You're partly right. The GOP is currently a congressional party and will remain so until they rid themselves of what Charles Krauthammer called the "suicide caucus". The 80 GOP members(the suicide caucus) who signed the letter calling for a government shutdown come from districts that on average...
http://www.mediaite.com/online/glenn-beck-claims-mitch-mcconnell-called-tea-party-senators-traitors/
I wish McConnell and other establishment conservatives would call them traitors. However, they won't because the Tea Party has them scared shitless, they are way too scared of getting primaried
How was DOMA repealed? through the Supreme Court. What I'm saying is that if the GOP wants to defund the ACA, it's fine with me as that is what is afforded them under our constitution. But the way to do that is through the legislation process, the normal legislative process. As Bob Schieffer...
Negotiate? No there is no negotiating on this. The ACA is the law of the land, we don't negotiate on laws. Let me propose a hypothetical to you. What if Obama decided to play the GOP's game and wanted to attach *** control legislation, which is supported by 90% of the American people, to the...
A quote from Rep. Marlin Stutzman(R), "“We’re not going to be disrespected. We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-stands-firm-against-funding-bill-will-link-to-debt-ceiling-fight/article/2536750
What a fucking moron!
To all those who say "why can't the president negotiate and compromise", there is no compromise when it comes to the ACA. It was legislated and ****** by the Congress, upheld by SCOTUS, and reaffirmed by the American people in a presidential election. That's it, it's a done deal and it is the...
I was watching TV yesterday and one of the pundit shows on TV showed a clip of Ed Henry, Fox News' White House correspondent, asking Jay Carney if he would enroll in the ACA's insurance exchange. I was literally yelling at the TV. The ACA isn't designed to help Jay Carney, he already has health...
Because Obamacare was not designed for them! meaning those who already have health insurance. They already receive government health insurance so there's no need for them to opt of that and go into the exchanges. The ACA was designed to provide health insurance to people who DON'T have employed...
SMH, you say there is rampant voter fraud? could you provide some data to support that claim. I've yet to see any statisitcs they say there is rampant voter fraud in this country. Does voter fraud happen? yes it does but it's in such smalll numbers that it's essentially non existant. Between...
The exchanges opens on October 1, will those of you who are uninsured be participating in the online marketplace where you will be able to shop for health insurance?
The guns are flowing in from Indiana, which depending on where you live is an hour-half hour ride, which doesn’t require background checks for *** sales and is the leading source of out-of-state guns used in Cook County crimes. The problem is the Indiana *** pipeline
Stay out of the south side...
I would actually go to Detroit. As someone who lives in a city, I know that the whole city of Detroit is not dangerous, rather certain sections of the city are. If I were to go I imagine I would be in the dowtown area which I'm certain the city makes a priority to keep safe since that's the...
I'm a resident of Chicago and everything you said is spot on. What people don't understand is that cities themselves are't dangerous, instead it's certain parts of cities that are dangerous.
You're confusing the homicide rate with the crime rate, they aren't the same. Chicago has the highest homicide rate but not the highest crime rate. The city with the highest crime rate, which encompasses ******, robberies, *****, etc, is Detroit. Of course you wouldn't get the facts right...
Here's another piece about a burger joint in Michigan that will begin paying entry level workers $15 an hour
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/09/09/2591251/burger-place-paying-entry-level-workers-15-hour/
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Let's send more humanitarian aid to the refugee camps and let's join Sweden in offering blanket asylum to all Syrian refugees. Launching a military strike isn't the only way the U.S can help Syrians
I keep hearing all the pundits say that we need to ****** Syria because if we don't we'll look "weak". That is by far the stupidest reason to ever get involved in a war/military conflict. As John Stewart said last night, "what are we 7th graders?" You're going to have to give me a better reason that
As a Chicagoan I'm glad to hear that you were treated well. Not surprised the fans treated you better here in Chicago though, it's a midwestern thing you know? we're salt of the earth type of people. You're from Minnesota right? you know what I'm talking about :)
We can’t pivot from the Middle East. Like it or not, the world often needs a policeman, and it’s the United States or no one. A little chemical weapons use can’t be ignored. Had we acted the first time Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, thousands of victims from this ******...
I used to have a standard drip coffee machine but no matter how many times I cleaned it, the coffee kept coming out tasting disgusting. Ever since I bough my Keurig single cup brewer, I get a perfect cup of coffee every time. Plus, I don't have to worry about cleaning it every time after a brew
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-batmansuperman-detroit-20130829,0,917624.story
Great news for Detroit. I want more movies to be made here in the U.S.
We intervened militarily in Libya BEFORE the ****** on Benghazi happened,foreign intervention was in 2011 while Benghazi occured in 2012. You seem to be the one who's retarded
Wars don't end just because the U.S. decided to turn a blind eye. What happens is that they in fact get worse. The longer we wait the worse this war will become and we just cannot ignore the fact that chemical weapons have been used.