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Thursday, April 23, 2015

6 Years After Obamacare Approved, Republicans Still Have No Plan. What's Wrong With Them?

FRUM: Republicans need a plan for health reform. "'Will you take away my health insurance?' That question does not get asked often at Republican presidential forums. Yet it will be the most decisive question in the 2016 presidential election. ... Repeal of the ACA is the declared goal of all Republican presidential candidates. While most have some vision of replacement, that vision tends to be highly unspecific—and still likely radically to reduce the coverage Obamacare now provides." The Atlantic.

Alan: Are contemporary Republicans are essentially evil?

 No doubt many of them think "The Invisible Hand" will take care of everyone in the most efficient, effective way possible. 

 But are they not, on some level, responsible for the outcome of do-nothing, wishful thinking?

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." 
Devout Christian, Blaise Pascal

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image 
when it turns out God hates all the same people you do."

Tom Weston S. J.


"Are Republicans Insane?"

"American Conservatives And Oppositional-Defiant Disorder"

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On "Too Pure Principles" And The Collapse Of Conservatism

"The Republican Party Is A Satanic Cult"

"Do Republicans Do Anything But Piss, Moan, Bitch, Whine?"

The Beatitude That Separates Pope Francis From Prissy, Bitchy "Christians"

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The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism

The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die. 

The sooner the better. 

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right." 

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,  hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html 

Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see  that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.

Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass Final Judgment. 

Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold. 

Remarkably, none of them are tempted to believe this. 
"Republicans Finally Admit Why They Hate Obamacare"

"GOP's Anti-Medicaid Expansion Body Count, By State"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/gops-anti-medicare-expansion-body-count.html


"Why Are Murderous GOP Governors Protected By The Press?"

What's Wrong With Conservatives? Seriously. What's Wrong With Them?

"Plutocracy Triumphant"
Cartoon Compendium

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: Plutocracy, Economic Inequality & Collapse Of Conservatism

"Politics And Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"

"Pope Francis Links"

Pope Francis: Quotations On Finance, Economics, Capitalism And Inequality

Teddy Roosevelt: "Malefactors Of Great Wealth... 
Are Curses To The Country"

Why Are Americans So Poorly Paid. This One Chart Will Even Shame The 1%

It's Not About Income. "It's About Net Worth, Stupid!"

"The Rich Aren't Just Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Pie. They're Taking It All"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-rich-arent-just-grabbing-bigger.html

Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz Brilliant Reflection On Obama's State Of The Union Address

"Of The 1%, By The 1%, For The 1%,"
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz

"The Pitchforks Are Coming... For Us Billionaires," Amazon Financier, Nick Hanauer

Bizillionaire Nick Hanauer: Why Money Doesn't Trickle Down

Bizillionaire Nick Hanauer Calls For Radical Wealth Redistribution

Bizillionaire Nick Hanauer: Stock Buy Backs Are Ruining The Economy

1910 Income Tax Promised To Never Shift Burden From Richest 1 - 4%

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/1910-income-tax-legislation-promised-to.html

It's Not About Income. "It's About Net Worth, Stupid!"

U Mass Professor Emeritus Richard Wolff Provides Out-Of-The-Box Views

American Plutocracy: Who's Punished And Who's Not
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/american-plutocracy-whos-punished-and.html

George Soros: On The Coming Class War In The United States

The Bank Of America: Too Crooked To Fail
Matt Taibbi

Federal Reserve Bank Investigator Carmen Segarra Fired For Holding Banks Responsible

Taibbi: $9 Billion Whistle Blower At JPMorgan. Financial Thuggery At The Top

The Bank Of America: Too Crooked To Fail
Matt Taibbi

American Banking: A New Mafia In Three Piece Suits. Bank Of America Spearheads The Thuggery

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On "Too Pure Principles" And The Collapse Of Conservatism

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: 
What's Wrong With American Conservatism?

"The Party of Personal Responsibility" Is "The Party Of Personal Irresponsibility"

Republican Rule And Economic Catastrophe, A Lockstep Relationship

The Republican Party Is Terrible For Prosperity But Unparalleled For Catastrophe

"Pope Francis Links"

The Most Rabid Republican House Districts Are Economic Debacles

"War, Peace And Political Manipulation: Quotations"


Why Are Americans So Poorly Paid. This One Chart Will Even Shame The 1%

G.K. Chesterton: "The Anarchy of The Rich"

Chesterton Viewed The Rich As "Oppressive" "Scum" And Failures

Aristotle On Democracy: Rule By The Needy

Princeton Researches Conclude That The United States Is No Longer A Democracy

G.K. Chesterton: "The Anarchy of The Rich"

Chesterton Viewed The Rich As "Oppressive" "Scum" And Failures

Major General Smedley Butler: Do Wars Really Defend America’s Freedom?

Pope Francis: "This Economy Kills"

Major General Smedley Butler: Do Wars Really Defend America’s Freedom?

"People Who Watch Only Fox News 
Know Less Than People Who Watch No News"

Bill Maher: The Zombie Life Cycle Of Republican Lies. They Never - Ever - Die

"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"

The Singularly Slimy Way Conservatives Lie.... Just To Moan, Piss, Whine, Bitch
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-singularly-slimy-way-conservatives.html

"The Death of Epistemology"

How the death of epistemology validates rhetorical vapidity:
  1. The Guardian: "John Oliver's Viral Video Is The Best Climate Change Debate You'll Ever See"
    1. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-guardian-john-olivers-viral-video.html

Stewart, Colbert, Oliver Probe The Spectacular Idiocy Of Climate Change Deniers

"The Reign of Morons Is Here," Charles P. Pierce, The Atlantic

"A Southerner Explains Tea Party Radicalism: The Civil War Is Not Over"

"Republicans For Revolution," A Study In Anarchic Apocalypticism

"Bank On It: The South Is Always Wrong"

Republican Party Is "Full Of Racists," Colin Powell's Chief Of Staff

"Why The Bible Belt Is Its Own Worst Enemy"
  1. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-bible-belt-is-christianitys-enemy.html

George McGovern: "The Case For Liberalism, A Defense Of The Future Against The Past"

Conservative Norm Ornstein: The Media Ignore Republican Lunacy

"Let's Just Say It. The Republicans Are The Problem"
Conservative Norm Ornstein and Liberal Thomas Mann

"Just How Far Out Is The Republican Fringe?" Norm Ornstein (And Is It The Fringe?)

"It's Even Worse Than It Looks"
Conservative Norm Ornstein and Liberal Thomas Mann

"When Extremism Goes Mainstream"
Conservative Norm Ornstein

"The Real Death Panels," Conservative Norm Ornstein

Jindal Criticizes The Stupid Party: "Simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys"

Bobby Jindal's Healthcare Plan: What Republicans ALWAYS Get Wrong

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