• February 15, 2012

health care

This is going to be a fun couple of years: “Blue Shield of California [is] seeking cumulative hikes of as much as 59% for tens of thousands of customers March 1,” the Los Angeles Times reports tonight. And the emotionally unstable alcoholic chain-smoker now running the House of Representatives wants to make sure this is [...]

Ever since last year’s health care reform law passed, Republicans in Congress have dreamed of the day they would walk down the aisle of the House floor and give their hand in marriage to its repeal, and taking health care coverage back away from American citizens. For months they fantasized about repeal coming to whisk [...]

Way back in the summer of 2009, your Sarah Palin was busy scaring the shit out of The Stupids (i.e., her base) by claiming that the gubmint wanted to vampire-stake Nana in her hospice bed, for fun. Thanks to a new Medicare regulation effective January 1, we will soon relive the halcyon days of snowbilly [...]

Just weeks after Joe Miller’s stunning midterm loss, facial hair has finally returned to the Senate, as Tom Coburn has, heroically, suddenly grown the goatee (“Van Dyke”) of Santa Claus’ evil twin or whatever. And, powered by a churning gizzard full of holiday douchenog, he managed to single-handedly slash today’s 9/11 first-responder health benefits bill [...]

On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked airplanes and flew them into two skyscrapers in New York City. As office workers panicked and their formerly mundane work environment suddenly became a gnarled warehouse of firy death, selfless firefighters and police officers ran into the building to try to save lives. Many of them didn’t make it [...]

One of those state attorney-general challenges to this year’s health care reform legislation has actually worked, as a federal judge in Virginia has ruled parts of it unconstitutional. According to Judge Henry E. Hudson, Congress cannot force people to buy health care coverage, especially when you consider how many Chicken McNuggets can be bought for [...]

Bristol Palin did not triumph in the championship round of So You Think You Can Dance? That’s Funny You Would Think That last night. America’s most favorite Single Mama Grizzly lost to a lady named Jennifer Grey, who apparently danced her pants off even though she had a “ruptured disc.” (Bristol Palin lost to a [...]

Andy Harris is an anesthesiologist and newly-elected Republican member of Congress from Maryland who ran on an anti-health-care-reform platform, but at an orientation yesterday, he got VERY ANGRY that the government will not provide him with free health care instantly after being sworn into office in January. The government is ruining our nation’s health by [...]

What does being the only man in America to apologize to BP for this past summer’s oil spill get you? Why, the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, of course! Joe Barton is still somehow the ranking Republican member of that committee, so he will probably get that job, even though his party [...]

Here’s a fun thought experiment to distract us from rampant crap articles about Hillary Clinton running for vice-president: How would her party have fared in last Tuesday’s midterms if she was president? Pretty well, according to Dana Milbank! How does he know this? He discussed the matter with the world’s most impartial Hillary Clinton experts, [...]

Our favorite American Family Association blogger, Bryan Fischer, took to the organization’s blog on Election Day to write about the issue that was on every voter’s mind: “tax-payer funded contraception.” For too long America has had a method to have sex without having babies, and we have to work quickly to end this right now [...]

A graduate student from UCLA photographed 250 signs that she saw at the 9/12 FreedomWorks rally, and then did scientific experiments to determine whether these signs were racist or not. The grad student’s analysis found “only about a quarter of all signs reflected direct anger with Obama. Only 5 percent of the total mentioned the [...]

In perhaps the most important decision since Roe v. Wade or maybe even Thomas Jefferson v. Illegitimate Slave Children, a federal judge upheld Barack Obama’s sinister “health insurance for everyone” death pyramid scheme. Legal scholars around the world are puzzled as to why the judge ruled in favor of Communism and against the patriot-plaintiffs, a [...]

Rupert Murdoch testified to Congress about immigration. Are television comedians the only people now who are allowed to testify about Mexicans? Let’s hope so! Anyway, Rupert Murdoch is “pro-immigration,” even though his teevee network is constantly reminding Real America that the brown people are stealing all the white women, and forcing them to eat tacos [...]

Remember when Andy Griffith made that Medicare ad? It turns out people DO NOT like that Matlock or his support of their health. You know how bad things are for Democratic political figures these days? Even Andy Griffith’s poll numbers have seen a significant decline in the last 2 years. Our latest North Carolina poll [...]