GOP/Tea Party 2011 achievements so far.

I would just like to point out how terrifying the next 2 years might be, it's only been 2 months so far.

-Video full of lies being used to try to take down Planed Parenthood
-Video full of truth ironically being used to take down NPR
-Voting restrictions to keep blacks and college kids from voting because "college kids lack life experience and vote liberal because of it"(literally the speaker of the New Hampshire house said that, literally)
-On top of keeping pesky liberals from voting, 2012 brings redistricting, which given the GOP gains of 2010 mean most redistricting is left in the hands of Republican dominated state assemblies
-Removing public unions of their collective bargaining rights in over a dozen states, hell in Ohio the bill made striking by public employees illegal to preempt that from happening.
-One bill in Michigan also gives the Governor dictatorial power to dismiss any elected official in any town, nullify contracts with employees and impose his own "manager" to sort out the mess in any town that has a budget crisis.(Can you fucking imagine the shit storm the tea party would've thrown if any Democrat even mentioned something like that)
-Cuts to services to the poor, tax cuts for Koch brothers
-Witch hunts in congress over American muslims.
-Congress now taking up executive and attorney general power to make damn sure those gays don't get recoginition for their marriage regardless of its legal in their state(But hey, state rights y'all!!!! *except when it goes against what we want*)

So what did I miss.

 

i'm 50, i'll be dead soon

just thought i'd post some good news

 

Hope your looking forward to your moment in front of the death panels.

"I'm sorry, you've been slated to die, we just don't have the money to cover your cancer treatment" *throws suitcase full of money at the Koch brothers*

 

lol, i die smiling

[thanks]

 

I looked at your first link. Says things are being pushed for. You advertised achievements, I was gipped.

 

first your torn pants, now this

 

Give it a week or two, New Hampshire has a Democrat governor but the state assembly has enough Republicans to override a veto.

 

I'm on the verge of hysteria

 

Anyone surprised?

 

post a picture?

 

Well I was all excited because I'm planning to build a bicycle based pedal powered truck, with 4 wheels, very low gearing, full disk breaking, and the ability to carry several hundred pounds payload.

But now I'm sort of wishing I was 50 too.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk

 

Oh my. That's so wonderfull. Best sound in the world. Wish I could put that one of quintuplets laughing at the same time. America's funniest home videos,some time back. Left handed computer.

 

Sorry--back on topic. They've only just begun.

 

OTOH it showed that the two parties are not the sole avenues of power... hopefully the pushback is starting now. I'm kinda encouraged since I don't believe what we're experiencing now is anything that wasn't coming down the road anyway - union-busting, voter suppression of minorities, and the overall furthering of Capitalist Feudalism. The difference is, in their haste they couldn't do it gracefully! And now, perhaps, it's on.

 

i don't agree with all of the rest of the 'aims' in the first post, but:

1. npr doesn't deserve tax payer funds-they have been 'secretly liberal' for a long time. they are very pro first amendment, but very anti second. both depend on each other to survive. i find this kind of logic reprehensible....either we have a document of whole cloth, or we simply don't care about the Constitution anymore (and i think that is truly the case on all sides-'you first, Jack, after me'.

2. unions should be reined in some. their 'management' is as corrupt as the management they negotiate with in many cases-neither side has any regard for taxpayers or stockholders. i have no problem with collective bargaining, but i'm sick of teachers getting seniority, and the students they turn out can't think logically, or in some cases 'at all'. i would support teacher pay raises above a minimum level being based on how well their students can pass standardized tests at the end of a year. i've been laughing a good bit at the overpaid teachers in my state with jobs like state workers (mostly safe) having to face what those of us 'out here' have to face..a shrinking income, or a layoff.

i don't see the horror yet. i'm holding my hysterectomy until i see some real horror, like gaddafi set up on foodstamps with a new identity in new jersey.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd9OYJMX9t4"]YouTube - NPR Muslim Brotherhood Investigation Part I

 

Every nation deserves a news media outlet that isn't controlled by some corporate overlord, especially given the fact in some rural places NPR is the only alternative to ridiculous right wing talk shows in some places. The whole "NPR has a liberal bias" is bullshit. MSNBC has a liberal bias, NPR has a bias over the fact they have some of the most educated reporters there are since they can focus just on news and not talking points since they don't have to worry about viewership and sponsors. Conservatives in the US say the same damn thing about the BBC, yet most people in Britain don't seem to think that, or in fact anywhere else in the world as the BBC has been one of the most respected news organizations around the world for over 5 decades due it's multi-lingual news service operations around the world. It just might be reality and education has a liberal bias.

Also NPR isn't anti second amendment, bringing up the idea of having a debate over gun control doesn't make you anti 2nd amendment
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128186209
National Review: Gun Control Doesn't Work
Really anti second amendment right there.

And unions don't need to "reigned in". Adults sit down and compromise and rework their contracts, like the auto unions did, and like the unions in Wisconsin did, they made every concession asked of them financially.

Also what overpaid teachers. Connecticut has a high teacher pay rate by national standards and the highest paid teacher in our school(I know this from files not just the grapevine from budget files from town hall meetings) was about $80,000 a year...................after 32 years of teaching. The average starting pay for a teacher is about $32,000 a year here. Let's see you deal with a bunch of assholes, half of whom don't want to learn period, and try to teach them. Have you ever even tutored anyone? Do you know how hard it is to teach? You can't teach what doesn't want to learn, hell in a good part of the country, with helpful hands from the GOP there's a whole culture against learning, I don't know how many times in 2008 right-wingers called Obama "an intellectual" as an insult.
Not to mention how underfunded public schools are. Forget about city schools, even in suburbs teachers have to buy a lot of their supplies, and Walker and his ilk think somehow cutting funding to schools and making it so local communities can't raise property taxes to fill the gap will somehow magically make everything better.(It won't, and they know it, they want the schools to crash and burn so they can appear to be right)

If anything teachers are the most underpaid public workers for the work they do.

But listen here teachers, driving around all smug in your '99 Hyundai, the gravy train is finally over.

*edit*
On top of it, going back to NPR, every thing that guy said was true, and he said it in a private dinner meeting. Not to mention O'keefe brought down ACORN using lies from a spliced together film, is trying to do the same with Planed Parenthood, and now NPR, his lies ruin actual lives(and effect possibly millions with Planed Parenthood) yet he's paraded as a hero on FOX news. Let's just ignore that whole felony charge he got for illegally wiretapping phones, cause hey he's white, rich and republican, so that got easily pushed under the table.

Also New Jersey is becoming a bit of horror show under Christie.

 

I dunno man, I'm liberal as fuck and hate gun control, and I thought that was a great article.

Well, fuck it, let's abolish NPR for their liberal bias, then.

 

I'm also liberal as fuck and think gun control is an asinine knee jerk reaction that completely ignores the socio-economic factors that make people shoot each other to begin with.