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2012 launch open thread

Spandan Chakrabarti May 7, 2012

I have been busy the past couple of days and haven't had a chance to post any new threads, but how about we kick off this Monday (albeit a little late) with an open thread about the president's campaign launch this weekend?

YES WE DID.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announced the most significant action ever to combat climate change.

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Almost 7 Million Americans Will Receive Obamacare Refunds

about a day ago

It's rebate time - Obamacare rebate time. For the third year in a row, insurance companies will be forced to give refunds to consumers in cases where they failed to use at least 80-85% of premium revenue on actual health care. This year, almost 7 million Americans will benefit from Obamacare refund checks.

Obamacare: Still Not Dead Yet

about 3 days ago

A small group of Republican judges on one circuit court comes out with an entirely political ruling on Obamacare, and it fills up the airwaves like fresh cow manure fills up a closed room. What you are not likely to hear, however, is that the DC panel's Halbig v Burwell ruling attempting to take away subsidies from millions of Americans is in a small minority even among the current court rulings on the matter. But then, viewing TV news for accurate and in-context information is no longer a luxury we can afford.

A few thoughts on Putin's "strategic genius"

about 3 days ago

In a few short months, Vladimir Putin has gone from "eating Obama's lunch" to being a near pariah. An examination of his "strategic genius".

Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama, and lessons in reform and pragmatism

about 4 days ago

To the Left's ideologues, Barack Obama is a Wall Street charlatan who sold us down the river by enacting a "weak-kneed" financial reform law that just also happens to be the strongest such regulation since the 1930s. To them, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is what they tell us they hoped Barack Obama would be - before, you know, Obama became president and actually started doing stuff. They might be in for a little surprised at today's open embrace by Sen. Warren of that very law.

'Murica and Murrietta: Xenophobia and Racism in 21st Century America

about a week ago

Conservative nostalgia for an America that never truly existed - a fiction of monolythic neighborhoods and a monocultural society - has lead to today's observable and palpable xenophobia in Conservative America. Their twisted definition of an American has excluded America's heart and promise: a nation of immigrants. Terrified of losing "their" America, they have created a mythical "good old days" America - without which myth, they'd have to admit the sad truth: they just don't like brown folk.

Boehner's lawsuit against Obama is so dumb, even conservatives hate it

about 2 weeks ago

John Boehner has decided he will sue President Obama over a business friendly health care move. But the lawsuit is not only earning "so sue me for doing my job" ridicules from the White House, but conservatives are hopping mad. The reactionary base sees the lawsuit as a namby pamby move to avoid the Tea Party's pressure to impeach Obama, and the party intellectuals fear that the lawsuit is so transparent it will blow up in the GOP's face worse than the government shutdown.

Obamacare is rocking it: huge drop in uninsured, high satisfaction with coverage

about 2 weeks ago

Between the open and close of the first Obamacare open enrollment period, the number of adult non-elderly uninsured in this country dropped by nearly 10 million, or a full 5 percentage point. The uninsured rate among adults 19-34 dropped by 10 points, or 5.7 million. And across age, prior insurance status and even party lines, newly insured Americans have a positive opinion of their health care. Despite the media's best efforts to present it in a controversial light, Obamacare naggingly insists on being an unqualified success.

Sarah Palin's call for impeachment isn't about Obama's race; it's about yours

about 2 weeks ago

Sarah Palin is the highest profile Republican yet to call for President Obama to be impeached - essentially for being president while black. But her diatribe is more than an indictment of President Obama, it is instead a verbalization of the Republican base's worst fear: when a sensible coalition of black, white, brown and yellow can elect a president in a landslide despite suffering a loss of 60-40 in the white vote, white supremacists have lost the cuture war.

Why GOP should be terrified of the gender gap and the marriage gap in 2014

about 2 weeks ago

For all the hoopla about Tea Party triumph in 2010, one of the most important reasons GOP won that midterm was that closed - and even reversed by a smidgen - the gender gap. In 2012, it swung open again, with Barack Obama trouncing Mitt Romney among unmarried women by 43 points. Women, and specifically unmarried young women, are again thrust into spotlight as the Supreme Court has decided that women's employers may trump women's health care decisions. Targeting the Republicans' open jubilation in that decision, Democrats have introduced legislation to reverse the Hobby Lobby decision, reminding women why 2014 is so critical.

Breaking: TV news and GOP Congress top list of most hated institutions in America

about 2 weeks ago

It should come as a surprise exactly to no one that since the forray of conservatives into the media world to try to get rid of the "liberal bias" and pesky things like "facts", the popularity of TV news has taken a nosedive. Now, TV news the distinction of sharing the stage with the obstructionist Congress as the two most hated institution in America. And these numbers point to an electoral reality that might surprise pundits.

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