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.
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.
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”.
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?
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.
There’s always a bit of a problem with self-appointed media fact-checkers: what if they come to a topic with very little knowledge of the subject and are easily duped? Or what if they assume on its face that every dramatic sounding claim must be false just because, well, it sounds a little dramatic and people should agree to talk about things reasonably?
That’s what we see to have today with Politifact’s take on a Democratic party ad which claims that the Republican budget plan “ends Medicare.” Politifact’s argument is that since there will still be a program and that it will be labeled “Medicare” that, heck, it can’t have ended since it’s still there. That may sound too credulous. But it’s about that bad. If my memory serves — and perhaps someone can find the link for me — Politifact was similarly bamboozled by President Bush’s efforts to partially phase out Social Security. Read More
I’m not sure what to say about this beside the fact that this is a short video of Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) playing Satisfaction on a Fender Telecaster while getting interviewed by Human Events and explaining his devotion to Silvio Berlusconi and his hope that the unfortunate underage prostitution scandal isn’t the end of him.
As far as I know the video was not produced by the producers of Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman. Video after the jump … Read More
Sen. Franken to Steve Jobs: I want answers on this iPhone tracking thing.