Monday Evening Thread: Hits from the 80s!

Ann Romney needs to move on
Posted by Jonathan Capehart on March 4, 2013 at 8:42 am

There is a grand tradition of the previous occupant of the Oval Office going into a kind of hiding. Not a “hidden to the world” kind of exile, as the pope emeritus finds himself in, but still keeps a low profile. And he most certainly keeps his mouth shut about his successor, lest he be accused of meddling or resentment. A pity that this custom doesn’t extend to failed presidential candidates.

Of course, I’m talking about the Romneys. Yes, both of them. Mitt might have have been the Republican presidential nominee, but his wife, Ann, is suffering from a serious case of sour grapes.

more here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/03/04/ann-romney-needs-to-move-on/

miranda- – - -THESE RE-THUCKER WIMMEN!!!- — – geesh!!- —

- —-GOP Congresswoman: I Opposed Domestic Violence Bill Because It Protected Too Many Groups- –

– – - — -Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Monday openly admitted that she opposed the latest reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) because it included protections for LGBT, Native American, and undocumented victims of domestic violence.

Watch it:- – - – — – — — -Annnd GET SICK!!!

- — -COMMENT:- -Keira Rodriguez
This woman is a full blown IDIOT! Domestic violence does NOT discriminate. It affects EVERYONE! What’s next? Passing a crime bill that only covers “certain” groups? Crime is crime? It doesn’t care if you’re LGBT, Native American, white, black, male, female, etc etc. Vote Marsha Blackburn OUT of Congress!- – —- -***fist bump***- –

- – - -[Gotta "hit da road"- -- C U SOON.♥]

P.S. THIS is da PHOOL that CHALLENGED MR. PRESIDENT 2 a – -”shootin’ contest!”.- – — – – -SAAAAAA-LAP!!

Turned Away was the JAM!!!

Alma, I see WI is back at it again.Republican’s bill would limit hours for in-person absentee balloting
A Republican lawmaker is proposing limits on the hours and days voters can cast in-person absentee ballots even as such voting increases in popularity in the state.

The bill would have a heavy impact in Madison, one of several municipalities that have held extended hours on nights and weekends to accommodate in-person absentee voters.

Critics said the bill, introduced in the state Assembly late last week, would force municipalities to spend more on mail-in absentee ballots while making it harder for people to vote.

The measure proposed by Rep. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, would prohibit clerks from opening early, late or on weekends to accommodate voters wishing to cast their ballots before Election Day.

Stroebel aide John Soper said the bill aims to give residents of smaller communities the same access to absentee voting as those in larger communities that can afford to hold extended balloting.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/republican-s-bill-would-limit-hours-for-in-person-absentee/article_6411ab88-8524-11e2-80d0-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz2McTSSIuH

Medicare is Sacred, Medicaid Expansion is Meaningless; Contradictions of the Anti-Obama Liberal
Monday, March 04, 2013 | Posted by Curtis Abbey at 11:18 AM

The weekly outrage alarms have been set to orange alert as talk returns of potential reforms to Social Security and Medicare. Liberal commenters are out in droves with their tired gripes about Obama’s weak and Republicanesque leadership. But I can’t get over the contrast and contradictions of their statements.

First, they say the top 1 percent has taken over, they are SO POWERFUL. But then, they assert that President Obama could easily have _________ and we’d have thwarted their interests. Which is it? Are the 1 percent incredibly powerful or are they a tweak or two from being brought to their knees by the just right words from the leader of the executive branch?

Second, they say the Affordable Care Act was a corporatist sell-out, even though it expanded Medicaid to cover those at 133% of the Federal Poverty Line. This could provide insurance to 20 million more people. It’s a Republican idea they say, even though it has Bernie Sanders’ provision for $50 billion for new community health centers, that’s $50,000,000,000. For those of us that are rightly worried about austerity, that kind of smart government spending should be news to cheer. As should the trillion dollars over ten years that is expected to be spent on this Medicaid expansion.

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/03/medicare-is-sacred-medicaid-expansion.html

does anyone else watch Belle’s on TVONE

Pundits blowing it on sequester debate

Posted by Greg Sargent on March 4, 2013 at 11:19 am

Republicans are waving around a column by the New York Times’ Bill Keller that pins the blame for the sequester on the President. The title is “Obama’s fault,” and Keller’s effort is reminiscent of plenty of other punditry we’ve seen that adopts all kinds of strange contortions en route to reaching this conclusion.

In Keller’s case, though, the zeal to find Obama at fault for the sequester impasse leads him to commit a straight up falsehood. Keller offers up the widely held belief that if only Obama had embraced the Simpson-Bowles commission’s plan, he’d have a good deal more leverage to force Republicans to compromise:

The Simpson-Bowles agenda was imperfect, and had plenty to offend ideologues of the left and right, which meant that it was the very manifestation of what Obama likes to call “a balanced approach.” So did he seize it as an opportunity for serious debate about our fiscal mess? No, he abandoned it. Instead, he built a re-election campaign that was long on making the wealthiest pay more in taxes, short on spending discipline, and firmly hands-off on the problem of entitlements.

If Obama had campaigned on some version of Simpson-Bowles rather than on poll-tested tax hikes alone, he could now claim a mandate from voters to do something big and bold. Most important, he would have some leverage with members of his own base who don’t want to touch Medicare even to save it.

The claim that Obama campaigned “on poll-tested tax hikes alone” is just flatly false. In February of 2012, Obama submitted a budget that contained hundreds of billions in spending cuts — including cuts to Medicare. The nonpartisan Committee For A Responsible Federal Budget analyzed Congressional Budget Office numbers and concluded that Obama’s budget proposed nearly $480 billion in spending cuts — several hundred billion of which were to Medicare.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/03/04/pundits-blowing-it-on-sequester-debate/

miranda – —O – - FER FLIP’s SAKE!! – — – -LOL – –

– — -Cory Booker To Push Back Against Attacks To Legacy In Newark – — -

- —– -The Newark mayor’s State of the City address Tuesday will be a pointed defense of his record. A stable budget, increased development, and reduced crime, says a city official.

– -The speech, to be delivered at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in downtown Newark, will push back against a narrative picked up most prominently in a New York Times article last December: That Booker is better liked outside the Central Ward than inside; that he has ignored his managerial responsibilities in favor of boosting his national profile; and that, as the Times piece puts it, he has “proved to be a better marketer than mayor.”
THERE IS MORE – - – - -LOL – —

THIS oughtta B a GOOD HUMOR address!! :>) – - -Lookin’ FORWARD —>

–P.S. – - – -OTOH – - – -HE HAS SEEN a LOT of the CITY – - -FROM HIS – -VANTAGE POINT! – - -LOL – -[ (THANK U --Aquagranny.) LOL --- I had been usin' the - -"SUPER-CORYMAN" - - -Theme. LOL - - - - -

– –CONGRATULATIONS!/HAPPY BIRTHDAY! – - – -Woo! Hoo! :>) –

— -Google Honors Miriam Makeba Today in Special Doodle —

– - – - -*Folks who have Googled something today may have noticed the drawing of an African woman in the place of its usual logo.

– -The politics of Makeba’s music led to her exile from South Africa in 1959 shortly after she appeared in an anti-apartheid documentary that made her an international star. She was denied access to her homeland for 31 years, only returning in 1990 at the insistence of future president Nelson Mandela who had only recently been released from prison. During her exile she became a prominent critic of South Africa, even testifying against apartheid before the United Nations, which led to her becoming an honorary citizen of 10 countries.
THERE Is MORE.

– - —Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata —:>) –

- ————The little girl is her grandchild. – - -2 SWEET♥! :>) – -

– — –Miriam Makeba – Khawuleza 1966 - -

- – - — -South African singer and political activist Miriam Makeba sings Khawuleza on a Swedish TV show from 1966/67. This song features on the album AN EVENING WITH BELAFONTE/MAKEBA, which won them both a Grammy Award in 1966. Miriam Makeba sadly passed away in November 2008.

– — – —-R.I.P. MAMMA AFRICA♥ – - -THANK U 4 your MUSIC annnnd 4 your participation in – -”DA STRUGGLE”. [South Africa] – –AMEN.

P.S. Humbly –I attended one of her concerts in Ghana. Se was mesmerizing. :>) – Annnd –she generously gave her AUTOGRAPH. :>) – -