Category Archives: Politics

A short one on Medicare…

Well….had to comment on the new Romney ad that says he will restore all of the cuts to Medicare that happen under the ACA…as I said a couple of days ago, the cuts to Medicare that are contained in the ACA are to the big drug companies, for profit hospitals and other providers of service to Medicare recipients…not to Medicare recipients themselves…people on Medicare will see NO service change. But, you know what that means….that Romney doesn’t care about the growth in health costs in this country since most of them go to profits for the people that support him and will continue to make the 1% even richer on the backs of everyone else…so, when you hear the lies of ole Mitt, remember what he lives for…to concentrate more wealth in his buddies hands…geez…

Had to come back to this one….again…

Well….I have talked about this topic, of the voter fraud that was perpetrated by the house majority leader here in Michigan, Jase Bolger, and the turncoat Roy Schmidt, before, but with every day there come new revelations that need to be shouted until our prosecutor here in Kent county, Forsyth, actually starts enforcing the law…if these were Dem shenanigans, you could bet he would have had them indicted and a trial date set by now. Mr. Forsyth’s excuse is that he wanted to make sure that the people know that this was going on before the election, so he shut down the investigation even though warrants had been issued to continue gathering evidence of this clear felony. What is stopping him from continuing the investigation now? After all, cases are reopened all the time when new evidence is discovered. How can anyone continue to respect the law when the repubs are in charge and selectively choose to enforce the law only when it won’t hurt them politically? This is just plain malfeasance and if Forsyth doesn’t do anything about this, he should be removed from office…geez…

The troglodytes are running the GOP…

Well…just a short one on a couple of troubling things that I have talked about before but I think they bear repeating…with the rape nonsense that is going on in Missouri by the gop senate candidate there, along with all of the anti-science legislation being passed in repub controlled states across the country…there is only one conclusion that can be reached: that the troglodytes have taken over the repub party…I just want to shout at them ‘fire good, learning good” whenever any one of them wants to equate the religious nonsense that pervades this country with true thought and science….we have become the laughingstock of the world when supposedly serious people of the gop go on and on about the fact that they don’t need science because they have god to tell them what to do…and this is exactly why idiots like Todd Akin are so dangerous to this country. As you know, these ideas pervade the gop and is a primary reason that they have become as crazy as they are….geez…

Now there are two liars running…

Well…read a couple of good articles today in the Post and I think the Free Press and I am heartened that the media seems finally willing to do it’s job in questioning the ‘just trust us” crap coming out of ole Mitt’s campaign…where they lie, lie, and lie about what their policies are going to be if elected….first, though I wanted to get to the big lie the Obama cut over 700 billion out of Medicare to pay for the ACA and he is using that money to reward his political cronies…yadda, yadda…what ole Mitt doesn’t want you to know is that the 700 billion that will be cut out of Medicare is to providers of care, cost reductions that are far overdue but will not result in any reduction of care to anyone on the program…and the other lie embedded in this one is that it is only Obama that would propose something like that, but when you look at the fiction that is the Ryan budget…he counts exactly those same savings to justify more tax cuts for the rich. For anyone to see what the actual policies of a Romney administration would be, just take a look at Wisconsin and what ‘just trust us” did to that state with Scott Walker at the helm….these folks should not be taken seriously until they actually present more that vague platitudes, until they actually present numbers that can be scored by the CBO in a non-partisan way so everyone can see that ole Mitt’s plans would explode the deficit and allow the rich to steal even more…geez…

Had to come back to this one…

Well…had this one attached to this morning’s life column but, as I thought about it, it didn’t really fit there so I thought I’d do a new one…if you remember, a few months back a couple of our wonderful repub legislators here in Michigan conspired to run a fake candidate so the turncoat Schmidt could rig the election…with an article int he Free Press this morning, it appears I was right…a State Police investigator here in Michigan says that both Schmidt and Bolger have conspired to commit perjury in their attempt to defraud the voters here in Michigan….now, I think our AG Schutte should stop chasing non-existent voter fraud and charge these criminals with the felony they deserve…just another example of the flagrant disregard for the laws of the land that the repubs here in Michigan show every day….these two should have resigned and now the rest of the party’s leadership, if there is any, should make sure this happens as soon as possible….

Mitt’s weird strategy…

Well…I’ve been reading a little after smoking the fish and fixing the car and a couple of articles struck me as kind of funny while they exposed the major facet of ole Mitt’s plan…to not tell anyone anything about what his plans are if he is elected…just like ole Walker did in Wisconsin and our gov Snyder did here in Michigan. His campaign staff and ole Mitt even admitted it, going so far as to say they are doing it because if they tell the truth, no one will vote for them. So, let me get this straight…these idiots know that what they plan to do is not what the American people want so the only way they can get elected to give away the country to the rich is to lie and obfuscate about everything and use personal attacks to win at any cost. I cannot believe that the media is not hammering these guys on these tactics…especially since ole Mitt has said that this election should be about policy not personal attacks…what a load of crap….geez…

They’re starting to get desperate….

Well…it has been another day of not doing much but I have been thinking about a few things so I thought I’d get them down and see if they make any sense…first, I laughed my butt off when ole Rick Santorum was touring, supposedly to support Romney, and went off about Obama gutting the first amendment since he wants Catholic organizations to cover birth control…what an old attack line and I don’t know where this is going to get them…so, if the Catholics or any other religious organization want to discriminate for any reason, it would be okay according to ole Rick….so if they didn’t want to hire minorities, they would be protected? Just more nonsense from the right and their idea that there should be allowed priveleged classes that the law doesn’t apply to…I think it’s even what their whole party is based on…

Oh, I guess I should get to the title…with the Ryan selection and the fact that the polls continue to show that ole Mitt is losing ground, it looks like ole Paul’s radicalism is only serving to fire up the base….and those folks were never going to vote for Obama anyway….and now we have McCain coming out attacking Joe Biden for being Joe…it appears that these folks are flailing around trying to find anything that will work….and the tone deaf Romney campaign is trotting ole Mitt’s wife back out to defend not releasing any more tax returns…but even funnier is the fact that Mitt is proud of the fact that he paid 13% in taxes and thinks it is just fine that he takes advantage of laws that were bought by people like him so they don’t have to pay their fair share…what a bunch of idiots…geez…

Here’s the second one…

Well…I have been sitting here thinking about what to write about today and nothing has really jumped out at me so I’ll just noodle around a little and see what happens….I find it funny that ole Mitt is crying foul about some of the attack ads run by Obama so far in this election cycle….this from a party that has spent the last 4 years sabotaging him at every juncture? Whose primary purpose stated by their leaders is not to help the country get moving again, it’s not to help pass a farm or jobs bill, but it is to make sure that Obama fails by any means necessary. When you look at the actual work product that this congress has completed, it is the worst of any congress in history…they did have time to try to repeal the ACA 33 times, but nothing else other than the nonsense of protecting the rich and and corporations from paying their fair share….so, when you hear ole Mitt complaining about the negative ads, take the whole thing with a grain of salt, after all, the repubs started it…geez….

Let’s stop this “visionary” nonsense…

Well…just a short one about the plaudits that have come in for ole Ryan after his nomination…first, let’s look at the effect of his budget plan…and I am going to be blunt…to follow his plan…that won’t balance the budget until I’m long dead…in the 2040′s….we will need to cut 91% of all spending that is not military…yep, you heard it…91% of all government spending on everything that makes a government and a society, schools, safety nets, unemployment insurance, job training,….you get the idea…his vision is that the US will be a military with a little bit of government thrown in….and, to top it off…ole Mitt will pay less than 1% in taxes on his income…while you and I will continue to pay 30%….it you think this is the path this country should take…vote for these guys..if you do, you are all idiots…geez…yep, I said idiots…please comment…I’m waiting for it…

A few things…

Well…I wonder what the reason was that ole Mitt picked the idiot Ryan to be his VP? It appears that he did it to solidify the base behind him since those on the right never really warmed to Mitt…but I just can’t see where Ryan will appeal to anyone but the base…remember this is the guy who holds Ayn Rand in such high regard and espouses that her ideas of radical individualism are what he believes in…that there is no role for government to play and that people should live or die on their own efforts with no safety net to ensure that the elderly and children don’t starve if they have the bad luck to not be connected to the old boys network. Remember this, too, for a guy that hates government so much, he has spent his entire adult life in government…getting the pay raises and gold plated healthcare that he feels that no one else deserves…but that is the pattern of the repubs…play to the crazy right by hating government and then using government to enrich themselves at the cost to the rest of the country. One last thing, I’ve read stories that ole Ryan is an “intellectual” and one of the big thinkers on the right….but, to me, it doesn’t take a big thinker to cut, cut, cut, when it’s not coming out of your pocket…geez…