Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[MDS]

"Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement," Haley said. "But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health."

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/haley-vetoes-spending-for-education-healthcare-arts/Content?oid=4108773

did you guys know that republicans hate women?

[phattymatty]

Weirdo

Nobody seems to find it weird Mitt Romney used to dress up like a police officer and pull people over for fun
By Ned Hepburn 3 hours ago

Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night counting sheep and thinking about the day I often wonder about 1) ponies and 2) the fact that a bigger deal hasn't been made about the fact Mitt Romney used to dress up like a police officer in college and pull people over. For fun.

College is a time in many Americans' lives when they do stupid shtein like smoke too much pot, drink a lot, or have a lot of sex. That's considered pretty "de rigueur" in college; these are kinks you work out of your system. You then leave said institution to go through the modern world paying your taxes and doing the right thing.

But the GOP presidential candidate had a different gig: instead of drinking and smoking like the rest of America (he claims to have had "one sip" of beer and one drag of a cigarette his entire life, a number we don't dispute) he would remain perfectly sober and put on a police uniform and pull people over.

According to TV producer Robin Madden, a former friend of Romney during his time at Stanford:

"He told us that he had gotten the uniform from his father," George Romney, then the Governor of Michigan, whose security detail was staffed by uniformed troopers. "He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road. He also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white Rambler. We thought it was all pretty weird. We all thought, 'Wow, that's pretty creepy.' And after that, we didn't have much interaction with him."

In another story during Mitt's high school days in Michigan Mitt would pretend to pull his friends over while they were on dates.

Given the current climate of "being outraged over everything" it's surprising, then, that nobody thinks that the potential future president used to dress up like a police office and scare the shtein out of people? I mean, yeah, I could see that shtein flying in Michigan (because God hates Michigan and there is nothing to do there) but the behavior continued when he was in college in California during the late '60s? Go to a reading. Go see a band. Don't dress up like a police officer and pretend to pull people over FOR FUN.

This coupled with the fact that he personally goes around California beaches busting people for smoking pot paints Romney as a scary, weird guy with an authority complex. Here's to hoping he loses in November.

[Sgt PSN]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-daily-caller-digs-up-more-mitt-romney-dress-up-stories/

He also tried to "fake rob" a store while dressed up as a 20's era mobster and then returned to the same store dressed as a fireman while swinging an ax.

[ice grillin you]

he also dressed up as mitt romney and humiliated kids cause they were gay

[Sgt PSN]

Lol

[Munson]

This is apparently a real thing...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed an amendment Tuesday that would repeal the Obama administration's healthcare reform law.
The amendment, to the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act (S. 2237), is essentially identical to legislation the Republican-controlled House is set to approve Wednesday.

So basically it would force the senate Dems to vote against their own bill, a bill that is filled with things republicans should like

[Rome]

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/11/campaign-congress-healthcare-idINL2E8IBB4Z20120711

0-33

[rjs246]

The irony is just too excellent. Reps spent the last two years excoriating Obama for spending so much time focusing on health care instead of the economy. Now they've wasted 33 congressional votes and untold cubic miles of oxygen in a political stunt to repeal the act while totally ignoring the economy.

Nuke the politicians. Spare the interns.

[Sgt PSN]

Aren't the interns learning to be politicians?  Nuke them too just to be safe.

[General_Failure]

Let's ask Senator Lewinsky.

[Seabiscuit36]

She blew her chances

[Diomedes]

Or Chandra Levy.

[SunMo]

clever pun relating to her dying in a park

[ice grillin you]

The irony is just too excellent. Reps spent the last two years excoriating Obama for spending so much time focusing on health care instead of the economy. Now they've wasted 33 congressional votes and untold cubic miles of oxygen in a political stunt to repeal the act while totally ignoring the economy.

the house pubs dont understand what happens when a bill becomes law....someone needs to send them a copy of schoolhouse rock

[Tomahawk]