It’s Weird Out There
Remember how the folks on food stamps cost our country trillions by selling bets on bad mortgages to suckers?
No, that wasn’t them?
Okay, remember how poor folks got us into a war we didn’t pay for and ran up the debt?
No?
Okay, okay, remember how hungry children paid themselves $175,000 a year plus perks and health care on the taxpayers’ dime?
Well, crap, if you can’t remember that, you you have a bad case of Boehnerphobia or Itchycruz.
But thanks to Ted Cruz and John Boehner, all those hungry children are going to stop ripping off this country, dammit.
Cruz and Boehner have only one demand: reverse the results of the 2012 election or you get a great depression wrapped up with a bow on top.
Thanks to all you pissed-off people sending me emails this morning!
“There was something ghoulish about the rally that House Republicans held today in the Rayburn Room after they voted to defund health care reform. The party atmosphere was so boisterous, the cheers and laughter so loud, that it was easy to forget everyone in the room had just voted to keep tens of millions of people from getting health insurance.”
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/the-house-republicans-ghoulish-defunding-rally/
1If all the shenanigans created by these P E O P L E DO NOT cause the demise of the truly bad Republicans, all is lost. If the electorate does not remember how much they are being screwed over, the fault can be laid at the feet of the Democrat Party.
2The media is NOT going to advise. Witness the comment by the leader of the MSNBC news department; We do not have any responsibility to keep people informed of political consequences. I do not remember his name, nor do I want to. I have quit MSNBC.
The Republican version of Matthew 25:
For I was hungry, and you cut funding for my food stamps. I was a stranger and you asked to see my papers. I needed clothes and you told me to ‘get a job’. I was sick and you stuck me with a $84,000 hospital bill because I had a pre-existing condition and couldn’t get insurance. I was in prison for being caught with 6 ounces of marijuana and you took away my right to vote.
(Respectfully plagiarized from a clever friend.)
3Ghoulish is the perfect word to describe it. You know, if you and your family live in a gated community with security to keep the riffraff out and you have servants to do everything and you always use your money, not your neighborliness, to get what you want, how are you going to know what real life is like? Those of you who like to read fiction might like the novels by Paretsky, who writes mysteries about social issues in Chicago. The city could be anywhere, though. The social issues are everywhere.
4GOP–the Sadist Party.
5We are witnessing pure evil. Don’t blame this on the Democrats. The hate-filled Republicans keeps these monsters in power.
6Dear GOP,
Sweet Jesus is watching. He’d like to speak to you.
Sincerely,
Your Bible
7Congresswoman Speier of California uses some examples of what congressmen who voted against food stamps take for food expenses when traveling:
8“One member was given $127.41 a day for food on his trip to Argentina. He probably had a fare amount of steak. Another member was given $3,588 for food and lodging during a six-day trip to Russia.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUNzQGIXr3I
I may lose my food stamps – it is just a crying shame that the lot my house is on isn’t big enough to threaten to grow something ( and get a subsidy) like the repubs think is just fine. All I have going for me is age.
9meaning to make them happy I should just get on with dying and leave them alone.
10I was just waiting for one of the idiot Repukes in Sunday School to say something about this but nary a word was spoken and there was no dancing in the hallways!
Luckily, this sabotage will not pass in the Senate [anyway, I think that’s right] … they absolutely do NOT take into consideration the vast number of folks such legislation would victimize … it’s not just kids but the working poor, our military, seniors, the disabled, and folks who want to work but can’t find jobs or the jobs aren’t hiring … it’s a disgrace that these asshats would even put something like this on the table!! And, there will be NO defunding of the ACA!!
11Marcia, you are correct. This bill has to get through the Senate and it won’t. Harry Reid will strip the ****** part out. Why are these jerks celebrating? Well, there aren’t any more deck chairs to re-arrange on their Titanic so they may as well party like its 1999. And for Boehner, he is up for re-election in 2014 and he is sweating up a storm already.
12And McConnell may go down, too, what with both Tea Party maniacs and Dems putting up wads of cash to help him lose the in the KY primary. Whoo-hoo!
13Oh it’s getting much weirder. The House Republicans are now demanding that the Senate Republicans filibuster their own bill: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/323761-senate-conservatives-urge-filibuster-of-bill-defunding-obamacare
Can you get crazier than that?
14One good thing about Cruz and the GOPs, if you have company at dinner and things are getting dicey, all you have to do is bring up Cruz and the Crazies. Everyone agrees: he’s nuts. Hey! Cruz and the Crazies. We could start a band by that name.
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