Buffet Says "stupid" to Describe Holding Back the US Dept Ceiling:

I remember when a person who called someone "stupid" and "dumb" was wrong enough to justify a reprimand. Sometimes, however, calling a "spade a spade" is the only way to get the attention of voters. So here's the problem. Elected officials in Congress are using the debt ceiling to blackmail President Obama to unfund health care reform passed in "Obamacare".

They are stupid.  

President Obama can't succumb to blackmail about Obamacare, because it's a law. That's all there is to it.

Instead, we must vote our stupid and dumb Republican politicians in the US Congress out of office, because they're behaving like selfish children who can't get their way. 

In other words, a minority of right wing extremists don't want Obamacare, aka health care reform, so they're holding their breath in a tantrum, threatening to block an increase in the US debt ceiling, until they get their way. The problem is, of course, these childish and obstructionist Republicans are turning blue waiting to get their way. Unfortunately, they're stupidly intent on bringing down US government operations, rather than behave like adults and do the work for which they're elected. Their work is to lift the US debt ceiling and to keep the government operating.  

Republicans need to do their jobs and stop obstructing government. If these obstructionist Republicans worked in the private sector, they'd be summarily fired for incompetence.

Nonetheless, apparently, Congressional Republicans are immune to the degrading "stupid" label. Not only are they holding up the debt ceiling as a threat, but some are even engaged in political blackmail. These stupid politicians are using the debt ceiling as leverage to unfund the implementation of Obamacare, aka health care reform.  

These Republican politicians are beyond stupid. They're breaking the law, two times. Obamacare is a law and can't be held hostage to prevent a rise in the debt ceiling. Blackmail is also against the law. 

Being called "stupid" must be the world's most insulting accusation. After all, nearly everyone believes they're smart at what they do, so being called stupid is an insult to the human condition. To be called "dumb" is even worse."Dumb" is a slur, because it suggests a person is incapable of ever becoming smart or being "unstupid".  

Unfortunately, Republican are either deaf to these insults or they are "stupid is as stupid does". I suspect all of the above. 

Now, finance guru Warren Buffett joins the choral ensemble, along with Governor Jindal of Louisiana, who are resorting to appropriate name calling of the minority of dumb politicans who are creating a "dumb and dumber" label for Republicans. 

Governor Jindal of Louisiana warned Republicans, over a year ago, to stop being the "stupid" party.

Nevertheless, the dumb Repubilcans in Congress are holding back the lifting of the United States debt ceiling.  

Reuters reports, in fact, that billionaire Buffett says it's dumb of the Congress not to lift the debt ceiling, in anticipation of yet another fiscal crises, hanging like a grim reaper, over the American government's daunting budget.  

Billionaire Warren Buffett said that Congressional politicians not lifting the U.S. debt ceiling would be "pretty damn dumb" and viewed a prolonged political standoff on the issue as "disturbing."

Dumb Congress

It seems to me, the Republican "dumb" and "stupid" labels are sticking. Yet, they don't seem to care. These stupid and dumb people in Congress are harming middle class economic security by holding up President Obama's American Jobs Act. Furthermore, they're resorting to blackmail about Obamacare, using this law to leverage a vote about raising the US debt ceiling.  

This threatening behavior should be unconstitutional! 

Our US Congress has a responsibility to protect our national security including the economy. This means, passing the Jobs Act, to fix the infrastructure of the US transportation and other concrete infrastructures.

Moreover, Congress has a moral and ethical responsibility to keep the government operating.

Congressional Republicans are acting dumb and stupid. They're irresponsibly using blackmail about Obamacare and obstructionist tactics to hold our economy hostage. They're like spoiled children, while they screech in a tantrum, including a series of wasteful votes to unfund Obamacare.  

Our health care system needs the payment reforms included in Obamacare. Those who oppose the Obamacare law are probably financially secure, so they don't likely need the benefits. Yet, to unfund Obamacare isn't fair to those who need the coverage.

Completely lacking in this stupid cycle is political leadership by House Speaker John Boehner. Rather than behaving like a House Speaker, Boehner looks more like the stupid ring leader of the dumb GOP members of Congress.

Tragically, Republicans don't seem to mind the "dumb" and "stupid" labels. Sadly, Republican indifference to ignorance is the most tragic label of all. They con't care about Americans who need an operational government, so long as they get their right wing way.

Dumb and stupid Congressional Republicans, with their ring leader John Boehner, are hurting America's economy. In so doing, they're eroding the fiscal security of our nation's middle class.

 

Middle class voters realize how a dysfunctional government that can't pay it's bills, because the debt ceiling is frozen, is bad for our economic security. Soon, voters will show the stupid and dumb Republicans how a smart electorate can vote these obstructionist idiots out of office. 

Meanwhile, Republicans must listen to the smart opinions of middle class people who are struggling to maintain economic security. 

We need to employ smart politicians in Congress, officials who will care and nurture our nation. 

America must rid our government of dumb and stupid politicians in the Republican Party. Dangerous right wing Republican politicians appear to be the dumb and stupid puppets of an even dumber extremist minority. They need to disappear and let the real Republican Party lead the nation's conservatives.

Right wing extremists who support a dumb government might find an island off the coast of the uninhabited Easter Island, where they can worship the icons created by another stupid bunch of people who created an obsession with rock formations, eons ago.  

Stupid politicians are better off leading rock formations, rather than allowing them to put our nation into a regressive cycle of dumb and dumber regressive economics.

Vitavitavegamin Alert! Republican Muted Outrage About Expensive Gifts to Virginia's Government Executives

"There you go again", as President Ronald Reagan said. Republicans are being stupid again.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) apologized again on Tuesday for embarrassing his state and announced that he and his family will be returning all gifts they received from Star Scientific CEO Jonnie R. Williams Sr. But his endorsed would-be successor, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) has not yet repaid any of the$18,000-plus worth of gifts he received from the same donor.

So, here's another fine mess Republicans have gotten themselves into. As Governor Jindal said, Republicans must stop being the stupid party.  

Unfortunately, Republicans aren't running out of ways to act stupid.  In Virginia, they're acting like men in the fable about the golden egg:

Virginia's Republican Governor AND the Lt. Governor are like two men obsessed with owning fabled golden eggs.  Rather than eggs, they've become obsessed with expensive gifts, lavished on them by a snake oil company called Star Scientific.  

Meanwhile, gifts from Star Scientific to the Governor and Lt. Governor are putting egg on the faces of all Virginia Republicans.  Even more outrageous, Star Scientific isn't even a credible company. Star Scientific doesn't sell defense jobs, or concrete to build bridges or even telescopes to look at stars.  

Oh no. Star Scientific is a stupid company. It sells what Lucy Arnez would call "vitavitavegamin", in her classic TV spoof of snake oil sales on the 1950's vintage "I Love Lucy" show.

But where's Republican outrage about this ridiculous misuse of privilege and undue influence over Virginia's two top execs?  Fox News surely isn't covering this stupidity.  For that matter, where are all mainstream media in reporting about this golden egg embarrassment?  MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, God Bless Her, is on top of it as well as a few blog sites.

Virginia's governor was forced to apologize about his stupidity. I suspect Lt. Governor Cuccinelli will eventually do likewise, but it seems a bit anti-climactic at this point.  I suspect he's thinking, by returning the gifts, that he's admitting being complicit in a kick back scandal because he once owned stock in Star Scientific.

In the absence of disclosure about accepting the outrageously expensive gifts, the two top Virginia government executives even lied about the situation.  They initially claimed the gifts were "inadvertent".  (Meaning, unintentional?  Since when is a gift "inadvertent"?)  

Incredulously, the two men seemed to be just fine with putting the state's political reputation as well as their credibility at risk. They're both risking ridicule and kickback investigations, rather than acknowledging being involved in a stupid scandal involving the "vitavitavegimin" Star Scientific.  

Here's the chicken poop inside the golden eggs, as reported in the 

blog "ThinkProgress" and on The Rachel Maddow Show:

Last week, McDonnell made his initial apology in a press release, announcing he and his family had repaid the more than $120,000 in loans Williams had made to McDonnell’s businesses. 

Tuesday, on WTOP radio’s Ask the Governor program, McDonnell announced they will also be returning tens of thousands worth of gifts they had received from him. These included a $6,500 Rolex watch (engraved “71st Governor of Virginia”) and $15,000 to pay for the catering at his daughter’s wedding reception. A federal grand jury and state investigation are looking into whether any of the gifts and loans were improper; McDonnell continues to deny breaking any laws.

But while McDonnell has now twice apologized and moved to return what he and his family received, Cuccinelli has been silent. While the Republican nominee has denied any involvement in the scandal, he alsoaccepted free lodging at his Williams’ homes, $6,711 worth of nutritional supplements, transportation to New York City and Kentucky, and anelaborate Thanksgiving dinner valued at $1,500. All totaled, Cuccinelli reported accepting at least $18,893 in gifts from Williams between 2009 and 2012.

Cuccinelli also initially failed to fully disclose the gifts he received from Williams — omissions he called “inadvertent.”

As of 2012, Star Scientific reported annual losses for a decade, but just one Virginia elected official or candidate invested upwards of $10,000 in the company: Cuccinelli. According to the Virginia Public Access Project, Star Scientific is the only significant holding he has reported since his first filing in 2003. Cuccinelli, whose position makes him the Commonwealth of Virginia’s lawyer, did not follow state disclosure law and disclose this investment in a timely manner. 

After the controversy became public, Cuccinelli sold off Star Scientific stock.  He'd have been better off investing on reruns of the "I Love Lucy".

There's a sucker born every minute.  Indeed, politicians are included in the cliche.  Unfortunately, Virginia voters are now thrown into the suckers vat, because their government leadership has now admitted to being leaders in the stupid party.  Virginia's Governor and Lt. Governor seemed to be more interested in supporting Star Scientific than being honest politicians.  

In fact, both men are stupid.  Let's see some outrage!