Killer Public Policy

Headline: GOP Congressman Pays For Emergency Disaster Relief With Cuts To Clean Cars Program

Great. In GOP world we can only save our citizens from disaster by giving them lung cancer. God forbid we stop giving billions of dollars in tax breaks to oil companies though. Can't have that.

The Company You Keep

Think Progress: While on his tour of Europe, President Obama traveled to the Irish hometown of an ancestor yesterday where he drank a pint of Guinness, which he joked tasted “so much better here than it does in the States,” becasue “you guys are — you’re keeping all the best stuff here!” Fox Business host Eric Bolling — who has been filling in for Glenn Beck in recent weeks and is rumored to be a potential replacement for the paranoid prime timer — was not amused, taking to Facebook and Twitter to slam the president for celebrating his Irish heritage while Americans suffer from the aftermath of the Missouri tornadoes:


"40′s” is a slang name for 40oz malt liquor bottles. But Obama drank from a pint glass (not a bottle) of beer that doesn’t come in 40oz bottles. Why did Bolling say Obama was “chugging 40′s”? As even some of Bolling’s Facebook commenter note, it’s an eyebrow-raising choice of words, given the beverage’s long-time association with African American stereotypes.

Smokin blunts and slappin ho's the whole way no doubt.

The take away here isn't really that this Republican is a racist. Everybody knows the party of the confederate flag and the southern strategy has plenty of those. It's that he obviously knows this kind of thing plays well within the party. If you're voting GOP and you're not a racist tool, you would do well to consider that.

When Killers Threaten Death

Constituent: I want to know who serves cancer care to people with preexisting conditions who are uninsurable in a private marketplace because they're interested in profits.

Dan Webster (R-Koch Industries): Thank you for that question and I’ll answer it....first of all, that I believe there is a need to have preexisting conditions covered. I’ve said that. So I’m not trying to eliminate that at all, and that would be the answer to your question. All I’m saying is, left to the community and the states and having partnerships will free us from this. We can’t afford it. We can either do it on borrowed money and run our country into the ground and then no one gets coverage because we won’t have a country.

What we can't afford is Republicans. If these people don't stop deliberately destroying the tax base by cutting or eliminating taxes for the super rich and the corporations, we won't have a country. If they don't stop outsourcing and exporting the middle class to help their CEO constituency, we won't have a country. If they keep lying and cheating to get the nation stuck in trillion dollar wars, we won't have a country. Providing access to affordable heath care doesn't threaten the United States. GOP public policy does. That's what the evidence shows.

Go To Hell

Mitt Romney: Obama "threw Israel under the bus"

Whatever. For 50 years the Republican party has been a haven for racists and bigots. They only pimp Israel to try and peel away some of the Jewish vote and pander to radical Christians who want to keep Jerusalem away from the Muslims before Jesus returns and sends them both to hell.

Sabotage

According to The Wisconsin State Journal economists allege that Governor Scott Walker's budget crisis is a fabrication invented out of whole cloth and predicated on a series of tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy.

No Republican should be allowed to say we can't afford this or that. They've spent the last 30 years deliberately destroying the tax base though tax cuts and outsourcing and now they're crying crocodile tears. It's like pouring out the pitcher and then saying we'll have to go thirsty because there's just not enough water to go around. The only way to restore this country is to rebuild the tax base and bring back the middle class. The only way to do that is to get Republicans out of government.

Up Is Down

RNC Chairman Reis Priebus speaking about Latino outreach on MSNBC Wednesday: If we continue to talk about creating good jobs in this country, and continue to show that Barack Obama has actually been an absolute failure when it comes to jobs – except for, obviously promoting the, you know, securing his own job – I think we do very well in that community. And when it comes to jobs, when it comes to spending, the deficit, the debt, and keeping more money in people’s pockets, the Republican Party is the right party.

Right. Except all the evidence says exactly the opposite. And they're equally bad in comparison on the deficit and the national debt. The Republican party might be the right party if you're looking for job growth in China and India, but here at home they're a God-damn-national-disaster.

They Would Know

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul: 'Right to health care' is slavery

No, slavery is slavery. The party of the confederate flag and the southern strategy should know that.