Flying Penis

If Waxman Gets Hot, Will He Melt?

Hod Dayum!

Issa issa bout to get his ass kicked out of the hearing.

They should jail Stephen Johnson.

The Lie vs Truth

We should at least give people a “gas tax holiday” to relieve some of the pain families are feeling at the pump, as Sen. John McCain has proposed. But what we really should look at doing long-term is abolishing the federal gasoline tax altogether, or at least lowering it substantially. Let the states handle transportation, not the federal government.

Doing away with federal gasoline taxes for even a short period of time will do serious damage to the economy as we head into a recession and as high gas prices affect our commuting patterns. Federal gasoline tax dollars go into a trust fund that helps pay for roads, bridges and mass transit. According to the federal government’s own calculations, every $1 billion spent of the gasoline tax revenues creates nearly 35,000 jobs. A summertime “gas tax holiday” could cost the nation almost 350,000 jobs and would halt work on vital improvements to roads and bridges, as well as mass transit systems stressed by new riders leaving their cars at home. According to the Congressional Budget Office, we’re already falling behind in our ability to pay for our transportation needs. The bigger issue is this: An economy that depends on the efficient interstate movement of goods and services can’t afford to continue starving the maintenance and growth of our transportation network. But that’s what we’ve done under the Bush administration, which opposed moves even from within its own party to increase transportation spending enough to match actual needs. Dumping the burden on already-strapped and unevenly equipped states won’t solve the problem. A transportation system that allows the economy to operate efficiently and save precious fuel is a national priority; we should all share in the costs and the benefits.

More Pro vs Con here

Another ReTHUGlican Bites the Dust

From Jonathon Turley:

Rep. Vito Fossella To Leave Congress After Disclosure of Affair

Rep. Vito Fossella (R., N.Y.) has announced that he is leaving Congress after this term in the wake of the disclosure of an extramarital affair and a child born with the woman, former Air Force Colonel Laura Fay.

Fossella’s undoing began with a ticket for running a red light. He explained that he was rushing to see a sick daughter — the problem is that his wife and three kids live back in Staten Island. Fossella, 43, was then found to have a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit.

Fay was the one who bailed him out of jail and the affair and child were disclosed by the media.

To make matters worse, there is now an ethics complaint has been filed over travel with Fay on official trips.

Fosella posted this letter on his website explaining his decision.

For the full story, click here

Let’s Spend Money Studying the Obvious

 

 

 

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?videoId=538812&sMPlaylistID=[allow it to load fully]

Racism In America– alive and well… and the U.N. is going to spend time and money researching it.

Now please— I will be one of the first to say that racism sucks and yes it is right here in the ole’ U.S.of A. and wrong no matter how it spins BUT my question is… should the U.N. be spending limited time and funds on this study? Especially when the human rights issues of many many other countries have thousands being killed and suffering daily?? What will their study solve? Prove? Fix?