The Tea Party and the Suppression of the Left

Dear GOP - F#@K You!

Ted Cruz: Wrecking Ball

Science Fair Nightmare

Scaring Up The White Vote The G O P Southern Strategy Lives at Fox New...

Always was there and still there. The Acorn boogie man who wasn't guilty of anything.

The Truth About Republicans

Carl Bernstein Slams Media's '50/50' Shutdown Coverage

Miley Cyrus - We Did Stop Official Video [SNL Parody Government Shutdown...

We can defund what we want.

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What the Republicans think of government work. I wonder why they all want to work for it

The Tea Party Consensual Sex

From RT: Ayn Rand for Vice President

The state of the GOP: Team Romney-Ryan 2012

Mitt Romney is a terrible politician. He has been given to the country by Wall Street and high finance: you know the people who actually make decisions for the country from the shadows. In nearly every southern primary Romney was  rejected by the south (the beating heart of the modern GOP), at least every primary where his challenger was able to figure out how to get on the ballot. The people bankrolling his campaign didn't really seem to care whether the south wanted him or not. They got Mitt Romney just the same. It really was decided for them before they ever went to the polls.

All's Romney had to do in the general election was show up say "I'm here to replace Obama", give no opinion on anything, spout platitudes, and wait for chief justice Roberts to hand him the keys to the white house. He has been such a bad politician putting his foot in his mouth on nearly every stop along the way, while looking like he's totally repulsed even having to stand beside ordinary Americans, and looking like he possess no principle that he isn't willing to change ten minutes later. This includes even making his latest choice of Paul Ryan for vice-president, to appease the right; only to reject Paul Ryan's plan fifteen minutes later, while trying to etch a sketch his way to the middle. Romney has proven to be the  equivalent of a political Gumby talking whatever position you want, whenever you want him to take it.



On nearly every issue you can guarantee that at one point or another Mitt Romney has been both for and against it. He's proven to be an abortion loving...cheesy grits eating...professional candidate who hates politics though who has really done nothing for the last twenty years of his life but run for elected office... and whose major core principle  is that he believes the trees in Michigan are just the right height.

Romney entered the race with all kinds of advantages. All's he had to do was shut and say he was reasonably sure he wasn't a Kenyan . Instead he allowed the conversation to turn into one about Mitt's missing tax returns which he's proven willing to go to the mat for to keep the public from knowing what's there in a manner that he won't defend any core principle (but trust him there is nothing embarrassing there after all he's looked for you)... or what has happened to the workers in  factories that the company that paid for his lavish lifestyle took over and (though he believes in no free hand-outs for the poor) which keep sending him large checks for doing nothing though he can't r even figure out why they are doing it ...and healthcare in Massachusetts that he passed which would have allowed all those laid-off workers to have some protection if they lived in his state (though if he's president he'll dismantle within the first day in office).

Now that he's managed to get almost no one excited behind him, this human chameleon has added the boy wizard, Paul Ryan, to his team. A congressman who shares a bed with a lobbyist both figuratively, literally, and in every way possible. The question that American need to think of is whether this former lobbyist and her husband, who appears as comfortable being lobbied as his wife is lobbying him,will be willing to have a different opinion than that of their client list. If the voters who support him have a different opinion from the companies he and his wife have worked for in the past, who will they stand up for? In the past decade alone Ryan's on wealth has increased by 75%.  http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/ryans-fortune-has-increased-in-past-decade-nb6f6ql-165879436.html) These well connected individual have allowed Ryan and his family to move into the old Parker Pen mansion: who have since taken their operations over to China  (http://www.scottwalker.org/news/2009/08/janesvilles-former-parker-pen-plant-may-close-153-jobs-would-be-lost) leaving their former Diggs to their loyal government lackeys, like the junior partners in the government businesses nexus that is literally destroying this country. Having nice houses like this allows politicians like Ryan to pretend he they really are just as powerful as the patrons who he so slavishly serves.

Ryan's Parker home: under new managment

When it comes to changing the tax code who will Paul Ryan and his wife listen to the American people - complete with their tricorner hats and pitch forks who have nothing but most the easily replaceable thing to offer: their votes; or will they listen to their former clients - the Pharmaceutical industry, the Oil industry (Conoco and Marathon Oil) or the big health insurance companies (Blue Cross Blue Shield and Cigna) The American public might want to change the tax code, a flat tax comes to mind, but the tax code has been working out pretty well for his client list and, indirectly, it's been working out pretty nicely for the Ryans too.

Who will they listen to the Tea Party signs

Or friends with benefits

Then this career politician (14 years or one third of his life as a "public servant" special emphasis on servant)  runs against Washington, the very institution that he's suckled at for over a decade and which bought him all these nice things. Washington is suddenly the problem, from looking at his house it looks more like his personal solution to me, as his whole career has  been nothing but acting as a personal conduit for business getting policies they want out of Washington. It's a perfect cynical policy put forth by a man who voted for the Bush tax cuts, two unfunded wars, an unpaid prescription benefit that is killing Medicare (causing him to have to destroy Medicare  to save it),  the bank bail out (but now wants de-regulate the banks allowing them to take even greater risks), and is listed by many in the media as a serious thinker with regard to economic issues (though his plan does nothing to cut the deficit but raises it)...Ryan is portrayed as some great thinker with serious ideas rather than as a guy who escaped from a lunatic asylum who babbles and imagines himself as a great thinker.

Another great thinker with serious ideas promoted by the media

Good luck tea party: in taking taking your country back. Your corrupted champions are here to help you. Just don't read too much, think too much, and really let's get to the biggest question that America wants an answer to has Obama ever really produced that birth certificate? I mean the long form

Romney returns from abroad

Republican Congress vote to increase their own insurance while cutting the Americans insurance

WASHINGTON -- Democrats are mocking Republicans in the House of Representatives for voting to repeal the health care reform law and keep their own enhanced medical care.

When Congress passed the health care law, it required members of Congress to get their insurance on exchanges with the rest of the public. But in voting to repeal that law, Republicans and a handful of Democrats were also voting to go back to the old system where the lawmakers get a sweeter deal than most of the rest of the country.

They also voted against a Democratic motion that said members of Congress who support repealing the health care law must also repeal the good stuff they get, such as lifetime care and insurance regardless of pre-existing conditions.

Democrats tried to demonstrate how Republicans distanced themselves from voting to protect their own deal by capturing a slew of GOP members on video saying they didn't vote to protect their own care, as seen below. The clip features a number of Republicans in tight races this year, as well as GOP budget guru, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

“House Republicans refuse to admit they voted to give themselves taxpayer funded lifetime guaranteed health care instead of having the same health care as their constituents,” said Jesse Ferguson, spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, referring to the fact that members of Congress are eligible for retirement benefits after just five years.

“House Republicans didn’t just vote to protect insurance company campaign donor profits this time, they’re even helping themselves to lifetime taxpayer-funded government health care and now they need to be honest with their constituents and admit it,” Ferguson said.

originally posted here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/health-care-democrats-gop-repeal-vote_n_1675551.html

From the daily Daily Kos: friends with benefits: Senators roll out red carpet for Jamie Dimon

Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: Senators roll out red carpet for Jamie Dimon:

'via Blog this'


You give this kind of cash and you have plenty of friends with benefits.

 SEN. BOB CORKER (R-TN): We’re here quizzing you. If you were sitting on this side of the dais, what would you do to make our system safer than it is and still meet the needs of a global economy like we have?

(American Banker)

SEN. MIKE CRAPO (R-ID): Many people say our primary focus from our perspective in terms of policy should be to make sure the banks are properly capitalized. Should that be our primary focus and what other areas of oversight would be the most effective for us in terms of our regulatory structure?

SEN. JIM DEMINT (R-SC): I would like to come away from the hearing today with some ideas on what you think we need to do, what we maybe need to take apart that we’ve already done, to allow the industry to operate better.

SEN. ROGER WICKER (R-MS): And you said something else that really sort caught me by surprise, and that was this testimony that nobody got all the parties in a room with people in your industry — Democrats, Republicans, and folks affected — and talked about what was needed and what really needed to be fixed. Did I hear you correctly there? Did you volunteer to be part of that conversation?

Full story here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/13/1099792/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-Senators-roll-out-red-carpet-for-Jamie-Dimon

This reminds me of the tough response Texas congressman Joe Barton apologizing to BP for getting any Texas sand under BPs oil because that's what you want in a congress someone who genuflects to business on site.

After the meeting Barton went into the full grovel.

Former politician and political hack John Sununu thinks there's are too many teachers but he's silent on whether there should be more well connected political hacks

The serfs just don't understand their role in this

Obama's radical idea teachers matter when it comes to education. Shocking

For more on the GOP's war on knowing things. http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2011/08/americas-love-affair-with-ignorance.html

Let's All Be Republicans!