Them!

Weepin' John Boehner decided it had been a while since he had stepped on his dick in public, so he decided to open his mouth and remind everyone why he shouldn't be allowed to to run a roadside frogurt stand.

In between calling for rebellion, noting that the groundswell for rebellion was greater now than at any point since 1776, calling for the retirement age to be raised to 70 so the GOP can pay for all the wars they want to wage, whining on behalf of BP, crying over health reform, and talkin' big about how he's gonna kill it, he decided to muster up that extra bit of gumption to really shill for the financial industry and the mean nasty government that's trying to regulate them because they destroyed the world economy.

Boehner criticized the financial regulatory overhaul compromise reached last week between House and Senate negotiators as an overreaction to the financial crisis that triggered the recession.

“This is killing an ant with a nuclear weapon,” Boehner said.

Oh, the poor defenseless financial giants. When will government stop looking out for them 99% of the time and start looking out for them 100% of the time. They're just a tiny little ant being menaced by government.

Yeah, ants.



Nuclear irradiated ants that will kill and eat us all unless we mobilize the government to smash them into irradiated ant paste. Boehner made a pretty apt metaphor... as long as you make it correspond to 50's monster movies. Although if this example were real, our government would decide to partner with the giant nuclear ants to regulate the giant nuclear ants. Then the large irradiated ant-loving Boehner would bitch that we weren't turning enough of our society over to our radioactive Vespoidean overlords.

The largest financial crisis since the Depression. Ants. Someone hit him.

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There is industry shilling and then there is INDUSTRY SHILLING. Joe Lucas, vice president of communications for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, an organization that advocates for something that is an utter myth, decided to take the latter form of industry shilling and add a few exclamation points, a siren, and took it to Blingee to add in some glitter graphics.

I can take you to places in eastern Kentucky where community services were hampered because of a lack of flat space — to build factories, to build hospitals, even to build schools. In many places, mountain-top mining, if done responsibly, allows for land to be developed for community space.

Ah yes, mountain-top mining isn't an ultra destructive form of mining where they just detonate the tops of mines and push the rubble into the valleys below, completely obliterating the surrounding environment. It certainly isn't referred to as the Rape of Appalachia. No, it's just a nice way to get a little extra flat space after that asshole God decided to put a mountain range on top of all that delicious coal.

And really we've all heard about those thriving communities and cities built on top of a flattened mountain. Well actually we haven't, but we have heard about environmental and economic devastation, deformed fish, and people suffering from selenium poisoning, though. Who doesn't enjoy a massive dose of selenium every now and then? Keep up the good work Joe. First you can't admit coal pollutes, now this. Soon you'll be advocating the consumption of coal for breakfast. I await your greed obsessed justification.