Well…have been thinking about a topic for today when a jaw-dropping new piece of news came over one of the websites I follow…with this do nothing congress holding up ENDA, immigration, jobs bills, and the rest of the things they should be doing and saying there just is no time to get to them this year, we have a new hearing and investigation from the repubs of one of the most important things to Americans…whether or not one of the planets that have been discovered around other stars has life and if it is being kept from us…nope, not making this up…one of the idiot Texas reps is planning on spending a couple of million dollars to find out something that he could find out with just calling some of the astronomers that have found these planets and listening to them…why an investigation? The only reason that I can think of is just because they can and this idiot didn’t get his fix of power yet….so, he will take people away from jobs that actually accomplish something and make them cool their heels while he asks inane questions that could be answered by his staff with 15 minutes of internet time…and these are the “serious people” that the repubs send to the House? geez….
Category Archives: Politics
Scott Walker dives to a new low…
Well…if it wasn’t already clear that ole Scott was delusional, the latest fundraising letter from his office should make it crystal…I am still marveling at the sheer audacity of the concept…well…what this letter said was the good repubs should not buy presents for their kids for christmas, but instead give the money to ole Scott for his re-election campaign. After all, the letter goes on, the electronics, clothes or other things will just be broken or worn out so what’s the point? Just give your 8 year old a receipt for the contribution and let them play with that. Kids like empty boxes better anyway, right? This has got to be one of the stupidist things I have ever heard but it seems just right from ole Scott….how much more of a “war on christmas” can you be for than to take the presents away from children? This is going to grow them many, many new converts to the repub religion isn’t it? Just can’t keep from laughing at this one….geez…
Wisconsin and Minnesota…
Well…read a really interesting article somewhere today where economists compared the economies of Minnesota and Wisconsin and how they are performing in economic growth and job creation….one of the things that makes this really interesting is that Wisconsin is controlled and run by repub policies that are mirrors of what the repubs want to do and have done on a national level…and that is attack the unions, cut taxes for corporations, cut education funding and then have faith that this crap will work when it goes counter to accepted economic theory. Where has this gotten Wisconsin with Walker in charge? Almost 40th in job growth since Walker took office with only 90K jobs created when he made the election promise that his policies would add over 250K jobs in the first year of his term…and economic growth is in the bottom half of the states, too. Now lets look at Minnesota, a democratic controlled state that has embraced the unions, raised taxes on corporations, and has invested more in education and training…well, guess what? they are 5th in job creation, tied with another Dem controlled state, California who both have implemented fact based economic policies that look to help workers instead of corporations. Again, Minnesota is in the top ten in economic growth of any state, and they haven’t taken away womens rights or tried to decimate the middle class by taking away the right to organize. So, it’s pretty clear what works and what doesn’t…so, let’s remember that when ole Walker tries to lie his way into the repub nomination in 2016…geez…
Tired of lying politicians…
Well…while I was reading some political stuff today, one thing struck me…I am really, really tired of lying politicians whose views blow in the wind from day to day…whatever happened to telling the truth and being consistent? Whatever happened to politicians really saying what they are going to do and then doing it? Not doing what they all seem to do today…like our gov here…who never once mentioned during his campaign that he was going to raise taxes on retirees so he could give a 2 billion dollar tax cut to corporations who have not added one job for all that money. Or, saying he was not in favor of the right to work for less laws and then signing it after the repubs jammed it through the legislature? I’m just tired of all the lies and I am tired of hearing “they all do it”…why can’t they all just not do it? Geez…
Just wandering around….
Well…have been thinking about a political one to do today and really haven’t come up with anything…so I’m going to wander around a bit and just see what happens…it is a little heartening to see the progressives start to find their feet lately with getting the filibuster eliminated for judicial appointees which will give us the ability to appoint judges that will follow the law and not ideology…and that is one of the ironies that I see in the judiciary…the righties howl and howl about activist judges, but which ones are the most activist? It’s always the conservatives who don’t believe in the law or precedent…and to prove this, you only have to look as far as Citizens United where the conservatives on the court threw out a hundred years of precedent and made corporations equal to people….and they are poised to further extend this terrible precedent with a new case that will allow Scalia and the rest of the conservative thugs on the supreme court to say that corporations have religious rights, too…and that one will have to be pulled out of their asses since nothing like that appears anywhere in precedent or the constitution….and it will mean a huge increase in the power of the corporations since they will then be able to argue that they can do whatever they want to their employees…basically nullifying the last 100 years of labor law…so, progressives, we need to keep fighting to take back the court and our government from these folks, to make this country what it can and should be…where people count more than corporations and the law is the law…geez…okay…I didn’t wander as much as I expected…it’s funny sometimes how a topic will just write itself…
Unintended consequences….
Well…have been reading lately about the fallout from the decision that many repub governors have made to not allow the medicaid expansion in their states…whether it just ODS or the fact that the repubs hate poor people, the results are the same…to deny millions of people any sort of health insurance and hurt people mainly in red states. But, there is is an unintended consequence that these idiot governors didn’t see coming…without this expansion, many hospitals can no longer shoulder the burden of providing free care to the uninsured…so what do they do? Across the red states hospitals are closing in record numbers…many in rural areas that invariably vote for these repub idiots leaving no care for anyone. So, the smug, insured repubs who think that it’s not their problem that the poor have no health care are finding that they now live in areas where even they will have to drive 50 miles or more to the nearest hospital…a long way to go when you have a heart attack, stroke or even a car accident….I think it serves them right…maybe this will be another instance where the repubs don’t give a damn about anything until it affects them? Just another time where they will do anything to hate on the people of this country…even if it costs more money or even kills people…what a nice bunch…geez…
Of course they hate the Iran deal…
Well…after the announcement of the deal with Iran to slow down their nuclear program, of course the right comes out hating any idea of talking to the Iranians since they have been just itching for another war somewhere…they couldn’t get one in Syria and now it appears they won’t get on in Iran, either. So, their masters won’t get to replace their billions of dollars in war material that won’t be used and that just pisses them off…after all, what did they purchase legislators for? Now, what the hell is John McCain going to talk about on the Sunday shows? I just don’t understand why war is preferable to talking to the right…I think they do have ODS…Obama Deranagement Syndrome….and they are just unable to think in any terms but “if Obama did it, it must be bad” or to take the longer view that this is certainly better in the long run than destroying another country just because we can…we just need to let the adults in the room do their jobs and maybe get what we want, and for the Iranians to get what they want…is that so wrong? It’s just part of the whole mindset of the right that there is no win-win…there are only winners and losers and if we compromise at all, we are the losers…stupid…but that is the repubs these days…geez….
As always with the repubs…..
Well… didn’t get out to shoot pool today since Tom is sick so I thought I’d come back here to do another one of these…and, with it being the 50th anniversary of JFK being assassinated, I thought I’d talk about this little epiphany that I had watching some of the historical shows on the topic. What strikes me about the climate of that time and of this time is how similar they appear when looked at in the context of right wing hate….when Kennedy was going to Dallas, there were fliers put on cars calling for Kennedy to be tried for treason for something or other…and, when you see any right wing rally these days you see the same thing on signs and fliers…that Obama should be tried for treason, again, for something or other…probably for just being president. One of the things I find to be a little disturbing with this kind of crap is that people are supposed to be more informed these days but the actions of the right and repubs show that they are just where they have always been….a hate group under the guise of a political party who should be marginalized and pushed back under the rocks they crawl from…geez…
The filibuster is gone…
Well…have been waiting for this day for a while now…with all of the repub efforts to nullify the results of the last two elections in the senate by the egregious use of the filibuster, Harry Reid and the dems have finally said enough…enough of the lies from the repubs, enough of the obstruction, and enough of coddling the children on the right, and have changed the rules today to allow presidential appointees to be approved by a simple majority instead of the 60 votes that was the standard until now. But, to hear the repubs whine, and whine, and whine…you would think that this rule was enshrined in the constitution…it’s not..the senate gets to set it’s own rules and change them any time the current rules will not let the senate do it’s job. It is on the repubs that this rule had to be changed…they have done nothing but obstruct qualified nominees for nothing but ideology…to make sure that Obama is not successful…this never happened under ole GW when the repubs ran the senate…the dems voted for qualified candidates and most of his appointees were approved..even while we were holding our noses at some of them….it’s about time we took this weapon away form the children on the right…they have shown that they are not responsible enough to use it…good for you Harry…geez…
More hypocrisy..guess where from?
Well…this one would be funny if it was just so sad how much hypocrisy is oozing from the repubs these days…if you haven’t read it yet, there was another repub congressman caught the other day buying cocaine from a dealer in DC…and he explains it away by saying that he is an alcoholic so that should excuse his lapses…no, it shouldn’t…now, I know full well that people have their failings and sometimes it can lead to drug use…but, the searing hypocrisy here is that this idiot voted to test food stamp, welfare, and unemployment recipients for drug use and throw them off assistance if they tested positive…well…I guess there is a different set of rules for the ruling class…they get to do whatever they want and still collect their government pay but if someone that has reason to use drugs to cope with being poor and unemployed, off with his head! I have had enough of demonizing the poor for doing the same things that everyone does…if they want to test the poor, then anyone who votes for the law should be tested, too, after all, they shouldn’t mind if they don’t have anything to hide…snark…geez….