John McCain and Jon Kyl are using Medicare but do not want all Americans to have access to what they have ...

Anthony Weiner Points Out the Hypocrisy of Members of Congress on Medicare but Against the Public Option

From Think Progress: Rep. Weiner Identifies 55 Republicans On Medicare Who ‘Steadfastly Oppose’ The Public Option

Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) office today released an internal study showing that 151 members of Congress “currently receive government-funded; government-administered single-payer health care — Medicare.” Of those 151 members, 55 are Republicans who also happen to be “steadfastly opposed [to] other Americans getting the public option, like the one they have chosen.” Included on Weiner’s list are anti-public option crusaders Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and Rep. Peter King (R-NY).

From his cushy air conditioned chair, Killer Kyl enjoyed destroying Iraq so very much he wants to do the same to Iran ...

A very blood thirsty man is Killer Kyl.

What we're trying to do here eventually is to get a regime change with a group of people in there that are more representative of the Iranian people -- who we really can talk with in a way that might end up with a good result. I think it's very difficult to do that with the current leadership, and especially with the elected President.

Regime change. Seem to remember hearing that term before. One of the many euphemisms for murder isn't it? Kyl wants to select a group of people to represent the Iranians. Throw in a little verbiage about women's rights, democracy, freedom and Kyl's on his way ...

Killer Kyl strikes again ...

Maternity isn't covered in Kyl's health 'care' amendment because the Killer himself doesn't need it.

Kyl: 'I Don't Need Maternity Care.' Stabenow: 'Your Mom Probably Did'

Kyl admits that his mom may have needed health care but that was over 60 years ago so women's maternity care is no longer of moment to Kyl.

Would one describe Jon Kyl as self-centered or egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, egomaniacal, self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-seeking, self-interested, self-serving, narcissistic, vain, inconsiderate, thoughtless --or all of the above.

Don't let your children grow up to be Republicans. Like Killer Jon Kyl they could become models of ...

... hypocrisy, dissimulation, false virtue, cant, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity; sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, pietism, piousness; informal phoniness, fraud. antonym sincerity.

Paul Krugman points out some of the torturous inconsistencies in thinking that is involved in a bill introduced by Jon Kyl and some of his worst groupies. The bill prohibits "Medicare or Medicaid from using “comparative effectiveness research to deny coverage.""

How bad is it? Let me count the ways.

1. Politicians who rail against wasteful government spending are taking action to prevent the government from reining in … wasteful spending.

2. Politicians who warn that the burden of entitlements is killing the federal budget are stepping in to block … the single most painless route to reducing the growth of entitlements.

3. They’re doing it in the name of avoiding “rationing of health care” … but they’re specifically addressing taxpayer-funded care. If you want to go out and buy a medically useless treatment, Medicare won’t stop you.

4. These same politicians are, of course, opposed to efforts to expand coverage. In other words, it’s evil for government to “ration care” by only paying for things that work; it is, however, perfectly OK, indeed virtuous, to ration care by refusing to pay for any care at all.

Sad as it may be, inconsistent thought processes are quite consistent for the Killer.

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Today's QUOTES:

... The U.S stands for freedom, democracy and human rights -- even when we don't. People who advocate unprovoked wars of aggression, torture and mass violence are irredeemable monsters -- except when they're American or our allies. -- Contradictions that aren't seen as contradictory by Glenn Greenwald, salon.com

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The joke's on Killer Kyl? ...

Boy I sure hope Obama asked potential [Supreme Court] nominees which they enjoyed more, drowning kittens or puppies? Kyl is going to want to know.

Wonder which Jon Kyl prefers -- kittens or is it puppies? Or maybe lizards? Or pulling wings of butterflies? Though Kyl has graduated to bigger things. Like giving away federal and state lands to the rich. Like working to destroy the successful and well funded Social Security program so he can watch the old eat cat food. Like insuring that there will be no national health care. That Medicare can not survive without health care for all. There is just so much for Killer Kyl to enjoy looking forward to ...

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Today's QUOTES:

My guess (or is it only a hope?) is that we wouldn't tolerate such reckless endangerment and likely killing of innocent Americans. Why we apply a different calculation when the victims are Afghanis has always escaped me. -- Bombing Afghani Civilians Is Not a Big Deal, Except When It Is by Scarecrow, firedoglake.com ... The President who promised a public health plan to compete against the dysfunctional, unsustainable private insurance system is letting the Senate throw advocates of a public plan for all out of the hearing room ... -- David Brooks Weeps/Shills for America’s Tortured Corporate Titans by Scarecrow, firedoglake.com This happens all the time: where people -- mostly self-described "conservatives" -- claim to oppose an outcome-based judiciary, yet decide if they approve of judicial opinions based on their preference for the outcome rather than legal arguments. The most obvious example was Terry Schiavo, ... [...] Those who scream the loudest about opposing outcome-based and politicized judicial decision-making are so often those who demand exactly that. They criticize rulings because of their dislike of the outcome, not based on any legal arguments. The Sotomayor attacks are proving that as clearly as anything else has.-- False excuses for anonymity and irrationality on affirmative action by Glenn Greenwald, salon.com

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Jon Kyl, runs with such a sweet crowd of clowns ...

Lobbying their business-friendly allies in Congress to take up their cause, the bankers discovered that most of their reliable friends didn't want to be seen in public shilling for the credit card industry. Only four Senate Republicans -- Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Robert Bennett of Utah, John Kyl of Arizona and John Thune of South Dakota -- opposed the bill. One Democrat, Tim Johnson of South Dakota -- where the credit card industry accounts for thousands of jobs -- joined them in drinking the industry Kool-Aid (and taken its campaign contributions) that making the industry responsible would somehow kill jobs. Even Senator Richard Shelby, conservative Alabama Republican, supported the bill.

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Today's QUOTES:

So, let's "interrogate" the lot of them -- Cheney, Pelosi, Graham, Goss, Shelby, Kit Bond, the CIA briefers, anyone on the Senate and House staffs who may have been privy to these classified hearings. In my view, to fail to use these techniques is a slap in the face to all the fine American military personnel who ever went through the SERE program. As far as I'm concerned, we might as well be spitting on the troops if we don't agree to start using torture on members of the US Government. As Dick Cheney said, "it's a no-brainer." --A Modest Proposal by digby, Hullabaloo What kind of a country commits brutal crimes and then insists that they can't be burdened with disclosure and accountability because they're too busy or because it's too burdensome? --Distorting public opinion on torture investigations by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com The successful hijacking of the torture debate by its proponents obscures the underlying facts, as Kagro makes abundantly clear: 1. Private contractors were conducting torture 2. It was torture for political gain 3. Pollsters should be asking if Americans support using torture to extract false confessions for political purposes, because that's what happened --I Oppose Torture, and Kagro X Is My Hero by Jane Hamsher quoting Kagro X (David Waldman of CongressMatters), firedoglake.com

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Arizona's Jon Kyl continues to swim in the muck ...

Via Arizona Geology:

Kyl blocks Energy nominees to help move land swap bill

U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., is blocking presidential nominees to U.S. Energy Department posts in an effort to move an Arizona land bill forward. ...

Always favoring business interests over the interests of the majority of the voters and residents of the State of Arizona, Kyl and McCain plan to give (or 'trade,' rather) land to the Resolution copper Mine and are attempting to extort the President by holding up appointments to him administration.

Ain't politics a crock ...

Irony of ironies: McCain, Kyl back Napolitano for Cabinet

Kyl said he doesn't expect Napolitano to start "bringing home the bacon" in her new role but said Arizona stands to benefit from a Homeland Security secretary well-versed in the state's concerns.

That's quite a compliment from one of the corruption crowd.

Arizona's own Bush-alike, Jon Kyl ...

Deacon Blues at The Left Coaster shows Jon Kyl as the Bush-alike destroyer that he is while documenting GOP hypocrisy concerning the auto industry in general.

Yesterday's QUOTES ...

... quite a few yesterdays as I have been camping in the White Mountains.

... scientists now predict that, at least among insects, global warming will take its biggest toll in the tropics--home to more than half the world's species.

... 20 percent of returning U.S. soldiers have post- traumatic stress disorder or depression

... As I often note these days, we are drowning in lies. Yet it is still no small wonder that this entire conversation about Wright, King, et al. proceeds in the almost complete absence of a discussion of what Wright has actually said, just as no one seems to remember what King actually said.

... [the chieftains of the Terror War] do not and have never cared a single instant about the freedom and well-being of the Iraqi or the Iranian people. (Or the American people, for that matter.) They are engaged on a long-range project of perpetual war toward an eventual goal of iron-clad military domination of a strategic portion of the world's energy supplies and distribution, and the establishment of America's "unipolar domination" over geopolitical affairs.

crAZy Person: Jon Kyl


In fact, the only way McCain's bankrupt domestic policies will not cause one misstep after another is if he confines himself to whistle-stop tours of gated communities and medieval castles.

Secret Hold Kyl ...

Now I've heard everything. Jon Kyl, Arizona's own warmonger and secret hold pseudo senator guy, is accusing someone else of playing politics.

Up All Night
My Democratic colleagues are playing politics with the war.

Just think, a few days ago Jon Kyl was a GOoPer 'fair-haired' boy ...

Now Jon Kyl is the target of the ire of some of the GOP's most rabid (according to Scarpy Scarpinato). Go figure ...

GOP says backlash in party due to Kyl by Daniel Scarpinato

"We have people coming in every day, tearing up their registration cards and throwing them on the floor, or coming in and changing their registration from Republican to independent," said party Chairman Randy Pullen during a press conference at the state headquarters in Phoenix.

Proposed immigration legislation and Jon Kyl ...

The proposed legislation is hardly liberal. It barely qualifies as human. But Kyl's kreepy kampers are really, really upset with him. Go figure ...

Morlock : Did Kyl forget 2006 stance on amnesty?

Other links on this subject are here: Jon Kyl ...

ADDED: It's an irony, is it not, that at a time when the Congress seems poised to institute more repressive immigration practices BushCo's agent, DynCorp, is setting out to hire away a good number of the Border Patrol agents we currently have guarding our porous border. (Company recruiting border agents for Iraq by Matthew Benson, The Arizona Republic)

Jon Kyl ...

It's interesting to see Arizona Senator Jon Kyl get attacked by some of his more weirdo supporters for doing his job (...for a change). The more rational ones are coming to his defense:

When lawmakers attack: Pearce bashes Kyl

Sen. Jon Kyl: Hero or traitor

Immigration compromise sound, but politics probably won't change

At least he's trying. That's new for him. Reasonable immigration legislation is critical. But it's questionable whether such legislation is attainable as there are few rational Republicans left (and no, I don't include Kyl in the rational category, but neither do I think he's a moron like the creature living in the White House).

Sense and Nonsense ...

Murtha makes sense while Kyl is, of course, the nonsensical one ...

Kyl ‘Walks Off The Battlefield’ Of Intellectual Honesty
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) attacked the plan this morning on CNN, claiming it was “the first time I know of — in the middle of a war — that a country just announces that on a specific date it’s walking off the battlefield.” ... Kyl doesn’t mention that on two separate occasions during the Clinton administration, he voted explicitly in favor of setting “a specific date” for American troops to “walk off the battlefield” ...

There's also a CNN video clip of Kyl's lying eyes ...

Arizona's Jon Kyl critises his betters ...

Jon Kyl who tags along at Bush's heels and repeats Bush's latest slogans (albeit in better English) criticises Speaker Pelosi for doing what our congress critters have done, Democrat and Repug, since Congressional time began ...

What's new? Kyl is a hypocrite. We knew that. He just likes to re-affirm the fact every now and then.

Here's a link to a blog that does a nice deconstruction of Jon Kyl rhetoric: Senator Kyl and the lies that keep us in Iraq