<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Hell In A Basket &#187; Congress</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.hellin-abasket.com/tag/congress/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.hellin-abasket.com</link>
	<description>Rants, Raves, Pieces of My Mind</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:28:10 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Weinergate?????</title>
		<link>http://www.hellin-abasket.com/weinergate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hellin-abasket.com/weinergate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OH Hell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I couldn't resist...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Government is run by Idiots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thumbs Down - The gene pool needs some chlorine added.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Weiner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics Violations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weinergate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hellin-abasket.com/?p=1213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="fblikebutton_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;">
			<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hellin-abasket.com%2Fweinergate%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=dark" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px"></iframe>
		</div>
<p>Rep. Anthony Weiner refused to answer questions about how a photo of an erect penis covered by boxer briefs  ended up on his Twitter account over the weekend.  Instead, he has  hired a lawyer.  Law enforcement hasn&#8217;t been asked to investigate his allegations of fraudulent access to his Twitter account. Originally, he claimed he was sending a private message to a 21-year-old Seattle co-ed, and mis-typed, sending it instead to all of his followers on his Twitter account.  Oops.</p>
<p>Then he claimed it wasn&#8217;t HIS crotch that was tweeted. His account MUST HAVE BEEN HACKED!!! (But he isn&#8217;t doing anything about it&#8230;). And since he is a dimacrat,  I don&#8217;t expect he will face any questions from the Ethics Committee.</p>
<p>I wonder what his wife thinks about his tweeting crotch?</p>
<div>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/31/rep-anthony-weiner-refuses-to-say-if-lewd-twitter-photo-was-of-him/#ixzz1NzG9Dbsr"></a></div>
<div>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/31/rep-anthony-weiner-refuses-to-say-if-lewd-twitter-photo-was-of-him/#ixzz1NzFsmcQa"></a></div>
<p class="buymebeer"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" target="paypal" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick" /><input type="hidden" name="business" value="goatsource9@cowisp.net" /><input type="hidden" name="return" value="" /><input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Buy Me a Beer for Weinergate?????" /><input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD" /><input type="hidden" name="amount" value="" /><input type="image" src="http://www.hellin-abasket.com/wp-content/plugins/buy-me-beer/icon_beer.gif" align="left" alt="" title="" hspace="3" /></form><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=goatsource9@cowisp.net&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;amount=&amp;return=&amp;item_name=Buy+Me+a+Beer+for+Weinergate?????" target="paypal"></a></p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.hellin-abasket.com/weinergate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Higher Taxes = Lower Deficit&#8230;right?</title>
		<link>http://www.hellin-abasket.com/higher-taxes-lower-deficit-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hellin-abasket.com/higher-taxes-lower-deficit-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OH Hell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I want to smack someone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Government is run by Idiots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hellin-abasket.com/?p=1134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="fblikebutton_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;">
			<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hellin-abasket.com%2Fhigher-taxes-lower-deficit-right%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=dark" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px"></iframe>
		</div>
<p>Not really.</p>
<p>For every dollar in new taxes, you can expect the government to spend $1.17. This doesn&#8217;t look like they are saving anything here to me. Does it to you?</p>
<p>Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of the president&#8217;s deficit reduction  commission, suggested at a briefing several months ago that there will  be $3 of spending cuts for every $1 of tax increases. President   Reagan  waited his entire presidency for the $3  of spending cuts that Congress promised for every dollar of new taxes he  agreed to in 1982. The cuts never came. What a shocking surprise!!</p>
<p>Draft recommendations of the president&#8217;s commission on deficit  reduction call for closing popular tax deductions, higher gas taxes and  other revenue raisers to drive tax collections up to 21% of GDP from the  historical norm of about 18.5%.</p>
<p>Another plan, proposed last week by  commission member and former Congressional Budget Office director, Alice  Rivlin, would impose a 6.5% national sales tax on consumers. Now I wouldn&#8217;t mind a national sales tax <strong>IF </strong>Congress immediately abolished the IRS,  completely dumped the income tax and the attendant paperwork clusterfuck, and all the other bullshit forms of taxation they have saddled us with in the last 200 years or so. Of course, I haven&#8217;t run any of the numbers on this, so I have no idea if it would work or not. But then Congress never bothers to do their homework either, so why should I?</p>
<p>What is boils down to is the morons running the government can&#8217;t fix what they have managed to fuck up because they are to lazy to do the hard work of READING what is brought before them, making sure it is correct, workable, fair and CONSTITUTIONAL and getting rid of laws, rules and agencies that are unworkable, outdated and UNCONSTITUTIONAL.</p>
<p>Part of the problem is that there are no (immediate) consequences if govt. officials don&#8217;t do the jobs they were elected (hired) to do. Also, it seems that most or these bloodsuckers, once they get elected, spend the rest of their lives, campaigning for reelection. How many of them actually do what they were hired to do and then go home and get a real job?  Hardly any, I would venture to say.</p>
<p class="buymebeer"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" target="paypal" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick" /><input type="hidden" name="business" value="goatsource9@cowisp.net" /><input type="hidden" name="return" value="" /><input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Buy Me a Beer for Higher Taxes = Lower Deficit...right?" /><input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD" /><input type="hidden" name="amount" value="" /><input type="image" src="http://www.hellin-abasket.com/wp-content/plugins/buy-me-beer/icon_beer.gif" align="left" alt="" title="" hspace="3" /></form><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=goatsource9@cowisp.net&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;amount=&amp;return=&amp;item_name=Buy+Me+a+Beer+for+Higher+Taxes+=+Lower+Deficit...right?" target="paypal"></a></p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.hellin-abasket.com/higher-taxes-lower-deficit-right/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>WoHooo!! Nick Popaditch is running for Congress!!</title>
		<link>http://www.hellin-abasket.com/wohooo-nick-popaditch-is-running-for-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hellin-abasket.com/wohooo-nick-popaditch-is-running-for-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OH Hell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interesting S#$%]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shameless Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thumbs Up - There may be some hope after all...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gunny Pop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Once a Marine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popaditch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hellin-abasket.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="fblikebutton_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;">
			<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hellin-abasket.com%2Fwohooo-nick-popaditch-is-running-for-congress%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=dark" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px"></iframe>
		</div>
<h2><strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Popaditch-for-Congress/239944974289" target="_blank">Popaditch-for-Congress</a></strong></h2>
<p>One of my favorite Marines, Gunnery Sgt Popaditch, is running for Congress (unfortunately in California, not Colorado).  He is a decorated Marine, and the author of &#8220;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Once A Marine, an Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery</span>. &#8221;</p>
<p>Check out his website and get your hands on his book &#8211; it&#8217;s a great read. He is just the kind of man we need in Congress.</p>
<p>And if he wants to move to Colorado&#8230;.hint, hint&#8230;</p>
<p class="buymebeer"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" target="paypal" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick" /><input type="hidden" name="business" value="goatsource9@cowisp.net" /><input type="hidden" name="return" value="" /><input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Buy Me a Beer for WoHooo!! Nick Popaditch is running for Congress!!" /><input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD" /><input type="hidden" name="amount" value="" /><input type="image" src="http://www.hellin-abasket.com/wp-content/plugins/buy-me-beer/icon_beer.gif" align="left" alt="" title="" hspace="3" /></form><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=goatsource9@cowisp.net&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;amount=&amp;return=&amp;item_name=Buy+Me+a+Beer+for+WoHooo!!+Nick+Popaditch+is+running+for+Congress!!" target="paypal"></a></p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.hellin-abasket.com/wohooo-nick-popaditch-is-running-for-congress/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

