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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

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

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.

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.

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

This was the message of Martin Luther King: “The arc of the moral universe [or history] is long but it bends toward justice.” Amen.

READ AND WATCH: President Obama addresses the Trayvon Martin case

And let me just leave you with — with a final thought, that as difficult and challenging as this whole episode has been for a lot of people, I don’t want us to lose sight that things are getting better. Each successive generation seems to be making progress in changing attitudes when it comes to race. I doesn’t mean that we’re in a postracial society. It doesn’t mean that racism is eliminated. But you know, when I talk to Malia and Sasha and I listen to their friends and I see them interact, they’re better than we are. They’re better than we were on these issues. And that’s true in every community that I’ve visited all across the country.

And so, you know, we have to be vigilant and we have to work on these issues, and those of us in authority should be doing everything we can to encourage the better angels of our nature as opposed to using these episodes to heighten divisions. But we should also have confidence that kids these days I think have more sense than we did back then, and certainly more than our parents did or our grandparents did, and that along this long, difficult journey, you know, we’re becoming a more perfect union — not a perfect union, but a more perfect union.

READ AND WATCH: President Obama addresses the Trayvon Martin case