percentage of their income in taxes.

The President;

Over the last decade, we’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars on what was supposed to be a temporary tax cut for the wealthiest two percent of Americans.  Now we’re scheduled to spend almost a trillion more. Today, the wealthiest Americans are paying taxes at one of the lowest rates in 50 years.  Warren Buffett is paying a lower rate than his secretary.  Meanwhile, over the last 30 years, the tax rates for middle class families have barely budged.

That’s not fair.  It doesn’t make any sense.  Do we want to keep giving tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans like me, or Warren Buffett, or Bill Gates – people who don’t need them and never asked for them?  Or do we want to keep investing in things that will grow our economy and keep us secure?  Because we can’t afford to do both.

Now, some people call this class warfare.  But I think asking a billionaire to pay at least the same tax rate as his secretary is just common sense.  We don’t envy success in this country.  We aspire to it.  But we also believe that anyone who does well for themselves should do their fair share in return, so that more people have the opportunity to get ahead – not just a few.

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Wisconsin Wisconsin Union Bashing

Court Strikes Down Part of Scott Walker’s Anti Union Law

The Huffington Post reports:

Just over a year after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed a measure taking away most collective bargaining rights for public workers, labor unions scored a victory as a federal court struck down portions of the law. The court ruled that the state cannot prevent public sector unions from automatically deducting dues from workers’ paychecks and cannot require them to be recertified annually.

The law, known as Act 10, requires most public sector unions to hold annual votes on whether a majority of its members want to recertify the union. It also took away the rights of some unions to automatically collect dues from members’ paychecks.

The court kept most of the law in place, but it ruled that the state did not have the power to pick and choose which unions could deduct dues. Under Act 10, only “public safety unions” — those representing firefighters and police officers — could continue to take out payments automatically.

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