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Ahh yes, the GOP has a new name in my book. Just call them The Deathers. They applaud Rick Perry for executing 234 prisoners, while he doesn’t worry that any of them might have been innocent. (Hint: yes, at least one was!) The Deathers have a new anthem.. feel free to spread it around!
And in case you need a reminder that Alan Grayson was correct when he told us about the Republican Health Care Plan… just listen to him, juxtaposed with the GOP’s “Let Him Die” attidude.
Of course, this is nothing new. Thanks to GottaLaff, we were reminded that in 2008, Ron Paul’s 49-year old campaign manager died of pneumonia. He was uninsured, and left behind $400,000 in medical bills for other people to take care of! Sounds pretty damned irresponsible and cowardly to me.
On this morning’s show, I spoke with the awesome Howie Klein, who blogs at DownWithTyranny.com and runs the Blue America PAC (along with C&L’s John Amato, and Digby) about Elizabeth Warren throwing her hat in ring to run against Scott Brown for the Senate from MA, and what happened in yesterday’s special elections in Nevada and NY.
Before we get to the bad news of yesterday’s elections, listen to the great news from Elizabeth Warren! Click here to get to the Blue America PAC’s Senate page to donate to Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Tammy Baldwin!
No one really expected the Dems to pick up the seat that had long been held by Republicans in Nevada, but few expected to lose the seat held by Democrats in NY’s 9th for almost a century! The seat, recently vacated by Anthony’s Wiener, was won yesterday by a political novice Republican. That’s likely due more to Orthodox and Hassidic Rabbis telling their faithful that it would be against Jewish law to vote for the Democrat who -gasp- voted for the marriage equality bill:
The first wedge issue, getting a little less attention on Tuesday, was gay marriage. Earlier this year, Assemblyman David Weprin voted for the successful bill that legalized same-sex unions in New York. He explained his vote by explaining the tenets of his Orthodox Jewish faith. “I think everyone here would agree that we should not be outlawing marriages between Jews and non-Jews or interracial marriages,” he said.
That was dangerous. At least 40 Orthodox rabbis in the district signed a letterpronouncing it “forbidden according to Torah law” to vote for Weprin; this in a district where perhaps one-third of ballots would be cost by Jews, many of them Orthodox. The National Organization for Marriage, which had failed to stop the gay marriage bill, trained its death ray on Weprin, organizing direct mail and robocalls to spread the rabbis’ message, and targeting the district’s Hispanic voters – about 15 percent of the population – with a robocall from conservative State Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr.
Dave Weigel at Slate.com explains more about why Weprin lost in his blog entry “Chosen People and Human Sacrifices“.
In the second hour, after hearing the latest installment of the Ironic News Report
I spoke with Aldous C. Tyler, who has decided to primary President Obama. No, I hadn’t heard of Mr. Tyler before either… but you’ve got to give him credit for jumping in to challenge President Obama when no one else on the left seems willing. Read more about him at www. americachangestoday.com and on his facebook page.