Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[Sgt PSN]

I meant how did I miss Rome's post today?

[ice grillin you]

I meant how did I miss Rome's post today?

you didnt pay attention to it because you had already known about it for three days?

[rjs246]

This crap makes me sick. After a terrible thing like this happens, the radicals on both sides want to jump on it to promote their own political agendas. The left says that we need more stringent guns laws to prevent this kind of thing from happening, when in reality, if the nut that did it didn't have a gun, he'd have used a pipe bomb or one of the many other devises found in his home. The right says we need to arm everyone to prevent this kind of thing from happening, when in reality if you arm everyone it will lead to us going back to the wild wild west. Cops and paramedics wouldn't be able to keep up on the weekends. Not to mention how in home accidents would probably go through the roof. People are stupid and most shouldn't have guns in their homes, I don't care what the constitution says. When 'the right to bear arms' was put into the constitution, it was to protect people from foreign enemies, not your friggen' neighbor.

I think it was put into the constitution to protect people from our own government moreso than foreign enemies. It didn't work.

You know, it's good to have all of this information in one place.

[Sgt PSN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOnHrAGKwJ4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Eagles_Legendz]

It would be a mercy killing.

[Tomahawk]

Thinly veiled racism?

[Munson]

Thinly veiled shot at 5?

[Sgt PSN]

I think they're both one in the same. 

[General_Failure]

That kid barely looks anything like McNabb.

[ice grillin you]

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was confronted on the floor this evening by Republican Reps. Mary Bono Mack (Calif.) and Robert Dold (Ill.), who were livid he had scheduled a tough abortion vote, according to someone who witnessed the incident.

Both voted against the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would have criminalized abortions in Washington, D.C., past 20 weeks of pregnancy.

"Are you kidding me? How many times are we going to vote on this?" Bono Mack told Cantor in the heated exchange, according to the witness.

The bill comes on the heels of a May vote on the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, which would have criminalized abortions on the basis of sex, gender or race.

The confrontation shows the frustration moderate Republicans have felt in taking politically risky show votes so close to the elections.

Bono Mack, Dold and Cantor could be seen having an animated conversation in the middle of the House floor for about 10 minutes.

When asked later why she confronted Cantor about the bill, Bono Mack said only that the conversation was about "politics."

"My conversation was with the leader and it's a private conversation," she added.

Cantor's office declined to comment, and Dold's office did not immediately return a request for comment.

Bono Mack, a seven-term lawmaker, routinely votes against measures limiting abortion outright, but she has voted in favor of banning federal money from being used to fund the procedure.

Dold, a freshman, has followed that pattern. Bono Mack is being targeted by Democrats, while Dold faces an uphill climb to re-election in a Democratic-leaning district and has faced stark criticism from right-to-life groups for his votes on the issue.

Four other GOP Members voted against the bill while two other Republicans voted "present." Seventeen Democrats voted in favor.

Still, the measure had wide support in the Republican Conference, with 222 co-sponsors. Only 220 Members voted for it, however, while 154 voted "no," 55 did not vote and 2 voted "present."

Both this bill and the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act failed because they were brought up under suspension of the rules, which requires a two-thirds majority to pass.

Driving home the difficulty of voting against the issue, the National Right to Life Committee released a statement immediately after the vote stating that, "154 House members will have to explain to their constituents why they voted to endorse a policy of legal abortion for any reason, until the moment of birth, in their nation's capital."

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), the primary sponsor both bills, conceded that the votes could cost some Republican lawmakers their jobs, and he said he sympathizes with Republicans who have to take tough votes. But he said the vote is a net benefit because it would cost more Democrats in November.

"It will cost some people the election, but it will cost more Democrats the election than it will Republicans," he said. "I'm convinced that in very few districts in America will someone lose because they voted to protect a pain-capable baby from torture. And if that's the case, maybe they need a different district anyways."

[ice grillin you]

Romney Tax Plan Would Raise Taxes on 95%

A new Brookings Institution/Tax Policy Center study finds Mitt Romney's plan to overhaul the tax code would produce cuts for the richest 5% of Americans -- and larger bills for everybody else.

The Washington Post notes the researchers seemed "to bend over backward to be fair to the Republican presidential candidate" but "none of it helped Romney."

"His rate-cutting plan for individuals would reduce tax collections by about $360 billion in 2015, the study says. To avoid increasing deficits -- as Romney has pledged -- the plan would have to generate an equivalent amount of revenue by slashing tax breaks for mortgage interest, employer-provided health care, education, medical expenses, state and local taxes, and child care -- all breaks that benefit the middle class."

[ice grillin you]

douchebag mike kelly who represents a district in pennsyltucky said this today:



A House Republican lawmaker likened the implementation of a new mandate that insurers offer coverage for contraceptive services to Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.

Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly (R), an ardent opponent of abortion rights, said that today's date would live in infamy alongside those two other historic occasions. Wednesday marked the day on which a controversial new requirement by the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires health insurance companies to cover contraceptive services for women, goes into effect.

"I know in your mind you can think of times when America was attacked. One is December 7th, that's Pearl Harbor day.  The other is September 11th, and that's the day of the terrorist attack," Kelly said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. "I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates."

[Tomahawk]

What a dumbass. Nobody is forcing your christian sluts to take birth control. If anything, this is a step toward emancipating women from christian tyranny.

[MDS]

it would have been awesome if he died in 9/11

[Rome]

I always get a kick out of iceholes who use so-called religious freedom as a call for repression of rights.

People like this guy are the true enemy to freedom and need to be excised from public service.