Bobby Jindal Can Bite Me.

Don't be an asshole, Bobby J.

So, one of the Republican Party's golden children, Bobby Jindal, recently posted a rant about "liberals" and what they "believe." In it, he drives home the point that for him, "The American People" are Republican and that everyone else is an idiot. Well, sir, I'd like to take a moment to respectably ask you to go fuck your own face. Let me respond to a few things.

One, I identify with the Democratic party, but unlike a pro football fan (and a lot of both Democrats and Republicans), I can admit when the party/a particular politician within the party is being a complete asshole. For example: Obama ordering more drone strikes: dick move. Obama expanding  NSA programs: dick move. I can also say that Chris Christie, a Republican, has been a legit political figure, caring more about serving his constituents than his party.

Now, Rachel Maddow was surprised by some of Jindal's blathering, but I'm not. I haven't heard about him in the news for a while, so it was about time for him to say some ridiculous shit to piss off/on liberals to get back to the head of the Republican pack. Here are some of the things he said:

T]he left wants: The government to explode; to pay everyone; to hire everyone; they believe that money grows on trees; the earth is flat; the industrial age, factory-style government is a cool new thing; debts don't have to be repaid; people of faith are ignorant and uneducated; unborn babies don't matter; pornography is fine; traditional marriage is discriminatory; 32 oz. sodas are evil; red meat should be rationed; rich people are evil unless they are from Hollywood or are liberal Democrats; the Israelis are unreasonable; trans-fat must be stopped; kids trapped in failing schools should be patient; wild weather is a new thing; moral standards are passé; government run health care is high quality; the IRS should violate our constitutional rights; reporters should be spied on; Benghazi was handled well; the Second Amendment is outdated; and the First one has some problems too.

Well, let me reply:
The government to explode - No. I actually agree with you that there is too much government and would like to see it implode a bit. I'd like to see the tax code simplified so that the average American can understand it. I'd like to see bureaucracy minimized. I want to see the government to protect our country from direct attacks, not act like playground bullies (with nukes) and go stick our nose into any country with a group of people who say they don't like us. I want to see us focus on allowing our people to be have the opportunity to live the American Dream. I want to see the number of people on Welfare to decrease, which leads to the next point.

to pay everyone - I want people who are employed to earn a respectable wage. When the same people who claim to be unable to pay Wal-Mart employees more than minimum wage, part time jobs are the same people who make up a healthy portion of the top ten richest Americans, I'm going to call bullshit. I've been on welfare and it sucks. You know what sucks more? Working 40 hours a week at a wage that in most urban areas won't allow you to afford a home, let alone insurance, let alone transportation, let alone feed yourself.

to hire everyone - So you expect some people to not have jobs? Am I reading that right? If they are looking for a job, but we have none to offer, should they just be left to die, then? Or should we offer some form of welfare?

they believe that money grows on trees - Well, let me fill you in on something about money: it's not fucking real. It's the idea that this piece of paper (which is made of trees), is worth a certain amount of gold. We base everything off of a perception of worth of a shiny yellow rock. Money is a concept that has always favored those who already have it: governments and banks. That said, I do have a decent grasp of financial concepts, including payables and receivables, and let me tell you something, conservatives are just as bad. We have X amount of money, some Afghan people decide to fuck us over, NOT Afghanistan, just some people from there, and we decide to not only go after them, but loosely associate Iraq's jerkoff dictator with them and send people over there. How much has THAT cost us in dollars that we don't have? I'd tell you, but it keeps adding up really fast. Here's something that you can check out though: http://costofwar.com/

the earth is flat - Are you serious? Apparently Bobby Jindal thinks of "liberals" as dark-age peasants with no education or literacy.

the industrial age, factory-style government is a cool new thing - I'm not even sure what you mean by this? Isn't industry a good thing to you? Don't you want factories to come to Louisiana?

debts don't have to be repaid - Tell that to my auto loan company. Also, see aforementioned cost of war with money we don't have. That's not all on conservatives, but you started it. Again, Obama not having that shit shut down already: dick move. Get your head in the game, Mr. President.

people of faith are ignorant and uneducated - I have no problem with people of faith, and I know some very bright men and women who are Christian, Hindi, Jewish and Muslim (I don't know all of my friends' religions, but I'm sure others are represented), and they have degrees and are wonderfully bright people. But, as I am now assuming you are a man of faith, I might well assume you are ignorant for thinking I am like that.

unborn babies don't matter - Pro-choice is NOT the same thing as pro-death. The fact that you don't know that is staggering. You act like those who have made the choice to have an abortion treat it like a fashion statement, not the life-altering decision that it is. It's amazing to me that an unborn child means everything to you, but the second that they are 18, they can be sent oversees to be blown to hell in a never-ending cycle of violent ferocity. Because they are already alive doesn't change the sanctity of their life. But, if you are going to lecture anyone about making the decision to abort, whether it be due to rape, health concerns or concerns for the quality of life that that infant might have to deal with, you better have a damned good excuse why you aren't rallying against war at the same time you're decrying teen mothers.

pornography is fine - OK, you got me. But you got a good chunk of conservatives, too, buster.

traditional marriage is discriminatory - No, traditional marriage is not discriminatory, ONLY considering traditional marriage is discriminatory. Is it because traditional marriage is "sacred?" Shut the fuck up. My parents are divorced. My best friend's parents are divorced. Hell, one set of my grandparents are divorced. I have an aunt that's been with her partner longer than most of the marriages my friends have had, seems that their relationship is fairly sacred. If you want to "protect" traditional marriage, outlaw divorce. Otherwise, sit down and shut up.

32 oz. sodas are evil - I can only assume you are talking about Bloomberg's ban on the sugary beverages. In that case, you know that Bloomberg jumped from Democrat to Republican to Independent, right? And I don't think they're evil, I think they're DELICIOUS, but I also KNOW that they are terrible for me.

red meat should be rationed - Rationed? Like...during a war? I don't think so. Do I believe in being healthy? Sure. I believe in balance. I had a fantastic rib-eye steak just last night. I don't recall anyone mentioning rationing red meat, but I do think that a "balanced diet" is a good thing. Sorry I want to not be fat any more, Bobby J, I'd appreciate it if you didn't try to peer pressure me into eating more fatty foods than I should. Dick.

rich people are evil unless they are from Hollywood or are liberal Democrats - No, rich people are evil if they try to get richer at some cost to someone else. I'd love to be rich, but I don't want to ruin the environment to do it. I don't want to cost hundred of thousands of people their homes to do it.

the Israelis are unreasonable - I don't know enough about Israel to have a real ideology about it. My friend Laura lived in Israel, though, she seems OK.

trans-fat must be stopped - "Can you believe these liberals? They don't want to eat stuff that's bad for you?!"

kids trapped in failing schools should be patient - Actually, I believe that teachers should be held accountable for teaching AND that they should be provided the resources necessary to teach at-risk kids.


wild weather is a new thing - "Wild weather" is one thing, continual increases over time measurable data is another. Don't talk to me like utilizing science is a bad thing.

moral standards are passé - Moral "standards" change with the times, buster. It used to be immoral to date someone of a different race. Some religious folk think that "showing ankle" is immoral. Hell, do we want to look at scandals in the Republican party to see how some of those in your party view "morals?"

government run health care is high quality - So why don't we work on making it higher quality versus bitching about ObamaCare?

the IRS should violate our constitutional rights - What the hell are you talking about? Do I think the IRS should violate anyone's rights? No. Did some PEOPLE at the IRS be vindictive dumbasses? Yes. Should they be disciplined? Yes. Don't bring your persecution complex around here, sir.

reporters should be spied on - That's fucking rich, coming from a party that created the Patriot Act.

Benghazi was handled well  - Not one liberal wiped their hands and said "Well, that went well." Not one. There were people who lost their lives, don't bring them into your political shitstorm.

the Second Amendment is outdated - Sorta. Something I don't believe is that "guns are bad." What I believe, and I think a lot of conservatives believe this, too, is that we should keep guns out the hands of "bad guys." The only way I can see us doing that in any kind of practical manner is through background checks. Now, was this rule written when people had a gun or two for hunting and/or protection during a time of constant invasion, yes. Rifles, shotguns, and handguns I have no problem with. Should we not allow people to have a tank? Probably. Does a citizen need the same gun attached to the side an Apache helicopter? No. The "I don't want the government to tell me what I can and can't have" is a juvenile cry similar to "My mom is MEAN because she won't let me shoot fireworks in the house." The situations are very similar: that shit's dangerous, bystanders can get hurt and you'll generally make a mess of things.

and the First one has some problems too - What the fuck are you talking about?

The Right To Be A Complete Fucking Asshole

My girlfriend sent me a link to this article: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/25/1920021/arizona-student-deserve-rape/ and obviously, my immediate reaction is "fuck that guy." Not like, you know, RAPE HIM, just fuck that guy.

Here is a young man, who is being educated in a higher education setting in the 21st century, who thinks that a woman who dresses provocatively deserves to have her clothes torn off of her and raped because she is "asking for it." Now, let's think about this:

• This guy thinks that women who don't want to be raped (read: ALL WOMEN) should dress conservatively.
• This guy thinks that men, when seeing a flash of skin, can not stop themselves, nor SHOULD they stop themselves, from raping a woman. 
• Yet, this guy bashes on Islam, which, under Sharia law, covers women from head to toe, much as he would like to do. 
• So, be his logic, should he walk around in shorts and a tank top, would it be his fault if a gay man came and raped him? Wouldn't he be asking for it?

Now, this man is obviously a walking id with no sense of self-restraint and no concern for the feelings of his fellow man, which, if I recall correctly, was kind of a big deal to Jesus Christ, whom this kid advocates.

Some people tried to rip the "You deserve rape" sign from him, which is understandable, but I appreciate our nations' free speech rights. Besides, I appreciate that he has shown his true colors, it's a full disclosure for any woman who was possibly interested in dating him that if she shows up for a date looking good, she's prolly gonna get raped. What a fucking turd. 

Mile High Golf Club

Weapons are a touchy subject, aren't they? I mean, there are so many weapons to think of, aren't there? Nuclear weapons cause all kinds of terrifying thoughts, from the standard nuclear devastation that they are known to cause to radiation leaks that cause deformities and cancer. Then you have guns and all the cries of "Gov'mint's gonna take away our guns!" to "We don't need guns anymore!" Both of you are going to hate me in a little bit, but we'll get there. First, I want to talk about knives. Just little ones.

More specifically, the little ones now allowed on flights by the TSA: mostly the little shitty can't-do-dick-with-it-but-clean-out-your-nails-or-tighten-a-screw knives.

Instruments of DEATH!

Check it: Itty Bitties

So, now you can bring your Swiss Army Knife onto a plane, which is, ready for this: no big deal.

An Opinion piece on CNN.com has an ex-stewardess from United up in arms about the "absurdity," though she does allude to the idea that they may not cause an imminent danger, but that people's fear would shoot through the roof anyways. Calm the fuck down.

"Oh, but TERRORISSSTTTTSSS! BOX CUTTERSSSSS!"

Shut the fuck up. If someone really wants to try to fuck up some shit at 30,000 ft, they will find a way. There are a helluva lot of things allowed on flights that are more damaging than a goddamned pocketknife. Yes, it sounds a bit Bond-y, but do you think that crazed motherfuckers who want to ruin someone's day can't figure out how to do shit-tons of damage with their belt, a corkscrew, their ring-covered fingers or even a fucking metal pen?

Hell, I've been stabbed with a #2 Dixon Ticonderoga, and it's just as good for filling in Scantron bubbles as it is for drawing some blood. Are we going to ban writing utensils on flights? Kiss that in-flight Sudoku game goodbye.

Allowing the TSA to focus on the things that can mess up a whole lot of shit, i.e. bomb components, should be a good thing. While I have SERIOUS doubts about the TSA referring to their ability to use "common sense," I think that worrying about shoddy 2" blades is a waste of energy for all people involved.

It seems that, if you wanted to REALLY be sure that no one was going to start some shit, get everyone to wear a straight jacket and gas the cabin with nitrous. Night night, passengers, we'll wake you up when we land.

OK, while I was annoyed by seeing people bitching about "Oh, noes, I'm sick of these motherfucking knives on these motherfucking planes!," I'm more irritated by recent bitches within the talks of gun control.

Now, let me give you some background on where I sit on gun control/gun-owner rights:

I have never fired a gun. As a general rule, I think that a vast majority of people should be allowed to buy and own guns.

Both sides of this issue have valid points, and both sides are dumb as fuck. Here I will point out some of my concerns with the wild statements and actions that both sides have made.

"Four more years of Obama tryin' take away my guns!"
Calm the fuck down. Obama didn't even bring up gun control in his first four years. Quit being a goddamned lunatic. There has been NO talk about the government coming around with a wheelbarrow singing "Bring out yer guns!" Calm down and breathe.

Nuh-uh, Team Obama, don't go smiling yet.

"People don't need assault rifles and machine guns, only the military should have that!"
Well, while I fully agree that it's ridiculous to own a machine gun, and that I would be wary of anyone who freaks out at the prospect of losing such a bad boy, I don't think the case is as easy as that. Especially when the same Executive branch preaching the banning of assault rifles is giving hundreds of millions of dollars to the Syrian rebel forces, who are a group of citizens using assault rifles to fight an oppressive regime. "Well, THEY can have assault weapons, because fuck that guy." doesn't really work for me.

"The Constitution says I can have guns."
Not one person who has ever said this to me can recite the full amendment, always leaving out that bit on "As part of a well-regulated militia..." Every gun owner I've met brain farts that the words "well-regulated" are part of the fucking amendment. Of course this is open to interpretation (just like every fucking other thing in our legislature), but one would think it would mean SOME kind of training being required to own a gun. Whether it be weekly group training sessions or a classroom setting, there should be some kind of "here's how it works, here's how to use it, don't fuck around" training.

"Hurrah! We're New York, we limited magazine clips to 7 instead of 10 bullets."
Oh, give me a break. Three whopping bullets less per clip? Big fucking whoop. That's done nothing to prevent gun violence. You're a bunch of self-congratulatory assholes who have done absolutely naught to address the underlying causes of gun violence, whether it be mental health screenings or safety training. It's the equivalent of saying "There are a lot of car crashes lately, let's drop the max horsepower allowed in cars from 170 to 150. GO US!" Useless.

So, what are the options, restricting the sales of certain types of guns, background checks, restricting the bullets?

Remember how, and this ties back a bit to the TSA, the TSA kept getting shit for being too slow in screening every traveler at the airport and they created a "frequent flyer" type card? Why don't we do that for guns? Let's say that once every 5-10 years, you go through a background check to see if you are a felon, have been admitted to a mental health clinic or have any history of violence. You also take a 4 hour gun safety class. If you pass, you get a gun license. You can then go buy a gun, fuck, ten guns, on the spot. You're good to go.

Just like a driver's license, you are certified that you have a low probability of fucking it up. If you do manage to fuck it up, you can get points on your license, your license suspended and/or revoked. Any guns that you buy have their serial number tied to your license, so be careful. Don't sell your guns to someone with no license, or that shit comes back to you. Don't loan your guns to others, or that shit comes back to you. While this also doesn't treat the root cause, it seems to appease both sides.

Let me know if you think I'm onto something here or if you think I'm full of shit.

Bueller...Bueller...

In a political climate filled with aged rhetoric and boisterous hyperbole, it's difficult to get any real dialogue started. It seems to be either "You believe in what I believe in, let's just spend an hour agreeing with each other," and if you're not in a verbal circle jerk, it's "You don't believe in what I believe, you're an idiot lefty libtard/backwards conservative racist."

I see it every day on my Facebook friends feed: a friend's mom posts stupid shit like this:

I'm not agreeing, by the way...

Well, North Korea is an isolationist dictatorship who is on the verge of collapse and is the technological equivalent of 1982; where people who speak out against the government are also given hard labor. Afghanistan is a country with a fairly strict religion-based legal system and if you were to dress how you do here (jeans, sweater, nothing racy, mind you), you could easily be imprisoned. Yet, these are the two choices you offer for options on how to deal with illegal immigration?

This is, of course, ignoring the idea that once someone enters (or stays in) the US illegally, they are handed a packet including their new address, some food stamps, an insurance card and a diploma. It's all so fucking ridiculous, but the constant spreading of this kind of inane garbage detracts from starting any kind of real dialogue because it sets up a false idea of what's actually going on and now instead of "So, how can we deal with the issue of people entering the country illegally," we are now greeted with "How do we stop the illegals from taking my money!"

Then there are my lefty friends, so assured that their intelligence is above everyone else, and so easily amused at their own superiority. There's an industry colleague, one I respect a great deal, who is one of the worst offenders in replacing "idiot" with "Republican" any chance he can, posting things like this:

So, in Political News... Republicans admit to the existence of meteors.

In Religious News... Christians believe God is behind those meteors.

In Real Life... People shake their heads.

I don't know of anyone, Republican or otherwise, that has denied the existence of meteors. Christians, well, any religious members who believe in a single deity, believe that God is behind everything, so that's not news, either. The last line stood out to me because of the innuendo that if your are Republican or Christian, you do not live in the real world. Granted, the bravado of most highly-conservative Republican politicians can be astoundingly ridiculous, that does not mean that nearly 50% of the country is not living in the real world.

Now, I am also not religious at all, but I think that ridiculing those who find solace in religion is rude, just as it's rude to utilize a religion to further an agenda or validate some dick move like voting against gay marriage. "Well, Jesus once told Noah that queers ain't allowed to get married because my fifth marriage won't be as sacrosanct." (Looking at you, Rush Limbaugh.)

Allowing gay marriage, I've always thought, should be a Republican attitude, in line with the "smaller government" style the party advocates, though it has been the opposite, with many Republican figures saying that they can't handle the thought of a gay couple getting the same rights as them. So imagine my surprise when I find out that a group of 75 influential Republican political figures sends the Supreme Court a letter saying "You know what, if it helps, we thing gays should get married because it's none of our Goddamned business who gets married." This is significant for several reasons, one: the world didn't explode. Two: it is a letter from Republicans that is solely based on government, separating the church from the state themselves. This was a group of people, including (GASP!) a gay Republican who stood together and said, rightly so, that it's not the government's job to get between two people in love. I am sure that some of them have deep qualms about gay marriage, and wouldn't want one to happen at their church, but that's the freedom of religion for you.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/us/politics/prominent-republicans-sign-brief-in-support-of-gay-marriage.html?pagewanted=all&_r=3&

How no one is talking about this was beyond me, until I started thinking about it. No one wants to admit that the other side can do a damned thing right. Obama makes the final call about offing Osama Bin Laden, the cause of one of the greatest military actions this country's undertaken, and a lot of conservatives say "Well, Obama didn't do it, it was the Navy Seals." Well, of course the Seals carried out the mission, and good for them. But, an innocent kid is killed in a drone strike and it's "GODDAMMIT, OBAMA," as if Obama himself sat there with his XBox headseat and sweet joystick controller, operating the drone himself like he was playing a videogame.

Well, fuck you, this is one of the coolest things I've seen out of the Republican Party, and I'm glad that the people who signed this letter have done so. They've done this right, and good for them.

In Which Common Sense Exits Stage Right.

Is your embryo registered?

One of my biggest pet peeves is hypocrisy, i.e. someone who posts on Facebook about how stupid someone else is, maximizing the spelling/grammar errors or the Catholic Church being a beacon of moral fortitude when they hide child sex abuse cases. Well, here's a bit of hypocrisy from some Arizona Republican Senators: they want to track your embryos. Ladies and gentlemen, think about that for a second: THEY. WANT. TO. TRACK. YOUR. EMBRYOS. That's right, your unborn child. The miracle of life that may be INSIDE you, INSIDE of your wife, INSIDE your girlfriend, INSIDE your sister, INSIDE your mother. You've got to be fucking kidding me. But, here it is:

The proposed legislation, (SB 1376), was written by the Center for Arizona Policy (CAP), which bills itself as “Arizona’s leading pro-life, pro-family organization.” CAP pushes anti-choice legislation (including legislation to confer the full rights of personhood on fertilized eggs), opposes gay marriage, and seeks to promote “religious freedom.”

I don't think that they understand that you CAN NOT promote "religious freedom" when, in denying marriage to a group of people on, let's face it, religious views, you are denying someone's religious freedoms. If you want to be pro-life, great, don't get an abortion. Awesome for you. Don't push that shit on anyone else. How do you have the time to care so much about what someone else wants to do with their fucking lives, especially when they are lived in a way that doesn't fucking concern you?

CAP also opposes the practice of assisted reproductive technology for couples or individuals struggling with infertility, and so their answer is to pry into the lives of those seeking such assistance and making all details of their medical treatment public. Similar to portions of SB 1361, another bill from the 2012 legislative session, this newer bill seeks to capture and make publicly available information on the disposition of every embryo created in the process of in-vitro fertilization, and the results of every treatment involving ART.  The information required is largely redundant to the statistics and information submitted to the CDC, most of which is publicly available.

So, the idea here is to track fertilized eggs and the resulting embryos to make sure that no one is getting an abortion, specifically those created through in-vitro or other Assisted Reproductive Technology. Lord help the woman who has a miscarriage, who now not only has to deal with the heartbreak of losing a child that they wanted, but now some asshat calls her up and says "Hey, could I get the doctor's note that says it was a miscarriage, otherwise we're gonna think you had an abortion and are going to charge you and the doctor as the little fucking criminals that you are." Awesome.

Now, on top of this lunacy, I have to wonder how the nine Republican senators who are co-sponsoring this bill claim to want less government interference in people's lives when they are introducing a bill that literally puts the government inside a woman's womb. HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?! Right, it doesn't. It make no fucking sense. Look:

"I'm an asshat at CAP, and I am pro-life. I worry about abortions. Who should I target to make sure that they don't get abortions? Is it high schoolers, students whom we could hit with education on how to protect themselves from STDs and unwanted pregnancies? No, that's too logical. Is it low-income, poorly educated individuals whose multiple children are often the result of lack of access to birth control and then are often recipients of the government aid I hate so much? Nope, I'd have nothing left to bitch about. I GOT IT! Let me target the women who want a baby so badly that they see a medical specialist. Women who have had problems conceiving, who are at higher risks of miscarriage, but are determined to have a baby. I'll fuck with them for a little bit, get their fetus all regulated-like. THAT WILL SHOW GOD HOW MUCH I LOVE BABIES!"

It makes no fucking sense.
 Original Article (with title changed for emphasis): AZ Conservatives are fucking insane.

There's No Partying in Bi-Partisanship.

I've just spent the last ten minutes with my mouth agape as I looked at the crudely done Photoshopping presented by some right-wing Twitter accounts. Images included:

Obama in a Middle-Eastern style military uniform claiming that he's the best Commander-In-Chief that the Muslim world's ever seen.

A meme-styled Chuck Norris saying "Fuck You Muslims."

And a  plethora of images of Barack Obama, Reid and Pelosi in ominous "They're gonna take our guns away!" images.

Well, Top Conservatives Of Twitter: Go fuck yourself. If you post this kind of self-righteous drivel, you're a fucking asshole who is pandering to the uninformed and angry. I get it, you want to think that you are the best and brightest, but this is terrible.

I KNOW that there are liberals who are just as ridiculous, going after Christians in the same way that the Muslims have been gone after by the ignorant right, and they aren't any better.

I KNOW that there are liberals out there hootin' and hollerin' about how racist people who voted against Obama are. Well, dickholes, some are, but not everyone.

I'm tired of the sanctimonious bullshit. I'm tired of the "my party's dick is bigger than yours." The line in the sand presented by our major political parties is more reminiscent of a playground feud between 2nd graders than grown men trying to manage one of the largest and most powerful nations in the world. We are a 1st world power run by children, and people wonder why we are in debt, why we can't move forward.

Not only are we run by a squabbling group run by their fear of being seen as weak, but we have allowed ourselves as a nation to become reactionary and uninformed, even in an age when information is so easily accessible.

Just yesterday, I saw a longtime friend's mother post about how "they" (whom I am assuming is mostly Barack Obama, based on her history of fairly conservative posts) "pretended" to care about the 99%, and that that was obviously bullshit, as her taxes "are going up."

Similar comments started populating on her Facebook post, including "I guess they meant people making more than $250, not $250,000." I reminded her that her taxes were planned to go BACK up, as the lowered taxes were a part of an economic stimulus that was originally planned for one year, and extended to two. It was Obama's administration that initiated the lowered taxes, but the fuzzy short-term memory of most Americans just sees it as "Obama's government sticking it to the little guy." There was also someone who alluded to the idea that gas prices have only risen during Obama's administration AND were somehow related to taxes. When I informed them both that the taxes were scheduled to go back to previous rates AND that gas prices haven't been "$1.50/gal" for longer than Barack has been in office, I was met with a snarky remark relating to the (vastly inflated) cost of a presidential vacation.

Are people really that set in their ignorance? Do we despise being wrong that much that we will simply deny and deflect any level of truth?

Maybe this is why we continue to elect cowardly politicians, those who are too scared to be deemed "traitors to their party" to do anything that makes sense.

I hope one day soon we will see the rise of a moderate party, one who says "Yes, we are spending too much, we can be more efficient with our programs." AND "Yes, these are things that we should do for our citizens and we should raise the tax revenues to ensure that we can both pay for the programs AND pay back our debt."

I Can't Think of a Title Without Swearing.

As I sat in my office, I got a notification from CNN's app saying that the House of Representatives will not vote on any legislation regarding the so-called "Fiscal Cliff" until tomorrow.

I check out the full article (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/31/house-unlikely-to-vote-on-any-deal-until-after-cliff-deadline/) and find these points that stick out:

"There is no difference in voting at 2 a.m. than tomorrow at 4 p.m.," one of the GOP sources said.

Fuck. You. This is the response of a procrastinating college freshman who spent his financial aid on a kegerator the week before a final paper was due. "Look, Bro, the shit's not due til 6, I'll bust it out, no big deal."

Well, GOP frat boys, it is a big deal. You've had over a fucking year to get your shit figured out. If this was school, a real job or your fucking rent check being late, you'd be on your ass in the street. But no, real life doesn't hold any meaning for you anymore, does it? "Aww, fuck it. What's the worst that can happen?"

My life, and the life of millions of others, gets royally fucked. The dad who lost his job due to "cost-cutting" measures at the company posting record profits can have his unemployment held, costing him his fucking house. The poor grandma taking her cocktail of Parkinson's and cancer drugs has her Medi-Care payments frozen, now she can't stop the agonizing shaking her self during the unknown time where you try to figure this shit out whenever you feel it makes you look the best.

"GOP sources admitted there is an added benefit to the Senate's delay: taxes would already be up, so lawmakers could argue that they are voting for tax cuts, as opposed to tax increases."

And here, my last point is re-iterated.

So, the House leaders see a hole. They could fix the hole, but then people won't REALLY know how much damage the hole could have done. Rather, they'll let someone completely eat shit by stepping in the hole, stepping up and saying "oh, here, we didn't see that hole at first, but we just filled that hole up a bit, now it's not so bad." In their mind, they look like fucking Zorro, cape waving in the wind. In my mind, they look like a bratty 7 year old wearing a Power Rangers sheet with their Underoos on their head.

So, here I come, knowing full well that I am about to step into this fucking hole, trying to guess "can I fill out my taxes on time?," "How much will my paycheck be different?," "Will this cause me to lose my fucking job?"

I'm sure I'll sleep a lot fucking better once the smoke settles and only a few thousand people lose their jobs, homes and peace of mind. John Boehner, you're a fucking dickhead.