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FOCUS: Scott Galindez | Roast Hogs, Ride Harleys, and Kill Islamo-Fascists 
 
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Galindez writes: "I will admit it, I went to the First Annual Roast and Ride, sponsored by our pig-castrating senator from Iowa, Joni Ernst, looking for that Michael Dukakis moment. You remember seeing him looking like a fool with his head sticking out of a tank. Well, Scott Walker and Rick Perry didn't look like fools on their Harleys, and those who would have were smart enough to avoid them. As far as looking like fools, they saved that for the stage." 
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RSN: West Virginia Still Has Chemical Spills: Same Company, Different Name, Israel Illegally Demolishing Palestinian Homes,

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Charles Pierce | The Truth About Joni Ernst

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Relatives of Ernst (nee: Culver), based in Red Oak, Iowa (population: 5,568) have received over $460,000 in farm subsidies between 1995 and 2009."
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Israel Illegally Demolishing Palestinian Homes, UN Says
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West Virginia Still Has Chemical Spills: Same Company, Different Name
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RSN: 'Ag-Gag' Proposal Meets Torrent of Opposition in Washington State, US Senate Refuses to Accept Humanity's Role in Global Climate Change, Again, Pipeline Break in Montana: The Yellowstone River Is Something We'll Probably Miss

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Andy Borowitz | Joni Ernst Says She Used to Wear Bucket on Head for No Apparent Reason

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Excerpt: "I can't for the life of me tell you why I did that,' she said. 'I just liked the look of it, I guess.'"
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Charles Pierce | Pipeline Break in Montana: The Yellowstone River Is Something We'll Probably Miss
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Pierce writes: "This is the second crack that oil has had at fouling this particular river."
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Juan Cole | Netanyahu Imported by GOP to Ensure Iran War
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Cole writes: "Republican House Majority leader John Boehner secretly invited Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to Washington to address Congress and then once it was set up he let Barack Obama know about it."
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Pelosi: New Abortion Bill 'Worse' Than Last
Sarah Ferris, The Hill
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Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Arrested on Federal Corruption Charges
William K. Rashbaum, Thomas Kaplan and Marc Santora, The New York Times
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US Senate Refuses to Accept Humanity's Role in Global Climate Change, Again
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'Ag-Gag' Proposal Meets Torrent of Opposition in Washington State
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Sottile writes: "... Kit Jagoda, a co-founder and the director of River's Wish, a 65-acre rescue center in eastern Washington, says 'ag-gag' legislation introduced earlier this week in the Washington House of Representatives would, if passed, prevent her from saving some animals."
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Reign of the Morons II : When your Congressman is labelled the DUMBEST.....

Huh?

The best you can do?

Oh? The Tea Bagger Kochs told ya to vote for ........?

Charles Pierce got it.....a volume could be written about the .... ya know.... those elected....

Pierce writes: "I was spending a quiet Sunday on a plane to Dallas, reading this lovely WaPo piece about how the new Republican-majority Congress, which will open the Reign of the Morons II this coming Tuesday, really understands that it has to govern the country responsibly this time around, and that the grown-ups are in charge again, and that my new friend Joni Ernst of Iowa will be put through the Brainiac V and come out the other side as a United States Senator."


 

Louis Gohmert. (photo: Getty Images)

The Congress Is Revolting

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

06 January 2015

was spending a quiet Sunday on a plane to Dallas, reading this lovely WaPo piece about how the new Republican-majority Congress, which will open the Reign of the Morons II this coming Tuesday, really understands that it has to govern the country responsibly this time around, and that the grown-ups are in charge again, and that my new friend Joni Ernst of Iowa will be put through the Brainiac V and come out the other side as a United States Senator, and not a person concerned about the UN and its plan to steal all our golfs. And that this will all happen just as soon as the president agrees to be president the same way Mitt Romney should have been president. Then, of course, some other news broke and my peace of mind was shattered.

"Eventually, the goal is second, third, fourth round, we have enough people that say ‘you know what, it really is time for a change,'" [Louie] Gohmert said Sunday. "'You deceived us when you went to Obama and Pelosi to get your votes for the cromnibus. You said you'd fight amnesty tooth an nail.

You didn't, you funded it.'" Gohmert said, if elected, he would "fight amnesty tooth and nail. We'll use the powers of the purse. We'll have better oversight. We'll fight to defund ObamaCare." "In 2010, Boehner and other leaders said if you put us in the majority, we will have time to read the bills," Gohmert said. "That hasn't happened. We saw that with the cromnibus, again." "We'll get back to appropriating and we will go through regular committee process, so every representative from both parties will have a chance to participate in the process and not have a dictator running things," he added.

 

And when the Padisha Emperor of Alpha Crazoid XII speaks, all must listen. We must respect the fact that he has national asparaguses.

 

Since I have no job that requires me to act in any way responsibly, might I suggest that Nancy Pelosi have a nice chat with her friend John Boehner and hint that, just maybe, she might be interested in what Gohmert has to say? This will never happen, of course, just as I don't believe Gohmert's challenge is anything more than noise. I'm fairly sure he'll chicken out at some point, even if he had enough votes to scare Boehner a whiter shade of orange. Baby Jeebus is not amigo enough to do this for me. Not on the same weekend that we hear that Huck may be rising from tomb as well.

I do so despair of the rebranding.

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