The Obama administration recently announced that the regulation of domain names for the internet, which has been controlled by the government, will soon be decided by the free market. 
So of course conservative groups who rail against government regulation cheered loudly, congratulating Obama for supporting capitalism.
Ha ha! Just kidding!
Just a few days ago we saw how conservatives love capitalism and the free market (except when government regulations help their Big Money contributors).
And how the basic premise behind Fox News is “Whatever Obama does, we’re against it.”
The latest polls show that a majority of Americans support Obamacare, with the numbers going up as more people benefit from it and see that it hasn’t caused the sun to fall from the sky.
Fifty-one percent of Americans favor retaining the Affordable Care Act with “small modifications,” while 13 percent would leave the law intact and 34 percent would repeal it. That’s the highest level of public acceptance for the law yet.
What people still don’t like is the mandate. Typical Americans, aren’t we? We want it but we don’t want to have to pay for it.
Hey, I’m one of those who doesn’t like the mandate, although if we’re not going to pay for it any other way, we need to have the mandate. Give me a medicare for all plan already and save us all some money and then we can get rid of the mandate.
None of these polls showing support for it has deterred Republicans, who recently held their 50th vote to repeal it. It’s almost unreal, isn’t it? 50 useless votes? From the party that complains about government inefficiency and waste?
Maybe they’re sick. And I don’t think that’s covered.
You can no longer buy a Tesla in New Jersey.
Governor Chris Christie’s bureaucracy just passed a regulation that requires all automobile companies to use franchises to sell their cars. 
If you can think of any possible reason why such a regulation is needed, please let me know.
This only affects electric car manufacturer Tesla, now prohibited from selling its vehicles in New Jersey since they sell direct. This regulation prohibits the citizens of New Jersey from being able to shop for a legal product they may want to purchase. The only beneficiaries of this are the gas-burning automobile manufacturers. Hey, speaking of them, did you know that they donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Christie re-election campaign? Pure coincidence, I am sure.
Chris Christie and his Republican friends may talk about the “free market” but clearly that only applies to their rich friends. (I could make a similar argument about cable companies and other monopolies that are sanctioned by governments.)
Conservative and libertarian groups who are honest and true to their ideology are outraged (as are liberal groups, of course). The New Jersey state legislature can still try to pass legislation to redact this (assuming they can get enough votes to override Christie’s veto).
You keep using that book. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Republicans have a habit of rewriting Dr. Suess‘ “Green Eggs and Ham” while emphasizing all the things they do not like about Obamacare. Numerous internet memes have done the same thing. I’m not sure if that is because they assume their intended audience has the minds of children or if they think it’s funny. 
What they keep missing is that the story is about how wrong it is to be stubbornly against something you know nothing about. The main character finds out he actually likes green eggs and ham once he tries it.
And that’s what is happening with Obamacare. The more people learn about it, the more they like it. The more people who have been able to get better and cheaper insurance, the happier they are with it.
Seriously, the thing people don’t like is the word “Obamacare.” One study asked people what they thought of Obamacare as opposed to the “Affordable Care Act” and overwhelmingly people preferred the Affordable Care Act over Obamacare. (Since you’re reading this blog, I assume you are smart enough to realize they are the exact same thing.) Other studies show that when you take the Act bit by bit, people really like it. (“No pre-existing conditions? Great! Kids covered while college age? Wonderful! No more caps on benefits? Excellent! No more charging women more for health care? We like!”) What they dislike is the mandate, which liberals also don’t like (We wanted medicare-for-all). The mandate was the part of the plan proposed by Republicans way back when Bob Dole had it in his platform.
So as Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz continue to read from “Green Eggs and Ham” the rest of us can laugh at them, aware that they are blind to the irony of quoting a story that has a moral which directly contradicts everything they are saying.
Almost fifty years ago the United States Supreme Court decided Griswold v. Connecticut. It’s a case I remember learning in High School, then again in college, and then again in law school. It’s one of the most important cases decided, in which the court held that the government doesn’t have the right to ban contraceptives. 
Recently, every single Republican candidate for Senate in North Carolina stated that the state had the right to ban contraceptives.
That’s wrong. I’m not saying their opinion is wrong (OK, I am) — this is just factually wrong. The state does not have the right to ban contraceptives, and hasn’t for fifty years. This is not a matter of opinion.
I mean, you’d think if you were applying for a job where you got to write laws you might actually want to know something about, you know, laws and stuff. Just sayin’.
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