Quick Rant Before Taking My Sister To The Doctor

Gail Collins
Dana Milbank
Gov Scott Walker

"In the United States Senate, failure is not an option. It is a requirement." - Dana Milbank

"A sizable chunk of this country seems to feel as though there is nothing so secure that it can’t be endangered by Obamacare. It’s only a matter of time before somebody discovers that giving everyone access to health insurance poses a terrible threat to the armed forces, or the soybean crop, or poodles." - Gail Collins

Gov Scott Walker and the wisconsin Republicans pulled a fast one on the out-of-state Democrats, by de-linking the elements containing collective worker's rights with all fiscal aspects, then running into the state house and voting to pass banning the collective bargaining rights. Of course, everything will stop until the courts look at this and see if it was done legally. Gov Walker is boasting that 25,000 jobs will be saved and created, without exactly explaining how it will work. Perhaps by taking one public employee's job, cutting it into fourths, where it now takes four people to do that one job at one fourth the payrate, without benefits...

This is being touted as a rousing success by right wing pundits. so look for similar bills being introduced in your neighborhood, along with a mandate for every citizen to buy and carry a gun, and some kind of flaky fetus's rights act that will limit abortion. Or, as Gail Collins points out, blaming everything on Obamacare... Lord, a right wing fanatic's work is never done...

I'm pretty wired up on caffeine, from watching Peter King's Homegrown Muslim Terrorist hearings on CSPAN3. Four hours of drinking coffee at the mention of terrorists or terrorism... And the whole thing was pretty much tame and a bust. The most inflammatory accusations came from Peter King after the hearing, saying how we should be suspicious of any PR announcement from CARE. Most of the time during the hearing was everyone thanking everyone else who was there from showing up... The most interesting testimony was from LA County Sheriff Baca, who said there is a difference in the way police and the intelligence community approach their work. Because the police have to work with organizations every day, and their officers get information in person, they usually feel their information is pretty trustworthy, whereas if we had to rely on what the intelligence community gathered, we would be in very bad shape...

The hearings did nothing to change anybody's mind, Representative King came off looking like an amateur, who talks the conspiracy talk, but cannot produce anything a weasel can sink its teeth into. I constantly wonder how these guys get elected, do the people in their districts do this as some kind of joke? Here I am complaining, when my own Representative is responsible for the witch hunt against NPR. NPR produces intelligent radio programs, which offends my Representative because he is a right winger who cannot write his own speeches and newspaper opinions, ever refuses to debate his opponents, relying on being the incumbent from the most conservative district in the US... Wait, wait, don't tell me...