Well… didn’t get out to shoot pool today since Tom is sick so I thought I’d come back here to do another one of these…and, with it being the 50th anniversary of JFK being assassinated, I thought I’d talk about this little epiphany that I had watching some of the historical shows on the topic. What strikes me about the climate of that time and of this time is how similar they appear when looked at in the context of right wing hate….when Kennedy was going to Dallas, there were fliers put on cars calling for Kennedy to be tried for treason for something or other…and, when you see any right wing rally these days you see the same thing on signs and fliers…that Obama should be tried for treason, again, for something or other…probably for just being president. One of the things I find to be a little disturbing with this kind of crap is that people are supposed to be more informed these days but the actions of the right and repubs show that they are just where they have always been….a hate group under the guise of a political party who should be marginalized and pushed back under the rocks they crawl from…geez…
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The filibuster is gone…
Well…have been waiting for this day for a while now…with all of the repub efforts to nullify the results of the last two elections in the senate by the egregious use of the filibuster, Harry Reid and the dems have finally said enough…enough of the lies from the repubs, enough of the obstruction, and enough of coddling the children on the right, and have changed the rules today to allow presidential appointees to be approved by a simple majority instead of the 60 votes that was the standard until now. But, to hear the repubs whine, and whine, and whine…you would think that this rule was enshrined in the constitution…it’s not..the senate gets to set it’s own rules and change them any time the current rules will not let the senate do it’s job. It is on the repubs that this rule had to be changed…they have done nothing but obstruct qualified nominees for nothing but ideology…to make sure that Obama is not successful…this never happened under ole GW when the repubs ran the senate…the dems voted for qualified candidates and most of his appointees were approved..even while we were holding our noses at some of them….it’s about time we took this weapon away form the children on the right…they have shown that they are not responsible enough to use it…good for you Harry…geez…
More hypocrisy..guess where from?
Well…this one would be funny if it was just so sad how much hypocrisy is oozing from the repubs these days…if you haven’t read it yet, there was another repub congressman caught the other day buying cocaine from a dealer in DC…and he explains it away by saying that he is an alcoholic so that should excuse his lapses…no, it shouldn’t…now, I know full well that people have their failings and sometimes it can lead to drug use…but, the searing hypocrisy here is that this idiot voted to test food stamp, welfare, and unemployment recipients for drug use and throw them off assistance if they tested positive…well…I guess there is a different set of rules for the ruling class…they get to do whatever they want and still collect their government pay but if someone that has reason to use drugs to cope with being poor and unemployed, off with his head! I have had enough of demonizing the poor for doing the same things that everyone does…if they want to test the poor, then anyone who votes for the law should be tested, too, after all, they shouldn’t mind if they don’t have anything to hide…snark…geez….
Female republican grifters…
Well…it had to happen some time but I wonder why it took so long…there is a new consulting firm run by republican women, that’s sole purpose is to tell republican men how to sell their “message” so women will vote for them. I just can’s say how wrong this is on so many levels but it is indicative of the delusion on the right that it is not the policies of taking away women’s rights, keeping them from voting, and keeping them from marrying who they want…nope, it just that they are just not selling transvaginal ultrasounds and the rest of the intrusions into womens’ bodies right…if they just come up with a magical marketing plan, women will gladly vote for repubs who hate them. Now, this sounds like a colossal grift to me..that these women who are founding this company just want to get their turn at the billionaire trough that the rest of the grifters of the right feed from. The essential flaw, as always with the repubs, is that they truly do think that their ideas are popular across the country, after all, it’s all they hear in the right wing bubble, that they are the “real America” and they outnumber the rest of us and it is just by cheating that they continue to lose elections. What a bunch of maroons as Bugs Bunny used to say….a delusional bunch of maroons that will buy this new effort like they did Karl Rove’s in the 2012 election…and what did that 300 million dollars get them? Nothing….just recycling the dollars back through the media that is owned by the rich anyway…so they couldn’t lose…geez…
Some good news…in politics anyway…
Well…there have been some signs starting to appear that are pointing to what many of us have been hoping for for a long time now….that the crazy assed repubs are starting to pay for that craziness….the latest place this has come to light is in
Virginia where the repubs have been in control of the entire government for a few years now and have done what these asses have done everywhere else…go after women’s rights, vilify gay people, and try to give the states away to their corporate masters. But, it appears that there are enough people in Virginia who are saying enough with this crap…the final polls for the election next week appear to say that the entire top of the ticket, from governor, lieut governor, attorney general and more are going to the dems….and that means no more vaginal ultrasounds or other nonsense from the legislature there…the repubs will still own both houses but there will be a significant erosion on their power…and, maybe the opportunity is there to take the whole state in two years…something that didn’t look possible even last year….keep at it dems…we can exterminate the crazy if we just turn out….geez….
Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy….
Well…I am still laughing about the abject hypocrisy that is oozing from the repubs in the house today as they try to use hearings on the glitches in the Obamacare sign up website to continue their fight to end it…but, as with most repubs these days, they have no memory of even 6 years ago when Medicare part D was rolled out…and guess what? The same sort of glitches happened…exactly the same sort…and not one dem came forward to say that it should be eliminated since the rollout was glitchy….they agreed with the repubs at the time that people should be patient and allow the fixes to take effect…what is different now? Could it be that these crazy repubs just don’t give a damn about anything but scoring political points and trying to hurt Obama? That is sure how it looks…and they couldn’t look worse…but I’m sure they’ll try…geez…
It’s just a glitch…followed by GOP hypocrisy…
Well…I am laughing about all of the hand wringing in the media about the glitches in the healthcare.gov website that is the portal to sign up for Obamacare for many of us in the US since the repubs in many states refused to set up their own state websites….I guess that kind of stuff should be expected from the troglodyte repubs who think that dial up internet is still just fine…but, for anyone who has ever had to deal with a software roll out, this kind of stuff is not unexpected…just ask Microsoft who just recalled the latest update of Windows 8 since it caused many, many devices to crash…and this is from a company that was founded on software and has decades of experience. But, what I find the most funny is the repubs hypocrisy on the matter…trying 40 times to repeal the law and now switching over to fake concern that some people haven’t been able to sign up for the insurance that they hate…going so far as to hold hearings on why this happened…but, you know the only reasons these asses want to hold these hearing is to try to beat up on Obama since he and the rest of the dems just kicked their butts on the shutdown….and the repubs have learned nothing from that defeat…as they talk more and more about Obamacare it becomes more popular and more people head out to the sites to check it out…nice job repubs for all of the publicity…please proceed…geez…
The 24 billion dollar tantrum…
Well…just a short one to get caught up for the month….I am just stunned by the damage that the repubs little tantrum has cost the US economy…24 billion dollars and counting…yep, 24 billion dollars just so the repubs could get more names for their mailing lists and raise more money for the next election…never mind that this 24 billion could fund all the programs for the poor for an entire year…these pricks just don’t care unless it affects them…and the worst part is the continuing damage this stunt is going to cause with some estimates going as high as shaving 1% off the growth in the next quarter…in dollar terms, this will cost the economy over 100 billion dollars….so, the supposed party of fiscal conservatives don’t have a problem pissing away 100 billion dollars but they have a problem spending that same amount of money feeding the nation…what a bunch of hypocritical asses…geez…
Republican waste…
Well…with the deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling almost done…let’s do a short tally of the cost of this tantrum to the US economy and the people it has directly affected…first, there is the 6 billion dollars in direct cost of the shutdown…yep, the party that talks insistently about waste in government has just wasted 6 billion dollars that could have been used to feed children, take care of the sick, or lower college debt…but no, these pricks would rather waste money spouting their nonsense and preening in front of the cameras that take care of the people…but, that’s not new…these folks don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves and they show it every day….then there are the 900,000 people who have been put out of work by the shutdown and who have not been paid for three weeks…but, again, the repubs don’t give a crap about them if they can try to score political points…and last, there is the long term damage to the economy that will again be in the billions by the increase in borrowing costs that will come from this bullshit brinksmanship…there are already ripples of this spreading through the economy…and for what? So Ted Cruz and Michelle Bachmann can get on stage and spout their nonsense? I wish the election was next week and we could say goodbye to this crap forever….geez…..
The cliff moves back a little…
Well… it looks like the repubs are rapidly moving back from the cliff as their masters the Koch brothers, and the Heritage foundation have finally said enough of this batshit craziness they have embraced. While I applaud the results, since when should an organization that is not part of the government so blatantly be able to call the shots and control our entire government? Who elected the Kochs? That is what I see as the problem with the current state of affairs…when the Citizens United decision allows two rich brothers to control the entire government through the money that they give to candidates….what I really don’t get is whey elected officials should allow this to happen…where is their pride? I guess that this is the fruit of the astroturf tea party organizations that the Koch’s have fueled over the past few years…they have bought themselves a government and their money now displaces the votes of millions and millions of Americans…we should all be really pissed about this…and take care of the problem next year by voting these wholly owned legislators out and putting people in their place that will truly represent us…not just money…geez…