Deal

Think Progress Headline: Cantor Says No Earthquake Disaster Relief For His Home State Unless Spending Is Cut Elsewhere.

Fine. Cut defense. Ain't bi-partisanship grand?

It's worth noting however, that Cantor voted to borrow billions to rebuild Iraq without any problem at all. That apparent inconsistency must be due to the fact he knew most of that money was going to GOP cronies instead of American communities that need it. You're a peach congressman, you're a peach.

Broken Clock

Think Progress: When Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) unveiled his budget in April, students and parents protested the $1.2 billion in education cuts it contained by holding a mock bake sale at the state capitol, where they estimated they would have to sell 2.4 billion cookies to make up the cost of the cuts. Corbett eventually signed into law a budget, with $900 million in education cuts, reducing the amount of cookies the parents needed to sell but still forcing school to districts to find creative ways to fill their budget gaps. In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, those cuts meant putting an end to traditional means of cutting grass at two local schools. Instead of lawnmowers, the schools are using sheep.



As tragic as a billion dollars worth of cuts to education is, this may be as close as the GOP will ever get to going green.

Not Exactly

Raw Story: Tea party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL) explained Wednesday that he was helping black voters escape slavery of the “21st-century plantation” overseen by black liberals like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)... “So I’m here as the modern-day Harriet Tubman, to kind of lead people on the Underground Railroad, away from that plantation into a sense of sensibility,” said West.

We're not sure how participating in the party of the confederate flag and The Southern Strategy makes him the modern-day Harriet Tubman. In fact, it makes him an apologist and promoter of a political party that deliberately built its base with racists.

Yes, But...

Janeane Garofalo: Do female GOP candidates have Stockholm syndrome?



... you could ask that question about any GOP voter who isn't very rich, very white and very Christian.

Cancer

Today, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) issued the first policy position of his presidential campaign by asking the White House to issue a “moratorium on regulations across this country”:

We’re calling today on the president of the United States to put a moratorium on regulations across this country, because his regulations, his EPA regulations are killing jobs all across America.

The EPA protects us from corporations who's only concern is profit. Get rid of it and we'll be killing people all across America. Rick Perry and the Republicans simply want to get rid of government by the people and replace it with corporate rule, and they really don't give a rip how many people get sick or die in the process. This should disqualify them from public office.

Running To Be Inconsequential

Rick Perry: I promise to make Washington inconsequential in your lives ...



The transnational corporations should be happy about that. People who are clearly hostile to representative democracy should not be allowed to serve in it. When they do, we end up with the truism that Republicans run around saying government doesn't work until they get elected and prove it.

Tariffist

"In a trade war, everybody loses. Some may lose more than others, but everybody loses," said Nicholas Lardy, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.



That's not true. Unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, we win a trade war. We're the biggest consumers in the history of the universe. A black hole for consumer goods. We'll consume you to death. At only 4% of the world's population we're responsible for 25% of the world's consumption. We're the only people we need to sell to.



Slap stiff tariffs on all imported goods and we'll fix our economy. Produce at home what we consume at home and we'll fix our economy. Restore the buying power of the great American middle class and we'll fix our economy. It's as simple as that.