Headlines - Friday July 8

 

Hatch: The 'Poor' Should Do More To Shrink Debt, Not The Rich

 

###

 

Go Michele Bachmann!

Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann is surging in the New Hampshire primary according to multiple polls, the strongest sign yet that she may be a credible contender for the Republican nomination.

According to Democratic pollster PPP, Bachmann is polling at 18% among Republican voters, second only to Romney at 25%.

I can't describe how excited I am about this. Can you imagine if she wins both Iowa and New Hampshire? Jeepers creepers. Talk about a nominee that would seriously banish the Republicans to the kiddie table for a long, long time.

### 

### 

Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina appeared on Fox Business last night with potential Glenn Beck replacement Judge Napolitano and claimed that he is willing to cause serious harm to the economy to achieve his goal of not raising the debt ceiling.

These are the kind of lunatics President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are being forced to deal with right now.

They simply do not care what happens to the peons and the peasants. They do not care what happens to America. And that makes them traitors.

###

Hooray, we have a winner: this week's "Most Giantest Bag of Rat Feces Award" goes to Ward 5 D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr., who is being investigated by the D.C. attorney general for opening an inner city youth sports charity and then promptly using some of the money to treat himself to several thousand dollars' worth of golf club outings, sports equipment, Bed Bath & Beyond shopping trips (?) and… uh, dinner at Hooters, just to make it worse. READ MORE »

###

 

###

 

The Family Research Council is asking its followers to pray that foreign countries will continue to criminalize homosexuality and will resist efforts by the Obama administration to get them to change.

Pray: "May God restrain the Obama administration from promoting the LGBT agenda at home and abroad. May He give targeted nations courage to withstand U.S. coercion! Forgive us for this evil (Ps 94:16; Is 3:9-15; Jer 7:3-11; Lk 17:2; Rom 1:32; Jas 3:13-18; Jude 7)."

That's Tony Perkins and crew, doing what they do best, begging Jeebus to destroy the people of the world who aren't like them. That's the core value of Christianism.

 

###

 

Indiana has joined the list of states where cursive handwriting will no longer be taught. (Although schools can decide for themselves if they want to continue.)

 

###

 

 

###

 

Boo hoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will close its tabloid News of the World after this Sunday's edition, as a result of an escalating phone hacking scandal, James Murdoch said on Thursday.

 

###

 

Hey guys, remember that time when climate-change denying yahoo Senator James Inhofe landed his plane over the objections of the Flight Tower, and could have killed the ground crew at the airport when he hopped over the crew to land on a closed runway? Me Neither! But anyway, it seems that he's actually the victim here, and so he's introducing a Pilot's Bill of Rights into legislation, because he felt he was treated unfairly when the FAA sent him to remedial pilot school. "I did nothing wrong, but at any time I could have suffered the revocation of a license," the Oklahoma senator complained to Tulsa World. (Raw Story)

 

###

 

###

 

Democrats forget they hate Koch Bros. long enough to ask for money

What do Democrats and Republicans have in common these days, besides a total disinterest in governance and a massive crush on Twitter slapfights? They both love those sweet-tasting Koch bucks printed on paper made up of ground orphans. DSCC Chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray called up Koch Industries and left a voicemail asking for the Kochs to renew their $30,000 DSCC donation from last year, oh and, would those nice Koch boys like to join the Democrats for a special summer picnic retreat? Uh, go kochsuck somewhere else, was the public reply from Koch Industries president Philip Ellender, who is still laughing. Are we amused, also? Kind of, except it is more like a horrible burning sensation. Can this filthy kind of Koch humor give you herpes? READ MORE »

 

###

 

CNBC this morning, presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was asked about this morning's dismal jobs report and whether higher unemployment rates might help her chances of winning in 2012. "Does it strike you that as the unemployment rate goes up, your chances of winning office also go up?" host Carl Quintanilla asked. "Well, that could be. Again, I hope so," Bachmann replied. Watch it. 

While it's of course acceptable for Bachmann to campaign on wanting to turn the economy around, it's another matter entirely when she actively pursues policies that make the economy worse — while hoping it will help her campaign.

###

The Labor Department reports that employers added only 18,000 jobs last month, the fewest monthly total in the past nine months. "Hiring has slowed sharply in the past two months. The economy added an average of 215,000 jobs per month in the previous three months." The unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent; 14.1 million people are unemployed.

###

Yesterday evening, Texas put to death a Mexican man despite pleas from the White House to stop the execution — a potential violation of international law. The Supreme Court denied a stay of execution, after defense lawyers argued Humberto Leal was denied help from his home country that could have helped him avoid the death penalty. In his last minutes, Leal apologized for raping a killing a teenage girl in 1994, and said "Viva Mexico!"

###

Tonight, Michele Bachmann became the first presidential candidate to sign a pledge created by THE FAMiLY LEADER, an influential social-conservative group in Iowa. By signing the pledge Bachmann "vows" to "uphold the institution of marriage as only between one man and one woman" by committing herself to 14 specifics steps. The ninth step calls for the banning of "all forms" of pornography. The pledge also states that homosexuality is both a choice and a health risk. You can read all the details of the pledge here.