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Surprise, Senator David Vitter Being A Dick
Guestblogger DDM here, again, to splain how Sen. Vitter is being a total dick. Sometimes Congresscritters, because of their nature, decide to be total dicks, just for funzies. Since 2011, the GOP has found a secret stash of dickatude, so they are busily being dicks all over the place. Let’s explore one example: Sen. Vitter (R-RedLight District) [...]
House Conservatives Offer Up New Budget Full Of Really Great Ideas That Everyone Loves
Oh good, we had grown tired of making fun of Paul Ryan and his “budget,” so it’s nice that the Republican Study Committee (RSC), chaired by Chairman Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA, of COURSE), has released its own budget for us to make fun of. Highlights include: turning Medicare into a voucher system, raising the retirement [...]
Tennessee House Fights 20-Year-Old UN ‘Sustainability’ Plan, Because ‘Forced Abortion’
The Republican swath of the Tennessee House appears to have gotten an email chain letter from far-right crazy uncle the John Birch Society (desperate times), and the Tennessee House has heeded its call! Seems the New World Order managed to pass a truly insidious United Nations plan called Agenda 21 (it just sounds communist, wouldn’t [...]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr: ‘Speaking Of Prostitutes…’
Speaking of prostitutes, big oil’s top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers — Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) March 6, 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (SO MANY-BRANCHÈD, THE TREE OF CAMELOT) has, oh dear, it turns out that men everywhere, regardless of chad preference, [...]
Alabama Nut Will Shoot Anyone Who Steals His Wife’s Campaign Signs
Who is this crazy lady who isn’t allowed to get out of her truck until her husband first gets out and says his piece about why he is permitting her to run for office? She’s Kathy Peterson, Republican candidate for President of the Alabama Public Service Commission and wife of briefly famous redneck and failed [...]
Rick Perry Wants to Kill Federal Regulations, Ben Bernanke
What does America’s most prolific maniac executioner Rick Perry want to axe murder today? “Every single federal regulation, and everyone else, and Ben Bernanke” is his top pick. Perry told a radio interviewer in Iowa that he wants President Obama to “put a moratorium on regulations across this country” for whatever reason that food poisoning, [...]
Beloved Epithet ‘Welfare Queen’ To Be Replaced With ‘Welfare Raccoon’
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning has some kind of rambling magical woodland children’s bedtime story about coons ‘n beetles ‘n rat carcass to share with everybody. Here is your Google translation from the original Wingnut Gibberish: “If the EPA leaves buckets of insects scattered around the bulldozers at an abandoned construction site, the poor turn [...]
House GOP Now Planning To Destroy America’s Environmental Laws
Oh hooray, the House Republicans also have a underhanded bullshit scheme to completely gut America’s environmental protections: Instead of moving stand-alone legislation or openly debating the merits of gutting America’s environmental protections, the House is trying to sneak more than 40 anti-environment amendments and policy riders to the Interior Appropriations bill. And that’s even before [...]
‘Cold Air Mass From Canada’ Attacks America, Never Forget
A devious “cold air mass” from Canada floated across our unprotected border and then proceeded to drop giant snow-dumps all over our great nation yesterday, forcing most Americans to abandon their SUVs on the highway and hike to the nearest toll station, so that they could eat the tollbooth lady for nourishment. First “Bieber fever,” [...]
How Did Senate’s Vote Against Oil-Lover Murkowski’s Bill Actually Murder America’s Troops?
The Senate defeated the Dirty Energy Industry’s sleazy attempt to prevent any kind of enforcement of gross carbon emissions, hooray, the ads on Wonkette worked! The AP had a pretty good single-sentence summary of what happened: “The defeated resolution would have denied the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to move ahead with the rules, crafted [...]
V. V. Important Climate Change Announcement Today!!!!!
OMG WTF! That is a lot of exclamation points for a government press release! Lisa Jackson has something to announce, today! It is an announcement regarding the climate! HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS. (!!!) [EPA]
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