Well…this pretty average day has just gotten so much better with the announcement that the craziest house member that the US has ever seen, Michelle Bachmann, is not going to run again in 2014…and immediately the average intelligence of the House just went up by 30 points. She ran out the normal platitudes on why except the tired old “to spend more time with my family” but we all know that she took a look at the easy, rich life that sister Sarah got from the right when she became the half-governor and wanted to slop at that trough before she gets out crazied by the new crop of even crazier righties. I could list a list of the stupidity that has spewed from this idiot but google does a much better job at it so just google it and see…the last thing I have to say is “ding dong, the witch is dead”…good riddance…geez…
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Just can’t get started…
Well….over the past couple of weeks, I have had a serious problem with getting my brain working well enough to put these together with the ease that I am used to…can’t work up the outrage necessary to go on a rant and that used to really work for me…one thing that has been really irritating me me is the conduct of the justice department under Holder…where he has no problem going after medical marijuana patients and the dispensaries in many states…people who are doing no harm…but then leaves the bankers who crashed the economy alone…along with the thugs from GW’s administration who clearly admitted they broke the law and committed multiple felonies but not one of them has even been investigated. This nonsense continued to the hacker that killed himself when the DOJ came after him and hounded him with the flimsiest of cases…what the hell is wrong with these guys? As long as the continue to give the real crooks free passes, they are teaching them that they are above the law and when normal people continue to be targeted while obeying state law, it corrodes the rule of law and contributes to the widespread feelings that the government is out of control…it’s not, but things do need to change…but I won’t believe it until I see one of the banksters doing the perp walk…geez…
A few things…
Well….with the crazies out of DC, I haven’t had a lot of things to write about so I thought I’d just do some rambling…there was a cool thing the other day when John McCain came out of his fog and actually made sense when he wrote about his new bill that would force cable and dish companies to allow a la carte pricing…meaning you wouldn’t have to pay for the 35 religious channels to get the ones you want…or you wouldn’t have to take all of the children’s stuff when you don’t have kids….would save people a bunch of money and it is the first time he has made sense in quite a while…
Then, there was Bob Dole coming out this week and saying that the repubs should just close up shop if they are going to keep electing people like Ted Cruz and the rest of the crazies that have paralyzed the government; trying to use shame to get them to change their nonsense..but, what he doesn’t understand is that these guys have no shame, they don’t care if they are assholes…they are even proud of it and they don’t care about governing and the compromise that makes government work….
What else? Not much right now…so I guess the title should have read ” a couple of things”….oh, well…
Republicans are the biggest damn hypocrites…
Well…I can’t say I was surprised the other day when I read about two of the repub thugs who are driving the cuts to food stamps for the poor are also farmers who have received millions in crop subsidies and other benefits from the government. Stephen Fincher from Tennessee and Doug LaMalfa from California are the idiots who see their corporate welfare as being a good thing since it “saved their farms” but they can’t see that cutting food stamps is not such a good thing for all of the working poor and veterans that depend on them to keep from going hungry. In Fincher’s case, his family has received over 3 million dollars in subsidies over the past 15 years while LaMalfa’s family has received over 5 million dollars in that same time frame…what happened to the “free market” that the repubs worship? If these farms can’t survive without subsidies, then they shouldn’t be in business according to every repub in the country and then we can use the millions and millions to ensure that people in this country don’t starve….what a bunch of hypocrites…geez…
Impeach, impeach, impeach…
Well…if you were unsure yet that the repubs in the house are stupid, ignorant, know-nothings…you just have to listen to the bleating that is coming from them on all of the “scandals” that have arisen in the past few months and now, they have started to talk impeachment of Obama for “high crimes and misdemeanors”…but not one of them know what the hell that phrase even means let alone that no impeachable offenses even happened. One of the leaders of the impeachment crazy chorus is the really, really stupid Jason Chaffetz who came out, with a straight face even, and said that because he thinks that Obama lied about Benghazi, it is an impeachable offense…oh, really? When it is clear that no one lied, conspired or did anything else wrong other than the repubs cutting the budget for diplomatic security? If lying to the American people is an impeachable offense, where the hell were the impeachment chorus when Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest lied us into a war and cost over 4,000 American lives? I really do hope they keep going down this path since every time they open their mouths their stupidity is further revealed and they lose more and more support from the independents they need to win elections…I have resigned myself to the next two years of nothing but this crap…but then we take back the house and these crying babies can go to hell….can’t come too soon…geez…
Ignorance, certainty, and meanness…
Well….the only thing I’ve been doing today is thinking…and reading some too, and one of the things that popped into my head was the three words that describe the modern repubs…ignorance, certainty, and meanness….if you just listen to these folks for one minute (I know that’s hard), you will hear their ignorance all day, every day…ignorance in economics, ignorance in science, ignorance in biology…hell, ignorance in everything and they are damn proud of it….one example of their certainty is on global warming where 97% of all science done over the past 20 years confirms that we are changing our planet by burning fossil fuels….but, you still have the repubs all saying that they are certain that climate change is a “UN sponsored fraud” and that all of the studies that say the climate is changing are done by liberal tree huggers….then, there is the meanness for no reason…the latest budget that Paul Ryan is proposing cuts off food stamps for 20 million Americans I guess since eating is a character flaw that the poor need to be taught is their fault….and these thugs are still using the fake study by Rogoff to justify cutting programs that keep people alive…even though the deficit is projected to be over 200 billion less than initially projected….just plain meanness and that is all it is….geez…
The right has gone completely frickin crazy…
Well…as I was reading some of the online stuff today, I came across the latest bout of outrage aimed at Obama from the right and I am just shaking my head at this one…as a little background, Obama was doing a presser with the head of Turkey the other day in the Rose Garden, and due to poor planning, it started to rain while Obama was making his remarks and one of the marine detail held an umbrella over him….well…the idiots on the right exploded calling it another reason to impeach Obama…Marines are never allowed to do that…he picked a white Marine since he is a racist…that Obama can’t order a Marine to do that…and many, many more asinine statements that just show they plain just hate the guy and no matter what he does, it is wrong. No matter that every president since FDR had Marines doing that for them and there are even photos of Reagan and both Bushes having an umbrella held for them….these folks on the right have just gone over the edge with this one…maybe this will be the one that makes the rest of the US understand that these folks are crazy…sure hope so….geez…
The real Benghazi scandal…
Well….with all of the repub outrage over Benghazi when there was never really any there there…we now have a real scandal but it is one that can be pinned on the repubs…late last week, ABC news reported on the “smoking gun” e-mails that were supposed to show that there was some sort of coverup by the WH..of what, no one is really sure, and the funny thing is that this was before the e-mails were released by the WH…so this means that some member of Congress must have given them to ABC…and the even worse thing is that the e-mails were doctored by someone (read repubs) to make it appear that there was a coverup…so, what we have is that these thugs are using the deaths of four Americans for pure partisan reasons and when the facts don’t support their narrative, they just lie and continue on as if their lies are the truth….now here is a real scandal that ole Issa should be investigation…oh, wait, that will never happen…the repubs don’t want the truth they just want the black guy gone….geez…
Pushback against the thugs…
Well…just a short little one on the testimony that Eric Holder gave at the idiot Issa’s committee today…I know ole Darrell was thinking that he had an easy target to score points for the crazy assed right….but they didn’t count on Holder pushing back on this continuous nonsense that Issa especially has been doing…using his committee to waste money on all of these “investigations” that have not yielded one instance of wrongdoing by anyone…okay, back to the pushback…in the committee there was some heated exchanges and then Holder laid the smackdown on Issa…”…It is inappropriate and too consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of Congress. It’s unacceptable, and it’s shameful…” Let me add that it’s about time that everyone in the Obama administration treats these idiots as the partisan idiots that they are and stop caring what they think…Issa needs to get back to the work of the people…not his personal witch hunts and we can help him by telling him he is ridiculous whenever we get the chance…
The only thing you need to know about the IRS “scandal”
Well…the repubs have raised hypocrisy to an even new level over the past couple of days with their insistence that the IRS scrutinizing some right wing non profits is the same as Watergate…and Obama should be impeached….yada, yada…what the hell is it with these guys? I really hate to bring up ole GW since he is better off unseen and unheard, but not one repub said a word when progressive groups were targeted when ole GW was in office…and, the head of the IRS during these operations that the repubs are bitching so much about was a GW appointee….this crap is nothing more than a continuation of the throw everything at Obama with as much pretend outrage as they can muster and hope that no one notices they aren’t doing one damn thing to help put people back to work or to solve the college loan crisis or, or, or…and on and on….what a bunch of idiots…geez…