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X Stryker is also the proprietor of the currently-dormant poll analysis blog Election Inspection.
Mike Castle: Gutless Hypocrite
Mike Castle, circa 2004:
I supported the Medicare Prescription Drug bill because it was a historic opportunity, since the inception of the program in 1965, to add a pharmaceutical discount benefit to the program. While I realize the law is not perfect, it is certainly a step in the right direction, as the costs of prescription [...]
My favorite songs of the decade
I’m not going to throw the word “best” around – when Rolling Stone declares that Radiohead’s electrosomnolent “Kid A” to be the best album of the decade, it’s time to retire the idea of telling people your favorite things are objectively better than things that you don’t like. The point of this list is that [...]
25Dec2009 | xstryker | 8 comments | Continued
A Prairie Hate Companion
Apparently, NPR’s Garrison Keillor is on Bill O’Reilly’s side regarding the War On Christmas. OK, weird, but that’s not the part that bothers me. Check out this little excerpt from his screed in Wednesday’s Baltimore Sun, whereupon he’s quite angry about a somewhat secularized version of “Silent Night” sung at a Unitarian church in Cambridge, [...]
18Dec2009 | xstryker | 31 comments | Continued
Conservative Senators Love Mike Castle
Anyone who thinks Mike Castle would be some kind of moderate thorn in the side of the conservative GOP Senate minority leadership is fooling themselves.
Among those senators who reported giving to Castle in October were Thad Cochran (Miss.), whose Senate Victory Fund PAC gave $10,000; Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), whose OrrinPAC donated $5,000; Pat Roberts [...]
Neoconservatives rail against Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki
Hah, just kidding. Neocons don’t even know where Eritrea is.
Afewerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for “three or four decades” or longer because they “polarize society.” All forms of media are controlled by the government. At least 10 local journalists remain in prison since their arrests in 2001.
(Link: Parade)
Remember, the Neocon [...]
The Castle Amendment – Bend Over!
Here is the amendment Mike Castle added to the GOP “Die Quickly” Health Insurance Bill.
‘‘In applying subparagraph (B), a group health plan
(or a health insurance issuer with respect to health
insurance coverage) may vary premiums and cost
sharing by up to 50 percent of the value of the benefits under the plan (or coverage) [...]
Castle to Uninsured: Die Quickly (and forces women to buy abortion insurance separately)
Mike Castle voted to prevent private insurers from covering abortions if they receive public subsidies. Under the Stupid Stupak Amendment, women would have to buy abortion “riders” from their insurers separately. Since many women are insured through their husband’s employer (especially those who choose to be stay-at-home mothers, and let’s not forget college students insured [...]
8Nov2009 | xstryker | 62 comments | Continued
Understanding the Election
1. GOP picks up VA-Gov – Conservative Democrat loses to Conservative Republican. A Democrat cannot win Virginia by promising to block health care reform. A win for conservatives, but not much impact to progressives.
2. GOP picks up NJ-Gov – much more serious loss. It shows that the GOP can win in the Northeast by avoiding [...]
Carper Sells Out To Drug Companies
From a Booman Tribune post entitled, “For Shame, Tom Carper”, comes this gem (bold text added by me):
In any case, there are people who qualify for Medicaid because they have a low income. And there are people who qualify for Medicare because they are 65 years-old. Then there are people who qualify for both, and [...]
Eagles Open Thread
Post your predictions, thoughts, and reactions. Will Kevin Kolb make Jason Scott miss “No heart chump” McNabb? Will we see Jeff Garcia on the field? Will the brutal Eagles defence be able to contain Drew Brees, the best QB in football last year who threw 6 touchdowns last week?
20Sep2009 | xstryker | 22 comments | Continued
Glenn Beck’s biggest remaining adventiser: “Male Enhancement”
Glenn Beck’s special brand of frothing, crying, apocalyptic, “Obama is a racist!” hysteria has driven all of Beck’s larger advertisers away, thanks to an awareness campaign from ColorOfChange.org. So who’s left?
The jokes write themselves. Now we know why Beck viewers feel the need to brag about their powerful handguns.
The rest of the list? Well, there’s [...]
Tom Carper’s Office: Public Option is a Fall Back?
So what is Tom Carper’s position on Public Option Health Care? A friend of mine just called up Senator Carper’s office, and inquired whether Carper (who claims that he “doesn’t oppose” the public option, a weaselly double-negative) would support a public option plan that was “available on day one”. Why is this important? In the [...]
1Sep2009 | xstryker | 7 comments | Continued
Late Night Video: Awkward Rap
From the Elegant Too, a rap about awkward situations.
if you say, “how are you?”, i’ll say, “not much.”
Virginia Gov. race update – McDonnell too conservative for George Allen
A few more highlights from WaPo’s article on Bob McDonnell – apparently McDonnell is too much of a theocon for racist former Governor and Senator George “Macaca” Allen:
Republican friends who support McDonnell’s campaign for governor acknowledge parting ways with some of his more conservative views. Former governor and U.S. senator George Allen said he doesn’t [...]
GOP Gov nominee in Virginia opposed contraception
AG Bob McDonnell, the GOP’s nominee for the ‘09 Governor’s race in Virginia, is currently enjoying a modest lead in the polls; but what are Virginia voters going to make of this?
At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted [...]
Comment Rescue – Rhymes with Cialis
Here are the recent comments section from the blog of one of our frequent commenters, Rhymes With Right.
29Aug2009 | xstryker | 36 comments | Continued
Cattle Call – Delaware Senate Race
Who do you think should run for the open Senate seat in 2010? Democrats, Republicans, Independents – tell us your picks.
29Aug2009 | xstryker | 17 comments | Continued
The lie, and the liars
The lie: That any proposal currently before congress contains funding for “death panels” that kill patients against their will.
The truth: Your doctor can be reimbursed for helping you make a living will – in which you can declare “I insist that no one ever pull the plug on me for any reason whatsoever until I [...]
The GOP plot to kill senior citizens
How do you know what the wingnuts are plotting? Easy – anything they accuse others of doing. Remember when Jonah Goldberg, after years of “you’re either with us or you’re a terrorist sympathizer”, started talking about “Liberal Fascism”? Remember how the party that tried to force an extremist religious viewpoint on America started talking about how [...]
29Jul2009 | xstryker | 1 comment | Continued
Late Night Music Video: Throwing Muses – Firepile
This is one of my all time favorite songs.
your baby’s running faster,
count the times I left my clothes out,
count the tires one more time,
count the times I let the air out;
that firepile’s your home.
QOTD: Health Insurance Nightmares
Read this story of lost insurance and then answer the following: What would you do? I would try moving to England.
8Jul2009 | xstryker | 3 comments | Continued
Tell Tom Carper to Support the Public Option
We all know that Senator Carper has corporate health care lobbyists in his ear and corporate money filling his campaign coffers. But don’t any of you DARE give up this fight – every quitter provides an excuse for mass surrender. You’ve got to work for this – if we don’t fight like hell with our [...]
7Jul2009 | xstryker | 2 comments | Continued
David Anderson is crazy and I love it
David Anderson on Roe v. Wade:
The gates of hell were opened that day in 1973 and our values seem to be sucked down to the pit. Child abuse soared, families collapsed, murder soared, rape climbed, schools became war zones, and America suffered humiliation in Viet Nam and a disgraced Presidency. The once great manufacturing giant [...]
Sex, Hypocrisy, and Inquisition
The following “family values” Republicans voted to impeach (House) or remove (Senate) President Clinton.
Newt Gingrich
Henry Hyde
Mark Sanford
Bob Barr
Dan Burton
Helen Chenoweth
Bob Livingston
John Ensign
Vito Fossella
Jim Gibbons
Sue Myrick
Joe Scarborough
Bill Thomas
John McCain
Larry Craig
Rod Grams
Tim Hutchinson
They are all adulterers. Also voting for impeachment: Ken Calvert (BJ from a hooker in public), Mark Foley (sent sexually explicit messages to underage pages), Charles [...]
1Jul2009 | xstryker | 5 comments | Continued
Tell Tom Carper to Support the Public Option
We have a little over a month to apply pressure to Senator Carper to support public option health care.
(302) 573-6291
Put this number in your cell phone or your wallet or purse. Call it on your lunch break tomorrow. Ask his staff (or leave a message asking) if Senator Carper supports offering public option healthcare for [...]
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