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VIDEO– Rep. Emanuel Cleaver: GOP has “contributed significantly to the legislative constipation.”

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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) was on “Politics Nation” with Rev. Al Sharpton suggesting that Republican Congress members could benefit from a nice big dose of Ducolax:

There’s no question that the Republicans, at least in the House and perhaps in the Senate as well, have contributed significantly to the legislative constipation that we are experiencing here in the United States. If we had a balanced approach instead of the sequestration, we would probably have a higher number than 160,000 jobs that were created.”

Kinda gives a whole new meaning to Republicans not giving a crap.

Those on the right love to tell us that the sequester hasn’t hurt anyone, see, because as the Bikini Graph showed: Jobs were added, and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.5%. But as Cleaver pointed out, that doesn’t account for future layoffs which, of course, could reverse the recent economic growth.

constipation-nice way of saying full of crap

Here is the entire segment:

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What I will not write about today

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Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood pressure hit the roof. I am avoiding delving into them at length out of concern for my physical and mental health.

See what I mean? So who’s up for a couple of Margs or a trough of wine?

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What I will not write about today

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Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood pressure hit the roof. I am avoiding delving into them at length out of concern for my physical and mental health.

See what I mean? So who’s up for a couple of Margs or a trough of wine?

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VIDEO: Need Congress to hear you? When money talks, democracy has no voice.

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chart senators responsiveness to income groups

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Chris Hayes has been impressing me more and more as time goes on. Here’s what he had to say on his show “All In” to U.S. Senators about the impact the sequester is having on some of the most needy among us, vs the impact it’s having on members of Congress, and how Congress is responding.

Who’s “inconvenienced” more, Senators? Whose opinion matters? Who are you concerned about? Or should I say, what are you concerned about? Answer: Money. It sure isn’t the American people.

Chris Hayes:

Here is what I wish could happen today: I wish every single cancer patient, and every single kid who is getting kicked out of Head Start, and every person losing a job at a government facility because of cut backs or furloughs, every family losing Section 8 housing assistance, I wish every single one of them could have gotten together and been bussed by the thousands from all parts of the country to Reagan National Airport and been rolled out on to the runway and strung out in a line that stretches across the entire air field so that those planes carrying the members of Congress who just cast this vote couldn’t take off. How’s that for inconvenience, Senator?

Here is the entire segment:

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Cartoons of the Day- FAA Flight Controller Furloughs

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The FAA Furlough Delays


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What I will not write about today

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Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood pressure hit the roof. I am avoiding delving into them at length out of concern for my physical and mental health.

And just to get you really riled up:

chart gun deaths v terrorism deaths

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See what I mean? So who’s up for a couple of Margs or a trough of wine?

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VIDEO: Alan Grayson delivers #CancelTheSequester petition signed by 300,000 to John Boehner’s office

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Go Alan Grayson!

The GOP lives for austerity and strives for cuts to and the eventual elimination of successful programs that so many Americans depend on. Their watchword: Privatize. Their goal: Union busting (Read: Ending Democratic fundraising) and destroying their own government. Their prize: Money and power. They salivate over the prospect of profiting off of the misfortune of others, the needs of their fellow citizens, the public programs that have worked better than their for-profit corporate schemes.

Austerity hasn’t worked overseas, it hasn’t worked here.

Via AusterityNut.com

Via AusterityNut.com

Alan Grayson:

“…End the sequester.”

Washington does not normally see 300,000 people speak as one. I am your legs today, and to some extent I’m your voice, but I’m not the one who matters. What matters is that we work together… In numbers there is strength.”

“…They’re gonna have to listen.”

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Via Wired For Change:

Now we have to make sure that everyone, including the White House, knows that the American people reject all benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.  

In an effort led by Alan Grayson, 31 members of Congress have pledged to vote against legislation that cuts Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare benefits. 

Let’s make sure the White House knows we reject all benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

If 100,000 of us sign this petition, Alan Grayson will deliver it to the White House.

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