Nice one, Congressman! “If the government’s going to tell me how much I can get paid and when I can work and when I can’t work, then we have a serious problem in this country.”
Congressman Ross, will you have the courage of your convictions to sponsor a bill eliminating, on a federal level, child labor laws, the 40-hour workweek, federal holidays, and paid time off?
Probably not:
Hmm, who tells the congressman how much he gets paid, when he can work, and when he can’t?
(There are two answers to this, both equally amusing.)
Clearly a feint. How happy the wall street urinal will be to proclaim that Ayn Rand Paul overcame the odds to hold onto his senate seat. He will then have a mandate.
Oh, that is some messed-up shit right there. Some choice snippets (for the laaaadies!)
“Catching” a husband suggests that they don’t WANT to get married. They have to be hunted down and TRAPPED like ANIMALS. Ha, gotcha!
Hence elucidator’s comment upthread:
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Well, bear traps weren’t working for her, men kept chewing their feet off at the ankle.
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Does this count?
<raising my hand>
Isn’t legislation proposed by Jabba the Hutt automatically null & void?
Not if the Senate voted him emergency powers.
Why ? You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Congress.
Well actually, there’s a serious Constitutional issue there. Holder refused to release documents related to Fast & Furious in response to a Congressional subpoena. If a Bush Administration official had done the same thing I would have felt it was proper to go after him. Though I guess this might give Congress the power to harass the Executive branch endlessly by going after their paperwork. Sounds like the sort of thing that should be sorted out by an objective Supreme Court … sadly, all we got is a bunch of right wing partisan hacks in the majority there. Still, an interesting question under all the bluster.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call the brother a Hutt. I mean, he got a weight problem. What’s the cracka gonna do? He’s Texan.
Call me crazy, but it seams reasonable to me.
I won’t call you crazy, and Evil Captor has a point. There is a valid point amid the anti-administration bullshit, and Farenthold might well be sincere in his beliefs that Holder deserves to be in jail.
But I’m concerned about the precedent set by the House holding a sitting cabinet member in contempt for the first time ever, and would be more concerned about creating a new law to further attack the same guy (and by extension, this administration in particular). The current House has shown itself adept at some seriously short-sighted, aggressive, bullshit tactics to discredit and minimize the current administration, and I firmly believe they’ve done the House, the Republican party, and the nation a great deal of long-lasting damage.
Which is to say that I agree there are a number of important issues involved in the Holder contempt vote, and that they need to be resolved. But I also agree that this is a terribly poor way to do so.
Just because it’s a discussion that needs to happen doesn’t keep this from being a SRIOTD.
“Crackers” are typically from “the South”. Texas is not part of “the South” and Texans are offended by such Yankistic ignorance. Even an backward, knuckle-walking peckerwood does not want to be labeled with a term more appropriate to Georgia or, God forbid, Mississippi.
Its a fair cop.