The Republican party/teabaggers in a nutshell.
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Keystone Jobs bill Mike Easter! Republicans voted down a requirement that the pipeline be built with U.S.A. steel. So much for caring about jobs. And energy independence? Republicans voted down a requirement that the fuel stay in the U.S. Environmental safety? Leaking pipeline oil is in the Yellowstone River. Again!
Windmills and photovoltaic panels will never poison the Ogallala Aquifer.
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Oh, they put a lot of thought into it. Itâs just the thought is âhow can we serve our rich overlords, but make it look like we give a sh*t about average people.â
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Yawn! We have all heard this bull before.
With the delays in seating Franklin and Kennedyâs health issues they only actually had that super-majority for a couple of months much of which congress was in recess. Even then that super-majority was entirely dependent on Blue Dogs like Max Baucus, hence why they were able to call the shots for the entire party, because their buy in was necessary to get anything past Republican obstruction.
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All I could think of is that she reminded me of my 7th grade english teacher, starchy and priggish (thatâs right, prig, not pig) and telling us all how to pronounce our words:
s-l-o-w-l-y, s-u-c-c-i-n-c-t-l-y and with proper e/nun/ci/a/tion âchildrenâ. I can only imagine what her handwritten cursive style must look like. Sit up straight children!!! No elbows on your desksâŠthe list goes on.
And were those bread-bags on the outside of her shoes when it rained, or the inside? I still canât figure out how that shit worked if she tied them to the outside of her shoes.
I was waiting for her to tell us she was raised a free-range child as a kidâŠwalking to get to school each day through miles and miles of cornfields and plenty of pig poop.
You know, when I was a kidâŠ
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No, I donât think they put a lot of thought into the content.
Thatâs what groups like ALEC are for: to do the thinking and free up politiciansâ time to raise funds and kiss donor butt.
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Isnât it true that Joni was born in a log cabin that she built herself with her own two hands?
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Theyâre like the dog that chases cars. Do we call that dog strong when he catches it?
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I thought that Rand Paulâs Republican response was much better: it was better thought out and better organized. Joni Ernstâs response looked like something Rupert Murdochâs blonde hacks or masseuse put together.
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And about Ernstâs bread-bag-shoesâbecause of her age, that must have happened while Reagan was president. Good timesâŠ
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Obamaâs speech was really great. I wasnât expecting it to be so good.
Ernst came off as a phony robot.
I thought it was telling in her story that the upside to the âbread bags on my feetâ was that everyone had bread bags on their feet.
The metaphor seems to be, âYes, as a middle-classed person, you may be feeling a lot of economic stress right now, but you should be happy, because all middle-classed people are screwed.â
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Ernst didnât embarrass herself the same way I didnât when I sleepwalked nude down main street last night. I had shoes on, she had bread bags on.
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Donât underestimate the raw partisan interests and power of Roberts and the RATS on the Supreme Court.
Even Howard Hughes could afford tissue box shoes. Pathetic.
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" Her famously âfolksyâ delivery also seemed less appropriate to the
context of a State of the Union Address than to her hog
castration-centered 2014 campaign message. "
If that was a folksy delivery then my pile of cordwood is pretty damned folksy.
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She and her pigs should have built that house out of bricks because that wolf was able to huff and puff and blow that shit down.
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Some Republicans like Ron Johnson are on a mission to shut government down, drown it in a bathtub, leaving only enough of it to enrich defense contractors and the well-connected business interests who fund campaigns or fund primary opponents when the politician doesnât toe the line.
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âI walked 45 mile to school with sandwich bags on my feet, in blinding snow storm with just a T-shirt on, all so I could blow pigsâŠâ
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Yes, and that. They said the 2000 fix was a one-shot-deal, but I wouldnât put the 5 past the chance to do it again so the conservatives have a lock on the SCOTUS for another generation.
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The Ernst (nee âCulverâ) family likes their farm subsidies!
âThe truth about her familyâs farm roots and living within oneâs means, however, is more complex. Relatives of Ernst (nĂ©e: Culver), based in Red Oak, Iowa (population: 5,568) have received over $460,000 in farm subsidies between 1995 and 2009. Ernstâs father, Richard Culver, was given $14,705 in conservation payments and $23,690 in commodity subsidies by the federal governmentâwith all but twelve dollars allocated for corn support. Richardâs brother, Dallas Culver, benefited from $367,141 in federal agricultural aid, with over $250,000 geared toward corn subsidies. And the brothersâ late grandfather Harold Culver received $57,479 from Washingtonâagain, mostly corn subsidiesâbetween 1995 and 2001. He passed away in January 2003.â
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