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JustinB commented on the diary post Another good reason to vote for Obama by David Seaton.
Your article doesn’t present a coherent argument in support of your thesis. It’s just a hodgepodge of boogeyman-isms and an implication that we should decide who our domestic political leaders are by what might hypothetically happen years ahead based on the unsupported contention that one person might do it in his second term, whereas his [...]
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JustinB commented on the diary post How Many Supreme Court Justices Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? by Janet Rhodes.
I sympathize with your health care situation.
I understand being perplexed at this SCOTUS’s inconsistent application of not only prior courts’ precedents, but their own.
I don’t think you understand what ACA does, how it works, or what the SCOTUS ruling will actually mean (either way).
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JustinB commented on the blog post The Supreme Court and the ACA: Is Health Care Unique and Does it Matter?
But the mandate isn’t forcing people to pay for health care. It’s forcing people to pay for health insurance, which doesn’t necessarily lead to health care. That’s a key point, and one mandate supporters like to ignore, because it renders their argument void.
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JustinB commented on the blog post The Supreme Court and the ACA: Is Health Care Unique and Does it Matter?
Well that’s a trite statement–almost tautological in character–and hardly in dispute. The question at hand is how must we all contribute as we are able, not whether. I imagine in the minds of some the two are identical; in fact they are quite distinct questions. Proponents of ACA try to claim the mandate settled the latter question, but that’s not the case, since we already all do support the health care system (not just emergency care) one way or another. Citizens too impoverished to have an income tax bill still pay state and local sales and other taxes that support Medicaid, anybody who earns an income is taxed to support Medicare, and anybody in the 1% whose income is entirely capital gains is still taxed, and that tax money supports health programs.
The mandate isn’t the correct answer to the question of “how” because it’s a transfer of wealth from citizens to private corporations that do not provide health care, who then dole out the money they’ve received as they see fit rather than as the patient and doctor determine is the best course of medical action. We already have “death panels,” in other words–they’re called “health insurance companies.” The model is demonstrably deficient and should have been scrapped.
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JustinB commented on the diary post Why Are You Here? by Peterr.
I’ve been “here” for a while as a lurker. I have yet to write a diary entry. I first came here because somebody on Daily Kos linked to some article here back during the Bush presidency. I was mainly a lurker there at the time, too. I remained a regular reader of both sites because [...]
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JustinB commented on the diary post Bob Casey Versus the Rights of Women by RHRealityCheck.
That’s easy: women, since women are currently the only humans for which prescription birth control is available in America.
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JustinB commented on the diary post Bob Casey Versus the Rights of Women by RHRealityCheck.
I wouldn’t call you a “pragmatist”, because your vote against Women is anything but “pragmatic.” It is, however, a fine example of what “contributing to the status quo” entails.
When we’re talking about the health and well being of women, in this context, “worse” is a distinction without difference. Period.
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JustinB commented on the blog post Criticism in Trayvon Martin Case Focuses on Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee
There doesn’t have to be.
Sanford is a zit-like suburb on Orlando’s outskirts. It’s two parts meth, one part hick, and a healthy mix of racism and stupidity, like much of rural Florida.
Also, being a “gated community” in that area of Florida doesn’t mean much in terms of relative affluence, in my experience. I’ve been in “gated communities” consisting entirely of mobile/manufactured homes and really old, seedy, run-down neighborhoods.
The fact is all that is required to explain this is “simple” racism.
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JustinB commented on the blog post Colorado House passes ‘First Degree Homicide of the Unborn Child’ bill
Actually, according to the link there are six sponsors, and all of them are Republicans. Still not surprised.
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JustinB commented on the blog post Colorado House passes ‘First Degree Homicide of the Unborn Child’ bill
I’m not surprised.
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JustinB commented on the blog post Colorado House passes ‘First Degree Homicide of the Unborn Child’ bill
This is potentially deadly for women, and it will be used as a political football by both Republicans and Democrats in their little game. How awful.
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JustinB commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: Hoyer Finally Admits the Obvious: Health Care Bill Killed the Dems in 2010
The best part of that study is the mechanism by which they think this occurred:
We go beyond these analyses by iden-
tifying a mechanism for this apparent effect: constituents perceived incum-
bents who supported health care reform as more ideologically distant (in
this case, more liberal),…That’s rich.
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JustinB commented on the diary post Barack Obama should resign, but Eric Holder must by wigwam.
Romney would be arguably much less evil than Santorum. Romney is an empty-vessel who will serve the interests of the 1% and Wall Street faithfully and be concerned with little else. I honestly don’t know how he would actually handle foreign policy, and neither does anybody else (except him–and even that is questionable). Equally arguably [...]
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JustinB commented on the diary post Dennis Kucinich is about to lose his seat to Marcy Kaptur by jest.
That’s a flawed statement on many levels, and boils down to essentially a personal attack.
I haven’t seen any comment here but yours hinting that any person commenting on this topic might consider whether and how he’d be better than Kucinich.
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JustinB commented on the diary post Dennis Kucinich is about to lose his seat to Marcy Kaptur by jest.
Haha. Daily Kos is a constant broadsheet of “Republican X Said Something Stupid” and a persistent struggle between people who want Daily Kos to be an electioneering outfit for the DNC and people who want to hold Democrats accountable (they are mutually exclusive). Huffpo hasn’t been politically relevant in a long time (if it ever [...]
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JustinB commented on the diary post A Pointless Framework With Good Ideas by masaccio.
There is no “problem” with so-called “double taxation on dividends.” In fact there really isn’t “double taxation on dividends” at all. What really happens is that profits a corporation earns are taxed as corporate income, and the dividends (profits distributed to shareholders) are taxed as individual income in the shareholders’ personal income tax filings. That’s [...]
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JustinB commented on the diary post Occupy Orlando-You Can’t Make This Stuff Up….. Or CAN You? by Jerry Waxman.
Gee, what a shock. Orlando/Orange County is a mix of young adults working to pay the bills while they look for a real life elsewhere and a population that exists essentially to support the defense and tourism industries. They almost certainly either: a) don’t care about Occupy or b) despise it (I can only imagine [...]
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JustinB commented on the blog post Schneiderman Gives More Hints on RMBS Working Group
’6 to 8 months” can easily become”11 to 12 months”–just long enough to get through election season. I expect to see something in fewer than six months. Six months is extremely generous given the mountains of data available.
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JustinB commented on the diary post Obama Administration Will Abolish The Most Successful Minority Job Creation Program in U.S. History by Lloyd Chapman.
I respect the sentiment, but I think it’s too late for that. Electing a progressive to the House, the Senate, or the White House is going to accomplish little as long as he can be marginalized. As long as the two factions of the One Party control the way politicians are elected, such marginalization will [...]
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JustinB commented on the diary post Montana move to recall Congress delegation over NDAA vote by Bobbylon.
I think recalling federal delegations, electing Democrats or Republicans, or any of the other theater around our current government, such as it is, is essentially little more than partaking of feel-good acts. By all means, cooperate to recall those clowns for their vote to contribute to the further erosion of America, but don’t think either: [...]
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