* Republicans Won't Commit to Even the Idea of Global Warming
Unable to even channel their inner Bart Simpson, who once said "I can't promise I'll try, but I'll try to try", all thirty-one members of the House Energy And Commerce Committee have stuck their collective heads in the sand over the topic of climate change. We're not talking about making changes to "The American Way"©. We're not talking about even committing to the idea of pro-environment legislation. We're not even talking about formulating a long-term strategy that delays our responsibility and dumps the problems into our children's laps (an old favorite trick in Washington). What's we're talking about is simple acknowledgment.
It's very simple: it's a matter of politics. You know the old song and dance; cushy jobs, pandering to whatever faction will get you in office, great benefits, boot-lickers a-plenty. These thirty-one spineless jellyfish, in an effort to appeal to the utter fringes of the radicalized base that shuttled them into office, won't even give a simple YES or NO on the topic of climate change. If you can't make the bold statement that "pollution is bad, m'kay", you're clearly not a thinking, educated individual and don't deserve to hold public office.
Silver lining? Maybe the filth and muck these people are enabling will get them before it gets us.
* House Republicans See Funding NPR as Bigger Threat Than al-Qaeda, Outsourcing, and Unions... Combined!
In a heroic effort to quell the most dangerous crisis facing Americans today, House Republicans are calling an emergency meeting of the Rules Committee to draft legislation that would permanently block funding to National Public Radio (NPR).
Whew. It's a good thing they're finally getting around to staunching the flow of hate, racism, and bile spewing forth over the airwaves that's contributing to the downfall of Western society.
Wait... Rush Limbaugh isn't hateful, racist, drug fiend who you're talking about and isn't on NPR anyway, you say? This all just reactionary fallout to the "sting" of the NPR brass by discredited douchebag James O'Keefe, you say? There's no actual substance to the video and it's merely edited to make the now-former president of the NPR Foundation appear badly, you say?
Huh.
It couldn't be that all this is merely a smokescreen tactic to push for what they've already said they wanted to do, but now have an "reason" to put into action. Republicans stay focused on the issues and wouldn't use loose, un-related topic connections to push their political agenda.
Right, Jim?
Bonus Fun Fact: Armed Forces Radio is publicly-funded and hasn't once been the topic of cost-cutting conversation, despite some of its questionable offerings. But I'm sure Rush, Mike Huckabee, and Fox News keep it professional and just-the-facts, no bigoted opinions... right?
* Rick Santorum Criticizes JFK For Not Being Catholic Enough
Ricky, you got some 'splain' to do!
Rick Santorum has called out a man that's been dead for nearly fifty years for a speech he gave in 1960. Let that sink in for a second. John F. Kennedy, a genuine war hero, bold leader that helped put a man on the moon, and arguably America's most beloved President of the 20th century, wasn't religious enough in extreme retrospect for Santorum, who was 5 on November 22, 1963.
And here's the kicker from Rooster: "Jefferson is spinning in his grave,"
That's true, but not for the reason he thinks.
You see, Mr. Jefferson, he of drafting the Declaration of Independence fame, he was a kooky dude. He was one of the most progressive (dirty word!) men of his age when it came to religion. Want to sneak a peak at this filthy liberal's view on man's relationship with its creator? The really sexy parts are bolded:
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their "legislature" should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties."
So, Rick. They didn't have U.S. history classes when you were in school?
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