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A man, a plan... and Photoshop CS5

How Original!

by pablo January 31, 2011

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Ya Gottem Hooked, Sarah!

by pablo January 30, 2011

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SSS

by pablo January 27, 2011

S.S. Tax Capped at 6.2% only up to $106,800
Then it's a free ride!

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Mad Boner

by pablo January 28, 2011

It's a Cryin' Shame!

John Boehner...the new Don Draper? Meh

Mad Man Boner?

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How to Shrink a Government!

by pablo January 30, 2011

The Two Abortion Wars: A Highly Intrusive Federal Bill

NY Times Jan. 30
House Republicans are preparing to push through restrictions on federal financing of abortions far more extreme than previously proposed at the federal level. Lawmakers who otherwise rail against big government have made it one of their highest priorities to take the decision about a legal medical procedure out of the hands of individuals and turn it over to the government. Their primary bill —the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” — is so broad that it could block insurance coverage for abortions for countless American women. The anti-abortion forces almost derailed health care reform last year over whether people could buy policies that cover abortion on new insurance exchanges. The compromise embedded in the reform law sets up a hugely complicated plan to segregate an individual's premium payments from the government subsidies. It is so burdensome that it seems likely to discourage insurers from offering any abortion coverage at all on the exchanges. But anti-abortion lawmakers are not satisfied. The new bill, introduced by Christopher Smith, a New Jersey Republican, would bar outright the use of federal subsidies to buy any insurance that covers abortion well beyond the new exchanges. The tax credits that are encouraging small businesses to provide insurance for their workers could not be used to buy policies that cover abortions. People with their own policies who have enough expenses to claim an income tax deduction could not deduct either the premiums for policies that cover abortion or the cost of an abortion. People who use tax-preferred savings accounts to pay medical costs could not use the money to pay for an abortion without paying taxes on it. The only tax subsidy left untouched is the exclusion that allows workers whose premiums are subsidized by their employers to avoid paying taxes on the value of the subsidy. Many, if not most, employer-sponsored insurance plans cover abortions. There would have been a huge political battle if workers were suddenly told they had to pay taxes on the benefit or change their policies. The Smith bill also would take certain restrictions on federal financing for abortions that now must be renewed every year and make them permanent. It would allow federal financing of abortions in cases of “forcible” rape but not statutory or coerced rape, and in cases where a woman is in danger of death from her pregnancy but not of other serious health damage. It would free states from having to provide abortions in such emergency cases. A separate Republican bill would deny federal funds for family planning services to any organization that provides abortions. It is aimed primarily at Planned Parenthood's hundreds of health centers, which also provide many other valuable services. No federal money is used for the abortions. This is a reckless effort to cripple an irreplaceable organization out of pure politics.

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They Rule Us!

by pablo January 28, 2011

Our Galtian Overlords

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Real Decisiveness

by pablo January 28, 2011

President Obama Addresses Drug Policy During YouTube Q&A

Pragmatic to a Fault!

We do these things, not because it is easy, but because it is hard. (JFK)

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BWAHAHAHA!

by pablo January 27, 2011

Tea Party Patron Saint Ayn Rand Applied for Social Security, Medicare Benefits

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T for Two

by pablo January 26, 2011

Bachmann's S.T.F.U
Response

The Teleprompter Kid
"Do I have to look at both at once?
Tell Barack this is hard!"

Michele Bachmann Won't Look You in the Eye

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Down the Rabbit Hole w/Antonin!

by pablo January 25, 2011

Scalia Teaches First of Bachmann's Constitutional Mythology Workshops

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Pick Your Target!

by pablo January 25, 2011

My Aim is True!

RAISE THE CAP!

Poll: Cut Social Security benefits or raise payroll cap? Not even close

Can't Say it Enuf!

Or This!

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Beck Lives!

by pablo January 23, 2011

Glenn Beck Targets Frances Fox Piven

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Sweet Home Arizona

by pablo January 22, 2011

When is Enough, Enough?

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Hypo-crat

by pablo January 21, 2011

The Dick Speaks

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Let Him Stay There!

by pablo January 20, 2011

2525 A.D.

World's Top 10 Climate Change Deniers

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Fairly Unbalanced

by pablo January 20, 2011

Rep. Steve Cohen Not Backing Down on Comparing GOP 'Government Takeover' Lie to Goebbels' Propaganda

Quotes ftom Herr Goebbels

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

“ Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. ”

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Nothing to See Here

by pablo January 19, 2011

Internal U.S. government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to U.S. interests abroad, despite the Obama administration's public statements to the contrary.

A congressional official briefed on the reviews said the administration felt compelled to say publicly that the revelations had seriously damaged American interests in order to bolster legal efforts to shut down the WikiLeaks website and bring charges against the leakers .

“I think they just want to present the toughest front they can muster,” the official said.

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Insurgency

by pablo January 19, 2011

Another Isolated Incident

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Survey This!

by pablo January 18, 2011

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A Good Fit!

by pablo January 18, 2011

Calls for Berlusconi to Resign Over Sex Scandal

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Amazing Fact!

by pablo January 17, 2011

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Wingnuts "At the Movies"

by pablo January 16, 2011

Send me the Head of Bernard Herrmann

Teabaggers Demand all Viewers Create "Scary Music"!

It's Called "Closed Captioning" "Morans"!

No, Jim Hoft, The White House Did Not "Ask For" Applause On Jumbotron

And Capt. Ed Chimes in

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Think Tank Tank Job

by pablo January 16, 2011

Koch Bros Personal
Think Tank
CATO
(not The Green Lantern's Kato)

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Up The Ante

by pablo January 16, 2011

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Ahnold!

by pablo January 15, 2011

Schwarzenegger: Being Governor Cost Me $200 Million

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Armed

by pablo January 14, 2011

Teabagger 1.0

Teabagger 2.3

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Two Different Views?

by pablo January 12, 2011

Conservatives Criticize Free T-Shirts At Tucson Memorial Service

Left

At Glenn Beck's Next Rally?
Right?

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Two Different Views?

by pablo January 12, 2011

Haley Barbour Pushing $50M Civil Rights Museum In Mississippi

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Empire of Hate

by pablo January 12, 2011

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Guns 4 Madmen

by pablo January 11, 2011

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by pablo January 10, 2011

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Fair and Unbalanced

by pablo January 10, 2011

Fox News' Megyn Kelly Browbeats Arizona Sheriff for Speaking Out Against Vitriolic Rhetoric

Climate of Hate
Prof. K.

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Call Her What She Is!

by pablo January 9, 2011

Sarah Tries a Lame Crosshair Excuse

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One Side to Every Coin

by pablo January 9, 2011

Dana Bash, CNN
False Equivalency

Dana Bash Calls Arizona Shooting a 'Wake Up Call' for 'Both Parties' to Tone Down Rhetoric

A Timeline of Right Wing & Whacko Violence in the Last 2 Years..
.Not a Dem among them!

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Is This the Future?

by pablo January 8, 2011

Congresswoman Giffords
Shot in Tucson

Reap What You Sow

Sarah's Lock & Load

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Buh Bye!

by pablo January 8, 2011

Palin's Alaska... One & Done?

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It's Not the Fall...It's the Sudden Stop!

by pablo January 8, 2011

Obama the Centrist Irks a Liberal Lion

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PLASTICS!

by pablo January 7, 2011

John ~~Boehner~~ Boner Plastic Man

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Just cuttin' a little...opps!

by pablo January 7, 2011

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Just Enjoy the Show.

by pablo January 7, 2011

Let the Lunacy Abide

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Sigh....

by pablo January 6, 2011

Birther screams out as Congress reads the Constitution

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Cry Me a River

by pablo January 6, 2011

Rumbling, Stumbling, & Bumbling!

The Male Face of Sarah Palin!

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Show the Colours

by pablo January 6, 2011

Preparing For the Future

Making The Case For Surrender

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Everything Old is New Again

by pablo January 5, 2011

Annointed By the Press

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An Answer for ~~Everything~~ Nothing

by pablo January, 4, 2011

Greg Walden (R) OR Gives the Spin
a Spin

Dangerous Meme Alert

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Priceless!

by pablo January, 4, 2011

Mr. Steele, Meet Mrs. Palin

Steele bumbles literary reference: Cites Tolstoy, but quotes Dickens

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DThe New American Pastime

by pablo January, 2, 2011

h/t mistermix

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Doomsday New Year's Clock

by pablo January, 1, 2011

N. Korea's New Year's welcome: War would bring ‘nuclear holocaust'

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Let the Fun Begin!

by pablo January, 1, 2011

Greatest ~~Deliberating Body~~ Show on Earth!

Tea-party activists question if rebel political movement has changed for worse

Nearly all of them, like Bell, had stumbled into the tea party after Barack Obama's election. They'd found a calling in the early days of a chaotic, leaderless movement that beckoned to political novices who identified themselves as conservatives but felt little attachment to organized politics. With astonishing speed, the tea party evolved into a powerful force that helped overturn the political order in Washington.

But as a new cast of lawmakers takes the reins in the Capitol, Bell and many of her fellow tea partiers across the country are feeling adrift, wondering what they are supposed to do next. The movement is changing, in their view, and not necessarily for the better.
WAPO

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