Big Chicken

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Chris Christie is attempting to make a poltical comeback and restore his 2016 prospects with a visit to New Hampshire this weekend. Christie has endured a tough Winter with his favorablility rating among Republicans at a miniscule 31%. He has also been at

Charles Pierce on Chris Christie’s new proposal to slash Social Security and Medicare:

The really hilarious part is that Christie is pitching his personal form of granny-starving as a boon to younger Americans, because what is a more obvious solution to the problem of unemployed American youth than to propose a policy that guarantees that American workers will stay on the job until they are nearly 70, and that only works if you assume that every human-resources department in the country will be raptured off to cost-cutting heaven and not notice the line of septuagenarians working on the factory floor? Bold! Again! There is something entirely sick about the desire among our political elites to make the lives of the poor and elderly worse so as to demonstrate how important and serious those elites are. There is a consensus here that exists some place outside the world in which most people live.

Marco Rubio can’t even commit to a church

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US Senator of Florida Marco Rubio

Yes, the senator Formerly Known As Mark is torn between two lovers. Probably because both churches account for a sizable number of Republican primary voters? Or am I too cynical?

As detailed in a report for Truth Wins Out by researcher Bruce Wilson, Rubio has been, in an act of meta-pandering, pretty much every kind of Christian there is. Follow this bouncing Jesus ball if you can: Rubio was baptized Catholic, cheated on the Catholics with the Mormons as a kid, but turned back three years later. Then he cheated on the Pope again sometime just before 9/11, for four years, with an insanely conservative Baptist church, but then he went back to Catholicism. But he never stopped two-timing the Virgin Mary with the Baptists. Make sense? Not really!

During his Protestant years, Rubio revealed in his 2012 memoir, he nonetheless “craved, literally, the Most Blessed Sacrament, Holy Communion” (of the Catholic Church.) So, the rising GOP star found a practical, buffet-style solution. Rubio divulged that on Saturday nights he brings his family to worship at Christ Fellowship, and on Sunday the Rubio family attends St. Louis Catholic Church.

He craved it! LITERALLY! This is probably because Catholic Jesus does this fancy thing where He turns the wine into His own blood during Mass, whereas the Baptists just have to suck on some grape juice and pretend it even counts. So we see that Rubio is in an open relationship with the Lord. He’s married to Catholic Jesus, from whom he gets his legislative inspiration, but he gets Saturday nights with the hot, demon-wrasslin’, gay-bashin’ young earth creationist Jesus, at the Christ Fellowship in Miami, to which he has reportedly given over $50,000 over the years.

If you have a streaming device, check out Amazon Prime’s “Alpha House,” in which a thinly-veiled veiled Sen. Andy Guzman is strongly suggestive of Marco Rubio. Great show.

Just plain evil

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speeding ticket

I don’t even know what to say. No wonder the rich keep getting richer:

Minutes after a court sentenced Adel Edwards to pay a $500 fine for burning leaves in his yard without a permit, the private probation company tasked with supervising his monthly payments told him he actually owed more than $1,000 and demanded $250 up front. Because Edwards couldn’t pay the full amount on the spot, the company had him thrown in jail for several days until a friend came up with the money, according to a new federal lawsuit.

The suit, filed by the Southern Center for Human Rights, charges that Red Hills Community Probation conspired with local police in two small Georgia towns to jail poor people without any court approval or legal authority, effectively holding them for ransom.

The plaintiffs, who live in Bainbridge and Pelham, GA, were ordered by the court to pay exorbitant fees for misdemeanor offenses. Edwards pleaded guilty to burning leaves, while others were told they needed to pay hundreds of dollars for speeding, failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign, and driving with a suspended registration.
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This is a tough one

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Rally to End Poverty, Not Democracy

I wonder what side she’ll come down on. Obama is really pushing hard for this, not sure she can bring herself to alienate him. But then again, if she doesn’t oppose it, she’s going to alienate a big chunk of the base:

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union urged Congress today to defeat fast-track legislation and the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact, both supported by President Obama. Worse for Clinton, union chief Marc Perrone issued a thinly veiled threat to Democratic politicians who defy his members.

“Given all we know, how any elected official, Democrat or Republican, can support TPP is inexplicable,” the union’s new president wrote in an op-ed for The Hill. “Let me be very clear, no elected official, regardless of political party, who is truly interested in making the economy better and fairer, can responsibly support the TPP. Simply put, this trade deal, like so many others, is bad for our workers, families, and shared future.”

The move is a blow to Obama because the UFCW has a history of being open to trade deals; Perrone was lobbied heavily by the White House. More significant: The union is among the top donors to Democratic congressional candidates, contributing $1.7 million to Obama’s party last cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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