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Ever heard of "political jujitsu"?
Posted by radical centrist]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:59:31 -0600 Arkansas Times
Us tree-hugging liberal Democrat types look at a Elsie the Borden cow and think YAY....milk for the babies! Republicans look at Elsie and think STEAKS FOR ME! Wanting to eat the cow isn't a horrible thing, I personally love a good steak, but when you eat the cow you have nothing left for the future.

So radical centrist, because of different brain wiring doesn't understand why we call the leaders of his political party bad names. Republicans can watch Fox News all day and not see anything wrong going on. A lot of them got there's and are afraid if Mitt Romney is forced to pay his fair share of taxes or burger flippers start making enough pay to sustain life, their world will crash down around them. Those who are doing fine never see the need for progress.

So for the last 100 years even some poor people who fantasize they'll be rich someday have been voting in Republican foot-dragging obstructionists who believe that those who govern best are those who don't govern at all. They can't help themselves because their pea-brains are wired wrong.

I was reading last night that Andrew Jackson had to thump South Carolina (the same state who gave us the Civil War) way back in 1832 when those peckerheads decided they didn't have to listen to the Federal Government and threatened to secede. Jackson sent a navel flotilla to their coast and called up thousands of soldiers and put them at the ready to invade the state, and more or less said MAKE MY DAY.

Now here we are 181 years later with South Carolina represented in Congress by Lindsey "Closeted Gay Men Are Mean" Graham, (R) and Joe "You Lie" Wilson (R) and until just the other day Jim "Batshit Crazy" DeMint, (R). Obama better drag the Dreadnoughts out of mothballs and zap those 32,000 troops back from Afghanistan on the double for service off the coast of South Carolina AND up the Mississippi to Arkansas.

Politely I say, just for radcen....Oh dear, everything has indicated for a long time now that there's not a sane or decent Republican in Congress or in our 24 red American states, including Arkansas my Arkansas. Can anyone name one humane bill proposed by a Republican in Congress in the last 12 years? Can anyone name a decent Republican from Arkansas? Or in Arkansas? Because of the lateness of the hour I won't bother you with the long long list of all the horrible things John Boozman has supported and voted for. He's our personal Senator Jim Inhofe, don't you know.

I don't know what we can do when all current Republicans are Helen Keller minus Annie Sullivan.....when they can't see how ridiculous they sound and look, what damage they're doing to our country......so totally out of whack as to offer up John McCain, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and actually think even dumb American voters are stupid enough to vote for such idiots.

And it would appear their heroes of the future will be Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal and dozens of minor Tim Griffin clones.......not even double the Citizens United money will get such bozos elected.

So actually.....I'm feeling pretty good about our future, our national future that is....Arkansas will go down the tubes for the next 2 to 4 years because of the Shiite-Tea Baggers elected last November who are already showing us the misery they have in mind to visit on the good people of Arkansas......oh lordy......48th and falling fast......
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:26:57 -0600 Arkansas Times Section 1.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.


Anytime that there is an exception, then nothing has been totally abolished.
Posted by klowe40]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:10:17 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:05:34 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/17/j…

Sometimes people do the right thing.
Posted by Vanessa]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:00:39 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/…
Posted by radical centrist]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:27:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Razorblade]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:58:26 -0600 Arkansas Times
I'm sure it's thrilling reading, but I've an early call and lines to study.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/st…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:35:37 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.kait8.com/story/21229615/countr…
Posted by radical centrist]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:11:22 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:09:43 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:49:55 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by edumas]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:48:27 -0600 Arkansas Times
It's not about influencing the legislative process.

It's about pissing off the other tribe so much they would kill you if they get the chance. If leaving your tribe meant your death, it is a strong signal that you will never betray your tribe.

At least that's how it would be if we were hunter-gatherers.
Posted by Gylippus]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:42:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
This hypothesis fails on a couple of counts, the chief one being the failure to acknowledge that the antagonists have no shame. A second one is that faith or belief is immune from facts or comparative analysis. Thirdly, as their influence wanes reactionaries tend harden their position & become more destructive. Only time will tell if American values are sufficient to the test.


“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.”
Goethe
Posted by Zatharus]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:59:07 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:44:15 -0600 Arkansas Times
Isn't it time to launder your sheets, crease your hood, and polish your jackboots? You're sounding a bit disheveled.
Posted by Jabberwocky]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:42:19 -0600 Arkansas Times >attempts to influence the legislative processes by comparing the Republicans to the Ku Klux Klan, George Wallace, the Taliban, etc., have been utterly ineffective.

Huckabee very publically called many of the N Ark Repubs "Shiites."

Rad Cen wants us to play nice. How sweet of him. Meanwhile Newt Gringrich and Frank Luntz have devised several key words Repubs are to always use when referring to Demos and libs. I saw those terms tossed out when Hse Speaker Davy Carter was in Springdale last month meeting with the Shiites. The woman from Fayetteville, leading the outrage because Carter had appointed Demos to committees, told Carter he had "spit in our faces" and said, “We have morals and convictions and these guys do not.” then referred to all Demos as "immoral and corrupt." That was front page of the regional newspaper.

So much for your 'fair n' balanced' bullshit, rc. When close to 200,000 Arkies don't have health insurance, some rural hospital fold and many Repubs are gleeful about it we'll see who celebrates.

It's also time to call the new fee for taking the GED the "Republican fee."

It's past time to call Medicare "LBJcare."
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:39:09 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Bill]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:22:12 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:11:55 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by GrizLee Blackbear]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:56:14 -0600 Arkansas Times
But if it feels good, carry on.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:51:39 -0600 Arkansas Times
"“Here’s my belief: let’s take Obamacare and put it on the table,” he said. “If you want to look at ways to find $1.2 trillion in savings over the next decade, let’s look at Obamacare. Let’s don’t destroy the military and just cut blindly across the board.”

Math---how does it work?

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/02/17/se…

Graham, McCain, and Cruz are a triumvirate of evil in how they are going after Hagel as well.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:44:44 -0600 Arkansas Times
The Repugs have become the "monkey wrench" party. Rather than "making government work like a business," they are intent on making government services so inefficient that they can justify selling it off piece by piece to their corporate owners.

In an article from Blog for our Future, "The Postal Service Outrage" lists some of the ways the Postal Service has been "monkey-wrenched." The only reason it has so far sustained the onslaught of the Repug sabotage is that it is mandated by the US Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 7).
http://tinyurl.com/bcp95wt
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excerpt:
"***The Postal Service is the second largest employer in the United States after Walmart. But unlike Walmart, which gets away with paying so little that employees qualify for government assistance, the Postal Services is unionized, pays reasonable wages and benefits and receives no government subsidies. (Good for them!)
***Republicans have been pushing schemes to privatize the Postal Service since at least 1996. In 2006 Republicans in the Congress pushed through a requirement that the Postal Service pre-fund 75 years of retiree costs. The Postal Service has to pay now for employees who are not even born yet. No other government agency – and certainly no company – has to do this.
***Unlike other government agencies (like the military) since 1970 the Postal Service is required to break even. Once more: the Department of Defense is not required to break even.
***While required to break even the Postal Service has to deliver mail to areas that are unprofitable for private companies to operate in. A letter sent from a small town in Alaska is picked up and transported across the country to a farm in Maine for 46 cents. While the Internet and recession have eaten into some of the Postal Services letter business, magazines, books, newsletters, prescriptions, advertising, DVD services like Netflix and many other services still depend on the Postal Service for delivery. And many people for one reason or another still send letters. In a democracy these people are supposed to count, too.
***But along with requiring the Postal Service to break even, Congress has restricted the Service’s ability to raise rates, enter new lines of business or take other steps to help it raise revenue. In fact, while detractors complain that the Postal Service is antiquated, inefficient and burdened by bureaucracy, the rules blocking the Postal Service from entering new lines of business do so because the Postal Service would have advantages over private companies.For example, Republicans in Congress forced the Postal Service to remove public-use copiers from Post Offices and even blocked the Postal Service from setting up a secure online system that allowed Americans to make monthly bill payments."

"The Postal Service is a public service for We, the People, not a business. The Service is hamstrung by people who pretend it is supposed to compete and then won’t let it. They won’t help with taxpayer dollars and say it has to compete in the marketplace (again: the Department of Defense is not required to break even.) Then they give it rules that no private company could survive. Then when it gets into trouble, say that government doesn’t work, start laying people off, selling off the public assets, and saying it has to be “privatized” (so all the gains will go to a few already-wealthy people instead of to the public)."
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It is not only Congressional Repugs, but it is also the Arkansas Repug Taliban who are planting IEDs in state law and regulations as trained by ALEC and then, aided and abetted by timid Dems from the Guv on down. The terrorists are winning.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:33:39 -0600 Arkansas Times