August 4, 2008
DAS GUBINATOR TERMINATORS DA JOBS
Schwarzenegger cuts state worker jobs, moves to cut pay
By Kevin Yamamura – kyamamura@sacbee.com
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order today eliminating jobs for an estimated 10,300 temporary state employees and reducing pay for about 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 per hour, portraying it as a stopgap measure to ensure the state can pay its bills without a state budget.
August 3, 2008
WE’RE DYIN’ HERE FOLKS!
GOP Senators filibuster Defense bill for their oil company benefactors
makeprofilelink(“Joe Sudbay (DC)”); Joe Sudbay (DC) · 7/31/2008 10:07:00 PM ET
Wow.Just when you think the GOP Senate obstructionists can’t sink any lower, they do. Brandon Friedman at VetVoice posed the question: “Will Senate Republicans Vote Against the Troops?”
We have our answer. Yes, the Senate Republicans did vote against the troops.
McCain Doublethinks His Position On Taxes – Again
George Orwell, Meet John McCain – He’s Somewhere Over There in That Pile of Horse Pucky – Oh, Wait, I Mean Over There…
Weren’t taxes the only issue McCain hasn’t flipped like a steelhead out of water on – I mean for a year or so anyway. Then, within a week, the old codpiece flips to “nothing’s off the table” regarding taxes and then flops back to “I won’t” raise taxes. Sweet Cheesus on a Ritz cracker, I need a neck-brace.
Hasn’t Cap’n McNasty set some kind of land-speed record for political flip-flops by now?
As George Zornick clarifies at Altercation August 1st:
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