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Bachmann rips Obama: Accusing GOP of creating 'phony scandals' is insulting.

Truth hurts, eh?  Well look, it should be insulting.  We're accusing you of creating phony scandals to the detriment of the country.  It's immoral, counter productive, and in some cases, criminal.  It should be cause for removal from office at the very least.  Certainly it should give anybody pause before even thinking about voting GOP. 

Using taxpayer time and money to deliberately fabricate Benghazi emails, setting up the IRS to try and frame the president, and prosecuting Democrats on trumped up charges is the stuff of banana republics. They use that crap as a political weapon to weaken Democrats and distract people from the fact they only serve the 1%.  

And on a more personal note Ms Bachmann, you're crazy.

Cancer - R

Daily Kos:  Determined to smash the Environmental Protection Agency any way they can, Republicans on the Appropriations Interior and Environment subcommittee voted along party lines Tuesday to chop $2.9 billion off the agency's 2014 budget, leaving it with $5.5 billion next year. The 35 percent cut in H.R. 1582 would leave spending for EPA at what it was more than 35 years ago.

Republicans will give you cancer if they can make a buck for their big business backers.  That's not an exaggeration, that's not hyperbole, it's just the cold, hard, horrible truth.  

The Confederates

Rush Limbaugh:

If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery it’s Caucasians. The White race has probably had fewer slaves and for a briefer period of time than any other in the history of the world. [...]

Despite all that, no other race has ever fought a war for the purpose of ending slavery, which we did. Nearly 600,000 people killed in the Civil War. It’s preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they have done more to end it than any other race and within the bounds of the Constitution to boot. Yet white guilt about slavery is still one of the dominating factors in American politics.

Ok, yeah... see the problem is that "we" did not fight a war for the purpose of ending slavery.  Conservatives in the south fought that war to keep slavery.  We progressives, we northerners, we non-confederates, fought that war to end slavery.  And today Rush is on the side of the confederates. 

If you have any doubt about which side is which, Google "the southern strategy" and read all about how Rush's modern GOP deliberately built its base with racists.  If you have any doubt, notice that to this day the modern Republican parrty has its political and philosophical power base in the confederate south.  And if you still have doubt, go there, and see if GOP base doesn't prefer the confederate flag to the American flag.

Scandalmania!

Conservative pundit Dana Loech on President Obama's race speech yesterday:  "It’s a combo protest diversion from scandals and attempt to weaken laws protecting right to self defense."

Ah yes, the "scandals" you don't hear anything about anymore.  The reason you don't hear anything about them anymore (Loech's most recent dry heave not withstanding) is because they were all fabrications and set ups by the GOP.  In Benghazi the emails were doctored, with the IRS it turns out Issa and his Republican hacks at the IRS tried to frame the President, and the spying thing, well, Loech used to love that stuff when Bush was doing it.

So... she can go straight to hell (and she should rest assured her Republican party will be right behind her).

Kill The Public School System

TPM:  A Republican lawmaker in Utah outlined a proposal last week to abolish compulsory education in the state.

State Sen. Aaron Osmond (R) argued that certain "parents act as if the responsibility to educate, and even care for their child, is primarily the responsibility of the public school system."

In a country ruled by Republicans there is no public eduction.  You better know that.  

Working For The People Of New York

Think Progress:  Health care premiums on the individual market will tumble by at least 50 percent as a result of the Affordable Care Act, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The state joins Oregon, Montana, California, and Louisiana in reporting lower than expected rates in the law’s new health care marketplaces. 

In states that have allowed Obamacare to be implemented premiums are falling.  In these places Obamcare is working on behalf of the citizens of this country, just as it was designed to do.  If you're unlucky enough to live in a red state however, Republicans are fighting implementation of the law and trying to sabotage it as much as possible.  So no affordable healthcare for you.

This is because Republicans legislate on behalf the ridiculously rich people who run big for-profit corporations and not you.  You can die in the gutter or go broke trying not to for all they care, as long as Steven J Helmsly is happy.

Sad State

MoveOn.org petition:

Florida is not a safe place to take your family for vacation as long as Florida law permits a citizen to shoot or kill you for merely looking suspicious, and to do it with impunity. Boycott Florida tourism until this dangerous law is overturned. If the murder of Trayvon Martin isn't enough to get lawmaker's attention, maybe a loss in revenue to the state would be.  

Given what just happened, that's really not hyperbole.  Go to California instead.  

But Move On makes a good point.  Zimmerman walked because of Republican-NRA-ALEC-right-wing laws.  And these laws are being pushed in over 30 states.  You and your family are at risk in all of them.