Well…just looking at the new polls that are out and there is good, and not as good news here in Michigan…I think these are the last polls before the election and I kinda happy about that….first the good news…even the Detroit News, that right wing rag has endorsed the dem Gary Peters for senate…I think this one is more of a reality check since Peters is up on Land by 15 points, but they did admit to the shortcomings of Land and recognized that she is nowhere near ready to represent Michigan in the US senate…the kinda okay news is that Mark Schauer has pulled even with ole Snyder but I’ll believe that when I see it Tuesday….but, with how we outnumber the crazies here, if we vote we win…I’m going to keep saying that for the next few days…if we vote, we win…it is really simple but we need to get out there and do it…at my polling place here it has never taken me more than 15 minutes for the entire process so there is no excuse…we can take back our state if we just vote…so let’s do it….
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I don’t underestand some things…
Well….there is good news here in Michigan in the senate race with Gary Peters pulling out to a 10% plus lead in the latest polls and that I can understand…Land is the most stupid, incompetent candidate I have ever seen with no ability to think past the talking points that she tries to regurgitate and even gets those wrong…but, what I don’t understand is how ole Snyder is up on Schauer in the governor’s race…after all, Snyder gave the middle class a kick in the gut with right to work, taxed retirees and gave the money to CEO’s, and has lied through his teeth about the crony capitalism he has been practicing since he lied his way into office…now, I may be unusual in that I follow politics and pride myself in knowing what is going on, but people, how can you vote against yourself and keep giving this country to the rich? I just shake my head every day…geez…
Snyder is just a liar…
Well…just saw an ad a few minutes ago that has our wonderful governor, Snyder, lying through his teeth through his surrogates about Medicare….you know the one that they tried in the last election? Where they conflate the cost savings in Medicare to taking the money away from seniors and using it to pay for Obamacare? I wondered how long it would take before they rolled out that lie that was debunked years ago…the 700 billion being a reduction of payment to health care providers and it has nothing to do with the care that seniors get…Medicare is exactly the same as it was but with waste cut out and growth in costs reduced….that’s it, that’s all you have to know about Snyder…he’s no different from any other lying repub….all I have to say to him is “why don’t you run on your record?” Oh, that’s right, his record is terrible so he can’t….so the lies and fear come out…geez…
The walking dead…
Well…I laughed a little this morning…okay, I laughed a lot at the news this morning that the national repub party has pulled their money for ads supporting the walking dead repub senate candidate Terri Land….with the polls showing her from 10-12 points behind Gary Peters, I guess they have seen the writing on the wall and one of the brain cells they have left have realized here candidacy is dead, dead, dead. I guess it will be left to the Kochs to try to buy the seat and keep pissing the money away…can’t happen to nicer guys….and the one other good thing is that the money that would have had to be spent to help Peters can now go to going after the idiot Snyder…I’d like to see them ask him one question: “Where are the jobs?” When your state is 36 out of 50 in job creation, ole Snyder has to be held accountable….geez…
Michigan political update…
Well….have been looking at some of the good news here in Michigan on the political front, and thought I’d so a short update on what’s going on. First, though, today is the last day to register to vote to be eligible for November’s election so get out and register if you haven’t already…and then vote…because if we vote, we win…it’s as simple as that especially here in Michigan where Obama carried the state by 10 points. The update has a little good news in it and a little not so good news….first, the good news. It looks like Gary Peters is going to defeat the invisible Terri Land if the polls hold that are showing him up by 8-10 points…it should be more given that she hasn’t talked to anyone during the entire campaign…depending on Koch money to air 6 million dollars of ads that are mostly blatant lies or fabrications hoping that people are too stupid to see the truth….it looks like the Kochs are becoming toxic to the people they are trying to install in their government. The bit of bad news is that Mark Schauer is trailing ole Snyder in the governor’s race and I just don’t know why….are people losing their memories? Don’t they remember that Snyder and his cronies are responsible for the biggest tax increase on seniors in the states history? And, that they gave that money away with no strings attached to the supposed “job creators” who have not created one job but have raised CEO’s salaries by 50%…wouldn’t the workers here like that kind of sweet deal? Don’t count on it….Snyder doesn’t give a damn about workers…and you can see that from his approval of right to work which is just code for killing unions and the middle class jobs they provide. So, good news and bad that can be turned into good if we just vote…that’s all….geez…
Politics and other stuff…
Well….just reading about some of the polls here in Michigan that now put ole Snyder ahead by a couple of points and the first question that comes to my mind is why? This is the guy who said, when he was running last time, that he didn’t want any new abortion restrictions to come to his desk…what happened when they did? Of course like any repub liar, he signed them and made them law. When asked about right to work that is decimating the middle class here, he said the same thing…he didn’t want to see it cross his desk. What did he do when it did? Of course, he signed it just like all the rest of the repub liars….when asked about the auto bailout he went along with the rest of the repubs and said “let the free market work” even though doing that would have killed the auto industry here in Michigan…and what is he doing now? Touting all of the auto jobs that have come to the state, taking credit for them when it was none of his doing…just like the rest of the repub liars…so, tell me folks…the voters who have seen this lying and mendacity, why are you going to vote for this liar? I am pointing this at you Dems…get off you asses and vote this idiot out of office before the giveaways to business takes your job…geez…
The invisible candidate…
Well…over the past couple of days, I have remembered and forgotten this topic a couple of times so I thought I’d better get it down here before it goes away completely. In the senate race here in Michigan, I have never seen a candidate like Terri Land, who I have started to call the invisible candidate since she has disappeared from the campaign trail…not doing any meet and greets, any interviews, any debates, or anything, with her office just blowing everyone off. This invisibility is being complemented by the 6.5 million dollars that the Koch’s have spent trying to buy this seat for her…what else can you call it when the only people she meets with is the Koch’s and their minions…and that shows just who she is planning to represent if she gets elected…surely not you or me. I think this invisibility is part of their strategy since they know she is not too bright and can’t think on her feet…and her grasp of the issues is Palinesque…she didn’t even know what net neutrality is….I guess this is a requirement to be the senator from the Koch’s…but not from Michigan…geez…
The people of Michigan sure are gullible…
Well…with the election passing and the people of Michigan cutting taxes on business, again, all I can say are that the people who voted for this tax cut sure are gullible. Don’t they remember the promises made a few years back when they cut taxes on business and raised them on retirees? Didn’t they notice that job growth here in Michigan is 37th in the nation when ole Snyder and his cronies said the cut would vault us into the top ten if not the top five in growth? And, here we go again…cutting taxes on the rich while starving cities of the revenue they need to provide even the most basic services while our roads, schools, and bridges crumble around us and the rich take their money and stash it in the Cayman Islands so they don’t have to pay any taxes…leaving the funding of government to the rest of us while the rich keep making money on the infrastructure that you and I are paying for. I think the rich have won….they have stolen the entire country and left you and I with the leftover crumbs….geez….
People are just stupid…
Well…I have been subjected to many of the inane political ads that are being aired while working out and one thing really strikes me…people must really be stupid to believe any of those from the right….the latest one I saw was against Mark Schauer who is running for governor…which had the woman holding a squirming baby going on and on about how Schauer raised taxes 10 million times as a legislator and blah, blah, blah….here, in a state with crumbling roads, failing schools, and cities in deficit they’re talking about that? In a state that ranked 37th in job creation they’re talking about that? When most of the fiscal problems in the state are caused by the failed policies of tax cuts for the rich and business, they want more tax cuts? I’d gladly pay more taxes if it would go to fixing the roads or taking care of people instead of straight into the pockets of CEOs whose companies got huge tax cuts…that is patriotism, to fund the society as those before me have done…but, not in republican minds…geez…
Patriots pay their taxes…
Well…in typical repub fashion, just like ole Mitt, the repub senate candidate here in Michigan paid much, much less in taxes by percentage than almost anyone…even me who is living on his retirement. Over the past two years, somehow through accounting nonsense and loopholes, ole Terri land paid under three percent of her income in taxes versus the 4.6% that you and I pay…and the other thing is: how do you have a net worth of over 30 million dollars and only report income of 44 thousand dollars like she did last year? And, why did she separate her “income” from that of her husband, who works for the Land family real estate business? Is it to make it appear that she is just another poor working class person here in Michigan? I am disgusted with these rich asses who think they need just money to make them qualified to represent Michigan in the US senate…just like the DeVos family who tried to buy the governorship a few years back, ole Terri has spent almost 3 million dollars of her own money trying to buy this seat…along with the help of the Koch brothers who have spent millions through their shell companies to help with her purchase. I will deal with the policy differences between her and Gary Peters later…but knowing she is rich, and paying less in taxes than you and I should be enough to disqualify her in the eyes of rational voters…just hope there are a few here in Michigan.