Tea Party favored Sarah Palin recently complained about how women are treated in politics but then insiniauted that the Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie is extremely fat, some Democrats are nervous over upcoming elections due to the botched Obamacare rollout and did Portland, Maine give South Carolina a blueprint for legalizing cannabis? This news and more on Occupy the Microphone, your news source for the 99%.
Last night a committee of state senators in South Carolina gathered at the public library to talk about a proposal to nullify the Affordable Care Act. Both Gorgeous Gregg and Mrs Gorgeous spoke, and Daisy Deadhead was there in all her glory. Friend of the show Tony was there as well to have his say. We'll talk about this and more today on Occupy the Microphone!
President Obama is embarrassed to say the least about the glitches associated with the Affordable Care Act website and has taken a lot of heat and jeering over it. Some in the right-wing political camp use the failed Obamacare rollout as an example of big socialist government falling on its face but what they are not discussing is the private company CGI Group, which produced the defective product to the tune of over $400 million dollars!
In other news, can NYPD officers itching to make drug arrests not tell the difference between crystal meth and Jolly Ranchers candy or peppermint candy and crack cocaine?
This news and more as we Occupy The Microphone on WOLI!
Three Democrats and one Republican in the US Senate have introduced legislation to get control over the NSA. Congressional hearings begin today on a proposal the senators promise will not be "cosmetic" reform, but offer real protections to the US. Brazil? Not so much.
The Republican leadership in Congress has threatened to bring the national political process to a halt in an "I'll hold my breath until I am blue" move over funding the Afordable Care Act. Just around the corner is the "debate" over raising the national debt ceiling. Threatening a government shutdown, some Republican leaders seem prepared to run us over an economic cliff to score points. Is this what we need from Congress?
Finally, with close to a hundred billion dollars a month being poured into banks and corporate profits as big as they have ever been, it seems impossible to imagine a different economic future. The way we are headed we may have almost no control over our food, jobs, money supply or much of anything else. Even projects we may like, such as solar power projects, can turn into a nightmare because they are so big. Is it actually possible to have an economy "too big to fail", or are we headed for more economic hard times?
Republicans are still fighting old battles and are threatening to shut down the federal government just to defund so-called "Obamacare". The President recently took them to task for having an "Ideological Fixation" on defunding the Affordable Care Act.
With the US government stepping up its drone attacks on suspected Al Qaeda members in Yemen, Ron Paul asked the question on whether or not the United States is creating more militants than they are killing. He also said the "U.S. is sending mixed signals by attacking al-Qaeda in Yemen while supporting al-Qaeda linked rebels fighting in Syria."
Attorney General Eric Holder said the US Justice Department is altering its drug war policy and pushing the removal of mandatory sentences in drug cases. However, some critics say that reducing the amount of time that non-violent so-called drug offenders spend in prison does nothing to slow down the rate of mass incarceration and that an end of drug prohibition is the only logical solution. Last year, members of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition delivered a letter to AG Eric Holder urging the Obama administration to respect state laws that legalize and regulate marijuana.
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