"The best single idea for celebrating Mother's Day is Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour"

The best single idea I've seen for celebrating Mother's Day is raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, which would give an immediate raise to 4.7 million moms -- over one-fifth of all working mothers in America. But so-called "family values" Republicans apparently don't want to celebrate Mother's Day this way.

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Poll: Millions of Unemployed Americans Want Congress To Get To Bottom Of This Benghazi Thing First

MAY 9, 2014
POLL: MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO NEED JOBS WANT CONGRESS TO GET TO BOTTOM OF THIS BENGHAZI THING FIRST
POSTED BY ANDY BOROWITZ



Millions of unemployed Americans who have fruitlessly been looking for work for months are determined that Congress get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi, a new poll indicates.

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By a wide majority, respondents to the poll “strongly agreed” with the statement “I would really like to find a job, but not if it in any way distracts Congress from my No. 1 concern: finding out what really happened in Benghazi.”

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In related findings, a survey of Americans found that taxpayers overwhelmingly consider Benghazi hearings to be the best use of taxpayer money, well ahead of schools, roads, and infant nutrition.

In the House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner released the following statement: “I want to reassure the American people that, until we have completed our Benghazi investigations, there will be absolutely no action on job creation, infrastructure, immigration, education, housing, or food.”



MORE (yes, snark):
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/05/poll-millions-of-americans-who-need-jobs-want-congress-to-get-to-bottom-of-this-benghazi-thing-first.html?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter&mbid=social_twitter

NYT:Dems Debating Whether To Participate In Benghazi Committee-Shouldn't Hesitate To Skip This Farce

Center Ring at the Republican Circus
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDMAY 8, 2014

..............................They won’t pass a serious jobs bill, or raise the minimum wage, or reform immigration, but House Republicans think they can earn their pay for the rest of the year by exposing nonexistent malfeasance on the part of the Obama administration. On Thursday, they voted to create a committee to spend “such sums as may be necessary” to conduct an investigation of the 2012 attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The day before, they voted to hold in contempt Lois Lerner, the former Internal Revenue Service official whom they would love to blame for the administration’s crackdown on conservative groups, if only they could prove there was a crackdown, which they can’t, because there wasn’t.

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Republicans are frothing about a newly released email message showing that the White House wanted Susan Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations at the time, to go on television in 2012 and make the case that the attack was not a failure of administration policy. The message should have been turned over earlier because all it shows is a routine attempt to spin the news in the most favorable way to the White House. Though it is not the slightest evidence of a cover-up, it has become the foundation for the committee’s existence. Demonstrating the panel’s true purpose, Republican political operatives are already raising money by stoking donor anger on Benghazi.

Democrats who are now debating whether to participate in the committee shouldn’t hesitate to skip it. Their presence would only lend legitimacy to a farce.

Similarly, the Justice Department should not press Ms. Lerner’s contempt citation before a grand jury. She invoked her Fifth Amendment rights at a hearing last year and refused to testify, but Republicans claim, without foundation, that she waived those rights by first proclaiming her innocence. Her refusal, they said, was contemptuous of Congress. Little nuisances like constitutional rights or basic facts can’t be allowed to stand in the way when House Republicans need to whip up their party’s fury.



MORE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/opinion/center-ring-at-the-republican-circus.html?ref=opinion&_r=1

FOX/GOP running scared shouting "Benghazi" at top of lungs

Amanda Hess Eviscerates Maureen Dowd For Spectacular Cruelty Against Monica Lewinsky

* Amanda Hess eviscerates New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for the spectacularly cruel way Dowd wrote about Monica Lewinsky over the years:

“Ditsy, Predatory White House Intern”

Looking back on how Maureen Dowd painted Monica Lewinsky as a crazy bimbo—and won a Pulitzer for it. the occasion of Lewinsky’s reappearance, Dowd has this to say:

“It was like a Golden Oldie tour of a band you didn’t want to hear in the first place.” What Dowd doesn’t seem to get: She was the one beating the drum.

When in Doubt: #Benghazi

Fox News used images of 'random sad Asians' in South Korea ferry report

"Why can't they carry guns in prison? That's where you need them! That place is full of criminals!"

Last night, Stephen Colbert took aim at Georgia's new "guns everywhere" law.

This is what politicians debating global warming will look like soon...

Sarah DoughertyMarch 26, 2014 12:49

This is what politicians debating global warming will look like soon
Awesome new street art unintentionally shames our leaders into paying attention to climate change.



MORE
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/culture-lifestyle/140325/street-art-politicians-discussing-global-warming

TOLES! --- "What The Court Gives To Whom":

EXACTLY!!!

http://www.gocomics.com/tomtoles/2014/05/07