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Audio- Crackpot Alex Jones Explains How Government “Weather Weapon” Could Have Been Behind Oklahoma Tornado

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This is where I do the circles by my ear and wink. Oy. Via.

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Cartoons of the Day- GOP Congress At Work

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Clay Bennett editorial cartoon

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Video- State of the Union: Grampy McCain Defends Bigot at Arizona Town Hall

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No McDouche, you’re wrong and you should have told that neanderthal he was wrong.

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The Done Nothing Congress????

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Oh, c’mon.  Done nothing?  How can anyone in their right mind say that?   They’ve done everything in their legislative powers to protect us.  Just take a partial look at what they’ve accomplished: 

  • They’ve cut wasteful spending on things like infrastructure.
  • They’ve prevented us from having a personal responsibility over our ill conceived abilities to make choices for ourselves and our bodies.
  • They’ve put up barriers for implementing unreasonable laws to make our lives safer.
  • They’ve cut wasteful spending on hair brained ideas like solar energy and wind power.
  • They cut wasteful spending on education.
  • They’ve approved the Robert Boochever Federal Courthouse in Juneau Alaska.  (What a relief that is)
  • They’ve cut wasteful spending on science.
  • They’ve cut wasteful spending reasonable prescription availability.
  • They’ve cut back on wasteful savings on the war effort.
  • They’ve approved $175 hammers for the military.  Claw hammers, not the $225 ball pein variety
  • They’ve cut back spending on embassy safety.
  • They’ve cut back on wasteful spending on product safety.
  • They’ve provided much needed tax benefits for the rich.
  • They’ve finally taken the last ounce of blood from the poor.
  • They’ve gotten rid of wasteful child services programs.
  • They’ve cut back on wasteful spending on other social services.
  • They’ve raised the cost of participation in Medicare.
  • They’ve held 30+ votes to repeal healthcare.
  • They’ve cut back on stupid clean air bills.
  • They’ve vetoed silly jobs bills… actually all jobs bills.
  • They’ve protected us by passing bills allowing for the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects without charge or proof.
  • They’ve voted more support funding for the record breaking profits of big oil.
  • They’ve stalled and refused to generate a workable federal budget.
  • They’ve increased our national debt and all the while reducing our borrowing power.
  • They’ve worked long and hard at making social security harder to receive.
  • They’ve kept alive wars that we don’t need.
  • They gave us the… wait for it:  “March of Dimes” commemorative coin act. 
  • The above is not to be confused with the “Mark Twain” Commemorative coin act.
  • They’ve voted to allow the Pascua Yaqui Tribe to determine the requirements for membership to their tribe.
  • They’ve cut that wasteful space program — retired it completely.
  • They’ve kept proper and necessary funding away from those ungratefulVeterans with PTSS and other related mental and physical ailments.
  • They’ve kept us better protected by infringing on our privacy.
  • They’ve allowed a few nuts to send us on an exciting trip over Niagara Falls, sorry — I mean the fiscal cliff. (I keep getting those two mixed up)


This list could go on for days, but that would be wasteful and the 112th “do nothing” Congress should never be accused of that.

Feel free to add to this list, as I’m sure I must have missed something in the bevy of activity these paid, elected officials have been doing.

Let’s be grateful for their (lack of) meaningful efforts. Without them, who knows how good we’d have it.

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CNN Poll: Big shifts on role of government

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It makes perfect sense to feel that the government is doing too much if you also don’t think it should be promoting “values”, kinda like the Rachel promo on small government. Make it smaller, run it better.

The survey, released Wednesday, indicates that there have been major changes on attitudes toward the government.

“The biggest: The number of Americans who say that the government should promote traditional values has fallen to an all-time low, a finding that might benefit many Democrats,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

According to the survey, just four in 10 registered voters believe the government should promote traditional values, down from 53% in 2010 and 57% in 2008.

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But the poll also indicates the belief that the government is doing too much is also near historically high levels.

Six in 10 say the government is doing too much that should be left to individuals and businesses. That finding could favor Republicans.

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Video- Fox News Highlights Anniversary Of Emancipation Proclamation With Discussion Of How “Government Is Enslaving People”

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Stay Classy. Via MM.

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Freshman Republican: House GOP “angry… incapable of governing… defer to extremes”; Dems “much more congenial”

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John Dean speaks the truth, just as this Republican did, as you’ll see below:

Welcome to another edition of “Republicans Eating Their Own” courtesy of The Hill:

Freshman Republican Rep. Richard Hanna (N.Y.) compared the parties in Congress to sports teams only interested in “winning,” and this week credited Democrats in Congress with having “less anger” than Republicans toward the other side.
 
“If all people do is go down there and join a team, and the team is invested in winning and you have something that looks very similar to the shirts and the skins, there’s not a lot of value there,” he told The Syracuse Post-Standard editorial board on Monday, according to the paper. He called his Democratic friends “much more congenial” than Republican ones.
 
He then went on to warn that House Republicans are becoming “incapable of governing” by habitually deferring to “extremes.”

This is reminiscent of the book It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With The New Politics of Extremism and subsequent TV appearances by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein:

Their principal conclusion is unequivocal: Today’s Republicans in Congress behave like a parliamentary party in a British-style parliament, a winner-take-all system. But a parliamentary party — “ideologically polarized, internally unified, vehemently oppositional” — doesn’t work in a “separation-of-powers system that makes it extremely difficult for majorities to work their will.” [...]

[I]t has become “an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition . . . all but declaring war on the government.”

John Boehner has been deferring for some time now, because he (and others) is more concerned about being booted out of office by those who favor tea party extremists than about the health and welfare of the American people. Politics matter more than we do. His job matters more than we do. Power and profits take precedence. So do scare tactics.

In this case, Hannah was referring to Michele Bachmann’s McCarthyesque warnings and allegations about the Muslim Brotherhood who she claims are magically infiltrating and influencing the State Department, even though they can’t seem to do the same to their own government.

“We render ourselves incapable of governing when all we do is take severe sides,” he said. “I have to say that I’m frustrated by how much we — I mean the Republican Party — are willing to give deferential treatment to our extremes in this moment in history.”

As John Dean said, poor Richard Hannah is sure to suffer the consequences for speaking the truth. Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s not often the best politics. And that’s a shame.

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