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Tennessee Advances Legislation That Would Tie Welfare To Children’s Grades

stfuconservatives:

I mean, if your kid isn’t doing great at school, what better motivation is there than limiting the amount of food your family can afford? But somehow, I haven’t heard about a piece of legislation that would allow more or fewer tax deductions for the wealthy based on how their kids are doing in school. Weird. 

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House Sets Up Battle on Labor, Education and Health Budgets - NYTimes.com

tartantambourine:

House Republicans are laying the groundwork for another battle with President Obama over spending and domestic policy with a bill that would cut some of his favorite health and education programs, tie the hands of the National Labor Relations Board and eliminate federal grants for Planned Parenthood clinics.

So let’s see. If you are against:

— health care for all

— family planning

— student aid

— public radio

— national service (other than the military)

— the rights of workers

— medical research

— worker training for jobs in energy-efficient industries

then you are a modern-day Republican.

Just curious: Where do these kinds of moral values come from?

ughhhh wtf ppl

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Out on campaign trail, Rep. Bachmann missed every House vote in September - TheHill.com

After Standard and Poor’s downgraded the U.S. credit rating in August, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) called for Congress to return immediately from its recess to restore the nation’s AAA rating.

But when lawmakers eventually returned to Washington in September, Bachmann did not. 

The House held 60 votes during the month of September, and the Minnesota Republican missed them all.[…]

Before the month-long congressional recess, she had missed around 40 percent of House votes since announcing her candidacy.

she’s representing who again?

(Source: sarahlee310)

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It’s not much of a surprise, I guess. The American Jobs Act never had a particularly good chance of passing the House. But as of yesterday, it’s officially dead. Majority Leader Eric Cantor isn’t even pretending the two sides will work something out. “The $447 billion jobs package as a package: dead?” A reporter asked him. “Yes,” Cantor replied.

The jobs bill is dead - The Washington Post (via brooklynmutt)

I HATE THIS MAN

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seefarther: No wonder history was not included as a core subject in No Child Left Behind. Republicans didn’t want us to learn from it.

seefarther:

No wonder history was not included as a core subject in No Child Left Behind. Republicans didn’t want us to learn from it.

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reagan-was-a-horrible-president: GOP Leaders Write Unprecedented Letter Urging The Federal Reserve To Keep Unemployment High | ThinkProgress

reagan-was-a-horrible-president:

GOP Leaders Write Unprecedented Letter Urging The Federal Reserve To Keep Unemployment High | ThinkProgress

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GOP Leaders Write Unprecedented Letter Urging The Federal Reserve To Keep Unemployment High | ThinkProgress

sarahlee310:

In a move without precedent in the modern era, Republican congressional leaders including House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) have penned a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urging him not to take any steps to help the economy.

If I lived in a city, I would be printing copies of this to leave around unemployment offices, on random bus seats, in laundry mats - places where folks who may not pay that close attention to politics, but who are hurting might find and read it.  The regular news programs people are more likely to watch than the 24 hour news programs we junkies follow, probably won’t cover this.

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[T]he Republican Party has lost its way. A lot of people came back to me in my last [GOP] debate post saying “You liberals would cheer if you heard a bunch of babies had been aborted!” but this is just nonsense.

Most liberals do want safe, legal abortions to continue unimpeded, but the goal of the pro-choice movement isn’t to abort as many babies as possible. It’s just to keep that procedure accessible and safe.

I think most liberals would be absolutely thrilled if contraception and sex education led to a huge decline in abortions, and would cheer that in a heartbeat. I also think liberals might very well cheer expansion of access to women’s health clinics where abortions are performed. I would be very surprised to hear the same sort of hooting and hollering over a similarly phrased question in regards to abortion.

E.D. Kain, on the phenomenon of a GOP debate audience member cheering the thought of letting someone die who can’t afford health insurance. (via letterstomycountry)
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reagan-was-a-horrible-president: faunslabyrinth: oinonio: I’m looking at you, Tea Party. My aunts response to this was “Well I might as well just get a poor persons job then if they’re going to steal all of my hard earned money!”You sit on a computer and type in words. You have complimentary all expenses paid fine dining outings and an office massage therapist (also free). You went on a fucking cruise last year. You constantly are on a (Paid) vacation.I can’t afford to go to school or pay my rent or get food and I work my ass off on the midnight shift with no compensation for gas for my newspaper route that adds up to 70 - 90 miles a week. I get paid only 30 cents for my delivery, I run to every single one of my almost 200 customers, I don’t get paid to assemble and roll the papers, and I am not allowed to call off a single night of work. Even if, say, I was in the hospital after getting into a car accident that destroyed my car (True story).I make $120 (if I am lucky) a week.FUCK your couple grand paychecks you didn’t WORK HARD for. You are lucky simply because you work for a corporate powerhouse.FUCK YOU.  Reblogging for awesome commentary. View high resolution

reagan-was-a-horrible-president:

faunslabyrinth:

oinonio:

I’m looking at you, Tea Party.

My aunts response to this was “Well I might as well just get a poor persons job then if they’re going to steal all of my hard earned money!”

You sit on a computer and type in words. You have complimentary all expenses paid fine dining outings and an office massage therapist (also free). You went on a fucking cruise last year. You constantly are on a (Paid) vacation.

I can’t afford to go to school or pay my rent or get food and I work my ass off on the midnight shift with no compensation for gas for my newspaper route that adds up to 70 - 90 miles a week. I get paid only 30 cents for my delivery, I run to every single one of my almost 200 customers, I don’t get paid to assemble and roll the papers, and I am not allowed to call off a single night of work. Even if, say, I was in the hospital after getting into a car accident that destroyed my car (True story).

I make $120 (if I am lucky) a week.

FUCK your couple grand paychecks you didn’t WORK HARD for. You are lucky simply because you work for a corporate powerhouse.

FUCK YOU. 

Reblogging for awesome commentary.

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'...All told, a dozen states have approved new obstacles to voting. Kansas and Alabama now require would-be voters to provide proof of citizenship before registering. Florida and Texas made it harder for groups like the League of Women Voters to register new voters. Maine repealed Election Day voter registration, which had been on the books since 1973. Five states – Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia – cut short their early voting periods. Florida and Iowa barred all ex-felons from the polls, disenfranchising thousands of previously eligible voters. And six states controlled by Republican governors and legislatures – Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin – will require voters to produce a government-issued ID before casting ballots. More than 10 percent of U.S. citizens lack such identification, and the numbers are even higher among constituencies that traditionally lean Democratic – including 18 percent of young voters and 25 percent of African-Americans.'

scary

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akagoldfish: sarahlee310: The GOP War On Voting Is In Full Swing “Registering [the poor] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.  It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote. […] Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn’t about helping the poor.  It’s about helping the poor to help themselves to others’ money.” -Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum ———— John Stossel (Fox News): “Let’s stop saying everyone should vote.” Rush Limbaugh: “If people cannot even feed and clothe themselves, should they be allowed to vote?” Judson Phillips (Tea Party Nation): “If you’re not a property owner, I’m sorry, but property owners have a little bit more of a vested stake in the community than not property owners do.” Source:   News Corpse What’s that? Did someone say if voting changed anything it would be illegal? I couldn’t here you over the sound of Republicans trying to make voting illegal. ummm… this isn’t worrisome at all…

akagoldfish:

sarahlee310:

The GOP War On Voting Is In Full Swing

“Registering [the poor] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.  It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote. […] Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn’t about helping the poor.  It’s about helping the poor to help themselves to others’ money.” -Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum

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John Stossel (Fox News): “Let’s stop saying everyone should vote.”
Rush Limbaugh: “If people cannot even feed and clothe themselves, should they be allowed to vote?”
Judson Phillips (Tea Party Nation): “If you’re not a property owner, I’m sorry, but property owners have a little bit more of a vested stake in the community than not property owners do.”

Source:   News Corpse

What’s that? Did someone say if voting changed anything it would be illegal? I couldn’t here you over the sound of Republicans trying to make voting illegal.

ummm… this isn’t worrisome at all…

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timetruthhumor: Dick Cheney is back in the news again, as he becomes the latest member of the Bush administration to cash in on what should be cause for criminal investigation and likely prosecution. This is a classic chickenhawk, who himself got five deferments to avoid fighting his generation’s war, and whose idea of recreation is to shoot birds that were raised as hunting fodder and released by the staff of an exclusive club, and who even in such a cruel, controlled environment still somehow managed accidentally to shoot a man in the face.     ~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a man who as regent and Lord Protector to the Lesser Bush oversaw the destruction of the U.S. economy, the evisceration of the Clinton budget surplus and the creation of the largest budget deficit in U.S. history, and was catastrophically irresponsible with what may have been the last chance to address the most important issue humanity has ever faced.     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But nothing so defined the Bush-Cheney era as issues of national security. And Cheney doesn’t want you to remember what really happened under his Protectorate on national security. And you can be certain that the traditional media won’t recount what happened under Cheney’s Protectorate on national security.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     —Daily Kos: Dick Cheney wants you to forget

timetruthhumor:

Dick Cheney is back in the news again, as he becomes the latest member of the Bush administration to cash in on what should be cause for criminal investigation and likely prosecution.

This is a classic chickenhawk, who himself got five deferments to avoid fighting his generation’s war, and whose idea of recreation is to shoot birds that were raised as hunting fodder and released by the staff of an exclusive club, and who even in such a cruel, controlled environment still somehow managed accidentally to shoot a man in the face.    

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This is a man who as regent and Lord Protector to the Lesser Bush oversaw the destruction of the U.S. economy, the evisceration of the Clinton budget surplus and the creation of the largest budget deficit in U.S. history, and was catastrophically irresponsible with what may have been the last chance to address the most important issue humanity has ever faced.    

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But nothing so defined the Bush-Cheney era as issues of national security. And Cheney doesn’t want you to remember what really happened under his Protectorate on national security. And you can be certain that the traditional media won’t recount what happened under Cheney’s Protectorate on national security. 

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    —Daily Kos: Dick Cheney wants you to forget

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sarahlee310: peterfeld: Is there anyone in Congress more loathsome than Eric Cantor, that embarrassment to Jews everywhere, based solely on his vain, ridiculous pompadour? Don’t answer that. Via Krugman (my emphasis):   Mr. Cantor’s critics have been quick to accuse him of hypocrisy, and with good reason. After all, he and his Republican colleagues showed no comparable interest in paying for the Bush administration’s huge unfunded initiatives. In particular, they did nothing to offset the cost of the Iraq war, which now stands at $800 billion and counting.  And it turns out that in 2004, when his home state of Virginia was struck by Tropical Storm Gaston, Mr. Cantor voted against a bill that would have required the same pay-as-you-go rule that he now advocates. But, as I see it, hypocrisy is a secondary issue here. The primary issue should be the extraordinary  now on display by Mr. Cantor and his colleagues — their willingness to flout all the usual conventions of fair play and, well, decency in order to get what they want. Not long ago, a political party seeking to change U.S. policy would try to achieve that goal by building popular support for its ideas, then implementing those ideas through legislation. That, after all, is how our political system was designed to work. But today’s G.O.P. has decided to bypass all that and go for a quicker route. Never mind getting enough votes to pass legislation; it gets what it wants by threatening to hurt America if its demands aren’t met. That’s what happened with the debt-ceiling fight, and now it’s what’s happening over disaster aid. In effect, Mr. Cantor and his allies are threatening to take hurricane victims hostage, using their suffering as a bargaining chip. Krugman nailed it with this one.  Adding… So the claim that fiscal responsibility requires immediate spending cuts to offset the cost of disaster relief is just wrong, in both theory and practice. As I said, it’s just a cover story for the real game being played here. Now, Mr. Cantor may end up backing down on this one, if only because several of the hard-hit states have Republican governors, who want and need aid soon, without strings attached. But that won’t put an end to the larger issue: What will happen to America now that people like Mr. Cantor are calling the shots for one of its two major political parties? And, yes, I mean one of our parties. There are plenty of bad things to be said about the Democrats, who have their fair share of cynics and careerists. There may even be Democrats in Congress who would be as willing as Mr. Cantor to advance their goals through sabotage and blackmail (although I can’t think of any). But, if they exist, they aren’t in important leadership positions. Mr. Cantor is. And that should worry anyone who cares about our nation’s future.

sarahlee310:

peterfeld:

Is there anyone in Congress more loathsome than Eric Cantor, that embarrassment to Jews everywhere, based solely on his vain, ridiculous pompadour? Don’t answer that. Via Krugman (my emphasis): 

 Mr. Cantor’s critics have been quick to accuse him of hypocrisy, and with good reason. After all, he and his Republican colleagues showed no comparable interest in paying for the Bush administration’s huge unfunded initiatives. In particular, they did nothing to offset the cost of the Iraq war, which now stands at $800 billion and counting. 

And it turns out that in 2004, when his home state of Virginia was struck by Tropical Storm Gaston, Mr. Cantor voted against a bill that would have required the same pay-as-you-go rule that he now advocates.

But, as I see it, hypocrisy is a secondary issue here. The primary issue should be the extraordinary  now on display by Mr. Cantor and his colleagues — their willingness to flout all the usual conventions of fair play and, well, decency in order to get what they want.

Not long ago, a political party seeking to change U.S. policy would try to achieve that goal by building popular support for its ideas, then implementing those ideas through legislation. That, after all, is how our political system was designed to work.

But today’s G.O.P. has decided to bypass all that and go for a quicker route. Never mind getting enough votes to pass legislation; it gets what it wants by threatening to hurt America if its demands aren’t met. That’s what happened with the debt-ceiling fight, and now it’s what’s happening over disaster aid. In effect, Mr. Cantor and his allies are threatening to take hurricane victims hostage, using their suffering as a bargaining chip.

Krugman nailed it with this one.  Adding…

So the claim that fiscal responsibility requires immediate spending cuts to offset the cost of disaster relief is just wrong, in both theory and practice. As I said, it’s just a cover story for the real game being played here.

Now, Mr. Cantor may end up backing down on this one, if only because several of the hard-hit states have Republican governors, who want and need aid soon, without strings attached. But that won’t put an end to the larger issue: What will happen to America now that people like Mr. Cantor are calling the shots for one of its two major political parties?

And, yes, I mean one of our parties. There are plenty of bad things to be said about the Democrats, who have their fair share of cynics and careerists. There may even be Democrats in Congress who would be as willing as Mr. Cantor to advance their goals through sabotage and blackmail (although I can’t think of any). But, if they exist, they aren’t in important leadership positions. Mr. Cantor is. And that should worry anyone who cares about our nation’s future.

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