Ex Cathedra

Digby shows how corporate vocabulary, assumptions, and framing tilt the playing field to make liberalism nearly impossible.

But something remains unsaid. If you adopt our opponents’ vocabulary, assumptions, and framing, you don’t just enable our opponents. You become one of our opponents.

“Socialism” is the new “Hitler”
Calling somebody or something “socialism” or “socialist” is a sure sign you’ve caught bat shit fever.

The Right’s antipathy toward ACORN goes beyond their long history of poll taxes, literacy tests,  and minority voter suppression.  It goes beyond their dislike of scary Negroes and how Negroes getting uppity will raise money from the crackers and hillbillies in the Republican Southern White People’s Jesus Party.

And mirabile dictu, it turns out Michele Bachmann may actually know something.

Conservatives’ 25-year goal of ‘defunding the left’ revealed by ACORN controversy | Raw Story.

Read it, visit ACORN’s website, and give them a contribution.

Why do for-profit health insurance companies even exist?

Just asking.

Who decided it was a good idea to fatten the wallets of stockholders on Wall Street by denying claims and raising premiums and copays year after year?

Who decided inefficiencies and overheads at insurance offices and peanut buttered over every medical provider was smart?

When will we pull those parasitic weeds out and stuff therm in the yard waste bin

Is it a smart idea to repeat Bush’s 8 years of failure, or is it a stupid idea?

Do we want to keep killing and dying in wars or do we want to back up and start to fix the damage Bush did to America?

Please watch  the video and sign the petition:

Rethink Afghanistan.