Shocking - and yet logical - coincidence explains why America can never have health care reform ever

"Friends," begins Republican senatorial candidate Sue Lowden, cheerily, in a Facebook entry, "According to this poll, Reid's health care take-over legislation has reached a new low."

The former Miss Alaska is referring to a Rasmussen poll that says only 38 percent of voters support health care reform proposed by Obama and the Democrats. And as Lowden and everyone else knows, the American public is always right.

A case in point: Earlier in this decade, people in economically developed nations around the world, including the U.S., were asked to respond -- true, false or not sure -- to the proposition:

Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals.

Only a minority of Americans, about 40 percent, said the statement was true -- definitive proof (as if more was needed) that there is no evolution and the planet is 6,000 years old which means David Broder, Harry Reid and dinosaurs all walked the earth at the same time.

What's more, you know how the patriotic American right -- Sarah Palin's "real" Americans -- are always going on about American exceptionalism and how different the U.S. is from everyplace else? Well, compared to Japan and Europe, America is indeed "special." Red-blooded willingness to reject and deny incontrovertible scientific fact was more pronounced in the United States than in every other country except Turkey.

Evolution less accepted in U.S. than in other countries

The roughly 40 percent of Americans who believe in evolution are probably the same 38 percent who support health care reform, no? Filthy socialist atheists. You can bet that they're all snooty snobs with college degrees who live in big fancy cities where Sarah Palin's Fur Collar Comedy Tour would never go, also. (Although some filthy socialist atheist snooty snobs with college degrees -- your Gleaner, for instance -- think the Democratic health care reform legislation is too wimpy, and so would tell a pollster they were opposed to it for that reason. But I digress...)

Meantime, every nation on that chart has some sort of universal health care system, except the U.S. and ... Turkey. The same two countries that don't believe in science also don't believe that everyone should have the right to health care.

Coincidence? Or THE HAND OF GOD!!!!!

Anywho, we get it, Sue. If Goddy McGod had intended Americans to have universal health care, he would have put them in Europe. But how 'bout that other thing -- are you, Sue Lowden, among the minority of America-hating Americans who believe in evolution?

And the same goes for you, Sharron Angle, Jerry Tarkanian's kid and the rest of the assorted fruits and nuts in the GOP Senate primary -- along with every other Republican running for anything in Nevada. We know you're all opposed to a "government takeover" of health care, even though you don't actually know what a government takeover of health care is. But do you buy all that evolution stuff that icky scientists are always peddling?

C'mon, fess up, GOP wannabes. Your teabagger masters want to know

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[Christian soldier]

Has the Republic Party of Nevada taken the Purity Oath?

[Rich]

Hell yeah...Ensign administered it.

[ColinFromLasVegas]

Republican Party members in Nevada are no different than those nationally.

They all act like babies who continually have their milk bottle yanked from their lips, wanting more and more. And they totally and completely resent the fact they have to wait for President Obama, his administration and the Democrats in power (or any combination thereof) to do something so they can come up with some witty and upside down logic to blast into them. The President does something as small as bowing in respect, they go ballistic. The President wins the Nobel Peace Prize, they yell fake and it was rigged. The President makes a bid by visiting overseas to get Chicago an Olympics, they trip over themselves in glee to proclaim he failed. The President gives a speech, they scream and focus on the inane like how well he reads a teleprompter. The House and the Senate carry on with a goal of providing everyone with much needed health care reform, the Republicans all make sure they line up to get at a podium to mouth stupid stuff into microphones/cameras (oh, and they have to make sure they pile paper 2,047 pages high in front of them...as if to say it's too big...going more for visual dumb stuff than focusing on the issue).

And the one that gets me is that the Republicans all claim President Obama is not tough enough and our standing in the world has decreased. And this is patently false. Because this President does what he's supposed to do. He performs diplomacy. Not like Bush/Cheney where they stormed around the world like cowboys and proclaimed they will do what they want to do. President Obama, in just ten short months, has more credibility in the eyes of other nations than President G. W. Bush strived to achieve in his entire EIGHT years in power with his gut reaction knee jerk shit!

You get the idea. It's all lame. And it's all laughable.

Because the Republican Party is ripping themselves to shreds, trying to get power back any which way they can, but providing nothing at all for the American people in the process.

They are not helping their cause for 2010, or for that fact, anytime in the coming generation. People are either changing to become Democratic voters or looking for an independent outlet or some other party to be formed. Because the Republican Party offers nothing but brainless accusations that offer no solution to anything; an ability to let voices/faces on radio/television do their talking points, no matter how absurd. That party is so fractured, it will take at least a lifetime to fix. And this is evidenced by the above comment about this Republican Party litmus test; a test that President Reagan cannot even pass if he were to take it now.

But, in the meantime, the die hard Republicans can follow a Governor that quit and pushes her books that espouse all those who slighted her. They can also follow a former Vice President who talks like he knows something, but does not seem to understand the "former" in his title means he doesn't, and that he's not in power anymore. And, oh, cannot forget the teabaggers and other assorted right wingnuts from television and radio that fire them up with ridiculous conspiracy notions.

[dave404]

I'd like to see any of the aforementioned candidates roam around the counties North of Clark and tell them that their platform is to end ALL out of jurisdiction grants, aid, earmarks, proportional tax re-distribution etcetera: People in each county will have to live on what their own economies can supply their people.

I expect nothing less from the Self Reliant Party of Nevada.

[dave404]

P.S. Do Lowden and Ms. Alaska call for the pull out of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan based on Rasmussen polls? rasmussenwars

"just 24% say the situation in Iraq will be better in the next six months" & "Forty-five percent (45%) of voters say it is possible for the United States to win the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan..."

[dave404]

Republican Purity Platform (these people seem serious).

purityofessence

Their ten point program (manifesto)includes:

They want 'smaller national debt' yet they want to continue and enlarge wars in Iraq and Afghanistan;

They want war with Iran and North Korea;

They want to eliminate divorce (well, maybe they just want marriage between a woman and a man);

They want to eliminate any health insurers because they are "opposing health care rationing and denial of health care";

They want no amnesty for illegals;

They want no government involvement in any energy source.

Heck, even Ronald Reagan, who they named this after, is too liberal for this group! Reagan ran up the debt (proved deficit spending doesn't matter as Cheney commented), ran away from Iran in Lebanon(after he traded arms for hostages), enlarged public health care, supported abortion, picked on Granada (very non nuclear nation), freed the Mexicans in America and committed adultery.

Go Danny! Go Sue! Run, R run, see them run, Right, Right, right off the cliff of sanity!

Enjoy the last days of a major political party, as this hasn't happened since the Whigs died off.

[Nevada Ned]

Look, I don't like the Republican Party any more than the rest of you, but once in a while they show signs of intelligent life.

For example:

Glen Beck has declared:

"Get out. Get out. For the love of God, pull our troops out!"
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908250021

Lou Dobbs has a petition calling for pulling US troops out of Afghanistan, out of Iraq. And Germany, Korea, and everywhere else.

http://www.loudobbs.com/petitions/viewpetition?petitionID=-707412079780467944

Yes, you can say that Beck is a nut (and he is), and Dobbs is a racist (and he is). But once in a while, they say the right thing.

Think about that next week, when Obama announces his escalation in Afghanistan.
Just like Lyndon Johnson invading Vietnam with 600,000 US troops.

Would I, a leftist, stand on the same platform with Beck and Dobbs, opposing the war?

You betcha!

[Rich]

I just watched, "MILK" and had to express the overwhelming emotions raging in me. I'm, 70 years old, 70 years ago the German people learned that gays don't have equal civil rights, forty years ago the drag queens and dykes rioted at the Stonewall in New York.
I refuse to donate money or time to any politician ever again until I and the GLBT community has equal civil rights. I know that for me this is the same old chant but, seriously what does it take for the President, Senate and Congress to get off their dead asses and act like progressive liberals?
Fuck 'em, this IS the 21st Century and I ain't wating any more. It's high time for the gay community to act up.

[dave404]

"The Carson City Airport Authority, which has benefited in the last four years from more than $13 million in federal funds, is now slated to receive another $9.6 million in stimulus money, even though an independent auditor cited problems earlier this year with how it manages its federal grants."

http://realtime.sunlightprojects.org/2009/11/24/stimulus-grantees-cited-for-poor-oversight-of-federal-funds/

Link to the audit:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3085514/CCAA%20Audit%20FINAL.pdf

Aerial photo of the insignificant runway realignment!
http://www.carsoncity-airport.com/documents/AIRPORTEXIHIBIT10-26-09_000.pdf

THERE IS NO PASSENGER FLIGHTS AT THIS AIRPORT: it is a pleasure airport, though the FAA calls it a 'receiver' airport.

Recreation airports or health care? Significant issues of what we use very limited tax payer to support.

[dave404]

Dean Heller disbursements YTD 2009....19 staffers each making about $50,000 a year...Not going to go over well with the R-J anti government employee groups!

Heller office budget is North of $1,000,000,000 a year (bottled water costs money...can't drink the stuff the school children in D.C. drink-elitists!)

http://disbursements.house.gov/2009q3/2009q3-singlevolume.pdf

[Nevada Ned]

Dear Dave404:

Thanks for the link.

But I checked it out, and Heller's office budget is about $1.2M/year, not one billion. (Math note: $1B =$1000 M). About 2/3 of the $1.2M is for personnel.

The listing of Heller's office expenses starts on page 1215 of the 3404-page document.

Newspapers often get a billion and a million mixed up. It's a whole bunch of dollars.

[dave404]

NN,

Fair enough; anytime I think of D.C. dollars I automatically assume there are 9 zeroes behind whatever number is discussed!

Thanks for getting it right!

I thought Heller started at page 1207?