A Little of This, A Tad of That, and the Same Old GOP Crap

by Sunnyjane

I wonder why the vaginas didn't show up?

The House of Representatives has spent an exhausting eighty-five days out of the one-hundred-thirty available doing absolutely nothing to pass legislation that would actually benefit American citizens.  It's been pretty well proven that abortion bills, religion bills, family relationship bills, marriage bills, naming postal facilities, and repealing the Affordable Healthcare Act have not elevated the level of life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness for American citizens  And, absent passing an Immigration Reform bill, the Senate is not much better, but they do spend more days doing nothing than their colleagues in the House.

But GOP-run lawmakers at the state level have taken up the slack by introducing or passing so much anti-American legislation that it's hard to keep up.  Ironically, much of it is coming back to bite them, as witnessed this last week or so.

Control+Alt+Delete

It was a surely-they-can't-be-that-dumb-moment when the Florida legislature passed the new ban on computers and smart phones through all Internet cafes in the state.   This was in response to the little fiasco involving Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll and the non-profit veterans charity with which she was involved.   The charity turned out to be a front for internet gambling.  She resigned.

As it turns out, however, the bill was so shoddily written that it ended up outlawing every computer in the state.  There's a lawsuit.  [Snort!]

Be Careful Who You Vote For

The Republican solution to help farmers get their crops harvested.

It is relatively easy to vote along party lines in November -- until you see the effect of that decision in July.  So it has been since 2010 with those real-America farmers in the heartland and non-heartland, from Georgia to Arizona to Michigan, and all in between.  In 2011, after Georgia passed a law to clear the state of illegal immigrants, crops rotted in the fields.  In 2012, the vice president of Farmers Investment Company in Arizona fretted that their seven thousand acres of pecans were not being harvested due to lack of immigrant laborers: If we want to be in charge of our food security and our economy, we need to support immigration reform for agriculture.  Now, here we are in 2013 and a Michigan farmer whose cherries and apples are ready to be picked is frustrated by the lack of an immigration bill and the Republican insistence that the border be secured.   

Said this Republican-voting farmer The border must already be pretty secure because we don't have the labor in this country that we used to have.

Mitch McConnell's Real 2014 Opponent?  Mitch Mconnell

It's usually more effective to spell the Candidate's name correctly, don't you think?

Is Mitch McConnell running a 2014 campaign in the manner of Romney?  How could we forget the Republican presidential candidate's invitation to take a sneak peak at his new ad?  Or, to be with Mitt for a better Amercia?  Do all Republicans go dumpster diving for ad agencies?  Must be that conservative reduce-spending thingy, right?

On top of that, the ad is so bad as to be downright jaw-dropping.  If you haven't seen it -- What rhymes with Alison Lundergan Grimes? -- take a peek and you'll understand why these guys look like this: 

Yikes!                       Whoa!                        Ruff!

Um, About Demands for that Smaller Government Thing...

It's pretty obvious that GOP legislators in many of our states do not seek counsel and advice before passing their restrictive and repressive laws.  Wisconsin governor Scott Walker recently signed an anti-choice bill that bans doctors who lack admitting privileges at nearby hospitals from performing abortions.  Planned Parenthood and Affiliated Medical Services filed suit and a federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order to block its enforcement until a full hearing scheduled for July 17.  In his decision, the judge said, There is a troubling lack of justification for the hospital admitting privileges requirement.  Moreover, the record to date strongly supports a finding that no medical purpose is served by this requirement.

Let's keep our fingers crossed on this one.  It could set a precedent for other states.

You are Known by the Company You Keep

Just so the federal-tier GOP Tea Partiers don't feel ignored, we have to take a look at one or two of them.  It's been revealed recently that Mitch McConnell's Kentucky senate buddy, Rand Paul, has a top aide who is a neo-Confederate white supremacist who first helped Paul write his 2010 tome Mr. The Tea Party Goes to Washington.
  

The self-described Southern Avenger advocates the secession and subsequent independence of the Southern States from this forced union and the formation of a Southern republic and has great respect for John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated the sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

Not to put too great a shine on this guy, but he's a ranting, raving, racist nut-job skank.  Good work, Rand!

Michele the Mouth
 

Oh yes, the representative from Minnesota cannot keep her stupid trap shut, especially when it comes to her favorite bitch subject, Obamacare.  Ms. Bachmann, who obviously didn’t pay her exorcist’s bill and got repossessed, recently called the President's advocacy for the Affordable Healthcare Act selfish and calculating.  [Yawn...]

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If it's good for Women's Health Clinics in Texas, why not gun shops? 

Election 2012: Congresswoman Virginia Foxx -- Health Care Terrorism, Hate Crime Hoaxes, and Fresh Green Beans

by Sunnyjane

The Republican Tea Party congress has added a new twist to the word inefficacy: when you are incapable of achieving a desired effect or result, you can always let one of the nuttier residents in the asylum have a go at it.  And few in the U.S. House of Representatives can do it with more contemptible passion than Virginia Foxx of North Carolina.  Since Congresswoman Foxx has been loafing about in that noble chamber since 2006, one can only assume that the 5th District cherishes the caliber of ignorance she possesses.

Sweet mother of madness!

The Only Thing We Have to Fear is...a Healthcare Bill?

You may ask, Seriously?  Skeptics!   According to Rep. Foxx and her partners in obstructionism, the greatest fear that we all should have to our freedom comes from this room -- this very room -- and what may happen later this week in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill.  I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country.


See?  Told ya.


And, of course, it should come as no surprise to anyone that Foxx is a Grover Groveler, and has signed his anti-American tax pledge.

The Matthew Shepard Murder "Hoax"

In October 1998, twenty-one-year-old University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, was robbed, pistol-whipped, tortured, tied to a fence, and left to die.  While the defendants' stated intention was robbery, the ensuing acts that caused his death were simply carried out because Matthew Shepard was gay.  As Rep. John Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Georgia who has firsthand experience with hate crimes, stated:  The law enforcement people and almost every reasonable person I know believes he was murdered because he was gay.

To put the question to rest, the Denver Post reported in 2004 that one of the accused murderers, Aaron McKinney, said Matt Shepard needed killing…As far as Matt is concerned, I don’t have any remorse.  The night I did it, I did have hatred for homosexuals.   McKinney now calls himself the poster child for hate-crime murders.   Both men were found guilty of the crime and are each serving  two consecutive life sentences. 

But there is no room for facts to interfere with the companionship between hate, ignorance, and arrogance in the moss-covered Kingdom of Far-Right Nutterstan.   In April 2009, Foxx stated, I also would like to point out that there was a bill -- the hate crimes bill that's called the Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay. This -- the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it's really a hoax that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.   (It's no use pointing out to Rep. Foxx that it should be killed in the commission of a robbery.  There is no known cure for stupidity.)


President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act  six months later.


Student Loan Debt is Intolerable!



This statement comes from -- wait for it -- the Chairperson of the Higher Education & Workforce Training Subcommittee.  Yes indeed, dear readers, Rep Foxx controls policy on the issue of student debt and she firmly believes that such a thing as borrowing for your advanced education is not only intolerable, but unnecessary!   Said the Chairwoman recently, I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt. I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money.


Get out and work for your education, you lazy, spoiled kids!   Why, you can probably get minimum wage at McDonald's.  Let's take an example of the college where President Obama spoke last week, the University of Iowa.   There are eighteen McDonald's "restaurants" in Iowa City.  Divide that great solution  for pay-as-you-attend amongst thirty thousand or so students currently enrolled at  this institution of higher learning, and it would only take you about twenty-five years to graduate.  What, you have a problem with that?  
  

If so, take Mitt Romney's advice and borrow it from your parents!   There's a dandy idea, girls and boys.  Now if  you happen to fall asleep while Mitt's giving you this sage advice, you can always just sell some stock, right?   OOOOOOOK, then!




The Tale of the Haricots Verts

There surely must be an amendment in the Commandment that discusses lying that is just for the Republican Tea Party.   This amendment encourages members of the Far Right establishment to lie about anything if it sounds good at the moment and suits its talker's purpose.

In a debate with her Democratic opponent in North Carolina leading up to the 2010 elections, the moderator asked a very general question about agriculture -- an important issue in that state.   Foxx responded by saying that she and her husband were really farmers at heart and in practice and that she had picked and cooked fresh green beans the day before, and they were delicious.   They only problem with this little homage to her gardening skills is that the day before would have been October 11.  As the Watauga Watch, a local newspaper, points out, There are zero "fresh green beans" out in any garden at this time of year. There are dried bean husks hanging on leafless bushes.  


Like rampant cancer cells, stupidity metastasizes.  I strongly suggest that Ms. Foxx go back to North Carolina -- for good -- and take up gardening in earnest.



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Acknowledgement

Thanks to North Carolinian Older_Wiser for some links to the high-jinks of Rep.Virginia Foxx.  Fortunately, O_W is not represented by this regressive congressperson!