“Hands Off Our B-1 Bombers, Air Force!”
What’s poignant about democracy is the ways folks who know little about national defense become experts when something threatens defense-related jobs in their districts. They — or at least their staffs — quickly become well-versed in the lingo of the endangered system (note Noem’s charming “boneyard” reference).
Politicians hunt and fish for the big bucks
From White House to heartland, a call to give up subsidies
“Crop insurance is really key to making sure that they can manage their risks,â€Â Rep. Kristi L. Noem (R) recently told reporters. She represents South Dakota, another large farming state, and her family owns a ranch that receives direct subsidies. “So we’re going to make sure that that program remains viable and a useful tool for them.â€
DCCC launches more calls hitting GOP on Medicare:
Democrats are continuing their Medicare offensive, launching automated phone calls in 13 districts hitting Republicans for “voting to end Medicare.â€
“You’ve paid into Medicare for more than 25 years and earned Medicare benefits,†said one Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee call targeting Rep. Jon Runyan (R-N.J.). “But under the Runyan plan, Medicare will end and you’ll have to save about $182,000 more to pay for your health care from private insurance companies. But millionaires and corporations get even bigger tax breaks.â€
The other targets of the calls are Reps. Ben Quayle (Ariz.), Daniel Webster (Fla.), Steve King (Iowa), Bobby Schilling (Ill.),Charlie Bass (N.H.), Joe Heck (Nev.), Nan Hayworth (N.Y.), Ann Marie Buerkle (N.Y.), Steve Chabot (Ohio), Lou Barletta(Pa.), Kristi Noem (S.D.) and Scott Rigell (Va.).
Foxy Congressperson of the Week: Rep. Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem is young, used to run a farm all by herself, and has been pictured walking around Washington wearing tight leather boots, which already puts her head and shoulders above most Washingtonians in terms of foxiness. I have to admit, her hair has a certain ‘business in the front, party in the back’ quality to it, but you’ve got to respect a woman who can rock a faux-let.
Faux-Let 🙂
Try pronouncing if Fo-Lay – as in “oil of”.
Maybe, I’m too old to think there is anything at all attractive about a hairdo that looks like the person wearing it just took a tumble in the hay. And I don’t mean that she fell into a pile of hay.
I’m thinking it is Fo-Let, like Mullet. But I do like your twist on it Ruf.
The republicants are hoisting themselves on their own hypocritical petard. They want to cut “discretionary
spending. Say good bye to the small town airports and air transportation subsidies, many farm subsidies, road subsidies, post offices for every Hootersville and Bugtussle, the hole-in-the-ground that wants to grow up to become a lab, the redundant west river VA facilities, socialism in the form of flood aid, and yes, that unneeded, unwanted air force base.
I’m sure Kirsti and Thune will try to “save”
all that for SD, but cut wasteful spending everywhere else.
I don’t even pay attention to DC that much anymore. What a toilet.
Vote Barth in 2012
That scares me as much as Noem.
Snooki snagged some press time on Sunday. Saw her on Greta VanSusteren by accident waxing poetic about debt ceilings. I would be willing to bet money that she didn’t know what a debt ceiling was 6 months ago.
I still don’t know what it is. I had a customer ask me the other day what I thought. I told him I only pay attention to local politics, I can call my local councilors and mayor, and get action/response. DC is a wasteland. He was speechless, but had a grin on his face.
Ask Snooki to explain it to you,gg. She is on the way back to SD for a month of paid vacation even though she and her teabagger cohorts got 4,000 FAA employees furloughed and 70,000 construction workers are without jobs now.
Everyone clear the roads, she’s driving again.
Someone brought up the $5000 picnic post on AL’s 100 eyes show today. And asked if it was true. Lalley said it was ‘wild speculation’ then someone linked the Washington Post story. Funny how the AL doesn’t get the Washington Post, and their political news staff doesn’t read it, even when one of them was there for a week.