QUERY : Does Mitt Romney’s business philosophy work in foreign relations ? “In a free economy and in the private sector, sometimes investments don’t work and they’re not successful. It always pains you if you have to be in a situation of downsizing a business,” said Mitt Romney, who added: “This is a free-enterprise system.” [...]
cross posted from Penigma Watch for our Minnesota Republicans to fall into the line of surrogate goats in support of Romney and Ryan, to manipulate the conservative sheep, especially pandering to the more ignorant Islamophobes. As we learn more about the intentional and unintentional distribution of the hate movie made by the far right wing extremist Christian felon and friends, [...]
Crossposted from penigma.blogspot.com: We’ve seen too often where the right wing fringies go off the rails, behaving violently. One of their hot buttons is any language other than English being spoken, or any culture they identify as ‘other’, drawing a too narrow definition of “us” and “them”. Earlier at this year’s CPAC, right wing extremist [...]
If THIS is what it takes to ‘save’ European culture, if this is what ‘European culture’ condones, it should not survive. From what I have seen of Europe, this has no connection whatsoever to their culture, and the act of blowing up innocent people, the act of hunting down unarmed innocent children and shooting them [...]
I will be writing more on the failing of the vetoed Shoot First legislation separately, but I was struck this weekend by the racist overtones of a fatal shooting of a black teen by a white man with a violent past in Florida who had a legal carry permit. It is an incident that is pertinent, [...]
The Republican-managed Do-Nothing House took a break during debating HR 2117 – PROTECTING ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN HIGHER EDUCATION ACT, to allow Representative Steve LaTourette (R-OH-14) to interrupt : 3:42:30 P.M. (By unanimous consent, Mr. LaTourette was allowed to speak out of order.) Mr. LaTOURETTE. I thank my colleagues for their attention. Madam Chair, sadly, in [...]
The Do-Nothing tag that has been applied to the Republican-managed House of Representatives will get another exemplar when the G-G-G-G.O.P. moves to a vote on H.R. 1801 – the Risk-Based Security Screening for Members of The Armed Forces Act. [See Below for other examples of G.G.G.G.O.P] When the House returns on Tuesday after the failure [...]
I was brought up with the wise advice to prepare for entertaining conversation at holiday dinners and other social events. It provides a person with something to fall back on for a change of subject, if conversations get a bit tense among family and friends, as social occasions sometimes do. In that context, I hope [...]
In July, Jeremy Herb of the Star-Tribune did a profile noting that Raymond “Crash” Cravaack (R-MN-08) and the 112th Congress has mostly been a “do-nothing Congress,” which made “it difficult for freshmen like Cravaack to rack up legislative accomplishments.” One of Cravaack’s biggest moments in the D.C. spotlight occurred when he accused the Los Angeles [...]
The Republicans promote the “Cut, Cap and Balance” concept as a way to restoring fiscal discipline. The premise is that spending should be cut to FY 2008 levels … of course, since the Republicans control the House of Representatives; they could start doing that now as they are approving appropriations bills for FY 2012. But [...]
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