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The Red State Republican “Screw Everybody Else” Mentality

liberalsarecool:

Oklahoma currently ranks third in the nation … in terms of total federal disaster and fire declarations. This is not a new trend, every year OK needs Federal help.

Enter Republican Sens. Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn who are fiscal hawks who have repeatedly voted against funding disaster aid for other parts of the country. See Super Storm Sandy. They also have opposed increased funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

It appears increasingly likely that residents who lost homes and businesses [in the Oklahoma tornado] will turn to the federal government for emergency disaster aid. 

With their vindictive and evil voting record on disaster aid for other states solidifying their as*hole status, both Coburn and Inhofe appear to sing a different tune when it comes to such funding for Oklahoma.

Reblogged 1 day ago from recall-all-republicans (Originally from liberalsarecool) 257 notes

Federal appeals court strikes down Arizona's 20-week abortion ban →

A federal court in San Francisco Tuesday struck down Arizona’s ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law violates a string of U.S. Supreme Court rulings starting with Roe v. Wade that guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion before a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. That’s generally considered to be about 24 weeks. Normal pregnancies run about 40 weeks

(Source: grrrl-riot)

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The real scandal is that: The IRS has interpreted our tax laws to allow big corporations and wealthy individuals to make unlimited secret campaign donations through sham political fronts called “social welfare organizations,” like Karl Rove’s “Crossroads,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and “Priorites USA.” This campaign money has been used to bribe Congress to keep in place tax loopholes like the “carried interest” rule that allows the managers of hedge funds and private equity funds to treat their income as capital gains, subject only to low capital gains taxes rather than ordinary income taxes, and other loopholes that allow CEOs to get special tax treatment on giant compensation packages that now average $10 million a year.

— Robert Reich (via azspot)

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The girl on the left, Somana, is a wonderful, courageous girl who was kidnapped and sold to a brothel at 14. The brothel gouged out her eye as punishment when she complained. After we wrote about her, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited her on a trip to Cambodia—and the visit reverberated through the Cambodian bureaucracy. The message was that maybe these girls matter after all, if America cares about them. View Larger

The girl on the left, Somana, is a wonderful, courageous girl who was kidnapped and sold to a brothel at 14. The brothel gouged out her eye as punishment when she complained. After we wrote about her, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited her on a trip to Cambodia—and the visit reverberated through the Cambodian bureaucracy. The message was that maybe these girls matter after all, if America cares about them.

Reblogged 2 days ago from reagan-was-a-horrible-president (Originally from clintonista) 460 notes