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…
Category Archives: Politics
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….
Bad, bad Walmart….
Well..I don’t want you to think that the only thing I can write about is Walmart, but the terrible, terrible company is starting to have it’s methods exposed and it is being held responsible for them. The latest of their cringe inducing tactics to underpay and control their employees has come to the attention of the NLRB who is bringing legal action for the company’s thug-like tactics in trying to prevent their employees from organizing to get better working conditions; which is their right here in the US…but not if you hear the right talk about it…according to the right, this organizing is either communism, socialism, or an affront to the owners of Walmart who should be able to suck 3.5 billion dollars out of yours and my pockets in subsidies to their employees….it is their right as part of the 1%. So, finally, the government is saying enough to this kind of crap…but the thing I just can’t understand is the bleating from working people on the right attacking their friends and neighbors who just want to be fairly compensated for their labor….the brainwashing of the working poor on the right is one of the things I just can’t understand…they will consistently vote for people who continue to steal from them and then make sure that everyone else gets taken by the 1%, too….what happened to pride in intelligence? Doesn’t exist on the right anymore…geez…
Is Boehner stupid or crazy? Or both?
Well…another day goes by and another jaw dropping moment comes from ole Boehner….today, there was supposed to be a meeting in one of the senate offices of three of the anti-gay hate groups that purport to be the “protectors of the true family” here in the US, but the repub senator that initially sponsored the event found out what these groups really are and canceled the room saying he will not associate with groups that discriminate…so, good on you Senator Kirk. But, when these groups started to whine, guess who stepped in to sanction this hate…yep, ole Boehner found them space in the house offices and proceeded to cozy up to these idiots…hmmm…maybe idiots like to hang out with other idiots? These are the same groups that found that their hate wasn’t selling here in the US anymore so they went overseas to get laws passed in Russia that discriminate against gays there….and were instrumental in getting the “kill the gays” laws passed in Uganda that make it a death penalty offense to just be gay…yep, these are the types of groups that the repubs are embracing as their ideas are rejected by more and more of the US…I’ll bet ole Boehner would find a room for the KKK if they asked him…what a poor excuse for a human being…and, I’m still not sure if he is stupid or crazy…probably both..geez….
Sister Sarah in town…
Well…when I woke up this morning, I felt like the Grand Rapids area had suddenly gotten much, much, dumber but I couldn’t really figure out why….then, I read the paper and found out…ole sister Sarah was in town…and, any town that Palin walks into immediately has it’s IQ drop by many, many points. I know this is a quite conservative area, in spots, but I didn’t know until now that those same areas are stupid…well…yeah, I did, I talk to these people and marvel at how willfully ignorant they are of science, the constitution…oh, hell…about everything. But they will queue up to see, listen to, and buy her stupid book on “the war on christmas”….that’s about all I have to say….I even feel stupider for just being in the same state as the supreme grifter…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…
Another reason for single payer…
Well…looking outside and seeing it snowing has made me depressed so I thought I might just as well get into something else that depresses me….the shenanigans that the insurance companies are starting in response to the ACA….while before they could use pre-existing conditions to screw over people…now they have to get more creative to screw people over…just like when it was exposed that every major insurer had whole departments whose sole purpose was to deny claims. Now, they are trying some new stuff…like sending letters to people whose policies are granfathered under the law saying they have to cancel and choose a new policy…and then only offering them plans that are many times more than what they were paying while making sure they never mention the exchanges where they have to compete on price….or the short sighted ploy of leaving a state completely so they don’t have to compete on price and the collusion that comes with it…where more than one company leaves a market to ensure there is only one or two companies left to compete so they can raise the prices and feed at the government trough with the subsidies that are available to the individual purchaser. I do feel good that the conversation has started to come back to single payer, Medicare for all to cut these damn crooks out of the gravy train…maybe we should root for the law to fail so we can take the house back and then get single payer…geez…
What happened to the news?
Well…not sure if you’ve read or heard about the latest implosion of a news organization, where CBS’s 60 minutes ran a supposedly new report on Benghazi that was going to finally get to the bottom of it…even when there is no bottom to get to. They ran the report a couple of weeks ago and almost immediately, other news organizations dug just a little bit to find that the person they hung the entire expose’ on was a liar…saying in official reports to his company and the FBI that he was at his seaside villa when the attack was going on, but in the 60 Minutes report and his book, this liar made himself out to be a hero…scaling a 12 foot wall to get into the consulate and killing an insurgent by hitting him in the face with his gun butt. When did 60 Minutes become just another hack news show? And, how can the producers there throw away 50 years of integrity just because they want to get on the right wing bandwagon…ignoring the basic tenets of journalism for sensationalism? The fallout from this sordid affair continue with even the publisher of the book who is well known for publishing right wing screeds removing it from the shelves and the supposed author going into seclusion. I do have to thank our liberal attack machine, Media Matters, for their work on exposing this blatant set of lies…good job.
I find this so damn funny…
Well…as Christie won the governorship of NJ again on Tuesday, I find it funny that the knives have come out from the other potential ’16 candidates from the repubs already…both Rubio and Paul have attacked starting with the contention that Christie’s lopsided win has nothing to do with any future elections…basically saying that NJ is just NJ and the rest of the country just doesn’t care for Christie….and the second one I heard of today was that ole Paul, at a senate hearing the other day, laid into Christie’s use of some of the Sandy aid for commercials to get people to come back to the NJ shore to try to jumpstart tourism there because most of them had Christie in them; calling them a blatant waste of government money for personal political gain…this is where I really start to laugh since ole Paul was one of the drivers behind the gov’t shutdown that cost the country over 24 billion dollars…and, for what I can see, it was for Paul’s and Cruz’s personal political gain and fundraising, since there was never any chance of them getting Obamacare repealed. The more I listen to ole Paul, the more I think he is just another of the privileged repubs that were born on third base and think they hit a triple, and just can’t take it when his bad behavior is called out…like in the plagarism scandal…what a sorry piece of work who can’t even be bothered to do his own work…anywhere….geez…
Elections and other stuff…
Well….it’s another day of being so damn tired I can barely stand it and I’m not sure what is going on….okay…it’s from not eating enough but could be from not sleeping…aargh…I do want to say a few words about the elections yesterday but the only one that really meant anything was the gov of Virgina that we won…and got rid of the crazy that was running on their side…but, he will get a cushy, million dollar lobbying job in Washington or will work for the Heritage foundation or some other right wing scam operation that does nothing but grift from the idiots on the right….oh, the other stuff….not sure what that is….it just seemed like a good title…more later….maybe…