Here is another telling lead from The New Republic. Note that the Koch Brothers funded this guy.
During his tenure in office, Mitch Daniels, the Republican governor of Indiana, has enacted a set of policies that would make any conservative proud. Elected with the help of donations from the Koch brothers, he signed bills that abolished the right of teachers to bargain for anything other than wages and wage-related benefits and initiated the largest private-school voucher program in the country. He’s said he will sign a bill that will end Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in his state and ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. For good measure, he’s also privatized a state highway. Before Daniels ran for governor, he held an important fiscal post in George W. Bush’s White House, and now, he supports Paul Ryan’s plan to cut taxes for the rich while starving Medicare. What’s more, before getting into politics, he was president of Eli Lilly, one of the largest drug companies in the world. So far, the governor has been silent about the fact that, under his watch, Lilly had to pay out almost $3 billion in fines and damages for illegally marketing two of its best-selling products.
Given his conservative bona fides, why are some prominent liberal journalists rooting for Daniels to run for president? After schmoozing with him recently at an exclusive Upper East Side gathering of premier pundits, Hendrik Hertzberg gushed, “He doesn’t throw off the crackles of craziness. … I found his effect reassuring. To all appearances, his temperament is undoctrinaire even if some of his economic views aren’t. When it comes to red meat he seems to be a vegetarian.” According to Hertzberg, the The New Yorker’s unofficial editorial writer, the rest of the “leftish contingent” in attendance—which included Joshua Marshall of TPM and Michael Kinsley of Politico—agreed that the diminutive, blue-eyed governor would “be better than” any of the other Republicans who are running to stop Obama from winning a second term.
@plainoldme,
Have you noticed that our own right wing lunatic fringe likes to cry foul over George Soros and yet never acknowledges the Kochs?
@plainoldme,
The Koches hide their involvement behind paid middle men like governers, representatives and senators. Soros has the balls to be up front in his beliefs.
ASHINGTON -- Republican lawmakers have been quick to rush to the assistance of disaster victims with that priceless commodity, prayer, but when it comes to tangible assets, they've been a bit less spirited.
An email circulated by the office of Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Tex.) and obtained by The Huffington Post asked lawmakers to co-sponsor H. Res 254, a straightforward measure encouraging Congress and the American public to pray for the victims of the recent disasters in the United States.
From the email sent out to congressional offices on Tuesday:
Severe tornadoes and record amounts of flooding in the South, Southeast, and lower Midwest have taken hundreds of lives and caused thousands of injuries. Property damage could reach into the billions of dollars, uprooting entire communities throughout the region.
The Southern Plains, lower Mississippi Valley, and Southwest have been experiencing the worst drought conditions in decades, leading to wildfires that have burned more than 2.2 million acres and caused massive losses in agricultural production. These wildfires have resulted in deaths, the destruction of homes and business, and severe financial hardship.
Many communities have been devastated by these disasters, but have maintained a spirit of resiliency, hope, and faith. It is only appropriate that Congress and the American people come together in prayer for the victims of the disasters and their families, and for the fair weather conditions that these regions desperately need.
The message was signed by Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Tex.), as well as Reps. Stevan Pearce (R-N.M.) and Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.).
All three lawmakers voted for the House FY 2011 continuing resolution, which included significant cuts to funding for the federal response to weather, climate and natural disasters (The cuts were no longer in the bill by the time it went through the Senate and was signed by the President).
@plainoldme,
Where is Charles Dickens when we need him?
@plainoldme,
You need to be more expansive. This reference probebly went right over the heads of most of the conservatives here.
@RABEL222,
How do you spell probably?
@reasoning logic,
It sounds like Potter supports Obamacare... that's un-American.
@RABEL222,
Doesn't everything go over the heads of the conservatives here?
@H2O MAN,
Is he tomming during his speech?
@plainoldme,
POM, your hatred for blacks is strong and I believe it's getting stronger.
You are becoming the Liberal Supremacist you've always aspired to be
@plainoldme,
I am not sure that tomming would be the right word but it does appear that someone took him in under their wing and showed him the capitalistic way! Not that I understand human behavior empirically but what I think that we have is a society ran by educated people who have the traits of a psychopath and they do not want to let go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
@H2O MAN,
Hey, your father wore a white sheet. Mine didn't. It is the captains of industry I hate.
@plainoldme,
Pitiful Old Mule, you are just a pitiful, hate filled old mule... just waiting to die.
@plainoldme,
I could be wrong but even you and I could have been born with a lack of empathy!
If this is true and they are not able to help themselves because of neurological reasons, I wonder if we might need to review our strategy of how we try to converse with them?
@reasoning logic,
reasoning logic wrote:
I think that we have is a society ran by educated people who have the traits of a psychopath and they do not want to let go.
That describes Barry Obama to a T
@H2O MAN,
I think that it might describe us all to a T but I do think that even you would agree that some of us have a lot more of those traits than others do, or am I wrong?
@reasoning logic,
How about a lobotomy for them. I think it would increase their level of intelligence if not their empathy.
