Hour Two Guest: Former Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) on the new congress and the GOP’s #1 priority: repealing healthcare reform.
If there is a weeping orange man holding a must-be-compensating-for-something-sized gavel, it can only mean one thing: the 112th Congress of the United States is officially open for business!
The new Republican leadership team is full of staffers from Tom DeLay’s old regime. They’ve gone from working for “the Hammer” to working for a new bunch of chiselers. The “culture of corruption” from the Tom DeLay era is more like some bacterial culture. We thought it was wiped out, but now it’s infecting Washington again. Maybe the Democrats should bring in the Centers for Disease Control… before the Republicans deny them funding. But then really, where are all these people going to get jobs after their boss was convicted of money laundering? In a laundry?
Tomorrow the House Republicans will have the Constitution read aloud in the House Chamber, like the United States Congress is some sort of weird fraternity initiation. Is this the legislative body of the greatest nation on earth, or some kind of Masonic Lodge? Why don’t they just light the chamber with candles and burn incense while they read the Constitution? The Constitution was designed to be a working document, not some strange icon to be fetishized by a bunch of hypocrites. You’re supposed to USE the Constitution to govern, idiots, not venerate it like it’s the knucklebone of a saint in some jeweled container.
Robert Gibbs is stepping down as White House Press Secretary. I wonder if Dana Perino is going to submit her resume. Of course she could never get hired by Obama after being George Bush’s press secretary, but then I assume she would just lie about that like she lied about everything else. Now President Obama is looking for a new press secretary, a new director of the National Economic Council, and a new chief of staff. Maybe he can make a dent in the unemployment figures just by hiring people himself.
Whoever takes over for Robert Gibbs will have a full plate. The Republicans in the House are acting fast to undo President Obama’s agenda, with “acting” being the operative word. The bill to repeal healthcare has been officially titled by Republicans as the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.” Gee, I didn’t know Frank Luntz was writing legislation.
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