madness of the GOP is the central issue of our time

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Rick "Man-on-Dog" Santorum Plans 2016 Run on "Save the Unborn, Damn the Living Poor" Platform

He's back. Little Ricky "Man-on-Dog" Santorum is seriously assembling a run for president in 2016 according to the National Journal.

he still fits into that broad category of religious zealots who get themselves confused with their stated belief that Jesus is the Son of God while their actual belief is that they are the Son(s) of God.

if elected -- Santorum would deliver his Inaugural Address tied to a cross, but it would be something born of a crazed religious fanaticism such as he possesses. This is the age of television imagery -- and he would be our first unctuously smarmy evangelist president, so should his hypothetical (in his own mind) Inauguration occur, expect Creationist television images that would make the Olympics' coverage look like its broadcast from a garage.

Just remember that Santorum has stated thousands of self-righteous proclamations of religious authoritarianism. His sobriquet "man on dog" came about when he gave an interview a few years back to a young wire reporter. In it, he defended his phobic stances by stating that any acceptance of gays would lead to toleration of "man on dog" sex and the like. The wire reporter was apparenty so shocked that she asked him to confirm that he had just said "man on dog."

Of course, actions beat words. So you can't beat Santorum in the gruesome department when you consider that he and his wife brought home a miscarried dead fetus to be cuddled by their other children. Wonkette.com describes the incident (in this 2011 article):

Santorum has his very own fetus story, but unlike Barbara Bush, when his wife miscarried in 1996, they didn’t stick the thing in a jar and put it on display. Santorum wrapped the dead fetus in a blanket, took it out of the hospital, and “spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel [the fetus] with his three siblings.” Sure, a miscarriage is a sad and rather strange experience for anyone to suffer, but, uh: “They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.” That should be a cute family album to show primary voters! What kind of clothes did they dress it up in? Did they make the fetus the altar boy?

Santorum and his wife wrote and published a book of letters to their dead fetus -- and that they gave an interview to the Washington Post about it, complete with Rick showing photos of him holding the dead fetus.

Rick Santorum stays true to the general right wing fundamentalist rule of thumb: all life is sacred from conception until a person is born poor and in need of assistance. Santorum opposes everything from income aid to food stamps to any government program that values life by helping those with the least resources. His view of the alleged favor of God for the unborn does not extend to life after birth.

Santorum is one of those politicians, such as Sarah Palin, who views the US as a Christian theocracy.

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/comme...-poor-platform

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Rick Perry: Background checks is a bad ‘at ude towards manufacturers of weapons’

“The restrictions you’ve seen states like Connecticut — and when you think about the Northeast, that was the Silicon Valley, if you will, of gun manufacturing,” he continued. “And you’re seeing those manufacturers leave the Northeast because the taxation, the regulation. And just the at ude towards manufacturers of weapons.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/2...e+Raw+Story%29

what a dumb YOU TEXANS put in office for many years. Thanks!

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Tea Party-Backed Candidate Posted X-Ray Images of Dead People Online


A Tea Party-backed candidate is at it again, exposing the Republicans to charges of nuttiness.

A right-wing candidate for the Senate, Dr. Milton Wolf, is challenging the current Kansas GOP Senator Pat Roberts. Now, Wolf is under fire after X-ray images of dead people he posted have surfaced.

The story was first reported by the Topeka Capital Journal. In 2010, Wolf “posted a collection of gruesome X-ray images of gunshot fatalities and medical injuries to his Facebook page and participated in online commentary layered with macabre jokes and descriptions of carnage,” the Journal’s Tim Carpenter reports.

For instance, Wolf posted an image of a person decapitated by gunfire. It shows a skull broken apart. “One of my all-time favorites," Wolf wrote on Facebook. "From my residency days there was a pretty active 'knife and gun club' at Truman Medical Center. What kind of gun blows somebody's head completely off? I've got to get one of those.”

In another posting on the same picture, Wolf wrote: “It reminds (me) of the scene from 'Terminator 2' when they shoot the liquid metal terminator guy in the face at close range and it kind of splits him open temporarily almost like a flower blooming. We all find beauty in different things.”

Wolf has cast questions about the images as an attack by his opponent, Senator Roberts.

Medical ethics experts questioned why Wolf would post images. “The dignity and privacy of the individual should be protected,” John Carney, a bioethicist, told the Topeka Capital Journal. It doesn't sound like they're being protected if they're, obviously, on Facebook.”

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...tter962371&t=4

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Maine Gov. Paul LePage Looks Set To Reject Overdose Prevention For No Good Reason

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) appears set to oppose a bill increasing access to a lifesaving anti-overdose medication because of concerns rejected by public health experts that it could encourage more drug abuse,

"His main objection is his belief -- and I have to emphasize 'his belief' because there is no evidence that supports this at all -- his belief that increasing the availability of Narcan or naloxone will lead the drug user or drug abuser to have this feeling of invincibility,"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_4770196.html

heroin overdose? Repug wants you to die

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Michele Bachmann jewsplains to U.S. Jews that they are buzzkilling her End Times dream date



According to Right Wing Watch, Michele says it’s all because of those meddling Jews and that schvartzer in the, previously, White House:

The Jewish community gave him their votes, their support, their financial support and as recently as last week, forty-eight Jewish donors who are big contributors to the president wrote a letter to the Democrat [sic] senators in the US Senate to tell them to not advance sanctions against Iran. This is clearly against Israel’s best interest. What has been shocking has been seeing and observing Jewish organizations who it appears have made it their priority to support the political priority and the political ambitions of the president over the best interests of Israel. They sold out Israel.

Why it was just last year when Bachmann warned that the End Times Are Nigh:

“This happened and as of today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s end times history.”

“Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand,” Bachmann continued. “When we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this; these days would be as the days of Noah.”

Cosmology note: Noah opens nationwide on March 28, so that has to mean something. Right?

Anyway, everybody knows that Jesus won’t come back until Israel is all nice and tidy, so it would be greatly appreciated if the U.S. Jews would clean up their act, stop hanging around with riff-raff (like giving him money and smokes), and stop treating Israel like a frat house; maybe make the bed, wash a few dishes and take out the empties.

Then, when He gets here, the Jews can all convert which will totally make up for that little whoopsie-doodle! from a couple of thousand years ago…

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/0...es-dream-date/

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8 Colossal Jackasses From the Right-Wing Fringe: Just-Stop-Being-Poor Edition

Sure, there was plenty of tomfoolery and ishness on display over at CPAC this week—what with Trump’s immigrants-are-coming-to-steal-jobs remark and Paul Ryan claiming poor parents don’t love their kids. But asinine comments were made elsewhere in the right-wing lunasphere. Some doozies:

1. Fox Business commentator’s advice on the poor: “Stop being poor.”

The Daily Show’s Aasif Maandvi may have found the greatest jackass of them all recently when he interviewed Fox Business commentator Todd Wilemon. The subject was healthcare and the oft-repeated, totally erroneous claim that the U.S. has “the greatest healthcare system in the world.” This assertion should only be made with the addendum:

"if you can afford it."

In fact, the U.S. ranks 37th in the world for healthcare, so,yes we're in the top 40, and hooray, we're ahead of Slovenia. Take that, Slovenia! It’s gotten to the point where international relief doctors who usually helicopter supplies into war-torn, impoverished countries and refugee camps are now starting to fly those supplies into places like Knoxville, Tennessee.

But have no fear. Wilemon had a great solution for these people who just “want a free lunch,” and who “refuse to pay.” When Maandvi pointed out that they are not "refusing to pay," but just aren't ableto afford healthcare because they are poor, Wilemon said, “If you’re poor, just stop being poor.”

Great idea! Why didn't we think of that?!

Watch the whole hilarious clip here [3].

2. Megyn Kelly scoffs at atheist’s claim that the cross is a religious symbol.

Somebody was not paying proper attention in Sunday school, and has been very, very naughty. We’re talking to you, Megyn.

There is a steel beam cross in the center of the World Trade Center memorial. It was found in the wreckage and seen as a miracle by some Christians. The activist group American Atheists are suing to have the cross removed, claiming that as an inherently religious symbol, it has no place in a publicly funded monument. They point out that people of multiple faiths, and even those without faith at all, died in the disaster.

“The cross is Christian," said David Silverman of the American Atheists during his appearance on the Kelly Files. "It was installed in a religious service on consecrated ground, which makes it a working shrine on public land in the World Trade Center, and we think the atheists who also died on 9/11, and the Muslims and the Jews, should all have their equal presence,”

Nope, Megyn Kelly said. The cross is not religious. It's just a historical artifact. Nothing Christian about it. Tough luck, atheists, Jews and Muslims.

Got it, the cross is not Christian. Next week: the Bible, not a book.

Watch the entire interview posted online by Cruciefiction. [4]

3. Josh Miller, Obamacare hypocrite: 'I got mine, so bite me!'

Another prime cut of jackass raised its braying head this week in the person of State Representative Josh Miller of Arkansas. Such a man might, at first glance, inspire some sympathy. He was paralyzed in a car accident, and he was uninsured at the time. Fortunately for him, his medical treatment was paid for by personal assistance coverage from Medicaid. Naturally, an experience like that would really convince someone of the value of Medicaid and healthcare for all. Wait, what? No?

Astonishingly, Miller voted against the expansion of Medicaid, which would have given poor people in his state the same coverage he recieved in his hour of need. In an interview with the Arkansas Times, he explained why. "My problem is two things," Miller said. "One, we are giving it to able-bodied folks who can work ... and two, how do we pay for it?"

Of course, he knows that really isn’t a question since the federal government has offered to pay for Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. Translation: It would be free money for Arkansans who might get hurt or sick while uninsured.

Like you, Josh Miller, head!

h/t: Esquire.com [5]

4. Michele Bachmann lectures Jews: You’re doing it wrong! You elected the anti-Christ!

In a conversation Monday with Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, that zany Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann chastised American Jews for voting for Obama, She warned them that Obama is “threatening Israel,” and also that he is kind of the anti-Christ, fulfilling biblical prophecies and bringing about the End Times [6].

Blame it on the Jews, what a novel idea!

The Minnesota congresswoman told [7] Perkins that President Obama is pressuring Israel to “give up its land to terrorists,” who are, of course, allied with Al Qaeda. This is what is going to trigger the end of the world, or as Bachmann described it, the “final war, destroying and reducing to rubble Israel.”

Here are more of her insane and fairly incoherent ramblings:

“That’s in the natural, I just believe that as believers in Jesus Christ who see the authority of scripture, I believe that the Lord and his strong right arm will have Israel’s back and will be her protector. The question is, will we as the United States cooperate in standing with Israel and blessing Israel, or will we join those nations that come against her? We are definitely on the wrong side. It is jaw-dropping, it is stunning, it’s breathtaking.”

Fortunately, she was able to retrieve her breath and scrape her jaw off the floor, so that she could scold the American Jewish community for its wide support for Obama [8].

What is reassuring, in a way, is that all of this was predicted in the Bible. As Bachmann reads it: “The nations of the world will come against Israel and the scripture very specifically says all nations, now for the United States we don’t have that experience until recently under President Obama with the United States not standing with Israel.”
h/t: Rightwingwatch [9]

5. Conservative leader thinking he was off-mic: “Jews are the problem.”

Michele Bachmann, meet Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin (retired), the executive vice president of the conservative Family Research Council, or perhaps you two already know each other.

Turns out you both feel that Jews are a problem.

Boykin has other nutty ideas, like a theory that President Barack Obama is using “subliminal messages” to signal support for Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. There is audio to this effect posted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Friday. [10]

“If you understand anything about Islam, there are subliminal messages,” Boykin says. “[Obama's] message, really, I believe was, ‘I understand you, and I support you.’”

Sounds like a thoroughly reasonable man. So reasonable in fact that CPAC won’t even allow him to participate. CPAC! — which featured such bright lights as Donald Trump rambling incoherently and Sarah Palin doing what she does best, making no sense.

Anyway, Boykin and his fellow all-out loonies hold a competing event called the National Security Action Summit. The event’s organizer, Frank Gaffney, has accused CPAC’s organizers, the American Conservative Union, of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Later, Boykin was just joshing around with a reporter, an Israeli no less, saying, “The Jews are the problem. The Jews are the cause of all the problems in the world.”
Oh. Hahahahahahaha.They must have had a good belly laugh. The Jews love that kind of humor...

6. James Bowman: 'There must be some happy stories about slavery.'

What the is wrong with these people? You really have to wonder about the small (hopefully) subset of white people/commentators/bloviators who keep insisting that some slaves really enjoyed their captivity. Bad enough that people made this argument during the time of slavery, in order to perpetuate it, but we’re talking about TODAY!

James Bowman, cultural critic at the American Spectator, joined the ranks of the idiots of “Duck Dynasty” when he complained that there weren’t any positive stories about slave masters in 12 Years a Slave [11].

His words: “If ever in slavery’s 250-year history in North America there were a kind master or a contented slave, as in the nature of things there must have been, here and there, we may be sure that Mr. McQueen does not want us to hear about it.”

Yeah, c'mon guys. Why all the negativity about slavery? You're such Debbie Downers. Why can’t we have happy movies about slavery like Gone With the Wind? Don’t slavery apologists deserve some entertainment, too?

We’re sure Steve McQueen will take it under advisement.

7. Wyoming governor takes brave anti-science stand.

It takes a brave and visionary leader to just say no to science. But in Wyoming, one man, the governor in fact, is taking that brave stand. But he did not do it all alone.

A little background: The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are a new set of education initiatives that have been adopted in 10 states [12] and, like the Common Core State Standards, are designed to make sure students across the country are being held to the same benchmarks. They were developed with input from 26 states; although, not Wyoming.

So when the budgeting process came around for that state, another visionary, Rep. Matt Teeters (R-Lingle) first proposed a budget amendment that stops the state from considering the NGSS [13]. Gov. Matt Mead (R) approved this amendment in his budget Wednesday.

The NGSS treats climate change and evolution as fact. Hmmmm. Could it possibly be that the real target is climate change science? According to ThinkProgress, Gov. Mead has previously said he is "unconvinced climate change is man-made.” [14]

He and Rep.Teeters just don’t want climate change to be taught as established science. ‘Cause that would be bad, you know, for kids to learn the truth.

Read more here. [15]

8. Arkansas judge: Gay sex “just a small step to having sex with a dog.”

Yep, direct quote. In fact, Arkansas state judge Mike Maggio is famous for his pithy quotes, which also include: “ s are just s in training.” Women shouldn’t make an “emotional decision to divorce because the husband stepped out” if he was a “good provider [16].” And, whatever you do, don’t go to Disney World during “gay/lesbian week.” [17]

According to ThinkProgress [18], these lovely homespun homilies from the bench were “uncovered after the Arkansas blog, Blue Hog Report, discovered that a pseudonymous commenter on a message board for Louisiana State University fans was a sitting Arkansas state Judge Mike Maggio [19]." Judge Maggio, who posted under the username “geauxjudge,” offered questionable views on race, sexuality, women and many other issues.

The comment about sex with dogs arose in a discussion thread about a “Vegas woman arrested for sex with pit bull.” Maggio suggested that “TGGLBS sex”—an apparent reference to “transgender, gay, lesbian or bisexual sex [20]”—is a gateway to copulating with canines.”

He has since acknowledged authorship, and withdrawn from a race [21] for higher office.

http://www.alternet.org/print/tea-pa...g-poor-edition

God Bless America!

[Wild Cobra]

Boutons the spammer, at it again.

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Boutons the spammer, at it again.

Pearls Before Swine

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White trash rabble rousing white trash

Sarah Palin uses her CPAC speech for a shout-out to the libs at ‘MS-LSD’



She also thanked the young people — or as Washington thinks of them, she said, “Obamacare suckahs!” Because “you’ll pay the bills in our brave new world.” She then made a joke about “change” you first heard in 2008, and said “not a smidgen” in a derpy voice. She called that liberal network MS-LSD, and said “Yes you can” had become “No you can’t.”

And “there’s no such thing as a free lunch, there’s also no such thing as free birth control… there’s no free ride… someone always pays and if you don’t know who that someone is, it’s you…”

Oh , let’s just list the catch-phrases, that’s really all she does:

“Social engineering politicos.”

“Nothin’ to see in Benghazi, move along.”

“It’s like yuh-all WENT ROGUE!”

“Liberty needs a Congress on Cruz Control.”

On Ted Cruz’s Congressional shutdown defeat by RINOS: “They joined the laptops of the lame stream to trash the foot soldiers who had fought for America!”

“I do not like this Uncle Sam
I do not like his health care scam
I do not like this dirty crooks
Or how they lie and cook the books.
I do not like when Congress steals
I do not like their crummy deals…” (w/sing-song voice)

“The America beyond the wealthy DC suburbs… that’s where you’ll find Amazing America.”

“Hangin’ with the Choom gang.” (w/gangsta lean)

“I just feel that we got each other’s back and you know that this is the string of a great awakening, I know that america’s eyes are open.” (Extended metaphor here about people trying to make America go back to sleep.)

“Instead of putting fear of God into our enemies, peace through strength — brought to you courtesy of the red white and blue — is only what the UNITED STATES MILITARY CAN DO!” (Big cheers.)

(Something about a boot that would stomp on America.)

“John (Kerry), why the long face?”

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.”

“The only thing rising in [Obama's] la-la-land is the Russian empire. But I’m probably being too hard on the President. I mean, who could have seen this coming?” (Extremely big cheers.)

To Congressional RINOs: “Remember that 2010 election that swept you into power? You didn’t build that!”

“There aren’t enough low-information voters in the country to save the opposition this year.”

“Our buddy from Duck Dynasty…” (Big roar. Also, “in another time, Phil might have stayed fired,” but “people all over America understood that Phil’s right to express himself was about our right to express ourselves. We pushed back and he won!”)

“C’mon, libs, can you really ‘I am Woman, Hear me…’? No…. Only Mama Grizzlies can say, ‘Hear me roar!’”

“We’re the party with the plank that protects even our littlest sisters in the womb.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/0...e+Raw+Story%29

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Kansas Wants to Prosecute Teachers Who Show “Harmful” Materials – Whatever That Means

Late last week, the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would make it easier to prosecute teachers, librarians and school principals for materials that are “harmful to minors.” The move was in response to an incident involving a sex ed poster hung on a middle school classroom door.

Specifically, the bill defines “harmful to minors” to mean materials that:

(A) The average adult person applying contemporary community standards would find that the material or performance has a predominant tendency to appeal to a prurient interest in sex to minors;

(B) the average adult person applying contemporary community standards would find that the material or performance depicts or describes nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement or sadomasochistic abuse in a manner that is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable for minors; and

(C) a reasonable person would find that the material or performance lacks serious literary, scientific, educational, artistic or political value for minors

http://www.care2.com/causes/kansas-w...#ixzz2vWWocwWk

ing Kansas Repug puritanical Bible-thumpers, so afraid of sex.

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'Fox Business' Commentator Tells 'Daily Show' Correspondent, 'If You're Poor, Stop Being Poor'

After watching Aasif Mandvi's segment on Thursday's "Daily Show," two things are clear:

1) America has the greatest healthcare system in the world (if 37th place is considered the greatest), and

2) some people shouldn't do interviews with "Daily Show" correspondents.

Case in point, "Fox Business" commentator and NYSE Euronext Managing Director Todd Wilemon has a couple of jaw-dropping moments in this interview about "third world" healthcare conditions in Knoxville, Tennessee, not the least of which is his statement right at the end: "If you're poor, stop being poor."

Watch the clip above, and keep an eye out for one of the more awkward pauses in "Daily Show" history.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...ef=mostpopular

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MICHELE BACHMANN WANTS TO PROSECUTE DEMOCRATS FOR "INTIMIDATING" BILLIONAIRES


"I just thank God that there's a billionaire or two on our side," Bachmann told conservative radio host Lars Larson during an interview at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference.

"All the billionaires seem to be on the radical left, so I'm glad that we have a couple on ours."...

"I'm sure that the donors on our side don't like to have their names vilified and that's what this is about, intimidating people from giving money to our cause, that's it," she opined, adding that Democrats should be prosecuted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for their intimidation of billionaires.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/michele-bachmann-intimidation-of-billionaires-031114

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a freshman at Duke University recently revealed she's helping to pay her tuition by acting in porn films. As degrading as that is, Ruse's reaction was even worse. He claimed that this is evidence liberal academics should just be "taken out and shot." No, this isn't snark--People for the American Way got a clip.

"That is the nonsense that they teach in women’s studies at Duke University, this is where she learned this. The toxic stew of the modern university is gender studies, it’s “Sex Week,” they all have “Sex Week” and teaching people how to be sex-positive and overcome the patriarchy. My daughters go to a little private religious school and we pay an arm and a leg for it precisely to keep them away from all of this kind of nonsense. I do hope that they go to a Christian college or university and to keep them so far away from the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities, who should all be taken out and shot.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/12/1284234/-American-Family-Radio-guest-host-calls-for-left-wing-academics-to-be-taken-out-and-shot?detail=email

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Republican Senate candidate says Planned Parenthood is planning to kill your three-month-old babies



Well how far will [it] go? Last year, February 29, 2012, the Journal of Ethics in Australia, they debated that. They said we already know abortion is fine, why stop in the womb? Why not three months after. Why should we end the responsibility at that point? It could happen in America. Florida's trying to do it right now and so is Georgia. Planned Parenthood. Because we allowed that slippery slope.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...s?detail=email

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Michigan 'rape insurance' law goes into effect

When it comes to abortion rights and insurance plans, today is an important day in Michigan.

Michigan residents who buy health coverage in the private marketplace after Thursday will not have access to abortion coverage, even if a pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
On that day, a new state law goes into effect that prohibits insurance companies from covering abortion services unless customers purchase separate add-ons -- called riders -- to their insurance plans ahead of time.

No insurance companies will be offering those riders to new customers in the private marketplace after Thursday, according to the state's Department of Insurance and Financial Services.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

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Idaho House Committee Passes Bill To Get Rid Of All EPA Regulations



Nullificationist Senator John C. Calhoun

Federal law is completely optional and Idaho can opt out of any laws it doesn’t like. Or, at least, that’s what several members of the Idaho state legislature appears to believe.

On Thursday, the Idaho House Resources Committee approved a bill purporting to declare all Environmental Protection Agency regulations “null and void”.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...a-regulations/

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Another Repug caught totally wrong, even lying

The Jeep Plant Mitt Romney Said Was Moving To China Is Booming In Ohio




The auto plant at center of a misleading TV ad run by Mitt Romney's campaign during the 2012 presidential election is booming, Bloomberg reported Friday.

In a last-ditch effort to swing Ohio into the Republican column in the waning days of the campaign, Romney's team aired an ad that gave the impression that Chrysler would ship jobs to China because of President Obama's auto rescue.

"Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China," the ad's narrator claimed.

Not only is the factory in question still in Ohio, demand for Jeeps is so great that Chrysler is planning on hiring up to 1,000 part-time workers as a way to alleviate pressure on regular employees who work 60 hours per week.

“Our people have been working a tremendous amount of hours,” Toledo Assembly Plant Manager Chuck Padden told the Toledo Blade. “To get them more time off is important to us, to make sure they’re refreshed, and can work safely.”
Chrysler has already hired 380 temporary part-time employees, 50 of which been converted to regular, full-time employees, according to the Blade. The company is also offering the part-time workers limited benefits, including health insurance.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29

Chrysler at the time called Bishop Gecko a liar:

Romney’s words drew an immediate and firm denial from Chrysler headquarters. "Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China," the statement said. "A careful and unbiased reading of the Bloomberg take would have saved unnecessary fantasies and extravagant comments."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...ans-china-ame/

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Reince Priebus: Paul Ryan demonized ‘inner cities’ to help them

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday explained that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) had recently blamed poverty on “inner cities” because he was working hard to help those communities.

In an interview with conservative radio host Bill Bennett last week, Ryan quoted the work of Charles Murray, a white nationalist, who has used “racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“We have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men not working, and just generations of men not even thinking about working and learning the value and culture of work,” Ryan opined. “So, there’s a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.”

“Here’s what I would say, why was Paul even talking about this? The reason he was talking about it is he devoted a large part of his life — starting back when he worked for Jack Kemp — on finding ways to tackle poverty, to free up capital, to create opportunities in urban areas
around this country.”

“Whatever race, whatever gender, we are the ones leading the way, I think, in this country on these issues,” he added. “And so I commend Paul for his work that he’s doing around country.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/1...e+Raw+Story%29

holy , Repugs go from dumber to dumberer to ad infinitum

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Wyoming GOP lawmaker: Promiscuous gays weaponizing AIDS for a ‘national suicide’


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/1...e+Raw+Story%29

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Fox commentator: Walter Cronkite’s ‘Vietnam moment’ proof of CBS liberal bias



I don’t think that there has been any secret that there is liberal bias at CBS, going back to win Walter Crokite denounced the Vietnam war and, by LBJ’s admission, it drove him out of the White house,” Crawford said.

Cronkite’s ‘Vietnam moment’ is rumored to have led President Johnson to turn off the TV at the White House, turn to his aides, and say, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.”

However that report has been disputed because, at the time of the broadcast, President Johnson was in Texas attending a birthday party and giving a speech honoring Texas Governor John Connally.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/1...e+Raw+Story%29

So now Fox viewers, most of whom are old, white, were around for 1968 have had their memories rewritten, their emotions confirmed.

Will Fox ever tell how Nixon sabotaged the '68 VN peace talks? Which caused the war to drag on for 7 more years, 10Ks more of US lives, etc, etc.

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CA GOP candidate for governor is a registered sex offender, committed manslaughter




http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/2...e+Raw+Story%29

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Republicans, In Full Anti-Obama Frenzy, Take A Swipe At National Parks

Can the knee-jerk hostility to anything President Obama does get any worse? It’s often fun to joke that Republicans would be against puppies and rainbows if Democrats were for it, but this comes awfully close to making that literal.

Responding to President Obama’s decision last week to protect a stretch of California’s Coast near Point Arena as a new national monument, the House of Representatives is planning to vote next week to overturn a 108 year-old law that presidents of both parties have used to protect iconic American places, including the Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty, and Arches National Park.

The bill, H.R. 1459, aims to block presidents from using the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish new national monuments by putting caps on how many times it can be used, requiring congressional review of proposed monuments, and forcing local communities to engage in an ironic exercise of reviewing the environmental impacts of protecting lands for future generations.

It has the usual ass-covering aspects that conservatives usually toss out to hide their extremism. You can just hear the excuses. “We’re not saying we’re against national parks. We just think they should be established more responsibly, blah blah blah.” But don’t be fooled:

However, despite arguments from Bishop and Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) that Congress should hold exclusive power to decide whether or not to protect public lands, the House has effectively shut down all legislative efforts to protect wilderness, parks and monuments since the Tea Party takeover in 2010.

Until the passage of a bill to protect wilderness lands in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore last week, Congress had not protected a single new acre of public lands since 2009, the longest such drought since World War II.

Adding injury to insult, Congress also forced a 16-day government shutdown last fall that cost national parks and local communities 8 million lost visitors and $414 million in lost visitor spending.

Indeed, as Matt Lee-Ashley at Think Progress explains, this is a “de facto” ban on creating more federal parks or protected lands, because it’s a bill that would be passed to give the power to a congressional body that full well intends never to use it. This shouldn’t actually be too surprising. Despite the way that conservatives tend to think of themselves as outdoorsy people, the hostility to the idea of collective ownership of anything is bound to trump the desire to see the preservation of America the Beautiful. Having grown up near one of the most important national parks—the Big Bend National Park—it truly breaks my heart to see this important piece of American culture crapped on like this.

The good news is this bill has no chance of passing the Senate or passing a White House veto. However, House Republicans had to have known that going in. Which means that they are supporting this odious bill for symbolic reasons, suggesting that they think taking a swipe at national parks is good politics. Or maybe it really is just that they hate Obama so much that if they catch him petting dogs, they feel obliged to start kicking dogs.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/2...ational-parks/

Repugs and you assholes who elect them.

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Anti-gay pastor who prayed for Obama’s death demands silence from women in church

On Sunday, a pastor in Phoenix, Arizona implored his female congregants not to say “amen” in church.

Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church garnered national attention in 2009 when he told his followers that he prays for the death of President Barack

Obama every night. After being contacted by the Secret Service, he insisted that he “didn’t say he wanted his parishioners to attack the president, he did say the country would benefit from Mr. Obama dying.”

Pastor Anderson first attempted to justify the silencing of women by quoting 1 Timothy 2:11, “[l]et the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

He then asked the congregation to flip to 1 Corinthians 14, which says “[l]et your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, as it is commanded to be under obedience as also sayeth the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is shameful for women to speak in the church.”

“Now obviously,” he continued, “before the service begins, there’s chatting and talking going on, that’s perfectly legitimate. When we all sing praises to God, of course the ladies should also lift up their voices.”

“But when it’s learning time,” Pastor Anderson said, hammering his lecturn, “it’s silence time.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/2...men-in-church/

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how many CBN viewers vote Dem?

Pat Robertson Suggests a Woman's Atheism May Be a Result of Rape or Demonic Possession

“I don’t know if you’re dealing with something that is demonic or something that is deeply ingrained,” Robertson said. “It’s something beyond normal human experience, something has happened and she associates God — maybe she had an abusive father, somebody who raped her and then acted like he was preaching to her from the Bible, you just never know what is going on in somebody’s childhood.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...tter974179&t=4