RANT: Let them play solitaire; better than passing “laws”!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/09/your-tax-dollars-at-work.html

Your Tax Dollars at Work
from John Stossel’s Take
by John Stossel

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The job of a Connecticut state representative must be grueling work, especially as the politicians have spent the state into financial crisis. The state borrowed a billion dollars and raised taxes to balance its budget. An AP photographer captured Democratic Reps. Barbara Lambert and John Hennessy hard at work.

As Republican Rep. Larry Cafero spoke about the budget, Reps. Lambert and Hennessy played solitaire on their computers. Another watched baseball.

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Are you surprised?

The gooferment is a joke.

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POLITICS: Van Jones is the tip of a very big iceberg

Sunday, September 6, 2009

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AHL8O80&show_article=1

Obama ‘green jobs’ adviser quits amid controversy
Sep 6 02:19 AM US/Eastern
By WILL LESTER
Associated Press Writer

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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.

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Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck repeatedly denounced Jones after a group the adviser co-founded, ColorofChange.org, led an advertising boycott against Beck’s show to protest his claim that Obama is a racist.

James Rucker, the organization’s executive director, has said Jones had nothing to do with ColorofChange.org now and didn’t even know about the campaign before it started.

Jones, well-known in the environmental movement, was a civil-rights activist in California before shifting his attention to environmental and energy issues. He is known for laying out a broad vision of a green economy.

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THe AP is playing politics with this report. Beck called him out as a “communist” BEFORE the boycott.

Having followed Glen Beck’s indictment of the “Czars”, this fellow was imho a racist communist.

One down and a slew of Czars to go.

Obama was known to 100% “liberal” before he was elected, why is anyone surprised at the people in his administration?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: What is our gooferment doing?

Sunday, September 6, 2009

http://www.reason.com/news/show/135830.html

George Will is Right
It’s time for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan
David Harsanyi | September 2, 2009

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Or is victory achieved when we finally usher this primitive tribal culture, with its violent warlords and religious extremism, from the eighth century all the way to modernity? If so, we’re on course for a centuries-long enterprise of nation building and baby-sitting, not a war. The war was won in 2002.

If the goal is to establish a stable government to fill the vacuum created by our ousting of the Taliban and al-Qaida, we’ve done quite a job. Most Americans can accept a Marine’s risking life and limb to safeguard our freedoms. But when that Marine is protector of a corrupt and depraved foreign parliament—one that recently legalized marital rape and demands women ask permission from male relatives to leave their homes—it is not a victory worth celebrating.

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Put the girls and boys on the next thing coming home.

Why do we have troops in 170 countries?

We can’t afford that any more than we can afford Obamacare.

Let’s finally end the welfare warfare state.

Switzerland is an excellent model!

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