Showing posts with label Sarah Palin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sarah Palin. Show all posts
Thursday, June 25, 2015
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| Republicans must accept the healthcare law. |
The Supreme Court ruled in the King v. Burwell case.
And it looks like the president's signature health care law stays put. The AP breaks the news and it looks like it's going to make Republicans and conservative agitators even more angrier.
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans.
The justices said in a 6-3 ruling that the subsidies that 8.7 million people currently receive to make insurance affordable do not depend on where they live, under the 2010 health care law.
The outcome is the second major victory for Obama in politically charged Supreme Court tests of his most significant domestic achievement.
Chief Justice John Roberts again voted with his liberal colleagues in support of the law. Roberts also was the key vote to uphold the law in 2012. Justice Anthony Kennedy, a dissenter in 2012, was part of the majority on Thursday.
"Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them," Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.
Nationally, 10.2 million people have signed up for health insurance under the Obama health overhaul. That includes the 8.7 million people who are receiving an average subsidy of $272 a month to help pay their insurance premiums.
Of those receiving subsidies, 6.4 million people were at risk of losing that aid because they live in states that did not set up their own health insurance exchanges.
The challenge devised by die-hard opponents of the law, often derided by critics as "Obamacare," relied on four words - established by the state - in the more than 900-page law.
The law's opponents argued that the vast majority of people who now get help paying for their insurance premiums are ineligible for their federal tax credits. That is because roughly three dozen states opted against creating their own health insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, and instead rely on the federal healthcare.gov to help people find coverage if they don't get insurance through their jobs or the government.
In the challengers' view, the phrase "established by the state" demonstrated that subsidies were to be available only available to people in states that set up their own exchanges. Those words cannot refer to exchanges established by the Health and Human Services Department, which oversees healthcare.gov, the opponents argued.
The administration, congressional Democrats and 22 states responded that it would make no sense to construct the law the way its opponents suggested. The idea behind the law's structure was to decrease the number of uninsured. The law prevents insurers from denying coverage because of "pre-existing" health conditions. It requires almost everyone to be insured and provides financial help to consumers who otherwise would spend too much of their paycheck on their premiums.
The point of the last piece, the subsidies, is to keep enough people in the pool of insured to avoid triggering a so-called death spiral of declining enrollment, a growing proportion of less healthy people and premium increases by insurers.
Several portions of the law indicate that consumers can claim tax credits no matter where they live. No member of Congress said that subsidies would be limited, and several states said in a separate brief to the court that they had no inkling they had to set up their own exchange for their residents to get tax credits.
The 2012 case took place in the midst of Obama's re-election campaign, when he touted the largest expansion of the social safety net since the advent of Medicare nearly a half-century earlier. But at the time, the benefits of the Affordable Care Act were mostly in the future. Many of its provisions had yet to take effect.
In 2015, the landscape has changed, although the partisan and ideological divisions remain for a law that passed Congress in 2010 with no Republican votes.
The Affordable Healthcare Act was passed. It's ruled constitutional. The Republicans have tried over 60 times to repeal the law despite the court telling them that everything in the law is correct.
Time for the Republicans and their allies to move forward. Take down the Confederate Flag. Pass comprehensive immigration reform. Pass reasonable gun control. Give gay couples the right the marry.
Let's move the country forward.
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| The former governor from Alaska got fired from the only network that gave her a pass on her utter ignorance. |
Once again Chief Roger fires the former Alaskan governor out of the cannon.
I guess she's not running for the clown car.
The former governor is not "HOT".
So now Mama Grizzly will go rogue again. She is now allowed to appear on the lamestream media outlets she has trashed in the past.
She is free to appear on that network to do analysis but don't expect a paycheck.
The former Alaskan governor rose to fame being introduced in Dayton, Ohio by failed presidential candidate John McCain.
The McCain Campaign got trounced by Obama-Biden Campaign.
Since then she was dubbed the "Tea Party Queen". She had some impact on the 2010 U.S. Midterms.
Her influence helped Republicans win the House of Representatives and state governorships.
Every time she opens her damn mouth, people cringe. Nowadays people want her to cram it.
Since politicians just can't leave well enough alone, and evidently have nothing else to do, they’ve decided to... http://t.co/VACLnuhS5v— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) June 24, 2015Once again the “Great One” Mark Levin is spot on for calling out the shameful way the House GOP leadership is... http://t.co/IAqCOLT5a4— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) June 23, 2015Its funny when clueless @SarahPalinUSA get fired by #fauxnews. Now she has more time to look at Russia from her house. #SarahPalin #maddow— Dave (@Merlyn43) June 25, 2015Sarah Palin fired from Fox. Thanks Obama! https://t.co/mOlY7JF7PZ— TheSeminoleDemocrat (@TheSemDem) June 24, 2015I am guessing she not willing to tell her 1.15 million fans that she's no longer a hot commodity.
There's news that revealed the oldest daughter Bristol is pregnant with her second child. Bristol isn't married and has a son with her former boyfriend Levi Johnston. Bristol broke off a wedding after the fiance revealed he still is legally married.
Video of her last appearance.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
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| The U.S. Treasury announced a new design for the $10 bill. The bill will feature a woman. |
Who will get blamed now that the conservatives found out this bit of historical news?
A. Barack Obama
B. Hillary Clinton
C. Michelle Obama
D. Women's Rights Groups
E. Liberals
F. All of These Above
Guess who's on the $10 American bill?
Okay, I give you a hint..... He was the first U.S. Treasury Secretary and a statesman. He was assassinated in a duel. He was a founding member of this great country.
Give up.
Okay, his name is Alexander Hamilton. He's not a president. He and founding father Benjamin Franklin are on American currency. Hamilton and Franklin are not presidents. But they are honored respectively for their achievements.
Benjamin Franklin is on the $100 American bill. That is the highest domination to exist. There are rare higher domination bills. But the United States mandates that no amount shall exceed $100.
Alexander Hamilton is on the $10 American bill.
When the year 2020 comes, the U.S. Treasury will be kicking him to the curb.
It was announced by current U.S. Secretary Jack Lew that a woman would be featured on a redesigned ten-dollar bill by 2020. The Department of Treasury is seeking the public's input on whom should appear on the new bill.
So who's gonna get the prize?
My top choices for nomination.
1. Michelle Obama (living)
2. Nancy Reagan (living)
3. Hillary Clinton (living)
4. Harriet Tubman
5. Susan B. Anthony
6. Jacqueline Kennedy
7. Betsy Ross
8. Martha Washington
9. Mary Todd Lincoln
10. Shirley Chisolm
11. Claudia Alta Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson
12. Coretta Scott King
13. Rosa Parks
14. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
15. Sacagawea
So your thoughts on this?
Send it to me and S. Baldwin.
Friday, May 22, 2015
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| The Duggars. The family admits that Josh molested children. |
Josh Duggar is a conservative activist and reality television star. He was fired out the cannon at the Christian extremist Family Research Council after he admits to molesting young girls including his siblings.
This is the oldest son of the family.
TLC is concerned that 19 Kids and Counting is in limbo. The show stars Duggar's father Jim Bob and his mother Michelle. They are the proud parents of 19 children and six grandchildren.
TLC films their daily routines in rural Arkansas. They are a ratings grabber. Among the conservatives who believe that the junk food media is too liberal and giving Christians a bad name, the Duggars were an escape from it.
Conservatives love them Duggars. Matter of fact, if you got an endorsement from the Duggars, you're getting some major star backing.
The Duggar family have a lot of support from conservative activists. Scott Walker, Stallmigo Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Huckabee and others were pictured with the Duggars.
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| Josh and wife Anna are the parents of four children. |
Nope.
Josh admits when he was young, he admits that as a teenager (yeah, right) was touching his girls inappropriately.
There's an uproar about it. Some are calling for TLC to end the ties with the Duggars.
Josh apologized for his sins and vows to do right!
Yeah, right.
The Washington Post added that his apology came through the social media.
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| Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. |
“We spoke with the authorities where I confessed my wrongdoing, and my parents arranged for me and those affected by my actions to receive counseling. I understood that if I continued down this wrong road that I would end up ruining my life.”
Hours before Duggar’s statement, In Touch Weekly had published a partially redacted police report from the Springdale Police Department in Arkansas that, the tabloid said, contained details of the allegations against Duggar. The report redacted the name of the suspect and the alleged victims, all juveniles, but listed Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar as relatives. The incidents occurred in 2002 and 2003.
I mean again, we're human beings first. Everything else last. If things were normal in America, no one would care about what goes on in someone's personal life. Unfortunately, when you're dogged by the cameras, everything you do is the third rail. The Duggars are no exception.
The Duggars have spoken anti-gay rhetoric. The Duggars have been known to be racial extremists. They are known Christian extremists. They promote themselves as this large normal family. But what goes on when the cameras are off and TLC left the home, what happens next?
Conservatives are quick to label Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown "thugs".
Will they call Josh Duggar a pedophile?
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