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How to Make a Republican Stop Talking About Obamacare? John Fugelsang Demonstrates

Now, I cannot promise that following Fugelsang’s example would stop the Republican from talking about Obamacare for ever, but at least it will shut them up for a little while.

John Fugelsang joined Republican fast talker Heidi Harris on the Ed Schultz Show to discussed the fantastic numbers who signed up for healthcare through Obamacare. After hearing “Mrs Harris” spit out the usual talking points as proof that the 7.1 million signups were fake, it was Fugelsang’s turn and needless to say, the facts from Fugelsang outweighed the talking points from Miss Harris.

“The interesting thing here about this is that this is a Republican designed healthcare plan by the Heritage Foundation,” Fugelsang said. “Implemented by a Republican Massachusetts governor, upheld by a Republican Supreme Court. And these guys need it to fail before it can start helping save Republican lives. If the GOP had been behind healthcare reform, if they cared enough, if they valued saving lives over here over blowing up people over there, we might not see this happen. We might see a real public option, real reform, instead of this moderate messy improvement that Obamacare is. I often wish that the GOP had been this concerned about fact checking back in the WMD days. Millions of Americans are now insured.

“Tune into Hannity to see why this is bad.”

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Entertainment Politics

SNL Spoofs Fox And Friend or Fox and Friends Spoof SNL – Video

This was a very simple task for Saturday Night Live – a parody of Fox’s Fox and Friends. Why was it a simple task you asked? Because Fox and Friends itself is a parody and anyone wishing to make a joke out of the Fox show already had most of the material written. They just had to come up with the actors.

In this skit, the Fox and Friends characters were really actors from Saturday Night Live, unlike the real actors playing the role on Fox. Get it? Watch as the actors talk about Obamacare, President Obama and their interview Neil deGrasse Tyson.

I bet you can’t tell the difference between the real Fox and Friends actors and the pretend actors of SNL.

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President’s Weekly Address – Obama’s Budget Is For You. There’s For The 1 Percent

In this week’s address, the President highlighted the important differences between the budget he’s put forward – built on opportunity for all – and the budget House Republicans are advocating for, which stacks the deck against the middle class.

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U.S Attorney Has Convened a Grand Jury in Bridge Gate Scandal

ABC news reported that the U.S. Attorney in New Jersey has convened a grand jury to investigate the involvement of Governor Chris Christie’s office in the George Washington Bridge scandal, ABC News has learned.

Twenty-three jurors convened in a federal courthouse in Newark today to hear testimony from a key staff member, Christie press secretary Mike Drewniak, whose lawyer, Anthony Iacullo, said Drewniak was not a target of the investigation.

“We’re here to answer questions and that’s what Michael did today,” Iacullo said.

The convening of the grand jury is evidence that the U.S. Attorney’s investigation has progressed beyond an inquiry and moved to the criminal phase.

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Judge Refused to Remove Herself From Renisha McBride Murder Case

Theodore Wafer

The motion was submitted by the defense attorneys and today, the judge in the Renisha McBride case denied that motion to remove herself from the case.

Wayne County Circuit Judge Qiana Lillard rejected the motion filed by Theodore Wafer’s attorneys, who argued that her previous employment with the prosecutor’s office and associations with employees create an appearance of impropriety. Lillard was a prosecutor for more than eight years before Gov. Rick Snyder appointed her to the bench last August.

Wafer is charged with second-degree murder after shooting Renisha McBride, 19, at his Dearborn Heights home. He said he believed McBride wanted to break in. Prosecutors say Wafer should have kept the door shut and called police instead of shooting. McBride was drunk and in a car crash three hours earlier.

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George Bush Paints Portrait of Vladimir Putin – SEE IT

George Bush once said that he looked into Putin’s eyes and saw his soul. This painting by the former president is probably what Putin’s soul looks like.

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employment rate News Politics

Economic Good News – 192,000 Jobs Added in March

The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated Friday that the overall job situation improved somewhat during the past three months over what it had first reported. The BLS reported in its monthly job assessment that 192,000 new private jobs were created in March. Governments at all levels added no new jobs. The official unemployment rate—which BLS calls U3 and calculates in a separate survey—remained steady at 6.7 percent.

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Bill Clinton – “I love being called the first black president”

The nation’s first black president went on the Jimmy Kimmel show and spoke about his wife’s political future, Toronto’s mayir Rob Ford and among other things, being the nation’s first black president.

Bill Clinton:

“I loved being called the first black president, but Barack Obama really is,” Clinton told Kimmel, to laughs.

Let me say this. I consider it — I was incredibly fortunate that I was born in a little town in Arkansas and raised by my grandparents largely and my great-uncle and -aunt when my widowed mother went off to become a nurse. And my grandparents were poor white Southerners, who as a class were among the most racially prejudiced people in the South, and they weren’t. My granddad ran a country store and the vast majority of his customers were African-American.

So, I was raised in a different way — at home in the church, at home and the culture. And it was such a gift to me that I grew up free of that and I deserve no credit for it whatsoever, it was the way I was raised. And so, I love being called the first black president, but Barack Obama really is, he deserves it. And it’s been thrilling for me for doing what I could since Hillary lost the primary, we’ve done everything we could to support him and I was delighted we had over 7 million people sign up for the health exchange.

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Glenn Beck Is Mad – Cannot Understand Why Anyone Would Want Obamacare – Video

Glenn Beck is mad. Mad I tells ya! He simply cannot understand why any American would fall for the lies Obama is selling them. Lies like, having affordable healthcare is a good thing. Why would anyone in their right minds want healthcare?

Glenn Beck is livid.

We’ve never had this before. This guy, you put him in a military uniform, I’m not kidding you, you put him on a balcony in a military uniform, this guy is a full-fledged dictator. There has never been any president who has ever done anything like this.

This is complete bogus. This is complete bogus fairytale. This is completely made up. This is nonsensical. The emperor has no clothes and everyone in the press, you “rat bastards.” Every single one of you. No, what he’s saying isn’t true. You know it. You know it.

He’s a sociopath! He’s sociopathic!

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President Obama’s Statement on The Fort Hood Shooting

Hello everybody. I just got off the phone with the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sandy Winnefeld, to get the latest report on the situation at Fort Hood.

Obviously, we’re following it closely. The situation is fluid right now, but my national security team is in close contact with not just the Defense Department but the FBI.

They are working with folks on the ground to determine exactly what happened to make sure that everybody is secure. And I want to just assure all of us we are going to get to bottom of exactly what happened.

Any shooting is troubling. Obviously this reopens the pain of what happened at Fort Hood 5 years ago.

We know these families, we know their incredible service to our country and the sacrifices that they make. Obviously our thoughts and prayers were — are with the entire community and we are going to do everything we can to make sure the community at Fort Hood has what it needs to deal with the current situation but also any potential aftermath.

We’re heartbroken that something like this might have happened again.

And I don’t what to comment on the facts until I know exactly what has happened. But just for now I would hope that everyone across the country is keeping the families and the community of Fort Hood in our thoughts and our prayers.

The folks there have sacrificed so much on behalf of our freedom. Many of the people there have been through multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, they serve with valor and they serve with distinction.

And when they’re at their home base they need to feel safe. We don’t yet know what happened tonight but obviously that sense of safety has been broken once again. And we’re going to have to find out exactly what happened. The Pentagon will undoubtedly have further briefings as we get more details about what happened. Alright. Thanks everybody.

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Abortions Domestic Policies Health Healthcare News Politics

The Abortion Freeport Doctrine

In 1857, the US Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slavery was legal and that slaves were property. Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas, in debates with challenger Abraham Lincoln in 1858, was a supporter of popular sovereignty on slavery, That is, he wanted to let the people of a territory decide if it was to be legally free or slave. This, obviously, wouldn’t be possible given the Court’s decision because the justices said that slavery could not be banned. So Douglas came up with a dance that came to be called The Freeport Doctrine. This doctrine would allow slavery, but would encourage territories to enact high legal boundaries to its implementation, rendering it moot in practice.

Despite the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973, anti-abortion groups have stopped at nothing–not even the law–to enact high legal hurdles that inhibit the right of every women to control their reproductive lives and health choices. In one of the presidential debates in 2004, George W. Bush even invoked Dred Scott as a guiding principle for his judicial choices. Abortion equals slavery. Welcome to the Abortion Freeport Doctrine.

Three states have taken this tactic to new extremes. Texas passed an onerous law that will result in the closing of more than half of the remaining clinics in the state. Arizona passed a law, now under judicial review, that would restrict medication abortions. And Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant said today that he will sign a law that will prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and with no exception for rape or incest This is all on top of restrictive laws that have been passed, and have passed judicial muster, over the 41 years that Roe has been the law of the land. The Supreme Court is now weighing whether the Affordable Care Act can require all employers to cover contraception for all of its employees, because those companies consider some contraception to mimic abortions.

This is an emotional issue and the debate over abortion does not yield any middle ground. But we can find a way to make abortions less likely, provide contraception and sex education, and allow women and their doctors to make decisions that are in the best interests of the patient. That’s called freedom of choice and it’s something I hear a great deal about from those on the political right who want the government out of our lives, except in the bedroom. Or kitchen. Or back seat. Or…you get the point.

My solace comes from the belief that the conservative tide has crested and that we’re seeing the worst of the restrictions now. Many will stay in the most conservative states, but the idea that a women’s body is her own is pretty much a settled social idea that the court overturns at the country’s peril. It’s worth remembering that the Freeport Doctrine went nowhere. It’s also worth remembering that it took another hundred years for African-Americans to gain their full legal rights. I hope we’re not still debating the choice issue 60 years from now.

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Conservative Calls For “Slaughtering Muslims in the Streets”

This is Patrick Dollard, a frequent writer and contributor at one of the Conservatives’ “news” outlet,  Breitbart.com

After news broke about the shooting at For Hood, this was the solution Patrick Dillard came up with.

His Tweet said, “If there is even one more act of Muslim terrorism, it is then time for Americans to start slaughtering Muslims in the streets, all of them.”

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