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July 21, 2013 · 9:42 pm

Hang Down Your Head, John Boehner, Hang Down Your Head and Cry

John Boehner, the Orange man from Ohio, the aging Oompah Loompah, the weeper of the House, is in a pretty bad situation.  Oh, sure, he’s Speaker of the House of Representatives, it’s better than most office jobs as far as salary and perks, but once people get to that level, they want a bit more.

Even When He's Right, He's Wrong

Even When He’s Right, He’s Wrong

They want a place in history and John Boehner knows that his place in history is going to suck.  Everybody hates congress, and a clear majority of people who have an IQ greater than Calista Flockhart’s weight are aware that the problem with congress is Republicans, and their leader is John Boehner.

So,  today, John  Boehner tried to reframe the debate.  “Congress should not be judged on how many laws we pass, but on how many we repeal.”  How many laws have they repealed?  Zero.  Poor John, even when he tries to change the rules for the game, he can’t win.

They have tried, of course.  The House of Representatives,  where JB is the big  man, has voted to repeal Obamacare 37 times.  Doesn’t mean shit, and he knows it.  From there, it goes to Harry Reid’s Senate and if, by some miracle, it should pass there, it would just be vetoed by Obama.  You need 2/3rds to override a veto, and he doesn’t have that.

Actually, if the man wasn’t a Republican, an anti-human, I would give him the benefit of the doubt on this.  The federal government does have way too many laws.  There are probably thousands of them that could be repealed.  All the laws against marijuana, for one thing.  The laws that allow for unlimited campaign donations.  Laws that give subsidies and tax breaks to people who are already millionaires.  Laws against buying Cuban cigars.  Nobody would miss those laws.

Of course, no congress is ever going to be remembered for the number of bills they passed or the number of bills they repealed.  It’s a question of which ones.  The orange dude knows that.  He’s just talking shit.

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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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