Where Did All The Children Go?

Obama doesn't go to the border;

Republicans accuse him of ignoring the problem.
Obama goes to the border;

Republicans accuse him of a photo-op on taxpayer's dime

Another Republican coin toss:

Heads, we win; tails, Obama loses!

Astounding: David Koch's 1980 VP Run (remember this joker?): Kill Medicare, Kill Social Security, Kill Minimum Wage, Kill Public Schools

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and the verdict is:

K I L L   D A V I D   K O C H  !

Well Lookie Here:

As a corporation, I am very grateful for the line item veto that SCOTUS has granted and that you support for persons like me, encouraging me to disobey with impunity any federal laws that violate my religious freedom.

My corporation's closely-held religion strenuously disapproves of empire and wars, so I will be using the Hobby Lobby precedent to stop paying taxes (i.e., the small percentage that my accountants can't get me out of) to support the national defense budget. 

I'm aiming for a tax subsidy once I tally up all the federal laws I shouldn't fund based on religious objections. 

The reduced tax income will surely benefit the federal government and economy as well.

Thank you, Hobby Lobby...thank you so very much!

God Bless America!

Rick Perry shows up in new glasses at RedState gathering

By Wayne Slater

August 3, 2013—New Orleans--Rick Perry didn’t look like the same politician of two years ago at the RedState conservative blogger conference on Saturday.

For one thing, when the Texas governor showed up in New Orleans, he was wearing black horn rimmed glasses that are new to his appearance.

Gee, we hardly noticed. Nice try, Grover, but stupid is stupid with or without an astigmatism.

For another, he was wearing dress shoes.

Two years ago, when he launched his presidential bid with an announcement at a summer RedState gathering, he wore his trademark cowboy boots.

But back surgery has made him cut back on the boots.

Did it affect his eyesight, too?

Rick Perry, sporting new horn rimmed glasses, addresses RedState gathering Saturday.

Oh, I get it! He just can't stop reading the Classics well into the night, causing eye strain. Right, Grover?

If Perry looked a little different, some things don’t change--like recalling numbers or geography.

Touting Texas, Perry declared, “There are many other states that embrace those conservative values, the approach we’ve taken over the years. I’m in one today—Florida.”

No! No! Perry, don't mention the state!

“We’re in Louisiana,” someone shouted.

Too late!

Perry is considering running again for president in 2016 and his speech Saturday sounded a lot like a man trying to hold his place in line.

S**t! He probably figures if Bush pulled it off he can.

In elections to come, he said, Americans will have to make a decision which direction they want to go–a blue state path like California and New York or a red state path like Texas.

Good! He's got his colors memorized.

“I think there are some extraordinary men and women in our party that are going to be able to go out and explain that in a powerful and dynamic way over the course of the next few years as we lay out the vision for America. Which one of these do you want? I’m going to do my part.”

RedState founder Erick Erickson praised Perry to activists attending the two-day conference as the governor who shot a coyote while jogging and “made Wendy Davis sit down.”

Davis’ filibuster helped kill an abortion bill, forcing Perry to call lawmakers back for another legislative session to pass it.

If Erickson’s introduction was warm, some delegates clearly had doubts about Perry’s prospects should he decide to run for president again.

Why?

“The media will tear him apart,” said Al Jeanfreau of Tammany Parish north of New Orleans.

Oh, don't be such a worry wart. Relax.

Ronny Potts, a retired military officer who recently moved to Florida from Corpus Christi, doesn’t see Perry as a serious contender for the GOP nomination next time.

Comic relief?

“I don’t think he has a chance,” said Potts. He predicted 2016 on the GOP side will come down to a choice between Ted Cruz and Ron Paul.

Even if he runs as Clark Kent?

Dred Scott Decision
In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks--slaves as well as free--were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories.

The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.

Taney--a staunch supporter of slavery and intent on protecting southerners from northern aggression--wrote in the Court's majority opinion that, because Scott was black, he was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue. The framers of the Constitution, he wrote, believed that blacks "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it."

Referring to the language in the Declaration of Independence that includes the phrase, "all men are created equal," Taney reasoned that "it is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration.."

Abolitionists were incensed. Although disappointed, Frederick Douglass, found a bright side to the decision and announced, "my hopes were never brighter than now." For Douglass, the decision would bring slavery to the attention of the nation and was a step toward slavery's ultimate destruction.