God Paging Rick Perry-

Hurricane Irene Redux-

Ummm...

EMERGENCY ALERT!!!!!!

IMPORTANT HURRICANE ALERT!!!

If you are in the path of Irene, for your own safety, and the sake of those you love (or at least the ones who have to live with you) if you have a gas stove but an electric coffee grinder-

GRIND THREE DAYS WORTH
OF COFFEE BEANS **NOW**!!!

Qwicky Qwiz-

What would you call a guy who believes that only Christians should be allowed to hold elected office & other government positions, and that actual, physical demons are actively at work in America (and demonic possession explains things like homosexuality)?

You might call someone who believes that nuts. Bonkers. Whacko. 50 cards short of a full deck.

Fair enough. But the GOP calls him the new Presidential front runner and current Governor of Texas.

Quite a guy, that Ricky...

Hypocrisy? Here???

Remember back during the debt-ceiling debacle, when Republicans, toeing the tea Party line, refused to consider raising taxes in any way whatsoever, including even revising the tax code? Remember how they defined letting tax cuts expire as "raising taxes", and how it would be better to default than raise taxes, especially on wealthy Americans?

Remember all that?

Well, who do you think now wants to, using their own definition of raising taxes, raise taxes on the poor and middle class by 50%?

That's right- the GOP.

Republicans in Congress say they will oppose an extension of the payroll tax break which now gives all working-class Americana a break of about $2,000 a year, money which they all put right back into the economy. The break is scheduled to end on January 1, 2012, and the GOP wants to raise the rate from 4% to 6%, a 50% increase in the taxes of working-class Americans.

But, yeah- they will continue to refuse to even consider any sort of tax increase on wealthy Americans.

A link to the Associated Press story is embedded above, but only follow it if you haven't eaten in the past two hours.