Your Teabaggers at Work

From Mahablog: if you vote for stupid, you get -- stupid.

Last month, House Republicans decided to hack the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by $126 $454 million. This is the parent agency of the National Weather Service, which in turn oversees the National Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii.

Democrats, on offense for a change, sent out a press release earlier this week pointing out that GOP budget cuts were defunding the tsunami warning system.

Now some Republicans are all huffy about that, saying Dems are playing a dirty trick. For example, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Washington) said that she only voted to cut the funding of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “There is nothing anywhere that states tsunami warnings systems should be cut,” her spokesperson said.

In other words, she voted for all those cuts without bothering to find out exactly what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration does, and what programs she might actually be axing. And she still doesn’t seem to know.

This is the Congress that came into office vowing jobs, jobs, jobs and "we'll fix the deficit -- right this minute." So far, all they've done is try to throw another million people out of work by cutting government programs. And you're not going to fix the deficit until you generate some revenue -- like going after the 25% of major corporations that paid no income tax on their record profits.

Well, those corporations have learned one lesson very well: you get what you pay for.