Oh, So NOW They Take It Personally.
You’re not going to believe this. No, wait, yes you are.
A day after House members learned that the drinking water in one of the Congressional office buildings had been shut off due to lead contamination, a bipartisan group of 61 representatives sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency demanding that it improve its lead regulations.
The letter urges the EPA to update the Lead and Copper Rule, the regulation meant to keep the U.S.’s drinking water free from lead contamination, so that the threshold for action is lower.
Now if we could get someone to shoot up congress with an AR15, we could get gun control.
Or withdraw their health care and make them go to the VA.
Now we know the trick to making problems matter.
Thanks to Mike for the heads up.
Maybe that explains the brain damage.
1They should do something about the fecal contamination in Congress’s water supply, seeing that most of them are full of … for Mama’s sake, let’s just say they’re full of Rove.
2We keep saying, they won’t do anything until it happens to them or one or more of their own!! Otherwise … it’s well, that’s just too bad … Flint MI, maybe!!!
3Approximately five minutes ago wingnuts were screaming to shut the EPA down because they over-regulate. O’m sure they have slashed the budget just as they have for embassy security,the FBI and the IRS and then they gripe because the agencies can’t operate efficiently.
4Whichever of those 61 reps have previously voted to reduce EPA’s budget should be publicly spanked, pants down, in the Rotunda in front of a lot of tourists, by someone who really knows how to spank. With lots of social media coverage, including a big sign that says, “These jackwagons want to protect themselves while poisoning you and your kids.”
5The VA isn’t uniformly bad, to be fair
6And if any of them are female, I was using “pants” in the British sense (underpants) to apply to any gender.
7Can we just shoot em somewhere in their bodies that won’t really hurt em? Like their heads or heartless chests?
(That’s to get decent gun laws.)
8I guess the next thing to do is release a bunch of mosquitoes in the House, and say “well, we don’t really know whether any of them were carrying Zika…”
9This is a bad move on the part of the Democrats. They should have used this issue to beat the hell out of the repubs.
10@ RepubAnon
The D.C. Monument Full of Zika Mosquitoes #Karma http://thebea.st/297imcQ via @thedailybeast
11If only this had happened before Flint got the lead pipe in the dining room.
12If upvoting were allowed here, I would upvote every comment and upvote JJ’s post 100-eleventy million times.
However, must note that if Congress must get shot up to get the point across, please aim at the building and not the people. Just sayin’
13How many of these congress critters hail from Michigan? And how old is the infrastructure (pipes and whatnot) that delivers water to the congressional office building?
14Years ago during the Truman Administration some Puerto Rico fanatics got into the House gallery fully armed! Yes, there were cops at the entrances but they were mostly like party favors as they never searched anybody. Several legislators were shot up. the antics were immediately grabbed, jailed, tried, and imprisoned for years. Some of them have already served their sentences and have been released. At the time of the shoot-up Truman was living in Blair House across the street from the White House while it was being renovated (a leg of the grand piano fell through a floor). I was living in Michigan at the time and the MI rep who got shot tried use his bullet wound as a prop to get re-elected. He was amazed when it didn’t work. He was still held accountable for his record in the House. This current crop of reps obviously don’t know or don’t recall this event and even if they do, they think the current security is enough to protect them. Well, there was this guy who got into the Rotunda of the Capitol Building, killed two guards and shot up a bunch of people not all that long ago. Congress then appropriated the dough to build the new Visitors Center which makes folks walk through a lot of security before actually entering the building. Once inside the Rotunda visitors can go to either the House or Senate side but those entries are also as guarded as the visitor center. I am still not convinced that the reps and the Sens should be that nonchalant about their security, especially if they keep refusing to do a damn thing about gun safety.
As for the idea of requiring insurance on a gun at the time of purchase, look at this. Home owners insurance covers things like cameras and such. Even rental insurance does this. Thats the point of entry. For all those who camp out in the woods clutching their weapons of war, legally or illegally obtained, thats what we have to worry about. Just sayin’ . . .
15Sister Artemis, no offense,but if some congressweasels don’t get sawed in half and see blood running through the halls of congress they would go about their pathetic lives insisting guns don’t kill.
Sacrifices must be made. What good is symbolism if it isn’t done right? Besides the money saved by not having to pay dead/deadbeat congresscritters will help balance the budget.
16Oy! The snacilbupeR allude to a mental health component to gun violence, yet lose their collective mind if gun violence is discussed as a public health issue. Google their war to silence the CDC about gun violence as a public health issue.
An issue has to effect the snacilbupeR directly to have any effect on them. No, it is worse than that. Scoring a “direct hit” doesn’t necessarily effect the snacilbupeR. Consider ….
Congresswoman Gabby Gifford gunned down at a political event in Tucson, AZ. Did Congress rise to the occasion. No. Did the snacilbupeR extrapolate that that could be one of them. Again, no.
What could have saved lives at the Orlando tragedy? Readily removable table legs maybe and someone with the urge to remove one to smack the assault rifle out of the hands of the assassin? Why. When we could simply remove assault rifles from the equation to save a table and a few lives.
17OMG, the pampered and protected congressional cowards have spotted a flaw in their protective shield: lead in the water.
18Now that their health is threatened, it is a big deal. When it threatened the health of millions of American children, not so much. May they end up in the 7th level of hell, without water, leaded or otherwise.
Nothing matters to a Republicanite until it matters to them – personally.
19And if only most of them could get pregnant we might get some support for women’s rights/equality.
20They also haven’t figured out yet that even if they don’t believe in climate change, it believes in them.
21Congress doesn’t get clean water until Michigan and all other states get clean water. They should always be the last item on the list of priorities; they are no more important than the people they supposedly represent. That also goes for protection from gun violence; if they are ok with people carrying guns in public places then they should be ok with people carrying guns in Congress and other government buildings.
22Names of republicans who have voted to cut the budget of the EPA!
Take your pick of any of these posts!
https://www.google.com/search?q=names+of+republicans+that+have+voted+to+reduce+the+EPA%27s+budget&rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS631US631&oq=names+of+republicans+that+have+voted+to+reduce+the+EPA%27s+budget&aqs=chrome..69i57.37883j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
23Y’all got it covered up above. Congress will be safe now to continue their good work. (I’m being catty.)
The (Unofficial) Republican Congresscritter Prayer:
Cause it’s all about me
Cause it’s all about ‘I’
Cause it’s all about Number One
Oh, my me my
What I think
What I like
What I know
What I want
What I see…
Cause it’s all about me!
24Well, hell, of course it is important….if affects them.
25LynnN: If they don’t have a uterus then they shouldn’t be making the rules. End of story.
26Senator John Cornyn yelled at all us Democrats about it’s our fault that zika research won’t be funded. Of course he didn’t mention that he and his buddies inserted stuff like why Planned Parenthood can’t be funded. Never mind any serious brain damage that results.
27Wingnuts tried to defund Obamacare and PP-two places where you can get birth control so you don’t end up with a deformed fetus because of Zika. Unfortunately,wingnuts are too damn stoopid to know these things because-freedumb!
28Now I hear there is a Zika conference in Texas-of all places.
29Use reverse 2nd amendmenter’s tactics on Congresscritters. Remind them that the tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time.
30Yes well, I think even if Congress WERE to get shot up with an AR 15 nothing would get done.
What was the make of gun that shot Gabby Giffords? If not an AR 15, it was certainly something similar.
And then there was the time that Congress was shut down for half a day [in other words, a Congressional workday] because some guy was running around inside brandishing a gun.
The Senate did, otoh, pass a little something after the House Dems staged a sit-in. Bad publicity and looking stupid seem to scare them more than guns do.
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