Well…I thought I’d seen the low that the repubs could sink to and then ole Boehner goes even lower…in case you haven’t heard, the repubs have now started to meddle in foreign policy by inviting Bibi Netenyanhu to speak in front of the House next month to try to undermine the nuclear negotiations that are underway with Iran. Nevermind that ole John has come out today and petulantly said “I have the right to do it”…this kind of crap has never been done before in the history of the country…and even Fox news has said that it is bad form and has savaged ole Boehner for this bone head move…and there is no secret whey he is doing it…the right in this country are really pissed with the results that Obama has been getting with negotiations when all the repubs want to do is start another war with Iran to reward their military suppliers with more no contract profits and to “show up” Obama…even to the point of committing treason or maybe “treason lite” to do it…there is no end to the things these idiots will do to hurt this country just to score political points….how much more anti American can you get? Geez…
Category Archives: Politics
The first domino falls….
Well….I’m not sure if you’ve been following the events in Greece lately but I have an find them to be really, really interesting. what has happened in the election held over the weekend is that the conservative government has been thrown out to be replaced by a progressive one that has promised a wholesale change in how the country is run, starting with reversing the austerity that was forced on them by the EU and which is responsible for the Greek economy shrinking by more than 25% in the past year. But, the biggest target of this new administration is to get rid of the crony capitalism that has allowed the rich to not pay any taxes since before world war two and to operate to government for the benefit of all Greeks, not just those who have connections, money, or power. The people of Greece are just fed up with their 1% stealing everything and leaving nothing but crumbs for the rest of the country. Sound familiar? That’s why the title….if one country can make such a radical change, why can’t we? The same type of nonsense is happening here in the US with the rich taking all of the gains in the economy that have happened for the past 40 years and rigging the game so they will continue to take it all….I just hope that Greece was the first domino to fall to be followed by many more….the world needs to change…I just hope it happens in my lifetime….geez…
I guess the 14th amendment doesn’t apply to women…
Well…haven’t been thinking at all today but a thought just popped into my head and I thought I’d do some musing on it…with all of the abortion restrictions and government interference into women’s health decisions that have been written into law by the repubs across the country, I guess the 14th amendment doesn’t apply to women. As you know, the 14th amendment deals with equal protection under the law and that no laws can be written or accepted that only apply to select set of the citizenry…but, all of the mischief that the repubs have done since Roe was decided is directly opposed this amendment…when did the repubs ever write a law that interfered with men’s health decisions? I think the next challenge to these laws need to be couched in the language of the 14th to make the courts affirm that yes, women do have the right to control their own bodies just like men do…and put this repub nonsense to rest forever…geez…
This guy is running for president?
Well….I marvel at the ignorance of those on the right about the constitution they profess to revere almost every day…but, that marveling has reached a new level with the latest nonsense to come out of Mike Huckabee….the idiot from Kansas. With the tide of marriage equality rolling across the country, mostly driven by courts that find the the 14th amendment to the constitution means that equal protection applies to everyone, ole Huck came out the other day with a statement that says the way he understands the constitution, states don’t have to follow the rulings of the courts…especially federal courts and can go their own way on marriage equality. Now, this is not the first time these idiots on the right think that the states can pick and choose what federal laws or court rulings they have to follow…the answer is all of them….but, to have a supposed presidential candidate come out and say that he still believes in “nullification”, a doctrine that was outlawed by the supreme court in the 1800’s, shows that he is in no way qualified by temperment or judgement to be president in any world but the delusional one that the right lives in. I am still shaking my head at the stupidity of these folks….geez…
SOTU….
Well…with all of the hype about the state of the union yesterday, I figured I’d probably take a shot at what I think…as if I don’t every day here…I thought the speech was one of the best that I have heard Obama do…aggressive, confidant, and full of themes that dems should have been talking about in the past election…if they would have, they probably would have held the senate and gotten the turnout they needed. But, better late than never and this gives our side the roadmap we need to use to go into the 2016 elections…we need to be dems again and aggressively protect the middle class. The funny thing that I saw was the repubs sitting on their hands all night…just because Obama was saying the right things…he could have been for mom and apple pie and they would have sat there with the dour looks on their faces that they had. I think this is the start of finally distinguishing between the two parties..we can’t be repub lite and expect people to care….I can’t wait to see the political ads that are constructed using the shots from the speech…the repubs hating on popular policies with the general public…they are delusional if they think their pettiness won’t come with a cost..finally….geez…
No go zones….
Well…the latest freak out on the right comes in the wake of the murders in Paris and it is predictable in that it has no basis in fact…just in the fevered minds (if you can call them minds) of the crazy asses on the right. If you haven’t heard this latest outrage is fueled by some pundit on fox saying that he saw maps that showed Muslim areas of Paris and London where Sharia law has supplanted the laws that govern the rest of the society and that no one but Muslims can go there…hence being called no go zones. the problem with this crap is that is just not true…no matter how the right tries to prey on the fears of their slow witted followers with lies and more lies…there are some that they just can’t get away with. When the pushback came from the prime minister of England and the PM of France that this whole thing was a bunch of crap, even Fox had to admit there was no truth to it. But, that didn’t stop the dim witted gov of Louisiana ole Bobby Jindal, from going to London to give a speech that spewed these same lies that have been debunked…but, that just doesn’t matter to those on the right….lies are the same as truth to them and they think all they have to do is believe in them to make them true…what a bunch of maroons…geez…
Real chutzpah…
Well….I am just shaking my head right now with a speech that ole Mitt did the other day preparing for another run at the White House where he went on and on that income inequality has increased under Obama and he is concerned about it…what real chutzpah….he wasn’t too concerned when he was stealing millions and putting tens of thousands out of work while working at Bain capital…but, in an act of the cheapest political crap, he has flip flopped on this issue just because he saw that it worked for Obama…not from any new found concern for the middle class…he still thinks that 47% of them are just leeches who won’t work. I can’t wait for the news shows…well..”the Daily Show” anyway to get hold of this one….how much shallower can he show himself to be?
Another repub controlled state has a budget crisis…
Well…just had to write this one early so I won’t forget to do it today…just finished up reading the Detroit papers today and guess what the headline was….that our wonderful Michigan…home of tax cuts for the rich and business pushed by the repubs here is running the biggest deficit in its history, with the projections being that this years budget will see close to a 600 million dollar shortfall driven mostly by tax credits for business that the governor and legislators are “surprised” that they are taking. But, they are the only ones that are surprised…what the hell did they think was going to happen? That corporations would not take these giveaways out of the goodness of their hearts? Michigan now follows Kansas and Wisconsin into the black hole of tax cuts that do nothing to spur the economy or create jobs…especially when business is sitting on more cash than ever in the history of the world. The only time that tax cuts may work is when the cuts will free up money that business will spend on hiring or new equipment…tax cuts with so much retained cash just go to stock buybacks or increased CEO pay…nothing else. So, who pays for this boondoggle? If Michigan follows the pattern of every repub controlled state, there will be cuts to education and every other program that benefits anyone but business…and the state will be a worse place to live…just like every state under repub control…but they don’t care if business is happy…geez….
It starts…already…
Well…one thing that I have been noticing lately is the increasing attention to the nonsense that is going to be the 2016 presidential election….and I am shaking my head at the normal cast of characters on the repub side who are making noises about running…ole Mitt, Jeb, and Rubio have started to float the trial balloons and that makes this question pop up in my head: “Isn’t there anyone else?” Do we need the retreads from years before to do it again? I, for one do not want another Bush or Clinton in the White House….their time is done and I don’t want retread policies that would not benefit the middle class at all…after all, the Clintons are the darlings of Wall street and you can bet that they would fall all over themselves rewarding the big donors with more deregulation and give them even more chances to steal what is left of the economy. With the Bushs’s, you are going to have more Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and their cronies and the country surely can’t stand more of that crap. I just wish some new blood, progressive blood would run on our side anyway…people like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren who won’t just pay lip service to helping the middle class but will make it their job to claw back some of the thievery that the 1% has done over the past 20 years….no more dynasties…we can’t afford it…geez…
Just shaking my head….
Well….as usual, when I was reading today I found an article that left me shaking my head about the stupidity of people here in the US…and that happens more and more frequently lately. In a survey that the article was reporting on, 40% of the people polled still think that there were weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq…and, even more troubling than that, there are an almost equal number in the survey that still think Obama wasn’t born in the US…how many times do these false legends have to be debunked before people believe the truth? I find this willful ignorance to be one of the most troubling trends in US life today…that people who should know better believe this crap that they are spoon fed daily by Fox…I guess I should question their intelligence if they watch Fox…I wonder if just watching Fox lowers your IQ? Sure seems like it…geez…