Well…I don’t know if you have been following the whole nonsense surrounding Bob Woodward (you know, the Watergate Woodward) and what he said was a threatening e-mail he got from the White House…and his immediate need to run to Fox news to tell everyone about it. If you saw the e-mail, you must be scratching your head and asking “what threat?” That the aide that sent the letter said he may “regret” writing that the whole sequester mess is Obama’s fault….especially since it isn’t? This is supposed to be the guy that went up against the thugs in Nixon’s White House and didn’t blink? And Nixon’s thugs were really thugs that had no problem with breaking any law they didn’t like and using physical violence to get their point across…and now he runs crying to Fox because he has a little boo boo on his feelings? I have lost all of the respect I used to have for this guy…and he is showing the behavior that all of the right has….the “poor me”, all the world is against me and picking on me crap…boo hoo….had enough of this and the last thing I have to say to ole Bob is…grow a pair..geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Some short comments…
Well…I am still laughing about the interview that the Romneys gave to Fox news the other day and the abject whining, whining, and more whining that ole Ann did again…you’ll remember her “campaigning is hard” comments from last year? Just more of the same of that crap this time…bitching about how when the campaign was over they were left alone and how they like to “give” so much…and the implied tone of the article was that it wasn’t enough to “give”, but they wanted to be thanked for it..thanked for helping screw up the country, thanked for just being such assholes…I wish they would just go away so we don’t have to hear from them ever again.
Oh, one last thing about austerity…if you want to see what the effects the sequester and it’s budget cuts are going to do, just look at what the same crap has done in Europe….record high unemployment and negative growth…let’s keep saying that…Keynes was right, again….
Okay…wanted to do one on Snyder and Detroit here but I’m just not feeling it today…I’ll be back later and try again…
Scalia is an idiot…
Well…I am actually ahead by one for the month but I thought I’d come back here for one more to deal with a a couple of things that have come up over the past couple of days..the first one is the comments that justice Scalia made during arguments over the continuation of the voting rights act and whether or not discrimination still exists in voting rights in the southern states that are covered by parts of the act. This idiot stated that the only reason that the congress re-authorized the act overwhelmingly in 2006 was that the members were afraid to vote against a “racial entitlement”, not that there is still discrimination going on..something that is clear IS still happening; especially during the last election with all of the voter suppression that happened across the country. This is probably one of the most outrageous statements I’ve ever heard from a justice of the supreme court and I really do think it raises to the level of an impeachable offense…especially since he is attributing the votes for the act to being a sort of reverse blackmail that minorities are doing to the congress when the only reason the act was re approved is that when these states are left to their own devices, they immediately go back to discriminating against the poor and minorities by throwing up new barriers to their votes. Over the years, Scalia has shown that he is not the “huge brain” that the right holds him up to be, but just a venal, misogynistic, hack who has no problem using his lifelong appointment not to judge on the facts of a case, but to continually misinterpret the law to further his own political ends…the country would be better off if he would just resign and go to work for one of the corporations that he reveres and stop gutting the laws of the land. Geez…
Need to read the papers again…
Well…it has been a tough day to try to get a topic to do a whole one on but maybe I can think of something if I go back to read the papers again? Nope, that didn’t work yesterday so I guess I won’t do it again today….so, how to get a topic? maybe I’ll go back to the Post online…wait a sec and I’ll be right back…okay…Greg Sargent has a point that I can comment on…in all of the reporting on the sequester, it seems that the commentator class is making it out that both parties are equally responsible for the gridlock that is going on…not on your fricking life. It is all repubs, all the time…their refusal to agree to anything that doesn’t give them everything they want without compromise is what is the problem…and the great thing is, the American people agree that it is the repubs fault…nevermind their #obamaquester hashtag ( which I think is their only bow to technology) that they are using to try to shift the blame to Obama….it is all repubs, all the time…and I will keep repeating that all day…the repubs are just a bunch of fools who are believing their internal polling again while they ignore every truth in economics….they are the know nothing party, after all…geez…
A few open threads…
Well…don’t really have a big one for today but I do have a few short open threads that I do want to comment on…
First…why the hell are we talking about gutting social security and medicare when the programs are solvent until 2030? If we can get the repubs out of the way and get to historical levels of growth in the economy, that extends out another 15 years or so…so why are the repubs so adamant about cutting and cutting the things that the middle class depends on to stay above poverty? Especially since these don’t contribute one penny to the deficit…
Then we have more mischief by the repubs here in Michigan where they are going ahead with the plans to rig the electoral vote so they will win the majority of them even when they lose the state…they can’t win on ideas so lie, cheat, and steal…
Then, let’s move on to Oklahoma and the new plans to allow employers to not include birth control in their health plans since in women, it “suppresses their identity and poisons their bodies”…and they are writing this law for the entire state on the request of one quack doctor…what the hell happened to trying to put people back to work?
Okay….that’s all for now…might have a few more for later….
I just love it…Rush is ashamed…
Well…I really do try to never read anything about ole Rush since it feels like when I do, my brain rots from the inside and I don’t have all that much left to give…but, the fact that ole Rush is ashamed of the US and the reasons behind it have been making me smile all day. He is ashamed of the US because the left has won and he attributes the reason for it to be that the left has “created huge numbers of low information voters” that have been deceived by Obama and the left, and given “gifts” to vote for them. No, Rush, you’ve lost because of your batshit crazy, women hating, gay baiting ideas are repugnant to more and more people across the country and they are starting to reject those ideas. There is only one thing that I hope about this gasbag…that his ratings continue to fall and his hatred will no longer pollute the political discussion here….going to happen…hope it’s soon…
My head is almost exploding…
Well…I really do have to stop reading so many newspapers every day..the more I read, the crazier the republicans seem…no, not seem…are…first you have the pet attack on women they seem to favor, intrusive ultrasounds…then you have a rep in one of the southern states, who was just on unemployment for a year, vote to cut off the rest of the people in that state that are still on it. Then, you have the repubs in congress who have been wrong about everything for the past 10 years thinking if they let the sequester go into effect, people will blame Obama when all of the polls say that a large majority will blame the repubs….are these guys just too stupid to believe facts or I wonder if it is the fact that they only listen to the propaganda arm of the party for their news? Boy, there are so many to talk about today…how about John McCain berating the parents of one of the victims of the Aurora shooting? When they asked if he would support the assault weapon ban, his response was “I can tell right now you need some straight talk…the assault weapons ban will not pass…” nevermind that these people are still grieving, but who treats their constituents like that? What the hell happened to compassion and niceness? I think the repubs have to turn that in when they get elected…and the country is worse for it…just checked…head still hasn’t exploded…yet…geez….
The republicans revealed…
Well…have been watching the races on tv but thought I’d better come back here and do another one since the repubs have another piece of hypocrisy that is making me shake my head…to the point of exploding. First, when the heck did the crazies on the right start believing that the government is going to start injecting chips into everyone in the country? Heard that nice little piece of crazy somewhere today but I don’t really remember where…but the second part of that is that, at a town hall meeting, Senator Grassley was asked if he opposed the chipping of people…of course he did, but the answer made my jaw drop…”nothing can be done to your body without your permission”…oh, really? Tell that to all of the women in this country that live under repub administrations that are forcing women to have invasive ultrasounds before they can even take a pill…that is the new law that has been proposed in Indiana…that even with non-surgical abortions, women are going to be FORCED to have a probing before they can sit in a chair and take a pill. I am so tired of these idiots attacking women but I also want them to keep it up…they may be able to do this crap now…but in two years they will all be gone and we can get back to good government and privacy…geez…
Republicans and percentages…
Well…getting ready to go out and shoot pool…my only activity for the week…and I thought I’d just throw in one thought that we have to remember…just like the 47% comment that haunted the Romney election campaign…when ole Boehner agreed to the sequester and many, many repubs voted for it, his comments were that he got “98%” of what he wanted from Obama and the Dems…to me, that sounds like the whole sequester mess is laid squarely at the feet of the repubs…and i hope that Obama and the rest of the dems let it lie there like the steaming pile of crap that it is…all the sequester is is the congress not doing its job and taking the easy way out due to the crazy assed tea partiers that reside there…and the repubs really did think they were going to win the White House and then get everything they wanted…lower taxes on the rich and corporations, and the gutting of the social safety net…didn’t work out so well, did it? Now, all we have to do is continue to remind the country that it is the repubs who are responsible for the next two years and then we can throw them out..permanently…geez…
Can these guys get any crazier?
Well…reading the papers today…and especially Daily Kos…okay, not technically a newspaper but a great place for we progressives to congregate…I was struck by the crazy being taken up to 11 by some idiot legislator in Missouri who proposed to make it a felony to even propose any gun control measures in that state. Yep, you heard me right…the party that reveres the constitution (or parts of it) has proposed that the 2nd amendment trumps every other one just showing that these folks are not qualified to serve anywhere. I wonder if they have even read the constitution? Don’t they understand that the Missouri constitution has specific clauses that make lawmakers immune to these types of charges? Man…just when I think that the right can’t get more stupid, here they come again with more, and more, and more…of the jaw dropping idiocy that is making them the laughingstock of the country…way to go Missouri!