{"id":25642,"date":"2013-10-09T18:19:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=25642"},"modified":"2013-10-09T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T08:19:14","slug":"gop-reps-if-they-had-another-brain-it-would-be-lonely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=25642","title":{"rendered":"GOP reps – if they had another brain it would be lonely"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI have been watching in my spare time (yes) the 2010 first season of the HBO series – The Newsroom<\/a> – which could be about events in US this week, so persistent has been the moronic behaviour that nations’ polity. There is growing evidence that the US Republicans are now an extremist party with a substantially tenuous grip on reality. They clearly do not understand that an economic depression is likely to follow their refusal to prevent the US Treasury to continue spending according to the current laws that the US Congress passed and which, together with the tax code, determine the current deficit. They clearly do not understand how deficits arise and the function they serve. The US might hold themselves out to be the world leaders in a range of areas but this debate is revealing how stupid the government representatives have become.
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\nBefore we start, there was a hilarious segment in Episode Three between the anchor and two starry-eyed Tea Party advocates, which explored where the Tea Party was getting its funding from, given they were representing themselves as a grass-roots swell of ordinary folks determined to regain their freedom from a despotic government.<\/p>\n

At one point the two TPs were whether they had heard about Koch Industries. One of the starry-eyed tea partier replied: “Are you talking about Coca Cola?”.<\/p>\n

Here is the little 2:16 segment.<\/p>\n