Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is facing calls for her ouster from a handful of House Republicans in the wake of a department memo that warned of right-wing political extremism in the United States.
“To me, it looks like the extremists are those running the DHS,” said Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn. “An official document of the DHS lists right-wing extremists as ‘groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration,’ and includes those ‘rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority.’ So, apparently, according to Homeland Security Department, the American ideal of federalism is a threat to American ideals.”
First of all, the GOP is just plain stupid for letting this broad anywhere near a microphone. She has proven to be ignorant and misleading.
And then there is Boner, damn…sorry…Boehner, the minority leader.
House Minority Leader John Boehner said it’s become clear to him that the idea of bipartisanship “was a ruse.”
“I think if you look at the first 100 days, you can sum it up pretty simply: spending, taxing, borrowing and ducking the hard choices,” Boehner said at a news conference Thursday.
Democratic policies, he said, are “going to hurt our economy and hurt jobs in America.”
Boehner keeps throwing the original talking points from day one of the Obama Admin….spending, taxing and borrowing. Hard choices? If Obama has not taken on the hard choices what would the GOP call the issues that have been addressed?
The Ohio Republican said Americans are “fed up with this unprecedented level of spending and borrowing that’ll imprison the future for our kids and their kids,” and he said the Republican Party has offered up better solutions in recent months.
Funny that is not what the polls are saying.
Obama’s job approval as president stands at 63% in a poll released this morning by the Washington-based Pew Research Center — with just 26% of those surveyed saying they disapprove of the way that Obama is handling his job.
The president draws a similar rating in a new poll conducted by the Associated Press and GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media: 64% job approval. The AP-GfK survey also finds, for the first time in five years, more Americans saying the nation is headed in the right direction than those who say it is not.
Those are just a few of the games the GOP is playing. They still seem oblivious to the fact that they are not doing the country any good. Theyt get their daily talking points and without much thought go out and echo whatever it is that is the NO-NO of the day.
It is all a game to the GOP, the problem is that they have NO idea how to play anymore. I guess this is the BEST that the GOP can come up with….sad turn of events for a once proud party.