Don't you just love seppo's

JGK wrote:This guy

http://www.news.com.au/business/markets/meet-ted-cruz-the-man-who-forced-the-united-states-government-to-shut-down/story-e6frfm30-1226731365330

Ah, he was the qunt that spoke for 20+ hours to stymie a vote a while back. Aye, qunt.

PeterCS wrote:

skully wrote:poofist.

And you could read that two ways as well - depending on which way the "f" breaks.

Do you have German heritage, Petey?

Not really.

Are you thinking of the Whiffenpoof Song?

I think he's thinking more about a certain subgenre of movies he might have watched online, late at night, alone.

Sick minds think alike, MrK.

Not my taste of vid, but admit to having taken a peek once or twice.

Interesting listening to the Republicans bleating that the US people not wanting Obamacare is the reason for their big-headedness in the current stand-off. Er, what? Didn't Obama (and his policies) win in a relative landslide?

skully wrote:Interesting listening to the Republicans bleating that the US people not wanting Obamacare is the reason for their big-headedness in the current stand-off. Er, what? Didn't Obama (and his policies) win in a relative landslide?

Not if you ask Karl Rove who probably still thinks that a recount would give the GOP the win.

What do you expect of religious fundamentalists - their ability for self-delusion is immense.

Aye. Must be exceedingly aggravating for the average US punter.

And that obviously should've read "pig-headedness" in the earlier quote, although they are a pack of boofheads.

You'd shoot him if it didn't probably mean a surge for the extremists.

And how about that thunderbitch Michelle Bachmann:

“We’re very excited,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). “It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it.”

Aye. What a psycho she is.  

surprised with that S....Bachmann is classic centre of the Lib Party in Oz

My opinion is not about ideology, h, it's about witnessed performance. She's an idiotic one-track extremist like Milne and SHY.

aye...no argument from me...but that is what the Libs are made of...she and kev andrews see the world the same way...

her role in the blocking of the budget reflect the born to rule entitlement values endemic in your party...ljh et al have always been happy to block supply

We shall agree to disagree on that one, h.  

 

Great stuff from Esquire:

We have elected a national legislature in which the true power resides in a cabal of vandals, a nihilistic brigade that believes that its opposition to a bill directing millions of new customers to the nation's insurance companies is the equivalent of standing up to the Nazis in 1938, to the bravery of the passengers on Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, and to Mel Gibson's account of the Scottish Wars of Independence in the 13th Century.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Shutdown_Blues

Hehehe, noice.  

it is staggering that the seppos spend a far greater share of GDP on health that Oz does, but millions cannot afford hospital while we have a universal platform...despite the inroads of insurers, we have a far more efficient and equitable system

"Total health spending accounted for 8.9% of GDP in Australia in 2010-11, slightly lower than the
average of 9.3% in OECD countries in 2011. Health spending as a share of GDP is lower in Australia
than in the United States (which spent 17.7% of its GDP on health in 2011) and in a number of
European countries including the Netherlands (11.9%), France (11.6%) and Germany (11.3%)."

from an OECD health briefing

Do yourself a favour and read the link at the bottom of the article where he looks at some of the specific Tea Partyers and some of their more farked up views.

eg:

At a town hall meeting in El Dorado Hills, California on Tuesday, a constituent asked McClintock for his "stance on Wall Street criminal practices." The congressman responded, "Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It's pretty simple."



During a recent House Agriculture Committee debate over the Farm Bill (which contains the food stamp budget), Vargas, citing the Book of Matthew, noted, "[Jesus] says how you treat the least among us, the least of our brothers, that's how you treat him." Vargas also noted that Jesus directly mentions the importance of feeding the hungry. Not to be outdone by a Godless Democrat, Congressman Fincher responded with his own Bible quote taken from the Book of Thessalonians -- "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."


...but during a local radio interview on "94.3 The Talker," Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) went a step further, telling the David Madeira Show that "If the chief law enforcer of the country ... will not enforce the law, and the president decides to break the law because he doesn't like it, there has to be another mechanism by which we in Congress can kick into gear, pursue this, see if there are criminal charges we can file." He added that he plans to "approach leadership and say we need to appoint a special committee like there was in Watergate that has authority to subpoena people, that has authority to investigate; and, I'm looking for a part of a statute that says we have the authority to indict."

Actually, the "statute" under which your present institution operates is called the Constitution Of The United States and in it, there is a provision that gives you "the authority to indict." It is called impeachment.

madness

from the country that keeps scaring the world when we're not laughing at them comes the mobilebug-gate affair...bugging the phones of 35 world leaders inc the redoubtable Ms Merkel....what were they thinking?

"If my telephone was intercepted when I was prime minister, all that anybody would have heard would have been praise for president Obama," Gillard said.

aye I saw that...what was she thinking?