She was present at the townhall meeting in Independence, MO, but she didn’t fare much better.

People are angry, and they’re not gonna take it anymore! Also, note her typical phony rhetoric about tax cuts for the rich (ie Bush tax cuts) and how they didn’t create any jobs. What??? It’s like she’s reading from a designated DNC boilerplate of a press release. Give me a break.

NEWSFLASH, Senator Charlatan – the Bush tax cuts actually benefitted the poor more, decreasing their share of payment/taxes to the country’s overall tax revenue pot, AND in case you were in a comma since then there were 52 months of consecutive job GROWTH between September 2003 and December 2008. GROWTH!!!! Between 2003 – May 2007, 8 million new jobs were created and unemployment fell 25% from 6.1% – 4.5%. Now while there was a crisis in the markets and our country has since fallen into a recession – this did not have to do with taxes. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. Yes, lying. The recession happened because of four factors – housing market/Fannie & Freddie debacle, unregulated credit-default derivatives, psychology of doom/gloom perpetuated by 2008 presidential candidates and the media in order to win spikes of attention, and massive expansion of debt leading to speculation of inflation which scares off investors throughout 2009.

So get off the continued lie of the Bush tax cuts were “bad” for the country and supposedly led to unemployment. If you still believe this, rub out your puppy love eyes, Claire, because you aren’t seeing it clearly! You’ve been Obamatized!

Presidential race loser and US Senator John Kerry (remember him?) has sent a note to the FCC basically asking why AT&T has an exclusive iPhone contract with Apple. Two years after its introduction? This horse is late to the race:

“We ask that you examine this issue carefully and act expeditiously should you find that exclusivity agreements unfairly restrict consumer choice or adversely impact competition in the commercial wireless marketplace [...] Whether exclusivity agreements are becoming increasingly prevalent between dominant wireless carriers and handset manufacturers.”

Don’t call it a coincidence that it’s always liberals who are trying to hold trials against capitalism and those who use a free market to be innovative in a successful manner. Trust me, if the folks at Apple were more like the ACORN people then they’d probably be getting honored at the White House.

Hey, Kerry! Why don’t you go back to that sad sack of potatoes you call a Senate chair and try saving some of our taxpayer money before you go pushing policy that will destroy even MORE American jobs and purchase power.

Of all my friends that have the iPhone they love it. Yeah, AT&T isn’t the best service but clearly if they couldn’t deal with it they would just give up or NOT BUY the phone. I for one would like an iPhone but I really like Verizon so now I’ve opted to buy a Blackberry Curve. Look at that, the power of choice! Not a win for AT&T/iPhone, but a win of a consumer for Verizon/RIM.  Now was that so haaaaaaaaaaaaard, f*tard? Looks like we didn’t need the government to fix the situation because there was no problem to be fixed.  Get back to doing your job like reading the actual bills you do pass!

For as much as I hear people complain about CEO-pay, private jets, etc for failing companies, I don’t hear nearly (or even close to it) as much outrage over our legislatures who participate in the same amount IF NOT MORE questionable spending activities. Here’s ABC building back some of their credibility exposing what our legislatures have been up to with OUR money (via Black & Right). Also, keep in mind that Congress’ approval rating is right now around 30%. Last year it reached a low point of around 10% – if that isn’t failing I don’t know what is.

If this was a one-time incident I would probably look past it, but there have been too many instances of this crooked behavior coming out of Congress for years (Smancy Pelotox’s private planes and SUVs to attend her “Save the Earth”-type rallies, Charlie Rangel’s tax evasion and his 5-star, first-class trips to spots like the Dominican Republic and Florida, or the current administration’s love for tax evasion). Yet, citizens don’t say anything about it and what makes it even worse is that this is our money they are playing “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” with. At least the criticized CEOs are earning money through products and services, and the money used is typically from revenue brought in by customers that choose to pay for those products/services. The essential difference is that we are forced to pay in taxes, not by choice, to fund the outrageous spending acts by Congress.

So just think about this the next time you go to gripe about CEO pay, corporate spending, etc. There are always going to be some bad eggs out there whose behavior risks ruining the reputation of the 100,000s of CEOs/businesses who are doing things the right way. Everyone has the opportunity in this country to work your way up the corporate ladder – we shouldn’t throw stones at those successful businessmen who are having one rough year out of 20 successful ones but then not criticize the legislature who invokes this kind of psychological class warfare while engaging in the same “unacceptable” spending behavior as well.  If CEOs are crooked – then, yes they should pay the price. But just because you are a politician does not mean you are shielded by some Beltway forcefield created out of unicorns and excuses for the same behavior.

Our govt. doesn’t have time to produce a bill to give Congress nor the public enough time to read it – even though I doubt most politicians would have read it even if they were given two months. BUT yet, they’ve got time to produce a fucking scrapbook on the White House site telling the tale of the economic recovery spendocrats pet pork project bill???  

I’m really hoping this stays up so that my children can print out the pics and use them for dart practice. Because people would MUCH rather see pretty pictures than know about how legislation actually affects their paychecks.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Wish some of our representatives would get some instead of just relying on “the best economists around” according to Obama. Check the vid – love it that she interviews Obama supporters yet their ideal is different than the kool-aid man they voted into office.  Can anybody say – Told.You.So.??? 

But you know those Congressmen and women are too busy not reading the actual stimulus plan and showing real leadership by rushing votes so they can get back to planning trips to Italy.  Oh wait, at least one read the bill. Name that party – Republican. Heh, no big freakin’ surprise.  [Side rant: I'd be willing to be $1,000,000 (if I had it) that I read more of the stimulus bill than half of the people in Congress. And it's not even my job to do so - ridiculous.]

(Side rant: If you question this, please tell me who the heck is going to pay this bill??? It gets paid through taxes. Who pays takes – only citizens. Businesses or the rich do NOT pay taxes. Look. it. up.) 

Anylazyass, here’s turncoat of the day Arlen Spector (R-PA). Megyn Kelly calls Specter out on his contradiction of supporting the bill because it has provisions he has opposed in th past.  Specter says they aren’t going to allow the problematic provisions to be included in the bill but funny thing – the porkulus passed (Specter voting for it), provisions still in tact. Super.

Specter complains about not having meetings called to give Senators a chance to properly review the bill.  Call me crazy but doesn’t he have the power to request this as a Senator????  Couldn’t he have not voted for cloture to get more time to review the bill???? Do people in Washington think we are stupid, inept citizens who don’t know any better beyond what politicians just tell us???  Answer - yes, yes, and YES! 

Watching him in this video it’s pretty apparent this is the first he’s hearing about this because he probably didn’t read the fucking bill. Thanks for selling your principles down the river, Arlen! Continue proving why Congress has that low approval rating.