What War On Women?

April 9th, 2012

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That's the official GOP line; there is no "war on women."

Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called it a "manufactured issue".

He went so far as to presume that high ranking Republican women agree with him:

"There is no issue. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe from Maine, I think, would be the first to say — and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska — ‘We don’t see any evidence of this.' "

Really?

Tweet Of The Year Nominee

July 31st, 2011

Borowitz pokes some fun... serious fun.

A Note To McConnell...

July 14th, 2011

Today, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made a remarkable pronouncement regarding public perception of the President's culpability should our nation fail to raise the debt ceiling. From HuffPo:

"If the President wants to threaten seniors or veterans or rattle the world economy by pretending he can’t pay our bills, let him," McConnell said. “But he’s not going to implicate Republicans in these efforts

With all due respect, Mitch, the facts on the ground via the most recent Quinnipac poll show that the public already knows who to blame:

"Obama outscores congressional Republicans on several points in the deficit reduction battle:

Voters will blame Republicans over Obama 48 - 34 percent if the debt limit is not raised

Voters say 67 - 25 percent that an agreement to raise the debt ceiling should include tax hikes for the wealthy and corporations, not just spending cuts"

This is now... before the resultant explosion of inflation and interest rates that would follow a failure to treat the raising of the debt limit as, in the words of former George W. Bush budget director and current Republican governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels, "the housekeeping matter it is."

Enjoy your place in the history books, Sen. McConnell. 

Quote Of The Day - Here And Now Edition

April 2nd, 2011

"Mitch McConnell appears to be appeasing his far-right base with all the finesse of a coke addict plucking at the rubber band shin bone in "Operation." -- A recent observation on the continuing budget battle from Huff Post Hill

"The Grass Is Blue"

March 27th, 2011
 

If you have never curiously clicked some of the links in the right column, our "reader's companion," you are really missing out. 

The excerpt below is from "The Book Of Cletis," a terrific blog that ranges from cultural and political observations to wonderful short fiction on Sundays. A native of Kentucky, the publisher takes some time here to lament the sad state of their senate representation today:
 
No Damn Wonder The Grass Is Blue
Ahhh, March Madness continues. Our beloved Kentucky Wildcats have made it to the Sweet Sixteen and will play Ohio State Friday night. Hopefully, we will prevail and move forward in our quest for a national championship. If, however, we fail, Kentuckians can take solace in the knowledge that no other state can boast two, that's right two, U.S. Senators even close to being as devoutly ignorant and self-serving as ours. Here's a few quotes to bring you up to speed:
 
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." ~Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader, (R-Ky.), October 2010
 
"Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers." Mitch McConnell December 2007 commenting on the deaths of Americans fighting in Iraq.
 
"This discussion reminds me, somewhat, of the conversations that were going on after the BP oil spill last year," Mr. McConnell said during an interview on Fox News Sunday. "I don’t think right after a major environmental catastrophe is a very good time to be making American domestic policy." Mitch McConnell March 13, 2011 regarding the catastrophic nuclear reactor meltdowns in Japan.
 
"We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II." Rand Paul in an interview with Kentucky public TV on Dec. 2, 2002.

 

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