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45640. arkymalarky - 9/24/2013 1:39:59 AM and they don't get how hypocritical they are wrt their abortion stance. 45641. thoughtful - 9/24/2013 3:50:45 PM Must read regarding civil forfeiture (I'm not talking eminent domain here).
Some local police forces are using this to fund up to 40% of their budget!
I had no idea that it was legal under civil statutes to just take your stuff, your money, even your house, just because....no conviction, no warrant, no nothing. I thought we fixed this back in 1776! Apparently not.
civil forfeiture 45642. judithathome - 9/24/2013 7:36:20 PM Thanks for that article...it was GREAT! 45643. arkymalarky - 9/29/2013 10:18:53 PM with apologies in advance to my texas motebuds, & a reminder that I, too, was born a Texan, after watching the shenanigans of the last week or so, I want to make a modest proposal. Give Texas Republican leadership two things that they've been repeatedly asking for: secession from the Union, and that fence they've been harping about. A fence on this side of the Texas line. 45644. arkymalarky - 9/29/2013 10:20:04 PM I'd like to see Ted Cruz in his ilk be required to have a passport and a security clearance before crossing that fence. 45645. arkymalarky - 9/29/2013 10:21:43 PM I'd also like to start a betting pool in that event over how long it will take the majority of these squawking Republicans in Texas to start trying to climb the fence to get back everything that they're enjoying from the rest of this country right now. 45646. robertjayb - 9/30/2013 2:18:50 AM No offense taken by this Texan. But I do want to observe that, like the much-despised (in some circles) Wayne La Pierre of the NRA, Cruz knows exactly what he is doing and is doing it damn well.
He is rounding up the mouth breathing knuckle-draggers to support a quixotic run for president in '16. Not a bad gig. He's young enough to make it a career. 45647. robertjayb - 9/30/2013 4:16:09 AM No offense taken by this Texan. But I do want to observe that, like the much-despised (in some circles) Wayne La Pierre of the NRA, Cruz knows exactly what he is doing and is doing it damn well.
He is rounding up the mouth breathing knuckle-draggers to support a quixotic run for president in '16. Not a bad gig. He's young enough to make it a career. 45648. judithathome - 9/30/2013 9:41:07 PM Which is exactly the problem...he will never make it past the Republican Presidential primary and even THAT won't make the gullible supporters of his see the light...hopefully, he will move on to the real money job...on K Street. 45649. arkymalarky - 10/12/2013 8:24:58 PM Question: which will implode first--the economy or the GOP? I've never seen anything like it. 45650. Ms. No - 10/12/2013 8:47:32 PM I want to know what's so Patriotic about holding the entire country (if not soon to be the world) hostage because you didn't get your way in the last democratically held election.
The Affordable Health Care Act is the fucking law. If the Tea Party --- and by default, apparently, the Republicans -- want to grant the President the power to start unilaterally overturning any law he pleases, they should maybe take a moment to think if that's really going to turn out well for them.
They're essentially extortion the President to commit an impeachable offense.
And they call themselves Patriots.
I just hope the President and the Senate stand by the statement that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists. 45651. judithathome - 10/12/2013 9:32:36 PM Amen. 45652. arkymalarky - 10/12/2013 11:27:11 PM Exactly. Well said. They're patriots when they get their way and anyone who disagrees is commo-fascist. They're fine with blowing up everything when things don't go their way. They need to study Solomon. The real mother would never cut the baby in half. 45653. judithathome - 10/13/2013 7:33:24 PM I had to laugh when last week, the Koch brothers chided certain factions of the Republican party by saying the sh(u)it-storm was a bad idea...these two guys created the Tea Party and sic'ed them on the country...they shouldn't be so shocked! shocked, I tell you!! when the mainaical arsonists they set loose actually come back to set fire to THEIR homes. 45654. wabbit - 10/14/2013 11:42:18 PM Saw something on Facebook about a month ago. Usually I bypass all things political on FB, people have dug in and won't be budged and FB sucks at a place for discussion (not that there is much political "discussion" these days).
This one caught my eye and I think it is a great idea. Imagine it - all Congress critters, House and Senate, must wear uniforms. Said uniforms will resemble NASCAR driver uniforms, in that they will be covered with patches, sized according to campaign donations, showing who actually owns their votes. Maybe their cars should be similarly festooned. 45655. arkymalarky - 10/15/2013 2:49:06 AM Lovecthat idea. Big money has created a Frankenstein it can't control and as long as they have the power of the primary they will be a threat to their creators. The best hope for the GOP is a third party. 45656. judithathome - 10/15/2013 5:10:57 AM They...the Tea Party...see no value in becoming a third party as long as they can control the Republican Party to the extent that they have in this shutdown matter.
They're getting exactly what they want...the government in chaos.
A bunch of thugs have a leader and they've got the Republicans exactly where they want them: scared shitless of a primary. They've proven that they don't need the Senate OR the Presidency to bring about what they want.
If the House HAD any balls, the Tea Party now has them in a vise. 45657. arkymalarky - 10/17/2013 2:27:13 AM Senator Heidi Heitcamp, ND. Love her. The GOP should look to some of the conservative Dems as an example of ,he type of candidates to recruit and cut the Tea Party loose. Which may be exactly what happens. Freedomworks is already threatening primaries. 45658. arkymalarky - 10/17/2013 2:30:46 AM with all the talk of holding the government hostage, what's being held hostage is any Republican who doesn't kowtow to the 20 percent Tea Party contingent. They have to get away from that, or they will lose no matter how gerrymandered they are and no matter how packed toward the right wing the federal and supreme courts are. 45659. judithathome - 10/17/2013 7:39:17 AM The long Republican snit fest is over...House voted 285 to stop the madness.
And at only 24 billion in lost monetary productivity, who can say if it was worth it or not? S*
*sarcasm
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