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By La bloguera, February 13, 2009 9:41 am

Remember when the new White House with no Spanish website launched on January 20th, like four minutes before Obama’s officially bungled swearing in?  Well, now, only a few months after Nydia Velázquez was sworn in as Hispanic Caucus Jefa at Union Station, Joe Baca has finally given up the interwebs.

So welcome to the new and very green Hispanic Caucus looks like 10 years ago website!, except that it has a link to Facebook.

I clicked on CHC Principles, which seems like something very important to know, the result: a broken link!

Here is the link, have you own fun:

Congressional Hispanic Caucus

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By La Neta, January 1, 2009 2:06 pm

Never mind the crappy economy that has some people choosing between mac & cheese and ramen noodles for dinner, while others wonder if they’ll have a roof over their head.

In the Washington la-la land known as Capitol Hill, legislators rang in the new year with an AUTOMATIC pay raise of $4,700 EACH, apparently believing it is simply too rough to live on a six-figure income.

With this little hike, the crack legislators who haven’t done a damn thing to help regular people deal with this current economic mess are now making nearly $170,000 a year. So-called “party leaders” make even more.

Some legislators realize how ridiculous this is and how terrible it looks PR-wise to raise their OWN DAMN SALARIES while their constituents spend most of the day rubbing two nickels together. So they’ve proposed a number of things, including donating their raise to charity.

And where do the Coconutters stand on the whole thing? A total of ZERO have said they’d give up their congressional raise.

Continue reading 'Coconutters Start New Year a Little Richer'»

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By La bloguera, October 30, 2008 9:35 am

We have been a bit distracted by some other happenings, and we totally forgot to post the great news about one of our most favorite congress-person’s and great leader of the Hispanic Caucus, Joe Baca, who has was the only Latino in Congress to make the Top Ten List in Esquire magazine!!!

The 10 Worst Members of Congress

The competition was staggering, and for every one on this list, there are five who could just as easily have stood in. Ladies and gentlemen, the very worst of the worst.

And I quote:

As chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Baca steered CHC funds to the campaigns of his two sons. When Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez called him on it, he did the mature thing and called her a “whore.” Nice. So Baca’s corrupt and venal.

Continue reading 'Joe Baca Makes the Top Ten List!!!!'»

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By La bloguera, October 8, 2008 10:05 am

I repeat: No Latinos were hurt, employed, featured, consulted, shown, considered, included, acknowledged or recognized in the making of this presidential debate, or the VP debate, or any other debate.

Yes mi gente, we may be the largest numerical minority of the nation, but we are absolutely excluded, disregarded, absent, ignored, passed over and non-existent when it comes to debating, commentating, covering, moderating, or EVEN ASKING questions to the candidates in the supposed most important election ever.

(In all those foreign policy “debates” not one mention of Mexico, a country that affects the daily lives of Americans waaaaay more than Russia or Somalia, or Colombia where billions of our taxpayer dollars go, or the Dominican Republic, we can’t do baseball without it)

Passing mentions of Hugo Chávez and the Castro duo don’t count, because they always appear in the same sentence as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and foreign oil and/or dictators.

So while “our leaders” are all excited that a few more Latinos will be participating in that secret activity that happens once every 4 years (OK, 2 years), and they keep saying we are the swing vote, yada yada yada…. I have news for you: Our collective political weight is about as real as Joe Biden’s hair plugs, and about as relevant as a copy of the Constitution in Alberto Gonzales’ house.

Continue reading 'No Latinos Were Hurt in the Making of this Debate'»

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By La bloguera, October 2, 2008 12:56 pm

Another in our dedicated organized drinking during national political moments of discourse.  (This is waaaay better than liveblogging)

So first the gringo version (copy pasted from here)

Tonight’s debate is, like America’s future, all about Reduced Expectations. If Sarah Palin manages to remember what office she’s running for, she will have “managed expectations.” If Joe Biden manages to make it through the night without calling Gwen Ifill a “gorgeous negress,” he will have beaten his debilitating gaffe addiction. But what about the other 90 minutes of bullshit? Let’s make it fun — or hazy, at least — by taking a drink off your wine or beer when the following occurs:

• PALIN evades a question by mentioning state rights.
• BIDEN says he takes the train home every day.
• PALIN fills time by listing all her kids, by their ridiculous names.
• BIDEN talks about Scranton.
• PALIN blames Iraq for 9/11.
• BIDEN blames McCain for 9/11.
• PALIN says “like” as a White Trash discourse particle or interjection.
• BIDEN audibly laughs at Palin.
• PALIN stares blankly when she can’t answer a question.
• BIDEN makes a sarcastic joke that goes right over Palin’s head, along with about half the viewers.
• PALIN says anything comically retarded about Russia or Canada. Continue reading 'Palin vs Biden Debate Drinking Game'»