Science slaps Republican ignorance upside the head

Republican embrace of creation theory over empirically-determined scientific knowledge leads to serious stumbles along the campaign trail. The GOP strategy for fixing the nation's dearly beloved safety network raises voter eyebrows because their methodology defies easily verifiable biology.

Face it, people make babies, babies grow older, some take care of their parents and later some elders are cared for their kids. The Romney/Paul message to seniors is "We're cutting the social fabric down to a tiny voucher just not for you." Now that's all well and good until scientific realities remind you that many of those seniors have children for whose futures they have concerns. And then you have that moment when those children realize that Mitt's talking about them.

"Stop it, this is hard." Mitt muffs the math on healthcare.

Another area that eludes the education averse right wing is mathematics - that lynchpin of all things scientific. Seniors 65 and older comprise 17 percent of all active voters; alas, this is dwarfed by the 83 percent of the 18-64 age group. Therefore, pandering reassuringly to a smaller group of voters, while waving off younger groups with vague generalities, explains why the electorate, as it wakes with a pounding hangover after indulging too heavily in the sweet Romney party juice, is feeling morning after remorse and returning to the Obama fold.

Adventures in Wingnuttia: WSJ Asswipe Edition

Without comment, other than to note this is in reference to the young men who laid down their lives protecting their loved ones:

(h/t to John Cole of Balloon Juice)

"Those people" and their free stuff

"But I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy -- more free stuff.

But don't forget nothing is really free. it has to paid for by people in the private sector creating goods and services, and if people want jobs more than they want free stuff from government, then they are going to have to get government to be smaller."

Stupid shit Romney peeps say

 

Lovey, We are V.I.P.

“Is there a V.I.P. entrance? We are V.I.P.” 

Oh my, Thurston, who IS on our yacht?

Ms. Simmons paused to highlight what she said was her husband’s generous spirit: “Tell them who’s on your yacht this weekend! Tell him!” Over Mr. Conklin’s objections, Ms. Simmons disclosed that a major executive from Miramax, the movie company, was on the 75-foot yacht, because, she said, there were no rooms left at the hotel.

That common(er) touch

"I don't think the common person is getting it. Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them. We've got the message, but my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote -- they don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income -- one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact."

So for you, "the common person" unable to comprehend these quotes as written words, the Reverend Al Sharpton has provided a visual aid for dummies. 

So without further interruption or continued ridicule and mockery ... Reverend Al presents:

Colorado's message trumps Wisconsin's

 

Oh, and these federal firefighters don't have healthcare despite putting their lives on the front line. Perhaps they should go to the Caymans, too.

Why Romney lies about Obamacare

So, why would a politician who crafted an identical healthcare law for his state lie about one modeled after the one crafted by The Heritage Foundation as the Conservative response to Universal Health Care?

 Here's what Wiley Willard doesn't want you to know about Obamacare and why he's desperately lying to hide the facts lest they tank his personal presidential ambitions:

• Obamacare protects you from being denied insurance due to a pre-existing condition.
• Obamacare protects you when your insurance company tries to deny you coverage.
• Obamacare protects you from lifetime caps on your benefits.
• Obamacare protects you from being dropped by your insurance carrier when you or your family gets sick.
• Obamacare protects you from losing your health care should you lose your job
• .Obamacare makes sure you'll never go bankrupt and lose your home because of medical bills

It doesn't get any more patient-centered than that! And this is what Romney and his Ship of Fools want to take away from you.

BONUS BENEFIT: Obamacare Is About To Put $1.3 BILLION Back In Consumers' Pocket

(h/t Jill W Klausen)

Tale of Two Men

First up, Romney.

Romney's Insensitive Response To Woman Without Healthcare

"When you signed into law Romneycare, I was excited," the woman said. "You seemed proud to do that. And then when the country copied you, it just seemed like there was hope for people like me."

"How have you done since then?" Romney asked flippantly, talking over her.

"I don't have health care, sir, and I'm scared," she said.

“That tells you something doesn’t it?” Romney said. “Tells you something.”

Indeed.

 Now, President Obama: