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Why We Can Not Trust Congress With Our Money, Period

Because they spend it like crack addicts in a flop house on Saturday night. In the 28.9 billion dollar terrorism bill that was passed today, these items were ‘slipped’ in:

Such projects included $6 million to upgrade a U.S. Geological Survey data center near Sioux Falls, S.D.; $10 million to help farmers near the Rio Grande River involved in a water dispute with Mexico; $7 million for enhancing water supplies in New Mexico; and a provision pressuring the Agriculture Department to reimburse poultry producers in West Virginia and Virginia for losses from avian influenza.

Also carried were funds having little to do with the fight against terror. These included $1 billion for Pell grants for low-income students; $417 million for veterans’ medical care; $400 million to help states improve voting systems; $205 million to bail out Amtrak; $200 million for fighting AIDS and other diseases abroad; and $100 million for countering western wildfires and floods.

BTW, conservatives- this is the chamber that the Republicans control.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

T R E 4 5 O N

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

This really is a full service blog.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Why We Can Not Trust