Jack Murtha

John P. Murtha, 77, the powerful dean of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation ... died yesterday at a hospital in Arlington, Va., after complications from gallbladder surgery.

When most said nothing, Jack Murtha stood up and said something.

I used to do that too...
...Up until about the 7th grade...

What a difference a year makes
Twelve months ago in George W. Bush's last month in office we lost 741,000 jobs. This January we lost 20,000.

We'll see how the haters try to spin the difference.

Now that's hilarious!

The Gipper couldn't pass his own 'Purity Test'

The resurgent GOP wants a Gipper purity test. Does the party faithful know he raised taxes, grew the federal government, and granted amnesty to illegal immigrants? Republicans love hallowing Ronald Reagan’s name. Too bad they know so little about the guy.

Poor wingnuts, they're just so ignorant. They thought about creating a 10 point litmus test for their candidates and they wanted to name it after Ronald Reagan. One huge problem; Reagan could not have even come close to passing his own 'test'. Ronald Reagan and 'smaller government' and 'smaller deficits and debt"? The federal government grew tremendously under Reagan and he tripled both the deficit and the debt. And candidates must "oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants"? He signed the largest amnesty program in our country's history!

Reagan flunked his own test. In fact, he scored a 0.

How did we get to a $3.8 trillion budget?

When only spending doubles

When George W. Bush inherited Bill Clinton's last budget in 2001 total expenditures were $1.863 trillion and revenue was $1.991, leaving a $128 billion surplus.

When Barack Obama inherited George W. Bush's last budget total expenditures were $3.518 trillion and revenue was $2.105 trillion, a $1.413 trillion deficit.

In eight years under George W. Bush, expenditures nearly doubled, rising 89% from $1.863 to $3.518 trillion, but revenue only increased a paltry, 5.7%, from $1.991 to $2.105 trillion. Divide that 5.7% by eight years and you should begin to understand how Bush left us with such a huge fiscal disaster. When you increase annual spending by almost $1.7 trillion and revenue by only $100 billion like Bush did, we get stuck with trillion dollar deficits.

Totals in Billions
Year ----- 2009 -- 2010 -- 2011
Receipts - 2,105 -- 2,165 -- 2,567
Outlays -- 3,518 -- 3,721 -- 3,834
Deficit --- 1,413 -- 1,556 -- 1,267

Now let's look at the projected spending increases under Barack Obama in his first two budgets. In his first budget he increases expenditures by 5.8% and in his second, he only increases spending by a mere 3%, from $3.721 to $3.834 trillion. If you take the entire increases in spending by Obama in his first two years it works out to less than a 9% increase, or about 4.5% in each of those two years. That's less than half of what George Bush nearly averaged each year over his miserable two terms.

When the pathetic teabaggers and other wingnut morons whine and pout about the destruction of our country and how we are bankrupting our grandchildren they need to be asked a simple question; where in the hell were all of you phony-ass hypocrites when all this destruction was actually taking place?

It's what 'teabagger' means...

"Sarah Palin has found a down-low way to stay atop the bestsellers' chart: she's quietly using her political action committee to buy up copies of her memoir. ...The Federal Election Commission filings show that Sarah PAC sent $63,000 to Palin's publisher, Harper Collins, for "books for fundraising donor fulfillment."

Now that is slick. Sheep give Palin money and she buys her book with it. She's not smart enough to have thought of it but I'm sure she was happy to go along.

And now she says she will donate her $100,000+ appearance fee from the upcoming Teabagger lovefest. Right, she's donating it to Sarah PAC and sucking up the tax write-off while the teabagging sheep lick their floor burns from all that kneeling on the astro-turf.

Incoming!

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The Air Force says a missile-intercept test failed when a long-range missile launched from California missed a target missile launched from a Pacific island because of radar problems.

It wasn't the Air Force. It was Raytheon. To hell with it, blame it on Obama.

...That was last week

Republicans, Deficit Peacocks
Every Republican Senator votes against 'PAYGO'

"One of the hallmarks of the Clinton presidency was its focus on fiscal responsibility. It turned a federal budget deficit into a surplus. One of the tools used to accomplish that was so-called "pay-as-you-go" legislation. It required any new spending be accompanied by a way to pay for it — either new taxes or a corresponding spending cut elsewhere — so as not to increase the deficit. Common sense. This was abandoned during the past Bush presidency, under which government spending rose by 8.4 percent, as compared to a 3.5 percent growth in the Clinton years. President Obama has urged Congress to revive pay-as-you-go as a way to limit future deficit growth. The House passed a bill last year. Last week, the Senate followed through on a 60-40 vote — 60 Democrats yes and 40 Republicans no."

If you know anything about the last 30 years you're very aware of the fact that well over 90% of our $12 trillion national debt is directly attributable to Republican presidents; Ronald Reagan and the two George Bush's. Reagan, laughingly referred to as a 'fiscal' conservative, tripled our nation's debt, Bush Sr. added well over a trillion to it in four short years and of course, George W. added $5 trillion and left us a $1.2 trillion massive crater of a shortfall with his last budget. Republicans are actually 'deficit peacocks', who when it really comes to fiscal discipline they, “like to preen and call attention to themselves, but are not sincerely interested in addressing deficits". And that was proven once again when 58 Senate Democrats and two 'Independents' voted 'yes' and all 40 of the phony-conservative Republicans voted 'no' on doing something about it.

Take no prisoners
Muslim cleric shot 21 times in Dearborn raid
"An autopsy report shows that a Muslim cleric who died in an October shoot-out with federal agents was shot 21 times, then handcuffed, according to a person familiar with the case."

It's a damn good thing they handcuffed him.

Which way do you go?
Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) sent two press releases out on December 16th — one saying the stimulus had “failed” and the other hailing $1,044,140 in stimulus money for the Carroll County school system.

Obama nailed the chumps on that bizarreness this week.

The Stimulus didn't work?
That's not what economists say
President Obama's stimulus package saved jobs — but the government still needs to do more to breathe life into the economy, according to USA TODAY's quarterly survey of 50 economists. Unemployment would have hit 10.8% — higher than December's 10% rate — without Obama's $787 billion stimulus program, according to the economists' median estimate. The difference would translate into another 1.2 million lost jobs.

And that was before this week's news on the fourth quarter growth in the GDP.

He's kicking our asses ...
... And it's by merely stating the facts. So much for the teleprompter jokes. One thing is for certain, Obama knows the statistical facts and when he shoves them down the throat of some phony-conservative Texas congressman who comically tries to blame him for the trillion dollar plus deficit Bush left us, it sure sets it up for a fun to watch and well-deserved smackdown.

Kansas doesn't have the death penalty?

(CNN) -- A Kansas jury deliberated just 37 minutes before convicting an anti-abortion activist of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an abortion provider.

The jury found Scott Roeder, 51, guilty of gunning down Dr. George Tiller, who operated a clinic in Wichita where late-term abortions were performed. Roeder, 51, faces life in prison when he is sentenced on March 9.

Yes Kansas has a death penalty and if anyone deserves it that scumbucket sure does. You plan out and then stalk a man and shoot him in the forehead while he ushers you into church you deserve to die. Ninety-nine percent of all premeditated murderers should be executed. Kansas hasn't executed anyone since 1976 but they do have 10 men on death row and Scott Roeder should have joined them. He's already confessed so they wouldn't have to waste much time on an appeal.

Speaking of dying...

Wingnut heart attacks may skyrocket!

U.S. economy soars in fourth quarter

The U.S. economy roared ahead in the final months of 2009, growing at its fastest rate in six years, as corporate America stopped slashing its inventories and again started to invest for the future. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, rose at a 5.7 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday...

This is definitely not the economic news the America-hating rightwing wanted to hear. Listen for the whining.

CITGO, an American Corporation
Okay smartasses, tell us, who owns CITGO? Yeah that's right, Hugo Chavez. And guess what fools, as "a corporation formed under the laws of Delaware", Hugo now gets to pump as much money as he wants into our elections because five activist judges on our Supreme Court were too stupid to know better.

I was right, and so was Obama and as usual, Palin, Limbaugh and all of the other dumbasses on the 'right' don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

Nice job dumbasses!

There was never any doubt

If you ever had any doubt of how much Republicans in this country hate the middle class you only had to catch their reaction last night when Barack Obama said;

"...it is time to finally slash the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas, and give those tax breaks to companies that create jobs right here in the United States of America."

You can catch the Republicans' despicable behavior at 17:40 into the President's speech last night.

But that's not surprising to us who are smart enough to already know how the America-hater's, the Party of No, really feel about Americans. It's just good to see the obvious evidence once in awhile.

"Not true"?

So Sam Alito didn't like it when Barack Obama rightly pointed out that foreign corporations will now be able to bribe our politicians, huh?


Sorry asshole, they've already begun.