Perhaps it had to fall to Noam Chomsky of all people to deliver the ultimate smackdown to 9/11 Truthers.
“There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics. But it doesn’t work like that … There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.”
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Not only did the Mayor of Hampton get clipped for dealing Oxycodone, he’s also got a lengthy rap sheet.
Florida Sheriff says “this isn’t Toronto” as he arrests Mayor for dealing oxycodone.
For years, Obamacare supporters weathered at best tepid support for the President’s reform in the expectation that once people experienced the actual law, rather than the right-wing fever dream, opinions would change. Then they were hit with the wholly unexpected surprise of a botched website roll out that set the whole public opinion war back on its heels and then a wave of cancellations that were reported in a misleading way (and only affected a tiny portion of the population) but nevertheless further soured public opinion.
But for all that, here’s why I think the generally cataclysmic press is overblown and why the law will be a success.
I told you intra-Republican Obamacare McCarthyism was the IT-thing of 2014. Now Mitch McConnell’s primary-bot Matt Bevin is accusing McConnell of secretly working to save Obamacare.
You don’t have to be fully out as an Obamacare supporter any more. Some youthful confusion about Obamacare, just being Obamacare-curious, it’s all under close, pressing scrutiny.
If there’s one article you want to read today about Obamacare, it’s this one. It’s basic polling information about the public’s current thinking on the law, which shows once again that the general public is seriously out of touch with the DC consensus. 54% of voters are confident the problems with the law will be worked out. And while 58% currently disapprove of the law, 14% of those disapprove because it’s not liberal enough. So it’s not at all the case that a sizable majority want to go back to the bad old system. Those folks are clearly in the minority.
It’s fair to say that you can’t just credit single-payer and public option advocates as de facto Obamacare supporters. Indeed, a subset of this group is among the most vitriolic opponents because they see Obamacare as a cop-out compared to the real solution which is Single Payer. But to resurrect some archaic terminology it’s probably fair to say they are objectively pro-Obamacare (yes, I’m being a little cheeky) when you look through the prism of support for going back to the old system. These folks are never going to support going back.
See the numbers here.
Like every other poll, the new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows President Obama is at the lowest popularity point of his presidency. But the public supports his Iran deal by a 2-1 margin. The American public simply has zero appetite for more military adventurism or even well-thought-out entanglements in Middle East. None.
We get it. Republicans don’t like the Affordable Care Act, aka ‘Obamacare’. But over the last few days I’ve noticed a new trend, or at least the frequency of it seems to be increasing. Let’s call it Obamacare McCarthyism, a new intra-Republican political cudgel cued up for the 2014 political season, in which different anti-Obamacare Republicans attack each other for either being crypto-supporters of Obamacare, being Obamacare-curious or even just having earlier periods of Obamacare confusion.
Jeremy Gordon Grinnell, a professor of systematic theology at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, has resigned as a pastor and been placed on leave from his professorship after being arrested on November 8th for being a ‘peeping tom’, or as they call it under Michigan law, “surveilling an unclothed person.”