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fecking hell. Choosing Obama in such a survey should instantly disqualify you from voting in the future.
That would be hilarious if it wasnt so tragic
That part about the Great Depression was a socialist myth is laughable.
If I understand correctly, the Louisiana poll mentioned above was a telephonic poll of some 274 people. I'm not suggesting that the poll is completely off-base (I retain the Northern opinion about the attitudes and intelligence of certain folks from the Confederacy), but the percentages mentioned probably aren't as mathematically certain as the National Memo would want you to believe.
bearing in mind that African Americans make up a large portion of the Louisiana population I'd be surprised, unless they only spoke to po' white folks.
One has to question how many surveyed even understood the question.
To be fair though, ask a stupid question and you're likely to get stupid answers.
Prejudice is stronger than facts, but we already knew that.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/poll-louisianans-blame-barack-obama-for-katrina-response/
Poll: Louisianans Blame Barack Obama For Katrina Response
According to a startling new Public Policy Polling survey, Louisiana Republicans are not sure who was at fault for the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — but a significant portion blame… President Barack Obama.
When asked “Who do you think was more responsible for the poor response to Hurricane Katrina: George W. Bush or Barack Obama?”, 29 percent answered Obama, 28 percent answered Bush, and 44 percent answered “Not sure.”
If this answer strikes you as odd, perhaps it’s because Obama was nowhere near the White House at the time, and had in fact only been in the Senate for less than a year when the storm struck the Gulf Coast in August, 2005.
Most of the country presumably remembers how the Bush administration’s inept handling of the storm’s aftermath came to define its rocky second term. While tens of thousands in New Orleans languished without aid for days after the storm, Bush infamously praised then-FEMA director Michael Brown as having done a “heckuva job” (ironically, Brown resurfaced in 2012 to criticize President Obama for responding to Hurricane Sandy too quickly). The bungled response helped push President Bush’s approval ratings into the low 30s, a nosedive from which he would never fully recover during his presidency.
Then again, maybe it’s not so surprising that a state in which taxpayer-funded schools taught lessons such as “the Great Depression was a socialist myth” doesn’t have the strongest institutional memory.
This is the second startling poll result from Public Policy Polling in the past month; earlier in August, a PPP poll found that celebrity chef Paula Deen is more popular than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. among Georgia Republicans.
In a less surprising result, PPP’s Louisiana poll also found that Governor Bobby Jindal’s downward slide in the polls shows no sign of stopping. Just 28 percent approve of his job performance, compared to 59 percent who disappove — making Jindal the least popular Republican governor in the United States.
Correction: This story originally labeled Jindal as the “least popular governor in the United States.” With a 25 percent approval rating, Governor Pat Quinn (D-IL) is less popular according to PPP’s polling.
The sad thing about this story is that these people actually vote.
..and are allowed to breed.
Erin Burnett aired a great segment on the tax-exempt groups cheating the IRS law. It's also surely a coincidence (sarcasm) that 85% of the $256 million donations in 2012 went to conservative groups.
Critics: Tax-exempt groups cheat system (Tried to watch on CNN's website but the video would not play at the office)
Critics: Tax-exempt groups cheat system (Tried to watch on CNN's website but the video would not play at the office)
Newt Gingrigh, a vile human being.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/09/watch-newt-gingrichs-cnn-pitch-reel/195774
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/09/watch-newt-gingrichs-cnn-pitch-reel/195774
So Crossfire returns to CNN? That network is just a parody of itself these days
Doesn't really belong in the Trayvon thread, but I see Zimmermann's been taken into custody for threatening his wife and father in law with a gun
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/george-...es-he-threatened-her-florida-police-1.1446823
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/george-...es-he-threatened-her-florida-police-1.1446823
of course he may have just been standing his ground.
I'm awaiting all his supporters from Fox and rightwing radio to defend him... hearing nothing so far. Perhaps if his wife and/or father-in-law were black...
Yeah Zimmerman is going to come to a sticky end very soon.
Fox commentators claim Saint Reagan would never have stood for chemical weapons to be used by foreign nations. Revisionist history with their Saint Reagan. He's a demi-god to them at Fox and conservatives around the nation.
What's that... ahh... that's right (Iraq, 1980s)... Colbert gives a historical lesson with a hint of comedy of course.
http://liberal-agenda.com/colbert-hits-the-right-for-retroactive-sainthood-on-reagan/ (video inside, Colbert hits out at Fox around the 3:00 mark)
On The Colbert Report, after discussing Syria, Stephen Colbert hit the history revisionists like Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Bill O’Reilly for their spin on how the anointed one, St. Ronnie would have handled things there were he alive today.
Colbert says, “That’s why we know, we conservatives know that the Gipper would never stand for the use of chemical weapons… today. Of course in the 1980′s his administration ignored chemical attacks by Saddam Hussein that killed thousands of Iranian troops and looked the other way when Saddam gassed his own Kurdish citizens. But remember, that’s the old Reagan. We’re talking about hypothetical, contemporary, super Reagan, the one… the man who never raised taxes, or tripled the deficit and who knocked down the Berlin Wall using his nut sack as a wrecking ball!”
What's that... ahh... that's right (Iraq, 1980s)... Colbert gives a historical lesson with a hint of comedy of course.
http://liberal-agenda.com/colbert-hits-the-right-for-retroactive-sainthood-on-reagan/ (video inside, Colbert hits out at Fox around the 3:00 mark)
On The Colbert Report, after discussing Syria, Stephen Colbert hit the history revisionists like Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Bill O’Reilly for their spin on how the anointed one, St. Ronnie would have handled things there were he alive today.
Colbert says, “That’s why we know, we conservatives know that the Gipper would never stand for the use of chemical weapons… today. Of course in the 1980′s his administration ignored chemical attacks by Saddam Hussein that killed thousands of Iranian troops and looked the other way when Saddam gassed his own Kurdish citizens. But remember, that’s the old Reagan. We’re talking about hypothetical, contemporary, super Reagan, the one… the man who never raised taxes, or tripled the deficit and who knocked down the Berlin Wall using his nut sack as a wrecking ball!”
...and the same guy who cut and ran from Lebanon.
classic revisionists.how can they keep a straight face when spewing that crap?
Looking at Alan Grayson vids. Man that dude is awesome beyond words
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/24/ted-cruz-obamacare-speech_n_3983954.html
Ted Cruz is beginning to grow on me.... really rooting for him to be the GOP nominee.....
Ted Cruz is beginning to grow on me.... really rooting for him to be the GOP nominee.....
he must be troubling Rand Paul. He is more charismatic. Really plays to the base. The pubahs will try and derail him of course. But their choice did not do so well last time out.
He looks like the lovechild of Roy Rogers and Joseph McCarthy.
indeed may explain his popularity.
may explain his popularity."All across this country, Americans are suffering because of Obamacare."
Oh. Okay.
By the way, what's up with the tradition of always referring to themselves as Americans? I mean... not, "people are suffering", but always "Americans are suffering". Is it only in Norway we don't do that, or is that an American thing?
Oh. Okay.
By the way, what's up with the tradition of always referring to themselves as Americans? I mean... not, "people are suffering", but always "Americans are suffering". Is it only in Norway we don't do that, or is that an American thing?
Americans matter more than people.
Cruz finally earning all the money the Insurance companies have given him.
...but the Insurance companies make a lot more money without it being implemented.
There is a need to differentiate between American citizens and the illegal immigrant workers they hire for gardening, house cleaning and the like.
I did over simplify, that is why I deleted it. They of course like the fact that they will be able to sell more polices, and in some cases at a higher cost to the consumer. The down side is that they will have to provide more coverage, but I doubt that they will just eat all those costs themselves and not at all try to pass them on to the consumer. While not their dream version of universal health coverage, it is not something that will put them out of business.
the phrase is 'slippery slope' I believe the new law states that 85% of premiums has to be spent on health care. If that is not done, a rebate check has to be given to the consumer. This will ultimately lead to single payer. My prediction. 4 years at most.
80% on individual, 85% on small groups I think. But if you notice health insurance stocks are not crashing, they are not rising as much as say those of hospitals or testing labs. Overall, it is still viewed by most investing analysis that health insurance companies will continue to be profitable and very good investments.
What the health insurance companies really want in their "prefect world" is a version of Obama care that gives them more customers but does away with some of the requirements to expand the coverage provided. Overall they will still be profitable, they just want to try and make it even more profitable.
sure. they will try and maximise profits. 30 million more people coming into the market is always going to be more revenue. But Obamacare is miles better than what we have now. It will only improve. Ultimately it will merge with Medicare. In the end the majority who are democrats will have their way. It is even an issue now because of the GOP nonsense in the house. Once Obamacare is implemented, people will see the benefits and demand more.
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