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Laura Ingraham vs. Charlie Rangel: Internal Squabble

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[dc]R[/dc]ightScoop calls out Ingraham for her RINO ambush (audio cued up, ready to go, at that link) of Bachmann just before the debt ceiling disaster vote.

If you think I’m wrong, I bet you back away from that after listening to Ingraham being just plain nasty to Bachmann.  The week before she went after Bachmann (so three weeks ago), she high-centered herself trying to drain support for Rep. West!

Rangel is a turd, but I have come completely off the Laura wagon over her badgering of Michele Bachmann two weeks ago.  It may be fun to watch Rangel get beaten about the head and shoulders (it may be VERY fun), but this is just Ingraham’s motormouth abuse schtick.

[pullquote]merely provocative, uninformative style of debate[/pullquote]

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El Gobernador Rick Perez

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Texican Governor Rick Perry, in a speech ten years ago:

We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, “we don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there.” And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate. Those young minds are a part of a new generation of leaders, the doors of higher education must be open to them. The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.

via Think ObamaCare is Bad? Rick “Open Borders” Perry Wanted a Bi-National Plan … Continue reading →

If the Tea Party were the GOP

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Michele Bachmann says she’ll bring back $2/gal gas.  I believe her.  CNN snickeringly informs us that she’s all wet, but it’s CNN that doesn’t understand how marginal effects and market confidence work.  But enough of that.  I’m here to pick a different fight.

If Michele Bachmann were to be elected, and then try to wriggle off of the hook using GOP tactics as gas went through $5, it would sound like this:

Well, when I made that promise, gas was $3.79, and a reduction to $2 gas would be a $1.79 savings.  If it were not for the measures I have implemented, gas would already have risen past $8, so $5 gas is a $3 savings; you people are just ingrateful, and your criticism is unwelcome.

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Cantor to Tea Party: Shut Up and Spend

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Cantor thinks we’re stupid.

To help reduce uncertainty, Cantor is moving to quell rank-and-file grumbling about 2012 spending and the supercommittee.

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Cantor is also urging his members to support the deficit reduction supercommittee created by the debt deal, adding that the supercommittee must succeed in coming up with “at least” $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts, rather than allowing automatic cuts to be triggered.

This is profoundly disappointing, and a continuation of the Tea Party’s reasons to oppose this moronic supercommittee.  Don’t forget that the automatic cuts which are now used as a club to beat the Freshmen and Tea Party into line were brought into being by approving this awful committee as a Hail Mary around the ridiculous August 2 “deadline”.

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Obama's Bus Trip to Hell

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If he had it to do all over again, he wouldn’t.

Somehow the President of the United States has been reduced to commissioning a million-dollar bus to support a three-state misery tour of his own home turf.  Presumably this is to shore up sagging numbers in the wake of the Republican Iowa shenanigans sucking all the oxygen out of the midwest.

He should have stayed in Washington.  Jay Leno is roasting him, the Democrats despair for leadership, and even the reprehensible Wasserman-Schultz is hard put to defend this tawdry little man from his own lies, caught on tape.  And aired on, well, one major network, at least.

Fox News is gleefully showing clips of him being grilled by Tea Party people who ask him fair questions, and the … Continue reading →

Entitlements: Plan C

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[pullquote]Plan C is you can shiver hungry in the dark for all I care[/pullquote]

You boomers are in trouble.  Your parents lived through the depression or were directly impacted by it, and they came up with a whole circus of social safety nets.  This system was never built to last even if it had not been abused, but it has been ransacked.  They used it as intended, and you have abused it, hollowing out the programs while expanding them, so that all that remains is a system of empty shells.  Now you want to retire on it, and there’s nothing left.  So you’ve borrowed the money from overseas, and told them that my generations will pay for it.

Well maybe we will, and maybe we won’t.

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George Monbiot – How the Billionaires Broke the System

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[Update: BREAKING: Monbiot may not actually be a Marxist.  But Cripes!  I’m not nearly so far off in my characterization of him as he is of the Tea Party, and that’s me, baby.  That’s me.]

Popular Commies at it again.  Or still.  Skip to the chase: it’s the Koch brothers who ruined America.

The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement.

By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 1st August 2011

There are two ways of cutting a deficit: raising taxes or reducing spending. Raising taxes means taking money from the rich. Cutting spending means taking money from the poor. Not in all cases of course: some taxation is regressive; some state spending takes money from ordinary citizens … Continue reading →

Humble, Grateful GOP Thanks Tea Party

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From Senator Mitch McConnell’s remarks to the Heritage Foundation November 4, 2010.  Just after the Tea Party delivered the GOP a stunning victory:

Republicans have a plan for following through on the wishes of the American people. It starts with gratitude and a certain humility for the task we’ve been handed. It means sticking ever more closely to the conservative principles that got us here. It means learning the lessons of history. And, above all, it means listening to the people who sent us here.

[pullquote]So we renewed our commitment to our core principles — win, lose, or draw.[/pullquote]

While the media was still groping to define the 2008 election, Republicans were taking stock. We knew the principles that had made our party great were the same principles … Continue reading →

Weekly Standard Editor Fred Obama

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Excuse me while I retch.  Weekly Standard Editor Fred “Reagan and Boehner, Two Peas in a Pod” Barnes misses the point, which is that this deal is not “good”, it is bad.

What would President Reagan do in the debt limit battle? That’s unknowable, but we do know what his goal would be: get the best deal possible under the circumstances. Reagan never let the perfect or the unattainable keep him from achieving the good.

via Reagan and Boehner, Two Peas in a Pod | The Weekly Standard.

Reagan did not accept a negotiated defeat at Reykjavik just because it was “the best we could get” from the Soviets.  Instead, he walked away, preserving the initiative, retaining the ability to fight on his terms.

Boehner, on … Continue reading →