As I noted the other day, I took great joy in voting to distance myself from the donut hole — Denver / Boulder, mostly — that runs Colorado, and does so in ways that those in the surrounding areas despise and have taken to simply disregarding: people giggle at the hopeless rubes making this charge at new statehood, but the truth is, we know it isn’t going to happen. We
October 25, 2013
October 25, 2013
“Americans for Tax Reform’s Ryan Ellis Thinks Tea Party Activists Are ‘Freaking Retarded'”
— Which, I’m not sure if that’s a step up from suggesting Ted Cruz is a traitor or not. How much do you wanna bet this is the kind of guy who, if he’s willing to say this kind of thing on Twitter — while working for an organization whose most important figure is an apologist for Muslim extremism, and whose most important achievement has been getting politicians to sign
October 25, 2013
Orrin Hatch (who ran hard right) now thinks you odd teabaggers need to be “rehabilitated”
Hatch was always good on judicial nominations. But he now fancies himself an indispensable elder statesman whom the Senate can’t function properly without. In other words, a professional politician who we need to help filter out the “people” from the important position of governing. It’s one to have to grovel to these zealots every 6 years when they make up the base of the party and you require their support
October 25, 2013
“Obama had said I could keep my doctor. Now they’re doing away with my doctor. They kicked him out!” [Darleen Click]
ObamaCare’s gutting of Medicare Advantage marches on Elderly New Yorkers are in a panic after getting notices that insurance companies are booting their doctors from the Medicare Advantage program as a result of the shifting medical landscape under ObamaCare. That leaves patients with unenviable choices: keep the same insurance plan and find another doctor, pay out of pocket or look for another plan where their physician is a member. New