Sense and Nonsense

Republican Priorities

Iron Knee offers a nice, succinct summary of Republican priorities:

Republicans in the US House are showing us their priorities. On Tuesday, they passed an energy spending bill that is riddled with amendments that are bad for our country. Compared to what Obama requested, they removed funding for clean-energy and efficiency programs, and added additional money for fossil-fuel and nuclear programs.

But the most ironic amendment was one that strips the government of the ability to enforce the light bulb efficiency standards that already went into effect this year. Even though the efficiency law was passed in 2007 — under George Bush — that hasn’t stopped the GOP from using it to attack Obama.

Assuming this amendment survives, it won’t actually do what its promoters claim. The light bulb efficiency law would still be on the books, and US manufacturers have already changed their products to comply with the law, so they will keep making more efficient light bulbs that generate the same amount of light with less electricity. Instead, it will open the doors to unscrupulous foreign manufacturers to dump cheap, inferior light bulbs on the American market (with no way for the government to enforce the law).

So, in one stroke, the GOP shows that it wants to increase our energy dependence, put US jobs at risk, hurt the economy, and increase pollution. Could it be any clearer?

Just a Snip-Snip Here, a Snip-Snip There

   Clay Bennett

An Exceptional Party

Yes, the Republicans are always happy to make exceptions:

   Source: M. Wuerker @ Politico

Keep Your Boehner Out of My Uterus

That's the name of a tumblr blog that's well worth checking out, according to MS Blog, which has an item on the Femisphere: Reproductive Rights Bloggers, from which this great image is taken.

Republicans in Your Vagina

This video is NSFW, but very funny.  With Kate Beckinsale, Judy Greer, and Andrea Savage.

 

Republicans, Get In My Vagina! from Kate Beckinsale  

 

How to Know if Your Dog is a Republican

It can be hard to know, unless you're tuned-in to the signs that are there.  Washington Post Magazine humorist Gene Weingarten offers help to American dog owners, by outing his own dog Murphy (in photo), who, Weingarten says, seems awfully Republican.  Here are some of the tidbits in an article I advise you to check out:

Some of the evidence is unsubtle and unsurprising: Like other Republicans, Murphy shows inappropriate interest in the reproductive systems of women she does not know, shamelessly sticking her nose into their business. It can be a problem on walks. But other things are more nuanced.

. . .

Like other Republicans, Murphy demands less government; she makes this position abundantly clear anytime I attempt to govern her behavior in any way inconsistent with her immediate desires, such as horking up maggoty chicken from the gutter, which she will do with subversive glee while in a protective crouch. She’s for eliminating federal agencies, particularly the U.S. Postal Service, a position she shares with Ron Paul and reconfirms once a day, impolitely, through the mail slot.

Good lord.  It appears even man's best friend can fall prey to the lure of the GOP.

Republican Nonsense

Source : Matt Bors

A Conservative Dissects the Republican Party

David Frum, a prominent Republican, takes a scalpel to the Republican party, examining how it has "lost touch with reality."   This is an important article.  Do yourself the favor of reading this. 

Conservative Political Carnival

   © Tom Tomorrow

Republican Nonsense

© Tom Toles

Iron Knee elaborates:

Republicans, who voted against every single bill that Obama came up with to help jumpstart the economy, spent their debate last night attacking Obama for not doing enough about the economy. But their only answer is lower taxes, which ignores the fact that one third of the cost of Obama’s stimulus bill (which they opposed and now attack) was to lower taxes, and the fact that taxes right now are the lowest they have been in 60 years, yet the economy continues to go into the toilet. Oh, they also want decreased regulation, even though it was decreased regulation of banks that triggered the economic collapse in the first place. They also complained about the deficit, even though Republicans have done far more to run up the deficit than Democrats.

Why does anyone listen to them when they trot out their old, tired answers that clearly have not worked? I would love it for some Republican to suggest something new, but they all seem to be part of the Borg collective. As First Read puts it:

The other big loser of the night was a serious, substantive discussion on the economy. After spending the last few weeks criticizing the Obama administration on this subject, not a single GOP presidential candidate offered a convincing plan on how to create jobs. We heard plenty about lower taxes and less regulation. The problem: Taxes are already at their lowest level since the 1950, and that hasn’t really jump-started the economy. Moreover, there was little regulation during the Bush administration, and that didn’t produce a wave of jobs between 2001 and 2009.