Well…with all of the drama going on with the bankruptcy in Detroit, I felt the need to comment with the latest crap from our wonderful governor on the mess there…first, I will say that some of the troubles there are a result of terrible mismanagement of the city by the string of incompetents and thieves…but, the shrinking of the city from over 2 million to under 700 thousand and the flight of most of the manufacturing base has much more to do with it…and then you have ole Snyder saying there will be no state help coming while he taxes retirees and gives almost 2 billion in tax cuts to business who have not created one job for the corporate welfare they received…isn’t Detroit part of the state too? The ones I feel the worst for are the retirees of the city of Detroit who are going to see their pensions decimated; getting only about 10 cents on the dollar that they were promised…and the bitch of it all is that they did nothing wrong…just worked their whole lives while the people in government they trusted screwed them over….but that is the repubs way of things…if you are unlucky enough to live somewhere where this can happen, you are just out of luck…you should have used your connections to get rich instead of working…what a bunch of crap….geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Here’s the difference between them and us…
Well….just a short one on a story I read in the papers yesterday about an anecdote concerning our VP Joe Biden told by one of the people on his SS detail….while visiting a donut shop, a man came up to Joe and asked him if he would meet his wife who was on her deathbed in a little house a few away…of course Joe said yes and went to the house, found that it was sweltering and turned to one of his aides and said “we need to get an A/C unit in here…” and they did it…just like that. The thing about it was this was quite a while ago and we are just now hearing about it…not from Joe but from someone who was there…I’m sure the Joe felt that just being a human being didn’t really merit being in the papers…it’s just part of life. In contrast, let’s look at the idiot Ryan and his fake washing of pots and pans with never a thought of really helping someone…the only thought being how he could exploit this fake for political gain. That’s the difference between us and them….we truly care about people and want everyone to do well and have a great life…they just don’t give a damn…geez…
The liar gets called out…
Well…having problems with the computer shutting down but I thought I’d get to a bit of deliciousness that I read online a few minutes ago about your friend and mine, Mitch McConnell and his lying ways finally catching up with him. Well…it is not only John McCain who is fed up with ole Mitch…as you remember, John McCain cut ole Mitch out of the filibuster negotiations the other day, wanting to actually get something done instead of the constant obstruction that ole Mitch has been doing for the past few years…and in a meeting with the repub caucus yesterday, ole Mitch tried to outright lie about what had happened and spin it as being some kind of brilliant maneuver on his part…but, Bod Corker was having none of it and called “bullshit” many times during the meeting…I wondered if there was anyone left in the repub party that had any integrity left…and I know there is just about a thimble full of integrity left on the right…at least there is still a thimble full…and it looks like Bob Corker and John McCain own most of it…geez…
Losing the political game…
Well…just wanted to comment a bit on the nonsense that has been going on in the senate since Obama was elected…where the repubs, as always, put political concerns of their party above the good of the American people; blocking nominees for executive positions and filibustering popular legislation just to suit their crazy assed right wing base. But, now it appears that even some of those in the crazy party are tiring of never getting anything done and have teamed up with Harry Reid to end the obstruction and start getting the people’s business done. It’s about time…Harry Reid has been bringing a knife to a gun fight for far too long…not believing he also had one…an even bigger one called the nuclear option where he can change the rules of the senate with just the dem caucus…and then, with those rule changes, he can tell the repubs to just go to hell if they don’t want to really govern…which describes most of the tea party folks. I am glad that ole Mitch McConnell played the petulant little child that he is right to the end…even going so far to show up at Reid’s office and try to get himself included in the reform, only to be told by Harry to basically “not let the door hit you in the ass on the way out..” something he deserved considering that he reneged on the January agreement about an hour after he made it with Reid. What a lying sack of crap….and now the rest of the repubs have lost the selfish political game they have been playing with the lives of all Americans and I hope that leads to more and more losses as the people understand that the repubs don’t give a crap about them…geez…
Not sure what to write…
Well…haven’t been thinking too much about what to write today but I do need to find something so I don’t get too far behind….maybe I’ll take a second look at the papers and see if there is anything there….oh, maybe we should all boycott Florida until they become humans again…I mean, letting ole Zimmerman off for killing a kid but then putting a black woman in jail for 20 years for shooting at her boyfriend (and missing) while he was beating her? No matter what anyone says, racism is alive and well and institutionalized in Florida. Then we have the repubs across this country seemingly unable to do anything but think, talk, and legislate against abortion when even their constituents don’t want that crap from them…so who are they representing? I am damn tired of having these religious nuts getting their way when they only represent about 15% of the people, the hard right that wants to turn this country into a theocracy. Maybe there is a little hope with the filibuster deal that was reached in the senate today….as I’ve said, the repubs only respect power and that Harry Reid finally used his is a good sign…but ole Mitch McConnell acted like the spoiled brat he is and opposed it….now, ole Harry just needs to use the nuke when, not if, the repubs renege on the agreement…
Texas is still the home of the war on women…
Well…as you know, the idiot repubs in Texas have been pandering to their rabid tea party supporters by pushing more and more illegal restrictions on womens rights culminating in the new, draconian restrictions on abortion that more that 65% of the people there (even repubs) do not want enacted. So, what is this about? It’s about control of women and their health…but this is not the first thing they have done…just this year, these same idiots slashed funding for family planning and other health services by almost 70%, making this necessary health care almost impossible to get if you are poor in Texas. But, this affected even more than the poor since Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people of any state…and you can see how much they just don’t give a damn about the people of Texas by the added rejection of the Medicaid expansion which will actually COST Texas billions of dollars in uncovered care that will happen in the emergency rooms across the state. All I can think of with this crap going on is these repubs are just not too bright, especially since an identical law has been thrown out in Wisconsin and is on the way to be deemed unconstitutional in at least three other states. I just can’t believe these guys are just standing around, waving the constitution and then spend all of their days passing laws that are unconstitutional that will cost their states millions in legal fees…I guess enriching your lawyer buddies is more important to them that spending those millions feeding people or providing healthcare….geez…
Idiots in charge…
Well…I had to laugh today when the governors of two of the hurricane prone states finally figured out the the austerity that they just love, along with the rest of the idiot repubs, is going to limit the preparations for hurricanes that the federal government can fund. The genius in Florida, Rick Scott, is now whining and crying that his national guard doesn’t have the money to train for disasters anymore so he and Bobby Jindal, another repub genius, are teaming up with a bunch of other repub governors to send a letter to Obama asking him to give them money so they don’t have to pay for them on their own. First, these guys just don’t have any idea who is responsible for legislation in the federal government…it is the repub controlled house you idiots…Obama can’t just appropriate money, that is the job of the house…so, if you really want to get things done instead of grandstanding and doing the only thing that repubs want to do, attack Obama, talk to your tea party buddies in the house and get them to end the sequester….geez…
A surprise for the gun nuts in Kansas…
Well…I guess they never saw this one coming…after the repub Kansas legislature passed a new law that would allow teachers to carry guns in their classrooms, the insurance company that writes 90% of the insurance for Kansas schools said they will not cover any school where the teachers carry guns…citing study after study that you are much more likely to get shot by someone that you know or a family member than you are by a stranger…I can only speculate that the insurance company thinks facts trump ideology…something you never have to worry about with the repubs….oh, and the other companies that cover the remaining 10% said exactly the same thing…no guns or no coverage….wonder what the repubs will do now? Embrace big government socialism and self-insure? Can these folks get any more stupid? Geez…
Not sure about this one…
Well…it has been a slow, slow day for me so far and I think I may have popped something on the bike ride today…got a stabbing pain in my abdomen after a sprint that is still with me…oh, well…as the title says, I am not sure about this one….but, I thought I’d just get started and see what happens…there was some good news for womens rights in Wisconsin this week when a federal court judge stopped part of the new, draconian abortion law there from going into effect…and the good thing was the grounds he stopped it…the judge said that the part of the new law that mandated admitting privileges for the doctors performing abortions did nothing to improve the safety for women so he struck it down….now, I just hope that the ACLU and other organizations fighting for womens rights keep bringing suits on the same grounds….there is no medical need for a women to have an ultrasound before an abortion so i think it would be the next point of attack…and then strike down the lies that the legislators in Kansas have written into their law…we can only hope that when the people in the states that are attacking women get the bill for their folly, they will finally throw these idiots out…geez…
Craziness?
Well…it’s 3:16 and I still can’t think about anything to comment on for the day…at least political stuff and that is starting to get frustrating…again…I have been reading about the repub craziness that has been spreading across the country…what is it about them that allows them to say any damn thing they want without any regard for whether it is the truth or not? We have ole Michelle Bachmann today saying that Obama wants Obamacare implemented so it will increase his personal power and control over the economy…now let’s do a little math…the latest change that will allow companies another year before they have to start paying fines or offering coverage is now set to take effect at the end of 2015..a year before Obama leaves office…so exactly what power does this change confer on him? Is he going to take over the insurance companies after he leaves office? Craziness, craziness…
Then, we have ole Mike Huckabee comparing womens rights to control their body to slavery…and since we eliminated slavery on moral grounds…then, we must eliminate abortion on those same moral grounds…yep, not making this up..this could even be a plan…to drive the crazy so far out that when they pull back to only delusional it will seem reasonable…I think it is our responsibility as being the reasonable party to make sure that even when this happens, to make sure they don’t get a pass on the crazy like the media is allowing right now….geez….