Well…I haven’t really been following the immigration debate until the past few days…and what a few days that has been! I find the outrage on the right of the “leaked” Obama plan making me smile and smile…and one thing I find the funniest is that the leaked plan is almost exactly the same plan that ole Marco Rubio was going to propose…of course until Obama proposed it, then it was a commie, socialist, Kenyan plan as described by Rush and ole McCain…but, since these ideas are supported by a great majority of the electorate on both the right and left, where does that leave the repubs? I think Obama is finally figuring out that the right will reflexively oppose anything that he wants up to “two chickens in every pot”….and that gives him leverage and maneuvering room…it is so much fun to watch the repubs reacting to everything that Obama does; running around with no strategy and making themselves look like fools in the process…and Lindsay Graham has sunk so low as to citing internet rumors as reason to oppose Chuck Hagel…making himself look ridiculous to everyone but the crazy asses on the hard right. All I have to say to him and the rest of the right is “please proceed”…geez…
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This is just too funny…
Well….just read an article that made me laugh out loud…if you follow the news at all, you’ve seen the concerted effort by the repubs over the past few years to paint Obama as the worst president in history in his support of Israel…calling him a traitor and worse since he supports an even handed approach to the middle east. Today, those talking points and attacks were destroyed by a very unlikely source….Israel itself…yep…the president of Israel, Shimon Peres announced that Obama will be the first sitting president to receive the Presidents Medal from Israel for his unwavering support or Israel. So, I wonder who’s right? Is it the rabid right, hate Obama, liar crowd or is it the president of Israel and the Israeli people? Are we now going to have the idiots on the right attacking Israel for a “conspiracy”…not sure what kind of conspiracy but if Obama is mentioned, there must be a conspiracy…I wonder what ole John McCain is going to say now…will he come out and say he is sorry for the attacks since they were all just to damage Obama with no shred of proof in them? I am laughing my butt off right now and can’t wait to read the comments by the right…it’s going to be a fun afternoon….geez…
A couple of things I’ve noticed…
Well…as I’ve watched the shenanigans from the repubs over the past few years, there have been a couple of themes that I’ve noticed that runs through everything they do….it’s either about winning elections or pushing their ideology. For example, when you hear them talk about immigration, they never say that immigration reform would be good for the country or for the people who would be affected…it’s always about reform to get the immigrants to vote for them and that is just sick…I don’t think they understand that these are real people, living real lives here and solving this problem would help the country by bringing them into the light. But, the repubs don’t want that…they want to keep these people illegal so they can continue to exploit them and keep wages down for everyone. The second thing that is so stunning about the repubs is how they push their ideology on the country when people don’t want it….using the old bait and switch that has worked so well in Wisconsin and here in Michigan…pretending to be reasonable people to be elected, and then rolling out their radical agendas afterward….to see this in action, you just need to look at Michigan and the right to work for less law that was never mentioned before the election but then rammed through the legislature in a lame-duck session. Now, you can see this same nonsense across the country with the outright attack on womens rights by mandating invasive ultrasounds before women can make the choice to have an abortion. Why can’t they just do the jobs they were elected to do? Govern for all of the people in your state, not just the hard right nuts…geez….
Working class neighborhood?
Well…this one just popped into my head and I wanted to get it down before I forgot it…during the water dance that ole Rubio was doing the other night, one thing struck me as crazy…well…more that one thing but this one is the capper…ole Marco has gone on and on about his “working class” origins and that he still lives in the “working class” neighborhood that he grew up in..blah, blah, blah….and then it comes out in the media that he has his “working class” house up for sale…for $675,000 dollars…I don’t know about you but 675K is not “working class” where I come from…and I’ll bet that the only ones that do are just like ole Marco. After all, who in the “working class” could afford a house payment of 5K or more a month? This is just another instance where the repubs have no frickin clue what it means to work for a living in the US….when you are constantly around people that make millions, I guess 675K would be “working class” in their eyes…what a warped view of this country…geez…
A bunch of cynical bastards…
Well…by now you know that the Violence Against Women Act has passed the Senate with a semi-bipartisan majority of 78 to 22…with all of the 22 no votes being male republican senators who are running scared of primary challenges from even worse knuckle draggers…and now, there are “discussions” going on in the house repub delegation that maybe it’s not such a good idea to oppose a law that will protect more than half of the population…but, the reasons that are being stated are not that it is the right thing to do…nope, you’d never hear that from the repubs who don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich and their corporate backers…but that if they don’t vote for it, it may be an issue that can be used against them in the next election. Well, duh….why shouldn’t being the bastards you are be used against you? The abject cynicism here is getting to almost too much…what happened to looking at the merits of legislation and how it may help your constituents? Even those who didn’t vote for you….you are, after all, elected to represent everyone in your district, not just the crazy assed righties that are trying to return this country to the 1700’s. What are the objections? That is might cost money to implement? Well…it won’t cost a dime…I think this just gets to the hate that is the core of the repub party these days…since the protections in the bill would extend to groups they don’t like, like minorities, lesbians, and immigrants, they don’t see a need for it…and since they do truly believe that women should be subservient to men and just take the beatings, there is only one reason for them to support the law…to protect their own asses in the next election…geez…
Middle schoolers on tv…
Well…I am still laughing about the “savior” of the republican party and his completely inane response to the SOTU last night…I will leave aside the crazy dive for the water bottle that also just cracked me up, and just focus on the substance, what little there was, of the address. First, just let me say “TELEPROMPTER”…it was obvious that this idiot Rubio was reading his address from a prompter…the cardinal sin that the right has shouted far and wide about Obama…but, even that is not the gist of my criticism. That I will leave to the supposed “substance” of the speech…I think Chris Matthews summed it up best that it was a ‘tinkertoy” speech best suited to a half wit middle schooler with the same self-conscious, smarmy nonsense that comes from a true believer on the right who thinks everyone should fall all over themselves to cheer since the “truths” in the speech are so self-evident. But, no matter what the right thinks…this speech was just a re-hash of the nonsense that ole Mitt was pushing that lost him the election…personal attacks on Obama followed up by faith based economic policies that were rejected by everyone…this is the new repub party? I can’t heap enough ridicule on this nonsense…where are the new ideas? They don’t have any….geez…
More lipstick on the republican pig…
Well…just a little shorty on the vote that happened this aft in the senate where we saw more and more lipstick being put on the republican pig with 22 repub senators voting against the VAWA..that’s the violence against women act in case the acronym wasn’t familiar. I think today’s vote will mark the end of ole Marco Rubio’s anointing as the “savior” of the repub party, as Time magazine called him this week since he voted against protection for women in this bill owing to his “principles” whatever they are….could it be the “principle” to let men get away with beating their wives? The repubs just don’t get it at all…history in this country has shown that women have been treated like second class citizens for far too long…and I am glad that there were 78 senators who stepped up and did the right thing in passing this bill…but, now it goes to the repub controlled house where it won’t even get to a floor vote since the knuckle draggers are in control over there…keep it up repubs, time is passing you by…and none too soon…geez…
State of the Union hysteria…
Well…have been reading about the right’s responses that are coming to the State of the Union address and I am kind of laughing about the hysteria that is rampant in those responses…and there will be not one but two, count ’em, two responses…one from the crazies that represent the “mainstream” repubs, and the second from the tea partiers that is sure to be full of “socialism, freedom, freedom, and freedom and guns” that should be fun to see. I am surprised at the level of hatred of this country and it’s institutions that we are seeing from these folks…the foaming at the mouth nonsense that Obama is taking our guns, has FEMA camps ready for gun owners, and is going to turn the whole country over to the UN. Then, we have the nut from Texas that has invited Ted Nugent to the SOTU…the same Terrible Ted who has threatened the presidents life on many occasions…I really do hope they talk to that batshit crazy, washed up has been…it will just highlight the sober adult that Obama is when compared to these idiots and the public will be even happier that they returned him to the White House instead of ole Mitt. The funniest thing that is going to happen tonight is that the repubs are rolling out Marco Rubio to do the right’s first response…and the advance copy of the speech shows that it is just more of ole Mitt and the ideas that were rejected in the election…the US just doesn’t want that crap but the repubs just don’t get it….geez….
No big topics…
Well…have been thinking and thinking to try to come up with a big topic for the day with no success so I guess I’ll just go on about a few small ones…let’s start with the pope resigning…the first thing that came into my head was “who cares?” Can’t think of a more irrelevant person in the world today…presiding over an institution that has long outlived its usefulness and has devolved into almost a hate group…I mean, did you read his “Christmas” message where he went on and on about how bad gays and lesbians are and tried to justify discriminating against them? The world would be a better place if they would just go away and stop trying to impose the 12th century on women in this country and across the world…and that goes for the rest of organized religion as well.
Okay…new topic…you can see how far the repubs have sunk into crazy with the threat from Lindsey Graham to filibuster the presidents picks for Sec Def and CIA director…let’s put this in context…this has never happened in the history of the country…not once has a cabinet selection been blocked in this manner and I am so tired of the repubs thinking up new ways to screw up the country…
Moving on to Michigan….where are the jobs Republicans? Oh, no jobs legislation? No, nothing but more of the same…raise taxes on the people, cut taxes for corporations, and try to restrict womens rights to control their own bodies….I think you can see the genesis of the malaise that I have been feeling lately with the crap that is going on across the US…and don’t get me started on the extra-legal drone policies that Obama has just released…I think this country has lost it’s collective mind and it’s taking mine with it…geez…
It time for us to become the party of no…
Well…I listen and listen to the folks that we re-elected and I only have one bit of advice for them..we need to become the party of no for a change…every time the repubs suggest that we cut benefits for the poor and seniors to subsidize the rich…we need to say no. Every time the repubs protect tax breaks for corporations and want to pay for them by raising taxes on the middle class we need to say no. Every time the repubs say that increased revenue from the rich can’t be on the table we have to say no. After all, the top tax rates were lowered under ole GW to cause the deficit mess we are in…why can’t they be raised to help pay the bills? Let’s not accept the crap the repubs are peddling that it is the dems fault because of “runaway spending”…as usual, they are wrong about that, too…spending as a percentage of gdp is far under the same measure for any repub administration since Eisenhower….one last thing I have to say for the dems that were elected to push the protection of the safety net and raise taxes on the rich…”just frickin do it”…the political climate has changed and you are the right side of the issues…grow a frickin backbone and do your damn job…geez…