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Excellent statement. Thank you, Mr. President
DeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEffffffffffffffffff! :-)
Congrats!!! :-)
Hi and Congrats DF!
Best.President.EVER!
Yay Desertflower!
Essentially, Cruz’s coverage lapsed because his 2015 carrier, BlueCross BlueShield of Texas, ended its individual PPO plans for 2016, including the family plan that covered the Cruz family. The carrier decided to move entirely to HMO plans for the individual market. And Cruz didn’t manage to sign up for a new 2016 plan by Dec. 31. That happened even though the insurer announced its decision to close PPO plans way back on July 23. Five months is normally enough for an educated adult to arrange health insurance.
Cruz still has until Jan. 31 to sign up for coverage beginning March 1, and he said he’d be doing that. “We’re in the process of finding another policy,” he said. “I hope by the end of the month we’ll have a policy for our family.”
In other words, Cruz’s problem has nothing to do with Obamacare and everything to do with his own sloth — unless the explanation is more sinister, as insurance expert Richard Mayhew of balloon-juice.com speculates: “The Cruz family is currently uninsured to guarantee their father a cheap laugh line.”
This fool can’t even manage his own family’s affairs, but some bricks out there think this man should run the country.
You’d think his ex-Goldman Sachs employee wife would have wanted herself and their kids to be covered. This is on her, too!
It’s on both of them because there are young children involved. How anyone could risk having their children uninsured is beyond my understanding. I don’t care how busy you are or how many excuses you offer, this is irresponsible behavior.
The truth is (ostensibly anyway), JackieG, the Cruz(es) can *afford* to be irresponsible. Unlike most of us, should one of their daughters become seriously ill they can pay for her care ‘out of pocket’.
SLOTH……………..MY HUSBAND DID THAT W. CAR INSURANCE ONLY HE LIED AND SAID IT WAS PAID..THEN I HAD AN ACCIDENT….THERE ARE ALOT OF SLOTHS OUT THERE!
yup, it was a crude tactic typical of rafael to vilify Obamacare and it backfired on him spectacularly.
richard at bj completely exposed this ratfucker’s cynical ploy and lie.
Rafael Edwardo Cruz and family did it on purpose for Political drumbeat with his Fanatical base, period!
Pro-life is not the same as forced birth. If people don’t care about children after they are born and fight for clean air & water, good schools, healthcare, and equal opportunity for all children, then such people are not really pro-life!
Judith, the “prolife” label is as false as the names the Republicans give to bills that end up harming us. There is nothing pro life in wanting women to die because of unsafe abortions and that is exactly what this is about. Abortions have gone on since humans first walked the planet and will go on until we die out as a species. What Roe v Wade did was to make abortions safer because women could openly go to a professional medical person. Take away “reproductive rights” under the law and more women will die and that outcome is okay in their minds because women must ‘obey’ them or suffer the consequences, no matter how dire.
Yes, Yes, Yes, !!!
Oops, fixed it!
GOING TO HAVE A SUPER TIME LATER TODAY WITH CHURCH CHILI SUPPER………HAVE A BLESSED DAY..PRAYING FOR EVERYONE ON THE EAST COAST………….I KNOW THE FIRST FAMILY WILL BE NICE AND TUCKED IN TODAY…BE SAFE EVERYONE!
Enjoy your time, Sue.
Not sure why they deleted the tweet, but here’s the article about Shonda being awarded the Producer’s Guild Award for Lifetime Achievement in Television
http://variety.com/2016/tv/awards/shonda-rhimes-pga-awards-norman-lear-1201685673/
Award ceremony is tomorrow night.
How can there be a sequel? The two died (each committed suicide) at the end of the play. I love all things Shonda, but there is no need to re-write a classic.
Remake, reboot. Dunno. Will be interesting to see what she does.
It was a hoax, they actually were in a coma and their bodies were hustled off to a secret location.
That what comes of doing your “thinking” with your dick, not your brain. Shame on all these shallow GOPers!
Judith!1!1!1! :lol:
I was thinking the same thing Judith, his brain woody was too much for Chris Wallace…. :) :) :)
Ha. You nailed it, Judith!
I was in the governor’s mansion about two months after that luncheon. Her security team had no respect for her at all and were tired of her abuse. Biggest priority for her was getting a tanning bed installed.
The hard work of governing she didn’t want to do - as usual only interested in self and how she could milk the system.
Well - big take from that - Kristol actually got a prediction right. Only one for 8 years.
Karma has a way of delivering Justice!
So the EPA administrator for the region including Flint Mi has resigned?
The mayor there is a democrat, the governor is a republican?
It seems the federal government has restrictions by law on what they can and can’t do without permission?
This republican governor is very coy about this whole thing. We knew they were going to blame the federal government sooner or later.
What I keep positing, if the federal government knows that if they make a mistake they will be put on cable news on a loop, with congressional hearings. Why aren’t they more careful about how they approach things?
I know I would be.
The democratic mayor was just recently elected.
The Mayor prior was too a Dem. He was on CNN claiming that he was hoodwinked into this with bad information. He is partially right. He selected to ignore his Citizens, he drank a glass of the water, then declared all was well…thereby siding with Synder stooges.
Snowzilla! :-D
That’s the only act congress has passed recently! Sledding @ Capitol. Better than naming post offices, I guess. Glad kids are able to enjoy this!
welcome to our world, paul. :)
It took him long enough to arrive!!!!
yup, I could never forgive him over aca fight.
He’s been there through all of PBO’s second term, and one of PBO’s best champions. But he certainly forgets that he was one of the unreasonable jackasses he now describes as Bernie supporters.
Pisses me of, 57. I appreciate that he’s doing right, now. But WTF all those other years wasted.
Bill Press need to read Krugman’s article while he is pimping his new book “Buyers Remorse” about PBO not going far enough on the progressive agenda.
Eff him & his book sales. They’re going to realize soon enough that their books don’t sell, and neither do they. The End.
Boy, has he changed his tune
He is a Clintonista! But I am glad stopped being naive about how the political system works.
Hi Nath, not sure if you saw a message I left for you many threads ago. Anyway, send Chips an email, would you?
“And the question Sanders supporters should ask is, When has their theory of change ever worked?”
Most of them are just clueless, 57 - I’ll put it down to so many of them not being long out of diapers. They haven’t a notion how damn hard progress is. Take this one:
I weep.
Which is why watching a grown man act as if he’s 19 years old, is so depressing. As we discussed earlier, Krugman had the good sense to look at reality and actually change his mind and outlook. WTF is the matter with Bernie?
The stupidity is overwhelming, Chips. I was at a meeting with a bunch of people that think like this and I wondered how they could go through life-most were senior citizens-and know so little. They haven’t any idea of how things get done at the federal level and the obligations a president has. Nor do any of them acknowledge that there’s only so much a President can do with a Congress determined to obstruct him. What PBO has accomplished with the Congress he has is nothing short of miraculous. But he did not give them EVERYTHING they wanted when they wanted it, so he failed.
“Remember, too, that the institutions F.D.R. created were add-ons, not replacements: Social Security didn’t replace private pensions, unlike the Sanders proposal to replace private health insurance with single-payer. Oh, and Social Security originally covered only half the work force, and as a result largely excluded African-Americans.”
FDR and Lyndon Johnson had MAJORITY Democratic Congresses for their entire terms in office!!! They had nothing like the obstructionist majorities that PBO has to deal with. And people during he thirties and forties actually wanted the US government to succeed. Even so, if it hadn’t been for Eleanor egging him on, FDR would never have been half the president he was.
Good realistic article Chips. Thanks for posting.
Great tweet, Chips. The Bernie utopia illusion needs to go down in flames. The only progressive in the room is President Obama.
LOL!
you have to give credit to rethugs. they are very good at driving & perpetrating completely fraudulent narratives totally burying their ineptitude, corruption and sleaze.
Good and Drunk guy with a gun walks into a theatre walks out a bad guy but remorseful for accidentally almost killing innocent movie goer to watch bengazi perinoid conspiracy film probably for free. Thank God ACA covers this.
Bingo!
Good Afternoon TODVille!
Maybe this RW nut job was upset because this movie fell to take down HRC.
Way past time that the movie makers, owners, stars & all associated industries came out against guns. There must be thousands who now simply wait for the DVD
LOLz!!
http://www.zergnet.com/news/837887/the-stunning-transformation-of-the-obama-sisters
Poised, beautiful young ladies.
How many votes has he won since making the statement?
Still trying to decide if he’s pulling the biggest troll ever…
In the meantime, he’s sure drawing a bunch of GOP cockroaches out into the light.
I think he’s both ignorant and willing to do whatever will bring him the most attention. And his cult don’t care one whit.
If a democrat did this, MSM would be on this 24/7.
SNL tried to push that meme in one of its skits about PBO right after he as elected. It was disrespectful and a lie so i stopped watching.
Afternoon everyone!
To all of our east coast peeps: Please stay safe and warm. Sending positive thoughts and prayers your way!
“My problem with Sen. Bernie Sanders and his outreach to African Americans can be summed up in two words: Cornel West” - WORD!!
I just hope that this time Cornel West gets his inauguration tickets up front before he does any campaigning for Bernie Sanders. And please, Mr. West, don’t fall for the old “its in the mail” line.
:) Team Obama told him those tickets will nevah be in the mail.
Especially when Cornel West refers to the President with the *n* word. Cornel is a contemptible hater and Bernie is a doofus politician for putting him in that position. The reason they are bros is they are both marxists and believe in the mythic “revolution”.
Wow, is this happening to Steph Miller too? I know she is PBO and now a HRC fan. Thom Hartman is a Bernie fan and was on her show telling folks to chill.
She has him on usually when he has a book to sell.
I don’t have an opportunity to listen to Thom very much anymore, but I caught about a minute of his show last week. As he launched into his “THE WORLD ECONOMY IS GOING TO CRASH THIS YEAR! tirade that I’ve heard from him for the last decade.
Click. I particularly loathe truly intelligent people who believe stupid shit.
I know 57&F, he’s been saying that since April 2008, telling people to buy Gold which has gone from $2k an ounce to $1K an ounce.
Zero patience with him.
What little respect I had for Bernie Sanders left a long time ago when he stated that “When African Americans learn more about me they will vote for me.” No, Bernie, we’ve always known about you, its just that we find you lacking, delusional, and uninspiring.
Preach Don.
Holy Sh#te how could that be city emblem all these years.
I doubt that the storie was handed down correctly.
GA TODville.
Thank you, President Obama for acknowledging the importance of Roe v Wade, which I was grateful for as a 19-year-old female.
Now that I am older and wiser, and see how twisted RWNJs are, I am more grateful than ever for Roe v. Wade.
Case in point…
LAUGH BREAK
:-D
Brilliant!!!!
Like Krugman, Capehart conveniently forgets the nitpicking he did of POTUS. But if history of PBO’s legacy is starting to be written now, I welcome thinking Democrats who have become champions of PBO and see his legacy as our path to the future:
“Clinton’s ad is the exact opposite of the Sanders offering. His ad is almost as white as the Oscars. Her commercial could be described as “a gorgeous mosaic,” as former New York mayor David Dinkins liked to call the Big Apple. Not only is it chock full of people of color, the ad has all kinds of people. A same-sex male couple kisses. A disabled woman wheels up to the camera. A Muslim woman in a hijab. Sanders says nothing. Clinton makes her case for being president.”
Just watched both. Honestly, got a few chills at the end of Hillary’s. Good ad!
What’s the name of the Ad, where can I find it?
The Capehart post has links to both ads.
Thanks!
I loved HRC’s ad. i thought Bernie’s ad looked like something from the 1950s and the lack of verbal content reflects his lack of experience to be president. His ad makes the case against his nomination
I’m shocked that Sanders is this tone deaf.
He sees only economic issues. Don, I am totally astounded at the lack of depth in Bernie Sanders. He is tone deaf, he is blind - and if he doesn’t see things through his narrow prism, then he doesn’t care and sends out his minions to insult the rest of us who do care. Sanders supporters make many of the PUMA’s look absolutely tame.
And seriously, Hillary seems genuine in her embrace of PBO’s presidency. I know I’m searching for ways to be comfortable with her, but she’s looking sincere to me.
And Sanders could ruin the history of this nation. Let’s be clear - Ralph Nader did. We would not have had Bush as POTUS. We would not have Alito, Roberts. We would not have invaded Iraq. We would not have crashed the economy and turned this country into a bunch of RWNJ’s. America would be a different place if Nader had not been in the race. The country is in exponentially worse shape now and the future is terrifying, & Bernie and his supporters are singing the same Nader tune.
This! Perfectly said and I echo.
Sanders is first and foremost a Marxist. His whole world view is about economic class struggle with the wealthy being evil. I read one of his speeches a few months ago and he admonished his supporters of even talking about race, rather they should only talk about class. He is a product of the New York radical Marxist culture of the 50s and 60s, hangs out with old communist party members, etc.
57, I am totally afraid of waking up to a President Cruz or President Trump. Both are horrible human beings, but democrats have a tendency to stay at home if they don’t get what they want. I can totally see this happening with the Sanders crowd since they are mostly young. I am sorry that the radio host was demonized by Sanders’ supporters. PBO attracted a lot of young voters but he ran a kinder campaign. BS comes across as being very angry. HRC was able to persuade her followers to support PBO but I don’t see that happening if Sanders is the nominee. I hope that I am wrong.
Okay, got all my “wintery” tasks done- you know stuff I should’ve done BEFORE winter & blizzards & such ;) Bring it on #Snowzilla ! Snow has been coming down steady for about an hour or so here in Baltimore… weather folks got the timing right. The winds are what concern me.. but I think our hatches are fairly well battened - we’ll find out when it starts to blow later tonight. Hopefully power stays on for everyone.
Winds concern me, too Sheri. Our snow starts late tonight and goes through tomorrow, according to the weather service. But the winds are expected to be high and that’s what brings down electrical lines, causes accidents and turns ordinary outdoor items into missiles.
Yep the winds can be very damaging. Take care Jackie, stay warm and safe :)
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/01/22/picture-of-the-day-6/