Local government official in Kansas complains about ‘n@gger-rigging’ on government contracts, clarifies he’s not racist.
Max Baucus has given liberals plenty of reason to question his adventures off the reservation (see his votes for the Bush tax cuts in 2001, for Medicare Part D in 2003, and his drawn out health care reform negotiations in 2009).
His latest involves protracted discussions with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp about reforming the tax code. As a Republican, Camp has made no secret that he wants any reform to be revenue neutral.
So it’s no surprise progressives sense danger. Read More
Some sites have slideshows of cats. Real men have slideshows of Putin and his dogs.
It would appear that President Obama has nicely positioned himself as the candidate of tax hikes and Social Security cuts.
It seems the NRA might be giving the Manchin/Toomey compromise the tacit green light.
Senators Pat Toomey and Joe Manchin introduce their “gun sense” proposals.
Just like that, Chained CPI morphs from a thing President Obama is willing to offer Republicans into a thing Republicans dismiss as a “shocking attack on seniors.”
Follow the above link for video of some amazing, but also entirely predictable, cynicism, then follow me below the fold. Read More
Club for Growth lashes out at Rep. Walden for questioning President Obama’s proposed Social Security cuts.
That hostage drama in Georgia is over …
An armed man who was having financial problems held four firefighters for hours in a suburban Atlanta home, demanding his cable and power be turned back on, before being shot dead when SWAT members stormed the house, authorities said Wednesday. The hostages had cuts and bruises from explosions that officers set off to distract the gunman before moving in, but they will be fine, a fire official said.
Full story here.
I truly don’t know why this video makes me laugh as hysterically as it does. And I’d be kind of chagrined if I learned that anyone was decapitated in any of these incidents. But I’m fairly sure that didn’t happen so watch the video and tell me what you think … Read More