Tag Archives: Obama

Michelle Bachmann is still an idiot…

Well….just a short little one about the latest craziness from ole Michelle….yesterday, talking to some of her supporters, she “blamed” Obama and his foreign policy ineptitude for the “Arab Spring” that saw the removal of many dictators from the northern Africa Arab states. Now, let me get this straight…it’s a bad thing that millions of people now live in countries that have budding democracies and more freedom than they had? Oh, I get it, freedom is okay and necessary for the US but for anyone else it’s destabilizing and a threat to Israel. This woman is just one of the stupidest people I have ever heard speak and everyone should just ignore her instead of giving weight to the nonsense she spouts…does she truly believe that nothing can happen in any country around the world without the permission of the US? This is third grade level foreign policy and drips of the desperation that is rampant in her campaign with her plummeting poll numbers….bye bye Michelle…

Mitch McConnell is an even bigger idiot than I thought…

Well….ole Mitch was in fine form this morning addressing the Senate in anticipation of Obama’s speech on jobs tonight, raising the bar on pure partisanship to an entirely new level…he didn’t even wait to hear the speech to start to criticize everything about what may be said…trying to preempt the president when he is trying to get us out of the repub caused jobs mess. His main point was that he didn’t even want to hear anything more about additional stimulus and he even rolled out the old bromide that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of idiocy….doesn’t McConnell get irony? What have he and his repub know nothings repeatedly done since 2000? Cut, Cut, and cut taxes when they did nothing to stimulate the economy or add jobs….remember this, the tax cuts did not add one job…not one job. And ole Mitch had the audacity to stand there and basically call Obama an idiot. Look in the mirror, Mitch, and you will see the biggest idiot in government today….geez….

One last thing…by the accounts of the majority of economists, the stimulus package saved almost 3 million jobs that would have been lost without it…is that the repubs definition of failure? Gimme that kind of failure anytime….

This could be “I told you so”….

Well…if you’ve been here before, you might just remember that during the debt ceiling nonsense I was consistently quoting Keynes that cutting spending and worrying about the deficit in a time of recession or near recession would result in the economy going back to contraction. Guess what happened? Spending was cut and the economy is going back into recession just as Keynes and I predicted. What I don’t understand is that while we all know that proper economic thinking is beyond the repubs, Obama should know better and should have the backbone to call the nonsense for what it is…ignorance and willfull stalling of the economy by the repubs for purely political purposes. I am so disappointed in his going along with something that he knows is wrong for political purposes of his own that no one from either the left or right can understand. I am losing confidence that Obama has the political skill to frame the argument that the one class that needs to be taken care of is those of us in the middle who have paid and are still paying for the repub policies that Obama went along with and now, he has allowed Social Security to be dragged into the deficit debate when everyone knows that SS is solvent for at least the next 25 years and has never added one penny to the deficit.

President Obama: please grow a spine and call the repubs for what they are….a wholly owned subsidiary of business and the rich…

Manny Lopez is still an idiot after all these years…

Well…I don’t know where to start about this one…I’ve never seen one person be so wrong every time he opens his mouth and still have a job….he’s at it again this morning in the Detroit News where he spend his whole column venting his vitriol against Obama and then recommends that the pres read nonsense to change his economic policy…to start he gives us the old repub lie that the stimulus was all spending of almost 800 billion dollars and it was wasted since it didn’t get the economy moving as fast as it should…but what ole Manny and the rest of the repoub liars continue to ignore is that almost half of the stimulus package was tax cuts…so, I’ll ask this again, Manny….do tax cuts work to spur the economy or don’t they? The media continues to give you a pass on this hypocrisy when the Bush tax cuts did not create one job, not one, and now you want the president to keep doing more of that? You have no standing to give advice to anyone when you continue to believe in the voodoo economics that put us in this mess we are in…geez…

Musings again…

Well…I’ve been noticing a trend lately where I do a column here and the read almost the exact same thing in one of the major newspapers….I wonder if I’m just getting obvious or if it is some kind weird time travel paradox…not sure which yet…so, today is going to just be rambling around a little since I don’t really have a topic yet…I do question the intelligence of Americans when I see the latest polls have Obama and the repubs basically tied…tied with the idiots that promise to dismantle what is left of the safety net for the middle class? Tied with the idiots that thought that defaulting on our debt was a good thing? Tied with the idiots that are selling the soul of America and want us to go back to the days of the robber barons? Yep…if the US votes for this nonsense, I guess we will all get what we deserve….but not me….I was cured of my republicanism when the party went nuts on social issues….and embraced the voodoo economics that are based on faith, not facts….geez….

I’m done with Obama..

Well…this debt deal is such a big pile of steaming crap that I have lost all faith in Obama’s ability to do anything right…he just gave the country away to the tea party nuts and got nothing in return….so our economy is going to go back in the tank if you believe anything of Keynes…but the right doesn’t believe in anything that doesn’t help the rich and business and they’ve never let facts get in the way of governing by faith…thinking that if they just believe hard enough will make their nonsense the truth….but the fault for this whole thing rests solidly on the shoulders of Obama and his incompetence….along with this inability to understand that you can’t negotiate with people that just don’t care about the country or the people in it….Obama just blows in the wind and takes the crumbs that these radicals offer….where’s the veto pen? Where are the guts? I do hope that the rest of us progressives just bypass him and get on with making this country what it can be…not the dark vision of the repubs….

A politcal one, finally…

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?

Where are the guts, Obama?

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…

Bear with me a while…

Well…just wanted to say a few things before I go off and make lunch…first, I haven’t really had time to read up on the repub debate last night so I won’t be able to comment for a while since I do want to have something pertinent to say that is not as banal as I can be, as you know….I do have an injury that is hampering my writing somewhat…the carpal tunnel has come back and I can barely use my right wrist…but that’s not an excuse…the last I checked, my wrist is not used for thinking….okay, I need to make lunch…I will be back later with more..so, come on back after you get back from lunch and get some work done….

I have a question about the whole Anthony Weiner thing…how can the repubs say a word when they still have David Vitter in the senate who actually broke the law by paying prostitutes over the course of many years? I do not agree at all with what Weiner did but none of it was illegal….just narcissistic and stupid. One other thing that made me smile a little was a new Pew poll that came out today on the Obama/Israel flap that went on a couple of weeks ago…it basically shows that the people are not buying the lies that the righties are putting out about it…even from the repubs themselves. So, maybe people are tiring of the lies from the right and finally want America to get back to the business of taking care of it’s people; not just scoring political points for the small right-wing base…we can only hope…

A couple of new things…

Well…was thinking this was going to be one of those days where I had nothing to say but then ole Newt came through and gave me one thing to talk about but there is also the Israeli thing that Obama is in the middle of. Let’s start with Obama….of course the right is going out of its mind with what they perceive to be a slight of Israel and a lack of support for the traditional relationship. I think they missed the point of Obama’s statements…there has been a stalemate in the talks between the Palestinians and Israel and all that Obama did was kick the hornet’s nest to stir things up a little and get them off the dime….geez…doesn’t anyone understand politics?

Then, we have ole Newt talking about the 500K that he and his third wife owed to Tiffany’s, describing it as the “standard, no interest account”…yeah, Newt? In whose world is any charge account no interest? It is just another instance where the rich are treated differently than the rest of us and don’t see anything wrong with it. They can’t understand why the rest of us don’t get those deals…or even better they just don’t care. How out of touch is Newt and how can he even relate to anyone but the rich…not the type of person this nation needs as its president….geez…

One last thing, to those of you out there that were opposed to the bailouts of the auto companies since they were a “sinkhole” and we would never get our money back…..Chrysler paid off the loans today…in full….this is the kind of thing only government can do or will do to ensure that 30,000 people didn’t lose their jobs…..what do you say now repubs? How many more times will you be wrong? geez….