FORTY LIES IN 40 DAYS: #34 Annie Says We Have a Spending Problem

Over the last two years, Congressional Republicans have forced a 43 percent reduction in the primary FEMA grants that pay for disaster preparedness. NY Times, October 30, 2012

Some things are better left to national planning and response, fool.

FORTY LIES IN 40 DAYS: #25 Annie Cares About the Environment

AMB's grasp of science - earth science, environmental science, modern research, what is happening to glaciers and polar bears - is nil. Whether it's willfulness or stupidity, Blue Sky Girl cannot say, but Annie's dishonesty that embraces ignorance is stunning. Did her curiosity and imagination die in grade school?

Buerkle Confuses Hypocrisy with Democracy

Ann Marie Buerkle Does Not Save the Day

At the eleventh hour, 2 freshmen House of Representatives Republicans wrote to House Speaker Boehner recommending that he direct his Republican bots to vote in favor of the Senate-backed two month extension of the pay-roll tax cut. In addition the bill extends unemployment benefits for nearly 2 million people and stops threatened Medicaid cuts to doctors. 

Is is even necessary to say that Ann Marie Buerkle was not one of the two Republican freshman urging Boehner to come to his senses?

According to the Associated Press' website

Dec 22, 4:41 PM EST

AP sources: House leaders accept Senate tax terms

By ANDREW TAYLOR and LAURIE KELLMAN 

Associated Press  

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Two members of the uncompromising class of House GOP freshmen piled behind the growing call for a short-term extension, developments that suggested the conservative opposition had begun to crumble. Republican House leaders were expected to convene a conference call to discuss whether to change course, according to a House GOP aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"I don't think that my constituents should have a tax increase because of Washington's dysfunction," said freshman Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., a former reality show star.

"An `all or nothing' attitude is not what my constituents need now," Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., wrote in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner. "We are now in a position...that requires Republicans to not only demand a willingness to compromise, but to offer it as well."

The statements were fresh signs that House Republicans may not be able to withstand pressure from their constituents and almost every corner of the GOP to get behind the Senate's two-month tax cut extension passed last week with the support of 39 Republicans.

Duffy and Crawford got inspiration earlier in the day from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who urged the House to do what Boehner has refused: pass a short-term extension of the payroll tax cut before it expires and paychecks shrink just as Americans begin paying their holiday bills. Meanwhile, McConnell said in a statement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid should convene negotiators to work with Boehner's team and craft a longer-term renewal. The legislation also includes jobless aid for millions and relief for doctors facing a huge cut in Medicare payments. Two Republican senators, Olympia Snowe of Maine and Mike Johanns of Nebraska also endorsed McConnell's plan Thursday.

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Comedy and Tragedy, tea party style

Blueskygirl is both amused and horrified at the choices folks at a local tea party internet site that supports Ann Marie Buerkle recently made.

Blueskygirl is amused that the tea baggers took a swipe at her and thought they identified her. 

They maligned her as they inserted their own words, unattributed, into a reproduced syr.com article about redistricting. The syr.com reporter may not be so amused by their deliberate alteration of the article. 

Blueskygirl is also horrified.  She is horrified that these tea baggers very publicly named the wrong person. Unfortunately they may have damaged someone professionally or personally by their deliberate stupidity.

The tea baggers would be wise to make a retraction and a public apology, although we know real tea baggers are congenitally incapable of admitting their mistakes.