Well…waiting for the dryer to finish so I can get out for the bike ride and thought I’d just put down a couple of thoughts…first, the right seems apoplectic that a solar film company that got a government loan went out of business after Obama touted it as being part of our energy future and there are howls for investigations of any lawbreaking….which I really can’t disagree with. But, where the heck were the republicans when Halliburton was getting all of the no-bid contracts and stealing billions of dollars when ole GW was in office? And, where were they when GW and Cheney were committing felonies by approving torture and warrantless wiretapping? I just can’t believe that the American public keeps electing these folks when it has been clear for a long time that they have no principles or honor…that they are all too happy to put the future of this country at risk for political gain….they just remind me of a 6 year old…and that may be insulting to the six year old….geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Finally, the gloves come off…
Well…I don’t know what took so long but finally, Obama has taken the gloves off and is no longer playing nice with the obstructionist repubs. I think he has made the right decision to attack on the whole idea of tax cuts for the rich and has put the pressure back on the thugs by going to the American people with proposals to raise taxes (or just make them equitable) on those making more than a million bucks a year…listening to Warren Buffett who decries the fact that he pays less of a percentage of his income than his secretary does in taxes. How can anyone disagree with that? But, then we have the right winger hogs worrying that the trough they have carefully and single mindedly filled to the brim for the rich might just end up a quarter of an inch below the rim….and trotting out their tired old bleat that asking for the rich to pay their fair share is “class warfare” and pledging to make sure that none of their rich donors will have to pay another dime….all I have to say to Obama is: nothing else is working politically so go big….make those idiots defend the rich and powerful…it will make is just so much easier to differentiate the dems from these thieves…geez…
The republicans hate government unless they can use it for fraud…
Well…nasty little allegations are surfacing in Wisconsin about how Scott Walker and his cronies have been using state-paid employees as political shills in direct violation of the law there….the most recent developments concern one of Walker’s top aides who is suspected of doing political campaign work for other candidates disregarding her duties to the folks in Wisconsin that pay her. These guys really hate public workers unless they can be used either overtly or secretly to further their political aims and this kind of nonsense should be remembered in 2012….that the state supposedly can’t afford to pay teachers or firemen or police, but they can afford to pay political hacks that don’t do anything to further the public good….just another instance where these liars will do or say anything to gain political advantage…geez….
America is offically stupid…
Well….with the repubs win in the NY special election yesterday, I declare that America is officially stupid and has completely lost it’s mind. This idiot that they elected campaigned on the opinion that Obama doesn’t know how to to fix the economy and the repubs do…never mind that these folks are the ones that trashed the economy in the first place and have no ideas for fixing it other than the tax cuts that have been shown to not have created even one job…and the people that put him over the top are seniors that are going to lose everything when these thugs get their hands on the last remnants of the social safety net…I’m getting ,more and more glad that I’m getting old and won’t have to see this trashing of the traditions of this great country and the institution of the “I’ve got mine…everyone else can go to hell” mantra that is the rallying cry of these tea party idiots who love the fact that people will die as a result of their policies….it is a dark day but if we keep electing these cretins, we will look back on today with fondness…geez…
Just a short one about nonsense..
Well…with the news that came out today that 1 in 6 people in the US now lives in poverty, I wonder why the President and the rest of the dems aren’t shouting from the rooftops that this is a direct result of the policies of the repubs and their cronies in business that has taken back all of the progress that has been made by workers over the past 40 years. And now, the only program that keeps more and more seniors out of those growing ranks is under attack by all of the repub presidential contenders. Another question that comes to mind in all of this debate is why are seniors who will be the most affected by the proposed shredding of this last safety net so reliably republican? I didn’t think people got that stupid as they age….at least I had hoped it wouldn’t happen….but when you get people cheering at the tea party sponsored debate when a question was asked about a 30 year old being left to die if he decided to not buy health insurance….I do fear for this country and it’s continued slide into the meanness that is part and parcel of these folks….
Wandering again….
Well…there are a bunch of things that I want to comment on…or maybe just a couple of things….the first is the reaction of the crowd at the repub debate that clapped and cheered when a question concerning the 263 people Texas has executed in rick Perry’s tenure there…really, cheering for someone dying? Even when it has been shown that many of them were mistakenly convicted? This just shows you the type of neanderthals that inhabit the repub party these days…and what we have to look forward to if these thugs are elected. Then, we have ole Rick calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” that he would like to eliminate….even Romney the flip flopper wouldn’t bite on that nonsense…
One other thing…not political but pretty cool nonetheless…a Great Blue Heron has taken up residence in one of the retention ponds along M-6 and it is just the coolest looking bird…and this was the third day he was there…brightened up my day for sure….there might be more later if I don’t hang out with T…..
Mitch McConnell is an even bigger idiot than I thought…
Well….ole Mitch was in fine form this morning addressing the Senate in anticipation of Obama’s speech on jobs tonight, raising the bar on pure partisanship to an entirely new level…he didn’t even wait to hear the speech to start to criticize everything about what may be said…trying to preempt the president when he is trying to get us out of the repub caused jobs mess. His main point was that he didn’t even want to hear anything more about additional stimulus and he even rolled out the old bromide that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of idiocy….doesn’t McConnell get irony? What have he and his repub know nothings repeatedly done since 2000? Cut, Cut, and cut taxes when they did nothing to stimulate the economy or add jobs….remember this, the tax cuts did not add one job…not one job. And ole Mitch had the audacity to stand there and basically call Obama an idiot. Look in the mirror, Mitch, and you will see the biggest idiot in government today….geez….
One last thing…by the accounts of the majority of economists, the stimulus package saved almost 3 million jobs that would have been lost without it…is that the repubs definition of failure? Gimme that kind of failure anytime….
Maybe no politics…
Well…the day has changed for me today so I’m not sure that I’ll get back for a political one for later….the Tigers are playing right now with Verlander on the mound and then Tom called and we are going out to shoot pool in a while…and you know when I get back, I’m usually not too motivated to write but you never know….
This could be “I told you so”….
Well…if you’ve been here before, you might just remember that during the debt ceiling nonsense I was consistently quoting Keynes that cutting spending and worrying about the deficit in a time of recession or near recession would result in the economy going back to contraction. Guess what happened? Spending was cut and the economy is going back into recession just as Keynes and I predicted. What I don’t understand is that while we all know that proper economic thinking is beyond the repubs, Obama should know better and should have the backbone to call the nonsense for what it is…ignorance and willfull stalling of the economy by the repubs for purely political purposes. I am so disappointed in his going along with something that he knows is wrong for political purposes of his own that no one from either the left or right can understand. I am losing confidence that Obama has the political skill to frame the argument that the one class that needs to be taken care of is those of us in the middle who have paid and are still paying for the repub policies that Obama went along with and now, he has allowed Social Security to be dragged into the deficit debate when everyone knows that SS is solvent for at least the next 25 years and has never added one penny to the deficit.
President Obama: please grow a spine and call the repubs for what they are….a wholly owned subsidiary of business and the rich…
Texas for sale…
well…as time goes by in this primary season, more and more facts are coming to light about how Rick Perry has sold Texas into one of the greatest states for crony capitalism….in the Post today, there is an article that has found the fact that 34 of the governor’s top 50 donors received tax breaks, state contracts, or appointment to regulatory boards in Texas; a huge extension of the culture of “pay to play” that has been rampant under his administration. Didn’t we have enough of this type of crap under Bush/Cheney with Halliburton and the rest of the connected businesses stealing billions from the American people? Then, we have ole Rick out on the stump shouting that only private business creates jobs, that government can’t do it…then, why do we have ole Rick doling out millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to businesses to have them build manufacturing plants in Texas? Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy…..if you want to know what not to do on the federal level…just look at what ole Rick is doing in Texas….