If Not Tax Cuts...

Headline: House GOP Rejects Tax Cuts For Middle Class

They don't even have the minimal nobility of wrong headed convictions. Not even with tax cuts. Republicans only legislate on behalf of those who can enrich them personally and bankroll their grip on power, America - be - damned.

Because

Question: Why did Democrats just lose a safe seat in New York?

Answer: Because they have made the choice not to define Republicans as the fascist, anti-democratic, bought and paid for, America killing psychopaths that they are.

From The Elephant's Mouth

Think Progress : Marin Cogan and Jake Sherman have done the only reporting that really needs to be done on the prospects for major legislation aimed at creating jobs, or doing anything else:

“Obama is on the ropes; why do we appear ready to hand him a win?” said one senior House Republican aide who requested anonymity to discuss the matter freely.

Translation: America can go fuck itself. We just don't care.

Go Mitt Go

Raw Story: Speaking to reporters after touring a Boeing plant in South Carolina Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pledged to pursue legislation that would prohibit unions from contributing dues to political campaigns.

That's a fantastic idea. Money in politics is destroying this country. We need to ban unions, corporations, and billionaires from from buying our government. We're happy to have Mitt on board.

Home Schooling For All

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA): “Whether or not the federal government borrows money from overseas sources to keep teachers in XYZ state on the payroll seems to be ‘stimulus II.’ It seems to be something that the state’s have to decide what the right number of teachers are, and fund that, and not have us borrow money from overseas.”

Totally. Firing teachers to pay for more tax cuts for the rich is the way to go.

Look, 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 only feign concern to get rid of the things they hate (in this case, public education). It's like pouring out the pitcher over some some billionaire's petunias, 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.

Sick

Headline: Texas healthcare system withering under Gov. Rick Perry

Republican environmental policy will make you sick. Republican healthcare policy will keep you that way. Just wait until they revoke medicare. We'll have old people dying in the streets.

Broccoli Bombers

In a prepared statement, New Mexico's Republican governor said she does not argue with a 1930 Census record, reported by the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper earlier in the summer, that documented her grandfather's illegal status.

Asked by the KLUZ reporter whether she thought her grandfather would pose a threat to public security, Martinez pointed to national security issues in today's world that she said didn't exist then.

"Since that time we've suffered a lot. Simply look at what happened on September 11," she said. "We have to ensure that when the people come to the United States people aren't coming to New Mexico to receive a license with false documents."

So after the local paper exposes her rather embarrassing hypocrisy, she tries to get out of it by turning migrant workers into Jihadists. Of course the reality is, not only are migrant workers not prone to be terrorists, but by far the greatest number of attacks on the homeland come from the gun loving, anti-government, right-wing, Republican types that her party's rhetoric creates.