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C’mon Congress, have some fun!

Posted on December 16, 2010 By

CrazyMurkins

Wikileaker Julian Assange is set to be released from the Tower of London, beheading to be postponed.

Words and gossip can once again flow freely over the InnerTubes. But diplomats should be warned against assessing the dimensions, quality and value of Ukrainian nurses’ racks attending Moammar Gadhafi.

The matter is not put to rest, however. The U.S. government is actively seeking ways to bring this 21st Century tattle-tale to justice – or, rather, the U.S. version of justice for people who spread information across the globe. It’s embarrassing, after all, and by golly no one is entitled to embarrass the government of the United States! We can more than adequately handle that ourselves!

Speaking of that, the Senate cleared the great tax deal yesterday and sent it to the House of Representatives, where feisty Democrats say they will strip out of it a boondoggle for the 100 or so wealthiest families who might have to pay a bit more in taxes when old codgers die and pass along millions to their trust-fund babies.

Ha! That’ll show ‘em, by golly.

They won’t really do it, of course. They’ll feign ferocity and, in the end, vote to go along with the tax deal.

But wouldn’t be funny if they really voted to strip out of the bill the estate tax silliness? That would, of course, alter the bill and require it to go back to the Senate where Republican senators say they would, then, reject it completely.

This would send the entirety of Washington into apoplexy. The Senate would freak out. The President would freak out.

The year would end and millionaires and billionaires would have to, collectively, come up with $300 billion to help reduce the federal deficit.

Of course, taxes would also go up for what’s left of the middle class, too; and we’d lose that extra $19.95 in our pay each month. Unemployment benefits would have to be extended under a separate measure. But fixing these problems all possible – assuming Democrats have any spine left, which is iffy at best.

If Congress walked away for the year and let the tax cuts expire, the poorest 20 percent of Americans would have to pay an additional $393 in taxes in 2011. The middle 20 percent would have to pay $1,521 more and the richest 1 percent would see their taxes go up by nearly $77,000.

But, you see, there is actually a bigger picture than this. It’s called the future of the country (what a concept).

James Kwak, writing in the Baseline Scenario, argues letting the tax cuts expire is far better in the long run for the middle class than extending the current – and modest – tax cuts because increasing revenues now and over the next 10 years will help keep Social Security and Medicare afloat.

But Republicans are not interested in that. No, sir. You see the end game here is to see Social Security and Medicare destroyed…dismantled…go away…everyone for themselves.

Not to worry, the rich will be just fine.

Note to Grinch: Steal Congress this year!

Posted on December 10, 2010 By

Capitol

We might have a DREAM (Act) someday but don’t ask on Capitol Hill and don’t tell because the questions might prove too taxing on the millionaires in the Congress.

Precious few – if any – are the statesmen and women in our nation’s capital, these days. They are vastly outnumbered and outflanked by reactionaries.

Sure, politics is the art of compromise but this would imply a give-and-take, not just take-and-take-and-block-and-whirl-and-triangulate-and the hell with the best interests of our people.

Children brought to the U.S. by parents outside the legal immigration system still can’t go to most colleges and earn a chance to enter the great melting pot.

Gay folks still can’t be honest about who they are in the military.

And wouldn’t be just freakin’ hilarious if the lawmakers got so twisted up in their own triangulation they simply didn’t get the tax deal passed and millionaires and billionaires ended up with a tax hike, anyway? Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!!

The Senate just can’t – yet – seem to find the cojones to pass the DREAM Act. Reactionaries keep on the sidelines a repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell but, by golly, they quickly moved to extend their own millionaire tax break for the next two years.

The House of Representatives, still in control of Democrats, moved quickly on the DREAM Act and DADT but have so far balked at the tax deal.

This is fun, isn’t it? Maybe the Grinch could steal Congress this year, instead.

Meanwhile, a Bloomberg Poll of ‘Murkins taken earlier this week suggests only 51 percent of us think we’re better off in 2010 than we were in 2008. (And by, “better off,” the Bloomberg Poll means, “have more money.”)

Only 35 percent responded they are better off today than in 2008. Wanna guess who they are?

The same poll suggested only one-third of those responding support extending tax cuts for millionaires.

Another one-third of the responders say they want to see tax cuts extended for only the middle class and 25 percent of all responders say all tax cuts should expire.

Oh yea…and the poll also suggested the current numbers are better for President Obama than they were for President Reagan in his second year in office. In a poll taken in October 1982, over 60 percent of Americans said they were better off than when Reagan took office.

Reagan won re-election by a landslide in 1984.

Just sayin’.

Tax cuts for millionaires.

Posted on December 3, 2010 By

MonopolyRichMan

Okay, boys and girls in the Congress and all across this great land of ours.

Let’s make sure we have this straight:

Unemployment benefits for about a third of the 6.2 million now chronically unemployed have already started to expire and will continue to expire through this glorious holiday season.

Tax cuts for what’s left of the middle class, sponsored by the Obama Administration and approved by the Congress as part of the stimulus act in 2009 are also set to expire on December 31.

Tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, sponsored by the Bush Administration and approved back in 2003 and 2004 – as we were fighting two unnecessary wars – are also set to expire on December 31.

Congress doesn’t really need to take any action on the tax cuts. They simply expire.

Congress does need to vote to extend unemployment pay for those out of work.

Got it straight, so far?

Good.

But here’s the deal: Republicans and some Democrats say they won’t vote to extend unemployment benefit or to extend tax cuts for what remains of the middle class UNLESS the tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires can also be extended.

Seems fair.

Wait…no it doesn’t.

Republicans and some Democrats are willing to let hungry people get even hungrier through this glorious holiday season to stand on the principle that millionaires and billionaires should continue to pay less in taxes.

In addition to being morally reprehensible, this principled stand of Republicans and some Democrats will add $700 billion to the debt of our great nation. And this after Republicans took back the House in the November elections promising, in part, to reduce the national debt.

I have a few questions:

1. Are you freakin’ NUTS??

2. Do you take us for fools?

3. What part of, “morally reprehensible,” don’t you understand?

Let my taxes go!

Posted on November 15, 2010 By

LameDuck

Ah, yes, the skies are clear, the air is crisp and chilled and the biennial migration has begun of limping waterfowl toward the swamps and bogs of the Potomac.

Notice the strutting peacocks among the wounded fowl and notice, too, how some ducks are more lame than others.

For Charlie Rangel, the lame duck session in Congress will be more like the lame dip, evade, dodge, sidestep, elude and, maybe, escape session.

“Campaigning is very different from governing,” said President Obama to reporters aboard Air Force One as the giant bird also winged its way back to Washington from Asia.

“All of us learn that. And (the Republicans are) still flush with victory, having run a strategy that was all about saying no. But I am very confident that the American people were not issuing a mandate for gridlock.”

The President, for his part, wants Congress to approve an arms deal with Russia and the Korean trade deal.

But most of the squawking and strutting and plucking will be all about tax cuts: most notably the Bush tax cuts set to expire for the struggling and down-trodden millionaires and billionaires of this country – who, as it turned out, just bought the U.S. House of Representatives on November 2d.

The new owners – the millionaire and billionaire ‘Murkins – really, really want to keep dodging taxes and even though they don’t take formal possession of the House until January they’ll be making sure their pet ducks do all they can over the next couple of weeks to help ‘em out. Little help here!

Oh sure, the deal-making has already begun. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, was all over the Tee Vee Box on Sunday saying maybe tax cuts can be extended for those making less than $1 million a year. What a guy!

But notice something significant: the Congress doesn’t have to do anything on the tax cuts. They could just let them expire. That would be a do-nothing Congress with some actual benefit to the nation.

James Kwak, noted scholar, current Yale Law School student and co-author along with MIT Economist Simon Johnson of the Baseline Scenario, says the Congress should do nothing on the Bush tax cuts.

Says Kwak to the Lame Ducks:

“The question is: Is it better to extend the tax cuts for everyone or for no one? The answer is to extend them for no one.

“The Bush tax cuts have always overwhelmingly benefited the rich, not the middle class, and that is no less true today than when they were enacted. They were bad policy then and they are bad policy today. Extending the tax cuts would dramatically enrich the wealthy relative to everyone else. 65.5 percent of the total benefit would go to the top quintile by income, 26.8 percent to the top 1 percent, and 14.7 percent to the top 0.1 percent.”

Kwak says the single most important non-action the Congress could take would be to let the tax cuts expire – for everyone, rich and middle class – and thereby reduce the federal deficit and help ensure the survival of Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.

“The CBO (full document, Table 1-7) projects the cost of those tax cuts in 2020 at $368 billion, or 1.6 percent of GDP. The tax cuts mean the difference between a federal deficit of 3.0 percent of GDP (probably sustainable) or 4.6 percent of GDP (probably unsustainable).”

Read the full post here.

It remains to be seen if the Lame Duck Congress also lost its spine in the November elections. How much spine does it take to simply do nothing?

After all, it wouldn’t be the Congress of 2010 that raised taxes. It would be the President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress in 2001 and 2003 that actually raised taxes on January 1, 2011.

Congress not necessarily a sane asylum

Posted on November 8, 2010 By

Capitol

Bless its heart, the U.S. Congress has never been immune from some crazy stuff, nor members.

History is replete with voters sending to the Congress some…er…um…interesting representatives.

Even in our modern era, we’ve had some…er…um…characters. (Senators with prostitutes and diapers and the like…wait, is there a “like”?)

Of course, one of Congress’s most famous worst moments in history came on May 22, 1856 when U.S. Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina marched into the U.S. Senate Chamber and beat unconscious with a cane Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.

Sumner, you see, was an abolitionist and Brooks a pro-slavery member of the House of Representatives. Brooks was offended by Sumner’s speech three days earlier in which he argued against admitting Kansas into the union as a slave state.

During the speech, Sumner blamed Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois and Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina for attempting to force Kansas’ admission as a slave state.

Sumner called Douglas, a “noise-some, squat and nameless animal…not a proper model for an American Senator.”

But Sumner mocked Butler’s self-proclaimed stature as a man of chivalry claiming the South Carolina senator had taken, “a mistress…who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight – I mean the harlot, slavery.”

Defending his fellow South Carolinian, Brooks walked into the Senate Chamber and beat Sumner to within an inch of his life. Brooks resigned because of the incident but was re-elected by the good people of South Carolina shortly thereafter.

No one is expecting members of Congress to physically attack each other in the 112th Congress but just like the debate over slavery in the 1850s, the Congress will have members with some crazy ideas.

According to ThinkProgress, the progressive Washington think tank, 50 percent of the incoming freshman class – Republicans elected on November 2 – deny the existence of manmade climate change.

  • 86 percent are opposed to any climate change legislation that would increase government revenue pledged to reducing CO2 pollution.
  • 39 percent have declared their intention to end the 14th Amendments guarantee of birthright citizenship.
  • 91 percent have sworn to oppose any tax increase on any individual or business, even corporations and the top 2 percent of wealthiest Americans.
  • 79 percent have pledged to help the rich even more by permanently eliminating the estate tax.
  • 48 percent want to see a balanced U.S. budget.

Don’t expect any caning but it’ll be interesting to watch the House debate over raising the nation’s debt ceiling or shutting down the U.S. government altogether. No doubt some will argue for the later.

Ducks, the issue…

Posted on October 8, 2010 By

Duck&WitchNewt

Only 10 years into America’s Century and who would have thought our political discourse could have gotten so rotten so soon?

Really? The big ad of the 2010 season begins with the disclaimer, “I am not a witch”?

We haven’t seen that kind of political ad since the Salem City Council elections in 1692.

It would, of course, be very easy to tell if Tea Party darling and (can’t believe I’m actually writing this) U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is, in fact, a witch.

There are ways to tell if she’s a witch.

There are? Yes. Tell us how. What do we do with witches? We burn them!! Why do we burn them? They’re made of wood! So, we build a bridge out of her? No, we can also build bridges out of stone.

What else can wood do? Float in water. So, we throw Christine O’Donnell into the pond to see if she floats? No, plenty of other things float. Ducks float.

So, we weigh her and if she weighs the same as a duck, she’s witch! Easy! And it’s the same logic Rumsfeld and Cheney used to persuade Bush to invade Iraq!

And since we’ve all become sheep, we should end all political spots with the tagline, “I am ewe.”

But, wait! That’s not all! There’s more!

There is Virginia Congressional District 1 candidate…not making this up…Krystal Ball, a Democrat.

Something told Krystal Ball to run for the Congress but someone else told a right-wing website about private photos taken during Krystal Ball’s graduation party at the University of Virginia when she was 22 years old. In the photos, now candidate Ball appears to fondle a red…um…er…mommies-best-friend attached at the time to her husband’s nose (as he played the part of Rudolph the Red Dildoed Reindeer.)

One would have thought Krystal Ball could have seen this coming; the release of the photos. But, you see, Ms. Ball was listed during her time as a congressional aide on The Hill’s annual photo essay of “The Hill’s Most Beautiful People.” So, the right-wing naturally went after her as a sex object.

But the right-wing should have gazed into the future and understood Krystal Ball is not prone to take this kind of thing.

“It’s sexist and it’s wrong, regardless of political party,” Ball said in a statement posted on her campaign’s Facebook page Wednesday. “And I have a message for any young woman who is thinking about running for office and has ever attended a costume party with her husband or done anything stupid on camera. Run for office. Fight for this country. Don’t let this sort of tactic deter you.”

Really! You tell ‘em, Krystal. I mean it’s not like dildoes are new to the Congress.

A toast to feminine hygiene products.

Posted on September 13, 2010 By

Kanye

Congress returns to work this week.

We survive another 9/11 weekend, albeit with few book burnings and more than a few lackluster Tea Party rallies across ‘Murka.

Kanye West brings down the house at the MTV Video Music Awards with his latest hit, “Runaway,” and homage to feminine hygiene, “A toast to the douchebags.”

All this a coincidence?

Perhaps but how can we be sure? After all, freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.

Fresh from fabulous vacations, er…fact-finding trips, and re-acquainting themselves with the good people back home, the Congress People will set their sights on tax cuts and small business stimulus…not necessarily in that order.

One big showdown will come over President Obama’s desire to end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

But, no, Republicans will spend their week defending the helpless rich people against these Cretin Socialist Kenyan Zoroastrians who think, for some unknown reason, the rich should pay their fair share in taxes.

While portraying a talking head Sunday on the TeeVee Box, the Orange One, the GOP minority leader in the House, the Honorable John Boehner of Ohio’s most tanned congressional district, said he might even go along with extending tax cuts for poor working chumps like you and me…but…only if the rich get to keep their Bush tax cuts.

Yea, yea…I know. It’s really had to imagine anyone defending tax breaks for the extremely wealthy but that’s the bed in which Congressional Republicans find themselves lying because even though the very rich only account for 20 percent of the population they hold 85 percent of the nation’s wealth and that’s where Republicans get most of their campaign contributions.

It’s a good strategy because the rest of us have no money left to make political contributions.

The Democrats completely missed the mark with that, siding with the poor and barely-surviving working class…what’s left of it.

If the Republicans know anything they know money and where to find it and they do a dang fine job makin’ sure the castles are protected from the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

A toast to the douchebags.

Just the bear facts…

Posted on July 12, 2010 By

Spain wins the World Cup; Lance clips a pedal and sees his Tour hopes dashed to the curb; the Gulf of Mexico continues filling up with oil and toxic chemicals and the Congress returns to Capitol Hill.

Quiz: which of these events presents the most disappointment and dread?

Answer: Mama Grizzlies.

(It was a trick question.)

What, exactly, is with the extremist right wing in this country and all the talk of animals and shootin’ guns and teeth-barin’ metaphors?

Seems to be working, though.

Sarah Palin compares right-wing female politicians to Mama Grizzlies and her political action committee raises nearly $1 million in the second quarter.

Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle suggests armed revolt might be the answer to today’s troubled nation and she wins the GOP nomination.

Some winger fringe preacher says a Yellowstone National Park visitor killed by a bear is God’s revenge for researchers drugging the bear to study it…rather than killing it.

Then, of course, there is the famous admission by abortion extremist Neal Horsley that everyone growing up on a farm has sex with mules.

Oh…wait…that’s a different story.

Palin has long made the best out of animal metaphors, of course. Pit bulls and pigs with lipstick became a national phrases célèbre during the 2008 presidential campaign. So much so that, by golly, she’s stickin’ with it.

“I always think of the mama grizzly bears that rise up on their hind legs when somebody’s coming to attack their cubs, to do something ADVERSE toward their cubs,” Palin recently told an adoring audience, not at a zoo.

“You thought pit bulls were tough, well you don’t mess with the mama grizzlies. Look out, Washington, because there’s a whole stampede of pink elephants crossin’ the line and the ETA — stampeding through — is November 2nd, 2010. Lotta women, comin’ together.”

Palin was, of course, comparing politicians and office-seekers who happen to be women – and right wing – to mama grizzlies. That’s sweet and all – and certainly a different view of women than one might get from, say, the National Organization of Women or Emily’s List.

Maybe just a few too many pink elephants stampeding along. Who knows?

“It seems like it’s kind of a mom awakening in the last year and a half, where women are rising up and saying, ‘No, we’ve had enough already.’ Because moms kinda just know when something’s wrong,” she said.

We all know when something’s wrong. One just can’t put lipstick on a pig and expect anyone to see it as anything but a pig.

Congressmen say the darndest things…

Posted on June 18, 2010 By

HeadUpURAss

One doesn’t have to be crazy to get elected to the Congress – but it helps.

So let me get this straight: seemingly angry that his amigos at BP (“Bustamante Pendejos,” according to @DCDebbie) got their corporate arms twisted by President Obama to ante up a $20 billion down payment for the carnage they wreaked on the Gulf of Mexico, Texas Congressman Joe Barton said yesterday the President’s demand “amounts to a shakedown.”

Shakedown is street for extortion, you see, and the esteemed representative from Texas, who couldn’t possibly be close to Big Oil interests back home, was saying the President of the United States was acting like a thug to demand BP put money immediately on the table to pay for attempting to kill the Gulf of Mexico.

“I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday,” said Congressman Barton. “I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown — in this case a $20 billion shakedown.”

Mr. Barton followed up his comments by suggesting we might have acted a little hastily back in 1776.

Just kidding about that last part.

Seriously, are these guys nuts or what? Let’s look this up in Politics for Dummies. Yep, there it is…page 174: “A good political strategy is ALWAYS taking up for major multinational corporations who are responsible for the worst environmental and social disaster in the history of the United States.”

Good move, Mr. Barton.

But Barton is not Batman. He did not act alone. Turns out Congress is full of dweebs who express similar comments and sympathies.

While many members of Congress, including the leaders of his own party, decried Barton’s moronic expressions, other chimed right in.

“BP’s reported willingness to go along with the White House’s new fund suggests that the Obama Administration is hard at work exerting its brand of Chicago-style shakedown politics,” said Congressman Tom Price, Republican of Jawja.

And the hits just keep on comin’ from the unbelievably stupid. Thanks to Mother Jones Magazine, we have a list of the dumbest comments flatulently gushing forth from some congressional orifices.

Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, way back in May, said of the oil spill, “Accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don’t happen again.”

Texas Congressman Pete Olson said of the 6-month moratorium on drilling in wake of the oil spill devastation: “This is a kneejerk reaction by the administration to address a problem that doesn’t exist.”

Fellow Texan Ralph Hall said: “It’s a shame we can’t drill ANWR. It’s a shame we don’t get that energy off the coast of Florida,” and followed it up with: “I resent the fact that [Obama's] trying to blame some of this on Bush. On 9/11 I don’t remember Bush trying to blame this on Clinton.”

You just can’t make up this stuff.

Senator Bob Bennett of Utah, recently considered by the erudite Tea Baggers as not conservative enough for re-election said earlier this month, “The bridge to that promised land of renewable energy is built out of fossil fuels.”

Illinois Senator and President Abraham Lincoln said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

Sure, makes sense: better health care leads to violence!

Posted on March 26, 2010 By

It’s a good thing we’re finally gonna see the nation’s health care system reformed.

There’s a whole lotta folks out there gonna need some serious medical attention, soon, if this national political discourse gets any more violent! Is mental health care covered in the reforms?

Holy Crap! What’re you people thinkin’? Death threats, spittin’ at members of Congress, callin’ ‘em horrible names, throwin’ money at Parkinson’s patients…and that’s just in my family!

“Correct me if I’m wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they put me under the jail and throw away the key.”

“Not the golfers, you idiot. The gofers!”  (Slaps Carl with Tam O’Shanter.)

“Oh…we can do that. We don’t even need a license.”

Even the centered, staid NPR felt like it had to devote nearly an hour Thursday to the violent rhetoric and threats peeling across the political marketplace.

And then, of course, comes along the Faux New Channel – whistling and rolling eyes – saying it’s a “bad atmosphere” and wondering where all this comes from?

Gee, can’t figure it out.

The good news is Glenn Beck has is all figured out: It’s the radical bomb-throwing hippies of the 1960s, the people now in charge of the fedrul gov’munt; they are the ones poking and prodding the teabaggers into atrocious threats of violence.

All we need, says Beck, is the finger of God.

Glad we have Sarah Palin who’s promised to – seriously – “target” members of Congress who voted in favor of healthcare reform.

“Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!” Palin shouted on the Twittermachine.

And on her Facebook page, Palin displayed a map of her targeted congressional members, with gun sights to locate their districts.

“Well aim for these races and many others,” she writes. “This is just the first salvo in a fight to elect people across the nation who will bring common sense to Washington.”

Yep, the common sense of targeting and aiming and salvos…peaceful talk.

Nope, just can’t imagine where all these poor teabagger folks are getting the notion to be angry and violent.

Peace to you.

“You know I can be found, sittin’ home all alone…”

Posted on March 17, 2010 By

What’s that? Oh sure…NOW you’re ready to pass a health care reform package!

It’s not like we haven’t been waiting for nearly 100 years! What, you think we’re that easy? We’ll just come around and take you back, now that we’ve waiting this long?

You’ve been seriously teasing us for over a year. Sure, we’ve heard the sweet talk: “It will provide insurance to those who don’t. And it will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government”

You think we’re just going to come crawling back now that you’re ready to actually DO IT?

Yea?…well, we will…’cause if we don’t maybe as many as 17 million more Americans will be uninsured by 2019.

But we still don’t understand why it wasn’t as simple as extending Medicare to the entire population. We don’t know why you had to make it so complicated. All you lawmakers, you’re all the same.

Sure, that would be too simple and beneficial, not only for all Americans but for the government itself.

Oh, no! You have to play hard-to-get, letting lobbyists crawl all over you with their sweet smellin’ ways and pockets of cash; flaunting all that high-livin’ right in front of our faces.

But, sure…we’ll come crawlin’ back and accept your health care reform proposal…because it’s all we have!

Not everyone, of course. The 25 percent of ‘Murkins always angry about something are havin’ a screamin’ hissy fit that health care reform – such as it is – will soon be law.

The right-wing media is screaming hysterically and folks in polyester pedal-pushers and checkered shirts are standing outside the Capitol cheering the likes of Congressman Louis Gomer…or Gohmert…or something, who held up a stack of papers (presumably the health care bil)l and said, “I don’t want to make you sick but I brought an abortion to show you, today!”

Nice. Helpful.

And, so, the GOP-right-wing is livid about Democrats in control of the Congress – overwhelmingly elected to that majority by American voters – may use parliamentary procedures once used against them by the GOP-right-wing to finally adopt health care reform.

Things like simple majority votes and votes by acclamation really has the GOP-right-wingers screaming to high heavens about improper use of…er…well…majority rule. (History note: Republicans, in the majority in Congress’s 104 to 108 used acclamation or “deeming” over 200 times…just sayin’.)

So, maybe we’ll have health care reform- such as it is –  by the end of the week and we can all sit back and listen as Republicans explain to ‘Murka how they really don’t think it’s right for Americans to have decent, affordable health care.

Winter brings rise in moronic levels across USA!

Posted on February 12, 2010 By

Writing in what was once the U.S. News & World Report, yet another RW puppet proclaims Congressional Republicans are refusing to be “led around by the nose” by President Obama.

Ha-ha…this is very funny because:

A.)   They are led around simply by the “no(s)”; or

B.)   They are too far up the butt of Douche Limpbranch and Gin BecksBeer to find their probosci; or

C.)  They would refuse to smell the need for reform if it came up and smacked them on the south end of a north-bound elephant.

The piece goes on to say Republicans are right to demand scrapping all health care reform before agreeing to a televised summit with the president on said…alleged…health care reform. Yes, this is the kind of cooperative approach to government for which we are all asking.

The good news is the Eastern Seaboard is so covered with snow people can’t get to the doctor just now to find out their treatment has been denied by health insurance companies.

And speaking of what Easterners are calling the, “snowpocalypse” (harsh winter weather won’t stop hyperbole), the snow gives morons all across ‘Murka the opportunity to say, “Hey, look, it’s snowing! There’s no global warming after all! Back to the Hummer!…and I don’t mean the truck.”

Seriously, you dorks think because it snows in winter this proves all the climate change science is a hoax? You really believe that? You’re not really that stupid, are you?

Well, apparently some folks really are that stupid. Take Douche Limpranch, for an example:

“Amid record-setting cold weather…the hoax that…global warming is.”

Right-wing Senator Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, said in The Hill newspaper the snow proves there is no need for legislation requiring reduced emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

“Record snowfall has buried Washington — and along with it, buried the chances of passing global warming legislation this year,” wrote The Hill. “Cars are stranded in banks of snow along the streets of the federal capital, and in the corridors of Congress, climate legislation also has been put on ice.”

The New York Post jumped right on that one.

“If, like everyone else from New England to Virginia, you spent the last 24 hours watching the global warming fall from the sky, you may agree that Sen. Jim DeMint could be on to something,” wrote the Post. “The South Carolina Republican took to the Twitter-sphere to declare that the region’s second major blizzard in less than a week must be a sign from God.”

“It’s going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries ‘uncle’,” is actually what the learned senator said on the Twitter.

Okay, Dilberts, here’s the deal: weather does not climate make? Got that? There is a difference between weather and climate. Sure, it snow in winter. It’s WINTER!!

Was the first decade of the 21st Century the warmest on record? Yes, it was. Did it snow in the North American winter of that decade? Yes…yes, it did.

You might want to take a moment and read something scientific, even though it will tax your brain. (Whoops…I said “tax” and “brain.” Look for new right-wing talking point.)

Oh yea, and it’s really, really hot in Rio where it’s summer. And in Vancouver, where the Winter Olympics are about to open, it’s waaaayyyy too warm.

Meanwhile, and from yet another branch of the poorly-informed “Real ‘Murka,” poorly-informed Sarah Palindrome ain’t havin’ such a good week. (Ever notice how when you play a recording of Sarah Palin speaking it says the same thing forward and backward?)

Polling by ABC & The Washington Post suggest only 37 percent of those polled view Palindrome “favorably,” while a whopping 52 percent of Republicans don’t even think she’s qualified to be president…also…too.