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Jon Stewart Blasts House GOP For ‘In God We Trust’ Vote: Just ‘Doing It To Be Dicks’

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Daily Show host Jon Stewart took Congress to task for focusing its efforts on voting for keeping “In God We Trust” as our national motto instead of, say, working to create jobs. Stewart questioned why the motto was being voted on in the first — were other, alternative mottos being considered? If so, Stewart has a few suggestions:

  • America: You’ve Met Our Drones, Now Meet Our People
  • America: Home of the Reagan
  • Hey World: You Can’t Spell “Suck It” Without U.S.
  • Later, Stewart translated Congress’ reason for reaffirming the motto — which was, according to at least member of Congress, to “remind” Obama of what it was — as simply them being “dicks.”

    RELATED: Rep. Tom Price: ‘In God We Trust’ Resolution Passed Purely As Reminder To President Obama

    Stewart also dug into Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson assertion that it’s “sad” that Congress “had to” vote on reaffirming the motto.

    Perhaps most unintentionally hilarious, though, was Charlie Rangel‘s reason for voting in favor of keeping the national slogan as it is: He didn’t want anyone to think he, like, hated God or anything.

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    • Anonymous

      Well done, teabaggers. I’m so glad you’ve rammed through a motto that makes a 21st century superpower sound more like an 11th century theocracy.

    • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

      Spot on.

    • lawl

      my congress woman was one of the nine that voted against this farce.

    • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mofo cousin Phd

       “Look, if this thing devolves into throwing trash cans into Starbucks windows, nobody’s going to be down with that … but these protesters, how are they not like the Tea Party?” – Jon Stewart

      I guess it was too late in the day for Jon to write anything about what happened in Oakland last night. Couldn’t be because he’s uninformed or clueless or anything.

    • Anonymous

      Jon…Obama can always count on him. 

      I laugh at Jons stupidity

    • Bal

      i don’t understand you! 

    • Anonymous

      “Oh, so you’re doing it to be dicks!”

      HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!  Thank goodness Jon did a bit on this ridiculous piece of legislation proposed by Right-wing douchebags.

      Charlie Rangel had it exactly right…pointless bill, pointless vote, but you have to go along with the craziness or they will label you a God hater.  Unbelievable.

    • insideguy

      Are you serious dude that is awesome! Well we have 9 members of congress who voted against and a 9% unemployment rate, and a 9% approval rating for congress and of course Cains 999 plan hmmmmm 9s are coming up a lot im playing the lotto tomorrow). Seriously I wish more would have had the balls to vote against his waste of time and stupidity. But alas we live in a interesting but really weird and bizarre country:)

    • cdnhawk

      And we all here on this site…laugh at yours. Please enlighten us on how anything Jon said was stupid. I await your response.

    • PaulG85

      Money has “In God We Trust” on it. Money is fought and killed over. Money is used to buy whores, dope, and booze. Lots of money has traces of coke on it (or is that Koch ;) ). Please, let us stop with these agonizing and hypocritical trivialities.

    • Anonymous

      Unfortunately the next time she runs for office FOX News will use this vote to label her anti-God and Satan’s Spawn.

      That’s how they do.

    • lawl

      yup. Judy Chu of california.

    • Anonymous

      Didn’t watch the show, did you?

    • Michelle

      Looks like Johnny got his marching orders from Der Leader before going on the air.  What a good little lapdog. 

    • insideguy

       Well Im going to send an e-mail and ask for her to marry me:) Honestly who as a politician actually has the balls to vote against this in this day and age. I just think thats really cool.

    • lawl

      good. i would be more let down if they actually liked her.

    • Mo Fokker

      Republicans were opposed to commemorative resolutions when Dems were in office. In fact, when they took over they set out the “Cantor Rule”:

      “Each day, we will hold ourselves accountable by asking the following questions: Are our efforts addressing job creation and the economy; are they cutting spending; and are they shrinking the size of the federal government while protecting and expanding individual liberty?” “If not, why are we doing it?”

      F*cking Fundie hypocrites.

    • Anonymous

      i feel sorry for you…how smart is it to do exactly what someone tells you to do  he is good little puppy following orders 

    • cdnhawk

      Ah yes, Michelle shows up with her insightful analysis. Tell me something…do you think it was a good use of Congress’s time to vote on a motion that does nothing constructive?

    • Bal

      I don’t understand you either. 

    • Anonymous

      “I await your response.”

      I can wait. 

    • Anonymous

      Got any proof of that or did you just pull it out of your ass.

      Why don’t you look up there and see?

    • Anonymous

      Great way to change the subject jackass. He did a whole segment on the Oakland Occupy incident. 

    • Michelle

      I think Barry should cut out the golf and constant fundraising before lecturing others on wasting time.  He’s been to 3 times as many fundraisers as Bush had been to at the same time in his tenure. 

    • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mofo cousin Phd
    • cdnhawk

      OK…..we’ll let you think that if it makes you happy. Now go back to watching Faux News….hmmm…I wonder where they get their orders from  over there?

    • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

      The rules that really matter are never declared.

    • Anonymous

      You come here day in and day out and bang out your idiotic bull$hit talking points from El Rushbo and Faux News — and you have the nerve to suggest that Jon Stewart is a lapdog???

      Buy a clue, lady. 

    • Anonymous

      All you do is point fingers elsewhere.  Try addressing the subject.

      Do you think this was good and necessary legislation, and why?

      I never heard any attacks on the motto.  It was done simply to be a dick to Obama because he misspoke.
      That is what your side is using the House for, playing the gotcha game.
      You must be very proud.

    • Anonymous

      so you dont have ab answer for him

    • Anonymous

      We should all send emails to all 9

    • cdnhawk

      deflect, deflect…….and never address the issue being discussed….the right’s go to move

    • Anonymous

      Next up on the Republican agenda…

      A bill reaffirming Mothers as America’s greatest resource for children.

      And then legislation thanking the Sun.

    • Anonymous

      It was put in place during the McCarthyism period. This is just another tactic to control the righties with fear. 

    • Anonymous

      There are 16 jobs bills waiting and waiting.  Funny how your man of the hour didn’t mention them.

      Heard Obama the “uniter” what a pathetic excuse for a lying human.

      Stewart is signed sealed and delivered with a freaking water bottle around his neck and don’t even attempt to deny it.  

    • Anonymous

      I addressed it – what say you?

    • Anonymous

      I definitely could have gotten behind legislation that enshrined the motto “In Dog We Trust.”

    • cdnhawk

      I didn’t expect an intelligent answer from her.

    • Anonymous

      what were their orders?  Didn’t hear any.  Did hear news – all sorts of news.  

    • Tdickson

      Just get along.

    • Anonymous

      Have you got a list of those “jobs” bills?  Are any of them not tax cuts for the “job creators”?

    • http://twitter.com/Socoral Tom Green

      With Democrats accused of being the nanny state why does any need to “trust in god”.

      Take responsibility for your own life.

    • Anonymous

      Perhaps we’ll have to pass them to know what’s in them ellen.  Where have you heard that profound statement before.

      The reason for this bill was because our brilliant president didn’t know what the freaking motto of the Country is.  Can you even imagine what would have happened if a stupid republican made that brilliant mistake?  

      The measure sponsored by Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., supports and encourages the motto’s display in all public schools and government buildings. It was approved 396-9, with 2 abstentions.The House on Tuesday passed a non-binding resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the national motto.Forbes said the resolution was needed becausePresident Obama had once called “E pluribus unum” the national motto, and the Latin phrase meaning “from many one” was engraved in the new Capitol Visitors Center until Congress ordered that it be corrected.

    • cdnhawk

      vaguely…….to the issue at hand…do you agree that congress should have debated this bill?…yes or no? …and don’t spew rhetoric about Obama…….Jon Stewart is bought by the Dems…sure……and Faux News is Fair and Balanced.

    • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

      A bill describing the continued existence of multiple foaming seas.
      The existence of children combined into a recognized aggregate labelled “The Future”, shares of which to be sold on private international markets.

    • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

      I’m surprised that “E pluribus unum” is still on our seal these days. I figured it would be attacked as a left wing socialist banner by now.

    • Anonymous

      Not only did he misspeak but I believe he ordered a new rug with the wrong motto on it.  Brilliant!  Absolutely brilliant!  (didn’t hear much (if anything about it did you?).

    • Anonymous

      Good God no.  I get the short version on here and I realize what a mindless tripe filled hour you all enjoy.  Sloppy, untruthful and right up your alley.  

    • Anonymous

      Oh
      Well now that you spell it out for us I can see why they went back on

      “Each day, we will hold ourselves accountable by asking the following
      questions: Are our efforts addressing job creation and the economy; are
      they cutting spending; and are they shrinking the size of the federal
      government while protecting and expanding individual liberty?” “If not,
      why are we doing it?”

    • Anonymous

      So you were fine with Obama attempting to change it with no input and no vote?  You’re fine with that?

    • Anonymous

      A NEW RUG!?!?!

      HOLY SHIT THAT DESERVES A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT!!!!!

    • Anonymous

      I see Jon (who I enjoy most of the time) avoided Beck’s question of if he still supports the OWS protesters now that they have crossed the line from peaceful to violent. Hope he addresses it soon. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/beck-calls-out-jon-stewart-after-oakland-riots-still-down-with-occupy-wall-street/

    • Anonymous

      I explained why it happened.  Instead of the right shouting from the rooftops that the President had not a clue what the motto of the Country was – and got it wrong a # of times, they did it in a gentleman’s way.

      I know it’s tough on you but live with it.

    • Anonymous

      You believe wrong, as usual.
      E Pluribus Unum is traditional for Oval Office rugs.
      You are mixing controversies. Stay focused, teabagger.

      From Hot Air:

      “So no, Obama and his team didn’t use the wrong seal for the carpet, or get the seal wrong at all in any official sense. ”

      http://hotair.com/archives/2010/09/06/did-obama-wh-use-the-wrong-seal-for-oval-office-rug/

    • Anonymous

      Do you think that the senate not passing a budget for 900 + days is a concern?  

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

      Good question and just what has come out of the senate this year?  Anything important?  Like anything? No? Not even a budget as required by law?  Nothing note worthy… No jobs bills?, nothing? Can’t even take up the 15 tabled jobs bills sent over from the house, offer their own versions which could be then sent to a conference committee..  No? nothing? 

      Oh wait I found a few things that the senate found to be more important than a jobs bill…

      S.Res.
      300: A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of Red Ribbon Week, 2011
      Passed Senate Oct 19, 2011

      S.Res.
      288: A resolution designating the week beginning October 9, 2011, as
      “National Wildlife Refuge Week”.Passed Senate Oct 6, 2011

      S.Res. 106: A
      resolution recognizing the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
      fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, and designating the week of March 21,
      2011, through March 25, 2011, as the “100th Anniversary of the Triangle
      Shirtwaist Factory Fire Remembrance Week”.Passed Senate Mar 17, 2011

      S.Res. 167: A
      resolution recognizing the historical significance of the Mexican holiday of
      Cinco de Mayo.Passed Senate May 5, 2011

      S.Res.
      143: A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Safe Digging
      Month.Passed Senate Apr 12, 2011

      S.Res. 198: A resolution congratulating the Alaska Aces hockey team on
      winning the 2011 Kelly Cup and becoming the East Coast Hockey League champions
      for the second time in team history.Passed Senate May 24,

    • Anonymous

      Heavens forbid!  Certainly this one has to be a reason for treason!

    • Anonymous

      they didn’t “ram through a motto” – it’s been the motto forever.  Honestly, your attempt at spinning when you know your lying is shameful.  What’s the purpose of doing that?  

      You’re ashamed of Obama.  So are many others.  Don’t make up crap that he spewed.  He was stupid to do so and there you are lapping up his dribble.  Sad, truly sad.  

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

      Well said douche bag, well said…

    • Bware

      The GOP are useless fools.

    • Anonymous

      No it has not the motto FOEVER!!! E  E pluribus unum was considered a de facto motto of the United States until 1956 when when the Congress passed an act adopting in god we trust as the ”official motto”

      What is your purpose????

    • Anonymous

      Jon was around WAY before Obama. Don’t waste my time with silly reaffirmation silliness about god. 

    • Anonymous

      oh yes they did - 
      http://www.aolnews.com/2010/09/05/new-oval-office-rug-gets-quote-wrong/

      I didn’t mention seal did I?

    • Anonymous

      In God We Trust has been on the coinage since?

      My purpose????

      What’s your’s????

      Since Obama was a twinkle in his fathers eye in 56 – it’s not like he had to relearn the motto was it?
      Next excuse……

    • Anonymous

      your inference is totally ridiculous!! Do you actually believe that??? Because if you do you have just proved how far out on the fringe you are………………..!!!!!

    • Anonymous

      change the subject AGAIN…………….. who are you ????? REALLY!!!???

    • Anonymous

      quote them and give us the links!!!!!!!!! 

    • Anonymous

      get over the motto thing and quote the bills!!!! By the way it was the defacto moto till 1956 when the red scare was happening……………can you connect the dots?????

    • Bob

      Didn’t happen. Your paranoia is almost cartoonish.

    • Bob

      probably because there are the only bills the GOP will let come to the floor without screaming “Filibuster!”

    • Bob

      and they wonder why the Boner Congress has an approval rating in the toilet.

    • Bob

      Sadly, the only person on FOX who will have a problem with the House GOP’s stupidity is Palin’s pal, Greta Van Susteran, but only because she wanted the motto to be “In Xenu we Trust.” I expect the cult members at the Moonie Washington Times may also have a problem with the motto not taking into account their rightwing  messiah.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

      Just like a dem, you have an excuse for everything, it’s not a very good one but it’s nice to know that you keep it handy and at the ready at all times. 

    • Thomas G Williams

      You mean like how a tea bagger used his gun toting rights to come down and walk around the Occupy Atlanta protest site with an AK-47 hanging off of his shoulder and provoked the city to shut down the site, where no violence had occurred, just the promise of it from Bagger scum jealously inserting themselves into other peoples protest.

      Or how Rethuglican Dictator of Wisconsin walker was caught planning to send in agitators to engage in incitement and to begin violent actions to justify him sending a violent response which was to be blamed on the innocent.

      Or how about that Officer in New York who seems to be using the protestors as punching bags.

      Or police arresting Media figures to prevent them being present where police are getting out of control.

      Yep these protest really seem to be getting out of control, or are outside agitators (Faux news and the Conservative media in general) trying to light matches and create a climate of fear over the fact that America is fed up with conservatism and the divisive ugliness it promotes in its drive to impose its will on an un-willing American population, would conservatives think it was a good idea to cause a civil uprising?, lets count the number of states under the control of what reasonable people would call deeply radical conservative control and the dirty tricks and outright abuses of power they have engaged in since deciding to oppose Obama as if they were empowered by Gawd to violate their sworn obligations under the Constitution.

    • Anonymous

      Ah Chu, someone had to say it.

    • Anonymous

      No, but you mentioned motto, bagger.

      A motto ain’t a quote by Martin Luther King Jr but nice try.
      Try and keep your trumped up controversies straight, mkay?

    • Anonymous

      Xanax is now available in generic form.

    • Thomas G Williams

      You would actually admit to using Faux as news source, how sad and brave of you to display your mental handicap, not many with self knowledge of their disability could do that…….have you considered rooting for universal single payer health care financing so that you can get the help you have demonstrated time and again you clearly need.

    • Thomas G Williams

      Yes and yes again, it behooves us to be a free land not beholden to mythical beings but accepting that some among us are self deluded and incapable of being responsible for themselves.

      Out Of The Many, One.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      So I guess you want it taken out.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      He Tried.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Yes it was passed so leave it alone.

    • Anonymous

      Listen son, there are those of us who do not appreciate the motto of ” in god we trust”. I am really sorry about that but it is true. It just seems so silly to many of us that the congress would take up time to reaffirm something so trivial. History tells us that congress wasted time in ’56 to make such an assertion. E pluribus unum was the “DE FACTO” motto prior. 

      As much as it may pain you, and it pains me to say it to you…….he ain’t coming.

    • Thomas G Williams

      Yes I am concerned about the obstruction of Rethuglican Bagger Scum and how it has reached its ugly conservative claw into both the House and the Senate and so many State governments.

    • Thomas G Williams

      And you have the power to distribute it to all the conservatives who need it?

      Why do you assert your habitual need to RNC (really not contribute)???

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Remember the House passed what 15 bills to help the economy but the Democratic Senate hasn’t brought one up for discussion even.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      What is bizarre in “In God We Trust”?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      She must be.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Well it’s not from Obama like the other media outlets.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Is this the same Charlie Rangel that cheated on his taxes?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      And I guess you use money to buy stuff for yourself.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      At least they are doing something not like the Senate Demos and their private meetings with the President.  Talk about transparency.  Just spend your money on paying unions employees so their have the cash to pay their union dues so the President and the Demos have their slush fund replenished monthly.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Remember they had Super Majorities for 2 years and still nothing came out of it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      The Senate Republicans would love for the 15 House bills to come to the floor.  But your boy Reid does not want to bring them up because they might pass and the rulers of the Senate can’t have that happen.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      You’re right, like the weak economy, that weak excuse is good enough for them.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Nobody is more famous with using “Gotcha” them the Dems.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      He protected by the media and the ones that ordered the rug, or was it him.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Why do you use “teabagger”? Don’t you drink tea? Ice Tea, Lipton Tea? I guess yo hate Chinese Food.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Is there such a thing as a lapcat then?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      It might be a barrel of liquor around his neck instead.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Good at least you admit they exist.  But don’t worry, if Obama and the rest of the progressives have their way the will cease to exist and the country can go the route of Greece and you will be very happy.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      I guess the resolution was just the Republicans or are the progressives embarrassed that the Dems also voted for it.  They had to do something to pass the time away till Reid decides to bring the 15 01 bills to the floor.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Well not the abortion minded ones.  The Dems should thank the sun god for giving them the excuse for global warming.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Quit talking about the President in that way.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Only if he can use it against the Conservatives.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      I have to admit it looks bad but they are only copying the professional protester on the left and their union partners.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      Don’t worry Chris, Obamacare will help him with his payment.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-H-L-Yuen/100000847324795 Nathan H. L. Yuen

      And the Dems are just useless.

    • Emilie56

      Now at what is for me the end of not the greatest day ever, I know why it’s ok to go to Jon Stewart for news.  We can only trust in God because at this point who else is there?  I do not believe my elected officials are working on redoing our motto or not and making some stupid law about the Baseball Hall of Fame, all the while praying their party keeps the majority or becomes the majority, whichever comes first.  This is the Congress I learned about in school?  This is what I should be proud of?  Ooops, no this is all our Congress can agree to vote together on.  Three cheers for Congress – the made a decision that wasn’t necessary to be made.  

    • The Real Royal Emperor

      Teapublican lie and fable ….

    • The Real Royal Emperor

      There is that,

    • The Real Royal Emperor

      Sloppy, untruthful? Sounds like FOX “News”.

    • Anonymous

      lol the conservative butthurt can’t change the fact they’ve already lost the white house for the next 12 years minimum.  obama wins another term, andrew cuomo destroys all repub comers in 2016 and 2020.

      conservatism is dead and nothing more than a punchline.

    • Anonymous

      “live from their parents basement to scream on the internet about a comedy show host…..CONSERVATIVES!!!!”

    • The Real Royal Emperor

      A great deal of botox will help you out, Tiny_Tampon.

    • The Real Royal Emperor

      Sorry for my prior remark. I thought you were lonely and deranged. Didn’t realize I was dealing with a paranoiac and conspiracy theorist.

    • The Real Royal Emperor

      Every day I ask myself “Is this the day Michelle-in-Utah disembarks from the Stupid Express?”. Alas, today is not the day.

    • South East Asian

      At first I thought they were just against him because it’s americans politics as usual. 

      However it struck me that even bill clinton didn’t endure such ridiculous accusations regarding his birth and education level!

      Let’s be honest with ourselves.

      The neocon republicans suspect that Obama the muslim kenyan is trying to push sharia law should he get re-elected and change it to “In Allah we trust” hence they try to pass this law to one up him?

      I’m not really a liberal or conservative but that’s how the whole thing looks like to me.

    • Anonymous

      Nice! It was passed. 
      1. Slavery was legal……so leave it alone?
      2.. Japanese were interned…..so leave it alone?

    • Anonymous

      ??????

    • Anonymous

      ???????????????????

    • Anonymous

      Dude! Are you for REAL?????? Stewart is a comedian!!!! You guys make EASY FODDER for him…..You got Nothing..

      Plus Stewart has been around alot longer than Obama. Might be there longer than him.

      quote and link me those bills.

    • Anonymous

      REALLY!?………………………………………….. lets all get to work and stop thinking god is gonna help us with anything

    • Anonymous

      memo-it’s climate change

    • The Real Royal Emperor

      Almost. Not quite. But, almost.

    • OSux

      In all fairness to Jon Liebowitz he has never met a Real American before.

    • http://twitter.com/Icabods Icabod

      Prove it?

    • Anonymous

      can you spell filabuster”??????

    • Anonymous

      If you have to ask, you’ll never understand. 

    • Anonymous

      Yes. He’s a slimeball. And he voted for this measure. Coincidence?

    • Jooce81

      No big deal.. this useless vote only took 1 day from the 109 congress will have worked this month.. We don’t want our “leaders” in congress to be overworked did we.

    • Jooce81

      sorry, this YEAR, not this month

    • PrezOworst

      I never heard Stewart or any filthy lib cry about the first 2 years Obama had control of both houses and yet no real permanent job creation.   Or better yet NO BUDGETS sumbmitted or passed in the same time frame.  Empty talk from phony libs.

    • Anonymous

      I’m fine with Obama ignoring an absurd motto more appropriate to Iran than the United States. Modern superpowers with advanced science and nuclear weaponry should not be celebrating deities in the 21st century. It makes us look like a silly, unserious nation that can’t think for itself. 

      If our coinage read “In Zeus we Trust” it would be no more ridiculous. 

    • Sean68

      One subject that will never be discussed on the House floor or on the Daily Show is the undue influence exercised by the Israeli govt. on the Congress of the United States.

    • Anonymous

      Exactly right. 

    • Anonymous

      Here’s a little piece of advice: don’t drink before you post. You churn out ridiculous nonsense like this and it reflects very poorly on you. 

    • Thomas G Williams

      As a matter of fact I can say to you that with all that hate you spew you must have crossed from reality into Fauxlandia a very long time ago, do you claim to be a christian while espousing the idolators ideological religion of conservatism? Are you on your knees daily to the little statue of Cheney or is it Bush or Phat Robertson? Are you with the Norquistians demanding that republicans make America so weak that its enemies can drown it in a bath tub? Are you signing pledges to give your loyalty to conservative organizations and not to the Constitution of the United States?

    • Anonymous

      you baggers are wayyyyy to ignorant to talk politics….Obama attempted to to change the motto???…..really????….gawdddd dammmmm…..you should toss your AM radio out the window…youve been dumbbed down so much its pathedic….get yaself a jacket…..a straight one……

    • Royal Moron

      Yes Congress can only work on one bill at a time. This is like a argument from 14 year old who has no clue of how Congress works.

    • Anonymous

      This vote was and is more important then pass this jobs bill of Obama’s Because Obama’s pass this jobs bill is only to pad the pockets of his friends and has nothing to do with jobs. just check this video and see…
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8

    • Anonymous

      Right, unless the media is owned by a Saudi and a criminal parent company that hacks into murdered children’s phones, it’s not reallly legitimate media.

    • Anonymous

      hahaha….repeal obamacare….deregulate everything, privatize social security, end medicare….yes all those things improve the economy…oh and dont forget taking over a womans uterus 7 times…defund NPR, planned parenthood the epa, the united nations the department of education, cruifixs in every public building…the FREAKIN HOBBIT WISH LIST…..you stupid mofos need to go the hell away…..YEAH…LIVE FREE OR DIE…….BRING IT !!!!!!!…….wingnuts

    • The Real Royal Emperor

      Notice that the Weeper of the House and his Teapublican, anti-science colleagues have not gotten behind the bill making Gravity the Official Physical Force in America. A shame the Democrats didn’t pass the anti-inertia bill when they had the chance.

    • Anonymous

      Health care reform was passed, so leave it alone. 

    • Anonymous

      Look up ‘super majorities’ before you spout more ignorance.

    • Anonymous

      Excellent! You’re on a roll this morning!

    • Anonymous

      The pass bill jobs not only not now, but do with nothing video this.

    • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

      Hey respect21, you think you can translate that comment to English for me?  kthxbai

    • Anonymous

      The party that does not see race, color, or religion sure can’t wait to point out the Jew.

    • Yoodoo2

      From now on, republican congress members, when they have the floor, should just start out with, “Yeah, I am a Christian, bitch!  How you like me now?”

    • Thomas G Williams

      Stop insulting Hobbits they proved there worth in the great war against conservatism…er…the Red eyed fanatics of Rethuglica (the dark polluted lands) conservatives love.

    • Obama2012

      Dysfunctionality thy is Congressional Repuglicans.

    • Anonymous

      Ha
      from their own full of HotAir source

    • Anonymous

      You mean like spewing senate bills to avoid talking about a ridiculous house bill?

    • Anonymous

      Looks like he’s on your side now.

    • Anonymous

      So was the union law in Wisconsin. And it was passed in the same way as “healthcare”. But Dems still tried to overturn it.

    • Anonymous

      oops
      logged back in under the wrong name Touré’s insane mofo cousin Phd

    • Pablo

      Oh, yes! They rammed it through on a 396-9 vote! Just like ObamaCare!

      As for creating jobs, to the extent that the government can do that, I wonder why Stewart doesn’t have a word with the Senate 19 House passed bills stuck there.

    • Anonymous

      typical
      you didn’t do it, so why should I?
      Libs did it first.
      You said racist, so now its my turn.

    • Pablo

      Ah, yes! They’re so incapable of being responsible for themselves unlike you enlightened sorts! More welfare now! God helps those who pass wasteful, ineffective “stimulus” bills!

    • Anonymous

      Um
      isn’t that the point?
      So now you get Stewarts point, huh?

    • Pablo

      Yeah! In Marx We Trust! This time it will work!

    • Pablo

      Take it up with the Democrats.

    • Pablo

      They trust Obama.

    • Anonymous

      You said it better than I could have.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1405004314 Cindi Tracy Aune

      Seek456…the show is only half and hour…you really don’t know what you are commenting on, do you?

    • FreeMike

      “So you were fine with Obama attempting to change it with no input and no vote?  You’re fine with that?”

      - Seek456

      Nice Cain’ish change of your story.

    • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

      I can see why Republicons hate Jon Stewart, he verbally destroys them on a daily basis!! Of course, if Republicons weren’t so ignorant and out-dated, Jon would have no material… than God that’s not the case!!

    • Anonymous

      And when re-elected he will install Sharia law.
      And he has signed bills to allow more guns only to get dumba$$es to re-elect him and take away guns next term.
      And Jan. 2013 he will raise Muhammad from the dead and together they will create a NWO.

    • proud2teabagu

      Libs sure are afraid of God. They are going crazy here. lol

    • Anonymous

      You have to have faith my brother, not facts.

    • Anonymous

      You’re right. We trust a real person, you trust an imaginary friend. Perfect metaphor for what sets conservatives apart from rational people.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1405004314 Cindi Tracy Aune

      Nathan, they never had the super majority…maybe you need a refresher course in numbers and greater than less than?

    • joe

      please post some evidence–fake crazed lunatics in right winged blogs posting fake Birth Certificate propoganda does not count as support  of evidcene either…

      are you people not tired of looking so foolish by the right winged wackiness?

      i mean really–if you want to be crazy–say obama wants to eat the moon made of cheese or find find the angels in the clouds and harness them for his own personal pleasure—
      come on go big or stay home—if you are going to be nuts–be reallty nuts….then you may not look so foolish~
      then you can be like Cain and say you were kidding
      hehehe

    • Anonymous

      Some love the genius Jon Stewart.  Others get their news from Gretchen and company.

      Rock on Jon!

    • joe

      so we are NOT losing 700,000 jobs a month—that may not seem like a big deal to you—since you are obviously on ‘the payroll’—
      but to the rest of the country that stopping of the blood letting that the gop has induced–may have saved the world…
      and it is so popular—THE REST OF THE WORLD IS ALSO ADOPTING STIMULOUS–MUCH BIGGERE TO SAVE THEIR ECONOMIC SYSTEMS..
      except for China of course..

    • joe

      yes—
      the cons have no idea what “god’ is or who they want to exploit as god…
      In Americans we trust..
      where is god? when is she going to stop abortions for you? when is she going to stop letting Obama destroy the world? where is this god you trust so much??????

      or should it be in Jesus we trust????YOU ALL WON’T SAY IT BECAUSE YOU ARE COWARDS—PHONIES—-FRAUDS AND HYPOCRITES…

      THE DAY YOU SAY–IN JESUS WE TRUST….AND VOTE ON THAT…
      then maybe i will believe you actually believe in something…
      what a bunch of losers

    • Anonymous
    • Sean68

      Stewart’s obsessed with his jewishness and plays it up every show. Why shouldn’t the rest of us take note?

    • joe

      that is becuase you were not paying attention—
      so go back to sleep and wake up in 2012 and you can see a new DEMOCRAT CONGRESS MAJORITY IN BOTH HOUSES AND A 2ND TERM OBAMA…
      sweet dreams..

    • Anonymous

      While I find your word choice highly offensive (as you meant it to be).  I wonder if you’re OK when others use slurs meant to demean and insult and hurt the object of derision? I thought you might like this…. he’s one of fav artist. As I am I a huge country music fan.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8T_G4u1rAs

    • joe

      we trust Americans–unlike the cons who hate America–most Americans and the rest of the world..

      IN AMERICANS WE TRUST~~~~

    • Sean68

      Like most American jews, he’s contemptuous of the natives–i.e. the flyover goyim.

    • mosesdinoark

      Right.  Thats like saying we should be aftraid of the tooth fairy and Bigfoot.

    • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

      One would have to believe in a god to be afraid of it.

    • proud2teabagu

      Sure gets you all stirred up though! hahaha.

    • joe

      you must be thinking of clarence thomas who forgot his wife made 700,000 dollars a year with the conservative think tank that is buying votes to kill health care for millions–so they can make billions..

      how many lives  did charlie screw up?

    • Anonymous

      Well…DUH… ya that how it words. If one side continues to do it the other will as well. Why would you expect one side to all of a sudden to be better than the other?

    • warrenlee

      lol! Comedy gold my brother.

    • mosesdinoark

      Because its pathetic and embarrassing how backwards and simple minded a majority of you are.

    • Anonymous

      Like a scene out of Inherit the Wind…. you got to love the hypocrisy of this GOP House.  They win the midterms because, as they put it, they are all about jobs.  My favorite GOP jobs bill would be………. hmmm, I can’t think of one off the top of my head.  Thus far, the best jobs proposal from the GOP has been dismantling the EPA, because we all know the EPA serves no purpose in a pollution filled world.

    • Sean68

      Elvis may have been simple, but he was far from plain. Whether he was racist or not–what evidence did pe offer for that?

    • Sean68

      It’s possible to disregard both.

    • joe

      WASHINGTON (AP) — The American economy added 80,000 jobs in October, and job growth in the two previous months was much stronger than first thought, an encouraging sign as the nation searches for a way out of the jobs crisis.
      The unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent from 9.1 percent, the first time it has fallen since July, the government said Friday.

    • Anonymous

      sure.

    • Anonymous

      Teapubican??? Is that like a Demorat????

    • Sean68

      Also, your “reading” of Inherit the Wind is confusing. The Bryan character wasn’t hypocritical. He was a liberal in the long line of christian liberals (e.g., the abolitionist movement) and believed what he said. He was opposing what he regarded as survival of the fittest-ism in which the weal and poor get chewed up and spat out because that is the fate of their kind. Mencken, who never had a cross word for Hitler, ridiculed Bryan’s religiousity. Ironically, it was the rightwing racist, though admittedly brilliant, Mencken who wrote the compassionate liberal Bryan’s epitaph for all time: a superstitious buffoon.

      But those who know our history know better. Bryan was one of the few genuinely principled political figures in history. He resigned his position as Secretary of State under Hoover when he thought Hoover was leading the US to war. How many politicians have ever done that? Meh. I’m probably wasting my time with you.

    • Anonymous

      Tip of the hat my man for knowing the reference… though you may be right, there’s not concrete evidence of racism.  In fact, when Elvis said he wouldn’t let a Black guy shine his shoes, it was completely taken out of context. 

      Regardless, Chuck D > Elvis, so it’s still motherf*%k him, and John Wayne

    • mosesdinoark

      Not to mention the colossal waste of time.  For they are the ones screaming “Jobs Jobs Jobs” and they do useless stuff like this.  Pathetic.

    • Sean68

      My understanding is chuck d sort of walked back from that line about elvis. Don’t know for sure. But I also heard the shine the shoes anecdote was bs. Elvis always gave credit to his black influences.

    • Sean68

      I mistyped here. Not Hoover. Wilson.

    • CosmosDan

      No it hasn’t been the motto forever.

      E pluribus unum
      actualloy dates back to the founding fathers so idolized by the right,
      and placed on the official US seal at the time. In God We Trust, as Jon
      noted , was made the official motto in 1956.

      So, US House of Reps , pissing away time and tax dollars to make a petty
      political point, please refer to the 3rd motto Jon suggested.
       

      You may be underestimating the independents who may decide the election. As much as people are unhappy about Obama, their approval of congress is even less. The GOP won’t escape repercussions for working so hard to defeat Obama that they’re willing to make sure nothing positive happens while he’s still president.

       

       

    • CosmosDan

      Since around the time of the Civil war. E Pluribus Unem has been on the official seal of America since when.

      The point is it’s an amazing waste of time and money for Congress to be doing this to make some BS petty political point all the while screaming at how bad things are. 

    • Anonymous

      I was simply trying to bring up how religion is a focal point in our society, plus  show off with the Inherit the Wind talk, I’m a young dude so I like to brag I know something done before the Vin Diesel era (the ladies love a film guy), or whatever these youngsters now-a-days are watching.  I was unaware of the astute audience on Mediaite, I’ll have to be on my P’s & Q’s next time I drop something, thanks. 

    • CosmosDan

       Those are the things the so called News networks ought to be discussing with an explanation of exactly what each bill is and does, and what the objections are.

    • FreeMike

      From Fox Nation

      “Jon Stewart sounds smart even when he’s not being a smart ass.In a surprisingly serious interview with Rolling Stone, “The Daily Show” anchor talks about his disappointment with President Obama, the Democrats’ gutless bumbling of the debt-ceiling debate and why CNN reminds him of a plate of “grits without salt.”When the publication’s interviewer Eric Bates notes that “a lot of people wish” the President would “take the gloves off a little more,” Stewart responds that Obama’s “problem is not his lack of passion. It’s his lack of direction.”I still don’t know what he believes in,” he says.”http://nation.foxnews.com/jon-stewart/2011/09/14/jon-stewarts-anti-obama-tirade#ixzz1ckVbCPjN

      I guess he was told to say that.

    • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

      “Daily Show host Jon Stewart took Congress to task for focusing its efforts on voting for keeping “In God We Trust” as our national motto instead of, say, working to create jobs.”

      Because Congress doesn’t create jobs, dumbass. When was the last time Jon Stewart had a government-created job?

    • FreeMike

      I know a lot of employees of NYPD and FDNY that would disagree with you.

    • Bristol Palin

      Wow how lucky are we to have a republican controlled House there really moving us forward.

    • Lenny

      To you and the 11 people who liked your comment. Please go read a newspaper or something of substance. Ignorance really is not bliss.

    • Anonymous

      What a joke.  Why not a vote for Santa Claus and the Easter bunny as well.

    • Anonymous

      hmmm – thought it was a reasonable question.  How would you have worded it?  

    • Anonymous

      A profound statement from someone who is too afraid to be himself.  lol

      p.s.  when you’re down at the senate today, ask them to quit using all the bills sent over to sit on and make themselves look taller.  You can go down to your local McDonalds and get a booster.  That wasn’t the purpose of those bills (you know the ones that nobody in the MSM is talking about).  I realize that’s why you weren’t even aware of their existence.  

      Seriously dude – surely your stalking gives your wife/boyfriend pause.  

    • Anonymous

      it hasn’t been since 1956. 

      The point my friend is that the MSM ran with this story (and Stewart continued the run) and disregarded informing the people about all the bills the congress has sent to the senate.  

      Now, I don’t claim that the right is completely innocent, but until truth returns to reporting, the divisiveness and  derogation will continue with Obama leading it and the rest of the MSM ginning up the folks.  

      I think it’s time to grow up, by everyone.  Obama has to stop his pandering to the fears and jeers of the left (like he did in his speech from the G20 today) – even Carl  said there was a lot of filibustering in that sucker.  Obama proves that his roots make him a politician and about as far from a Statesman as humanly possible.  

      Do you think he could give even a one minute sound bite without hurling bombs at the republicans?
      I’m sure in your saner moments you too think that is about as far from a diplomat as one can get.

    • Anonymous

      I’ll give you guys credit for one thing …. you never run out of excuses.

    • Anonymous

      I know.  Two weeks on one week off.  Nice work if you can get it.

    • Anonymous

      Good job Joe.
      Keep up the good work.

    • Anonymous

      What do you think of the guys who got elected in 2010 passing this bill?

    • Red Rover

      Jon Stewart = Nancy Grace with a laugh track.

    • caconservative

      That religious thing, it really bothers you, doesn’t it? Imagine, spending a few minutes to vote on a religious motto, and then putting that up beside the months it took to pass Obamcare as though, the time was misspent. Tens of thousands of people loosing their jobs monthly while the Obamacons were looking for a new entitlement to placate their voting base. Where was your righteous-indignation then?! Oh, that’s right, your head was too far up Obimbo’s ass to see it!

    • caconservative

      Admit it, you want it to read, “in Obama we trust”.

    • Anonymous

      That’s just great! Now we have to spend millions of dollars changing the Seal of the United States.
      We have to erase E Pluribus Unum and replace it with In God We Trust.
      All this because of fear of communism.
      You do know that is what made “us” change the motto, don’t you?

      Who shall we elect as Pope of the United States?
      (For you strict grammarians, whom is optional.)

    • caconservative

      You bought that crap? Wow..

    • caconservative

      When it’s found UN-Constitutional, are you going to leave it alone?

    • Red Rover

      Jon Stewart = Nancy Grace with laugh track

    • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

      Remember when the Republicans were screaming about jobs, jobs, jobs once they won the House back.  I’m starting to think they were referring to Steve Jobs and trying to tell us that he was going to die soon.  Cause they sure as hell haven’t done a damn thing to facilitate any job growth in this country. 

      9%

    • caconservative

      Do you mean, apart for Godless Democrats? Obimbo is your personal God, isn’t he? Your, intense attraction to that guy is becoming….disturbing.

    • Anonymous

      Looks like you conservatives are laughing at Obama because you think he spoke some kind of African language. He spoke Latin in both phrases. You are supposed to understand E Pluribus Unum, or REAL MOTTO created by the FOUNDING FATHERS, and that he expanded on the idea in Latin. Of course all of you conservatives are too dumb to get that the second LATIN phrase means Unity Adds Strength.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RBBBQQ4RV63ZI4YFLWW4LO34KE z4t4

      AMAZING how the Left fears the word GOD….Of course, they kill their own and fear they may be accountable one day so, no God, No Problem!…Truth is Liberal Women have killed more people with abortions (43 million) then all them men in all the wars put together that  this country fought in.

      The Left has NO chance oin 2012 and they know it…..More desperation

    • proud2teabagu

      Squawk!

    • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

      We don’t dear the word god, we simply just don’t believe in one. 

      It’s a shame that you need the promise of heaven to do good deeds and to act within the acceptable confines of social morality.

      Me, I’m just a good person because i want to be.  You, you do it because you fear an imaginary man in the sky.

    • Bpoz

      Um…he never tried to do anything of the sort. You should educate yourself before you post.

    • Anonymous

      really?  Then you think he was just stupid?

    • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

      Jon Stewart = Comedian!!

      Nancy Grace  = Queen of Rudeness!!

    • Anonymous

      Well said!!!

    • Patriot

      John Stewart you so stupid, You bash congress for doing this, go back to 1776 and tell the men that est this country to take it out. This country as build on christian values, stfu and get a real job.
      They arnt doing it to be dicks, they are doing it to protect our country from being taken over.
      You stupid libs shove the same gay bullshit down our throats..so deal with it

    • patriot

      sorry about grammer hahaha

    • Anonymous

      I kinda like that, but I’m not so sure Israel is “untouchable” on the Daily Show. The undue influence seems to be among the conservatives lately, so given the DS bias….

    • Anonymous

      Don’t care. Meaningless, harmless bill that means nothing. They’re passed all the time. When they pass something of significance I’ll care.

    • Anonymous

      Yawn.

    • FreeMike

      “Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as “Born-again/Evangelical”.

      http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html

      Praise it loud, Brother!!

    • Anonymous

      What the hell makes you think that every woman that gets an abortion is a liberal?? Are you crazy.  I worked at a clinic and most of the women that came there were white and were from all kinds of backgrounds.  Get a grip.

    • Anonymous

      Free Mike you do know that no one will post any comments to this because it is TRUE and they have no answer. 

    • Anonymous

      I agree.

    • Anonymous

      No they have spent all their time on abortion, voting rights etc.  WHERE ARE THE JOBS THEY ALL RAN ON?????

    • Moosenuts99

      Clearly you’re stupid, or our know that the founding fathers DID NOT CREATE THIS MOTTO

      IT WAS CREATED IN THE 1950′S

      AND YOU CALL LIBS STUPID

      LOLOLOL

    • Thaxiss

      You incredible fucktard. No one was trying to change the motto. The Republicans wanted to be mean to Obama.

    • Thaxiss

      He did NOT try. Your parents were siblings, weren’t they?

    • Anonymous

      E Pluribus Unum!

      The one and only official Motto of the United States of America.

      It was good enough for our Founding Fathers, but it’s not good enough for the hard-right?

    • Anonymous

      If Clinton were raised as Obama was (excluding all racial aspects), he probably would have been attacked in the same way. Items like being born to a father from another country (could have been Europe), being raised for a few years in a Muslim country, and generally living outside of the United States for any length of time except for military service or as military family, Clinton probably would have been attacked in the same ways.
      I will not defend conservatives for these things and many more false attacks and claims, but I won’t speculate that they are less honest about Obama than they would be about anybody else. I really don’t see a lot of honest intelligence among the Birthers or the Tea Party leaders. There is NONE in Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck is simply a paranoid showman.

    • Anonymous

      “Afraid” of people who think God talks to them.

    • Anonymous

      Teapublicans are afraid of the tooth fairy and Bigfoot. Especially Bigfoot.

    • Anonymous

      For me, it is OK to believe in God yet still be a liberal and above all to say that we don’t need In God We Trust as a Motto.
      To me, the worst part of this publicity stunt of “reminding the president,” is nothing but a political ploy, and it is nonsense. If we really Trust In God, why do we need a military? Why do we need a court system? Will we use Christian Religious Law in place of other laws?

    • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

      Social morality huh? I guess in China it is moral to kill a child up to one year old.

      Take your social morality and shove it where your social justice and human rights can go.

    • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

      You mean the 17 bills the House has sent to the Senate and Reid has done NOTHING with them?

      What were you saying? Oh, they were waiting for the Obama union and Democrat state bailout bill. I see.

      What a maroon.

    • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

      Wife/boyfriend? Possibly both.

    • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

      Coming from a guy that thinks his clothes can bend light, you are kinda funny.

    • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

      WTF are you talking about?  China?  Try to saty on topic.  If not, please don’t reply to my comments as I have no interest in discussing issues who are intellectually inept.

      What a nice little Christian boy you are telling me to shove something up my ass

    • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

      I’ve got zero problems with religion or people who do have faith.  The problem lies within people forcing their beliefs on others.  

    • Anonymous

      Yes. We are in agreement.
      I just wanted to give some balance instead of seeing ridicule of belief.
      I have no problem ridiculing those who claim that God is on their side or that God has called them to run for office.
      The danger I saw was an implication that we liberals are all atheist.
      As for me, I like what on famous “non-believer” said when asked Are you an atheist? He replied: I’m not that decisive. (or was it certain?) You get the point. I definitely do not believe the Bible is God’s word and 100% perfect.

    • CosmosDan

      E Pluribus Unum  is still on then US seal and on our money.. I’d like to see some truth in reporting. I have little use for either MSNBC or Fox, or the 24/7 networks. Is Fox discussing these bills? It looks to me like they’re trying hard to overturn a lot of environmental protections and some financial ones as well. By all means let’s have them brought out in the open where we can see if they’re trying to help average Americans or their corporate backers. 

    • CosmosDan

      Just about everyone agreed that our health care system needed major overhaul and wasn’t working. My sister, a loyal republican, has already reaped some of the benefits from Obamacare.  Every major piece of legislation needs tweaking , changing and improving. Instead of looking at it honestly and seeing what works and what doesn’t, Republicans just keep promising to repeal it in full, taking us back to the system most people agreed wasn’t working.
      Not to mention the campaign of lies that helped cause it to take that many months.
       

    • http://brianomalley1776.blogspot.com/ Brian O’Malley

      Congress passed an act to put “In God We Trust” on some US coins in 1864, during the Civil War.  Some Americans worried about the lack of an acknowledgement of God on the currency.  The Treasury Department believes the first such call came from Pennsylvania pastor Rev. M. R. Watkinson, who wrote, “What if our Republic were now shattered beyond recognition?  Would not the antiquaries of succeeding centuries rightly reason from our past that we were a heathen nation?”

      http://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx

    • http://brianomalley1776.blogspot.com/ Brian O’Malley

      Nathan, I think “insideguy” thought the measure to affirm the present motto was “bizarre.”  

    • Anonymous

      Fact: IN GOD WE TRUST!!! Hahahaha…. suk a$$ liberals got their rear ends kicked again just like when the 2012 elections will replace the proggies with real patriotic Americans!!!!! Get jobs and pay taxes is coming for you all!!!!

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

      Why is it “OK” to give BofA & JPMorgan Chase $154 Trillion? Don’t you consider that “Welfare” for them?

    • Anonymous

      The GOP inspired move is clearly the most absurd and cynical gesture one could make at a time like this.  Clearly these creeps are big-time scared as well they should be.  They’ve been behind the lack or absence of enforcement of virtually every piece of legislation introduced since 2008 which would curtail the fraud and abuses of Wall Street.  And now the “godly” Republican men and women are gasping at straws because there house of cards is coming down around them. 

      Be afraid GOP, Be afraid…you’re day of reckoning is coming far sooner than you think.

    • Frizzymstarbaby2

      Bristol, Bristol, Bristol…..Surely you jest,,,,,Haven’t you noticed we are not going anywhere…..We’re stuck…..I’m a Liberal and a Christian…..Real Christians know that Jesus said to pay our taxes…..He said render unto Caeser the things that are Caesers and unto God the things that are Gods…..He told us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and heal the sick…..Do unto others as you would have them do unto you…..love thy neighbor as thyself……….frizzymstarbaby2

    • Anonymous

      How bought “Who gives a crap about a motto when there are far more important things to address?” Congress working hard to accomplish nothing as usual.

    • Anonymous

      A Real Dick calling others Dicks, how bright and intelligent of Jon.

    • Porphyry

      “Just doing it to be di¢ks,” Sewer complains–& he knows how to be one.

    • Anonymous

      Your comment on China is not true.
      In ANCIENT China, a man could kill his son as a punishment, but if a son killed his father, even by accident, the punishment was death.
      It was too common for the very poor to kill a baby girl right after birth because they could not feed her, but a baby son would be kept alive as long as possible since he might A. grow big enough to work and B. a son was needed to honor his father after the father died. In China, it was also common to bind a girl’s feet (which crushed them) so she would be more attractive. That lasted until 1911.
      None of these things are done anymore.
      Under the One Child rule, if the first child is a girl, they couple can keep her and try again until they have a son.
      Today, unwanted or orphaned daughters can be adopted by foreigners. Boys cannot be adopted by foreigners.

    • Anonymous

      Can you believe that this guy Kramer claims to be a “teacher”? We should all shudder for anyone he attempts to school on any subject.

    • Anonymous

      If only you could have the same degree of introspection!

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