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Going Nuts
Author: BobR    Date: 12/11/2009 12:28:31

By now, we've all become pretty inured to the grandstanding and faux outrage from politicians. It's annoying and counter-productive, but it seems to be part and parcel to the political process. Every once in a while though, there seems to be a perfect storm of mental midgetry and hypocritical hyperbole on the political stage. So today we look at some of these stories.

First up: We all know that - according to Republicans and teabaggers - ACORN is the scourge of America. They're responsible for everything wrong with America, if you believe the hype. On the other hand, acorns are simply a nut from the oak tree, and are often representative of fall. You can't convince US House Rep. Steve King (R-IA) though:
Were they acorn cookies, or ACORN cookies?

US House Rep. Steve King (R-IA) says it was the latter. The congressman known for being one of the most fierce opponents of the community organization ACORN was evidently shocked when he was served acorn-shaped chocolate cookies at the White House Christmas Ball Monday night.

(note: the picture at the link is hilarious...)

I hope he didn't eat any of those cookies - they were laced with communism!!

On the other side of the aisle, the ACLU is accusing the Obama administration of creating a "sweeping immunity doctrine for torturers":
The nation's pre-eminent civil rights organization ACLU on Thursday slammed President Obama for shielding the Bush administration from accountability for its "dangerous torture policy," and insisted that this "lack of transparency" severely threatens the future of constitutional liberty in the United States.

"The Bush administration constructed a legal framework for torture," Jameel Jaffer, Director of ACLU's National Security Project, said in a conference call with reporters. "Now the Obama administration is constructing a legal framework for impunity."

Oy (hey it's Hanukkah) - while I agree that pursuing justice for the tortured is important, he kind of has his hands full with the economy and health care. And should Obama really be meddling in the affairs of the justice department? Didn't we complain when Bush did that?

On a lighter note, it's become clear that Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) is a liberal elitist! He apparently fancies wine over eggnog, and merlot at that! Do all of his "Regular American" constituents know that he prefers a liberal elitist drink (they drink wine in France!) over good ole' American eggnog?

We'll close with a small bit of sanity amidst all this inanity: A majority of Americans favor taking the rich to help create jobs:
Americans want their government to create jobs through spending on public works, investments in alternative energy or skills training for the jobless.

They also want the deficit to come down. And most are ready to hand the bill to the wealthy.

A Bloomberg National Poll conducted Dec. 3-7 shows two- thirds of Americans favor taxing the rich to reduce the deficit.

Apparently, Americans are no longer buying the Reagan-era voodoo economics crap about letting the rich keep their money so they can trickle on the rest of us. Politicians may be acting out more stupidly, but at least the rest of us seem to be getting smarter...

or at least wiser to their games.

 

43 comments (Latest Comment: 12/12/2009 03:00:41 by velveeta jones)
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