… If not for the use of government to work against the taxpayer?
According to an employment advertisement posted on the popular website www.craigslist.org, the taxpayer-funded National Association of Counties (NACO) is currently seeking an applicant among whose duties will be to “combating anti-government/anti-tax efforts.†*h/t
In other pork news, Obama doesn’t need the distraction of SanFranGran Nan’s embarrassing attempt at trying to justify larding the “stimulus” package with contraception funding, so out with that particular ham hock.
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in the House are nearly certain to drop federal funding for new contraceptive services and on-going programs to stop sexually transmitted diseases from the $825 billion economic stimulus bill due to hit the floor Tuesday, a senior official told FOX News.
Not that it is getting dropped due to any good will on the Dems part. Even though Obama doesn’t need the Republicans to pass the pork bill, he does need them for cover when his policies fail to live up to his promises.
Republicans, libertarians and all free-market advocates should keep that in mind.
UPDATE: Whaaaaa!
UPDATE II: To a Vagina Warrior, anything that stands between her and FREE!!!! contraceptives is a conspiracy!! eleventy!!1!!1!
…conservative idiots who are using the “OMG people are FUCKING†card to stop this economic stimulus package. [...]preventing unintended pregnancy is a legitimate government service
No, Mandy, it is not a legitimate government service. Taxpayers have no more obligation to pay for your pills then they do for your toothpaste just because CAVITIES COST MONEY!!!
…and, Mandy, you might like to seek help over the fact that everytime someone disagrees with what you twat tells you, you think it’s because they don’t like fucking. Must be something missing from your life, eh?
Comment by Techie on 1/27 @ 9:06 am #
Wow, funding counter “anti-tax” groups. (pro-tax?) That’s really speaking Truth to Power.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 1/27 @ 9:11 am #
How long until our government employs someone whose job it is to combat the NRA/2nd amendmant groups?
Comment by Sticky B on 1/27 @ 9:12 am #
Republicans, libertarians and all free-market advocates should keep that in mind.
You’ll probably get all dozen or so of us to check in here today. The other 300 million plus don’t seem to give a shit.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/27 @ 9:12 am #
Mr. Pink — have you heard of the Center for Disease Control? They hare off on anti-gun tirades every once in a while.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 1/27 @ 9:14 am #
WTF do diseases have to do with fire arms?
Comment by B Moe on 1/27 @ 9:15 am #
I think you guys are missing the boat on this contraceptive deal. More contraceptives means more people fucking, which means more happy people, and happy people are more productive workers. How can you think sex isn’t stimulating?
Comment by B Moe on 1/27 @ 9:16 am #
Hand gun violence is a contagious disease, apparently.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/27 @ 9:17 am #
Yep…
A government arm that combats anti-government and anti-tax efforts ideologically sounds like it’s right in MaObama’s wheelhouse…
Gird your loins for a bitter fight; all of us who believe in low taxation and minimal, non-interventionist, governments are getting ready to have our opinions outlawed…
But then, by even being here we’re all a little bit Outlaw! anyway, right?
And I for one am proud of our new Chimperor for compelling Granny Rictus McBotox to remove the family planning pork from the stimulus bill; it’s mighty white of him, as some throw-back EEEEEEVIL RAAAAAAACISTS! might say…
Besides, he only needs bi=partisan cover for the stimulus bill, in case it flops…
It’s not the same for the planned parenthood
bailoutpayoffmoney to launder for the next electionsubsidyappropriation…They could give a damn whether any RethugliKKKans sign on that plum; that gift for all past and future campaign and electoral support…
This administration…So-so-so Ethical!, so Transparent!, so Honest!, so Bi-Partisan!, so Unifying…
So Chicag-O!…
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/27 @ 9:23 am #
“Comment by Mr. Pink on 1/27 @ 9:14 am #
WTF do diseases have to do with fire arms?
It’s an epidemic!
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/27 @ 9:24 am #
Sticky B: Obama got 52% of the vote. 52%. And that’s with massive fraud, widespread dissatisfaction with Bush, and having Obama’s record (or non-record) papered over by the media.
He’s on the record now.
Don’t let them bluff you. Never forget that his “overwhelming mandate” is completely illusory. It can vanish faster than warm weather when Al Gore comes to town.
I see that His Oneness’s approval rating has dropped 8% in the past week. Bets on what it’ll be by the 2010 House elections?
Comment by JHoward on 1/27 @ 9:32 am #
Spend any time in your statehouse or involved in a national resistance movement fighting State Orwellianism and you’ll see the enormous power of the federal lobby as well as DC harassing locals to conform to said Orwellianism or be defunded.
Read: Government lobbies itself. Judges write laws. Legislatures are populated with members of the Bar. State employees fight the public and get paid for it. Budgets and policies are built on the basis of what government itself just says it wants.
To say we’ve lost control of this thing would be an understatement. Maybe it’s time we understood the inherent malignancy of government.
Again.
Comment by B Moe on 1/27 @ 9:34 am #
Read: Government lobbies itself. Judges write laws. Legislatures are populated with members of the Bar. State employees fight the public and get paid for it. Budgets and policies are built on the basis of what government itself just says it wants.
Don’t forget the mandatory childhood indoctrination centers.
Comment by Mr B on 1/27 @ 9:36 am #
America doesn’t have time to worry about something as trivial as this when they have a garden to tend to.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/27 @ 9:38 am #
Well, people can die from them, so clearly it’s a public health issue!
Of course, that the public-health studies in re guns tend to be even more blatant junk science than AGW should be ignored.
On the tax bit — I really don’t know what the hell we can do about that.
Comment by JHoward on 1/27 @ 9:39 am #
B Moe, if you can’t get traction carping about all that runaway inter-government positive feedback and the voter/subject apathy that spawns it, you can’t go around calling schools mandatory childhood indoctrination centers.
You can’t call the social services cabal in this country Soviet. You can’t call the quasi-religious federal assault on family — from sec-progg PC policy to official misogyny to the strong-arm “family” law system and everything in between — anything but kindly federal compassion.
DC has mouths to feed and minds to fill. Please don’t make those minds think.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/27 @ 9:40 am #
SBP,
Deval Patrick, the Democratic saviour of the State of Massachussettes (or is it the state of denial, oh well) went from super-stardom to the dog-house in a breathtakingly short period…
While the arc of O!s popularity may not be as pronounced I think it’s safe to say that it can be summed up by the Jeff Beck tune, Goin’ Down…
Comment by Mr. Pink on 1/27 @ 9:45 am #
“While the arc of O!s popularity may not be as pronounced I think it’s safe to say that it can be summed up by the Jeff Beck tune, Goin’ Down…”
Do you honestly think that would ever be reported? Anyway, most of the people that voted for him have no clue wtf they voted for anyway so how could they get pissed.
Comment by Mr B on 1/27 @ 9:52 am #
This is my favorite comment from TP so far.
“By the time Reid and Pelosi get done with this it’s going to be a 100% military spending bill, with authorization to nuke Iran built right in. Also outlawing flag burning and making Toby Keith the new Poet Laureate.
I don’t know what the R’s are complaining about; from all I can tell, they’re still in charge of everything.”
Hysterical. They’ll never take responsibility well it seems.
Comment by MarkD on 1/27 @ 9:53 am #
Unless a really large check shows up soon, I think even his most fervent supporters are going to figure out there is no pony in that pile. So far, I know we bought Citi an evil corporate jet. We also strongarmed the auto companies into dumping some.
As a taxpayer, I figure my share of the bailout debt is probably north of $20,000. Which bought a jet. Which I will never ride in. For a bank that laid off thousands.
Change, maybe. Not much hope.
Comment by alppuccino on 1/27 @ 9:54 am #
Knock Knock…
Hello, are you the poor innocent downtrodden lady of the house? Well, I’d like to give you this rubber to prevent you from having your 8th child out of wedlock. What’s that? Every baby is worth another $200 a month?
……….this rubber will prevent disease
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 1/27 @ 9:59 am #
Al, you nailed it. Nice.
Comment by Semanticleo on 1/27 @ 10:05 am #
“Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain’s reported $1.2 million office makeover–said to have been done in early 2008, after Thain was hired to help save the ailing brokerage, and months before an agreement to sell Merrill to Bank of America–has really bugged taxpayers, since billions in TARP funds have been handed out to BofA to help the bank absorb Merrill and its bigger-than-expected losses.
But conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh had his own take on Thain’s redecorating. He responded to comments reportedly made by President Obama–telling Republicans on the hill that they “can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done”–in a statement to National Review’s Byron York, where Limbaugh focused on his issues with the massive stimulus package.
Some of his comments:
Obama was angry that Merrill Lynch used $1.2 million of TARP money to remodel an executive suite. Excuse me, but didn’t Merrill have to hire a decorator and contractor? Didn’t they have to buy the new furnishings? What’s the difference in that and Merrill loaning that money to a decorator, contractor and goods supplier to remodel Warren Buffet’s office? Either way, stimulus in the private sector occurs.”
See? Private sector economic stimulation is AOK as long as the free marketers hire Joe the Plumber to do the work.
Your Bush TARP dollars have no transparency (all $350 Billion0, so there’s no telling how much conservative welfare is propping up the poor working man……..
‘Sir, may I have some more, please?’
Because Socialism is so full of pork…………………
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/27 @ 10:06 am #
al,
If I didn’t believe in personal responsibility, I’d say you owed me a new laptop after that one…
Does coffee come out of the keyboard eventually..?
Comment by Sdferr on 1/27 @ 10:08 am #
Just keep a wet/dry vac on standby Bob.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 1/27 @ 10:12 am #
I love how O! is already on arabic TV apologizing for how evil Amerikkka is. I guess he wants to stop our chickens from coming home to roost again.
Comment by B Moe on 1/27 @ 10:31 am #
How long do you think before ‘cleo realizes most of us were against the bail-out?
Comment by Darleen on 1/27 @ 10:34 am #
B Moe
Not only that, but I have no idea whether or not Limbaugh was being sarcastic … I don’t listen to him but AFAIK, he has been anti-pork/bailout.
Comment by Semanticleo on 1/27 @ 10:56 am #
“AFAIK’
That’s a short bus trip………..
Comment by alppuccino on 1/27 @ 11:04 am #
for you. hee.
Comment by B Moe on 1/27 @ 11:09 am #
You really need to stop dropping your right when you jab, ‘cleo.
Comment by JD on 1/27 @ 11:16 am #
Does Miss KKKleo speak English?
Comment by Alan Smithee on 1/27 @ 12:50 pm #
What can you say, Darleen? Amanda’s life revolves around the sex she’s apparently not getting.
Comment by JD on 1/27 @ 12:57 pm #
Darleen – Please refrain from references to her twat. My mind’s eye, it must be bleached.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/27 @ 12:57 pm #
It’s really sort of difficult to watch Harry and Nancy and Baracky waste such an appallingly large sum of dollars and inflate away the prosperity of my little country. The poorer we are the more their dirty socialism will resonate is their theory I guess. I think that’s a really crappy theory. Nancy had a whole litter of Pelosis though. I guess she just wants to make sure the wrong people aren’t breeding. Harry I don’t know about. He’s never struck me as a particularly virile man. Baracky just wanted a coupla photogenic props I think.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/27 @ 1:01 pm #
Poorer is richer. Up is down. Behavior that demands trust in government is best undertaken when trust in government is at an alltime low. Black is white. Spend what you don’t have to create what you’ll never get.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/27 @ 1:05 pm #
oh. I forgot. Che was a really sweet guy, very loving.
Comment by SarahW on 1/27 @ 1:09 pm #
I don’t know. I better not comment cause I have a bad case of Margaret Sangeration today. Must have been that mother of seven by seven whose latest daddy’s in jail and she wants the city to give her a new house cause her two year old was shot with a pistol, probably by his older brother, though she says the kids found it in the yard and he brought it inside and shot himself and she can’t live with the memories or the two bedrooms anymore.
Comment by SarahW on 1/27 @ 1:09 pm #
She gave her phone number so you can donate.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/27 @ 1:13 pm #
oh. Norplant caused a big stir I remember. Now Baracky wants to abort little African babies. I don’t really get how these people think.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/27 @ 1:14 pm #
but… but… I thought we were supposed to keep our hands off of teh uteruseses.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/27 @ 1:17 pm #
I think these gals have a creepy obsession with birth control products and a creepy fear? dislike? of babiez.
Comment by BJTexs on 1/27 @ 1:18 pm #
Yes, maggie, keep your hands off. Cash, however, is quite OK!
FOR THE PREVENTION OF AFFLICTED AND OPPRESSED CHILD BEARING WYMENZ!
Comment by Darleen on 1/27 @ 1:19 pm #
SarahW
I’m all for letting people know they should GROW UP before having kids… I shudder to think what people like Mandy would inflict on a trusting child.
But taking care of the poor is a moral obligation, not a government one – the province of family, community and charity.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/27 @ 1:22 pm #
that sound a bit unsanitary, BJTexs.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/27 @ 1:25 pm #
WTF?
Listen, if you’re going to demand that I pay so you can screw whenever you want, I’m going to start demanding a piece of the action. If, on the other hand, you’re going to insist that you and only you are entitled to decide who does what to your body, then I’m going to demand the same favor from you — and that includes you no longer demanding that I spend my life working to pay for the choices you make.
The time I have in this life is as precious to me as your time is to you. If you cannot respect my liberty to spend it as I please, then I see no reason to respect your liberty.
Comment by MarkD on 1/27 @ 2:52 pm #
I suppose getting the government to pay for ammunition is out of the question?
Hey, we’ve all got our hobbies, and if the government is paying for Mandy’s it can pay for mine.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 1/27 @ 3:16 pm #
“preventing unintended pregnancy is a legitimate government service”
This must be stated in that there “living constitution” because it ain’t in mine. How did dopes like mandy come to the place they have come to? Plus, if she really doesn’t want to get pregnant, that’s what the ass is for. Silly little bint.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/27 @ 3:24 pm #
Amanda is truly tiresome; and what a bunch off asshats in the commentary!
Comment by Sdferr on 1/27 @ 3:26 pm #
That’s a beautiful thing you wrote there in 45 Rob. All of it.
Comment by B Moe on 1/27 @ 3:31 pm #
Amanda is truly tiresome; and what a bunch off asshats in the commentary!
Just for shits and giggles you ought to try interacting with them at least once Bob. They start every response with “What Bob really means is….” and then proceed to rebut something likely not even close to what you actually said. It is pretty amazing the first couple times you see it.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/27 @ 3:38 pm #
I would BMoe, except I just don’t feel like going through the motions and registering at her site…
Maybe some other day when I feel like having a few yuks…
Comment by kelly on 1/27 @ 4:05 pm #
“Plus, if she really doesn’t want to get pregnant, that’s what the ass is for. Silly little bint.”
Wonkette is smiling somewhere right now.
Comment by kelly on 1/27 @ 4:05 pm #
Out, damn tags!
Comment by TechieI'd on 1/27 @ 4:14 pm #
I’d really like the Feds to start subsidizing my single malt habit.
Comment by kelly on 1/27 @ 4:22 pm #
Put me down for some wine subsidies. It’d be cheaper if I was doing blow.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/27 @ 5:17 pm #
Thanks, Sdferr. I’m getting sick and tired of the same crowd endlessly playing the same dance:
1. Demand I spend more of my life working for their benefit.
2. Scream that I’m some sort of heartless miser when I object — comparisons to the fictional Gordon Gekko are de rigeur in these screeds.
3. Screech over any restriction on their behavior, or any negative consequences of that behavior.
4. Demand that government ameliorate the issues in step 3, which takes us right back to step 1.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/27 @ 5:39 pm #
#45 Rob Crawford:
There is that lack of understanding evident; ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune’; ‘if you take the king’s shilling you do the king’s bidding’.
It is the eternal dream – something for nothing.
Comment by Darleen on 1/27 @ 5:56 pm #
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/27 @ 5:17 pm #
There’s a data flow diagram in there someplace.
Comment by meya on 1/27 @ 6:32 pm #
“Spend any time in your statehouse or involved in a national resistance movement fighting State Orwellianism”
Tell us more about a “national resistance movement” that one can spend their time in? I feel like once Kim DuToit quit blogging there was a ‘nation of riflemen’ type vacuum that needed to be filled, and this may just do the trick.
Comment by phil on 1/27 @ 6:36 pm #
I know via the always helpful mainstream media that I’m supposed to hate the previous adminstration but I get the feeling my country is now being led by crazy people. Are any of you getting that feeling as well?
Comment by meya on 1/27 @ 6:47 pm #
“No, Mandy, it is not a legitimate government service. Taxpayers have no more obligation to pay for your pills ”
Does this mean that the only legitimate government services are those that taxpayers are obligated to pay for?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/27 @ 6:54 pm #
#60 phil:
Yes; and yes – if by ‘crazy’ you mean ‘don’t realize that tearing off the mask so early and dramatically is going to cause comment’.
Comment by B Moe on 1/27 @ 6:55 pm #
Does this mean that the only legitimate government services are those that taxpayers are obligated to pay for?
Is that a trick question?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/27 @ 6:57 pm #
The strings, they may be attached, meya.
Comment by parsnip on 1/27 @ 7:00 pm #
By “tearing the mask off” do you mean listening to the Republicans, the guys who got America into the current economic crisis in the first place?
That $5 trillion in debt the Republicans racked up sure would come in handy about now.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/27 @ 7:02 pm #
But back to the subject of this post – so I guess it is okay for Boeing to request specific dedicated funding from the government to fill the line-item of lobbying the government to buy Boeing’s latest product?
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/27 @ 7:09 pm #
Ther Democrats went right along with Bush on “No child left behind” and the “Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization act”; the source of the majority of that 5 trillion dollars debt…
So although it was Bush’s agenda, the Democrats overwhelmingly voted for it; Just like Obama wants the RethugliKKKans to do with his agenda. It makes the eventual finger pointing harder, you know?
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/27 @ 7:10 pm #
Yes Mikey,
By the same logic, it would…
Comment by Phil on 1/27 @ 7:22 pm #
I wouldn’t get too concerned about the lead item here though.
Aside from JFK’s anti-Communist stances, tax cutting, explicitly unapologetic speeches about freedom…See I hear that Baracky is pretty much the second coming of JFK and that guy wasn’t so bad. You know, I really can’t remember who it was who told me that and all, but you know, let’s just move on.Anyways, if you’ve ever taken your US History 101, you’ll remember JFK’s famous “Ask not what your country can do for you….because you work for us now BITCHES!!!1!!!111!!!” speech.
Well it was something like that. I’m sorta paraphrasing.
Anyways, no need to worry. Baracky is a nice man and I know you’re all like “He’s redistributing the wealth!” and “He’s got big, funny ears!” but he’s a nice man and that’s that so just BACK OFF.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/27 @ 7:24 pm #
Phil,
I hear that stuff all the time here in NYC!
Can you believe that folks are that breathtakingly simple..?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/27 @ 7:40 pm #
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are Republicans?
How long is the wheelspan on that bus?
Can it be deployed overseas? ‘Cause I think a platform like that has some use beyond mere politics.
Comment by parsnip on 1/27 @ 7:57 pm #
Obama is coming off as the adult here, Bob, while the Republicans in Congress look like whiny little Diva’s.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/27 @ 8:01 pm #
Give ‘em a week, and Cold Cash Jefferson, Charlie Rangel, and Blagojevich will all be Republicans, too.
Comment by Phil on 1/27 @ 8:03 pm #
Jesus naked Obama on a unicorn! You WON the election, shouldn’t you be throwing a party? Hope and changiness has arrived, why doesn’t everyone feel better?
If you want to pass your pork-bloated sham of a bill, GO FOR IT. I promise to even contact my congressman and tell them not to filibuster. That way we’re not being mean, big bad Republicans.
But if you expect conservatives to take the fall for you when your Family Planning Stimulus Act of 2009 completely fails, kindly go fuck yourself.
Here’s your sword, now go fall on it. I’m going to stay over here.
Comment by parsnip on 1/27 @ 8:19 pm #
We feel great, Phil
Crushing you crackers in two straight elections puts a smile on my face every single morning I wake up and it stays there all day.
We don’t want to rub it in though, because it wouldn’t be polite.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/27 @ 8:47 pm #
“Obama is coming off as the adult here, Bob…”
Exctly how, parsnip..?
By saying things like this? To wit: “Look, we are all political animals here, If we don’t do this, we may lose seats. I may not be re-elected”
By telling Republicans that he understands their concerns, but; “I WON!, So I think on that one I trump you!”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/i-won-president.html
Or, by calling out a national radio entertainer? To wit: “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done…”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/potus-v-limbaug.html
Bush never once called out any national media personality, regardless of how bad he was being savaged; not even by Keefy, Chris Tingle,MSNBC, or the NY times smear machine. Presidents, especially those acting as the adults, just don’t do that. Why would Obama do that?
And adults live up to their words and declarations. If you preach unity, bi-partisinship, and reaching across the aisle, you certainly don;t essentially flipoff the loyal opposition; at least anyone acting as the adult wouldn’t…
Obama’s not coming off as the adult here, nor as a messiah. He’s coming off as a self absorbed, narcissistic, gloating, poseur; about as opposite to Bush as he could get…
Comment by Phil on 1/27 @ 8:51 pm #
My general happiness isn’t derived based on the political party in power. Mine is usually derived from my friends and my family and my experiences with them. Then again, the guv’mint isn’t a religion substitute for me either. I don’t worship at the altar of the state, Gaia, Baracky and Al Gore.
“If you don’t believe in something, you’ll believe in anything.” I’m not even sure the Left even knows what that means. Hopefully one day you will.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/27 @ 8:56 pm #
conservative idiots who are using the “OMG people are FUCKING†card to stop this economic stimulus package.
Wait, don’t the Dems have a huge majority?
Why, yes they do.
Doesn’t that mean that the Republicans can’t really “block” anything, as long as Barky, Pelosi, and Reid want it?
Why, yes it does.
The cognitive dissonance in Amynda’s brain must be interesting right about now.
They’re your guys, Myndi. Anything that happens is your fault.
Own it.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/27 @ 8:58 pm #
Someone who’s actually reading his crap: has Nipply mentioned Barky’s “record-settting” approval rating recently?
I’m guessing not, since it’s dropped 8% since the inauguration.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 1/27 @ 9:02 pm #
Does this mean that the only legitimate government services are those that taxpayers are obligated to pay for?
Personally, I think it should be limited to things authorized by Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, but I hold to quaint ideas like that.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/27 @ 9:13 pm #
Holy shit! That’s better than 1% a day! By summer he’ll have an approval rating lower than Congress!
Comment by Phil on 1/27 @ 9:18 pm #
Shorter Baracky: It was my understanding there would be no responsibilities.
Comment by Phil on 1/27 @ 9:24 pm #
Racist!!! Consider yourself condemned.
Only slightly tangential, Baracky is apparently beyond parody. No, I mean literally. Joy Behar of the View says you can’t make fun of him and his goofy ears. Oh no, I just did – double plus ungood!
Comment by TechieI'd on 1/27 @ 10:04 pm #
So, does Barack have a sign on his desk going “Buck, what buck?”
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/27 @ 10:07 pm #
That’s racist!
Comment by B Moe on 1/27 @ 10:10 pm #
The cognitive dissonance in Amynda’s brain must be interesting right about now.
I don’t think there is enough cognitive there to be dissonant.
Comment by Darleen on 1/27 @ 10:22 pm #
B Moe
Mandy has just enough brainstem to jerk her knee again… this time she is declaring Republican opposition to the pork in the bill that is earmarked for ACORN is teh racist.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/27 @ 10:31 pm #
Oh, yeah. It’s racist to oppose sending taxpayer money to a partisan group that to all indications operates on the very edge of the law. When Republicans take Congress back, can they send some earmarks to Young American’s Foundation? Maybe the Federalist Society?
Republicans should add an amendment requiring all organizations which receive federal funds to pay 10% over the minimum wage, and to have no more than 30% of their labor come from volunteers. Hey, it’s a stimulus bill, right?
I bet ACORN would throw a hairy fit over that one.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/27 @ 10:35 pm #
Someone needs to point out to Myndy, faced with the choice, Barky would rather hire fake voters than pay for her birth control pills.
“Bros before hos”, as the saying goes.
Comment by Scrapiron on 1/27 @ 11:15 pm #
Mandy:
At Any Given Moment:
79,000,000 people are engaged in intercourse right now.
58,000,000 are kissing.
37,000,000 are relaxing after having sex.
1 lonely bugger is reading blogs.
You hang in there sunshine!
Comment by Slartibartfast on 1/28 @ 8:41 am #
The thing to remember, before you start putting things up on da webs, is that the Internet can remember your spelling errors in interesting ways. To wit:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/26/obama-family-palnning/
Comment by John Cheshire on 1/28 @ 12:25 pm #
“Beware the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.” –Thomas Paine
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/28 @ 4:33 pm #
There’s always a nosy-parker somewhere, isn’t there, John Cheshire?
And reformist government does give a them a wide range.
Comment by Rusty on 1/28 @ 9:16 pm #
#61
Read your constitution and get back to us.We’ll help you with the big words.
For the record ‘general welfare’ doesn’t mean what you think it means.