What Your Representatives Did While You Were Asleep

[HarveyDarkey]

Here are some of the things your House of Representatives did early this morning:

* Voted to strip funding from just about every EPA project, including air quality, emissions, and water pollution monitoring.
* Defunded NOAA
* Stripped funds to administer the Affordable Care Act.
* Eliminated funds for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
* Continued $53 billion in oil subsidies
* Tried to eliminate Davis-Bacon rules for government projects (that failed)
* Stripped federal workers of their salaries in positions within agencies targeted for defunding

Of course, yesterday they defunded Planned Parenthood, FCC allocations for enforcement of Net Neutrality rules, and the entire Affordable Care Act.

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/what-your-representati...

[Hannah Bell]

1. fuck the locusts.

[midnight]

22. yup.....

[PDJane]

2. This is insane!

What the hell does defunding all of this stuff have to do with job creation, which was their first priority.

What kind of country do they want. Do we now have to start all over again, when people begin to die in the street and children become workers to help the family, to build a progressive movement?

Do people actually agree with this shit?

[RKP5637]

4. Most Americans I'm convinced do not pay attention to much going on. It's become

an ignorant lazy gullible country. And this is what they count on. These fools want nothing, not even the country. Frankly, we know where the terrorists are, they masquerade with BS such as this.

They are the most immature, irresponsible herd of fools I ever remember in gov.

In most countries citizens would be BS over this. In American it's just too inconvenient.

[PDJane]

5. I once listened to a lecture by Dr. Doug Rokke,

An Army major. Dr. Rokke said, "Do you think that Germany lost the war? It just changed venues."

[RKP5637]

8. Yep, they are all still around, same types. Much as when I was a kid I thought

one day the RW conservatives I knew back then might die off. They all keep coming back, like some horror film.

[defendandprotect]

17. Correct -- we have the rising of the Fourth Reich here ... put in place immediately post-WWII...

by Dulles and Operation Paperclip --

Dulles funneled more than 50,000 Nazis into US -- founded the CIA with them --

funneled many into FBI - and other agencies.

[PDJane]

23. thank you. You 'get it.'

I wish that there were a clearer understanding of American history all around.

[defendandprotect]

27. Keep on tellin' it --

[leftstreet]

7. It's really difficult to get information

If I ran the world, I'd make Congress a Reality TV show

[RKP5637]

12. Yeah!!! I'd run it as a Horror Reality TV show!

[leftstreet]

13. lol

imagine the ratings

[defendandprotect]

16. Perhaps it makes no sense to them ... computer voting does that to a country!!

and perhaps coverage of the "news" makes no sense to them either --

No real context, no vision -- mainly violent nonsense!!

[atreides1]

6. Job creation was never a priority

...it was a talking point and nothing more.

They want a country that refelcts who and what they really are...heartless, evil bastards...that get personal joy out of watching the less fortunate suffer, and eventually die...people who voted for these sons and daughters of evil...are not only as evil and heartless...they are also stupider then a rock....

[Angry Dragon]

3. It is time to do a Wisconsin on DC

Time to make them very afraid so they piss their pants
instead of pissing on everyone else.

Why do the radical right republicans hate America??
Why do they want the American people to die??
Why do they hate everyone??
Are they so full of hate they just hate everything??
Do they want a third world country??
Have they sold their souls so nothing really matters any more??

[dana_b]

9. soulless, in-it-for-themselves-locusts

I hope we all go "Wisconsin" on them

[Imagevision]

10. They shut down the Government? - Washington DC. is where the next march should be...

[DemocratAholic]

11. the time to prevent these things is during the elections

Our opportunity to prevent this was during the last election when we actually had a pretty good chance of keeping both houses of Congress. Progressive organizations were basically non-existent during the last election. The DNC did absolutely nothing. President Obama was barely showing interest. I recall reading posts on this very website from "Democrats" who were busy discussing how they were going to vote for Charlie Crist in Florida. Elections do have consequences...and this is what happens. The time to stop these kinds of things are the months before and during elections...there is nothing we can do after we lose. The Democratic machine was completely broken down this past election. We can argue about who is to blame (I have my own ideas), but the fact is it is our own fault.

I hope and pray we get our act together before the next election, but I hate to say this, I have not seen any progress towards fixing the mess the Democratic Party machine is in right now. We have NO leadership.

[MichiganVote]

14. The real parasites

[Obamanaut]

24. Many of whom have served multiple terms. What does that say for the hosts. nt

[defendandprotect]

15. We need the oil subsidies to go -- also the subsidies for the Vatican's "faith based" orgs ...!!!

[Tsiyu]

18. Can't be shocked can we...if you think about it

This is what a Republican House looks like...they just got on the stick and blasted us right off the bat. And the Dems who caved can kiss their seats goodbye.

I can't wait to see what else we get.

Just remember, they can be tossed on their asses in 2012 and we can try again for sanity.

[tammywammy]

19. What's their beef with NOAA? n/t

[Kip Humphrey]

25. S-C-I-E-N-C-E.

[Fuzz]

20. Maybe Dems have to start using phrases like "Jam down our throats" like they do all the time, but

in this case it's actually true.

[lpbk2713]

21. Defunded NOAA huh?

That should make hurricane season lotsa fun here in Florida.

[cali]

26. your thread title is inaccurate. That is what the repukes who control the House did.

It sure as shit ain't what my progressive rep did.