Well…now that we have heard from the turtle man McConnell that, under no circumstances will he allow any hearings to be held on a new supreme court justice until he loses the job of majority leader….I am at a loss to understand his end game…I mean, what does he expect to gain from this? Another Scalia? That is never going to happen and, unless he is the most stupid person in the world (which I think he is) he can’t think he will get anyone farther to the right than Garland. Go ahead, Mitch, hold this one up until we take back the senate and you will get another Ginsburg who will push the court farther to the left than the current nominee. The latest outrage in this whole mess is ole Mitch’s statement yesterday that he won’t allow any hearings on anyone that the NRA disapproves of…yep, you heard it right, Mitch is now giving up his job to the NRA…now, I’ve read the constitution and there is not one mention of the NRA advising and consenting on supreme court justices…I am just shaking my head here today on how far off the rails the repubs have gone….and they need to go…get out and vote people…this needs to stop….
Category Archives: Politics
Republican economics…
Well…as repubs elected to state houses trash the economies of their states with their faith based economics, more and more examples come up where it is clear that all repubs are on the grift…enriching themselves and their cronies while cutting everything that makes a state livable for the masses. The latest example comes from Alabama, where the repub governor Robert Bentley just gave his staff, and others, raises of almost 75K per year while they were passing a law that prevents any municipality from raising the minimum wage to allow people to get a living wage…yep, you heard that right…enrich the rich and the people that have been giving tax breaks to corporations and cutting services across the state get a big raise for it…and this is not the only shenanigans the idiot Bentley has done…just last year he took 2 million dollars from the BP oil settlement that is supposed to be used to help the people that were hurt by the spill, and used that money to rebuild a little used governors mansion for his use…these guys have turned these states into little more than tin pot dictatorships where they steal everything for themselves and the hell with the people they are supposed to govern….this is the modern repub, folks..take a good look…geez…
The Kochs will ruin anything…
Well….you know that I have written about the Koch brothers and all of the anti tax organizations that they fund…and the mischief these idiots do across the country…now they are even getting involved in local matters that have nothing to do with them…last year it was a bond issue for the Columbus zoo that they spent millions defeating…why they give a damn about that I’ll never know…and now a little town called Plainfield Illinois has felt the long tentacles of the Kochtopus. What was the dastardly thing the people there wanted to do? Raise taxes to pay for a new library for the town to replace one that was just too small. This small raise in taxes would pay for the new library and updating of technology, along with meeting rooms for the community to use. This project was proposed after years of surveying the city, of focus groups, and working with everyone who would have a stake in the new library…just how democracy is supposed to work…thanks Joan….but, not to the Kochs. They just HAVE to interfere everywhere…and they did…spending huge amounts of money on anti library robocalls and advertising…and the result of this attack on local self determination? The referendum failed and now the library will see a 20% cut in funding…ending many programs that were essential to the community. You could blame the voters, but I won’t do that here since we know that advertising is very effective in political campaigns and low information people can be easily swayed when only one side of an issue is covered. This is where we have to fight the Kochs…they don’t give a damn about America or democracy, they only care that their money and power is creating the kind of society they want…the regular folks get nothing while they take everything….geez…
Snyder tries to shift the blame for Flint…
Well…with the hearings going on in congress about the screwups that led to Flint residents being poisoned with lead…we see the typical repub response from our governor Snyder that it was the “bureaucrats” in his administration that were responsible for the crisis…of course not him, even though he knew a year before he acknowledged it that there were problems in Flint. But, the most sick thing was his trying to shift the blame to the EPA, basically saying that they should have known that Snyder’s administration was poisoning people in Flint and should have stopped them…imagine what that would mean for criminal defendants if this crap was allowed to excuse this behavior….a murder suspect could just say “hey, you guys didn’t stop me from murdering so it’s not my fault…it’s the fault of the bureaucrats in the police department….” And, as you know, these guys are so big on “personal responsibility” until it gets down to them…then, anyone and everyone is responsible but them…especially the government…the repubs on the committee again tried to have it both ways, too, saying that the EPA should regulate more what states can do…when, just a week ago, they were complaining that the EPA is destroying the economy by too much regulation and the states should be able to do what they want without interference from the EPA. Typical repub behavior that killed people and put thousands at risk…but they never have any responsibility for it..even when they control the entire government of Michigan…what a bunch of liars…geez…
Two bad prosecutors are gone…
Well….I know the attention in yesterday’s elections was on the presidential races, but there were two wonderful things that happened in down ballot races that I just had to comment on…first, Anita Alvarez, the prosecuting attorney of Cook county in Illinois was beaten in a landslide in her re-election race. This is the person who deliberately sided with the police in clear cut cases of wrongdoing by the cops…in one case, deliberately mis-charging an off duty cop who fired his weapon into a crowd, killing a woman that was just walking down the street…who later got off with no penalty due to her manipulation of the process…the second good outcome of the elections yesterday was the rejection of the corrupt prosecutor of Cuyahoga County in Ohio who did his best to protect the cop that shot 12 year old Tamir Rice less than two seconds after he rolled up in his squad car…ignoring the independent assessment of a state judge that said the officer should be charged with killing Tamir….and it got worse from there where this idiot, Tim McGinty did everything in his power to throw the case and make sure the cop wouldn’t be charged….all I say is good riddance to two people who are the poster children for what is wrong with our justice system…I hope the new prosecutors keep their thumbs off the scales of justice and follow the law…geez…
Bye, bye, little Marco….
Well…as expected, Little Marco Rubio got his butt kicked in his home state last night…winning only the county he lives in…which led to him dropping out of the race…and the concession speech was one that turned my stomach…where he decried the coarsening of the campaign by the rhetoric that was, to be generous, trashy on the right…something he was partially responsible for with his dick jokes at the last debate. But, the worst part was his invoking of god 30 times during the speech…saying that god said it was just not his time…now, if this idiot truly believes that god has a hand in an of this, then god must want the Donald to win since he is far ahead of everyone else and looks like he will get the nomination. To go back a little farther and extend this line of thinking, then god must have wanted Obama to win, too, since he won two terms….how does that square with the right’s supposed monopoly on god’s good graces? Just glad this little empty suit is going to be nowhere near the presidency….he’s never done any job he was elected to, and the presidency would be no different…geez….
Little Marco’s 2.1 GPA…
Well….have been reading a lot lately as I try to recover from this darn bug and ran across a funny little tidbit of information that describes Little Marco Rubio to a T…..some enterprising reporter was digging through his past and found his high school transcripts and the GPA he achieved explained a lot of what we see today….now, a 2.1 GPA is nothing spectacular…that’s just a bit better than a C and really shows that his backers who think he is a brilliant person or politician have got it all wrong…I mean a C average? Cripes I had a 3.4 average and I skipped 46 days in my junior year while I was working full time….what this makes me think is of the consistency of his lack of effort in everything he has ever done…skipping his job in the Florida legislature and then skipping his duties in the US senate…and half heartedly campaigning for president….depending on his rich backers and the next big thing he is going to do to ensure he does his present job in a half-assed way he has done everything in his life….now, to base an evaluation of this guys entire life on his high school GPA is not something I would normally do, but when he continues that same slacker mentality through everything he has ever done, it is one part of the puzzle that shows he is not a serious person….just another grifter looking for the next payday…geez…
Some good news….
Well…haven’t done a political one in a while since the crap that is going on over on the repub side has just gotten to be too much for me to follow…I mean, a presidential candidate telling his followers to beat up people they don’t agree with? With that, there is no room for any policy discussion on that side but we’ve heard it all…tax cuts for the rich…blah, blah…so I guess we don’t really have to hear any more….but, there was one bit of good news that came out of a national poll on the general election that was released the other day…and that is that either Bernie or Hillary would beat Drumpf by about 10 points with Bernie doing a little better….and those numbers are sure to go up as people hear more from the idiot….how far has the repub party fallen since I was young….when we had people like Vandenberg, and Ford and Bill Milliken….and now we have Drumpf, Cruz, and Rubio….have never seen a worse set of no talent hacks in my life….geez..
The rule of law only applies to Dems in Kansas…
Well….I was going to write about the demise of ole Marco today but there have been new happenings in Kansas that I just needed to comment on…if it wasn’t bad enough that repub control of the state has left it’s finances in tatters with the huge tax cuts to the rich and business…it is so bad there that the supreme court of Kansas told the repub controlled legislature that the cuts they made to the schools there are unconstitutional…but did they respond by abiding by the court ruling and fixed their failing schools? Of course not, they are repubs after all and they just KNOW that the law doesn’t apply to them….so, they just passed a new law there that says that if any judge in any court disagrees with the legislature…even if the law they pass is blatantly unconstitutional…that judge can be put in jail…yep, you heard that right…the party that screams constitution this and constitution that has just shown that all of that bleating is just the bullshit we all know it is….and they only care about naked power and ideology and that is what we would see if these folks ever take over the presidency…..I just don’t know what to say about the repubs these days other than they are the biggest danger that this nation has ever seen…and they need to go back to the rocks they crawled out from…geez…
Okay…have a correction…the judges can be impeached not put in jail…my mistake…
Michigan feels the “Bern”
Well…it was an interesting day yesterday in Michigan politics where Bernie beat Hillary by 4 points to win the Michigan primary. That was really a surprise given that the last poll in the race had Hillary ahead by almost 20 points and the pundits had written him off…weeks ago…but, one of the things that they didn’t count on was the record turnout on both the repub and dem side of the aisle….one of the biggest surprises was the makeup of the win for Bernie with many more people of color breaking for him that anyone predicted…that, along with an overwhelming win in the youngster vote put him over the top….not sure what that is going to mean with Hillary so far out ahead in the delegate count, and with her winning Mississippi….Bernie is still a long shot but he is pulling her back toward the traditional dem platform instead of the repub lite that she has been selling…better for the country for sure….go Bernie….