Thursday, Dick Durbin's amendment to the Farm Bill passed, miraculously, at : 59-33.
The amendment is meant "to limit the amount of premium subsidy provided by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation on behalf of any person or legal entity with an average adjusted gross income in excess of $750,000,
First, a list of senators who voted against limiting these giveaways to wealthy farmers, wealthy fake-farmers and big Agribusiness. Most of the names on this list are pushing the imbecilic European Austerity agenda sponsored by Paul Ryan, who want to protect government subsidies for the richat all costs.
• John Barrasso (R-WY)
• Max Baucus (D-MT)
• Roy Blunt (R-MO)
• John Boozman (R-AR)
• Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
• Thad Cochran (R-MS)
• Mo Cowan (D-MA)
• Mike Crapo (R-ID)
• Joe Donnelly (D-IN)
• Mike Enzi (R-WY)
• Nan Fischer (R-NE)
• Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Kay Hagan (D-NC)
• Tim Harkin (D-IA)
• Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)
• Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
• John Hoeven (R-ND)
• Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
• Mike Johanns (R-NE)
• Tim Kaine (D-VA)
• Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
• Pat Leahy (D-VT)
• Miss McConnell (R-KY)
• Jerry Moran (R-KS)
• Mark Pryor (D-AR)
• Jim Risch (R-ID)
• Pat Roberts (R-KS)
• Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
• Dick Shelby (R-AL)
• Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
• John Thune (R-SD)
• Mark Warner (D-VA)
• Roger Wicker (R-MS)
So what does all this have to do with an obscure Tennessee backbencher in the House?
Stephen Lee Fincher, one of the most sanctimonious right-wing Republican hypocrites in Congress, lives in Frog Jump. Although he likes telling people he's a gospel singer, Fincher is the managing partner in Fincher Farms, a large Agri-business concern that grows cotton, corn, soybeans, and wheat on over 2,500 acres in western Tennessee. The company has received $8.9 million in farm subsidies over the past decade, mostly from the cotton program, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. Fincher received a $13,650 grant to help buy grain hauling and storage equipment from the state Department of Agriculture in 2009 as part of the Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement Program.
Yes, teabagger Stephen Fincher is a welfare queen.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
What Makes A Democrat Turn Bad When He Gets To Congress?
Q: Why does Jim Matheson vote with the Republicans all the time?
A: He's a careerist and a political coward and, after all, Romney beat Obama in his district 68-30%
Q: Why does Mike McIntyre vote with the Democrats on crucial roll calls about as much as Walter Jones, a conservative Republican in his state?
A: McIntyre's district went 59-40% for Romney.
Q: People say John Barrow used to be progressive when he was a councilman in Athens. Why did he turn into one of the most reactionary Democrats in Congress?
A: Barrow doesn't stand for anything and never had any backbone-- and his district went 55-44% for Romney
Q: How did Ann Kirkpatrick wind up with the most Republican voting record of any Democratic freshman this year?
A: She's kind of like Barrow-- and Romney beat Obama 50-48% in her district... which isn't that daunting, so it must mostly be about cowardice and, since she was defeated in 2010 for doing the same thing, weakness and fear..
Q: I thought Patrick Murphy ran as a progressive; why is he behaving like a conservative Republican since she got to Congress?
A: Aside from always having been a Republican for his whole life, he's nervous because his district went for Romney 52-48%.
Q: Why is San Francisco Bay Area freshman Eric Swalwell so conservative since getting into Congress? Does he have one of those red districts too?
A: This one is tough to figure out. Either Swalwell is a Republican calling himself a Democrat for political expediency or he just hates working families and wants to wreck their lives. Obama didn't just win his district in a landslide, he won in a massive 68-30% landslide.
Swalwell, one of the most disliked Democratic freshman and one of the most disliked California incumbents in the state delegation, will have a primary to worry about next year. Not only is he way too conservative for his district, many party activists, who are much more likely to vote in a midterm than a run of the mill Democrat, haven't forgotten he primaried-- and in the nastiest way imaginable-- the district's beloved former congressman, Pete Stark.
Meanwhile, Swalwell has already sucked up contributions from every crooked Beltway lobbyist and corporate PAC in existence. His FEC report reads just like a garden variety Republican FEC report.
Monday, May 13, 2013
I am really beginning to loathe these people!
Because
of the innate nature of the Republican Party and what it has come to
represent-- basically the longtime conservative quest to preserve the status quo of preserving THEIR propert and wealth; or the reactionary quest to push for a status quo ante--
it surprises no one when you see multimillionaires like Darrell Issa
(R-CA), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Fred Upton (R-MI) feel that they are "entitled" to
committee chairs.
Of the multimillionaires who are 50 richest Members of Congress 32 are very conservative Republicans.
No doubt you've read that the DCCC also recruits multimillionaires to run as Democrats. That is how the Blue Dogs were created...
Of course, not every single multimillionaire is a selfish prig out to serve himself an even bigger slice of the pie, but all things being equal, you can probably count on most of them to not relate to the problems faced by ordinary working American families.
It's sad when that doesn't only apply to Republicans but to Democrats as well. Last year Steve Israel helped crush Progressive, working and middle class aspirants who wanted to run for Congress while clearing a path for more fucking ego-driven millionaires. And once they become DCCC-preferred candidates, Israel squeezes them to become politically-unhealthy self-funders.
These were some of his top recruits last cycle and how much they spent from their personal fortunes to purchase their congressional seats:
What a coincidence!
NOT.
Then there's Patrick Fucking Murphy, the spoiled rich kid and lifetime Republican who switched parties so he could be in Congress? He's a Conserva-Dem too, of course, but he only self-funded to the tune of $66,743.
But don't worry, his rich Republican daddy started his own superPAC, American Sunrise, to funnel much more substantial sums into Patrick's campaign. And now that he's in Congress, he's been voting with the Republicans on financial and economic issues and working with right-wing crackpots to push the regressive Republican agenda of low wages, fewer worker protections and lower taxes for millionaires and corporations.... At the expense of jobs, upward mobility, buying power and the overall American Economy.
Write Steve Israel today and tell him to stop supporting Conservatives pretending to be Democrats, and help elect Democrats that believe the American People are more than just "Human Resources".... Or vote his DINO ass out of Congress!
Of the multimillionaires who are 50 richest Members of Congress 32 are very conservative Republicans.
No doubt you've read that the DCCC also recruits multimillionaires to run as Democrats. That is how the Blue Dogs were created...
Of course, not every single multimillionaire is a selfish prig out to serve himself an even bigger slice of the pie, but all things being equal, you can probably count on most of them to not relate to the problems faced by ordinary working American families.
It's sad when that doesn't only apply to Republicans but to Democrats as well. Last year Steve Israel helped crush Progressive, working and middle class aspirants who wanted to run for Congress while clearing a path for more fucking ego-driven millionaires. And once they become DCCC-preferred candidates, Israel squeezes them to become politically-unhealthy self-funders.
These were some of his top recruits last cycle and how much they spent from their personal fortunes to purchase their congressional seats:
• Suzan DelBene (New Dem-WA)- $2,796,879 (63%) after spending $2,284,034 (57%) in 2010Each one rushed to join the super-corrupt, Big Business-oriented Conserva-Dems.
• Scott Peters (New Dem-CA)- $2,757,452 (63%)
• John Delaney (New Dem-MD)- $2,370,556 (54%)
• Elizabeth Esty (New Dem-CT)- $545,195 (17%)
• Bill Foster (New Dem-IL)- $500,000 (14%) after spending $545,000 in 2010 and $1,998,223 (41%) in 2008
• Denny Heck (New Dem-WA)- $99,000 (5%) after spending $350,000 (18%) in 2010
What a coincidence!
NOT.
Then there's Patrick Fucking Murphy, the spoiled rich kid and lifetime Republican who switched parties so he could be in Congress? He's a Conserva-Dem too, of course, but he only self-funded to the tune of $66,743.
But don't worry, his rich Republican daddy started his own superPAC, American Sunrise, to funnel much more substantial sums into Patrick's campaign. And now that he's in Congress, he's been voting with the Republicans on financial and economic issues and working with right-wing crackpots to push the regressive Republican agenda of low wages, fewer worker protections and lower taxes for millionaires and corporations.... At the expense of jobs, upward mobility, buying power and the overall American Economy.
Write Steve Israel today and tell him to stop supporting Conservatives pretending to be Democrats, and help elect Democrats that believe the American People are more than just "Human Resources".... Or vote his DINO ass out of Congress!
Fake Democrats Want to Fuck You Over for Oil Money
On February 16, 2012, House Republicans passed Greg Lamborn's H.R. 3408 to push forward the Keystone XL Pipeline Project and open up vast stretches of federally-owned territory to corporate oil and gas companies. It passed 237-187, with 21 Republicans who ran as Democrats joining the rest of the Republicans to pass it.
The GOP made their point and then never bothered sending it to the Senate. These are the Democrats who backed it, show them the door in 2014, Write Steve Israel and ask him to have the DNC support actual Democrats!
• Jason Altmire (Blue Dog/New Dem-PA)- defeated in primary
• John Barrow (Blue Dog/New Dem-GA)- still hanging on
• Sanford Bishop (Blue Dog-GA)
• Dan Boren (Blue Dog-OK)- forced to retire
• Leonard Boswell (Blue Dog-IA)- defeated
• Jim Cooper (Blue Dog/New Dem-TN)
• Jim Costa (Blue Dog-CA)
• Mark Crtiz (PA)- defeated
• Henry Cuellar (Blue Dog-TX)
• Joe Donnelly (Blue Dog-IN)- saved from political extinction by Richard Mourdock
• Al Green (TX)
• Gene Green (TX)
• Rubén Hinojosa (TX)
• Kathy Hochul (New Dem-NY)- defeated
• Larry Kissel (Blue Dog-NC)- defeated
• Jim Matheson (Blue Dog-UT) came within 768 votes of defeat
• Mike McIntyre (Blue Dog/New Dem-NC)- came within 654 votes of defeat
• Bill Owens (New Dem-NY)- came within 4,985 votes of defeat
• Collin Peterson (Blue Dog-MN)
• Cedric Richmond (New Dem-LA)
• Mike Ross (Blue Dog-AR)- forced to retire
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
More proof the GOP HATES workers
Remember
when the GOP used to name bills that were meant to pollute the air, the
Clean Skies Act, in hopes that their low info base would vote as they were told?
Today Eric "Weasel dick" Cantor is introducing his Working Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1406), through Alabama puppet representative Martha Roby.
It is meant to deny workers overtime pay. That is pretty much it.
There are 168 cosponsors, not one of whom is a Democrat. In fact most of them are from ultra right wing Confederate districts that have been safely gerrymandered and where anti-union and anti-worker sentiment is part and parcel of the political culture.
Most... but not all.
Among the cosponsors of this bill who could suffer from their anti-worker attitude in 2014 are John Kline (R-MN), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Dave Camp (R-MI), Joe Heck (R-NV), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Buck McKeon (R-CA), Tom Reed (R-NY), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Erik Paulsen (R-MN), Ed Royce (R-CA), Steve Daines (R-MT), Mike Rogers (R-MI), Fred Upton (R-MI), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Chris Collins (R-NY), Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Tom Lathan (R-IA), David Reichert (R-WA), Reid Ribble (R-WI), David Valadao (R-CA), and Paul Ryan (R-WI).
Of course South Carolina elected a proven liar, cheat, public monies stealing ass hat solely based on the "R" after his name. So there is no guarantee that intellect holds any sway in these districts at all.
The progressive Democrat running for the seat Paul Ryan is now occupying, Rob Zerban, wasn't happy to hear his congressman is cosponsoring this anti-worker bill. But he wasn't surprised either. "If you are looking for the precise year Republicans are trying to roll back the clock, it's 1886. That's the year 7 people gave up their lives demanding a right to an eight hour workday and overtime compensation right here in Milwaukee at the Bay View Massacre. We just had a memorial this past weekend on the 127th anniversary of the event. Stripping employees of their hard-fought right to overtime pay is outright robbery, and that's exactly what this bill does. "
But the GOP has been VERY busy passing legislation effectively rolling back worker's rights. women's rights, and even voting rights. Seems the conservative agenda is a return to the Antebellum mindset, where only wealthy white folk have any rights at all.
They do not seem to understand, that all their gun toting, low info, extremely reactionary base are firmly in this demographic... I wonder what Republicans will do when THEY become the bad guys in the eyes of the fringe groups?
I loathe these buffoons, and the voters that keep electing these imbeciles! Elected officials that have no idea how government works, nor any inclination to learn....
Keith Ellison (D-MN) was very succinct: "99% of Americans have seen their income decline during economic recovery. Yet Republican are pushing a bill that ends overtime pay."
So was Tony Cárdenas (D-CA): "Tomorrow, we vote on letting companies stop paying overtime. Paying people less for working more? Is that what our country should be about?"
Or, as Donna Edwards (D-MD) put it yesterday morning, "The only flexibility in the GOP bill is the flexibility for workers to be abused by their employers."
George Miller tweeted this graphic to help make clear what the Republicans are up to:
Needless to say, the Republicans hated the idea of modernizing the American workplace in Alan Grayson's amendment, the Paid Vacation Act of 2013 and wouldn't even allow a vote. It's worth reading carefully, though, because it highlights the difference between a forward-looking progressive mindset compared to what the GOP is trying to do to further diminish ordinary working families and drag the country back in time'
Do the GOP actually believe we can go back to a slave based economy? Because the certainly want the American worker to be on par with sweatshop workers in Indonesia, working for $.45 an hour... You know to be "Competetive"
UPDATE: GOP Law To Abolish Overtime Pay Passes
It'll never get taken up in the Senate, of course, but it passed 223-204, 8 Republicans voting with the Democrats and, shamefully, 3 conservative Republicans who got elected as Democrats, crossed the aisle in the other direction: Henry Cuellar (Blue Dog-TX), Jim Matheson (Blue Dog-UT), Collin Peterson (Blue Dog-MN).
Send these dick holes to the unemployment office in 2014! THEY DO NOT REPRESENT AMERICAN WORKERS!!!
Today Eric "Weasel dick" Cantor is introducing his Working Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1406), through Alabama puppet representative Martha Roby.
It is meant to deny workers overtime pay. That is pretty much it.
There are 168 cosponsors, not one of whom is a Democrat. In fact most of them are from ultra right wing Confederate districts that have been safely gerrymandered and where anti-union and anti-worker sentiment is part and parcel of the political culture.
Most... but not all.
Among the cosponsors of this bill who could suffer from their anti-worker attitude in 2014 are John Kline (R-MN), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Dave Camp (R-MI), Joe Heck (R-NV), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Buck McKeon (R-CA), Tom Reed (R-NY), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Erik Paulsen (R-MN), Ed Royce (R-CA), Steve Daines (R-MT), Mike Rogers (R-MI), Fred Upton (R-MI), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Chris Collins (R-NY), Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Tom Lathan (R-IA), David Reichert (R-WA), Reid Ribble (R-WI), David Valadao (R-CA), and Paul Ryan (R-WI).
Of course South Carolina elected a proven liar, cheat, public monies stealing ass hat solely based on the "R" after his name. So there is no guarantee that intellect holds any sway in these districts at all.
The progressive Democrat running for the seat Paul Ryan is now occupying, Rob Zerban, wasn't happy to hear his congressman is cosponsoring this anti-worker bill. But he wasn't surprised either. "If you are looking for the precise year Republicans are trying to roll back the clock, it's 1886. That's the year 7 people gave up their lives demanding a right to an eight hour workday and overtime compensation right here in Milwaukee at the Bay View Massacre. We just had a memorial this past weekend on the 127th anniversary of the event. Stripping employees of their hard-fought right to overtime pay is outright robbery, and that's exactly what this bill does. "
But the GOP has been VERY busy passing legislation effectively rolling back worker's rights. women's rights, and even voting rights. Seems the conservative agenda is a return to the Antebellum mindset, where only wealthy white folk have any rights at all.
They do not seem to understand, that all their gun toting, low info, extremely reactionary base are firmly in this demographic... I wonder what Republicans will do when THEY become the bad guys in the eyes of the fringe groups?
I loathe these buffoons, and the voters that keep electing these imbeciles! Elected officials that have no idea how government works, nor any inclination to learn....
Keith Ellison (D-MN) was very succinct: "99% of Americans have seen their income decline during economic recovery. Yet Republican are pushing a bill that ends overtime pay."
So was Tony Cárdenas (D-CA): "Tomorrow, we vote on letting companies stop paying overtime. Paying people less for working more? Is that what our country should be about?"
Or, as Donna Edwards (D-MD) put it yesterday morning, "The only flexibility in the GOP bill is the flexibility for workers to be abused by their employers."
George Miller tweeted this graphic to help make clear what the Republicans are up to:
Needless to say, the Republicans hated the idea of modernizing the American workplace in Alan Grayson's amendment, the Paid Vacation Act of 2013 and wouldn't even allow a vote. It's worth reading carefully, though, because it highlights the difference between a forward-looking progressive mindset compared to what the GOP is trying to do to further diminish ordinary working families and drag the country back in time'
Do the GOP actually believe we can go back to a slave based economy? Because the certainly want the American worker to be on par with sweatshop workers in Indonesia, working for $.45 an hour... You know to be "Competetive"
UPDATE: GOP Law To Abolish Overtime Pay Passes
It'll never get taken up in the Senate, of course, but it passed 223-204, 8 Republicans voting with the Democrats and, shamefully, 3 conservative Republicans who got elected as Democrats, crossed the aisle in the other direction: Henry Cuellar (Blue Dog-TX), Jim Matheson (Blue Dog-UT), Collin Peterson (Blue Dog-MN).
Send these dick holes to the unemployment office in 2014! THEY DO NOT REPRESENT AMERICAN WORKERS!!!
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