My how two days can make a difference! I hope his constituents keep the heat turned up!

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Boss Womack is righteously hanging onto his center stage appearance with Boehner and Canto. In fact, today on his FB page, he's celebrating Cantor's ridiculous exclamation.

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"Responsible" and "Tea Party caucus" don't go together. The Tea Pot heads have shown that their philosophy is "my way or the highway" and they put money ahead of the viability of the country. Where were they when Ray-Gun, Bush 1, and Bush 2 ran the national debt up to $10+ trillion while Bush 2 also had his anti-regulatory stance explode into a recession/ depression, thus leaving few of the usual options for a speedy recovery.

BTW, all three voted for that omnibus budget agreement which will require more "borrowed money". Where were his "standards" then??????

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I just sit back and soak in all the contradictions of the Republican party and it's members.

Corporations are people and shouldn't be regulated but if Target has checkers say happy holidays it is proof of anti Jesus war.

Jesus says comfort the sick, clothe the naked, visit the prisoners but Republicans say cut any spending except guns and bombs to galavant off and kill some of God's other children.

Two female sailors kiss upon being reunitied but somehow heteros are divorcing more than they are not and it is those two sailor's fault.

So Womack being for something back before he was against it seems to make perfect sense to this group.

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Boss Womack is changing his tune this afternoon:

Congressman Steve Womack
Let me be CLEAR, I fully support an extension of the payroll tax cut. What I have trouble supporting is a short term fix which has been labeled by experts as "unworkable."
FB 3 hrs ago

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Curious that libs are supporting a raid on the Social Security Trust fund. When the fund goes broke sooner we can thank President Obama for suggesting this idiotic tax cut. If you want a safety net, you've got to help pay for it.

Given that higher taxes on millionaires is popular with a majority of the American people, where is the liberal version of "Grover Northquest" to pressure congress critters to pledge to raise taxes on millionaires? I know that it's tough for these congresspersons to raise taxes that affect themselves, but where is the leadership?

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CNN is reporting a House Rethuglican conference call at 5:00 pm to get concuirrence with the Senate bill to be followed by a pro forma vote tomorrow by probably 3 House members who live near-by. While I wouldn't want to see anyone have their take-home pay but by $20/wk on the low pay levels in this state, it was enjoyable to watch the Tea Party turn slowly on the spit.

I am sure that they will have 500 demands when they get back. If they want cuts take them from Defense, since it is up 62% since 2002. Buy a three less new-fangled fighters and save a billion dollars. A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you are talking about real money.

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TALES OF WAR AND OTHER HORRORS, CIVIL WAR STORIES of Ambrose Bierce


Some of you may know Kirby Sanders. He's a former reporter for The Morning News, later with the Dallas Morning News. In the recent past he was doing a major research project for the UA Library. He played around in politics a time or two.

Kirby has recorded "Tales of War and Other Stories" by Ambrose Bierce.
You can download or listen to the podcasts beginning with Episode One at the link:

http://podcast39540.podomatic.com/player/w…

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Viper

Any shortfall in the Trustfund will be replenished by the General Fund so this tax cut will be handled just like the Bush tax cuts which were not "paid for".

I guess tax cuts for the goose are tax cuts for the gander.

We are just doing it the Republican way!

You should be very happy.

Wealthy people are not Job Creators, people with money walking in the door of any business are the only true Job Creators.

Just ask any business owner if they base hiring on taxes going down or on business going up.

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I'd say Griffin and Crawford are the proverbial blind hogs.

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That's why our Rethuglican Tea Pot Heads think they have two sides to their mouths!

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In my study of the year 1860, I've had to jump up to 1872 and I'm discovering eye-opening events that have been totally forgotten under the sands of time...well, almost forgotten. It appears to me that Karl Rove & Co. has visited 1872 also and what we're seeing today from the Republicans is making a whole lot more sense.

Did you know that the 1872 Presidential election was between 2 Republicans? It was President US Grant vs Horace Greeley. Thanks to Greeley dying suddenly between election day and the assembly of the Electoral College, his votes were nulled & voided and given to a Democrat no one in Arkansas had ever heard of.

At this time the notorious Gov. Powell Clayton had been elected Senator (with the help of Democrats who thought he'd do far less damage in DC than by remaining in Arkansas), Clayton figured out the trick and refused to take his seat, but he continued sending out his handpicked state troops to murder those who opposed him or were known to be Democrats. Pope County was under Martial Law and the dead bodies of the innocent piled up.

Like George W. Bush, Clayton took over a state with not much debt and proceeded to write blank checks in all directions....to his supporters, leaving office with Arkansas deep in new debt that took generations to pay off.

Let me see here.....The Republicans of 1872 got all their power by winning the Civil War. The Democratic Party was in ruins, most not allowed to even vote in an election until after 1870. The Republicans had a 1000 year political dynasty ahead of them, just as Newt had in 1994. But remember how that turned out? Under Newt the Republicans imploded, Bill Clinton ate their lunch. But I digress.....couldst be that Rove & Company took 9-11-2001 as their chance to grab all the power? After all they did it once, why couldn't they do it again? Why not have the House of Representatives hold all legislation hostage? If they can cripple the nation and the Democratic Party as they did after the Civil War.....well....wouldn't that be great!

I'm telling ya boys....so much of our current times resemble 140 years ago. It is super good that Beebe is in office rather than Powell Clayton Huckabee. Remember that in 2012 & 2014. And it's time to start calling Rich Crawford a Minstrel/radical Republicans...along with our other 5 reps to Congress cause that's what their ilk was called in the 1870s and the shoes fits exactly today.

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DBI, the carpetbagger, Powell Clayton lived in my hometown of Eureka Springs for awhile. If I remember my town history, he was involved in the building of what is now the Crescent Hotel. Back then, it was a college for women.

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DBI, thanks for the reminder. Beebee has been a disappointment to me but on the other hand if Porkabee were here in these times....well...yikes....shudder....

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Rick Crawford is so afraid of criticism that he has blocked me from his FB page. I never used a foul word or called him any names. He just could not handle the criticism. Sad commentary on a so-called "Representative" of the people of his district.

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