"One of the things we can't do is, we can't let them distract from what we're all about, and what we're trying to accomplish. We're trying to keep the focus on comprehensive, universal health care reform, and they're going all over the place. They are desperate, uh, they don't have leadership, uh, they really don't know what to do, and so, I think we're going to continue to see a lot of crazy things happening, like all of the, uh, outrage that has been demonstrated at these town hall meetings, like the kind of statement that Congresswoman Jenkins made, and let them define themselves, let them reveal who they are. The American public needs to see that."~Representative Maxine Waters (D.CA)
They are Hypocrites
Alabama Republicans are still not concerned about your job, or creating a job for your neighbor who's been out of work for 7 months, or passing job-creating legislation in general to help 200,000 unemployed Alabamians ... but they are suddenly all in a lather about the job of Republican Rep. Alan Boothe's* (R) daughter. Here's why: AEA laid her off.
More accurately, AEA offered her a job in a different location and she refused it. As a result, Boothe and his fellow AEA-bashers in the Legislature are alleging that her "firing" is some kind of political payback.
Did I say they were Hypocrites?
Stupidly, the union is pushing for pay increases…
Rex Cheatham, Uniserv director for the Alabama Education Association’s Huntsville chapter, said he was disappointed that Richardson failed to live up to his promise.
‘I am very disappointed that the employees did not receive the new salary schedule as Dr. Richardson had promised the board and employees,’ Cheatham said.
‘We hope he will bring that schedule to the June meeting as again promised.’
This is why people hate unions… this right here. We have a ECONOMICAL disaster in Huntsville Schools and the union wants raises,
They promote media driven racial stereotypes in an attempt to justify their "beliefs".
This is how ALL blacks were transformed into welfare recipients, a whole group of people looking for handouts, although that was a myth. Nope, I take that back it was an outright lie! Images of black women was the old “welfare queen” trick used by Ronald Reagan to drum up negative opinions and attack black women, attaching a negative stigma to them in the process. But more so Reagan used it to stir up negative sentiments towards poor people, which resulted in selfishness and cold heartedness in the charity department. Yup, they want to eliminate help for the poor. It works every time.
They are Polluters
San Francisco's Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment (CRPE) announced today that it received the judge's writ in its lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The writ gives the green light to most of the policies advanced under AB32, California's Global Warming Solutions Act, but puts a permanent hold on cap and trade.
They are Cowards.
Democrats didn’t hold back their disgust at a voter bill — or as some call it, a voter suppression bill — signed by Rick Scott on Thursday.
Florida Democratic Party Chairman Smith released this statement:
“Today is a tragic day for the Sunshine State, with Governor Rick Scott signing into law a bill that disenfranchises voters, makes it harder for Floridians to vote and limits access to the polls.
“Since Rick Scott’s own Republican Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, has repeatedly debunked the claims made by Republicans regarding any issues with Florida’s current elections law, Floridians should see that this bill is simply an attack on the voting rights of all Floridians.
“We are confident that this bill, which is nothing more than a power-grab by Republicans, will be overturned by the courts and rejected by the U.S. Justice Department.”
They are Greedy.
MONTGOMERY - Three Republican state senators, including two from Madison County, said today they routinely sleep in their Statehouse offices while the Legislature is in session.
Ben Brooks of Mobile, Bill Holtzclaw of Madison and Paul Sanford of Huntsville said they stay in their seventh floor offices at the Statehouse as a convenience and to save on hotel bills.
I guess They learned greed by example
Who has been sleeping in your taxpayer funded federal building to avoid paying DC rent (and taxes)?
Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz, that’s who!
Instead of renting out an apartment in DC, Jason Chaffetz lives on the couch in his office on The Hill.
Say WHAT?
They use washrooms and a shower on the same floor.
The practice was sharply criticized today by Mark Kennedy, chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party, who said it was unseemly for lawmakers "to be camped out in the Statehouse."
"Members of the legislature have been spotted in the halls in jogging pants all while still accepting the state-paid per diem provided to them for a hotel room or a local apartment," he said. "I just hope they contacted their accountants about their new public housing arrangements before they filed their taxes."
Did I say they were Greedy?
Legislators who live in or near Montgomery can go home for the evening and pocket the per diem.
Brooks, an attorney, said he stays at the Statehouse because it's convenient and saves him money. He said did not take the 62 percent pay raise in 2007 or any of the cost of living raises since. Holtzclaw and Sanford also declined the raise.
"I have to be cognizant being a father with kids in college and expenses," Brooks said. "I find I'm able to start work real early in the morning and work later at night. It really does help me with being more productive."
They are done, stick a fork in them.
Republicans are going to have plenty of questions about their plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program tomorrow morning after Democrats romped to an improbable victory in a special election focused almost entirely on the issue.
They have revealed themselves for who they are.
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – One day after Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) stirred controversy by withholding funds for tornado relief, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took the extraordinary step of declaring Rep. Cantor a disaster area.
Within hours of the declaration, FEMA officials were dispatched to assess the damage to Mr. Cantor’s status as a human being capable of empathy.
“I’ve seen a lot of hurricanes and tornados, but this is something new,” said FEMA spokesman Tracy Klugian. “Rep. Cantor appears to have been caught up in a moral vacuum.”
While concerned FEMA officials looked on, the morally ravaged House Majority Leader took to the floor of the House to make the case for denying funds to repair himself.
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