Category Archives: Politics

These guys are just the worst…

Well…no pool today so I thought I’d come back here and do another one of these…and I did find a topic the really needs to be addressed..that this crop of repubs are just the worst people in the world. We start with Ted Cruz who made the statement the other day that if he is elected, he will sell off or give all of the national parks and land owned by the federal government back to the states to do with what they please….and in repub controlled states, you know what that means…oil drilling in Yellowstone or strip mining in Yosemite. The heritage of Teddy Roosevelt and the American people be damned if there is profit to be made for the 1%. Then we had ole Marco Rubio show his repub core when he said that any aliens here and legal under the DREAM act, kids that were brought here when they were children, will be deported on day one…never mind that this will tear families apart and cause economic distress for his owners, this son of immigrants will shut the door on anyone else getting what he had…a chance to contribute to this great country…well…Marco hasn’t contributed anything but hate and we don’t need more of that. Then, last of all, we have the senate repubs now sending out fundraising letters touting their obstruction and not doing their jobs in holding hearings on a new supreme court justice…in what world is it a badge of honor to not do your job?  Just the worst people….but that makes the choice this fall even more clear…folks that want the country to be better…and these folks that do nothing but hate…geez…

Trump vs. the Pope….

Well….I have been laughing quite a bit today with the meltdown ole Donald has had with some comment the Pope made in after his trip to Mexico this past week. When asked if Trump was a christian, the Pope said no…that if he only wants to build walls instead of bridges, he is not a christian….and that set off the Donald as to be expected and it has been gorgeous to watch…with the Donald saying that when ISIS attacks the Vatican, the pope would want to have Trump as president since he would kill them all….now, I’m not sure about you, but this could be Trump’s “jump the shark” moment…after all, how do you expect Catholic votes when you continue to insult the Pope? This is just delicious…pass the popcorn….

Spin Snyder, spin….

Well…with every revelation and every excuse that ole Snyder makes for his and his cronies screwups with the Flint water crisis, and every deflection, he is looking more and more like the common repub that can’t do anything right…and will do everything in his power to try to prove that it wasn’t his fault. The latest goes something like this…the feds screwed up since they didn’t catch us poisoning the people of Flint to save a hundred bucks a day…and since they didn’t catch us and stop us, it’s not our fault that we did hundreds of million of dollars of damage to Flint. That is the line he has been feeding the lapdog press over the past few days and they are just eating it up….not one of them asking why the buck doesn’t stop at the governor’s desk since they scream “states rights” all day every day and always want the feds to stay out of their efficient running of their state…no matter that they killed people and have doomed thousands of children to a life of hardship and learning disabilities. This is the repub way folks…screw up and blame anyone but themselves…geez…

Let the voters decide? They already did…

Well….over the past two elections, after Obama was elected, the repubs have led an unprecedented campaign to nullify the results of those two elections by their obstructionism; choosing to not do their constitutional duty on the debt, the budget, and especially in approving judges that have been presented by Obama. Their dis-ingeniousness continues with their new meme they are pushing in regard to the right that Obama has to appoint a supreme court justice: that the selection should wait until the voters decide in the 2016 presidential election. Now, if these liars would just look back to  he 2012 election, one of the main themes was that if Obama was elected, he would appoint judges to the court that would be too liberal, that would grant equal rights to gay people…etc, etc…..and ole Mitt went on and on about the fact that he would appoint judges like the radical activist right wingers on the court…and when people were surveyed, almost 60% said that the supreme court was very important to their voting decision. So, the people have already voted and put Obama in for a second term to carry out his required duties of appointing judges to supreme court vacancies…and no matter what the repubs say, that is the truth….geez…

This is what Obama should do…

Well…with all of the repubs in the senate promising obstruction to any nominee that Obama puts up for the supreme court, I think Obama needs to take those threats seriously and appoint a true progressive while the senate is in recess. This would not only really piss off the repubs but would get the court to a 5-4 liberal majority for the rest of his term…and, with the court docket having so many cases that could hurt women, unions, and really screw up this country if there was a conservative majority, Obama needs to do this right now. Then, when we win the presidency and the senate later in the year, we have the chance of making the progressive majority permanent…at least for a while anyway….get it done Obama….

Hypocrites…

Well…as you have seen here before, one of the joys of my life is calling out the hypocrites on the right I guess whenever they open their mouths…now, they are at it again with the death of Antonin Scalia yesterday…now, you have heard me go on about Scalia and his wrongheadedness on almost every opinion he ever wrote, and all you have to do is read his Bush v. Gore, Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United opinions to see what I mean…he had a penchant for just making stuff up to meet his biases…and his ethical challenges were well known with his frequent trips to the Koch brothers secret meetings where at least the appearance of impropriety oozed out of him. But now that he has died, the repubs hypocrisy is on full display…on a daily basis, these idiots rail and rail about the constitution and that Obama is tearing it up….as soon as the death was announced, the repubs new meme is that, since Obama is in the last year of his term, we should wait to name a new justice until the next president is elected…and they are justifying that by constitution, constitution…something something….well…there is nothing in the constitution that says a president can’t appoint someone in his last term…not anywhere…and, to leave a vacancy on the court for a year has never been done…even saint Ronnie of Reagan appointed one in his last year….I really do hope that the repubs will carry through on their threats to not approve any nominee….and then, when we win the election and take back the senate, we can get a real progressive on the court that will start to repeal all of the wrongheaded crap that the conservatives have foisted on this country….geez…

Typical smug asses…

Well…have been keeping up with the water debacle in Flint, and every day more information comes out in e-mails that the Snyder appointees in the Department of Environmental Quality…(the state department that is responsible for the mess in Flint) were a bunch of smug asses that thought they knew better than the EPA that there was a problem with not treating the water with anti corrosive chemicals. These idiots even went so far as trying to avoid returning the EPA’s e-mails since the person there was just a pain in the ass for harping on the fact they needed to treat the water…even going so far as getting their bosses to intercede so they guy would leave them alone. This is just another reason that political hacks who think government can’t do anything right should NEVER be put in charge of an important function like protecting the people of this state from poisoning….typical repub MO….hope these idiots go to jail…geez…

New Hampshire…

Well….it was an interesting if not expected set of results that came out of the primary in NH yesterday with the clown Trump winning on the repub side and Bernie taking the dem side. And, the fallout from the others on the right has already started with Christie dropping out later today and ole Marco trying to figure out why his stumbling, bumbling performance over the past week led to his finishing 5th or 6th in the single digits…couldn’t happen to a less qualified candidate, that’s for sure.  Don’t really even have to mention the others, although Bush did get above 10% for the first time…the 33% the Trump got just shines a light on the racist, homophobic base that supports him…and even it he gets the nomination, there’s not enough of them to elect him. So, we move on to Bernie…as you know, I support Bernie and it was good to see him get over 60% of the vote but that just starts the battle that moves on to Nevada next week…it is still fun to see the repub establishment flailing around trying to figure out how to stop Trump but they are getting what they deserve with their scorched earth policies that have led to the rise of the crazies…geez…

Finally, a primary…

Well….running late since I have been trying to get the tax stuff together so I can get it in tomorrow….I am a little excited that there is finally a primary to judge who is ahead and how the rest of the field is doing…I am really hoping Bernie takes it huge but the battle of ideas between he and Hillary is nothing but a good thing for our side….and if Hillary wins all the way through, I will support her just to make sure no repub can even get close to the White House…I am laughing a little the Rubiobot is falling on his face and the latest revelations from his staff that he gets anxious and uncomfortable when dealing with new things should just about eliminate him from the race. I am a little curious to see who drops out after today…we will have both Bernie and Hillary since they are pretty even but Christie and JEB! should be gone after today…at least I hope they will be….I am really looking forward to the debates between our side and their nominee….going to be a bloodbath and fun to watch….

Ted Cruz is just nuts…

Well…haven’t been feeling too well today so I am getting to this one a little late…but, it is something that I just needed to comment on…that is that Ted Cruz is just nuts…how else do you explain what happened In NH the other day?  When asked what he would do about climate change if he is elected, his answer was “nothing”…and then he launched into an 8 minute screed about how climate change is a conspiracy by liberals to expand the government and take away our “freedoms”….now, when I was young and the politics on the right were not so insane, this kind of nonsense would have gotten ole Ted laughed out of the room and the guys in the white coats would have come running with the straightjacket. But, these days, this delusional behavior is a requirement to get their delusional base to vote for them…..if you could see me, you would see me shaking my head with a dejected, resigned look…something like weariness that our country has come to this…geez…