Not with my money

Everybody knows that one of republicans (and not just their leaders, but their faithful voters as well) favorite "causes" is getting rid of all those crackheads who are getting welfare benefits.

A funny thing happened on the way to peeing in a cup:

• Before their drug testing of welfare recipients was stopped by the courts (that pesky 4th Amendment!), the state of Florida tested 51,000 people, and a whopping twenty-one tested positive.  Not 21,000.  Not 2100.  Twenty-fucking-one.  And the cost to Florida taxpayers, even after the twenty-fucking-one people's benefits were taken away?  They're $46,000 in the hole.
• The state of Arizona tested 87,000 of its welfare recipients, and one--that's right, the loneliest number--tested positive.  No figures on the cost to taxpayers but you can pretty much assume that this one is a money losing proposition as well.

After the financial boondoggles of the Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Medicare Part B, and so many, many others, there is no way republicans should be let anywhere near our money.  They'll just waste it...like some crackhead.

Peace,
emaycee

Thanks republicans!

Thanks to the Antoinettes, in 2010, a year in which Democrats peformed horridly nationwide electorally, we managed to hold on to control of the Senate.

In 2012, a year in which we had to defend twice the seats republicans did, again thanks to the Antoinettes, we still managed to keep control of the Senate.

I keep thinking--especially with the 2014 Senate campaign showing a long row to hoe once again for the Democrats to keep control--that eventually the republicans will wise up and our winning streak will come to a close.

Not so fast bucko....

Seems one Steve King--whackjob extraordinaire--though as yet undeclared, has climbed to the forefront for the republican nomination for the open seat in Iowa in 2014, even though he is already getting his clocked cleaned by the likely Democratic nominee, Bruce Braley.  Rep. Tom Latham yesterday anounced he would not seek the seat, which is bad news for republicans since he actually had a chance to win a seat that could be crucial to their chances of regaining control of the Senate.

It's of little surprise that the republicans are horrible at governing--they can't even run their own fucking party.

And we should be thankful for that every day.

Peace,
emaycee

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen

From the Nobody Gives A Shit But Me Files:

After a month of February in which it snowed nearly every day, when we saw the sun shine maybe twice the entire fucking month, two five plus inch snowfalls in the last week, and a weather forecast that shows the highs this weekend--the first fucking weekend end in March for fuck's sake--in the twenties with lows in the teens...the next fucker who tells me, "You know, this winter really hasn't been that bad," I'm going to puke on his or her head just to see if my stomach acid can melt his or her brain because the world would be a much more hospitable place without someone that clueless.

In other news, I've completely fucking had it with winter for this year.

Peace,
emaycee

Good news for the good guys, Part II

You know what really warms my heart?  Good Liberal Democrats kicking the shit out of bad conservadems.  Kind of like Robin Kelly--she of the "F" rating from the NRA and what a cross to bear that was--defeating Debbie Halvorson and her "A" rating by, give or take a point or two, 52-25, in yesterday's special primary in IL-02.

Nothing like giving a big fuck you to the NRA to put a smile on my face, nosiree.

Peace,
emaycee

Good news for the good guys, Part I

Isn't it nice when a potential congressperson you support, say, like, oh, Elizabeth Warren, lives up to everything you thought she might be?

Seriously, her questions toFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke yesterday about why American taxpayers are subsidizing too big to fail banks and yet they aren't paying us back--and Bernanke's response that yes, it is quite fucked up--was absolutely priceless.  Hell, I got a hundred percent return on my donation to her campaign just yesterday alone.

Sen. Warren is well on her way to being a Liberal Goddess.

Peace,
emaycee

Not missin' Mississippi

Seems that bastion of human compassion, the state of Mississippi, is trying to pass a bill that prevents its cities from setting their own minimum wage (the state itself has no minimum wage law and thus only follows the federal standard) because it isn't conducive to business.

Fucking really?  I mean fuck people having enough money to buy food, fuck them having enough to pay rent,  fuck them being able to afford health care, fuck them being able to send their kids to school in decent clothing...it's all about making sure that businesses with overpaid assholes running them are even more profitable at the expense of the working people who actually make these pathetic companies run.

Give me a fucking break.

Can someone please explain to me why I should give a shit if a shithole that's a drain on the American taxpayers like Mississippi secedes from the country?  Because at the moment, I'm having a hard time caring.

Peace,
emaycee

Be careful what you wish

Digby had a recent post in which she hoped that Hillary Clinton wouldn't run for President in 2016, because a) Digby would like the chance to vote for a Progressive female in the primaries, and b) because of the sexist nastiness sure to arise from the republican ranks over another Clinton heading for the White House.

While I share her sentiment for the former (it'd be nice to vote for a real Progessive, period, male or female), the latter seems a bit silly.  I'm sure that they could call her an atheist, a lesbian, and compare her to Eva Braun, but after the republican shenanigans over the first black President, it's not going to be any worse for the first female President.  The republican vitriol toward her sex might be equal in its fury, but, hey, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.  Not to mention that after all Hillary Clinton has been through (Lewinsky scandal, impeachment of her husband, republican spaceman conspiracy theories virtually daily), it's pretty obvious her shoulders can handle it.

The real question over Hillary Clinton's running for President should be whether or not she gives us the best chance to win.  2016 is a long way away, and other candidates might rise to the fore, but those pooh-poohing a Hillary bid need to take a serious looks at what happened in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio (three solid blue states and two swing states) where republican majorities in their respective statehouses plus a republican in the governorship has led to the passage of numerous anti-worker, anti-labor, anti-union, and anti-women measures despite a majority of those state's constituents being against them.  The odds of us winning back the U.S. House before 2020 (if then) are infintesimal, and we stand a chance (again) of losing the Senate in 2014.  Anyone want to imagine an America where Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House (other than some numb nut Antoinette)?  It's truly shudder inducing.

We're still a few years away from the supermajority status current demographic trends are showing, but if republicans can wreak the havoc they have in the individual states in two years, one can only guess how much harm they can do to women's rights and working class Americans in four.

Hillary Clinton probably wouldn't be my first choice either, but if she gives us the best chance to win in 2016, I'll happily pull the lever for her while biding my time for the Presidential election when a true Liberal can win.

Peace,
emaycee