WASHINGTON—In a strong rebuke of President Obama and his domestic agenda, all 242 House Republicans voted Wednesday to repeal the Asteroid Destruction and American Preservation Act, which was signed into law last year to destroy the immense asteroid currently hurtling toward Earth.
The $440 billion legislation, which would send a dozen high-thrust plasma impactor probes to shatter the massive asteroid before it strikes the planet, would affect more than 300 million Americans and is strongly opposed by the GOP.
“The voters sent us to Washington to stand up for individual liberty, not big government,” Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said at a press conference. “Obama’s plan would take away citizens’ fundamental freedoms, forcing each of us into hastily built concrete bunkers and empowering the federal government to ration our access to food, water, and potassium iodide tablets while underground.”
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#20 podperson
Whoooooooosh…………………………..
Good grief! You’ve missed the entire point and I don’t think it is even possible to make it any simpler!
Still, I am happy you got to spew some venom.
That has got to be filthy, nasty, smelly, corrosive stuff you carry around in your head all the time. I do hope you are feeling better now.
“It is entirely believable to me Republicans and the Tea Party would prefer to see the planet destroyed, rather than support a man who happens to be black.”
Which only illustrates two things:
1. You don’t know many Tea Partiers.
2. You’ve been duped by the mainstream media’s one-sided description of them.
3. (bonus!). You’ve outed yourself as an idiot.
- a black tea partier.
I think the only reason we’d see this kind of subversiveness from the GOP is because *their* constituents weren’t the recipients of the clear majority of the contracts that would need to be awarded to make this happen. Where there’s money involved, it’s only OK if the money is going into Republican pockets.
#23 craig
On the Internet, no-one knows you’re black – or white, for that matter. I fully expect the Tea Party has a host of shills, bouncing around the Internet, spreading silly lies to the gullible. It is their modus operandi, after all.
If you do happen to be a brother, watch out! I seriously doubt the Koch brothers plan to keep you around for very long after the revolution.
I’m surprised that some of the Reader’s comments appear to take the Onion story literally instead of an exercise in ‘irony’. Of course I’m assuming that all of you are listeners of Dvorak’s and Curry’s “No Agenda.” Therefore your BS detectors should be finely tuned. Some of you like #9 and #17 realize that the Onion writer is using irony. I think Rufus RedNeck (#’s 5, 15 & 22) suspects irony is being employed but in the end he doesn’t seem to realize how simplistic our national news coverage has become, i.e. “trains good, planes bad.” SOME OF YOU seemed to take the story, “Republicans Vote to Repeal Obama-Backed Bill that Would Destroy Asteroid Headed for Earth,” at face value; this is a mistake!
If any of you need better understanding as to how irony can be employed please google “A modest proposal” by Jonathan Swift. It was written in 1729 as criticism of the The Kingdom of Great Britain’s policy toward the Irish people. I would agree that the Onion’s writer does not write clearly BUT to those of you who listen to ‘No Agenda’ this story’s intent should have been a piece of cake!
>its not unconstitutional until the SCOTUS rules
Bobbo, you’re being unclear here. The Supreme Court has the final say for the judicial branch, but it is not the only say. As of right now, a federal judge has ruled the law IS unconstitutional and thrown it out. He didn’t issue an injunction but gave declaratory relief which he said was the equivalent of an injunction. He has to be overruled or a stay awarded by a higher court for the health care law to comeback into effect.