Stimulating A War On Republican Religion
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Jim DeMint (R-SC)-- looking for his own Ft Sumter to blow up
The ineffective Republican Obstructionist Caucus isn't accomplishing anything except slowing down President Obama's plans to stimulate the economy. They're doing their best to tear him down and they're using every trick in the book to turn voters off to the plan by picking it apart and lying about the pieces. An example was the nonsense they got all their trained monkeys on Fox and at Hate Talk Radio to repeat about honey bees. Blowhard Neil Cavuto, along with David Diapers Vitter (R-LA) and Miss McConnell (R-KY) have their panties in a bunch over "honey bee insurance" in the Stimulus Package. The roof is falling! Two of the Senate's biggest perverts (hint: Cavuto's not in the Senate so draw your own conclusions) "have joined in on the Senate floor to mock this disgraceful waste of taxpayer money."
It's shocking! Now, you will be unsurprised to learn that the program in question isn't honeybee insurance at all, it's disaster insurance for all livestock producers. But that's not the best part. This is:
The provision simply continues a program enacted by Congress last year, overriding a veto by President Bush. In other words, the Senate voted on it twice in 2008-- once to enact and once to override. Connoisseurs of political comedy will see the punch line coming: McConnell and Vitter voted yea both times.
So it turns out that McConnell isn't really against honeybees. He's only using them to pretend that he's got a principled objection to a stimulus plan aimed at pulling the country out of the most severe recession in decades.
Ladies and gentlemen, your Republican Party. Country first, as always.
They are adamantly opposed to capping the salaries of the dirty, whoremongering David Vitter-type banksters who have stolen billions from the Treasury and dragged the economy into the mess it's in. Law and order, for Republicans, only goes so far... it stops at the mansion gates. The leader of the Obstructionist Caucus is Jim DeMint (R-SC) and he came up with a real doozy of an amendment. The Stimulus Package, in his fevered little mind-- or is he laughing at the poor saps who pay attention to his cynical drivel?-- is taking away our religion and destroying our Faith. If you had the misfortune to tune into Fox in the last few days you probably heard them wailing and saw them rending their garments over Obama's war on praying (aka, the Stimulus Bill). Demented DeMint to the rescue! His nonsensical amendment came to a vote last night-- and lost 43-54. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Evan Bayh (D-IN) joined most of the Republicans plus Lieberman to vote for this cockamamie silliness DeMint pulled out of his ass.
The Stimulus bill does nothing to religion except for the Republican Party's overriding faith in Greed and Selfishness and all the failed policies of the last decade that have wrecked the economy. They think they're playing a game but President Obama is serious when he says we're on the brink of a precipice that the GOP dragged us into. We elected him to turn the country around. They should get out of the way and act like Americans for a change. Here's the president explaining why this is so crucial last night:
If you think Fox was designed straight out of a long-lost Josef Goebbels playbook, you haven't seen PajamasTV yet. I hadn't either-- til I found a link at John Cole's site. It's horrifying but Cole summed up the session with 3 raving neo-fascists really well:
I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.
Labels: David Vitter, Mitch McConnell, Obama's stimulus package, obstructionist Republicans
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 10:00 AM
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The republicans are playing with the tigers tail. The tiger needs to turn around and bite them so they will show some respect for what the majority of Americans want done with the stimulus. Organize Dems in republican districts and get a grass roots response to the republican stonewalling. Compromise can only be taken so far until the republicans control the agenda.
Ahh... I see. So if we stop and think about spending $1,000,000,000,000 for more than two weeks suddenly we're "obstructionists"?
No... what the Republicans are here is mindful of the numerous problems with a huge stimulus bill, the lessons learned from the great depression and, most importantly, the will of the vast majority of Americans who are against stealing from future generations by borrowing today.
Debt and spending got us into this mess - yes, that debt and spending was done by Republicans - whether it was a "come to Jesus" moment or something else, I appreciate that the Republicans have the common sense to see that the same debt and spending won't lead us out.
See the Dicta.
Before you hit your launch button, I am not a Republican. With the passing of this Socialist Land Grab Bill, once again the messianic Liberal worldview is put into practice with three simple questions:
Who will pay for this idea? Someone else.
Who will institute it? Someone else.
Who will manage it? Someone else.
Well, Mr./Mrs. Liberal, other than denigrate profit, encourage sloth and focus pathologically on perceived inequality and hurt feelings, what are you going to do?
Nothing, someone else will...
The Liberal ideology is founded on immaturity. It is the belief system of the uninitiated. Try this before you launch a defensive tyrade: Of course Republicans are accountable for some of this mess, but so are Democrats. stop blaming only Republicans (or as usual someone else)for your troubles. Re-examine your life objectively and accept the bad decisions you have made. Be accountable for you. Then take a prudent risk on a business. Hire people, manage them, work with a budget, suffer frivolous law suits, deal with extortion in the form of taxation, cope with unemployed looters who arrive as customers that have nicer belongings than you, feel the frustration of some of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, yet all the while as a business owner you know lowering those rates saved Ireland, Japan, etc. Then describe your thoughts and feelings as a socialist president speaks of the Lost Decade in Japan, but does not mention how they REALLY got out of it. Do these things, really do them free of defensiveness and attachment to your habituated sense of Liberalism. I wonder if you have what it takes to be the free thinking adventurer Liberals claim to be. Try it.
yeah screw bi-partisanship. Let's just have one ruling, all powerful government that caps salaries, runs the health care, auto/transportation and energy industries, is in bed with the media industry (so the only media you see and hear is supportave of the republic), and appoints Czars to crush people who are deemed "haters" for having opposing views.
Sound good? (or familiar?)
We can call it The United Socialist States of America (USSA)
All the following senators voted "No" on the stimulus plan"
"Lamar Alexander, John Barrasso, Robert Bennett, Kit Bond, Sam Brownback, Jim Bunning, Richard Burr, Saxby Chambliss, Tom Coburn, Thad Cochran, Bob Corker, John Cornyn, Michael Crapo, Jim DeMint, John Ensign, Michael Enzi, Lindsey Graham, Charles Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Kay Bailey Hutchison, James Inhofe, Johnny Isakson, Mike Johanns, Jon Kyl, Richard Lugar, Mel Martinez, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, James Risch, Pat Roberts, Jeff Sessions, Richard Shelby, John Thune, David Vitter, George Voinovich, Roger Wicker"
Where were these "born-again conservatives" when Bush asked for tens of billions of dollars every year for the past 8 years thereby runnin up our deficit to trillions?
I feel that the biggest thieves in this whole mess has been the Republican Party, themselves. You were the one's that was in power and sat sat on your behinds and allowed all of these greedy supporters of yours, and your drinking and golfing buddies to put this economy in the condition that it is in. How dare you call this theft when you have done nothing but sat on your greedy behinds and allowed those whom you should have been calling into account, those who have caused all of this, and you did nohing. Anytime the Republican party is in control this is the kind of mess we end up in, loss of jobs, and wars and rumors of them. As long as they and their so called conservative groupies are not suffering from any of it, you're ok with it. The problem is not enough of the Republicans in charge are out of a Job yet. If you all cared enough about the future we wouldnt be in this mess now.
if bush asked for 100 billion every year while he was president, it still wouldn't add up to $838 billion nObama is asking for.
The "Big Dig" in Boston costs $22 billion so far, has been going on since 1982 and has created only an estimated 5,000 jobs. It is he biggest construction project ever taken on by the government. It has been plagued by poor management, shoddy work and even lawsuits. (Which is typical of a government operation).
5,000 jobs per $22 billion.
By those numbers, an $800 billion dollar stimulus bill will create 185,000 jobs. Do the math.
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