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What we are against:
Radical Right Wing Agendas
Incompetent Establishment
Donald J. Trump
Corporate Malfeasence
We are for:
Global and Econmoic Security
Social and Economic Justice
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THE RESISTANCE
Cheeto Jesus' recent rhetoric about rigged elections and a constitutional crisis would fulfill the fantasies of a few of his nutters [followers], who’ve been stockpiling weapons and food as they look forward to what most people would consider a worst-case scenario.
Jim Moseley, a self-described “Christian soldier” from Greenville, South Carolina, is buying extra ammunition and canned goods to prepare for what he believes will be a second civil war, reported The (Toronto) Star.
“Once the trucks stop rolling, the grocery shelves will go empty and gasoline rationing will go into effect,” Moseley wrote in a Facebook message early this week.
The newspaper caught up with Moseley, a 59-year-old retired salesman, earlier this week to discuss Trump’s darkening campaign rhetoric.
It’s clear that, whatever words Trump is using to question the integrity of the election, Moseley and at least some other supporters are interpreting his message as the declaration of a war they’ve been itching to fight.
“Liberals will have targets on their backs, as their behaviors are pretty much evident,” Moseley posted. “Race wars will begin as well, as your skin color will be your uniform!”
It’s not clear, of course, whether any of these “lone-wolf patriots” will act out their violent fantasies — but election officials in some states aren’t taking any chances.
A Republican campaign office in North Carolina was fire-bombed over the weekend in a still-unsolved attack, and a Democratic campaign office in the same county was targeted by vandals on the same day.
Right-wing militias, which have grown dramatically during the presidency of Barack Obama and the concurrent popularity of social media, are using the prospect of a Clinton election win to recruit new members.
Three militia members in Kansas were arrested last week in a plot to bomb an apartment building where Muslim refugees — including dozens of children — live on Nov. 9, both the anniversary of Kristallnacht and the day after Election Day.
Charles Blow, a New York Times columnist unloaded on Orange Hitler as an immature and dangerous man who should be too ashamed to show his face in public.
“Donald Trump is a domestic terrorist; only his form of terror doesn’t boil down to blowing things up,” Blow wrote in a column published Monday morning. “He’s the 70-year-old toddler who knows nearly nothing, hurls insults, has simplistic solutions for complex problems and is quick to throw a tantrum. Also, in case you didn’t know it, this toddler is mean to girls and is a bit of a bigot.”
Blow’s comparison echoed remarks made Sunday night by HBO’s John Oliver, who called Trump “incoherent” and compared him to a “racist toddler coming out of dental surgery.”
But the columnist went even further, attacking the Republican presidential nominee’s principles, integrity and personality.
“It isn’t so much that he is a strict disciple of radical ideology, but rather that he is devoid of fixed principles, willing to do anything and everything to gain fame, fortune and power,” Blow wrote. “He has an endless, consuming need for perpetual affirmation. This is a bully who just wants to be liked, a man-boy nursing a nagging internal emptiness.”
“He’s fickle and spoiled and rotten,” he added.
Blow catalogued some of Trump’s worst offenses from just the past week and deemed him dangerously unfit for the presidency.
“He shouldn’t be ushered into the White House; he should be laughed into hiding,” Blow wrote. “His querulous nature shouldn’t be coddled; it should be crushed.”
“America is in need of a leader, not a puerile, sophomoric sniveler who is too easily baited and grossly ill-behaved,” he added. “Go to your gilded room, Donald. The adults need to pick a president.”
Even in right-wing looney land, radio hosts Alex Jones is a ‘special” kind of “patriot” who stands out. Where Rush Limbaugh offers a torrent of conservative views that largely align with Republican policy preferences, Jones labels 9/11 an “inside job.” Where Mark Levin touts radical constitutional theories that, nonetheless, have grown popular in Republican circles, Jones ties same-sex marriage on “the eugenicist/globalist view.” Jones is the king of fringe conspiracy theories. Among other things, he may be the nation’s most prominent proponent of the view that the Sandy Hook shooting that killed 26 people an elementary school was a “synthetic, completely fake — with actors, in my view — manufactured” hoax.
And one hour before another terrible mass shooting occurred in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday, Jones hosted a very special guest on his radio show — Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
The conversation between Trump and Jones was, in one reporter’s words, a “love fest.” Jones described the wealthy heir as a “self-made” man and a “true maverick.” Trump, in return, praised Jones.
“Your reputation is amazing,” the billionaire-turned-politician told the conspiracy theorist, adding that “I won’t let you down.”
Jon Stewart addressed Wednesday night’s terrorist attack at a historic black church in Charleston.
“I didn’t do my job today. So I apologize,” Stewart told his audience on Thursday. “I got nothin’ for you in terms of jokes and sounds, because of what happened in South Carolina. And maybe if I wasn’t near the end of the run, or this wasn’t such a common occurrence, maybe I could’ve pulled out of the spiral. But I didn’t. And so, I honestly have nothing, other than just sadness.”
Rather than delve into the politics surrounding the shooting inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine people dead, Stewart said, he was stunned by the “disparity of response” surrounding the incident. Had the suspect, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, been an “Islamic terrorist,” the US would have invaded his home country, filled the sky with drones or torture people in the name of safety.
Instead, he argued, people were shrugging their shoulder and saying, “What are you gonna do? Crazy is as crazy is, right?,” as the coverage devolved into “the nuanced language of lack of effort.”
“This wasn’t a tornado. This was a racist,” Stewart said of Roof. “This was a guy with a Rhodesia badge on his sweater. I hate to even use this pun, but this one is black and white. There’s no nuance here.”
He also tore into what he described as the prejudice steeped into the culture, noting that several roads in South Carolina are named after Confederate generals, who fought a war to keep black people from being able to use them.
“That’s insanity. That’s racial wallpaper,” Stewart said. “You can’t allow that. Nine people were shot in a black church by a white guy who hated them, who wanted to start some sort of civil war. The Confederate flag flies over South Carolina, and the roads are named for Confederate generals. And the white guy’s the one who feels like his country’s being taken away from him.”
Holly is not your A-typical "Murica Patriot". Here we have a right wing nut job, who has never served her country in any shape or form - this right-wing nut is one of our "special" countrymen, who bleed extremism and mix religion - and we get what Murica calls church today, "organized religion", better known as "The American Taliban."
The difference between this numb nutz and a real terrorist is? [Jared Page Photo]
Yes, according to Holly, like most religious zealots, an assault rifle and bible go hand-in-hand.
This is what happens when low IQ and fear clash.
Having served my country for 32 years now, this type of patriot disgusts me to no end. I do expect white pasty men with low IQ's, no teeth, an using rope for belts to upstage the country in this fashion, but when the Holly's of the world step up to take the reign of phucktoidism, I sit and SMH.
I am sure the humans that pro-created this dipshit must be proud.
How does it go? "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."?
HOLLY FISHER'S VERSION OF CHRIST
Congrats Holly Fisher, you are today's asshole, asshat and worlds worst person for the day. Wear your awards proudly!
RNC note to self: When trying to milk stall tactics, make sure the cow is present, not the bull.
With the government shutdown at a temporary shutdown itself, Rachel Maddow thought it would be beneficial to show exactly what the Teahadists demands were - the entire time for ending the national crisis. Maddow went through the whole list of everything the domestic terrorists said it wanted in exchange for keeping the government open and concluded that they got precisely nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. She said even the Democrats got something they wanted out of this, but the American Taliban, the ones who came up with the “ransom note” in the first note, got absolutely none of what they wanted.
Maddow explained how “the domestic terrorists thought for sure the Democrats would cave” on Obamacare, and the fact that they didn’t, threw them for a loop, and so they had “no idea what to do next.”
She went down the list of all their “obtuse specific demands” about Obamacare and a list of other issues, from birth control to Paul Ryan‘s tax code on their “constantly-changing list of demands.” And “of their entire list,” Maddow said, “they are going to get nothing. Nothing.”
She added, “It may be true that nobody won, but someone definitely lost here.”
WHAT DID THE TERRORISTS GET Video Courtesy of MSNBC
Pain for no gain, if these last two weeks have proven anything, it’s that House GOPers haven’t yet mastered the art of using their majority.
The conventional wisdom is that these domestic terrorists learn from this fiasco - learn not put their country through this again. But many of their members say the lesson they learned is that President Barack Obama is not willing to negotiate, and repealing the Obamacare is the objective at all costs. The majority of these RWNJ's are gearing up for another fight in a few weeks. Government funding runs dry again Jan. 15, the debt ceiling will be reached Feb. 7 and a budget conference has to report findings by Dec. 13.
Here’s the list of 18 Senators who voted against reopening the government:
Coburn, Tom - (R – OK)
Cornyn, John - (R – TX)
Crapo, Mike - (R – ID)
Cruz, Ted - (R – TX)
Enzi, Michael B. - (R – WY)
Grassley, Chuck - (R – IA)
Heller, Dean - (R – NV)
Johnson, Ron - (R – WI)
Lee, Mike - (R – UT)
Paul, Rand - (R – KY)
Risch, James E. - (R – ID)
Roberts, Pat - (R – KS)
Rubio, Marco - (R – FL)
Scott, Tim - (R – SC)
Sessions, Jeff - (R – AL)
Shelby, Richard C. - (R – AL)
Toomey, Patrick J. - (R – PA)
Vitter, David - (R – LA)
Here are the 144 House GOP votes to continue the hugely unpopular GOP government shutdown:
Rep. Morgan Griffith (Virginia Teahadist) offered a curious analogy this weekend, comparing the impending default to the American Revolution.
Griffith was asked about the fast-approaching debt ceiling, which if not raised, threatens to drag the U.S. economy back into a recession. He told The Hill on Saturday that he is not concerned with the economic consequences so long as he and his party get their way.
“We have to make a decision that’s right long-term for the United States, and what may be distasteful, unpleasant and not appropriate in the short run may be something that has to be done,” he said after a meeting of the House GOP, joining a long list of Republicans who have dismissed the consequences of blowing through the debt ceiling and causing a default on the nation’s payments.
But he offered a novel explanation for why he believes this kind of economic brinksmanship is necessary: because our founding fathers did it too:
“I will remind you that this group of renegades that decided that they wanted to break from the crown in 1776 did great damage to the economy of the colonies. They created the greatest nation and the best form of government, but they did damage to the economy in the short run.”
Griffith made no mention of the revolutionary war that proceeded the colonies’ act of economic vigilantism.
In recent days, some Republicans have backed away from plans to hold up a budget agreement unless Obamacare is defunded. The move came as business groups and conservative organizations like Heritage Action and the Koch Brothers acknowledged that default would bring about economic catastrophe.
The American Revolution led to establishing a democratic republic, whereas the right-wing nut jobs aspire to establishing a plutocratic fascist state.
Meanwhile, Rule by Law is still fundamental to the American system of government and justice.
Theoretically these terrorists are abdicating their duties as members of the U.S. House of Representatives in favor of undermining the U.S. Government and the welfare of all American citizens. And they are working not with President Obama but rather, they are owing their allegiance to their surrogate leaders—Koch’s, Heritage, ALEC, and so on. They are committing the premeditated crime called sedition.
Repeating from previous writings: Treason is legally defined as citizen's actions that violate allegiance to one's sovereign or state, to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the parent nation. These right-wing nut jobs have not attained the status of a "foreign government", so in legal terms, we must accuse them of sedition. Legally, treason and sedition are very close cousins, and anyone could make a strong argument, based on existing sedition laws (Alien Registration Act, 1940) that would land these terrorists fired and better yet, in prison for 20 years.
If Congressional GOPers will honor their oaths and do their jobs, in return, we the people won't demand that they be removed from office, and we won't demand that they and their surrogate leaders be charged and tried for sedition.
Protect our republic, yourself, and all Americans from the politically irrational who enable the extreme minority.
NEW LAW: If your going to run for congress you have to be actually smarter than a fifth grader. This blogger thinks that the tea baggers take civil war and revolutionary reenacting too seriously.
Fear not readers, there is still plenty of time to accomplish nothing today.
US DOMESTIC WILLING TO PARLAY EXECUTION OF ITS HOSTAGES
The GOP is still not willing to release the hostages [open government], but from the kindness of their heart [god bless their compassion] they are willing to delay shooting the hostages, to defer if you will, the execution of said hostages until November 22. The GOP is said to be ready to set the gas can and matches to the side for six weeks, so then, when the holidays are around, they can then reissue new demands to the hostages, setting yet more economic destruction to the country and the world.
As the government shutdown enters its eleventh day and the nation races towards a possible default, a growing number of teafundie lawmakers, leaders, and voters are publicly blaming Congressional GOP Teahadists for the budget impasse. Though they fault President Obama for failing to negotiate with Congress, as the public mood sours, some within the GOP are hurriedly distancing themselves from the mess in Washington.
“It’s time for someone to act like a grown-up in this process,” former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu (R) told the Associated Press. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) agreed, remarking on Monday that “This is not how we should operate. It shouldn’t be about people fighting and yelling.’ “The bottom line is we need that money in our economy to save rural hospitals and jobs in the rural areas,” Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) told the Arizona Daily Star on Thursday, criticizing the GOP’e effort to defund the Affordable Care Act.
The criticism comes as an Associated Press-GfK poll released Wednesday showed that “three-quarters of Republicans nationally said their party in Congress deserves a moderate degree or most of the blame for the shutdown” and a NBC/Wall Street Journal survey reported that just 24 percent of Americans now have a favorable view of Republicans — the lowest figure in the poll’s history. Seventy percent of Americans say Republicans are putting politics ahead of the national interest and have an increasingly dim view of Tea Party backed Sens. Ted Cruz (Teahadists) and Mike Lee (Teahadists), who orchestrated the current impasse.
In yet another sign of trouble for the GOP, business interests are also showing signs of discontent, signaling a possible rift with Republicans ahead of the 2014 mid-term elections.
Iowa Republicans “are recruiting a pro-business Republican to challenge six-term conservative Rep. Steve King (R), a leader in the push to defund the health care law,” the Associated Press reports and party establishment leaders in Michigan are threatening to recruit and fund challengers to Rep. Justin Amash (R) and other Tea Party aligned candidates.
BETTER IDEA, LETS FUCKING HEAR IT
Meanwhile, Republican governors — some of whom questioned the wisdom of shutting down the government over Obamacare in the first place — are scrambling to deal with sudden shortage of federal dollars in their states.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) “has ordered the state pay 244 federally-reimbursed employees who support the National Guard” and has committed to “funding federal programs like SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) and WIC (Women, Infants and Children) through the end of October.” Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) has declared a state of “civil emergency” and warned that “our federally funded state employees may have to be laid off.”
A report released earlier this week found that the shutdown is disproportionately affecting Red-leaning states like Virginia, Alaska, and Alabama, which have higher concentrations of federal employees and federal contracts.
So what we have here is....basically, the conservative wants to be rewarded for calling in a bomb threat and then reacting to it? Let's face it readers these radical RWNJ's form of healthcare is, saying bless you after someone sneezes.
This party, the tinfoil hat society, loves the Constitution so much, especially where it says if you lose an election, you're allowed to destroy America to get your way. My advice for John Boehner: Walk away from the craps table. You just lost your House.
Jon Stewart took on the Obamacare fight Monday night, and while he did go after the “fucking nuts” conservatives, Stewart did have some choice words for the White House for all the bugs on the Obamacare website, even after three years of working on it.
Stewart brought up the “galaxy-destroying force known as Obamacare” and how despite the supposed tech-savviness of the Obama administration, the website isn't exactly working well.
Obamacare 'Incompetence,'Fucking Nuts
Regarding website errors - One might suggest - that even with our small media group, that certain topics generate high volume hits to out website, which has rendered it to not function at times, but to continue with this pathological diabolical scheme, to not know the facts, to skew facts, and to then attempt to crash not only our country, but the global market as well, for ideological outdated failed measures of the GOTP- is a group who finds themselves "un-tethered from reality".
The GOTP has long been un-tethered from the anchor of reality - ever flowing on a tide of bile. These domestic terrorists are prepared to swallow anything that echoes their prejudices, no matter how bloviated with ignorance their ideals are. They are the Fifth Column emitting ignorance of gloom and doom at every corner.
Many conservatives seem to live in an alternative universe, consuming content from only bullshit mountain, [Fox News] the news outlet that tells them only what they want to hear, ir-regaurdless of facts or truth. This meets the classic definition of tinfoil hat society, where everything not of their kind is slanted in their world view. Facts don't matter, data and science are rendered irrelevant and fear mongering is a daily activity for these "special patriots".
The American Taliban needs to accept the fact that America has changed in both the mix of its citizenry and the values of those citizens, and it is not changing back. Every generation brings a different perspective to the table and the beliefs of modern Americans are vastly different from those of Americans two generations ago, yet that is the era that the tinfoil hat society is still mired in.
Species become extinct when they are unable to adapt to an ever changing environment, and that is pretty much what is happening with the GOTP. If this radical party continues to stubbornly refuse to adapt to these changing times, especially as it relates to upholding the most basic principles of democracy - equality, then their days are numbered, and their prospects are dim.
Government shutdown. A GOTP timeline:
Oct 2008: "You'll never get elected and pass healthcare." Nov 2008: "We'll never let you pass healthcare." Jan 2009: "We're gonna shut you down every time you try to pass healthcare." July 2009: "We'll fight to death every attempt you make to pass healthcare." Dec 2009: "We will destroy you if you even consider passing healthcare." March 2010: "We can't believe you just passed healthcare." April 2010: "We are going to overturn healthcare." Sept 2010: "We are going to repeal healthcare." Jan 2011: "We are going to destroy healthcare." Feb 2012: "We're gonna elect a candidate who'll revoke healthcare NOW." June 2012: "We'll go to the Supreme Court, and they will overturn healthcare." June 2012: "We can't believe the Supreme Court just upheld healthcare." Aug 2012: "American people will never re-elect you-they don't want healthcare." Oct 2012: "We can't wait to win the election and explode healthcare." Nov 2012: "We can't believe you got re-elected & we can't repeal healthcare." Feb 2013: "We're still going to vote to obliterate healthcare." July 2013: "We're going to vote like 35 more times to erase healthcare." Sept 2013: "We are going to leverage a government shutdown into defunding, destroying, obliterating, overturning, repealing, dismantling, erasing and ripping apart healthcare." Oct 2013: "WHY AREN'T YOU NEGOTIATING???"
Breaking the debt limit may cost millions of Americans to lose their jobs and cause economic disaster world wide, but we can't say for sure because no one has ever been dumb enough to attempt it.
Dear SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force Units,
I'm being held hostage by radical GOP extremist and fundamentalists who are trying to destroy my Government and Economy. Send help!
There's always something special about hot-mic incidents. Most political figures, by the time they've risen to a certain level of prominence, tend to be guarded, scripted, and careful to stay on-message. When there's a live microphone picking up their unvarnished comments, it offers the rest of us a peek behind the curtain.
A local Kentucky TV news station caught Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul Wednesday morning discussing some congressional Republican messaging strategy regarding the showdown with Democrats over the government shutdown.
Senator McConnell and Senator Paul show how the teahadists are playing a game with the American people, their lives, and the economy. To them it is just a matter of poll testing phrases, not governing honestly.
LOOSE LIPS SINKS SHIPS
"I just did CNN and I just go over and over again 'We're willing to compromise. We're willing to negotiate," Paul is seen on-camera telling McConnell, who is standing by for his own interview remote from D.C. "I don't think they (Democrats) poll tested 'we won't negotiate.' I think it's awful for them to say that over and over again."
"Yeah, I do too and I — and I just came back from that two hour meeting with them and that, and that was basically the same view privately as it was publicly," McConnell said back.
Paul continued, saying he believed Republicans are in a good position. "I think if we keep saying, 'We wanted to defund it (Obamacare), we fought for that' and that we're willing to compromise on this, I think... We're gonna win this, I think."
For their part, Democrats and President Barack Obama have maintained that any deal to end the current federal government shutdown cannot include any defunding or delaying of the implementation of "Obamacare."
The American Taliban is saying something publicly that they don’t believe privately. Publicly, the domestic terrorists are talking tough. Privately, they are desperate for a way out of the shutdown that allows them to claim some little symbolic or token victory.
Take the quote from [asshat] Congressman Marlin Stutzman, R-IN who said, “We’re not going to be disrespected… We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”
Rand Paul is delusional if he thinks that the domestic terrorists are going to win this. They've already lost. The only things left to be determined are the size of the loss, and whether or not this will cost them control of the House in 2014.
Rand Paul basically admitted that the teahadists tough talk is empty. This open mic faux pas is the smoking gun needed to - to put the last nail in the coffin of these terrorists.
This is a figment of American politics circa 2013. It is incredibly convoluted beyond redemption. Facts don't seem to impress these domestic terrorists. Beliefs become so ingrained they turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Teahadists want to perpetuate this because it serves their purpose to control and dominate the ignorant that is their base and their districts. [See yesterdays blog on gerrymandering]
When you think about this, it all makes perfect sense, when you realize that the billionaire financiers that fund the tin foil hat society - that they aren't really interested in defunding the ACA. It's really just a straw man exercise.
Their goal is to render the federal government impotent - unable to prevent them from enacting their own radical agenda, which is the complete privatization of all functions of government.
This current government shutdown, the debt ceiling from last year, the sequester this, and the upcoming debt ceiling fight are all designed to cast government as dysfunctional, and detrimental to the country as a whole. Their hope is to get the citizenry so exasperated with bullshit of dysfunctional government, that most people would welcome the right wing nut jobs paradigm shift, even if it means turning control of basic government function over to the faction that is the teahadists/American Taliban/US Domestic Terrorists.
Congratulations US GOP Domestic Terrorists: The Osama Bin Laden Foundation has announced that you've been chosen as winner of this year's Destroy America Award.
One of the most prominent US domestic terror developers of our time, the creator of the plan to shut down the government is a little-known [asshat] congressman who has been in office only eight months.
This newly elected tin foil hat society member downplays his deviant scheme and position, saying he has relatively little influence. But in reality, his efforts have pushed Washington to the brink - Au Contraire, Mon Frère, lets give credit where credit is due, step up and take a bow - your fifteen minutes of fame are here, use them to your full advantage!
Unbeknownst to most Americans, on August 21, 2013, 80 Republican members of the Teahadists group named The American Taliban signed and issued a shameless letteraddressed to House Speaker John Boehner which practically begged for the government shutdown of The People’s Government.
In this scathing and informative segment, Rachel Maddow displays a photo of each and every single one of the 80 Representatives who signed this reckless letter while getting an insightful breakdown of the consequences of corrupt gerrymandering which empowers and enables these [nearly all pasty-white-male] radical right wing nut jobs to get away with governing on behalf of a very small and extreme minority - against the interests of the American people at large.
“The members of the suicide caucus live in a different America from the one that most political commentators describe when talking about how the country is transforming. The average suicide-caucus district is 75 percent white, while the average House district is 63 percent white. Latinos make up an average of 9 percent of suicide-district residents, while the over-all average is 17 percent. The districts also have slightly lower levels of education (25 percent of the population in suicide districts have college degrees, while that number is 29 percent for the average district).
The members themselves represent this lack of diversity. Seventy-six of the members who signed the Meadows letter are male. Seventy-nine of them are white.
As with Meadows, the other suicide-caucus members live in places where the national election results seem like an anomaly. Obama defeated Romney by four points nationally. But in the 80 suicide-caucus districts, Obama lost to Romney by an average of 23 points. The Republican members themselves did even better. In these 80 districts, the average margin of victory for the Republican candidate was 34 points.
GERRYMANDERING ALLOWS THIS HOSTAGE TAKING OPERATION TO TAKE FRUITION
In short, these 80 members represent an America where the population is getting whiter, getting dumber, where there are few major cities, where Obama took the biggest hit in voting during the last election cycle, and where the tin foil hat society is becoming more dominant and less popular [via gerrymandering, see map above].
So, just who are the members of this terrorist “suicide caucus”?
Members of Congress that signed Mark Meadows letter to House Speaker John Boehner are:
1. Amash, Justin MI-03
2. Bachmann, Michele MN-06
3. Barr, Andy KY-06
4. Barton, Joe TX-06
5. Benishek, Dan MI-01
6. Bentivolio, Kerry MI-11
7. Bilirakis, Gus FL-12
8. Bishop, Rob UT-01
9. Black, Diane TN-06
10. Bridenstine, Jim OK-01
11. Broun, Paul GA-10
12. Cassidy, Bill LA-06
13. Chabot, Steve OH-01
14. Coble, Howard NC-06
15. Collins, Doug GA-09
16. Conaway, Michael TX-11
17. Cook, Paul CA-08
18. Crawford, Rick AR-01
19. Daines, Steve MT
20. Davis, Rodney IL-13
21. DeSantis, Ron FL-06
22. Duncan, Jeff SC-03
23. Duncan, John TN-02
24. Farenthold, Blake TX-27
25. Fleischmann, Chuck TN-03
26. Fleming, John LA-04
27. Flores, Bill TX-17
28. Franks, Trent AZ-08
29. Gingrey, Phil GA-11
30. Gohmert, Louie TX-01
31. Gosar, Paul AZ-04
32. Graves, Sam MO-06
33. Graves, Tom GA-14
34. Griffin, Tim AR-02
35. Hall, Ralph TX-04
36. Holding, George NC-13
37. Hudson, Richard NC-08
38. Huelskamp, Tim KS-01
39. Huizenga, Bill MI-02
40. Hultgren, Randy IL-14
41. Jones, Walter NC-03
42. Jordan, Jim OH-04
43. King, Steve IA-04
44. Kingston, Jack GA-01
45. Labrador, Raul ID-01
46. LaMalfa, Doug CA-01
47. Lamborn, Doug CO-05
48. Lummis, Cynthia WY
49. Marchant, Kenny TX-24
50. Marino, Tom PA-10
51. Massie, Thomas KY-04
52. McClintock, Tom CA-04
53. Meadows, Mark NC-11
54. Messer, Luke IN-06
55. Mulvaney, Mick SC-05
56. Neugebauer, Randy TX-19
57. Palazzo, Steven MS-04
58. Pearce, Steve NM-02
59. Perry, Scott PA-04
60. Pitts, Joe PA-16
61. Poe, Ted TX-02
62. Pompeo, Mike KS-04
63. Posey, Bill FL-08
64. Roe, Phil TN-01
65. Rokita, Todd IN-04
66. Rothfus, Keith PA-12
67. Salmon, Matt AZ-05
68. Scalise, Steve LA-01
69. Schock, Aaron IL-18
70. Schweikert, David AZ-06
71. Sensenbrenner, WI-05
72. Smith, Jason MO-08
73. Stockman, Steve TX-36
74. Stutzman, Marlin IN-03
75. Walberg, Tim MI-07
76. Walorski, Jackie IN-02
77. Weber, Randy TX-14
78. Wenstrup, Brad OH-02
79. Wilson, Joe SC-02
80. Yoho, Ted FL-03
Now there is also a list of part time domestic terrorists who have back away from radical hostage taking concepts. We have provided why they have retracted their stance and why they say they're done with trying to force through provisions to delay or defund Obamacare in order to keep the government running.
Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.): “At this point, I believe it’s time for the House to vote for a clean, short-term funding bill to bring the Senate to the table and negotiate a responsible compromise.” [Press Release, 10/1/13]
Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.): “Time for a clean [continuing resolution].” [Official Twitter,10/1/13]
Rep. Jon Runyan (R-N.J.): “Enough is enough. Put a clean [continuing resolution] on the floor and let’s get on with the business we were sent to do." [Burlington County Times, 10/1/13]
Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.): A Fitzpatrick aide tells the Philadelphia Inquirer the congressman would support a clean funding bill if it came up for a vote. [Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/1/13]
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.): Barletta said he would "absolutely" vote for a clean bill in order to avert a shut down of the government. [Bethlehem Morning Call, 10/1/13]
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.): King thinks House Republicans would prefer to avoid a shutdown and said he will only vote for a clean continuing resolution to fund the government, according to the National Review Online. [NRO, 9/30/13]
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.): The California Republican told The Huffington Post he would ultimately support a clean continuing resolution. [Tweet by The Huffington Post's Sabrina Siddiqui, 9/30/13]
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.): “I'm prepared to vote for a clean [continuing resolution].” [The Huffington Post, 9/29/13]
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.): A Wolf aide told The Hill that he agrees with fellow Virginia Rep. Scott Rigell (R) that it's time for a clean continuing resolution. [The Hill,10/1/13]
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.): A Grimm aide told The Huffington Post that the congressman supports a clean continuing resolution. [10/1/13].
Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.): A local news anchor in Minnesota tweeted that Paulsen told him he would vote for a clean resolution if given the chance. [Blake McCoy Tweet, 10/1/13]
Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.): A constituent of Wittman's sent The Huffington Post an email she got from the congressman indicating he would vote for a clean funding bill but hasn't had "an opportunity to do so at this point." [10/1/13]
Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.): LoBiondo told The Press of Atlantic City he'll support "whatever gets a successful conclusion" to the shutdown and a clean funding bill "is one of those options." [The Press of Atlantic City, 10/1/13]
Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.): Forbes told The Virginian-Pilot that he supports the six-week clean funding bill that passed in the Senate. [The Virginian-Pilot, 10/2/13]
Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.): The congressman issued a statement saying he would "vote in favor of a so-called clean budget bill." [Office of Rep. Jim Gerlach, 10/2/13].
Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.): Lance's chief of staff confirmed to The Huffington Post that he told a constituent on Wednesday that Lance has voted for clean government funding bills in the past "and would not oppose doing so again should one be brought to the floor." [10/2/13]
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho): Simpson told a Roll Call reporter Tuesday night, "I'd vote for a clean CR because I don't think this is a strategy that works." [Daniel Newhauser Tweet, 10/1/13]
Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.): Young told Tampa Bay Times reporter Alex Leary that he's ready to vote for a clean funding bill. "The politics should be over," he said. "It's time to legislate." [Alex Leary Tweet, 10/2/13]
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.): The congressman told Miami Herald reporter Marc Caputo that he would vote for a clean funding bill, provided it has the same funding levels contained in the Senate-passed bill. [The Miami Herald, 10/2/13]
Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.): "I would take a clean (continuing resolution)." [Observer-Dispatch, 10/2/13]
Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.): A Davis constituent tells The Huffington Post that a Davis aide told him Wednesday, "Congressman Davis is prepared to vote 'yes' on a clean CR." Asked for comment, Davis spokesman Andrew Flach told HuffPost that Davis isn't "going to speculate" on what bills may come up in the House and "will continue to vote for proposals brought to the floor that will fund the federal government." [10/2/2013]
I applaud the latter list of GOPers, the true domestic terrorists, the ones in the Meadows letter, may a thousand sand fleas infest your pubic region!
How much longer will the American people have to endure - at every debt ceiling crises , this gun to our heads - do what we say mentality? Indeed the worst threat to our land is -The GOP’s Domestic Right Wing Extremists.
Hitler was Germany's worst enemy, similarly, the American Taliban is our worst enemy, were the plan or modus operandi is to use the government and its citizens to further a fucked up ideology and agenda. Not on my watch! Stand your ground Mr. President!
For those who signed the Meadows letter, congratulations, you 80 are this weeks worst people in the world.
Remember in American history when Jefferson and Adams couldn't agree so they shutdown the government? Yeah, me neither.
After insisting that they did not want to shutdown the government, a prominent Republican congresswoman told Fox News Tuesday morning that closing down the federal government could actually help the American people.
Appearing on Fox & Friends just hours after Republicans in the House failed to pass a “clean” continuing resolution to keep the government open for 6 more weeks, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (American Talibaner) — a prominent party messenger — joked that keeping the government closed will probably help the public realize that they didn't need it in the first place.
“You know, I think you may see a partial shutdown for several days. But [Fox and Friend co-host] Steve [Doocy], people are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed,” she said, prompting host Brian Kilmeade to add, “it’s like the sequester all over.”
In reality, aside from the 800,000 federal employees who will not get paid during the shutdown, almost every aspect of government that does not serve to protect human life or property will be affected.
For instance, Small Business Administration will stop making loans, federal home loan guarantees will likely go on hold, and students applying for financial aid could also see delays and backlogs in applications. The people who need government services most will also feel the brunt of the shutdown. If the shutdown lasts more than a few days, for instance, the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program could see their assistance dry up, leaving them food-insecure.
Blackburn indicated that she was in no rush to re-open the government and instead hinted at the budget fight ahead. “That is where the focus turns for the debt ceiling,” she said. “And we’re looking at that and beginning to work toward, what would it take for us to get them to the negotiation table on the debt ceiling?”
Maybe the Democrats should hold the country hostage over in-depth background checks for guns, why stop there, maybe demand that they [GOP] stop Gerrymandering, even further, stop the country because the right wing-nut job is conducting voter suppression! When does ideological BS end?
Some random comments taken from Twitter last night:
IRONY ALERT: The teaparty was so worried about Ambassador Stevens safety in Benghazi - just furloughed security for foreign diplomats.
GOD: "America is now closed. Christ and I apologize for the inconvenience." "The Republican Party has just thrown out the nation's utility bill in a display of fiscal responsibility."
"Two years ago, Will McAvoy [HBO Newsroom] went on television and called the Tea Party the American Taliban. Today the Taliban has asked McAvoy to issue a retraction."
"House Republicans have just done what Al-Qaeda could only dream of. Everyone, let me introduce you to the Christian Brotherhood!"
"In other news, House Republicans have finally accomplished their plan from January 20, 2009 and will shut down the government."
BREAKING: "In a surprise, "US Government" is the first cancellation of the new Fall season, reports TV Guide."
"This government shutdown is brought to you by the GOP, a domestic terrorist organization that drove millions of Americans to financial ruin or suicide during the Bush years."
"BREAKING: In last minute negotiations House GOP agrees to avoid shutdown as long as Obamacare rollout is only limited to fetuses."
"BREAKING: Due to the government shutdown men will temporarily be forced to grab their own balls at the airport."
"That awkward moment when the GOP shuts down the government keeping people from getting paychecks and services, because it wants to keep people from getting health insurance."
"The Senate has a special "LOL" stamp from the Colonial Congress it uses for bills like the House is sending over tonight."
"If you judge John Boehner by all the laws he's repealed rather than the laws he's passed, he's even worse." "BREAKING: The House also has passed amendments to eliminate puppies, put Chuck Norris on our $2 Bill, and to make diarrhea our national poo."
"The party that says global warming doesn't exist and ACORN does tells us that Obamacare will be a train wreck."
"REMINDER: If you have a conservative boss you have to call in tomorrow and say you've been called to serve on a death panel."
"Never ever underestimate Speaker John Boehner's willingness to risk your job to save his."
We as a society have entered the ignorant zone - when we can conscientiously say that "we don't want to have your cheaper healthcare" - when this becomes your mantra as a political platform - its maybe time for you to consider giving up using and wasting oxygen.
