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Regarding John Boehner

DCDan — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:59:01 +0000

The Mrs. Obama should be at the House now doing the same thing.

The GOP claims “Growth Opportunity Prosperity” but reality is “Gangrene Ossification Petulance.”

Boehner Can Suck It

DCDan — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:55:01 +0000

John Boehner can figuratively blow me. You and your party’s whining is disgusting there is not one goddamn element of the Affordable Care Act that anyone with heart would object. To support the most simpleminded and rabid of your supporters you decided to shutdown the US government putting about 800,000 government employees out of work, in addition to the countless government contractors who got a stop work order today. So take a minute to appreciate the fact that instead of being able to claim that you are the part of “Growth Opportunity Prosperity” realize that you have now become the party of “Gangrene Ossification Petulance.”

FUCK YOU AND THE FAKE TAN YOU RODE IN ON.

Suppression as a Political Strategy

DCDan — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:06:58 +0000

Taking a hint from their voter suppression strategy. The GOP has now pushed to suppress a report that doesn’t agree with their agenda.

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a non-partisan research group that works for Congress to help them with research and analysis. In this case the CSR was asked to see if there is a correlation between top tax rates and economic growth. The CSR found that there was no correlation which doesn’t agree with the Republicans have been saying since Reagan, that “tax breaks for the rich creates jobs and helps the economy.” This theory known by many names, Reagannomics, supply-side economics, trickle-down economics and voodoo economics has been criticized and discredited since it was introduced. Since the study doesn’t agree with the GOP agenda of tax breaks for the rich, instead of dealing with the reality that the theory doesn’t hold water the GOP decided instead to suppress the report.

The GOP is acting like a child who puts his fingers in his ears and scream when you tell him something he doesn’t want to hear.

Picture from flickr user rafa2020

Uncomfortable

DCDan — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:21:59 +0000

I came across a story about Republicans feeling uncomfortable at the National Education Association’s convention because of the open endorsement of Barak Obama. I’d like to address this issue on two levels.

First the NEA is a union that fights for the rights of teachers. The Democrats have traditionally fought for education while the GOP has stymied it. So the endorsement should come as no surprise. Imagine if a member of PETA complained about feeling uncomfortable at the yearly meeting of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. The response would be “So what you knew that going in the meeting.”

The second issue is the GOP whining about “feeling uncomfortable.” I call bullshit on this. You know what’s confortable?

Republicans supporting funneling money from the public school system via vouchers
Supporting prayer in school

To further embolden why the NEA would endorse Obama and why if you are at the NEA convention you should too is that Romney, the current front runner for the GOP nomination, has said in his book “No Apology: Believe in America” that unions like the NEA “a deadening impact on student achievement.”

So to paraphrase Suicidal Tendencies “If I may you uncomfortable, oh I’m sorry, but maybe you need to be uncomfortable.”

Suggested reading:
The Mis-Education of the Negro
History shows that it does not matter who is in power… those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning.