{"id":7843,"date":"2012-08-22T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7843"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T02:18:07","slug":"republicans-found-something-they-would-raise-taxes-for-civil-war-against-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7843","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Found Something They Would Raise Taxes For: Civil War Against Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fox News affiliate in Lubbock, Texas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxlubbock.com\/news\/local\/story\/Lubbock-tom-head-tax-rates-president-obama\/PeO4Q8GeGEiy_FpxheUnmA.cspx\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed<\/a> County Judge Tom Head who explained why it is necessary to raise the tax rate by 1.7 cents the next fiscal year. One of the reasons he cited was that if President Obama is reelected&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He&#8217;s going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the UN, and what is going to happen when that happens? I&#8217;m thinking the worst. Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. And we&#8217;re not just talking a few riots here and demonstrations, we&#8217;re talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now what&#8217;s going to happen if we do that, if the public decides to do that? He&#8217;s going to send in U.N. troops. I don&#8217;t want &#8217;em in Lubbock County. OK. So I&#8217;m going to stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say &#8216;you&#8217;re not coming in here&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-P3x8horw4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What is going to take for people to accept the fact that the modern Republican Party is just plain batshit crazy? This isn&#8217;t borderline anymore. Tom Head is an actual judge, not the kind on People&#8217;s Court. And the GOP aversion to taxes is apparently flexible enough to be waived if the money is used to fund a military response to an imaginary United Nations assault on Lubbock. Really?<\/p>\n<p>Judge Head later <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/08\/22\/730851\/texas-judge-an-obama-led-united-nations-invasion-of-lubbock-texas-is-only-the-worst-case-scenario\/\" target=\"_blank\">clarified his comments<\/a>, although <em>&#8220;clarified&#8221;<\/em> may be the wrong word:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As emergency management director I have to think of worst case scenario, and I used that as an example yesterday. Okay, in my opinion, the worst case scenario politically and financially right now is if Obama and the Senate Democrats stay in power. Okay, because I have some opinions what they&#8217;re doing and what they&#8217;re trying to do if they stay in power. And I have to prepare for that, okay.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The people of Lubbock must feel so safe and cozy knowing that Judge Head(case) is preparing for every possible worst case scenario. When the rest of the nation succumbs to the Black Plague, or is overrun by marauding Swedes, Lubbuck alone will survive because Head will have anticipated the danger. That&#8217;s worth another 1.7 cents in taxes, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fox News affiliate in Lubbock, Texas, interviewed County Judge Tom Head who explained why it is necessary to raise the tax rate by 1.7 cents the next fiscal year. One of the reasons he cited was that if President Obama is reelected&#8230; &#8220;He&#8217;s going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-7843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-22v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10324,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10324","url_meta":{"origin":7843,"position":0},"title":"BREAKING: Obama Does Something, Fox News Opposes It","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/7\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This just in from our Washington bureau. 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