Apparently the ignoramus Sarah Palin believes that she has a superior understanding of the Constitution as opposed to President Obama, or so she says in an interview on Fox News:
“I would like to see governors be tough and opt out of this and exert “our” 10th Amendment rights and tell President Obama – who does not understand the Constitution, he even being a Constitution lecturer and supposed scholar in our Constitution – not understanding, probably never reading, nor absorbing the 10th Amendment to understand that states have rights. ”
I can’t think of much that’s more pathetic than this ignoramus big mouth rube trying to intimate that she understands the Constitution while President Obama, a Constitutional scholar, does not. News Hounds does a great job of tearing apart the entire interview , so make sure you go read it!
- In Davison, Michigan over the weekend, Rick Santorum opined some more about climate change. This line was apparently repeated several times because he liked it so much.
[....]the line comes up relatively frequently on the right. In 2010, a Republican senator [Kit Bond-Missouri] argued, in all seriousness, "Without carbon, my trees would die."
In 2009, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) explained during a House committee hearing that it would be wrong to reduce carbon emissions because the pollution is "plant food." Shimkus rhetorically asked his colleagues, "[I]f we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?"
Last year, the House Republican conference made Shimkus the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Environment and Economy. They are not without a sense of humor.
It's probably worth pausing from time to time to consider this on the merits, in case anyone is inclined to take the right's rhetoric seriously.
We're currently pumping about 90 million tons of carbon emissions into the air every day. This creates the conditions that lead to global warming, and the seriousness of the crisis continues to get worse.
The plants Rick Santorum is encouraging us to talk to do not need 90 million tons of carbon to survive. Or put another way, the fact that plants use carbon does not make it okay when we have too much carbon pollution.
The crisis is real, and the need for a grown-up debate is overwhelming. We need policymakers who are up for the task, not policymakers who think "Tell that to the plants" is a clever policy observation.
“I'm really frustrated (already!) at some progressives' suggestions that, since Obama hasn't passed their "liberal" test, they'll stay home again.As if what's been happening since the current Congress and state legislatures were seated isn't instructive enough.
If progressives stay home this time around, we ain't seen nothin' yet. Based on the most current poll numbers, the GOP has an empty suit (Romney) and an empty head (Palin) in the top two. The media is currently fawning all over Bachmann, a certifiable lunatic if I've ever seen one, imho. Just let one of these bozos get elected, especially with a GOP Congress, and they'll make the Bush years something to be nostalgic about.
Jesus Christ, people, GET OUT AND WORK FOR THE ELECTION OF PROGRESSIVES AND PRESIDENT OBAMA, however imperfect he may seem. Damn sure the GOP and the Tea Party will have their minions out beating on people's doors...”
If you have even the slightest inclination to sit out the vote in 2012, or to vote for a third party, first of all, you are a buffoon. Second of all, you must refuse to allow yourself to sabotage Democrats because you have no idea what’s actually happening in this country, i.e., you think it’s just “politics as usual” (like my 84-year-old Dad). It is emphatically not “politics as usual”, We are literally fighting a war between Democracy and fascism. And we aren’t even close to winning. So swallow your immature compunction to say “I told you so”, which is what causes people to sit out a vote, and just do it. VOTE, damn it!
Yesterday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on Fox Business Network to continue this war on labor rights, using his time on the station to attack unions and claim their pay and benefits are too high. At one point during the interview, the senator began attacking “government unions,” saying they are “going to have to” contribute to their pensions and health care plans, just like Paul has to as a senator, and that Kentuckians back home don’t have any sympathy for government union workers because they pay for their retirements:
PAUL: Federal employees have almost double the compensation that private employees have. [...] Maybe these government unions are going to have to contribute to their pension, maybe they’re going to have to pay something for their health care, like I’m having to pay, so when I hear regular taxpayers in Kentucky they don’t have a lot of sympathy because they’re paying high insurance premiums and they have to pay for their own retirements.
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