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Earth to Republicans: Curing STDs Would Probably Be a Good Thing

User Image pontiff | February 27, 2009
On Morning Edition this morning, there was a story about the annual Conservative Political Action Conference which contained a line which made me guffaw:Representative Paul Ryan: "[rant on spending in stimulus plan]...$400 million dollars to study sexually transmitted diseases!" [rant on about how his daughter is more responsible that President Obama] Oh my! The horror. Actually spending money studying diseases that infect 65 million U.S. citizens. Yes Rep. Ryan, it would be a real shame if that money improved the lives of those 65 million people (and maybe it might even help, you know,…

First it was bear paternity tests, now it is volcano monitoring

gregladen | February 25, 2009
When will the madness end? When the Republicans dry up and blow away, of course. In the Republican response to Obama's State of the Union 2.0 address, by Bobby Jindal, governer of Louisiana, we heard this: "Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C.," The reason why volcanoes have been picked out of some speech writer's anal sphincter zone is because they erupt and they wanted the metaphor. Or because Jindal believes he has no volcanoes in his state (but he would be wrong) or because of some other rhetorical reason…