Last Call For Mitch's Dis-Kynect

The Lexington Herald-Leader lets Mitch McConnell have it for his double-sided stance on wanting to both completely repeal Obamacare and to somehow keep Kentucky's state insurance exchange.

Sen. Mitch McConnell has some explaining to do.

What in the world did he mean last week when he told reporters that repeal of the Affordable Care Act — "root and branch," as he has demanded many times — is "unconnected" to the future of Kynect, Kentucky's health insurance exchange?

Asked specifically if Kynect should be dismantled, McConnell said: "I think that's unconnected to my comments about the overall question."

Huh?

Nothing could be more connected — or should be more important to Kentucky's senior senator — than the fates of the more than 400,000 Kentuckians who are getting health insurance, many for the first time, and the federal Affordable Care Act, which is making that possible.

Repeal the federal law, which McConnell calls "Obamacare," and the state exchange would collapse.

Ouch.  For the LHL to actually go after Mitch openly like this is rare and appreciated, and shows you just how stupid he thinks we Kentucky voters are.

We asked the McConnell campaign for a clarification and were sent the usual talking points and a statement saying, "If Obamacare is repealed, Kentucky should decide for itself whether to keep Kynect or set up a different marketplace," a suggestion that is unconnected to reality.

Kentuckians are waiting to learn if their five-term senator understands — or cares — how much is at stake.

He doesn't care, neither do any Republicans in Congress whatsoever.  But he'll care in November when he's out of a job.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/05/28/3262267/say-again-senator-aca-unkynected.html?sp=/99/349/#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/05/28/3262267/say-again-senator-aca-unkynected.html?sp=/99/349/#storylink=cp

We asked the McConnell campaign for a clarification and were sent the usual talking points and a statement saying, "If Obamacare is repealed, Kentucky should decide for itself whether to keep Kynect or set up a different marketplace," a suggestion that is unconnected to reality.

Kentuckians are waiting to learn if their five-term senator understands — or cares — how much is at stake.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/05/28/3262267/say-again-senator-aca-unkynected.html?sp=/99/349/#storylink=cpy

Dr. Maya Angelou Passes At 86

Reports from Winston-Salem TV station WXII confirm that the prolific civil rights author, poet, and speaker died at her home in North Carolina this morning.

Two independent sources confirmed Angelou's death to WXII's Wanda Starke Tuesday morning. She was 86.

A police car and an ambulance were seen outside Angelou's home around 8:30 a.m. Winston-Salem police said they are at the home to investigate a death.

Angelou, a Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University, was born April 4, 1928, in St. Louis. In the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. asked Angelou to serve as northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Angelou received many accolades, including the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Lincoln Medal in 2008.

The world is truly a darker place in her absence.   "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" should be standard reading in American classrooms.  I'll never forget her reciting her poem "On The Pulse Of The Morning" at Bill Clinton's first inauguration in 1993, either.  Here it is:



Her work will live on.

Dear America:

"Why hasn't That One been impeached yet?  I guess it's the fault of the liberal media and those people.  If Bush had done 1% of what Obama did, he'd be imprisoned in the Negative Zone or something."

--Victor Davis Hanson, Works and Days

Bonus Verbatim Stupid:

Think of the following: the Fast and Furious scandal, the VA mess, the tapping of the communications of the Associated Press reporters, the NSA monitoring, Benghazi in all of its manifestations, the serial lies about Obamacare, the failed stimuli, the chronic zero interest/print money policies, the serial high unemployment, the borrowing of $7 trillion to no stimulatory effect, the spiraling national debt, the customary violations of the Hatch Act by Obama cabinet officials, the alter ego/fake identity of EPA head Lisa Jackson, the sudden departure of Hilda Solis after receiving union freebies, the mendacity of Kathleen Sebelius, the strange atmospherics surrounding the Petraeus resignation, the customary presidential neglect of enforcing the laws from immigration statutes to his own health care rules, the presidential divisiveness (“punish our enemies,” “you didn’t build that,” Trayvon as the son that Obama never had, etc.), and on and on. 

So why is there not much public reaction or media investigatory outrage?

Maybe because everyone thinks the right-wing's permanent clown show isn't worth giving a damn about, Vic.   But please, go scream BENGHAZI and FAST AND FURIOUS some more, and see if Obama's still President tomorrow.

Spoilers:  he will be.

Also, the thought of someone at Pajamas Media screaming that there's not enough outrage against Obama is the most obnoxiously stupid complaint ever.  Please go away.

StupidiNews!

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• Energy companies are expected to mobilize state legislatures and Congress in order to fight President Obama's expected EPA regulations on coal plants coming next month.
• Fed Chair Janet Yellen admits there's a slowdown in the housing recovery in 2014 and that there's little the Fed can do at this point to speed it up.
• Software maker Valve says it will delay its "Steam Machine" PC gaming console until at least next year, putting it into ""done when it's done" status.