High Definite/Politics

“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.” - Warren Buffett for the New York Times

Obama agrees.

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The second ad paid for by the Colbert Super PAC:

Colbert Super PAC released its second TV ad in advance of the Ames Iowa Straw Poll in support of Texas Governor Rick Parry, who is not running. The commercial, entitled “Behind the Green Corn” scolds outside Super PACs for airing ads with graphic footage of uncensored corn-shucking.

“I’ve never been to Iowa, and have no plans to go,” said Stephen Colbert, President and Summer Intern of Colbert Super PAC. “But I know that Iowans are good, wholesome people who will not be swayed by these outside groups’ underhanded tactics. They would much rather be swayed our overhanded tactics. That’s why our new ad features not just corn shucking, but ear-sizzling, hot buttered, below-the-corn-belt action that appeals to Iowans’ basest kernel instincts.”

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The first ad produced by Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Super PAC that will start running in local Iowa markets tonight:

Colbert Super PAC released a TV ad today in advance of the Quadrennial Ames Iowa Straw Poll – held this year in Ames, Iowa. The ad, entitled “Episode IV: A New Hope” urges Iowans to write in the name of Texas Governor Rick Parry.

Thanks to last year’s Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United, Super PACs can receive and spend unlimited amounts of money – as long as they do not coordinate with a particular candidate. Because that would be wrong. Also, illegal. Currently, there are seven different Super PACs vying to become the primary recipient of that sweet unlimited Parry cash.

“I called dibs on Rick Parry a long time ago,” said Stephen Colbert, President and Assistant Equipment Manager for Colbert Super PAC. “I recognized that he’s got the tough talk, the cowboy boots, and the history-of-shooting-coyotes-during-morning-jogs that our country needs. So if anybody is going to be taking unlimited donations and then not be coordinating with his campaign, it’s going to be not us. So to prove we’re truly uncoordinated, we’re asking voters to write in Parry with an A – as in America, IowA, or PresidAnt. You can feel confident he’s not asking us to do that.”

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords made her first appearance on the House floor since being critically wounded in an assassination attempt this past January to vote in favor of raising the debt ceiling.

The bill passed (269-161) with the support of 174 Republicans and 95 Democrats. The Senate will vote on the debt plan Tuesday at a time yet to be determined.

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House Speaker John Boehner | Transcript

Heh. Big Boehner (bottom right).

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I spent like 4 hours yesterday trying to find an embeddable version of this video to no avail. Thankfully, a crappy YouTube version has finally reared its head.

I don’t know much about politics in the UK or the strike action going on between the unions and the government, but it’s pretty clear from this video that Labour leader Ed Miliband thinks these strikes are wrong at a time when negotiations are still going on, that the government has acted in reckless and provocative manner, and that both sides should get around the negotiating table, put aside the rhetoric, and stop this kind of thing happening again.

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History was made today.

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The G20 kicks off tomorrow in Seoul, South Korea tomorrow.  One of the more pressing items on the agenda is the current currency battle between China and the US.   To get you caught up, NMA News breaks down the basics for you…in rap battle form.

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