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Showing posts with label Stupid Republicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stupid Republicans. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Broken Promises Indeed

May 4th, 2011

I generally don't post outright DCCC videos here. This is a worthy exception. Enjoy this round up of liars. Blatant fear mongering prior to the 2010 ballot followed by lockstep approval of Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) Path To Poverty. I endorse their petition.

Monday, January 24, 2011

First Things Last...

Jan 24th, 2011

The LA Times ran with news today of looming Republican slash and burn proposals for the arts. Early in the piece is this:


"Any way you want to describe it, the Republican Study Committee, made up of about 165 GOP members of the House of Representatives, on Thursday announced a budget-cutting plan aimed at slashing federal spending, and it calls for the elimination of the nation's two leading makers of government arts grants: the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities."

What's buried at the very end of the article is this:

"A small federal investment that's important to the health of the nonprofit arts sector helps sustain its 5.7 million jobs and the $30 billion in annual returns to federal, state and local coffers that those workers pay in taxes.”

What's a direct threat to 5.7 million jobs, give or take, when you have a chance to strike a blow against culture?

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Impact Of HCR Repeal

Jan 19th, 2011

Do you wonder what would really happen if they repealed last year's Health Care Reform Act? The link will take you to a map that allows the user to see the impact in each congressional district. It is strongly recommended that everyone take the time to do the research for themselves.

How would repeal affect you?

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

That's IT!?!

Jan 5th, 2011

We've been hearing about it, arguing about it, waiting for it and grappling with it for months. The "it" I refer to is the promise by Republicans that the 112th Congress would make their first order of business a bill to repeal "Obamacare."  Here it is in full. Hold onto your hats...

From Politics USA:
"A BILL
To repeal the job-killing health care law and health carerelated (sic)
provisions in the Health Care and Education
Reconciliation Act of 2010.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act’’.
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF THE JOB-KILLING HEALTH CARE LAWAND HEALTH CARE-RELATED PROVISIONS IN
THE HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 2010.
(a) JOB-KILLING HEALTH CARE LAW.—Effective as of the enactment of Public Law 111–148, such Act is re7
pealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted.
(b) HEALTH CARE-RELATED PROVISIONS IN THE HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 2010.—Effective as of the enactment of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–152), title I and subtitle B of title II of such Act are repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such title or subtitle, respectively, are restored or revived as if such title and subtitle had not been enacted."

My questions for the 112th Congressional Republican leadership are as follows:

That's it? That's all you could come up with? Are you insane? Or are you just that lazy? It doesn't even look like it was written by adults. It looks like the kind work a stoned high school student would turn in after he had waited to start until the night before it was due. You had roughly 9 months to draft this and you released 2 paragraphs with typos? Did you guys put in the phrase "JOB-KILLING" four times in a sad attempt to increase word count?

Grade = F



Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Republican Budget Cut Proposal Idiocy

Dec 28th, 2010


It doesn't get much better than this. From the NY Times:
"Note to the incoming Republican majority in the House: Eliminating government programs that do not exist does not save money. 


Of the few specific cuts that Congressional Republicans have proposed in their promised assault on annual budget deficits, one of the biggest by far would save $25 billion over 10 years, they claim, by ending an emergency welfare fund. The Republican Study Committee, which includes more than 100 of the most conservative House Republicans, promoted the idea in a statement this week, saying, “With the national debt quickly approaching $14 trillion, Washington needs to get serious about cutting spending.”
Well, seriously, the fund expired Sept. 30."
We have 2 years of this to look forward to. This is a reminder of what President Obama is up against.