One
Ringy-Dingaling
 It
seems to me that a fitting
punishment for Rupert Murdoch's
News
Corporation's hacking
of phones would be
a little reverse phone-hacking.
There's little doubt that
the 4chan's
and
LULZsec's of the world
could easily slide
in for a massive freak-a-thon
during business hours,
and the recorded conversations
uploaded to youtube would
make for some splendid
late-night lulz. Best of
all, News Corporation would
have to allow it willingly,
otherwise they might seem
just a LIT-tle hypocritical
if they began complaining
too much about their deepest,
darkest secrets being shared
with the world.
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Immediately
after Barack Obama was
sworn in as president the
Republican Senate minority
began frantically flinging
filibusters around like
so much monkey-poo. Their
record-breaking pace in
this regard was part of
their undisguised effort
to see that little got
achieved while they waited
for the 2010 mid-terms
to arrive. In the meantime
they managed to throttle,
as an example, the following
bills:
Veterans
Retraining Act
Free Flow
of Information Act
Vision
Care for Kids Act
Radioactive
Import Deterrence Act
Elder
Abuse Victims Act
Expanding Entrepreneurship
Act
End the
Trade Deficit Act
Managing Arson Through
Criminal History
Act
A Child Is Missing Alert
and Recovery Center Act
You
can find a more complete
list of stalled bills here.
Then came the aforementioned
mid-terms and the GOP
gained
the
House of Representatives,
which means you'd expect the Democrats to take their turn on the
filibustering defensive.
But instead
the stonewalling spigot
has been turned entirely
off. You
know why? Because the Republican Party has yet to propose one meaningful
bill.
They have basically been sitting on their hands doing absolutely nothing
all these months, especially anything to do with job creation, waiting
for the economy to dip into recession again so they can blame it on the
president.
Real governance at this point would have by now passed some sort of meaningful
stimulus bill (the Obama stimulus plan was mostly a lot of tax breaks, the only
stimulus program the Republicans would opt for) but the Republicans have
long since forgotten how to govern. All they know is how to parrot the words
of their rich masters, and those words are "We got ours. Fuck everyone else."
=Lefty=
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 "We're
going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs." -
John Boehner, February 10, 2011.
The following is #53 in a list of accomplishments by
the GOP since they gained control of the House in 2011.
None
have yet to result in one, single new job.
(53) 7-15-2011: Finally. The GOP is doing some investigating,
but it's not about Wall Street or Rupert Murdoch. The
target in their cross hairs this time is <groan> Planned
Parenthood.
Again. This is the official definition of insanity, you
know.
For the entire list of GOP futility, click
here.
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 And
what manner of lie is Fox News spewing today? The Victory
Mosque is back! Evidently they've run short on stories
about incandescent bulbs.
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