ISBL Asshat of the Week:Phil Gingrey

Boy, it’s hard out there for a millionaire Republican Congressman, no?

It must be a chore, struggling to make ends meet for Phil Gingrey — that millionaire Republican Congressman … from Georgia — because he’s complaining about it.

During a meeting with fellow Republicans, like Weeper of the House  John Boehner, to discuss finding a way to exempt members of Congress and their staffs from having to enroll in Obamacare, Gingrey whined about his salary, saying, that while lobbyists can “make 500,000 a year … I’m stuck here making $172,000 a year.”

Gingrey works just 126 days — or about four months a year — to make that $172,000; that’s roughly $1365.00 a day, or $170.00 per hour for an eight-hour day. Like I said, it’s hard out there for a —

What? Gingrey has other income in addition to his job that pays him nearly two-hundred bucks an hour? What’s that? Phil Gingrey is a millionaire, whose net worth is listed between $3 million and $7.6 million?

See, therein lies the problem with the GOP, that Out Of Touchiness thing they have going on, because members of the Grand Out-of-Touch Party think that $170.00 an hour isn’t enough money to earn while representing their constituents who make far, far less than that.

I wonder how Gingrey would feel if he had to work a real eight hour day and take home less than a thousand dollars? We’ll never know because that’ll never happen. But it won’t stop him from complaining about it.

And, as a note to Phil Gingrey: if it isn’t enough money for you — and let’s remember that as a member of Congress Gingrey voted to give himself, and his ilk, some 239 days off a year — then maybe you should resign. Let someone have the job who actually needs the money, won’t complain about the money and might, just might, give the people of Georgia their money’s worth. 

Ass.Hat.

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Oh Mitt, Call It Over Already, Part Two

Used to be, Michele Bachmann was the biggest moron in the GOP presidential field.

Then, along came Rick Perry.

Now, however, not content with being an also-ran, Mitt Romney seems poised to take the GOP Dumbass Award.

Remember when he told an audience of out-of-work Floridians that he was unemployed, too?

Remember when he hinted that Darth Cheney might make a good VP again?

Remember when he bought a ten-million-dollar house so he could tear it down and build an even bigger house?

Now, GOP Dumbass not-quite-frontrunner, Mitt Romney, is suggesting that he is a, get this, it's rich, like Mitt, he is a Middle Class American.

Back in Florida, at a town hall meeting in Miami, the millionaire GOP Dumbass told his audience that he favors a tax policy that will help those who have been hurt by the Obama economy: "And that's the middle class. It's not those in the low end; it's certainly not those in the very high end. It's for the great middle class - the 80 to 90 percent of us in this country."

Billionaire say what? Us?

Call the kids, alert the media, Middle Class now means millionaires, when, in fact, Mitt Romney falls smack into the bracket that President Obama is targeting with his proposed "Buffett rule" to tax millionaires.

Yes, Middle Class Dumbass Unemployed Mitt Romney is worth between $190 million and $250 million, and that's, apparently, according to him, Middle Class.

Out of touch, Mitt, out of touch.

And looking like as much of a GOP Dumbass as your forerunners, Bachmann and Perry.

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Who Wants To Be A Verna Oller?

To hear folks tell it, Verna Oller was a proud cheapskate to the very end of her 98 years. She cut her own hair. She bought only thrift store clothes. She refused to buy shoelaces. She was tightfisted her whole life. Until the day she died, and left $4.5 million to the children of Long Beach, Washington so the town could build the swimming pool she never had as a kid. And the leftover money was given out in scholarships and teaching grants. You can never tell...........