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45747. judithathome - 5/30/2014 8:14:23 PM One more:
This is a good article from someone who usually leans toward the right more than the left: The Problem With The VA? Congress
...Politically, this critique of the VA is a no-brainer. After all, denying, delaying or incompetently delivering benefits to veterans who are entitled to them and have sacrificed so much for us is grotesque: the moral equivalent of kicking dogs and stealing food from children. But this political consensus and opportunity for reform will all be for naught unless it targets the main cause of the VA’s problems: Congress. Attacks on the VA’s derelictions are easy and justified, but here, as in so many areas of policy, the seeds of failure are planted on Capitol Hill.... 45748. judithathome - 6/7/2014 9:34:54 PM This week in Texas, the Republicans had a state party convention...they denied the Log Cabin Republicans a booth at the hall. The Log Cabin Republicans are the GAY wing of the Republican party. You might think that is an oxymoron...and you might be correct in that assumption. But the gays who support the Texas Republican Party think they are real but I don't see how they can continue to lend support to a party that thinks like this:
Because....they also added a "plank" to their "manifesto": that they fully support the "reparative therapy to heal gays" from their unfortunate illness. Yep...it's right there...official position.
There are some really RICH gay Republicans in Texas...and were I one of them, I'd be extremely insulted that a political party is willing to take my money but unwilling to include me in their convention to say nothing of the fact they think I need to be CURED of something that is not an illness.
I'd take my money back and say "F U....and DON'T enjoy it!"
45749. Ms. No - 6/9/2014 4:36:05 PM Caught a clip on NPR this morning about Perry trying to extort the DA into resigning by vetoing the budget for the integrity commission or some such.
It wouldn't look so suspicious if Texas went after ALL politicians and public officials who get stopped for DUIs. 45750. arkymalarky - 6/11/2014 1:07:46 AM Wow. Frankenstein was just devoured by his monster. 45751. Wombat - 6/11/2014 1:27:16 AM Eric Cantor? (Hee Hee.) 45752. iiibbb - 6/11/2014 1:32:08 AM Agree.. too bad he's not a Senator... but whatever. Va is purple... GOP will be losing that state. 45753. robertjayb - 6/11/2014 1:35:04 AM Go! Go! Tea Baggers... 45754. arkymalarky - 6/11/2014 1:35:50 AM Haha! 45755. iiibbb - 6/11/2014 3:36:41 PM I saw a post on facebook where someone suggested that Republican gerrymandering is backfiring on them. 45756. judithathome - 6/11/2014 6:14:22 PM I nearly fainted...the look on his wife's face was priceless...complete and total disbelief.
Maria Teresa Kumar, a Democratic commentator who is really sharp, said Cantor ought to go full force with the time he has left and bring immigration to a vote and leave a legacy.
WHOA!!!! Just now on MSNBC...no chance of THAT...Cantor just announced he is stepping down. NOW. 12:13pm, CST.
45757. iiibbb - 6/11/2014 7:03:31 PM quitter 45758. arkymalarky - 6/11/2014 9:21:55 PM I hope you're right about the gerrymandering 3i. It's the most underestimated and underreported slam on democracy in a long list of threats, from CU to local coups by the Cokes et al. 45759. arkymalarky - 6/11/2014 9:22:40 PM so eric cantor has confirmed all the suspicions that he is a spineless wonder. 45760. robertjayb - 6/12/2014 2:41:13 AM http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/
Col. Pat Lang, a Virginian and intelligence wonk blogs on Cantor and the 7th District. 45761. arkymalarky - 6/12/2014 3:22:48 AM When you think about it, it's interesting that he just this election lost a primary and lost so badly, as opposed to getting knocked out by a tea partier when they war so prominent. I know the voter turnout was low, but the percentages for really surprising. Not close. 45762. arkymalarky - 6/12/2014 3:24:07 AM in the context of reading his blog, I meant. his original post was 3 years ago, so obviously people have felt this way for a while. I guess the presidential election year may have saved Cantor for one more term. 45763. arkymalarky - 6/12/2014 4:02:19 AM great line from congressman patrick murphy on the last word just now: the united states does not outsource justice to the taliban. 45764. iiibbb - 6/12/2014 4:01:28 PM No one has the guts to just let [the poor] wither and die. 45765. Ms. No - 6/13/2014 5:45:09 PM Huh, I can't get an article there. It does echo something I've said for awhile, though: Nobody who pushes for the slashing of social welfare programs ever has the balls to stand up and say what they really believe - that we should let the poor, the old, the infirm, and the weak starve and die in the streets. 45766. arkymalarky - 6/13/2014 5:58:51 PM him. It came up when I clicked it. Love the Crooks and Liars site. Run by some really smart folks. ;)
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