Well…I have had enough of the political terrorists on the right using the economy as their hostage after they continue to lose elections…and the thing is, only a small fraction of the country want what they are selling…starving people, tax cuts for the rich, and unfettered corporate hegemony over the economy….this is not going to be pretty…and these assholes had no problem raising the debt limit 19 times while ole GW was in office…the only objection they have is that Obama is presidentin’ while black….I wonder when their corporate masters are going to get tired of losing trillions in equity while these idiots play with government…I have no other words…
Category Archives: Politics
Not sure what to write about…
Well…as you can see…I started one wrong yesterday with an okay instead of well…and I still can’t think of anything to write about but that really should happen sometimes since I have done 2,600 of these…I did have an okay morning with getting a lot of things done including waxing the car…but now, I think I will just take it easy for an hour or so and just chill….it looks like the repubs are still searching for ways to end the ACA but all the dems have to do is say no and pin the government shutdown on them….since there is still a majority of the country that likes the law…and as more and more info gets out, they like it more…and the polls are saying that more than 80% of the country don’t want a shut down…so, I say let them own it…and bring on 2014…the repubs will be gone…geez…
ACA pricing doesn’t look good for the repubs…
Well…just a shorty on the data that is coming out of the developing pricing for the insurance exchanges…one estimate for a family of four making around 40K in Texas is that, after subsidies, they will pay around 50 bucks a month for a silver plan that covers more than any personal insurance that is even available in Texas right now. So, to the repubs I say “you guys are in deep, deep trouble” if you continue to try to make sure that no one can afford insurance…your time is just about up when people get the pleasant surprise of the rates under the ACA and it spreads like wildfire across this country…and, you are a bunch of immoral pricks…geez…
Why do the repubs hate negotiating?
Well…after the news this week on the overtures from Iran on trying to start toward normalizing relations with the US, we got the expected response from the repubs in a letter to Obama from McCain and some of the other idiots on the right…and guess what the advice is? It is to shout louder at the Iranians and to not negotiate unless the US will tell them what we want and accept nothing less thai everything we want. Now, this is not diplomacy by any stretch of the imagination and is the same failed policy that led us into war in Iraq…didn’t the repubs see that diplomacy can work as it did in Syria? It just goes back to how the repubs view negotiating and compromise in our government…as in they won’t unless the left gives them everything they want and they won’t be satisfied if they ever have to compromise one iota. That doesn’t work here, and it sure won’t work in the international arena…but the stupidity and ideological rigidity of the right just can’t allow any new thinking…even if there have been good results…geez…
Chuck Todd is an idiot….
Well…have to cheat some since I have been a little slow on the uptake lately…so,…no, I don’t think I’ll cheat…just want to comment on the idiot Chuck Todd’s statement the other day that went something like this: “it’s not my job to point out Republican lies…” I’m sorry, Chuckster, but it is EXACTLY the job of the media to point out republican lies and talking points. This is what is wrong with the media these days…they act like truth and facts don’t matter any more…and they give this false equivalence to what is true and the lies that come out of the repubs every day….what the hell is wrong with the media? When did they stop doing their jobs as they did during Watergate? If the media acted then like they do now, Nixon never would have had to resign since they would have bought his lies and actively supported him. Chuck Todd should lose his job over this since he has shown that he is not a journalist…just a stenographer for the repubs…geez….
The backlash is coming….
Well..if you’ve been here at all, you know how I feel about the idiots who are so scared of life that they need to carry guns around with them wherever they go….and, you have also heard me talk about how uncomfortable I am when one of these idiots walks into the coffee shop, etc. where I am….and you have heard the arguments for second amendment rights..yada, yada….what about the rights of those of us that don’t want to be around guns? Then the argument from the gun nuts goes that those who carry guns have to be trained, licensed, etc. and you’ll be happy to have one of them around when you’re getting robbed. Then my argument goes that they are responsible gun owners until they’re not…until they snap from whatever and start shooting. Well…that happened just yesterday when two “responsible” gun owners had a shootout after a road rage incident and both of them ended up dead. Both had licenses to carry their handguns but both of them snapped…what would have happened if only one of them had a gun? Another person would have been killed by a “responsible” gun owner…and it wouldn’t make him or her any less dead. What if there would have other people in the car wash where they chose to have their gun battle? Do we just chalk them up to be collateral damage and just shrug our shoulders and say “oh, well”? I have had enough of having to change my behavior just so these idiots can look like a big man with his piece strapped to his waist…it is time to stop this crap and restore some sanity to our lives…geez…
Republican extortionists…
Well…the repubs have finally devolved into the Mafia with their latest threats to crash the world economy unless they get all of the crazy they have been trying for for the past 4+ years. The latest nonsense is that they have threatened to hold the debt ceiling hostage unless the Keystone pipeline is approved along with the wish list of the far right…of course the repeal of the ACA, but then more tax cuts for the rich, more food stamp cuts for the poor, and more voter suppression, slashing SS and Medicare…you get the point…they can’t win elections so they thumb their noses at democracy and do what thugs do, threaten the country and the world…are these guys nuts? At least we have the president saying that one of his biggest mistakes was negotiating with extortionists in 2011 and has promised never again. I say let them crash the economy…and then let’s tie this millstone around the necks of every one of them and push them out of the congress so maybe some sane people can take their places…ignorant know-nothings have no place running this country…we are the laughingstock of the world whenever they open their mouths and I have had enough of the crazy…geez…
I’m confused…
Well…here comes the new meme of the day from the right wing wingnuts…that because Obama got Syria to give up it’s chemical weapons without firing a shot, it makes him look weak and because he is weak (in their minds), he now will go along with defunding Obamacare. What the hell planet are these nuts living on? In any rational mind (which means none on the right), getting what you want through talking and diplomacy is much preferable to using military force and killing a bunch of innocent civilians…but the right thinks that there is only one response to any crisis…bomb them! But, the funny thing here that exposes the pure, unadulterated hatred the right has for Obama is that they were for bombing Syria until Obama came out for it…then, they immediately changed to be opposed to it….I, for one, feel that diplomacy was and is the right choice in this situation, that there is nuance and subtlety that can work wonders if you have an administration that understands it. That does not describe ole Gw’s time in office…they had an outcome they wanted and then faked the info until they had a reason to attack….something that still should subject those folks to the law….I can’t wait to see how this one plays out…geez…
The three stooges are back…
Well…just a short one while I thaw out from the bike ride…I hope you saw the debacle of a press conference that was given by the three stooges the other day…no, not the real stooges but the stooges from the repub party, Michelle Bachmann, Steve King, and Louie Gohmert. For some reason, they took a trip to Egypt and then put on the most stupid event I have ever seen in their press conference…not a bit of intelligence between the three of them…I can not remember hearing three less intelligent people go out and embarrass this country like they did…and then ole Michelle even tops it by going on and on about how long the US has been here and culture, values, etc…lecturing people whose culture has been around for 5,000 years….there has to be a way to keep the stupid here in the US so we don’t lose the last vestige of respect we have in the world…geez…
The idiots waste another million…
Well…it was another red letter day in Washington yesterday with the idiot repubs holding another vote on the repeal of Obamacare…that is number 40 and I just can’t believe that they are getting away with it…especially since none of the laws will ever be taken up by the senate and would surely be vetoed by the president….so, what the hell are they voting for? There has been research done on the costs of these futile votes…from the staff time to write the bills and all of the other costs, and it has now passed the 50 million dollar price tag. Yep, these idiots who supposedly decry waste in government, and who voted the other day to cut food stamps to thousands of people and let them starve to save money have wasted 50 million dollars just trying to poke Obama in the eye. Think about all of the things that 50 million dollars would buy…how many kids could have gone to college? How many retirees could have been fed? How many homeless could have been given a home? These stupid, heartless bastards just don’t care about anyone but themselves and their billionaire bosses….geez…