Archive for 'Healthcare' Category

Romney said WHAT about Insurance? This one will make you angry. (video)

By Mugsy - Last updated: Wednesday, January 11, 2012

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Sometimes someone says something so bizarre… so disconnected from reality… that it makes you stop dead in your tracks and shout [...]

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Mugsy’s predictions for 2012: “The apocalypse never comes when you want it” Edition (UPDATED)

By Mugsy - Last updated: Monday, December 26, 2011

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Where to start? Every year since 2006 I’ve dug deep into my toy-chest, pulled out the turban from my “Ancient Secrets Magic Kit”, [...]

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The List II: Santorum, Huntsman, and The Rest.

By Mugsy - Last updated: Thursday, December 22, 2011

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. This week raps up our review of the remaining “also-rans” in the GOP primary… the candidates that have never polled out [...]

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The List II: The Strange Case of Dr. Ron Paul.

By Mugsy - Last updated: Monday, December 19, 2011

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. It is extremely difficult to summarize the very complex platform of Texas Rep. Dr. Ron Paul without getting too deep into [...]

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The List II: Michele Bachmann

By Mugsy - Last updated: Monday, December 12, 2011

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Everybody knows someone like Michele Bachmann. The “Tall Tale” teller, the “Everyone’s out to get you” paranoid, or the Bible-thumper that [...]

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The List II: Newt Gingrich

By Mugsy - Last updated: Thursday, December 8, 2011

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. This weeks “List” tackles former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. I’ve made no secret of my distaste for the former Speaker [...]

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The List II: Mitt Romney

By Mugsy - Last updated: Monday, December 5, 2011

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Welcome to our first installment of “The List II”: An archive of links to comments, stated policies/agendas, misconduct, hypocrisy or just [...]

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“The List” is returning: Mugsy’s Master List of Reasons to NOT Vote for Each GOP Candidate, all December long.

By Mugsy - Last updated: Monday, November 28, 2011

Back in October of 2010, I posted “The List”: A list of 101 Reasons Why the GOP Should Not Be Allowed to Regain Control. “The List” was very popular, and (I’d like to think) played a part in preventing over a half-dozen of the most radical teanut ideologues from winning their respective races (Angle, Miller, Fiorina, [...]

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Defending Myself, condemning the indefensible.

By Mugsy - Last updated: Monday, February 28, 2011

Most people know me from one of two places: either my YouTube page or from my weekly reporting of the Sunday Morning Talkshows over at Crooks & Liars. At the end of all my posts is the following tagline: Final Bush tally: 10,300+ DEAD (3,000 on 9/11. 4,500 in Iraq, 1000 in Afg. 1,800 in [...]

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The Budget. Conservatives LOVE Welfare (but hate the poor)

By Mugsy - Last updated: Thursday, February 17, 2011

Two weeks ago, I finally created a Twitter account for the blog: @MugsysRapSheet. When you first create your account, you are given the opportunity to add people based upon your interests. As a self-described Conservative watchdog, I decided @KarlRove was among the people I should follow. The first “tweet” I received from “Turd Blossom” was: Did [...]

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A Tale of Two State of the Union addresses: 2007 and 2011

By Mugsy - Last updated: Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Special Edition: I prepared for this review of President Obama’s second State of the Union Address by rewatching President Bush’s 2007 State of the Union Address (the things I do for you people). I chose that particular address because it was the first following his 2006 mid-term “thumpin’” at the polls where voters swapped control [...]

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The Mind of a Conservative: a personal aside

By Mugsy - Last updated: Monday, January 24, 2011

I am pleased to announce that there are no more “Republicans” in the state of Texas. None. Nada. Zip… at least, not among the general public. The governor, Rick “Good Hair” Perry is a Teabagger that has become a national embarrassment every time he opens his mouth with talk of “succession”, and the Texas state Legislature [...]

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