Man! Dude! Session #249

(M)an: Dude! The Congressional Republicans under John Boehner convened in Washington, DC for 126 days in 2013. The House of Representatives members were basically paid $1,380.95 per day with benefits despite having taken 239 days off from Capitol Hill in order to tend to supposed district business in their home states. And John Boehner took home $223,500 because of his speakership.

(D)ude: Man! The Republican Party is stating that extending unemployment benefits will cost US $25 billion dollars. Come on! The Republican Party deliberately set forth sequestration cuts and the government shutdown that lasted 16 days and cost US $24 billion dollars. The obstructionist inaction on part of Republican House Speaker John Boehner and his caucus burned the same amount of money that United States citizens need right now to get through the dastardly weather conditions winter’s set forth in front of US in the Midwest and the Northeast.  

M: Dude! There are families going without electricity for over a week now in places where the snow and ice have torn down power lines. Eight deaths have been reported in such darkness thus far due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Apparently, when you use generators exclusively to heat your home in brutal winters, you must refill the devices with fuel often and folks tend to forget to do so in an open-air environment and can die within minutes due to hazardous fumes.     

D: Man! The Republican Party members in the House and Senate have turned their backs on the disenfranchised and the United States Press Corps is a brownnosing flub that cannot be trusted exclusively. These days, England provides better press coverage of the calamities American households are facing in midst of House Speaker John Boehner’s refusal to bring to the floor of Congress issues affecting the most vulnerable in the United States. That is the Republican strategy now: President Obama did not negotiate on the backs of the poor, working, and middle classers and, therefore, the American people are suffering. Come on! House Speaker John Boehner and his Republican colleagues are convinced that is the winning strategy.     

M: Dude! If President Obama has compromised on the backs of the poor, working, and middle classers through negotiating deals like the kind President Clinton negotiated with then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, Speaker John Boehner would have proceeded to impeach President Obama as well on charges that what was negotiated was a really bad deal on part of the President of the United States for the American people.

D: Man! Scalp hair is so priceless for so many that I cannot bring myself to express my rage by stating that I could tear my hair out. But how the Republican Party has deferred to obstructing all the communication pathways on Capitol Hill is noxious. George W. Bush extended federal benefits in 2008, permitting the cycle of care and consideration that have allowed the jobless to collect as much as 99 weeks of unemployment checks, but that too has dropped down to 73 weeks in some states.      

M: Dude! Bloomberg News is the source you’re referencing. Michael Bloomberg is a respectable billionaire with two wonderful daughters who have an actual heartfelt interest in mobilizing disenfranchised children and their families. I think one of Bloomberg’s daughters is a competitor expert in horsemanship and has tried to bring the game to inner city youth who would never have the opportunity otherwise. Cannot say the same about the Koch brothers. David and Charles Koch are heartless cronies that waddle around like Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck’s maternal uncle. I think Joan Rivers and Rand Paul have directly quoted Scrooge McDuck in the case of the former and expressed a similar chill towards all of humanity in the case of the latter. “Me- I’m different! Everybody hates me, and I hate everybody!” goes perfectly with Rivers’ latest book title and comedy tour. “That’s the trouble with you young scalawags of today… You expect to start in at the top instead of working up from the bottom, like I did!” sums up the Republican mindset.    

D: Man! I’m doing some calculations of my own right now about how much money was wasted as a result of the House Republicans choosing to only show up in Washington, DC for business for 126 days this year, thirty days less than what the calendar usually allots legislators, which is 156 days. Eric Cantor is responsible for having chopped off 30 days from the 2013 calendar.  

M: Dude! Darrell Issa is reintroducing the Benghazi, Libya tragedy into the 2014 calendar already. This Benghazi obsession of the Republican Party is costing taxpayer money that ought to be invested in relieving the horrors brought on by the winter storms in places like New York and Maine and Pennsylvania, and the Great Plains. Or, the least the Republican Obstructionists could do is to implement an action plan to prevent people from having to take on the double threat of insecurity by at least allowing unemployment benefits to last throughout the winter and spring so that the stress to survive is somewhat less strenuous then than now.   

D: Man! There are 234 Republican House members in Congress right now receiving $174,000 salaries. Take those numbers and consider that this 113^th Congress took 30 days off than usual, you can calculate that for 156 days of work they would have made approximately $1,115.38 per day. But they only put in 126 days in Washington, DC in 2013 and therefore made $1,380.95 per day.

M: Dude! They owe US approximately $33,461.40 to $41,428.50 per Republican House Obstructionist member! That’s $7.83 million to $9.69 million in wasted money by the House Republican Obstructionists!

D: Man! Multiply $7.83 million by 5 years worth of Republican Obstructionism and multiply $9.69 million by 5 years worth of Republican Obstructionism there as well too, that’s like 38 and point something-something million to 48 and point something-something million that Eric Cantor and his party owe the American people.  

M: Dude! Add enough interest to all that, and that $25 billion dollar price tag seems worthwhile after all the weather and economic disasters that the Republican Obstructionists have tried to drill into the American conscience.

D: Man! And what about the places Pope Francis I prayed for in his Christmas address on Wednesday?

M: Dude! “The embrace of God does not wound” and “All religions are true” must be hammered into the Republican Obstructionist conscience somehow. However, there is another way as well: Vote the Republican Obstructionists out of office.

D: Man! All the 2014 elections coverage and background you need is on Wikipedia! I guess the Koch Brothers haven’t gotten to them yet!

M: Dude! Ora pro nobis!