Thursday, June 09, 2011

Haiku For You?

Stephen Colbert presented the Republican health care haiku:

Blood in the urine
A tingling down the left arm
Walk it off, Grandma.


Absolutely perfect! 

* The Ohio Senate passed the state budget but.....


....Clocking in at about 5,000 pages, the state spending document for 2012-13 is highlighted by privatization pushes for a half-dozen state prisons, state liquor operations, lottery operations and the turnpike as well as cuts of nearly $2 billion dollars for local governments and schools.... 

...Senate Minority Leader Capri Cafaro, a Youngstown-area Democrat, called the state budget "a fractured fairy tale" and a "political play at the expense of Ohio's future" in how it privatizes state assets such as prisons and liquor operations and lays the groundwork for leasing the state turnpike. 

"The only way to push them through is to bury them in mounds of paper," Cafaro said. "I'm still looking for the jobs in this so-called jobs budget among these 5,000 pages."


Where are the jobs?  Ohio voters will remember how Kasich and the Republicans ruined this state.
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***  Republican Rep. Steve Stivers (OH-15th) is wasting our tax money.

....Freshman Steve Stivers from Ohio spent more than $50,000 on teaching his district Civics 101 - the pamphlets were literally titled: "How a Bill Becomes a Law." Aren't there videos on that out there already?....

$50,000?????  If Stivers were really writing legislation to create jobs, he would have saved us money.  

>>>>>  Something has almost totally disappeared----birtherism!  According to an article in the WashingtonPost, birtherism has decreased in numbers:

The number of Americans saying President Obama was born in another country has been sliced in half, according to a new Washington Post poll

In interviews following the public release the president’s “long-form” birth certificate last week, fully 70 percent of Americans say Obama was born in Hawaii, a big bump-up from the 48 percent who said so a year ago. Even more say he was U.S.-born, or call that their best guess, for a total of 86 percent.

Overall, 10 percent of Americans say Obama was likely born abroad, down from 20 percent in an April 2010 Post-ABC poll. Almost all those who now say Obama was born in a foreign country say that it’s only their “suspicion;” just 1 percent claim “solid evidence” that the president was born elsewhere (9 percent said so last year).....

Amazing.