Sunday, April 10, 2016
Benghazi Committee Still Burning Money in Washington
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| Trey Gowdy and fellow Republican members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, October 2015 |
That was October of last year. Believe it or not, the investigation still exists, and the panel's Democratic minority issued a statement (on Thursday) announcing the committee's newest milestone.
"Thursday marks the 700th day since the authorization of the Select Committee on Benghazi. During this time, Republicans have discovered no new evidence that contradicts the key findings of the previous bipartisan and independent investigations."...
...What's more...the Benghazi investiation, which has cost American taxpayers over $6.5 million, isn't done. There is no end date in mind... I suppose it's possible that it will simply continue forever...
...Seven separate congressional committees investigated the Benghazi attack before the Select Committee was even created. This was already one of the most scrutinized events in American history. Republican lawmakers, however, didn't quite care for what the evidence told them, so they effectively concluded, "Maybe an eighth committee will tell us something the other seven committees didn't."...
...If there's a coherent defense for this exercise, I can't think of it.
eye'm thynkin': 700+ days of putting American taxpayer money to the flame that burns in the hearts of congressional Republicans. Fiscal responsibility at its finest.
Read more at MSNBC
More Stories from Political Pollution
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The unions argued that Wisconsin's law was an unconstitutional seizure of union property since unions now must extend benefits to workers who don't pay dues. Dane County Circuit Judge William Foust agreed.
He said the law amounts to an unconstitutional governmental taking of union funds without compensation since under the law unions must represent people who don't pay dues.
m'eye thoughts: Finally someone "gets it." You want to belong to the club, you want to reap the benefits of membership, pay the dues.
Read more at Addicting Info
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| A protester at the Indiana statehouse last week. |
Me either!
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No payback here, really, just doing my job, keeping the legislature safe, honest.
Read more at Winning Democrats
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Republican War on Women - Missouri, a State That Just Won't Give Up
This is the forty-third in a series of articles on the subjects of women, abortion rights and the Republican Party.
Republicans continue to say they don’t have to change their core principles, they only have to change the language they use to get their message out. One perception they want to alter is the idea that they are running a “War on Women”. Looking at the news over the past few years, I’d say the Republican Party has a long way to go on this subject.
- Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky): “Talk about a manufactured issue. There is no issue.”
- RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: “It’s a fiction.”
The Missouri Front
One of the states that looked for, but found no evidence against, Planned Parenthood was Missouri. You would think that, once the results were announced, the Missouri legislature would be able to find other issues on which to spend taxpayer money. But you'd be wrong.
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| Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, Missouri |
The contested point is not the six years of documents showing how the organization handled and disposed of fetal tissue--Planned Parenthood has made it clear they are prepared to hand over that information (again). GOP Senators however, want more. They are insisting that PP also provide them with six years worth of abortion consent forms--essentially, they want Planned Parenthood, the only abortion provider in Missouri, to publicly identify every woman who has had an abortion in the state since 2010.
Not only is Missouri's Republican dominated legislature willing to trample all over patient privacy, but they are willing to ignore federal laws as well. As the Guardian reported, Planned Parenthood says that to turn over patient records would violate federal privacy laws.
Nevertheless, the full Senate will begin debating the contempt charge on Tuesday--something that has not happened in Missouri for 113 years.
The Republican War on Women is "fiction?"
WHAT YOU DO SPEAKS SO LOUDLY
THAT I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU SAY.
Three Stories and a Couple of Smiles from Political Pollution
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m'eye thoughts:
A) Over the past 6 years, the Trump Foundation has raised just $75,000 for veterans.
B) During a snit with the media, Trump skipped a debate to hold a fundraiser for vets where he said he raised $6 million.
C) The Wall Street Journal reports that 19 of the 22 veterans organizations on Trump's list of recipients have received a grand total of $2.4 million.
"As PoliticusUSA first reported in January 2016, the first clue that something wasn't right with the Trump vets fundraiser was that although Trump claimed that 100% of the money raised was going diretly to veterans groups, the money was actually going into Trump's foundation."
D) SO WHERE'S THE REST OF THE MONEY, DONNYBOY?
Read more at Politicus USA
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Thank you, Mr. Springsteen.
Read more at
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Thanks to my friend David McCann for this.
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Because sometimes you just need a good laugh.
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Now that they're finally behind bars, suddenly the Bundys are victims. Yeah, someone held ol' Cliven down and wouldn't let him mail those grazing rights checks for 26 years. Poor ol' Cliven, and his poor sons who thought they'd got some of that free American land for themselves. Kinda makes you want to weep for the injustice of it all, doesn't it?
Read more at Raw Story
Friday, April 8, 2016
Mississippi - a REAL Christian Speaks Out
"I'm here to bake cakes and to sell those cakes," Moore explained to NPR host Renee Montagne. "I'm not here to decide arbitrarily who deserves my cake and who doesn't. That's not what I do. That's not my job."...
..."I can actually say I think the law of unintended consequences is going to come back to bite the people who signed this bill... If it is my sincerely held religious belief that I shouldn't serve them, then I can do that. And I can hide behind that language. But that language is so vague it opens a Pandora's box. And you can't shut it again."
According to the bakery owner, there (is) no such thing as "a deeply held religious belief that you should not serve people... There is no sincerely held religious belief to think that I am better than other people."...
Moore asserted that lawmakers were wasting time instead of focusing on the real problems facing the people of Mississippi...
..."We rank number one--our state government is the most dependent on federal money. We are the third most obese state. We rank at the bottom in employment, in education. We've got crumbling infrastructure. None of them are being tackled. Instead, we are passing, hey-let's-discriminate bills...It boggles the mind."
eye'm thynkin': But it does keep all those good ol' Southern pseudo-Christians happily gorging on their full plate of red meat!
Read more at Raw Story
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