Boehner’s Got the Worst House on the Block

Ad, the Freedom to Fish Act is pretty funny. This prohibits the Corp of Engineers from declaring the waters directly below a dam “hazardous” and prohibiting fishing as a result.

So basically they passed a law allowing people to fish in hazardous waters. Strike a blow for freedom!

Ad, another GRAND SLAM! You make so many good points. I don’t know where to start. You’re right.
I still wish I could write as well as you do. You make my points better than I make them.
Enough said.

Now, now AdLib. Tsk, tsk, and shame on you (I say with tongue in cheek).

Don’t you know that r/tp’s believe in “hope and change”? Or as the Wasilla Wordsmith says, “that hopey, changey thingy.”

The r/tp’s HOPE that the American people:

don’t notice their lies and hypocrisy.

don’t notice that they haven’t done one thing about jobs.

care more about whether you have a “D” or an “R” by your name, rather than what’s good for the American people.

don’t see the r/tp’s war on women’s rights.

don’t see their war on civil rights, like the right to vote, or a teenager’s right to walk down a street in his father’s neighborhood without getting shot to death.

The r/tp’s want to CHANGE the American government:

by declaring that Congress was established to repeal laws rather than to pass laws,

so that even if the opposition party tries to pass laws in the Senate, those laws must always be passed with a super majority, rather than a simple majority. Even if that opposition party won the popular vote in the House (yet is still the minority), and the opposition party is the majority party in the Senate, and holds the White House,

so that the way to “govern” is to hold the debt ceiling and the U.S. credit rating hostage,

or, so that the way to “govern” is to threaten to shut down the government,

or, so that the way to “govern” is to just say “no”, even if what you are saying “no” to was a republican idea to begin with.

So AdLib, I just cannot believe how critical you are of these poor r/tp’s who are just going along with “hope and change”. (Can you see the bulge in my cheek?)

Thanks Ad for the great info. Isn’t it appalling? Boehners remarks verge upon what I will call soft treason. It’s not outright, hard core treason, like helping a foreign nation against our own, but these actions by congress, or non actions I should say, are definitely harmful to our nation’s progress. I think it is absolutely unAmerican for any congress to work against the executive branch.

The political ideology on the right is downright harmful to the American people, not to mention a huge waste of our tax dollars in paying these cement heads their salaries and benefits.

Great article Ad. It really shows the abominable behavior of this congress that is now in power.

Wow, AdLib, this is mind boggling. Not being a congressional scholar at all, I still cannot remember a time in our nation’s history when so little was accomplished by Congress. Boehner’s ingenuous disclaimer that their job is NOT to pass legislation but to undo it simply is unprecedented as far as I can tell.

I wonder how passing a bill making flu vaccinations a taxable entity squares with existing ACA requirements to make preventive care free? Maybe this is what you have to do if you’re privately insured or not insured at all? And where is the logic to this – when flu shots are an observable good in keeping the fragile out of the ER? For an anti-tax group of nut jobs, this is definitely contradictory in nature.

I would wonder how they think this will “play in Peoria” if I did not know that the message for the Bagger home teams will be “Death Panels and High Cost Medical Care are Comin’ fer Ya!” I keep wanting to say to citizen Baggers – look out for that man behind the curtain. He is NOT the Great and Powerful Oz but merely Mr. Orange who in this story is the one with the Winged Monkeys: Congress.

Another urban myth got exploded today:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/07/29/what-affordable-care-act-really-means-job-growth?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=073013-text1&utm_campaign=healthcare

Affordable Care is NOT costing jobs at all, not shortening hours for most employees, not causing businesses to collapse. But this won’t be what Congress will say – at least not the Bagger Brand.

Elected reps who are lazier than their VP choice in 2008, spending two days a week doing NOTHING then going home are the scourge of society, the “ripoff takers” with NO self perception or honor. If this is the best they can do, then let’s dock their pay for poor performance? That’s what would happen to them in the private sector – their own, much-vaunted standard of good.

I hope every single person who has needed assistance from the government and who believes in democracy will help others GET voter ID then take people to the polls and vote themselves. We have to change the House and keep the Senate in the hands of those who really believe in the nation, not just their own special privilege. It’s important! VOTE!!!