“Your Medicare benefits have been reduced by Congress due to increases in your Deductibles and ‘Part A’ Co-Insurance payment. Now, Medicare pays less of your health care cost and you are responsible for the unpaid balance.”
That’s the beginning of the official looking mailer TPM Reader Donna Price, 66, of Battle Ground, Washington received in the mail yesterday.
Find out who’s behind this latest effort to bamboozle the nation’s seniors.
A friend posted a photo of this sculpture on Facebook this morning. The installation is by Chen Wen Ling and is part of his solo exhibit, “Emergency Exit,” at the Joy Gallery in Beijing (click on photo for larger version):
Ooo boy. You know it’s going to be good when one campaign has some big website meltdown and accuses the other campaign of website sabotage. Today it’s incumbent Texas Gov. Rick Perry accusing his political opponents (he doesn’t say Kay Bailey Hutchison directly, but certainly seems to be implying it) of being responsible for making his website crash during a live video webcast.
The eventual denouement is almost always a few weeks later when the police find it was some server configuration error or simple overload. It happened memorably and humiliatingly to Joe Lieberman back in 2006. Though he’s still in the senate, so I guess he had the last laugh.
A new Newsmax column advocates a military coup to unseat Obama or usher in a period of “shared responsibility” between military government and a ceremonial Obama presidency. “A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.”
The author, John L. Perry, claims not to be ‘advocating’, only describing what he says is already being considered and is the best option available. But give it a read and you be the judge.
And just so we’re totally clear, no, I’m not expecting any military coups. This is just one more nugget to add to the backdrop list of incitement now coming from the right.
The son of the census worker found dead in Kentucky: “My dad was a good man. No person on this planet is going to fight cancer like he did, then turn around and kill himself a year or so later.”
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will unveil a draft of its climate-change bill today. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
It seems that article advocating a military coup against President Obama was too much even for Newsmax. The article appears to have been taken down this morning. We’ll be following up on this shortly.