Saturday, August 24, 2013

MAINE GOV. PAUL LEPAGE: “OBAMA HATES WHITE PEOPLE, AND I CAN PROVE IT.”







Guest post by Maine Gov. Paul LePage

People criticized me for saying “Obama hates white people”, but I can prove it. Over the past 5 years, and even over the course of his life, he has said and done things which bear me out.
#1 Obama continues to be president, even though he knows his blackness offends some white people.
#2 He has yet to repeal the 13th Amendment and re-enslave black people to please Southern whites. He hasn’t even proposed it.
Nor has he offered to pay reparations to descendants of slave holders for their loss of property in the Civil War.
#3 He has invited black people to the White House, instead of only inviting white people. And he has continued to do this no matter how many times Fox News has complained.
#4 He, with his attorney general Eric Holder, has fought the efforts of Republican state governments to keep the white vote from being diluted by black and other minority voters, which has the effect of telling people their votes aren’t special or more important than non-white votes.
What’s more, he has actively registered black and Hispanic voters, which also diluted the value of white votes.
#5 Some of the taxes paid for by white people go to services for non-whites. Shouldn’t white taxes go to white people and minority taxes go to minority people?
#6 He married a black woman.
#7 He had black kids.
#8 He’s even making white people pick up poop after his new black dog Sunny. Probably.
In conclusion, Obama has failed to prefer white people above all others at every juncture, which proves he hates white people. It’s just logic, so stop calling me a racist.
Sincerely,
Gov. Paul LePage
@WinkProgress: Maine Gov. Paul LePage: "Obama hates white people, and I can prove it."

Colin Powell On Republican Voting Restrictions: ‘It’s Going To Backfire’

BY BRYCE COVERT ON AUGUST 25, 2013 AT 11:26 AM
On Face the Nation this Sunday, Colin Powell, former Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, warned his fellow Republicans that the continuing push to restrict voting rights is going to “backfire” and harm the Republican Party:
These kinds of procedures that are being put in place to slow the process down, and make it likely that fewer Hispanics and African Americans might vote I think is going to backfire, because these people are going to come out and do what they have to do in order to vote and I encourage that.
Powell went on to describe just how damaging these laws may be as the country’s demographics shift:
Here’s what I say to my Republican friends: The country is becoming more diverse. Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans are going to constitute a majority in a generation. You say you want to reach out, you say you want to have a new message, you say you want to see if you can bring some of these voters to the Republican side. This is not the way to do it. The way to do it is to make it easier to vote and then give them something to vote, they can believe it. It’s not enough to say just we have to have a new message. We have to have a substance to that new message.
Voting rights were an integral demand of the March on Washington 50 years ago, but the Republican Party has been pushing a variety of restrictions at the state level and are now emboldened by a Supreme Court ruling invalidating part of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Powell remarked that these state laws “in some ways makes it a little bit harder to vote,” such as requiring ID, restricting voting hours, and making it harder for students to cast a ballot.
Voter Suppression CartoonSince the Supreme Court decision that struck down the section of the VRA that forced states with histories of disenfranchisement to get clearance from the federal government on changes to voting, at least six states have renewed their efforts to pass voting restrictions, including voter ID measures, redrawing districts so that minority voting blocks could have their power weakened, and others. North Carolina became the first to enact a law, with a measure that some have described as “the worst voter suppression law” in the country. It requires strict voter ID to cast a ballot, reduces the number of early voting days by a week, eliminates same-day voter registration during early voting, and makes other severe changes. Powell previously warned that North Carolina’s law is the kind that “turns people away” from the Republican Party.
While proponents of these measures purport to be worried about rampant voter fraud, on Sunday Powell remarked, “Nothing substantiates that, there isn’t widespread abuse.” In fact, zero of the 17 suspected fraud cases in Boulder, CO were found to exist, and there have been many failures for those attempting to find evidence of widespread voter fraud. A person is 39 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit fraud.
Voting restrictions aren’t the only way Republicans are screwing up their effort to reach out to minority voters, however. They’ve voted to deport DREAMers, boycotted Spanish-language TV, argued for self-deportation, reacted poorly to the Trayvon Martin ruling, and used racially insensitive language, among other things.

 


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Think Progress reports: “The Fifth — and hopefully final — Assessment Report (AR5) from the UN Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) is due next month. The leaks are already here…” and they point to an “alarming disruption in our previously stable, civilization-supporting climate.”
According to noted climatologist Dr, Michael Mann: “The report is simply an exclamation mark on what we already knew: Climate change is real and it continues unabated, the primary cause is fossil fuel burning, and if we don’t do something to reduce carbon emissions we can expect far more dangerous and potentially irreversible impacts on us and our environment in the decades to come.”
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RICK PERRY ACCUSED OF PUBLIC CORRUPTION IN VETO OF FUNDS TO INVESTIGATE PUBLIC CORRUPTION

Via: The Daily Edge
According to CBS and AP: A Texas judge says he plans to have a special prosecutor review allegations that Governor Rick Perry abused the powers of his office and broke the law in a feud with the DA whose most high-profile case had been the prosecution of convicted GOP money launderer Tom DeLay.
Perry’s office (of course) denies any wrongdoing.
But the facts show that Perry publicly stated he would eliminate $3.7 million in annual state funding if Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg refused to resign following a drunk-driving conviction.
She didn’t. And Perry carried out his threat, ironically cutting funding for state public corruption investigators. All of which amounts to, according to Texans for Public Justice, a violation of Texas laws governing coercion of a public servant, bribery, abuse of official capacity and official oppression.

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Thursday, August 22, 2013


Killing Vets wasn't enough

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Senate Republicans Kill Veterans' Jobs Bill

The bill was fully paid for and entirely bipartisan

  • 40 of 45 Republicans voted against the bill
  • It was defeated by 58-40 vote
  • 60 votes was needed to pass
It would have lowered unemployment among military veterans, giving grants to federal, state, and local agencies, to hire veterans- giving priority to those who served on or after 9/11.

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Bad news for the GOP: Even Republican young adults want health insurance, poll finds




Even Republican young adults want health insurance, poll finds

Aug. 21, 2013 at 12:06 AM ET
Young adults want health insurance, the Commonwealth Fund says it has found in a poll
Lucas Jackson / Reuters file
Young adults want health insurance, the Commonwealth Fund says it has found in a poll
Obamacare may have become a partisan issue, but more Republicans than Democrats have signed up for one of its most popular provisions, according to a survey published Wednesday.
The survey also pokes holes in the idea that most 20-somethings act like “Young Invincibles” who believe they don’t need health insurance.
A team at the Commonwealth Fund, which strongly supports healthcare reform, looked at one of the main target groups of the 2010 Affordable Care Act – young adults who have been going without health insurance. One of the most popular provisions of the law lets people age 26 and younger stay on their parents’ health insurance.
“Public opinion polls found a partisan divide … but Republicans and Democrats both took advantage of the young adult provisions,” says Commonwealth vice president Sara Collins, who led the study. “In fact, more Republicans than Democrats did.”
They found that by last March, 63 percent of young adults identifying as Republicans had enrolled in a parent’s health plan in the last 12 months, compared to 45 percent of those who considered themselves Democrats. About 26 percent of the 1,800 adults surveyed said they were Republicans, 28 percent said they were Democrats and the rest either said they were independent, some other party, or did not say.
The health reform law was passed in Congress in 2009 without a single Republican vote, and Republicans have fought it ever since -- even though it contains many provisions that were originally suggested by Republicans. The Republican-led House of Representatives has voted several times to repeal the law, which has been going into effect in stages since 2010, but the Democrats who dominate the Senate prevent any further action.
The latest push is to stop the law from taking effect by taking away money to implement its main provisions. 
Overall, 15 million 19-to-25-year-olds, or about half of all Americans this age, are on their parents’ health plan, the report says.
The Obama Administration is working with a batch of non-profit groups, including one called Young Invincibles, to encourage healthy young adults to sign up for health insurance.
Just this week, the Health and Human Services Department and the group launched a contest trying to encourage young adults to make videos promoting the law’s provisions. 
Health experts agree that people will take better care of their health and rack up fewer expenses down the road if they have health insurance.
There’s also concern that if young, healthy adults don’t join the insurance pool, health insurance companies will have to charge everyone more to cover the smaller, sicker pool of adults who do have coverage.
But the Commonwealth survey suggests that it’s money that stops 20-somethings from signing up for health insurance, not some idea that they don’t need it.
“There is a stereotype that young adults believe they are ‘invincible’ and don’t want or need health insurance,” said Collins. “This survey shows that is a myth—a typical uninsured young adult is from a low- or middle-income family and works a low-wage job. In general, young adults value health insurance but cannot afford it.”
“Enrollment rates of working young adults in their own employer-sponsored plans average nearly 70 percent, with cost being a principal factor cited among those who do not enroll,” the report reads.
A study released Tuesday showed the health insurance for an average family is $16,000 a year; $5,800 for a single person. Most Americans get health insurance through an employer. Under the 2010 law, states and the federal government are setting up online marketplaces where people who don’t have health insurance can buy it, often with a hefty federal government subsidy.
And about half the states will expand Medicaid to cover more people, with the federal government paying almost all the bill through 2020.
The survey itself may be only partly representative of the young Americans being targeted. Online research firm Knowledge Networks GfK did two separate surveys of 19 to 29-year-olds for Commonwealth in 2011 and 2013, each time inviting about 3,500 people to answer questions. Both times, just over half did.