Raising 'Bat-S***-Crazy" to an art-form...

You can't make this stuff up...

Rand Paul Fetal Personhood Amendment Stalls Flood Insurance Bill (UPDATE)

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) moved this week to hold a noncontroversial flood insurance bill hostage until the Senate agrees that life begins at fertilization.

The bill, which would financially boost the National Flood Insurance Program on the cusp of hurricane season, had been expected to pass easily in the Senate. But since Paul on Monday offered an unrelated "fetal personhood" amendment, which would give legal protections to fetuses from the moment of fertilization, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is threatening to halt progress on the legislation.

"I'm told last night that one of our Republican senators wants to offer an amendment -- listen to this one -- wants to offer an amendment on when life begins," Reid said on the Senate floor Tuesday. "I am not going to put up with that on flood insurance. I can be condemned by outside sources; my friends can say, 'Let them have a vote on it.' There will not be a vote on that on flood insurance. We'll either do flood insurance with the amendments that deal with flood insurance, or we won't do it. We'll have an extension."

Reid has allowed Republicans to attach unrelated amendments to other important bills in the past few months. Most notably, he let the Senate vote on a contraception-related amendment, proposed by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), to a transportation bill. But Reid called Paul's measure "ridiculous" and "outlandish," and asked Republicans to deal with him on "their side of the aisle."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/2 ... f=politics

So, lessee...We've got Rand Paul trying to attach "fetal-personhood" to a Flood Insurance bill...

We've got Orrin Hatch beating back the Teabagger candidate in the primaries...

We've got Charlie Rangel fighting off a primary challenger that was backed by the Teabaggers...

We've got Florida Governor, Rick Scott Smacked Down By Florida Judge Over Law Targeting Firms With Cuba, Syria Ties

We've got a "Conservative Candidate That Could Lose Support Over 'Non-Issue'" (A woman GOP lawmaker that is legally married to another woman...) Ooopsie, we can't have THAT!! Even if she's qualified, what would the Family Research Council & Tony Perkins say?; what would the American Family Association and Donald Wildmon say?; what would Franklin Graham and Baptists say? Dang...It's tough when you can't make a decision without getting permission from all the wing-nuts...

We've got a Teabagger senatorial candidate in Ohio busted for getting caught telling a lie about his opponent, and then yelling at the reporter who caught him as being "Out of touch with reality"...

(Hmmmm... Looks like the Teabaggers have lost their mojo....)

You CAN NOT make this sh*t up... rofllol

Yes, I didn't think you had anything intelligent to say about any of the stories... What is it that Toadie likes to say, "Pathetic but predictable."

Keep on defending your hero, Charlie Wrangel! Every Dem politician should aspire to run a clean as operation as he does.

I'm not defending him... I think he's a crook. Interesting how the teabaggers couldn't put together enough of a coalition to beat him in an election....isn't it....

Yes, and the GOP politicians should aspire to be as clean as:

* Randy “Duke” Cunningham – Former Congressman; Sentenced to, and is currently serving an 8 year sentence for graft, fraud, corruption.

* Bob Ney – Former Congressman, sentenced to 30 months for conspiracy, graft, corruption, making false statements to federal law enforcement.

* Tom DeLay – Former Congressman, under indictment for criminal conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws, awaiting trial.

* Sen. Larry Craig, (R-ID) – Senator from Idaho, plead guilty to soliciting sex in a men’s restroom in an airport. (A longtime foe of GLBT rights in Idaho, Craig paid more than $500 in fines and fees related to the misdemeanor charge and was given one year of probation.)

* Lewis “Scooter” Libby – Former Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense; key neocon figure resigned and was convicted for obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury, two counts of making false statements to federal law enforcement, and leaking CIA information about Valeria Plame to the media as payback for her husband’s exposing of the Bush administrations lies. (Sentence of 30-months conveniently commuted by Bush because it was “too harsh.”)

* Jack Abramoff – Republican political lobbyist, political activist; plead guilty to three felony counts related to defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials; (see: Randy “Duke” Cunningham, and Bob Ney—among others). Sentenced to, and is currently serving a 5 year, 10 month sentence.

* Rep. Mark Foley, (R-FL) – Former 6-term congressman; resigned after being exposed for soliciting sex with male pages in the Congress; (The uproar ultimate costs House Speaker Dennis Hastert his leadership post.)

* Rick Renzi – GOP Congressman, indicted for extortion, wire-fraud, money laundering, and other charges related to a land deal in Arizona. A 26-page federal indictment unsealed in Arizona accuses Renzi and two former business partners of conspiring to promote the sale of land that buyers could swap for property owned by the federal government. The sale netted one of Renzi's former partners $4.5 million.

The list goes on and on....doesn't it...

Interesting that the Dems couldn't find a more ethical candidate to run against him in the primary.

Interesting how the teabaggers couldn't put together enough of a coalition to beat him in an election....isn't it...

Jack Abramhoff wasn't elected.

And in the grand scheme of things, you rate that as "important"?

Grasping at straws there, Walking Eagle?

So Reid has found another excuse not to move legislation forward in the Senate? Why yes, I would definitely consider him one of the "progressives" with bats in his belfry and a cranium full of guano. Any vote on such an amendment is bound to fail, especially considering that the Democrats still enjoy the majority in that chamber of the Congress, so Reid has other reasons for not allowing a vote on the amendment to the bill.

Not sure why Reid's decision equates to Senator Paul being the one responsible for the holdup. Responsibility for whether or not the bill moves forward for a vote on both the amendment and the bill are squarely on Reid's shoulders, not Paul's.