http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/11/05/the-election-impact-in-arkansas Comments On: Republicans ready to bring DC gridlock to Arkansas by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:52:57 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:21:57 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Farkleberry]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:43:09 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by LinCo_Progressive]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:17:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the Arkansawyer]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:13:03 -0600 Arkansas Times
"If you really think that the political system is broken beyond repair, you have a blueprint from the 1770s to help you out."

http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/11/05/ev…

I don't live in that magical world that TBogg describes either. I live in a world with way more than 50 shades of gray.
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:52:07 -0600 Arkansas Times
The problem with the incremental steps the President has taken "toward" universal health is that the Republican-devised plan that he adopted enriches the insurance companies in the process. With their government guaranteed profits, they are able to buy the lobbyists to cement themselves in place and prevent any movement toward a "Medicare for all" type of system. If we really are going toward "Medicare for all," the strides need to be bolder and faster. The longer we wait, the more entrenched the insurance industry becomes.

Aside from the morality of drone assassinations, the collateral damage in these attacks is creating as many enemies as the drones eliminate. Death by remote control makes it easier to enter a new war without considering the consequences.

As for "viable alternative to go after the people who really do want to destroy America." Vote the Repugs and the "centrist" Dems out of office.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:50:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
I think most of us here are for universal health care based on a European or Canadian model. We just differ with you on the best way to get there. Yes, incremental steps leave some uninsured and the insurance companies richer. But what you advocate is never going to happen unless the whole damn country has a Damascus road epiphany.

About those drones. I have severe opposition to them just like you do. What I never hear from you and the Greenwalds of the world is a viable alternative to go after the people who really do want to destroy America.
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:48:53 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by springdale_liberal]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:44:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
The contempt for saving lives and money in this thread by d-fenders couldn't be more simple and clear.

Now back to your humanitarian bombing. Maybe outlier can find a neoliberal pundit making funny excuses about that too.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:34:09 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:20:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
During this election year, the flight from civilization has accelerated. The Repug Presidential debates elicited cheers and applause at the death of people without health insurance and the number of executions in Texas. There have been Repug politicians singing the praises of slavery and rape ... and their party has failed to denounce them.

Unlike Repug charges, these are not out-of-context distortions. These events actually occurred. I can't understand how a sane civilized person can still admit to being a "Republican" without experiencing some level of shame.

There's no limit to their disdain toward anyone who is not them. For a party that ridicules "elitists," they have become elitism gone wild. It's as if skinheads have taken control of a political party.

The Legislature is becoming a schoolyard full of mean ignorant bullies ... and proud of it.

Whew! Now that I've vented, I must admit that I think all political opinions are way over-rated, especially on blogs.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:14:14 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:07:32 -0600 Arkansas Times >If Arkansas is one of the few states to expand, would we see a measurable increase in new residents moving here from other states to access the program?<

Of course, didn't you know RC that po folks have all sorts of mobility. They can pack up the family SUV, rent a Uhaul and be off to Ark whenever they wish. They have plenty of money for down payments on new homes, deposits on rental units, deposits for utilities, and so on.
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:04:58 -0600 Arkansas Times
The Tea Pot brains in the AR ReTHUGlicabn party need to look up the results in Florida. It cost the state millions and they detected very few people and these were first time appliers who had been working and just got laid off. In the net, the State of Florida LOST MILLIONS OF DOLLARS (to a company formerly owned by the same governor???)on this ReTHUGlican scheme to prove their manhood when they could have just stuck their gun in their belt with the trigger cocked.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:38:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://leanforward.msnbc.com/_news/2012/07…

They have Arkansas "leaning yes", but I'm not so sure about that. The more interesting statistic is most states are "leaning no".

If Arkansas is one of the few states to expand, would we see a measurable increase in new residents moving here from other states to access the program?
Posted by radical centrist]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:35:54 -0600 Arkansas Times

Florida: Few Drug Users Among Welfare Applicants
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 27, 2011

Preliminary figures compiled under a new state law requiring drug tests for welfare applicants show that they are less likely than other people to use drugs, not more. The results have prompted Carl Hiaasen, the Florida columnist and author, to suggest that the people who came up with the law should be the ones submitting specimens. Mr. Hiaasen, saying “there is a certain public interest in going after hypocrisy,” has offered to pay for drug testing for all 160 members of the Florida Legislature.
[not a bad idea for Arkansas legislators]

The figures show that about 2.5 percent of up to 2,000 applicants for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have tested positive since the law went into effect in July.
....
Justice Department estimates that 6 percent of Americans 12 and older use illegal drugs. Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, and other supporters of the law say the tests will save money by weeding out people who would use welfare money to buy drugs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/us/flori…
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:26:49 -0600 Arkansas Times
Pete Peterson must be belly-laughing with the Koch Bros.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/pet…
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:15:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
Then, they'll whine, bitch and moan when the Democrats won't support A LOT of their wacky, biased, extremist and racially slanted legislation (see Jon Hubbard, Loy Mauch, Charlie Fuqua and a bunch of others we've even yet to hear about)!

If you haven't already voted, there is still time for you to join me in voting NO to the PARTY OF NO TOLERANCE, because the only effective way to deal with them is to keep them out of office.

We don't need DC style gridlock here in Arkansas!
Posted by RYD]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:48:52 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/sund…

Are there no wags in the D.C Village to man/woman the Sunday AM panels? No gadflies with at least a smidgen of brains and humor? All we get are nudniks. Thank goodness, Pierce sacrifices his health by watching them so I don't have to.

I find more insight and thought provoking comments here at ATblog than the networks can muster.
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:48:16 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:44:12 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:43:12 -0600 Arkansas Times

Co-pay? What part of we are all paying two to three times what we should be now do d-fenders not understand? What part of twice the percentage of GDP spent on health by the US for the worst health stats in the developed world do you not understand? What part of outrageous drug prices with a refusal to negotiate them do you not understand as many forms of co-pay YOU all are defending do you not understand?

All y'all have done for years is argue over how to make things worse. It's D's who just raised costs astronomically with mandates and an additional 900 billion dollar bill. When establishing medicare for all would have been the step towards cutting it all in half while establishing health care as a human right.

You D's just gave the Republicans (Dole Romney) everything they asked for over the last twenty plus years... and somehow think they should not take it to the next level? They have every reason to believe they can and will get what they want.... because neoliberal Dems are not opposition. And all are lined up at the ready to cut medicare and social security in the Grand Betrayal.

You D's are more expensive and less humane... more than eager to ignore facts and over 35 existing better countries/ways out there. No D vs R is saying, much less advocating for what simply will work best, unapologetically. First establish health care as a human right, then kill 95 percent of the needless bean counters while negotiating pharmaceutical prices to the lowest in the world rather than by far the highest.

None of y'all D's are talking about universal care... you are brow beating it. Just because you occasionally use the term, should not fools so many into thinking your actions and politicians have anything but neoliberal contempt for it.

It's so easy, so decent, voting Green.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:25:03 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by FullThrottle]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:16:28 -0600 Arkansas Times
Congressmen Griffin, Crawford, Womack, Ross(or his successor) and all of their staffs.

All Federal employees who work and live in Arkansas, including Federal Judges.

Senators Boozman and Pryor and their staffs.

Governor Beebe, his staff and all state employees. Including judges and their staffs.

All County and local elected officials and their staffs.

All physicians, hospital administratiors and their employees.

All police, firemen and teachers.

Wow! Just think of the boost to the state's economy. We will most probably have to create a new state agency of drug testing to administor all these tests including to themselves. Happy days are here again!
Posted by righter]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:09:07 -0600 Arkansas Times