BEHAVE YOURSELVES: Breitbart Memorial LOLconservatives Thread

[dieblucasdie]

Is it a little insane to anyone else that the right-wing media's latched on to the whole Fast and Furious thing (which was boneheaded, don't get me wrong) as the great injustice that ought to bring down Obama's presidency, but when the most prominent newspaper in the country ran a long-form piece detailing how he personally maintains an extrajudicial secret robot kill list, the reaction was outrage that the administration must've leaked it to make him look good, and demands for investigations into leaks?

Like, this is how you know that the GOP has gone off-the-rails and bought into its own bullshit. Any effective opposition party should be all over that, even if it requires hypocrisy! Even if they don't mind killing Muslims with little or no reason, it's still an illegal power grab! It's exactly the sort of thing they should be feigning outrage over!

[dieblucasdie]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/opinion/the-college-graduate-as-collateral.html

Oh cool, I always thought indentured servitude never got its fair shake

[elpollodiablo]

It's not indentured servitude, it's a voluntary form of taxation! Except in this scenario you are paying taxes to hedge fund managers and venture capitalists.

[elpollodiablo]

Fucking U Chicago

[dieblucasdie]

It's not indentured servitude, it's a voluntary form of taxation! Except in this scenario you are paying taxes to hedge fund managers and venture capitalists.

Yeah, I like how he's all, "I have a free market solution!" then proposes using the IRS to collect venture capitalists' profits for them

[dieblucasdie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9vQt6IXXaM

Pretty sure the Church is just trolling me, personally, at this point

[elpollodiablo]

Man you Catholics must have much longer attention spans than I do.

[jebreject]

What's the can't-watch-youtube-at-work version of that?

[YojimboMonkey]

3 minute epic movie trailer type video cutting between a blacksmith hammering out words like "LIFE" and "FREEDOM" and a lady going to a voting booth, with interstitial text talking about how Catholics need to vote on the issues that REALLY matter, not jobs and shit like that. Though I really think they should have gone for epic movie trailer voice guy instead of the text.

Oh and a comments section that's basically instagodwinned

[Thermofusion]

1. video title sounds like next GRRM novel
2. polling place looks like grandma's living room
3. vote Republican or go to hell is a pretty effective message I guess

[jebreject]

well, we'll all get pie in the sky when we die anyway, so might as well vote for 'em

[Augo]

THAT'S A LIE!!!

[jebreject]

 

[cold before sunrise]

going to church doesn't make a person christian any more then walking into a shop makes you a mechanic.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Um. OK.

[elpollodiablo]

Animals never had a war, &c.

[FreddyKnuckles]

fuck that dude I seen watership down

[dieblucasdie]

[FreddyKnuckles]

all I know is that bunny beat the shit out that other bunny and I was like 6 and that was some hardcore goreshit.

[dieblucasdie]

That means, "eat shit, you false king," and is what that bunny says before beating the shit out of the other bunny

[Anne the Man]

I'm thinking of writing in a complaint about this 'article' on fat people. I mean

And while obesity is not just a female issue, the fact is that the Wellington CBD culprits are mostly female. A chap like me, being of a delicate and sensitive disposition as readers have doubtless discerned, must now when venturing out be balletically twinkle-toed for fear of being crushed to a pulp. It's like being back in the boxing ring of my youth as I dance and weave avoiding these moving mountains, for once in motion, like super-tankers, they cannot easily stop. Sooner or later someone will be killed.
...
But can you imagine a dumber government action than that now proposed in England, namely to criminalise mocking the obese, in line with racial and sexual discrimination laws? These human hippos are self made and ridicule may inspire them to unmake their degrading situation.

[elpollodiablo]

Crossposting this from FB because there were no takers and I'm curious to hear others' thoughts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/us/politics/some-states-reluctant-over-medicaid-expansion.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
Is there any way to get an idea of what the resistant states' outlays would be for all of the uninsured emergency care that people who would otherwise be on Medicaid are going to rack up during the time that the Feds are covering 100% of the cost of expanding the program? That is to say, are the GOP governors weighing the costs of providing care for hundreds of thousands of uninsured through emergency room visits vs. the long-term costs of meeting the 10% funding requirement for the Medicaid expansion by 2020, or is this just another obstructionist, "principled" stance?

[jebreject]

My feeling from Walker is that it's the latter, but that's just my gut reaction

[FreddyKnuckles]

Crossposting this from FB because there were no takers and I'm curious to hear others' thoughts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/us/politics/some-states-reluctant-over-medicaid-expansion.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
Is there any way to get an idea of what the resistant states' outlays would be for all of the uninsured emergency care that people who would otherwise be on Medicaid are going to rack up during the time that the Feds are covering 100% of the cost of expanding the program? That is to say, are the GOP governors weighing the costs of providing care for hundreds of thousands of uninsured through emergency room visits vs. the long-term costs of meeting the 10% funding requirement for the Medicaid expansion by 2020, or is this just another obstructionist, "principled" stance?

COLORADO - It's "full speed ahead" for health insurance expansion, reads a Denver Post article, which predicts the court's ruling will "speed insurance expansions to nearly all Coloradans, while opponents regroup for future fights, state officials and health experts said. The state will redouble efforts to prepare for 2014's growth in Medicaid enrollment, and a consumer 'exchange' where other individuals should find affordable, uniform benefits, proponents said."

    FLORIDA - Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., needs time to decide how he'll deal with the court's ruling, the Tampa Bay Times reports. However, it reads, if "the state decides to move forward, lawmakers already have placed a constitutional amendment on the ballot that would prohibit individuals or employers from being forced to obtain health insurance or from being penalized for not doing so. The ballot initiative, which needs 60 percent support to pass, is unlikely to have any real impact, however, because federal law supersedes state law. But it could bring the state and federal governments back together in a courtroom, a battle that Senate President Mike Haridopolos welcomes."

    IOWA- Republicans and Democrats in Iowa are trying to avoid having to call a special legislative session by finding a time and place to informally determine how to implement the newly upheld health care law, reports the Des Moines Register. "State Sen. Jack Hatch, D-Des Moines, said he and Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad's chief of staff Jeff Boeyink have talked about a summit with others interested in health care. It would hopefully take place in the next two to four weeks, organized by a neutral group such as a hospital, he said. The main topic: hash over details of a state health-insurance exchange."

    NEVADA - Facing a possible $60 million price tag from increased Medicaid enrollment over the next two years, Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval may opt out of the law's expanded Medicaid options, the Nevada Appeal reports: "Sandoval's office said the state Health and Human Services Department expects an additional 49,000 Nevadans to enroll in Medicaid as a result of the mandate to have insurance. Those are individuals not currently in the program even though eligible. Sandoval said that would cost the state about $60 million over the next biennium."

    NEW HAMPSHIRE - With regards to the Supreme Court's decision, "New Hampshire's congressional delegation is reacting largely along party lines," the Associated Press reports, "with Republicans vowing to amend the law and Democrats praising the decision." Democratic Gov. John Lynch said in a statement: "As a state, we have been preparing to implement the Affordable Care Act and will continue doing so in a way that best fits New Hampshire."

    NEW MEXICO - The Santa Fe New Mexican calls the state's post-health care ruling position "limbo," reasoning that "Medicaid has a major footprint in New Mexico. It covers one in four New Mexicans to the tune of just under $1 billion in state dollars, or 16 percent of the state budget. The federal government picks up most of New Mexico's Medicaid tab, which totals $3.8 billion... Gov. Susana Martinez's administration on Thursday was still digesting Thursday's ruling and couldn't say what it would decide to push for -- a full-scale expansion of Medicaid, as called for under the law, or something else."

    NORTH CAROLINA - Citing the Jan. 1 exchange deadline, the Charlotte Observer reports that North Carolina "risks losing control of the health insurance marketplace it has to establish under the federal law the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Thursday if it hesitates to authorize it much longer." Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's office "said only that the governor would review the ruling to determine how it might affect Medicaid, and that she had spoken to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius."

    OHIO - The Supreme Court's ruling gives Republican Gov. John Kasich "the choice of whether to open Ohio Medicaid to an additional 700,000 to 900,000 uninsured Ohioans," the Dayton Daily News reports, "but it is unclear if the state will go ahead with it. Ohio Medicaid, a state and federally funded health plan for disabled and low-income people, would see its enrollment balloon by as much as 40 percent -- 3.1 million enrollees, up from the current 2.2 million -- and costs would climb $5 billion a year, according to the governor's Office on Health Transformation."

    PENNSYLVANIA - Gov. Tom Corbett won't yet comment on whether Pennsylvania will choose to cover more people under Medicaid, but Senate Appropriations Chair Jake Corman expressed concern that "if the decision of whether to expand subsidized medical care for the poor is truly left to the states, then it becomes a budget issue, meaning lawmakers will have input," the Associated Press reports.

    VIRGINIA - Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell, another favorite among Romney-veepstakes speculators, wouldn't weigh in on the state's next move following the court's ruling, but instead "lashed out at Obama for imposing an 'unfunded mandate' on Virginia to the tune of $2.2 billion over a decade if the state grows its Medicaid base," the Virginia-Pilot reports.

    WISCONSIN - "We're going to wait," Gov. Scott Walker told Face the Nation about his plan for the health care law. "We have said all along that there was a legal step, there's a political step, and then after each of those steps were exhausted we will see what the future holds. But very clearly the court pointed out that the law is upheld constitutionally but it also pointed out very clearly this is a massive tax increase." The Wisconsin State Journal reports that implementing the law in Wisconsin "could insure 340,000 of the state's 526,000 uninsured residents, while business groups said the law would increase costs and health care providers debated some of its implications."

[dieblucasdie]

The conservative blogosphere's kvetching about "WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHN ROBERTS???!?!" is pretty hilarious. Do they not remember his nomination process? His opinion on the ACA case demonstrates exactly the sort of approach that the Bush Administration pitched to Senate Democrats.