The House has passed the budget, complete with the trashing of McCain-Feingold and forcing the taxpayer to foot the bill for Wall Street’s predations. America takes another giant step down the path to total corruption of its political system. I’m beginning to sympathize with the anarchists and wish that Occupy Wall Street had enjoyed stronger leadership.
Its very telling, isn’t it? What two items on the Republican agenda were worth wrecking everything to get? Gut the limits on campaign spending, and make it easier for greed freaks to exercise their creativity and entrepreneurial zest. These are the hills they were willing to die on, the points so utterly crucial that all else pales by comparison.
Deep fried chickpeas or favs beans can be disagreeable.
Wait a minute… didn’t conservatives spend most of Obama’s first term making fun of his “HOPE” slogan?
The Republicans are taking virtually no risks here. They passed a budget that will prevent a govt shutdown, if Obama refuses to sign it, they get to blame him. Of course, Obama won’t REALLY be to blame, but this is what comes out of the last election. Plus, Republicans spin and frame a lot better than the Democrats do. If Obama DOES sign the bill and the greed freaks DO sink the economy, rest assured, Obama will be blamed. He signed the bill into law, didn’t he? A Democratic majority in the Senate passed it into law didn’t they?
At this point, every government shutdown gets owned by the Republicans, no matter what the circumstances. It’s like tax increases and higher spending; the public will always believe the Democrats did it, even when it was the Republicans. Likewise, Republicans have been the cause of so many notorious shutdowns, it is easy to blame it on them, and the public will believe it, because shutdowns are perceived as a Republican thing.
Ho ho, Ricky talking about “life experiences.” After his education at Texas A&M, he served in the Air Force a couple of years (required, I believe, after the ROTC), returned home to help his father grow cotton & ran for the State Legislature. As a Democrat. He switched parties(with Karl Rove at his side) so he could run as Agriculture Commissioner. So he progressed in office until Bush Jr’s social promotion to the Presidency made him Governor.
Rick Perry has never, ever had a job in private industry. Much less run a company…
Maybe not, but he’s made significant contributions to the hair care industry.
And it’s hard to fault those sexy Colin Melloy glasses.
Wait, glasses are sexy? Oh, sure,* now* I find out!
But didn’t most of the Blue Dogs lose their seats to Republicans, rather than liberal Dems? So if this Congress couldn’t stop the bill, how will the next Congress be any better?
At last night’s White House Christmas Party, Michele Bachmann (yes, I know), asked the President to bomb Iran. And she’s upset that he laughed in her face.
Dumbest bitch in the universe. Every time her mouth opens, same uneducated bullshit. If Obama jokingly said, “Yeah, gotta help the Jews”, she would’ve been like, “Yeah! We need their money!” Or something. Yet, she probably has both hands clutching her purse if she meets a Rabbi. Cuntrag extroidinaire.
Has she asked Barak if his wife is a man yet? If not, color me surprised.
When is the Secret Service going to get their act together? They let a crazy person within arms reach of the president.
She was just another one of those zOMGOPs, the Secret Service did not recognize her as being a serious threat. To the president, anyway.
It would be so sweet if she tried that. The President’s proper response: “She was all woman when we fucked each other’s brains out last night. When’s the last time you and Maurice fucked each other’s brains out? Hmmmm?”
Hmmm, misdirected sexual frustration would seem explain a good bit about Mrs. Bachmann’s behavior over the last…forever…
House Republicans have filed an Obamacare lawsuit that, if successful, will basically raise healthcare costs for pretty much everybody. What a bunch of ass clowns.
It’s so beautiful that he talked to her like a child, which was perfectly appropriate. Maybe insulting to children, though.