Minnesota's KOCH - Does the Nasty

Here in Minnesota we have been having a lot of Republican scandal lately and most of it not worth writing about.

It is so common - a "family values" Repug having an affair. 
Last week, Minnesota's Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch resigned when it was exposed that she was having an affair.

To give you a little more history on why this is important (for those of you not from MN)

Koch, Brodkorb, and their fellow Republicans campaigned this year to put a constitutional amendment on next year's ballot to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman, thus forbidding gay marriage.

But I saw this Daily Kos diary that was very worth the read regarding our KOCH scandal in Minnesota.

It is a MUST READ.  >>>>Read it Here<<<<

Here's a tease from the article....

"On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community's successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage," reads the letter from John Medeiros. "We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love has cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own holy union for something more cheap and tawdry."

McConnell Looking out for Koch's XL Pipeline, Not payroll tax cuts!!!!

From Politico -
Note what is first on McConnell's concerns in this statement.

“The House should pass an extension that locks in the thousands of Keystone XL pipeline jobs, prevents any disruption in the payroll tax holiday or other expiring provisions, and allows Congress to work on a solution for the longer extensions,” McConnell said in a Thursday statement.

The fact that the payroll tax cut bill is connected with the XL Pipeline - scares the crap out of me.

Boehner - Lying to Gain Your Support - Devious Deceitful Behavior

Yesterday and today Boehner is telling the American public that they are holding out for a one year extension of unemployment.

What he is saying is spurious.

The original two month  extension (that the House REPUGS REFUSED TO VOTE ON)  had multiple purposes and it was a stopgap measure only.

The two month extension was designed so that when everyone in DC came back to work the end of January - they could continue talks on
extension of the payroll tax cut
extension of unemployment
and
DISCUSS the XL Pipeline.

At no time was it two months only.

Republicans DID NOT vote for a two month extension - designed to ensure that further discussions would occur.

Why in the hell do you think they will vote for a one year extension without putting horrendous poison pills attached to it?

Boehner and anyone who stand with him during this time
is lying
being insincere
being hypocritical
being devious
being deceitful.

AND we DO NOT NEED people like that in our government!

GINGRICH - Get rid of Judges - Let ALEC Corporations Rule the US.

Clips from Fox News

Newt Gingrich is giving fair warning to judges and courts across the country: If he becomes president, the judiciary won’t reign supreme.

The former House Speaker and current Republican presidential front-runner convened a conference call with reporters on Saturday to expand on his call for Congress to subpoena judges or even abolish courts altogether if they make wrong-headed decisions. Those arguments from Gingrich at Thursday's debate in Iowa drew scrutiny and criticism from his rivals.

Then, in what amounted to a 35-minute seminar on constitutional history, Gingrich argued that the judicial branch has grown far more powerful than the nation’s founders ever intended and said it would be well within the president’s authority as commander in chief to ignore a Supreme Court ruling that he believed was incorrectly decided.

Gingrich, a former history professor, also stood by his statement that Congress could abolish certain courts altogether, although he clarified that it should be a last resort to counteract judicial overreach.

Did you wonder where this came from – Yes! It has come from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  For years ALEC has been having hissy fits because of what they refer to as courts establishing legislation through rulings.  ALEC views court rulings as "establishing legislation" through the courts.  You know those types of rulings that protect citizens from corporate misdeeds or those rulings that protect our environment from corporate misdeeds or those rulings that protect workers from corporate misdeeds.


So in ALEC's viewpoint the courts have to go!  Because according to ALEC - ONLY ALEC state legislators and ALEC Alumni in Congress should pass legislation - the legislation that is written with the help fo corporate sector / private enterpsie ALEC corporate members in every ALEC taskforce.  Legislation that benefits ALEC corporations - and hurts every citizen, every worker and our environment.

ALEC’s agenda is not as innocent as certain writers would have you think.

They want to change American democracy as we know it and as it was set up by the founding fathers.  They want to change it to benefit ONLY corporations and the ALEC corporate sector members.

From wiki:

The federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states and one district that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and their various powers are delineated in the U.S. Constitution;

ALEC only wants the legislative branch to exist - a legislative branch that has ALEC corporate sector / private enterprise members sitting at the table AS EQUALS.

A Congress completely staffed by ALEC Alumni who live off of ALEC corporate sector PAC money.

And in their wildest dreams an ALEC PRESIDENT  like Newt Gingrich.

All of this backed up by ALEC dominated state legislatures that has ALEC corporate sector / private enterprise members sitting at the table AS EQUALS.

And here's a possible real life scenario of what could happen if Newt had control of the Presidency and control to negate the judiciary....
In this article ALEC member Nikki Haley's immigration law that was developed by ALEC was just today blocked by a US Judge.  If Newt was president he would overturn this judge's decision (on the spot)  - because ALEC member Haley's immigration legislation is good for ALEC corporate sector members and what ALEC corporate sector members want - ALEC corporate sector members get.

SCARY - yes.

ONLY YOU can make a difference by making sure

ALEC members are not re-elected or elected to the state legislatures, city, county or township government.

ALEC ALUMNI are not re-elected .

ALEC ALUMNI are not appointed to any state, or federal position.

PTO for the Pres - One Reason Repubs are Repugnant

Read this in an article this morning - McCain bitching and moaning about the Pres going to PetSmart yesterday.

He said "previous presidents I've served under … would be calling them over to the White House, looking them in the eye and telling them 'we need to fix this,'" said McCain. 

McCain added that prior presidents "exerted a lot more leadership than going shopping," a reference to Obama's holiday outing on Wednesday

Lets see - Pres is IN DC - Senate and House are not...............
Hmmmmmmm.....McCain needs to put his big boy panties on - this was really childish - toddlerish -

But then when you look back at other Repugs and their records (I added the Republican moniker)

So far, President Obama has taken 61 vacation days after 31 months in office. At this point in their presidencies, [REPUBLICAN] George W. Bush had spent 180 days at his ranch where his staff often joined him for meetings. And [REPUBLCIAN] Ronald Reagan had taken 112 vacation days at his ranch.

Oh and then you have this…………….. about the House from an earlier entry that I did.

“The legislative calendar released some weeks ago by House Majority Leader Cantor cuts the number of days the House will be in session this year by 36 percent to 20 percent below the number of days the House met during the first session of the last Congress. In the crucial month of June, when most of the Appropriations bills are moved through the House, he has scheduled the body to be out of session on 11 of the month’s 22 weekdays and only partial sessions for five of the remaining 11 days”  (Source)

The current salary is $165,200. The only exceptions are the Speaker, who makes $212,100 and the Majority and Minority Leaders who make approximately $183,500

There are 535 Members of Congress: 435 Representatives in the House, usually called Congressmen or Congresswomen, and 100 Senators in the Senate  (Source)  

What a bunch of asses those repugs are.

ROVE Says: Republicans have lost control of the message

Rove: Republicans should fold in payroll tax cut standoff

By Jonathan Easley - 12/21/11 05:16 PM ET

 

Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said he agreed with the Wall Street Journal’s blistering assessment on the failure of House Republican leadership in the payroll-tax debate, and conceded that Republicans have “lost the optics” and should fold on the issue.

“I think the Wall Street Journal editorial hit it right on the nail, the question now is how do Republicans get out of it,” Rove told Fox News on Wednesday.

In a scathing editorial on Wednesday, the conservative newspaper said House GOP leadership had “thoroughly botched” the payroll tax cut fight, and in doing so put President Obama in a “stronger reelection position” that opens the door to Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate.

   

Rove said that no matter who is to blame, Republicans have lost control of the message.

“They’ve lost the optics on it,” he said.

But then Rove goes on to say what the Repugs should do to make themselves look good (hah!)

“The only way to win it is to sit there and ruin their own Christmases and wait until the president heads off to Hawaii for his, and then lambast the Democrats for having abdicated their responsibility of passing a year-long tax cut,” Rove said.

“There’s only one way out of it,” he continued. “Is to stay in Washington, wait until President Obama gets on an airplane and heads for Hawaii, and then hold a session in the House, vote the two month extension and use the opportunity to beat up on the now long absent Democrats and Harry Reid and the absent president and say look - this is going to not be good for the companies that have to write the paychecks.”

And at the same time senior senate REpug members are concerned about getting re-elected

Senate Republicans are worried the standoff over extending the payroll tax holiday could hurt their chances of winning the upper chamber next year.

Senior Republican aides have made clear in private conversations that their bosses are not happy with how House Republicans have handled a bipartisan Senate compromise to extend tax relief for two months.

 “It’s not helping,” a veteran Senate Republican strategist said of the House GOP fight against the Senate package. “Senate Republicans are tired of paying the price for the lack of legislative thoughtfulness in the House.”

And McCain has to voice in also and he doesn't sound happy

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), an influential voice in the Senate Republican conference, warned that Boehner’s strategy is hurting the party’s image.

“It is harming the Republican Party. It is harming the view, if it’s possible anymore, of the American people about Congress,” McCain said Tuesday in a CNN interview. “We’ve got to get this resolved and with the realization that the payroll-tax cut must remain in effect.”

They know what the Repugs in the house did is wrong.

They know Boehner is a butt.

But the House isn't smart enough to admit it.

Are you smart enough to kick their butts out of office in 2012 and beyond?