Well…as you know, I’ve been having a problem getting worked up enough lately to put down any political thoughts but today, thanks to Nolan Finley, I have reached the boil over point and need to respond. In today’s column, ole Nolan goes on and on and on about how he thinks that Michigan is going to be in play in the 2012 election and tries to make his case by enumerating how many times that Obama or people in the federal government have visited Michigan over the last two years. He digs himself an even deeper hole by saying that the only reason this has happened is that Obama is using the government and promising help to the people of Michigan is to ensure that he gets re-elected; projecting his warped, right-wing view of government and its purpose on the administration. Nolan, Nolan, Nolan….just because you and your troglodyte brethren in the repub party think the only reason for government is to use it to gain power or reward your rich buddies, does not mean that everyone thinks that way of that it is even true. Could it be that the administration sees a state that is in dire need of help that only the federal government can give? Could it be that Obama and his administration actually care about the citizens of this country that are not rich and connected?
This is the typical repub nonsense that passes for deep political thought these days…..one more thing Nolan, where are the jobs from the Bush tax cuts?
Well…I hope you’ve read the latest repub talking point on the stimulus where they are still hammering on stimulus packages as never have been effective in the history of the world and trying to make the point that the stimulus that started to pull us out of the depression should never have been done….as evidenced by the double dip that happened after Roosevelt cut spending while the recovery was still fragile. But the funniest thing I’ve heard lately came from Lindsey Graham, the repub from South Carolina, is the newest talking point that said the only thing that brought us out of the depression was WWII….Lindsey….I have news for you, WWII was the largest stimulus program in the history of the world with huge amounts of deficit spending done by the federal government to build factories and infrastructure that was used to fuel the boom of the 50’s….how stupid can these guys be? I guess you can see it, or hear it whenever they talk…what’s the next talking point repubs? Aren’t you tired of being wrong all of the time?
Well….I really do like the fact that “Countdown” is back since it sometimes gives me topics for the day….last night, Sen Chuck Schumer was on and he did something that I have been calling for the dems to do for at least a year now…he said the unthinkable…that the repubs are planning on crashing the economy for political gain and that is what this whole debt ceiling fight is about……I see some heartening signs that the dems are starting to call them on this nonsense not only by sen Schumers remarks, but sen Reid coming out and telling the country that Medicare and Medicaid cuts are off the table period….and they are pushing for the needed tax increases on the rich but coloring them as the patriotic duty of the well off to help the country that has given them so much…I think the tide is starting to turn….I wonder what was put in the water that made the dems grow a backbone? Whatever it is, keep doing it and maybe we can get our country back from the repub thugs….
Well…I was watching “Countdown” last night and there was a novel postulate from one one of the guests that cited the 14th amendment as preventing this whole debt ceiling conflict that the repubs are pursuing…since the amendment states that it is unconstitutional to not pay the debts of the country….it actually requires the government to pay these debts and any person that prevents that is breaking the law. So, now we have the repub idiots that wave the constitution at all of their enemies saying that they are going to do something unconstitutional by not raising the debt ceiling and forcing the country to default on it’s obligations. Don’t you just love these guys? These shameless shills for the rich and business are showing they are hypocrites again, again, and again….and this latest nonsense just shows they have no morals or integrity and should be sent back to the rocks they crawled out from….
Well…I am getting extremely frustrated with Obama and his continued inaction that is letting the repubs frame this whole debt limit argument….the big question I have to ask is “when do you start fighting for things that the people that voted for you want?” When the polls all show that a large majority of this country does not want any more tax cuts for the rich, they don’t want more cuts to social security or medicare, they don’t want more subsidies for business and the wealthy, why are you still willing to give all this stuff away to just play politics? Call the bluff of these idiots….let them torpedo the world economy…do you think that the wall streeters are going to let the lap-dog repubs crash the economy and hurt them? No more compromise…no more of the repubs getting everything they want and then asking for more, more, more….stand up to these idiots and you can be assured that the rational people in this country will reward you with 4 more years and a lasting dem majority…just get off your butt and stand for something..protect the middle class, protect the poor…it’s the right thing to do and trumps anything else…geez…
Well…just a short little tidbit that came out in the news a couple of days ago about the tea party, government bad, darling Michelle….I know you know her history…that government welfare in the form of the auto bailouts and extended unemployment benefits, etc. are creeping socialism that are going to ruin this country….and then it’s revealed that her husband’s clinic and family farm are the recipients of that very same government welfare in the form of government grants for the clinic and farm subsidies to the tune of over a quarter of a million dollars….I guess it’s okay to take away everyone elses safety net and get elected by the anti government folks and then belly up to the trough to take your “socialist” money. How much more of a hypocrite can anyone be? I’ll have more about this one later…or any one of the others that have cropped up lately…
Well…a few weeks back I relayed to you guys the breathtaking evil of Eric Cantor refusing to allow relief funds for the people of Joplin after the terrible tornado without cutting the same amount of money from the budget first. Now, he has raised his evil game to entirely new heights with his walkout from the budget talks that could ensure that the US defaults on it’s obligations. So, now he is holding the entire nation hostage with his ignorant fealty to the wrongheaded ideology that spawned the tea party and has at it’s core the idea that we are overtaxed as a nation and that any new tax is dismissed out of hand. Let’s not forget that math, the thing that the tea partiers really don’t know how to use, says to us that we are paying less taxes overall than any time in the last 60 years. But I don’t believe that this is Cantor’s motivation for opposing the salvation of our economy…I think it’s a naked attempt to maintain his personal power that will dissipate like smoke if he does his job; the job of taking care of the entire country’s economy by the inclusion of revenue increases in the budget deal since his entire base is made of the looney right that will abandon him if he even mentions that taxes have to be raised.
This is the kind of politician that has come from the hard right…one who does not give a damn about anything but himself and the people who can make him rich….kind of describes the entire repub party, huh?
Well…wanted to get this one down before I have lunch and forget it…and, this one is going to be a mash up of different topics….so, bear with me for a few minutes and you might get something worthwhile…remember though, I said might, not would. Let’s start with some more repub hypocrisy…this time on jobs and their constant bitching that Obama has not created any jobs in the aftermath of the deep recession and say that two years of his term should be enough to have created millions of them. Then, we have the repub governors, notably Scott Walker of Wisconsin, coming out late last week and saying that he needs time for his policies on job creation to work, saying that it will be probably almost 3 years for them to really get going…so two years is too long for Obama to create jobs but three years is okay for the repub plan to create jobs? Did they fail elementary math? I seem to remember that three years is longer than two years. Geez….
Nope…I guess this one won’t be a mess of stuff…I should talk about the latest craziness from Michelle Bachmann…she just attacked Obama saying he wants to end Medicare and she won’t let that happen when in the next breath she cries about socialized medicine in the Affordable Care Act…or Obamacare as the right likes to call it. Michelle, Medicare is socialized medicine…a plan run and controlled by the government that you say you hate…so what is it? Is “socialized” medicine bad or good? You can’t have it both ways….and this person is a “serious” candidate for the repub nomination? I sure hope she gets it….4 more years for Obama…
Well…it’s funny how just a response to the resumes I’ve sent out can take you up and over the top and it’s something I need to work on…after all, no guarantee for a second interview or the job so I do need to throttle it back a bit…I did go out and buy a suit today…200 bucks but it is a really cool charcoal gray and fits just great…I’ve never owned one before and it is kind of weird to just be getting one this late in the day…now I just need to make sure I don’t gain any weight for the rest of my life….there was quite a bit of wildlife on the trail this morning with a couple of young male deer that looked like twins with antlers that were about 6 inches long…and right across the trail was a muskrat that I’ve seen the past two days now…pretty neat…I may go back out later since the storms have fallen apart and it looks like we won’t even get any rain here.
Oh, Politics….nope, don’t have anything right now except that the repubs have more voting shenanigans that they are imposing in the states they control; voting for more laws that will restrict voting rights…or make it more difficult to vote under the laws, justifying them by saying there is massive voter fraud going on when it’s just not true…one neat little tidbit that came out of Texas on this issue was just downright funny…you can use your permit to carry a concealed weapon for identification to vote, but you can’t use a student ID issued by the universities there….and guess who votes more for repubs? You got it, gun owners….just makes you want to scream….
Well…I’ve been in too good a mood today to get outraged about anything so I thought I’d just talk about a few things and see where it goes…I did see a red-tailed hawk right next to the trail this morning that had a cloud of sparrows around it that were attacking and trying to drive it away. I could have reached out and touched it…almost drove off the trail watching…have to pay more attention, I guess. I did read an interesting article about the rioting that is taking place in Europe in response to the austerity measures that are going on there where the people are being asked to pay the bills for the financial malfeasence of business and the rich by having the social contract there shredded like it is here. The question that was asked was “can that happen here?” and the only answer I have is that I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet. With the bills that have been paid by the middle class to subsidize the rich getting richer, what can be the outcome if the politicians that are supposed to protect the little guy abdicate that responsibility to fill their pockets? There is no longer any way for the poor and middle class to get their grievances redressed since they don’t have the money it takes to be heard in this money driven political system.
Hmmm.do I have an answer? No, unfortunately I don’t….and that is the problem…no one has the answer, or an answer that can be implemented in today’s political climate. Maybe mass demonstrations and riots are the only answer that is left for us….