Daily Kos: Freshman GOPer wants funding restored for program he voted to cut

Ah, Republicans. So quick to vote against investing in our country and just as quick in hoping Democrats bail them out.

The jerkward in this instance is from Iowa and wants a trail line between Chicago and at least Iowa City. But he voted AGAINST a bill that would fund that line because he’d rather waste money on billionaire tax cuts and giving freebies to oil companies than to invest in our nation’s infrastructure.

He still says he wants the train line though. He just doesn’t have the spine to vote for it himself.

Typical Republican. Can’t stand up for his constituents. Won’t fight the wars they want to start. Won’t pay for any program they push, not even when it’s cash they have to put up in hard times to be paid back later. Just won’t help Americans.

I say they fund the line and run the damn this up to the Mississippi River. Iowa seems thrilled to keep bigots like Steve King, support backstabbers like Grassley, and return Terry Branstad and his murdering kid to power. Not to mention this asshat. Let ’em suffer, it’s what they apparently want.

Texas, U.S. Must Adjust To New Latino Majority

Cracker White Texas is turning Tortilla Brown. There is no way around this. The numbers do not lie. It should be an interesting – and potentially violent and repressive – change in the coming years. Racist Aryzona is already starting the reactionary showdown.

The GOP really needs to address their racist policies and supporters head on lest they become a permanent pariah party. Granted, they’ve been bigots for so long, there really isn’t a damn thing they can do to earn *my* vote, but for the good of the country we need more sane, rational, and respectful voices in our public discourse and, currently, they aren’t doing a damn bit of any of that. The racial-tinged hatred isn’t helping either.

Scott Walker Falls for Killer Prank by Liberal Blogger Posing as Right-Winger Sugar Daddy David Koch | AlterNet

If you believe in freedom and democracy in the United States (and even if you are a Republican and don’t), give the following a listen. Abbreviated transcript here.

A liberal blogger recorded this on Skype. He swears it is true and David Korn over at Mother Jones says the governor’s office confirms it. More confirmation here.

Mother Jones has some more on the story and some background on Walker’s debt to the Koch Brothers.

One of the points by “Fake David Koch” was to get Walker to agree to infiltrating the union protesters with violent plants to cause trouble. Walker, who already thought of this and for the moment rejected it, demurs.

That said, Tea Baggers are already doing this<‘/a>.

In Georgia, Tea Bagging Traitors are planning to bring guns to a SEIU solidarity rally. Yeah, it isn’t enough to want to take your rights, conservatives want to start a gun battle.

Guess I was never wrong calling them Talibangelicals, was I?

In Indiana, a Deputy Attorney General there wants to use live ammunition on the protesters.

Such “compassionate” conservatives these are.

But let’s be honest here. These folks would NOT be in power if voters would pay attention to what they are voting for, and the programs the cretins running are to pass.

Ga. Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages | Mother Jones

Republicans (still) hate women.

Legislation pending in Georgia would make it a crime to have a miscarriage. Not just any old crime either, a charge potentially punishable by death.

Any family who has had to deal with a miscarriage can attest to how painful it is. To have some Talibangelical bureaucrat play religious police and haul your wife off to prison to be executed? Yeah, that just doesn’t belong in America. Ever.

Why We Need Unions | Mother Jones

I was raised in what was apparently a fairly radical home so I really don’t see the argument against unions. I haven’t been in one for years but I have no problem supporting them. Like all things, yes, they are subject to poor and even criminal leadership, but hell, you still put your money in banks and people still vote Republican, right?

So, here is an argument FOR unions plus some more info on the history – and future? – of unions and the Democratic Party.