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‘My way or the highway’ attitude is killing GOP — or maybe it’s rabies

‘My way or the highway’ attitudes are killing GOP | ABQJournal Online

Today (Tuesday, Oct. 1), my wife and I went to the Sandoval County Bureau of Elections office to change our voter registration affiliation from independent — our status since we first became eligible to vote more than a half-century ago — to Democrat.

We did so because the Republican Party has ceded all power to the most radical element within its ranks — a noisy, anarchic clique of political yahoos whose “my way or the highway” attitudes have reduced Congress to a state of impotency, as well as making considerable mischief in state and local governments. (Rio Rancho is a prime example of the latter.)

Hence, our new political affiliation. We are determined to be part of the effort to save the U.S. from feckless, irresponsible zealotry. Unless a viable alternative one day arises, we will maintain that affiliation, as we await the day when Republicans complete their party’s self-destruction.

It cannot come soon enough. It’s a sad end for a once-grand old party, but we see no hope for a turnabout.

Daniel Cobb

Rio Rancho

‘My way or the highway’ attitudes are killing GOP | ABQJournal Online

Fanatics should be checked for rabies | ABQJournal Online

Unbelievable. A small cabal has shut down the most powerful country in the world.

A handful of fanatics has forced a vote 44 times, spending about 100 million dollars to do so, to repeal a law that will save the lives of tens of thousands of Americans suffering from easily treated medical issues.

Has anyone checked these yoyos for rabies?

ADELE E. ZIMMERMANN

Embudo

Fanatics should be checked for rabies | ABQJournal Online

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“It is a revealing glimpse into how the world would look if Cruz’s conservatives ran it.” — Dana Milbank

I urge you to read this article for the details of what really matters to the Radical Wrong.

Dana Milbank:No room for the sick and poor on GOP lifeboat – Editorial – Ohio

On the second day of the shutdown, House Republicans continued what might be called the lifeboat strategy: deciding which government functions are worth saving.

In: veterans, the troops and tourist attractions.

Out: poor children, pregnant women and just about every government function that regulates business or requires people to pay taxes.

The lifeboat strategy was the brainchild of Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, the freshman who has become the de facto leader of congressional Republicans in the shutdown.

Dana Milbank:No room for the sick and poor on GOP lifeboat – Editorial – Ohio

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The Nullification Party by Andrew Sullivan

Hat tip to Rebecca Lasley.

The Nullification Party « The Dish

How does one party that has lost two presidential elections and a Supreme Court case – as well as two Senate elections  –   think it has the right to shut down the entire government and destroy the full faith and credit of the United States Treasury to get its way on universal healthcare now? I see no quid pro quo even. Just pure blackmail ….

I fear this nullification of the last two elections is a deliberate attempt to ensure that the American system of government as we have known it cannot work. It cannot, must not work, in the mindset of these radicals, because they simply do not accept the legitimacy of a President and Congress of the opposing party. The GOP does not regard the president as merely wrong – but as illegitimate. Not misguided – illegitimate. This is not about ending Obamacare as such (although that is a preliminary scalp); it is about nullifying this presidency, the way the GOP attempted to nullify the last Democratic presidency by impeachment. …

If we cave to their madness, we may unravel our system of government, something one might have thought conservatives would have opposed. Except these people are not conservatives. They’re vandals.

The Nullification Party « The Dish

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Critics miss the point of Affordable Care Act | ABQJournal Online

Quigley does it again. Brilliant. Medicare for all!

Critics miss the point of Affordable Care Act | ABQJournal Online

Winthrop Quigley / Journal Staff Writer | 10 hours ago

Wealthy opponents of the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – in the form of the Club for Growth have launched some absurd television commercials featuring Uncle Sam replacing the kindly family doctor to examine the most private part of a patient’s anatomy. The message is that the government wants to take over your health care.

There are many Americans who would love to see a real government takeover by eliminating the private, for-profit insurance industry and replacing it with that radical, socialistic, alien form of health care finance known as … Medicare.

As it happens, Obamacare has very little to do with health and everything to do with finance. It is an attempt to rescue the nation’s for-profit health-care financing system from itself.

The United States has a lot of experience with rescuing elements of capitalism from capitalism’s strange propensity to self-destruct. [keep reading]

Critics miss the point of Affordable Care Act | ABQJournal Online

As for that leering Dr Sam, he could be the symbol of the fight against reproductive rights. These fools have no shame at all.

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Data deniers and their fears

A friend expressed an interest in data regarding the Affordable Care Act. My first thought is that data means nothing to the deniers of evolution or the deniers of climate change. They are simply data deniers.

Another example comes to mind: gun violence. In this case, those who profit from gun violence have worked steadfastly to prevent the accumulation of data.

The ACA contains detailed mechanisms for the accumulation of and transparency of data. We will have real data on what works and what doesn’t, data we can use to improve the ACA.

The anarcho-libertarians who control the Republican party fear information. Information is the messenger of change, which these paleo-conservatives fear most of all. Change is the root of all their fears.

The opponents of affordable healthcare don’t give a damn about the economy they claim to want to protect. Their current actions prove that. They fear every example of successful government. A government that works might interfere with their profit taking. Better we should all die, be it disease, the food we buy, guns, or pure ignorance.

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ThinkProgress is not mincing words: “The Supreme Court has, with rare exception, been a largely malign force in American history.”

Court Is ‘One of Most Activist,’ Ginsburg Says, Vowing to Stay – NYTimes.com

In general, Justice Ginsburg said, “if it’s measured in terms of readiness to overturn legislation, this is one of the most activist courts in history.” …

“I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone,” she said. “I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.”

Court Is ‘One of Most Activist,’ Ginsburg Says, Vowing to Stay – NYTimes.com

ThinkProgress takes the ball and runs with it. Let me stress that the following are NOT quotes from Ginsburg.

Justice Ginsburg’s Terrifying Assessment Of Her Own Court | ThinkProgress

The Supreme Court has, with rare exception, been a largely malign force in American history. …

The Supreme Court in this era did not so much tear down established rights as it stood for a status quo that favored capital over labor and the rich over the rest of the nation.

The Roberts Court, by contrast, has actively rolled back existing laws protecting workers, women and people of color. …

[T]he Roberts Court is unusually willing to take from ordinary Americans rights they have enjoyed for a very long time. The Supreme Court has a long history of standing athwart history yelling stop. This Supreme Court, however, wants to shift history into reverse.

Justice Ginsburg’s Terrifying Assessment Of Her Own Court | ThinkProgress

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Don’t accept Republican nonsense #wtf #stfu

» Speak Up! | ABQ Journal

TO BE A DEMOCRAT, you are poor by choice, jealous of the rich, always blame Bush, a cry baby, and most of all a lover of more taxes. – A.E.

» Speak Up! | ABQ Journal

To be a Republican is to reduce all complexity to a few easily repeated phrases, to turn color into black and white, to blame Obama for everything Bush started and the Republican house thwarted, to believe the rich became so without any help or obligations (and to oppose inheritance taxes so as to assure a perpetual aristocracy), to oppose science and education, and to bray that lower taxes, fewer laws, and more guns will solve all problem. peace, mjh