Having ensured wife beaters have guns, crapped on rights of immigrants and women, tried to repeal industrial insurance, and cut the hell out of poor, Rodney Tom’s Senate is now triumphantly busying itself — through resolution primed by Tom’s handpicked budget vice chair Michael Baumgartner (Tea Party, Spokane) — honoring union-busting Margaret Thatcher for restoring “Old Empire.” The Senate, without objection, approved today a resolution honoring Margaret Thatcher. Among other things, perhaps reflecting their own budget: “Her work to restructure the British financial system provided paramount examples of the proper way to revitalize economies around the world”
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