Congress blocked an Obama administration attempt to make school lunches healthier this week, adjusting proposed nutritional guidelines in a way that will keep pizza and french fries on the menu, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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The pizza and fries lobby strikes again
Georgia’s stupidest doctor strikes again
Paul Broun, who repeatedly compared Obama to Hitler and says ignorant things every time he opens his mouth, stays true to form.
If Michele Bachmann was a man.
Cut, Cap and Balance also would have raised the debt ceiling, which is why Broun opposed it, his spokeswoman Meredith Griffanti said.
“He’s actually not going to vote for any bill that raises the debt ceiling,” she
Broun, in fact, introduced legislation to lower the debt ceiling.
What does it take to embarrass the voters of Athens, Evans, Augusta, Watkinsville, and Toccoa? They’ve sent Broun to Congress twice before and most likely will again in 2012.
The biggest a-hole in Congress
“We hear the CBO says well if we don’t raise the debt limit, it’s going to put so many people out of work, I don’t remember then number, I think it’s 250,000 or something, are gonna be put out of work. Well those are gonna be government employees that are put out of work. There are a lot of government employees that need to go find a real job!”
Government worker Paul Broun (R-Ga.), demonstrating his empathy for police officers, firefighters and teachers.
‘I’ve let down my friends, the voters, my wife and, most of all, Mr. Kotter’
America’s biggest welfare queen
Members of Congress will get paid even if there is a government shutdown,which won’t play well with blue-collar voters. Wary of this, the House and Senate have passed separate measures to freeze their salaries. But at least one House member says she can’t afford to support such legislation.
“I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck, like most Americans,” [Rep. Linda Sanchez-D, Calif.] said Thursday afternoon on MSNBC. “It’s very difficult for me to say, ‘Hey, I can give up my paycheck,’ because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn’t make it possible for me.”
Unlike most Americans, Sanchez makes $174,000 a year, not to mention the gratis that comes with being a member of Congress.
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Likes: Lee Greenwood, NASCAR and Christian marriage retreats
Tom Graves, a Tea Party favorite who assumed Nathan Deal’s vacant Congressional seat, isn’t going to be out-yokel-ed by anyone.
“I never listen to NPR. As I travel across Georgia, I tune in to hear Glenn Beck or Rush, Hannity or catch the news or just relax to good ole country music. NPR is too snooty for my taste.
The politically correct drivel that passes for entertainment on NPR doesn’t appeal to me. Plus I’m probably like you and I believe that NPR is rightfully under fire from conservatives for firing Juan Williams for having the audacity to be conservative and appear on NPR’s most hated rival, Fox News.
Whether NPR is on the air or not wouldn’t matter to me except for this cold hard truth: They’re funded with your tax dollars and mine….
The NPR types like to project the image of being all lovey-dovey, but when it comes to negative campaigning, they’re cruel, relentless, personal and fueled by a self-righteous disdain for anything and anybody conservative.”
What is he, 12? And for someone who “never” listens to NPR, he sure seems to know a lot about it.
If Graves doesn’t believe NPR should receive taxpayer dollars, fine. But his juvenile sensibilities shouldn’t be a factor in the decision.
And for the record, I bet the “good ole’ country music” he favors is that awful new shit, a la Rascal Flatts. Besides, Willie Nelson is too liberal.
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Bachmann follows Palin’s playbook
Surely she isn’t blaming the “liberal media” for her mistakes? Didn’t see that coming.
Clearly, the media only reported on Michele Bachmann saying the battle of Lexington and Concord was fought in New Hampshire, not Massachusetts, because they’re all out to get her. (A woman who regularly yaps about how the Founding Fathers would have totally agreed with her views can’t be expected to know any facts about them.) Bachmann defended herself on the Laura Ingraham Show, saying, “We all know there’s a double standard in the media …
If that doesn’t work, she’ll accuse the press of being sexist. Rest assured the victim card will be played.
Speaking of Republican dingbats, look who’s back:
Does the Senate really need another egomaniacal lout?
More good news from Congress
It appears one of the most shameful filibusters in recent history will be overcome, as New York’s two senators said they have the votes to pass the bill providing health care benefits and compensation to sick first responders of the 9/11 attacks.
“We are on the verge of a Christmas miracle,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. after a deal with Republicans was reached on a new way to pay for the measure.
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Pointless year in review presents … 2010′s biggest prick (political edition)
Before running for congress, Ben (son of Dan) Quayle, using a porn pseudonym, contributed to a racy Arizona website documenting his quest to find “the hottest chick in Scottsdale.” Then came this ad, in which Quayle II didn’t even bother concealing his smug, frat boy entitlement.
Not race, but time
It’s mere coincidence that ethically challenged House members Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters are black (or Democrats, for that matter). But combined they have spent 58 years in Congress. No coincidence there.
Two years ago Nancy Pelosi claimed she’d “drain the swamp.” Republicans will say the same thing if they retake Congress in 2010. It’ll never happen.
Term limits aren’t the solution, but they wouldn’t hurt. The longer one stays in Congress, the more likely they are to abuse the institution’s flimsy ethical standards. You gotta have influence to peddle it.
This means you, Sarah Palin
A Republican of substance? Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan appears to defy the trend on the right.
“It’s really important, I think, not to run campaigns on some vague platitudes and rip down the other party, to hopefully win an election by default,” he said. “You have to win an election by acclamation, by aspiration, by telling people who you are and what you are going to do, and then go do it once you get there.”
Speaking of hyperbole …
'MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN 100 YEARS'
Just ask her counterpart, House Minority Leader George Hamilton, er, John Boehner. 
In the rush to fund a U.S. healthcare overhaul, Botox injections to smooth wrinkles will not be taxed, but visiting a tanning salon will be.
Don’t fuck with Pelosi!
