The Secret Service is buying and outfitting two super-secure buses for use by the President and his GOP challenger next year, TPM has learned. That’s a departure from past practice, when the campaigns would lease buses and have the Secret Service retrofit them. Ryan Reilly reports.
Appropriate to our times, Arizona is on the brink of becoming the second state to have its own official state gun. Theirs? The Colt Revolver. Which sounds kind of right for the history of the state, at least the Hollywood version, with the tumbleweed towns with plenty of bad guys and one lawman to stand them all down.
So here’s my question: what do you figure your state’s official state gun would be? What does Delaware get? And whose state culture gets you just the old style sawed off shotgun? Tommy Gun?
How lethal is the Ryan budget plan? 80% of voters oppose Medicare Phase-Out and 70% of Tea Partiers oppose it.
In fact, the poll in question doesn’t even refer to full Medicare Phase-Out. It only refers to “cuts”.
Some public employee pension and health care systems are on the chopping block because they’ve been run poorly or need more funds. But the agency that oversees state employees’ health insurance has been run so ably that it’s running a half a billion dollar surplus. And that’s got Gov. Jindal itching to sell it off to a private contractor.
Rep. Ryan (R-WI) gets booed at a townhall meeting back in the district over opposition to raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
On a related question, I’m extremely interested in hearing what people on saying about Medicare Phase-Out in townhall meetings across the USA. Please let me know what you hear in the local press.
Right-wingers raise the alarm about “homosexual indoctrination” in public schools.
It looks like Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT) may be one of the weak links in the House Republican caucus’s plan to phase out Medicare and replace it with vouchers for seniors to buy private insurance. West Virginia’s Dave McKinley is a question mark too. But Rehberg shouldn’t surprise us. He was one of the weak links and early jumpers when President Bush tried to phase out Social Security in 2005 too.
Now he’s saying that “there are still too many unanswered questions with regard to Medicare reform, and I simply won’t support any plan until I know for a fact that Montana’s seniors will be protected.” Read More
We’re Abolishing Medicare
Get Used to It!
Biden: GOP now “totally out of the closet” with plan to abolish Medicare.