House Republicans Find Billions Of Dollars Under Couch Cushions, Will Spend It On War

[octoberlib]

You know how we do not have any money? And we are drowning in debt? And we should abolish the IRS and the Department of Education and repeal all healthcare and privatize Social Security and “fix Medicaid” by killing it dead so we can drown the U.S. government in a bathtub? And Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake is real concerned that we spend a whopping $135k a year to quarantine cocoa plants so they do not die from disease and infestation and we do not run out of chocolate, and that’s a horrible waste of taxpayer dollars, and that’s why we’re so broke?

Forget all that, we are flush with cash, it turns out. At least for doing war. Lots and lots of war. All the war. Endless war. And then even more war on top of that:

Defying a veto threat from President Obama, the House on Friday passed a $612 billion defense bill in a 269-151 vote.

Yes, that’s today’s GOP for you. (Only eight Republicans voted against the bill; most Democrats voted against it, at the urging of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the party’s leadership, although 41 Democrats just couldn’t help themselves.) This is the same party in which several distinguished members, including some running for president, think it’s at least worth considering whether untrustworthy President Obama might be secretly planning to invade the sovereign nation of Texas with so-called military exercises and then establish martial law, because that’s just the sort of thing the president would do. And this is the same Republican House that passed a “budget” in which, gosh, there’s just no more money for dumb things like food stamps and studying climate change.

Concerns like “Hey, how are we gonna pay for this thing?” and “Hey, is it really a good idea to let the president go around making war without congressional oversight?” are not “serious policy concerns,” you see. Not according to the oh-so-serious Republican Party, which will get right back to the serious policies of policing vaginas and gutting aid for America’s students, poor, and elderly — just as soon as Boehner signs this big fat blank check to go around bombing everyone.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/585710/house-republicans-find-billions-of-dollars-under-couch-cushions-will-spend-it-on-war#DtsRzOLQV3Cuky4A.99

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. America is deeply, badly broken. We cant get away with politicians who are the epitome

of irresponsible and mean for much longer.

The rest of the world might turn on us at some point

[octoberlib]

2. They're just contemptuous of the American public. When will people figure it out?

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R