Tuesday, December 20, 2011
News Newsdome: John Boehner is the Grinch
Posted by Bobby Feingold @senorbobby on Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM
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>> Iranian officials announced that they have captured an American spy on Sunday named Amir Mirza Hekmati. Though Hekmati was a former Arabic translator for the Marines and now works as a contractor for a company that serves the Marines, the U.S. government says he is absolutely not a spy. What would give Iran that crazy idea? (CNN)
>> AT&T will no longer buy T-Mobile after the Justice Department said the merger would violate anti-trust laws. AT&T now owes T-Mobile's parent company Deutsche Telekom $3 billion. Breaking up is hard to do. (the New York Times)
>> The Vatican has proclaimed Kateri Tekakwitha as a Catholic Saint, the first Native American to be canonized. Tekakwitha died at age 24 in 1680 but wasn't deemed a Saint until a 5-year-old prayed to survive a strep infection in 2006 and survived. The Saint of Sinuses. (USA Today)
>> And finally, it's the War on Christmas (TM): In 2009, the town of Leesburg, Virginia, had to stop their annual nativity scenes on public property because of the separation of church and state. Pro-nativity groups cried "freedom of religion" and the county decided to allow religious displays on a first-come, first-served basis. Now winter solstice displays, Santa Claus mounted to a cross and a nativity scene from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ("Touched by an Angelhair") will be on the courthouse grounds. Don't you love freedom of religion? (the Washington Post)
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And now for the truth on the payroll tax debate:
The bill passed by the Senate extends the tax break for a completely arbitrary and utterly pointless TWO months while the Repubs in the House want to make the extension last for one year.
Its questionable wether it is wise to make a big issue out of this but the Republicans are right (correct) on this issue.
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I wonder how many hours a week and per month, Boehner has to be under a tanning lamp to keep his tan so perfect. Just seeing him is appallingly. He is so obviously arrogant, shallow, hateful, malicious nasty and egotistical that he is a severe impediment to our nation. I don't think he has the intelligence to realize the destructive harm he is inflicting on us.
The year - long extension is not what's driving the republicans on this. It's how to pay for it that's at issue. Republicans want to freeze federal wages & the Dems want to pay for it with a surtax on millionaires.
But a very creative re-writing of the news, Atlately.
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