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September 19, 2011 · 8:17 pm

Class Warfare, My Ass

In 1793, the French people executed King Louis XVI, by guillotine.  Over the next couple of years, they executed between 16 and 40,000 people, mostly for the crime of being greedy rich fuckers, having nice houses and servants and stuff like that when most people were struggling

What I can't figure out is why that dead guy in the foreground isn't wearing any pants

to survive.

16 to 40,000, that’s how bad they lost count.  They were just loppin’ off heads like crazy.  Now, that’s class warfare.  When Barack Obama says he’s going to let the taxes on the rich go back up to the same level they were when Bill Clinton was president, when he proposes a rule that says that rich people should have to pay at least the same tax rate that middle class people say (the Buffett rule, named after the actual rich person who proposed it), when he says he’ll veto any proposal that says we’ll reduce medicare or social security without at least making the rich pay something, some token amount, that’s not class warfare.  It doesn’t matter what Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan and John Boehner (America’s saddest cross between a bassett  hound and an Oompah-Loompah), say.

It’s just simple math.  This class warfare meme is an absurd accusation, it belongs right up there with secret muslim, born in Kenya, FEMA death camps  and oh so many others.

I object to it in this particular case because I hate teabaggers, neocons and whatever else they are calling right wingers these days, but I also object, in general, to the use of the word “war” for things that are not actually wars.  It trivializes war and makes it sound so acceptable.  When they talk about “The War on Drugs,” or Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” what they really meant was “a very serious effort.”  Unfortunately, some people took the “war on drugs” far too literally, guns got involved and now northern Mexico has, indeed, come to resemble a war zone.  Words have consequences.

So, Mr. Boehner (pronounced boner – at least I pronounce it boner), unless you actually want us to bring out the guillotines I’d suggest that you and your buddies STFU with the class warfare talk.

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May 25, 2011 · 11:05 pm

The Bottomless Pit of Republican Evil

The outrage is refreshed almost daily: the union busting in Wisconsin, the attempt to airbrush the labor movement out of art in Maine, a whole slew of seriously offensive comments, and on and on.  Lately, the Republican threat to destroy Medicare is dominating, deservedly, the political

Evil Republican of the Day, Eric Cantor

debate.

But today, Eric Cantor (R-VA), who is the House Minority Leader, so not exactly some crazy unknown from the back end of nowhere, said he’ll try to block any federal aid going to Joplin, Missouri unless the Democrats agree to budget cuts.  Joplin, Missouri.  The town that just got whacked with a tornado and 122 people died.

Now, first of all, something’s going on here.  I grew up in Iowa, we had tornadoes all the time, they’d tear up a trailer park or two, but casualties were usually in the single digits.  So, it definitely seems to me that tornadoes are getting worse, which is a sign of global warming, but that’s a side point.

Eric Cantor would pass by a burning building and refuse to call 9/11, he would drive right past the scene of accident without stopping to offer aid, he would just flat out refuse to help that old lady across the street because that’s the kind of no nonsense fiscal conservative he is.

He would never consider cutting the defense budget, which could lose $50 billion or so without anybody noticing a difference.  He’s not suggesting doing away with farm subsidies.  He is, being a Republican, most adamantly opposed to raising taxes on the rich a teeny tiny bit.

So, he has no intention of doing anything whatsoever which will actually solve any of our problems, economic or otherwise.  But he will make the people of Joplin, Missouri, pay if he doesn’t get his precious cuts to Medicare, and Head Start, and a slew of other programs that Republicans want to slice up, a couple of million dollars here, a couple of million dollars there.

And this guy is the Republican LEADER in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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