Afghanistan, Eight Years Later

Today is the eight-year anniversary of the beginning of the war against Islamic terrorism's Afghan theatre, and the public is growing skeptical on whether the United States is helping to build a stable democracy.  That never should have been the goal.  Obama is still trying to figure out his policy on Afghanistan.

 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is probably going to make the ObamaCare bill an amendment to an unrelated tax bill that the House passed in March.  The problem is that everything that ObamaCare wants to do has already been tried at the state level, and failed.

 

The General Accounting Office found $63 million in Medicaid fraud in just five states.  Medicare knowingly overpays for everything that it purchases, so how is expanding this to everybody supposed to save money?  Democrats want to pay for it by taxing breast pumps and other medical devices.

 

Unfortunately for Democrats, a majority of voters oppose penalties for not getting health insurance.

 

Republicans attempted to remove tax cheat Rep. Charles Rangel from his position as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and Democrats defeated the resolution.  Both Rep. Jim Marshall and Rep. Sanford Bishop voted to defend Rangel.

 

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, when not teaching people how to sneeze, is trying to force everybody to get the swine flu vaccine.

 

Remember when this Congress was supposed to be the hardest-working Congress in history?  They're only in session about two and a half days a week.

 

The Heritage Foundation's Brian Riedl has 50 examples of government waste.

 

Is the United States preparing to bomb Iran?  Not the guy who has to pull the trigger.

 

Nancy Pelosi says that a VAT is on the table.  Here's why it would be dangerous to the United States' economy.

 

Attorney General Eric Holder personally intervened to make sure that the Kenya and Tanzania Embassy bomber won't get the death penalty when he is brought to the United States for prosecution.

 

Parasites mobbed a city event in Detroit where your tax dollars were being handed out.  It's a shame voter registration cards weren't destroyed at the same time.

 

Some school kids in Idaho had the earliest snow day ever, while ski resorts in Colorado and Las Vegas are having their earliest openings ever.  Arctic ice continues to grow.  It must be all of that global warming, but we may never know because the federally-funded research unit destroyed the raw data that it used to come up with the global warming theory.

 

 

An Australian comedy TV show featured a man pleasuring himself to a picture of President Obama.  In other words, he was doing his best Chris Matthews impression.

 

The state still plans to appeal the decision saying that rain that falls in the northeastern part of Georgia belongs to Alabama and Florida.

 

Jim Oxendine, father of John "the Fascist" Oxendine, resigned his judgeship in Gwinnett County under investigation.

 

Rep. Nathan Deal has decided to stop doing business with the state.  He's made a lot of money with a government contract.

 

A teenager in Cobb County was told that he's not allowed to dress like a female at school.  Actually, this makes sense.

 

That woman who gave birth in the bathroom at Houston Medical Center killed the child before leaving it.

 

Warner Robins is hosting the state NAACP convention starting today.  I knew I saw more chrome rims than usual today…

 

Houston County is going to start handing out coupons for weather radios.  These are a waste of money.

 

Parasites that lost any food that we paid for in the flood will get to have us pay to replace it.

 

Rep. Jim Marshall will have another town hall meeting in Dublin on Saturday.