Well…just found this little nugget out on the web that I thought I’d share as a rebuke to all of the repub cries of “socialist, big spender” when they talk about Obama. I know, why am I responding to what is just another in the litany of lies that the right has told about Obama,…with his “uncontrolled spending” being one of the biggest whoppers. Bloomberg (not a hotbed of liberalism) came out with an analysis today that shows with math..yeah, I know the right doesn’t believe in math….that government spending under Obama has grown slower than under any repub president since fricking Eisenhouwer…yep, that’s right the right’s biggest spender in the “history of the country” is just another lie and the percentage of spending to GDP is lower under Obama than under Reagan, Bush 1 and 2, or even Nixon…so, the next time they say big spender just think “another lie” and you will have it right….no wonder the president no longer cares to work with the right…they do nothing but lie, and lie, and lie all of the time…started with Clinton and continues to this day….geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Predictability from the right…
Well….watched most of the inaugural speech and thought it was much more liberal than I expected…and I hope it signals a more assertive Obama that has learned that reaching out to the right and treating their crazy-assed ideas as if they have merit is the wrong path. They are never going to work with him anyway so why not push the agenda that more than 60% of the country wants…raising taxes on the rich and protecting the programs that we paid for over our lifetimes. The response from the right was a predictable as the sun rising…they bitch because he never mentioned compromising with the hostage takers on the right…they bitch because the speech is too partisan…they bitch because he uses the speech to tell the truth about gays, the economy, and the environment…and they just generally bitch because he is not Mitt Romney….and that really makes me smile. I’ve had enough of trying to compromise with the right when their idea of compromise is that all of us in the center and on the left just roll over and let them ruin this country with their Randian nonsense….and I was especially happy that Obama drove a stake into the heart of the “makers vs. takers” meme that the repubs have been pushing for way too many years. Now, I just want Obama to live up to the speech and do the things that the people want…that’s what winning elections is about.
Snyder and the repubs were wrong..again…
Well…with the overtly ideological and political passing of the right to work law here in Michigan, something that these liars said business was asking for, ole Snyder got a surprise at the Detroit auto show this week when he tried to use the RTW law as a reason for companies to move to Michigan…one little problem came up….the businesses that he talked to just didn’t care about RTW and most said it was not a major factor in business decisions. In fact, he was told by some companies that it would make them less likely to move here since it is such a divisive issue and will make labor relations more difficult…so, this whole nonsense is exposed for what it is, just naked hatred of the middle class and unions from the right paid for by the Kochs who don’t give a damn if they hurt the state, just as long as they get their agenda enacted. Geez…
These guys never quit…
Well…I have been waiting for a couple of weeks to work on this one…hoping that the whole thing would die down and be just a bad dream…but, it appears to be even worse than I expected so I need to say something about it. As you know, the repubs lost big in the last election even with all of their efforts to suppress the votes across the country….and since the voter id crap and restricting voting hours didn’t work, we now have the Koch brothers pet organization, ALEC, you know, the guys behind the stand your ground laws that make it legal to murder, figuring out ways to make sure that repubs can win in the electoral college by rigging how the votes are apportioned…going from winner takes all in most states to proportional awarding of the votes…by some formula that would always favor the repubs. In fact, here in Michigan, with the new way of dividing the votes would have given 9 of the 16 votes to Romney where Obama won the state by almost 9 points. That’s the repubs idea of democracy in action…they can’t compete on ideas since the country has moved on past them, but their thirst for power has them willing to subvert the very democracy they say they revere…but that is the repubs…no honor, no honesty, and no intelligence…geez…
All tactics…all the time…
Well…I am just sitting here shaking my head about the deterioration of the repub party into one that is mesmerized by tactics that they feel are winners but that the American people don’t. The latest in this unending series of crises of their own making is the idea floated by the idiot Eric Cantor to raise the debt ceiling for only three months, thinking they can then use it again to try to extort budget cuts in the future. What I don’t understand is why they think it will work in three months when it’s not working now? Again, the definition of stupidity is continuing to do the same thing but expecting different results and that is exactly what is on display here…the abject stupidity of the repub “leadership” who think that confrontation and extortion are the same as governance…as much as I questioned the intelligence of the American people when they continue to vote for these morons, poll results giving the repubs in congress a single digit approval rating show that the people are finally recognizing that the repubs are the problem, not the solution for this country…and none too soon…geez…
Ther right is just a scam to make money…
Well…there have been many articles over the last few weeks on how many of the PACs on the right are just money making schemes to separate the rubes from their money and line the pockets of the people running the PACS; ignoring the purpose that the PAC was supposed to fulfill. The latest revelation of this screwing of the masses on the right is the PAC that is controlled by the teabag darling Marco Rubio from Florida who states that the purpose of his PAC is to “help conservatives get elected”…but the dirty little secret that his PAC has been hiding is that, of the 1.7 million dollars they have raised, only 78,000 has been spent on elections…the rest going to “consultants” and overhead, essentially a slush fund to Rubio’s friends..or to put it another way, it is ‘welfare” for the chattering right wing political classes so they don’t have to get a real job or contribute to society in any way. With all of the talk of personal responsibility that comes ad nauseum from the right, we now know they don’t believe in any of the crap they are pushing…it is just a scam to keep the rubes in line and give them hope that just does not exist. Geez….
Republican hypocrisy on accountability…
Well…I have been getting ill with all of the crowing our gov here in Michigan has been doing on getting his agenda enacted and the normal repub crap of tax cuts for business on the backs of the retirees here, and their constant mantra of accountability…but the infuriating thing that I have railed about before is that whenever the repubs talk about accountability, it always for the people and groups they don’t like, like teachers, and food stamp recipients, etc. What about accountability for the 2 billion dollars they took out of the people’s pockets and gave to business here? When this idiot pushed the biggest transfer of wealth to the rich in the history of the state, there was nothing in the law that said that this gift had to be justified by any “dashboard accounting” of the number of jobs that were created…just more of the “trust us” nonsense that is the core of the repubs relationship with business. When a basic accounting is done, the estimates are coming in that say that job growth has not been affected one iota by this largess to business…with the majority of the money just going into corporate profits and executive bonuses. So, retirees here in Michigan, you have given up a vacation or a new car, or paying your bills on time just so the repubs you voted for can give that tax money to the already wealthy so they can buy the fourth or fifth car or the new summer home in Harbor Springs….I wonder if they will let you visit it? Oh, that’s right, you don’t have the money for the gas to get there…geez…
Obama’s testy and combative?
Well…I was laughing my ass off yesterday when the analysis clones were out in force calling Obama’s press conference “testy and combative” with nothing but attacks on the repubs and putting forth the proposition that he would get farther if he was “more friendly” to the repubs that have spent the past 4 years attacking everything about Obama and his administration; and doing their best to not cooperate. I think Obama’s combative nature in the presser was a reaction to all of the crap and lies he has gotten from the right…they never wanted to compromise in good faith and Obama is finally learning that you can’t reason with bullies, that you need to smack them in the mouth and then maybe they will change their behaviors. I, for one, am glad he finally said enough, enough to the hypocrisy that saw the repubs raise the debt ceiling for ole GW any time the country needed it and never held it hostage to the cuts that they are screaming about now…and there is no equivalency of the dems reactions back then to the repubs now…the dems never fillibustered or put silent holds on the bills to increase the ceiling..or even threatened to do so….and may of these same repubs that saw no problem with giving GW what he wanted are leading the charge against raising the ceiling now…and their only reason is their blind, naked hatred of Obama….geez…
A good quote…
Well…I didn’t watch the president’s press conference but I have been seeing the quotes coming fast on twitter and one stood out and made me laugh…it’s not really funny..only in an odd way that I would think it is…”the House GOP will not collect a ransom for not crashing the American economy…” basically saying that he is not going to cut more just to keep the crazy assed repubs from hurting the American people….and I do like that he put a stake in the ground that he wasn’t going to negotiate every couple of months to keep the government running like the repubs are proposing…good for all of us…these folks are just fricking delusional…and they keep saying that we have to continue to cut, cut, cut….when there has already been 2.4 trillion dollars cut…I think Obama should just say this one thing…”do your job, Congress” and then walk away and force them to…we can only hope anyway…
Yeah, I know…not much flow here…but I am trying….
A couple of things…
Well..I could have made this into two to cheat a little but I’m on track for the month so I’ll just do two short ones for now….first…you just have to marvel at the nerve of the folks at AIG who the taxpayers bailed out when their nonsense almost crashed the world’s economy. Just this week, they have been contemplating a lawsuit against the US because they don’t believe the terms of the agreement was fair…not fair? When they took the first billion and gave bonuses to the folks that were responsible for the crashing? What a bunch of delusional nonsense…
Speaking of delusional…with the push on by Obama to try to install some semblance of sanity to the gun laws in this country, we have the gun nuts in full crazy today…with one guy who runs a gun training outfit down south saying that he is going to start shooting people if there are any new regulations put in place…like background checks for people buying guns at gun shows. This guy should be prosecuted for terrorism….since the first amendment does not cover making threats on your fellow citizens….this is the kind of person who should not have any guns at any time….what a fricking loser whose manhood is so wrapped up in brandishing weapons…geez….what better reason is there for gun control if not this idiot?