Open Scandal

In episode 38 of our podcast, we highlight false statements from Democrats on the Sunday talk shows, and exaggerations from Republicans about the impact of the new health care law on premiums. For more on the stories discussed in this episode, see: Sunday Replay

Blocking the Child Marriage Prevention Act is yet another moralistically corrupt reaction by the Republicans. Their platform is about fiscal conservatism only if it doesn’t effect them directly (i.e. 858 Billion dollars being spent to fatten their wallets.. or as we call it here ‘Welfare for the Rich’). This is a widely scrutinized action by [...]

The Republicorp Party, feasting over their most recent legislative triumph, has returned to its usual nonsense. Only this time the bills they are seeking to block hurt people everywhere (as opposed to the bill they just supported on tax cuts for wealthy people, which will just result in expansion of poverty. So only poor people [...]

Long ago, it seems to me now, The Who, a 60’s and ‘70’s era rock band, produced a song called “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” The song, a classic in the lexicon of protest music, laments the leaders of the day (circa 1971), who promise ‘change’ but deliver nothing. “Meet the new boss/Same as the old [...]

South Carolina is plagued by a distressing crop of self avowed conservative politicians. They are self serving, obviously poorly educated, bigoted, raucous, immoral, unapologetic, race baiting morons. But when it comes to truly being deceitful, no one tops the immutable Haley Barbour, a vanguard of pomposity, and governor of the most illiterate state in the [...]

Since the Republican Party forte, as of late, is propaganda and slowing down legislation that effects most Americans, they are a little lost when coming up with their own agenda. In that light, they have decided to figure that out by asking Americans for ideas to eventually implement as their own by setting up an [...]

I voted for Barack Obama. He was not my first choice, or even my second, but Obama won the primaries and with it the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. On the other side of the two party system, the Republicans nominated John McCain and essentially moved from a man who knew precious [...]

Have you seen these pathetic attempts to persuade dumb America away from this health care option on tv?  I’ve already blathered on about this in a previous post but EVERY morning I have to deal with these damn commercials in my face in the middle of my son watching an innocent cartoon. Let’s hit this [...]