So I’m kind of wondering about something. When it comes to what has become Republicans’ biggest problem ever (after having been relegated to the “what, me worry?” status since the day after Clinton left office) – the “deficit” – the GOP says we’ve gotta cut, cut, cut, and they won’t even consider increasing revenue. Yet when it comes to our reliance on fossil fuels, that same single-minded conservation crowd wants nothing to do with reducing consumption, and says we’ve gotta increase production. If I didn’t know better, I’d think that was inconsistent.<\/p>\n
Speaking of inconsistent (as in, an inconsistent mental disposition), everybody’s favorite Krusading Kristian – Michelle Bachmann – kicks off her Presidential campaign today. I dunno about you, but I find that terribly exciting.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if you saw any video of people celebrating NY’s new law legalizing same sex marriage, but it sure is fun to see happy people whose freedom and equality has just been affirmed. I like seeing happy people on the news for a change (and, OK, I admit that it gives me a certain amount of joy to see homophobic bigots all pissed off :nana: ). <\/p>\n
Seeing happy people is much better than looking at angry, pickle-pussed teabaggers demanding that the government quit handing out money (to other<\/em><\/strong> people – as long as they keep handing money out to them<\/em><\/strong>), and stay out of their lives (when it comes to their right to own a gun and eat at Mickey D’s, but not when it comes to dictating who they can marry). <\/p>\n I’m pretty sure that when all the focus group results come in, President Obama will issue a vaguely worded statement detailing what his opinion would be, if he was going to have one. <\/p>\n Oh well, early day today, and I’m already behind schedule. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’m kind of wondering about something. When it comes to what has become Republicans’ biggest problem ever (after having been relegated to the “what, me worry?” status since the day after Clinton left office) – the “deficit” – the GOP says we’ve gotta cut, cut, cut, and they won’t even consider increasing revenue. Yet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5770,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}