ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE OF THE RIGHT-WING

“ That's a bunch of garbage,” Graham said. “That's a complete bunch of garbage.” This quote from Republican Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina on the report that came out from his own party that was investigating Benghazi found nothing much to fault the administration's handling of the incident. This is a symptom of ignoring facts, and sticking with conspiracies theories that fit into his warped sense of reality.  Senator Graham is not alone in this thinking.  Fox News; Limbaugh, Will, Gingrich, and assorted right-wing wing-nuts fit into this category. They choose not to believe anything that doesn't fit into their perception of what is right and wrong.
This phenomenon isn't anything new.  You can find instances of this throughout history.
 In President Kennedy's time a congressman from Texas denounced President Kennedy on the house floor for assuming “almost unlimited power” and using “dictatorial tactics.” The right-wing also said that Kennedy's use of executive orders that by-pass Congress would transform our Republic into a dictatorship.
 When the Affordable Care Act was proposed you heard about all kinds of things that could happen, including death panels.  When Medicare was proposed the same term was used, of course that never happened, but it doesn't  stop the right-wing of doing it again.
Ronald Reagan, and Barry Goldwater two of the icons of right-wing thinking had this to say about Medicare.
 Ronald Reagan: “If you don't [stop Medicare] and I don't do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in America when men were free.” 1961
Barry Goldwater:  “Having given our pensioners their medical care in kind, why not food baskets, why not public housing accommodations, why not vacation resorts, why not a ration of cigarettes for those who smoke and of beer for those who drink.”
It's obvious that these two dove off the shallow end of the pool once to often and hit their heads. If these two guys and the other people who were against medicare or the
Affordable Care Act had legitimate arguments against them they sure didn't show up in the absurd comments made then and today. None of the things these people have
said has come true or has caused us as a country to suffer.  All it has done is make life easier and better for the elderly.
I used Benghazi and Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act as examples. There are many more things that have been said by these people that are out of touch with reality. I think this quote by former Senator, Vice-President of the United States Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota sums them up nicely.
Whole communities “can be afflicted with emotional instability, frustrations, and irrational behavior. That emotional instability that affects a significant but small minority in our midst that some call extreme right.  They still see the world in total black and white they are still substituting dogma for creative thought. They are angry, fearful, deeply and fundamentally disturbed by the world around them”

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MINNESOTA WISCONSON COMPARISON

“Minnesota is ranked the second-most liberal state in the union a study by The Hill concluded.  How is that working for us?  By contrast, Wisconsin seems to get it right for the  most part.”
That is an excerpt from “letters to the editor” from the local newspaper.  I can't figure out how anyone could actually say that with a straight face.  If  you pay any attention to the facts, you would see that Minnesota's unemployment rate is almost a point and half better than Wisconsin's.  Job creation is much better in Minnesota. Wisconsin is trailing in jobs recovered after the recession.  Since this was suppose to be Walker's strong point, I guess you really have to hide your head in the sand to not see that.  The budget's are like night and day.  Wisconsin has at least a projected 1.8 billion dollar deficit. I think it actually is going to be worse than that. The state is floating  increases in transportation taxes do to a huge shortfall there.   Minnesota has a 1.2 billion dollar surplus which is being used to lower taxes on individuals and small business.
I am sure most of us have had the same experience with relatives and friends that send you emails that make fun of or state untrue facts about Democrats, a lot of them have so much misinformation in them it's ridiculous.  I have many times debunked the email with actual facts and send it back to the sender.  They actually get upset with me for doing that.  The thing is it doesn't deter them, they just keep sending me made up stuff.  These people are not stupid, so what is it?
 The question that needs to be asked and answered is how can Democrats get through to these kind of people.   It's obvious that people who spout this kind of misinformation have no idea of what's actually happening in the world, but they also have no intention of  finding out. Is it all ideology, or just a strong hatred for liberals?

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES PRODUCE NOTHING

Ray Merrick a Kansas legislator and a “Legislator of the Year” according to the American Legislative Exchange Council ( ALEC). He was addressing the disaster that they call the Kansas budget.  His answer was to cut some more. He stated that “Government employees produce nothing.” That means the public employee's in Kansas can expect to bare the brunt of the next round of cuts.  I hope Merrick is not a product of the public school system, because it's obvious he's an idiot.  He doesn't seem to understand that he is a Government employee. If he wants to help out Kansas he should resign his job and go into chicken farming, of course, that may be a stretch, because the chickens might out -smart him on a regular basis.
I was at the Minnesota State Capitol a few years ago after the Republicans had taken control of the capitol.  I was in a meeting with some legislators when a women walked in and tried to take control.  She stated that public employee jobs weren't real jobs and seen no use for them.  It just so happened that there were several public employee's in the group, one was a prison guard who spoke up and said if his job wasn't real then he wanted to know who the people were that were threatening him everyday.  This women got up and left the meeting without answering any questions. It came to light later that she thought she was in a meeting with her supporters.  The point is these people care nothing about people that can't push there careers forward, or offer them some incentive. If this country is not careful were going to  go back to bread lines and huge  unemployment, because the Republican's have every intention of gutting all safety net programs.

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ELIZABETH WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, I DON'T THINK SO.

I like Elizabeth Warren. I would like it if she were my Senator.  That being said, this call for her to run for President is disturbing.  In my opinion she is not qualified to be President at this time, maybe in the future she would be.  The same goes for Senator Bernie Sanders.  I voted twice for President Obama, but I would have liked someone a little more battle hardened.  The Republicans have gone down the path of exclusion in recent years.  Senator Warren, from the get-go would alienate many many people, and make them feel excluded.  Her manner is that of college professor, she goes into the I am the teacher and you are the student mode, much to often for my likening. She would have the problem of trying to get along with Congress. When I say Congress I mean her own party in Congress.
President Obama has had the same problem, and you can see where that has gotten us.
Erica Sagrans the campaign manager for Ready for Warren   says that Warren “is the kind of Democrat that the Democrats have been yearning for.”  This may be true to a point. She may say all the right things, but I don't think the electorate would buy into it. The problem is, I think, she will be perceived as a egghead with no back bone when it comes to foreign policy. There was a woman Martha Coakly from Elizabeth Warren's very own liberal state of Massachusetts who lost the Governors race, and who in my opinion,  Elizabeth Warren would be looked at the same way by the country as a whole. This is the same problem President Obama faces. Of course, it isn't true, but the people in this country are constantly hearing this from the media in this country.   I think she would make a terrific Secretary of the Treasury.  This is her strong suit, and a perfect fit.
Hillary Clinton would not be my first choice for President, but I am more amenable to her.  She does have experience. She was a Senator, and a Secretary of State. I am pretty sure she could stand up to all the criticisms she would receive.  She is tough, and not afraid of taking on her opponents.  I do have problems with her, but I can't think of any person that I wouldn't have problems with.  Bill Clinton's Presidency restored our economy and did a lot to make us a better country.  Except for the NAFTA treaty I was on board with him.  Hillary is her own person, but I think she actually wants what's best for this country unlike the Republicans.
The main problem with the Democrats is that they don't appeal to the whites in this country. This is a topic that most people shy away from, but it has to be addressed.  I think I understand why the party doesn't appeal to whites.  If you listen to the Democrats talk, what do you hear coming out of their months? They constantly talk about immigration;  minimum wage, student loan reform, gun-control, and abortion. These are all good things that should be talked about, with the exception of the minimum wage none of this appeals to the white working class in this country. The working class who doesn't have a lot of time to analyze every issue hear that Democrats want to take their guns away, and raise taxes to support people who are sitting around doing nothing, and getting government checks.  This isn't right, but look at the recent past.  Wisconsin had huge labor issues with the Republican Governor. The national Democratic party mostly ignored them.  The same goes for Ohio, and Michigan. The Democratic party is perceived by most of the working class in this country as a party of give me something for nothing.  This isn't true, but the democrats have to make themselves heard about issues that mean something to them. There are Democratic politicians that do this, but on a much smaller scale. The national party should take their cues from this people.

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CONSERVATIVE MEDIA?

Stanley Hubbard owns Hubbard broadcasting.  He owns the station in Minneapolis KSTP-TV that aired the picture of the mayor of Minneapolis Betsy Hodges and a black individual pointing.  The claim was that the mayor was making a gang sign. The station has come under fire for the story, rightfully so. What people have to understand Hubbard broadcasting is the same group that refused to air certain political ads by Democratic Congressman Rick Nolan in the recent election. They decided that there were factual errors in the ad.  No other stations in the state seemed to find a problem with them. I have written before about this.  In the recent episode Mr. Hubbard was asked to apologize for the story. His answer was that the people upset have “been sucked in” by the media coverage.  He said he wouldn't give an on-air apology “No, of course not, that's ridiculous” Hubbard a well known conservative has decided that his opinion is the only one that matters. The conservatives in this country claim there is a liberal bias in the media, well if a liberal station,(if there are any left) did this, the outrage from the conservatives would be deafening.  So far I haven't heard anything from Fox News, and I don't expect to. A side note to this story is Hubbard said that “multiple law enforcement” officials put him on to the picture and the gang signs. The Mayor and the police have a strained relationship do to the fact the Mayor said “some officers abuse the trust that is afforded to them, and take advantage of their roles to do harm rather than prevent it.”

SCOTT WALKER'S WARPED SENSE OF GOVERNMENT

The newly re-elected Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin has decided he wants to drug test people who get government aid.  This is not a new idea, Florida tried it, and it was found unconstitutional. This won't stop Walker. He has some dubious ways of looking at laws.  This idea puts his name in the national spotlight. My problem with this whole thing is that he wants to pick and choose who gets tested.  He leaves out all the other people who get money from the Government, and since corporations are people now according to the Supreme Court I guess they should be tested to.  The Congress who recently cut money to the food stamp program, but left in subsidies to farmers some of which went to the same disgusting politicians who voted to cut the food stamp program. They don't consider that a government handout.  How about all the money that goes out to assist businesses relocate or move into an area? That is tax payer money.  Public employees will have to be tested. This includes elected officials because they are public employees, even though they claim to despise public employees. Most of these government haters sell their souls to get a public employee job. In my mind they don't care about the country, but how much they can serve their real masters, and how much money they can accumulate in their time in office.  Of course they also get a great pension and medical care. That is so different than the regular working people, because in their minds they deserve it because they are special.  These people don't see themselves as public employee's, they see themselves as the anointed ones who are going to save us from the great unwashed hordes who threaten our way of life. 

THE POPES LONG ROAD AHEAD

The Pope has demoted the  Cardinal  Raymond Burke who is  the highest ranking United States Cardinal at the Vatican.  This Cardinal is a strict conservative, and doesn't really believe in what the Pope is trying to do, namely move the Catholic Church into the 21st century.
Let me say from the start that I am a Catholic, or at least raised a Catholic.  I have an on-going discussion with a Catholic Priest in my area who is constantly comparing Democrats to Nazi's, Communists, and Socialists, he never seems to get his insults straight.  When the issue of the pedophile priests come up he makes all the excuses that you hear from the church.  He always says it was such a small number and he actually doesn't believe that those figures are even true.  The point I try to get across to him unsuccessfully is that my problem with the church isn't the priests themselves.  People make mistakes, and none of us are immune.  The problem is with the cover up the church has employed, and to some degree are still perpetrating.  William Donohue who was the head of the Catholic League tried to justify the abuse by saying that most of the abused were not children, but 15 or 16 years old. I guess it's alright to abuse someone when they become teenagers. This Priest found out where I lived and sent me a letter telling me I was ignorant and needed to make a good confession.  I had to laugh because in his mind a good confession would make everything all right.
The Pope has a tough road ahead of him with these kind of Priests; Bishops, and Cardinals.  Hopefully he will stick with it and get rid of the malcontents.
Too bad for the conservative clergy they don't have the same system as our government.  They could just threaten to impeach him, because they don't agree.

THE REASON DEM'S GOT CRUSHED

 

   

The main reason the Dems got crushed was that the voters they rely on are not reliable.
We have the young and minorities who only seem to vote in great numbers during Presidential elections.  The reliable voters are labor who have been successfully demonized by the right with the help of the media.  Newspapers run articles like this one awhile back on Labor Day.  “Are unions evil”  Unions are blamed for the downfall of cities and the debt that states have.  The Democratic party doesn't fight back on these issues.  In Wisconsin where the Governor stripped public unions of most of their rights, very few national Democrats spoke out or came to Wisconsin to stand with the workers.
President Obama should have shown up in Wisconsin, but of course he didn't want to take sides.
The media which has been painted by the right as a liberal bastion is a fantasy that people have bought into.  The networks, and newspapers are owned by corporations who are dictating editorial policy. All you have to do is watch any so-called news program on any network especially on the weekend and who do you see?  John McCain, or Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, or Ted Cruz  Another example of this is the paper in Duluth Mn.  Duluth is a relatively liberal area.  The paper endorsed almost all Republicans during the recent election.  Of course if you look at the actual endorsements none of them came from the local editorial staff.  They all were from the corporate owners from out of the state. The paper is doing a disservice to the community. One of the states television channels wouldn't run some ads by the Democrat in a congressional district claiming there were  false claims made.  The thing is the owner of that television station was a supporter of the Dems opponent, and a dyed in the wool conservative who only believes in fairness if it benefits him.  Basically he was picking and choosing which ads to air  based on his political bent.
Finally the democrats have some really bad candidates.  We had Grimes in Kentucky who refused to say who she voted for in the previous Presidential election. We had a candidate for Governor in Massachusetts who was an embarrassment and this was not the first time she screwed up an election. Who are the people nominating this person.  The list goes on and on.  The Democrats let the Republicans define them. They use gun-rights or abortion as a gun to their head.  They can't seem to refute that background checks are not gun control.  They never mention the fact that abortion will not go away even if it is repealed.  Back alley abortions will kill more women like it used to. They never push the Republicans on their warped reading of the Bible.
Democrats have to get tougher and quit trying to placate the Republicans

RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA MACHINE

The right-wing propaganda machine is out in full force.  Today in the newspaper an op-ed article was written by Jay Ambrose.  He's extolling the virtues of Republican Governors who stripped union rights from public employee's.  He especially thinks Scott Walker from Wisconsin is a hero.  He according to Ambrose reduced the “union's bullying powers,” even though the unions fought back by being “dirty as dirty gets.” The unions also according to Ambrose   had immovable power “to distort democracy, devastate finances, render government operations less efficient and even, in some cases, cheat children out  of the kind of education necessary for them to have a decent future.”  He goes on to state that unions spent huge amounts of money to try and get elected people who supported them. I almost got a tear in my eye when I read that. The Republican party's outlay in the recent election dwarfs any money spent by the unions.  The real reason for the attack on unions has nothing to do with what these fact twisters like Ambrose say. It has everything to do with the fact that unions are one of the last organizations that have any chance of competing with big business and billionaire donations to the Republicans.
To see Ambrose in proper perspective you have to look at some of his past propaganda.  He thinks campus rape is an epidemic of hyperbole.  He thinks global warming is not happening.  He wants to restructure Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. We all know what that means he wants to privatize them. He conveniently forgets the fact that working people contribute to them through out their working lifetimes. He defends George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin killing.  If you have been paying attention, you know Zimmerman has been in one scrap after another, and  one of his big defenders now thinks Zimmerman targeted Martin because he was black.  The list goes on-and-on, but you get the gist of where this guys head is.
The question that needs to be asked is why we are continually subjected to these rants from guys like Ambrose in this so-called liberal media?

HALEY BARBOUR BIGOT

Haley Barbour used the term tar baby when talking to his GOP cronies. He apologized if anyone took offense. I know, and you should know he isn't sorry about using that term, he's sorry because it became public. Barbour has a history with racism. He is the same guy who defended the Citizen Councils of the 50's and 60's. He said he doesn't remember it being bad in those years for the minorities in his southern bastion where blacks were kept in the shadows. Barbour is a bigot and always will be a bigot, but he would like you to believe that he is sorry when he says things like tar baby. The problem is he keeps saying those things over and over.

WHEN DOES THE CRAZINESS STOP?

When does the craziness stop? Congressman Peter King of New York (do I even have to say he's a Republican) has decided that the doctors and scientists are wrong and Ebola is an airborne spread disease. I realize these kind of people are nuts, but they are elected officials in the United States and are spreading hysteria at every chance. They are completely ignorant or outright lying. Ted Cruz's chief of staff tried to equate the outbreak of Ebola in the U.S. To Obamacare. He might as well blamed it on the partial eclipse of the sun yesterday, they have the same amount of culpability. This goes on and on with this sleaze balls. I know they have a right to state their ignorant views, but there is no reason their views have to keep being reported in the media. Lets ignore these fools.

GEORGE WILL LAUGHING STOCK

George Will the self-anointed expert on rape, has anointed himself an expert on Ebola. This clown who actually thinks he is important went into his fear mongering role by saying Ebola experts think the disease is spread in the air. The people who he claimed to get the information from came out after Mr. Wills statement and said he totally took it out of context. Other than the fact the most GOP pundits take things out of context, the only thing served by his stupid utterance was to spread fear amongst the population. I for the life of me can't figure out why any news organization would hire this guy, or any newspaper run his column. The guy is incompetent. In fact he has become a laughing stock!

PANDERING GOP

Billionaire and GOP donor Peter Thiel says GOP candidates have a lower IQ. This statement is fact in my opinion. He should have included many of the GOP office holders in general. I do have to credit someone in the GOP, they have hit upon a strategy that works for them. They pander to the fears of the less intelligent in the country especially the southern male. I don't mean to suggest that all southerns are stupid, but the majority of the GOP's base are white males from the south. To a smaller degree in the rest of the country. The GOP panders to them in the sense they tell them that they are victims of liberals. They tell them that they would be farther ahead in their lives if they Democrats wouldn't be giving their jobs to minorities, or the government would be better off if they would they would stop giving out food stamps or welfare or taxing them so much. If you pay attention to the GOP you see in their attacks that they only focus on the so-called entitlement programs. If you pay attention you will also see they give themselves all the benefits from the government they can scoop up. All you have to do is look at the Farm Bill. They cut food stamps, but left in payments to farms which many of the GOP get. They see no problem with that. They try to make voting harder because they are scared of the minority vote. They use the excuse they are trying to prevent voter fraud. We all know that is a lie, but the GOP base fall for that excuse. When you have a base who can be swayed so easily it's no wonder the GOP can lie with no fear of being held accountable.

REPUBLICAN LEECHES

I have a brother who is anti-government and is constantly telling me that the government is broke. He is against everything the government does. I was having a conversation with him the other day and for some reason he goes off on his little rant. I have to preface this with the facts that he is on Social Security and took out a student loan years ago. He never paid back the loan. I mentioned this to him and he wouldn't take responsibility for that loan. He blamed the government for giving him that loan. This is the logic of most of these Republican goofs. They always have to blame the government and take no responsibility for their own actions. They hide behind religion or something in their minds that exonerates anything they do, but accuses the other people of causing harm. All you have to do is listen to the Republican Senators and Congressman who constantly blame the government and say they want smaller government, but will do anything to get a government job. Talk about deadbeats, they get great benefits and a great salary for working very little, and they take no responsibility for anything. The welfare and safety of this country means nothing to them, they are leeches of the first order.

TRAITOR?

This has been in the news the last few days. Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado said that he and others have been talking to the Generals and trying to get them to resign. We are at war! This guy should be arrested and tried for treason. The resignation of generals in time of war will lead to deaths of our serviceman and woman. This traitor should be put on trial, and in my opinion shot for treason. Let me take that back. He should be sent to gitmo where he and his buddies think it is okay to keep people, and he can associate with other people who want to bring down this country.

HOLIER THAN THOU

Now that former Governor Bob McDonnell has been convicted of his crimes, he will join former Governor Rod Blagojevich in prison. I was wondering since we have so many other Governors, Chris Christie; Scott Walker, Rick Perry to name a few warming up in the bull-pen to join them, is there going to be a special prison to handle these guys? We could call it the Holier Than Thou prison for people who set themselves up as above the law, they only see crimes and misdeeds in other people.

'WAR ON WHITES?"

Mo Brooks (R-AL) says there is a war on whites being waged by the Democrats.

Let me state for the record that I am white. Mr. Brooks is an idiot, but what he is saying fits into the GOP narrative of the last six years. The Republicans want you to believe that you are under siege. The uneducated and the not so uneducated flock to this kind of rhetoric. They need someone to blame for their perceived lack of success. Voter suppression laws that use the excuse of voter fraud are aimed at minorities. Basically what the GOP is saying that minorities are stealing elections, of course there is absolutely no proof of any wide spread voter fraud. The attack on poverty programs are the same thing. Minorities are laying around using your hard earned money for their drugs. If you pay attention almost everything the Republicans do is aimed at driving a wedge between whites and minorities, and for the record Republicans think the working middle class and below are minorities, and have no need for them. These Republicans in general are Un-American. They would support the worst dictator in the world as long as they get theirs.

WHEN FOOLS RUSH IN

I've been trying to ignore the news for awhile, but the crazies are running loose, and won't let me.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz wants to auction off American public land to drillers and miners. You know and he should know that that land would be destroyed for everyone in this generation and our grand children's.

On a related subject. Republican Congressman Sam Graves of Missouri introduced a bill that would halt any new EPA rules that are in the works, and review all previous regulations. This moron hasn't enough sense to look back 50yrs and look at the water and air quality and compare it to today. Things have improved dramatically because of the EPA.

Finally John McCain the publicity whore from Arizona went on another one of his rants against some guy from immigration, because he was upset that he wouldn't be allowed to take pictures with his cell phone when visiting the children who are being rounded up that are entering this country illegally. Of course McCain was yelling at the wrong person. The right person said they don't want the children s' pictures used and exploited, but McCain thinks of himself as some entitled person who is beyond the rules set down for us mere mortals.

GOP PUNDITS ARE DESPERATE

I was looking for the dumbest thing said lately from a GOP moron. I have to say it was a tough choice to choose, so I had to include 2. Fox News pundit Dr. Keith Ablow said the World Cup was a distraction that President Obama would love, like the President controls the timing of the World Cup. The President doesn't need any distractions because the right-wing loonies really have nothing but conspiracy theories about anything. There phony attacks fizzle out all the time, but they just go on to another made up so-called scandal.

Ann Coulter the Republican pundit who is so desperate for attention will do or say anything to see here name in print or spoken by some other TV personality. She really topped herself yesterday. She said soccer in America shows the country's “moral decay” She goes on to say the game is foreign and liberal moms love it. Why does anyone print her articles or pay any attention to this desperate, pathetic lonely woman?

PAUL RYAN LIAR

Congressman Paul Ryan (R.-WI.) was showing his “moral outrage” at the IRS commissioner over some lost emails. He told the Commissioner that no one believes him when he said they were lost. It may be true that something fishy is going on, but for Ryan a habitual liar to call someone else dishonest is hilarious. Ryan makes up stories to make a point especially in his speeches. In fact he is the only person I have ever heard of that actually lied about the time it took him to run a marathon. Since this was the only race he has ever ran he should have not been confused. The funny thing is he said the time was a lot faster than it actually was. He lied about the jeep plant that was supposed to be moving to China. He requested stimulus money from the Obama administration they denied requesting those funds. The list of lies goes on and on. I wish people who vote for this despicable human being would look honestly at this guy.

THE PARTY OF HATE

Fox News was the biggest cheerleader for Cliven Bundy the crazy racist rancher. When two of the people that were involved in that stand off killed 3 people, 2 of whom were police officers, fox news didn't really cover or mention it on their channel.

Scott Esk (R-OK) thinks it's totally acceptable to put gays to death. He said if elected “ I look forward to applying Biblical principles to Oklahoma” I guess he takes direction from the Muslims who want to do the same thing to their people.

John Johnston a republican from Indiana made the remark on a social media site regarding the poor. “no one has the guts to just let them wither and die.”

David Brat the guy who beat Eric Cantor in the Republican primary in Ohio said we have to embrace Christian Capitalism or Hitler will come back.

Columnist George Will a shill for the GOP says women are coming forward talking about rape because victim hood has become “a coveted status that confers privileges.”

What do all these things have in common? All of these people and institutions who most people consider crazy are now acceptable if not the norm in the GOP. They have become the party of hate and are proud of it.

RICHARD BURR (R-N.C.) SLIME-BALL

I have written several times in the past about politicians who put politics ahead of country. The new king of this disgusting practice is Richard Burr (R-N.C.). This slime-ball wrote an open letter to the veterans organizations in this country accusing them of protecting their relationship with the Veterans Administration. Why you may ask would he write this, because the veterans groups didn't call for the Veterans Secretary to resign like he did because of the problems within the department. Burr has the right to call for his resignation, but he doesn't have the right to ridicule the veterans groups for not calling for the resignation. The other thing this clown Burr did was vote against an increase in funding for the Veterans Administration last February. His Republican cohorts also voted against this increase, but now they have the audacity to criticize the department. Typical Republican, do nothing to help but blame everything on the people who are trying to help. The veterans groups didn't take this criticism lying down. The VFW said "Senator, this is clearly one of the most dishonorable and grossly inappropriate acts that we’ve witnessed in more than forty years of involvement with the veteran community and breaches the standards of the United States Senate," they wrote. "Your allegations are ugly and mean-spirited in every sense of the words and are profoundly wrong, both logically and morally. Quite frankly Senator, you should be ashamed."
I don't know if North Carolina can recall their senators, if they can he should be recalled. He is the most disgusting person. He also happens to be the lead Republican on the veterans committee in the Senate. Let me state this one more time. He is a slime-ball.

DUCT TAPE AND GARBAGE BAGS

I'm used to Republicans defending big business at all costs, but this might be the worst example of being in the pocket of big business, in this case big oil. Vance Mcallister (R-La.) also known as the kissing congressman for his escapades with one of his married staffers. In a hearing about deteriorating oil pipes in Louisiana a picture was shown of a pipe that was leaking and had been repaired with some duck tape and a garbage bag. He had the nerve to ridicule the man who showed that picture. He basically said the environmentalist are never happy. He said some one showed initiative with that fix. I don't know about you, but if I have a oil pipe leaking in my area I sure wanted it fixed properly instead of with duct tape and garbage bags.

MILITARY PROSELYTIZING

The United States Air Force is reviewing a rule that doesn't allow religious proselytizing by superiors involving men in their command. Some Republican's in congress and some evangelical organizations are upset. They think it should be okay. They see no problem with your commanding officer inviting you to a bible study. These people who believe this is okay are crazy. Can you imagine telling your commanding officer you're not interested. Your fitness for duty evaluations are going to be affected because you didn't want to participate. If you think that's not true all you have to do is listen to these zealots and you will see that is the only thing that matters to them. The welfare of the service comes in a distant second. The Air Force has been a target of the evangelicals for awhile. The Air Force Academy has had a problem with this. The last thing this country needs is a religious driven military service. More damage has been done in the world in the name of religion, and that is what would happen when you let the zealots be in charge.

The Republican's in congress should know better, but I think they should know better about a lot of things and they don't.

RAND PAUL LIES AGAIN

This is what's wrong with politics today. I am sure that this happens regularly, but the thing is the people doing it today have no problem with lying and don't care if they get caught because the people who want to believe will always believe. Facts and truth don't matter. I know that Democrats do this, but the preponderance of this stuff happens on the right, and it seems to be that it's the usual suspects doing it. They treat their base as fools and idiots. They have no worries about donations to their campaigns now that the billionaire clique has taken over.

This was sent out by Rand Paul Republican Senator from Kentucky. “ In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds [to ban guns].” President Barack Obama. This is a complete lie. This is what he actually said. “In the coming weeks, I'll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens -- from law enforcement, to mental health professionals, to parents and educators -- in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this, because what choice to we have? We can't accept events like this as routine.

How can any person want to be represented by this liar?

PLAYING THE VICTIM AGAIN

The right-wing crazy governors Sam Brownback of Kansas, and Chris Christie of New Jersey cut taxes and gave breaks to business claiming that would help their economies boom. Guess what? Kansas lost 45% of its tax income, and New Jersey is the least solvent state in the union. Of course it can't be these nitwits faults. They're trying to blame President Obama. Typical Republicans. They're the victims. It never is anything they do. The thing that bothers me most about this, is the fact that people of these states elect these people to run their states. I don't know if people are easily brainwashed or just stupid.

OKLAHOMA HAS TO GO

Over the last few years we have had a lot of ignorant speech from certain Governors and some state assemblies about seceding from the United States. Most of the people promoting this are crackpots. I want to change the scenario and ask that the state of Oklahoma to leave the union. I am not sure what is wrong with the politicians and the people who elect them, but they have to go. They have a Governor who thinks she is a dictator, they have state senators who want to ban marriage for all because he got all pissy about a federal judge over turning their ban on gay marriage, they wanted to impeach the state supreme court because they tried to stop an execution on legitimate grounds. We all know how that turned out. Finally they have one of if not the most ignorant United States Senators. I might have to apologize to ignorant people because he is well beyond ignorant, he is brain dead.

RIGHT WING LUNACY

This is something that I had printed in a local newspaper.

For the last 6 years writers to this paper decry the Obama administration. They very seldom have any facts to backup their assertions. They use innuendo, and rumors from unreliable sources. They call his administration Socialist or Communist. They question his citizenship, and his religion. They call him a dictator. They have every right to espouse their conspiracy theories. The thing is, this has been an ongoing tactic of the conservatives. President Kennedy's administration was denounced on the house floor by a Congressman from Texas as assuming “almost unlimited power” and using “dictatorial tactics” to those used in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. Kennedy was accused of being soft on communism, deferring to the Vatican because he was Catholic, being a bigamist, his war record was questioned. A popular radio show of the time said Kennedy by Executive Orders which bypass Congress has already created a body of laws to transform our Republic into a dictatorship. By-the-way the man who questioned the separation of church and state because Kennedy was Catholic became president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a founder of the “Religious Right”, but when Reagan became president he thought separation of church and state was a figment of someone's imagination. Even the opposition to the Affordable Care Act uses the same arguments they used in their opposition to the enactment of Medicare. They claimed as they do now death panels would be created, and liberty lost. Does all of this sound familiar? Their arguments are as phony now as they were 50 years ago.

FEARFUL RIGHT WING ZEALOTS

Cliven Bundy who has been in the news for the last few weeks, and the people who support him including a lot of the tea-party and republican shills on television got me to thinking what is wrong with these people. I came across a quote by Hubert Humphrey, former Vice-President of the United States who summed up these people pretty well. This quote is about 50 yrs. Old, but it fits perfectly into today's culture.

Whole communities “ can be affected with emotional instability, frustrations, and irrational behavior... that emotional instability that affects a significant, but small minority in our midst that some call extreme right, they still see the world in total black and white. They are still substituting dogma for creative thought. They are angry fearful, deeply and fundamentally disturbed by the world around them.”

I am sorry to say that these kinds of people will always be with us, but there is no reason that they be lionized like the right-wing pundits are doing. People might die, then the same people who lionized and pushed these people to greater anarchy will deny they ever had anything to do with it.

HANNITY ENABLES CRIMINAL

I was listening to a sports talk show this morning when they played the spontaneous singing of the national anthem that happened last year at the Boston Garden the day after the bombing at the marathon. It is emotional to this day and makes you proud. That got me thinking about one of the stories in the news. This so called cattleman from Nevada who says he doesn't recognize the United States government. He is being promoted by Sean Hannity as a hero of some sort. All he is is a freeloading lunatic. He doesn't want to pay grazing fees for his cattle that graze on federal land. Hannity who claims he loves this country and blames President Obama for everything that happens including his dandruff, takes the side of a man who is a criminal. If someone dies in this standoff I personally am going to blame Hannity, and I hope the officials in this country do to. Hannity and this cattleman are two peas in a pod. Blowhards of the highest order.

PAT ROBERTSON--SENILE?

What is it with this clown? He professes to be a man of God, in fact in his sick mind God talks to him regularly. He asked on his show today for God to “deliver” the US from President Obama before it's to late. This man should be arrested for promoting violence against the President. Some of the sheep that listen to this kook will take him literally. I wish I could say that he is an anomaly, but this sick outlook on life seems to run rampant with Southern Baptists.

RED STATE HYPOCRISY

A recent article about what states get back more Federal money than they put in showed that most of the states are deeply Republican, and in the south, these are the same people complaining about the government at every turn. You have heard all the stupid things they complain about; socialism, communism, nanny state and so on. A blogger that I have read put it in perspective. “ If the USA were to cast off all the red states then the welfare problem would cease to exist.” The Republicans who lead these states are not looking out for the people, they want to keep them poor and uneducated. There is another quote that kind of fits these states. “ A hellhole inhabited by folks who were to poor to leave or to ignorant to know that there were better places.” They don't want health insurance for their poor, they don't want unions for all the obvious reasons, because they offer a better live. They foster divisions in race. What it comes down to is that the only way this is going to change is for the people to wake up and vote these people out of office. Of course the Republicans' know this too. Why do you think they are restricting voting anyway they can?

REAL OR NOT?

I was reading a discussion on “Library thing” which is a site to keep a record of books that you own. The question that was being discussed was the moon landing in 1969 real or fake. The people on this site are very well educated. I was shocked that quite a few of them think it might have been faked. Conspiracy theories are so common, but the fact is there is no proof to support those theories. We can go back to the JFK, and RFK assassinations; the moon landing, 9/11 was really staged by our own government and so on. I'm willing to bet that 90% of these people are the same people who think that President Obama is a Kenyan and a Muslim. They believe in God which is good, but there is no proof that God actually exists. They take this on faith. There is more proof that all the so-called conspiracies actually happened, but these people don't accept them. Why, you make ask? I think whatever doesn't fit into their out look on life can't be true.

'ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL?"

Of course if you're State Senator Phil Jensen (R-SD) he doesn't think so. He thinks you should be able to discriminate against anyone you want if you are in business. He thinks businesses would go out of business when people find out you discriminate. That never seemed to be the case in the south during Jim Crow, but you know this self-appointed emissary from God knows best. It's so obvious that this guy is unworthy to be in any kind of position where he makes decisions that affect people. The sad thing is that people elect these guys knowing that they're racists of some sort. This kind of behavior is becoming normal with in the GOP, and no one pays the price. In away I think the GOP likes these things in the news because it keeps the public's mind off the fact they have no ideas to help the country, and in fact they don't want to improve the country. They just want to kiss the ass of the 1%.

THE MEGA RICH KNOW BEST?

Ken Langone, a GOP mega-donor who co-founded Home Depot made a stupid remark like his fellow billionaires who can't seem to help themselves when they compare themselves to Jews in Hitlers' Germany in the 1930's. They misconstrue the discussion about wealth inequality. They think it has to do with “envy or jealousy." All it has to do with is that the vast majority of people are being left behind do to no fault of their own.

Here is what they really think and what they want. This is from a memo written by Citigroup who by the way received 45 billion dollars from the government.

`If we are right, that the rich are going to keep getting richer over the coming years Despite being in great shape, we think that global capitalists are going to be getting an even greater share of the wealth pie over the next few years, as capitalists benefit disproportionately from globalization and the productivity boom, at the relative expense of labor. For the poorest in society, high gas and petrol prices are a problem. But while they are many in number, they are few in spending power, and their economic influence is just not important enough to offset the economic confidence, well-being and spending of the rich. We expect the global pool of labor in developing economies to keep wage inflation in check, and profit margins rising – good for the wealth of capitalists, relatively bad for developed market unskilled/outsource-able labor. This bodes well for companies selling to or servicing the rich."

Furthermore, the rising wealth gap between the rich and poor will probably at some point lead to a political backlash. Whilst the rich are getting a greater share of the wealth, and the poor a lesser share, political enfranchisement remains as was – one person, one vote. At some point it is likely that labor will fight back against the rising profit share of the rich and there will be a political backlash against the rising wealth of the rich. This could be felt through higher taxation (on the rich or indirectly though higher corporate taxes/regulation) or through trying to protect indigenous laborers, in a push-back on globalization – either anti-immigration, or protectionism. We don’t see this happening yet, though there are signs of rising political tensions.

The rich know exactly what they are doing and why. The sad thing is that many many people buy into this. They are so easily brainwashed against their better interests.

SAYING WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN?

Paul Ryan is backing away as fast as he can from his most recent stupid statement. He said “ We got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and culture on work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.” He's basically blaming the problems of the country on black and Hispanic men who haven't got a job, maybe if he helped the President when his jobs bill was put forward we would be lowering the unemployment rate.

Then we have the Catholic leader Austin Ruse who said that liberal academics should be “ taken out and shot “ Now he is claiming he really didn't mean that,he loves everyone and so on. Another phony who got called out and now is back peddling. This is so common among the Republican goofs. A state senator Pat Garofolo said that 70% of the NBA could fold and no one would notice except there would be a rise in street crime. This of course is another attack on minorities that trys to blame everything on them. He has since given what I would call an insincere apology citing his work in the inner city.

Speaking of goofs, I think maybe calling Pat Robertson a goof is to kind, I think maybe he is just plain crazy. He has a history of saying stupid things. His most recent one was when he said that God caused a brief power outage in Washington D.C. To mock Senate Democrats who held a late night discussion about climate change. It always amazes me that this guy thinks he has a direct line to God, and of course God agrees with everything that Robertson thinks.

REPUBLICANS ARE THE TRUE VICTIMS?

Stuart Varney and Brian Kilmeade two of the stooges at Fox News are playing the victim again. They are upset because some states are still finding ways to help the people of their states by giving food stamps to the needy. They're upset because they are going around the law in their respective small minds. I can't help but wonder why they are not upset when states make up phony rules to limit abortion, or deny people medicaid, and access to the Affordable Care Act. The simple answer to this is that they are only interested in Republican talking points, and don't care about most of the people in this country, only the 1% and the corporations.

'MEDIA CAN'T DEFINE WHO WE ARE'

Chris Christie the Republican Governor of New Jersey said in his speech at CPAC that “media can’t define who we are” He should be happy that the media is defining them because they are taking it easy on these wacko’s. Lets start with the recent problems in the Ukraine. A lot of the conservative wacko’s, including McCain, Rubio, Paul, have actually praised Putin and denigrated President Obama. In my opinion that is aiding and abetting a foreign power in a time of crisis. It comes awful close to treason in my mind. What about the wacko’s who claim that government is the problem, you know the people Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Christie, Mitt Romney, all of them would sell their soul's to be a bigger part of that government they profess to detest. Then we have the unhinged wacko's Louie Gohmert, Steve King, Steve Stockman, Michelle Bachmann, there are so many of them I can't name them all, but you get the idea if you follow politics. There is Paul Ryan a man who has a lot of trouble with the truth. Finally I can't leave out Lindsay Graham a man that is so pathetic. I'm not sure what category to put him in. He is a little of all of them I guess. I actually worry for his safety because I am sure he knows how pathetic he is. He might just end it all. If people actually took the time to look into these people they would be startled to find out that the media portrays them a lot better than they deserve. You may ask what do these people have in common? They are all Republican's and most are living off the government they claim to despise,and they all have a disdain for the average American.

SNAKES USUALLY HIDE UNDER A ROCK

Anyone who reads what I write should know I am very pro-union. I am open to arguments from people who are anti-union. I was reading a article on Yahoo about the VW plant in Tennessee. I thought it was propaganda from the union haters, so I went to the web page who actually wrote it. The thing was the page has a very union friendly sounding name. It was all propaganda against unions. They are entitled to their opinion. The thing was though that I couldn't find a name of anyone on the page. The articles were all written by the “editor” the contact page had no one to directly contact. If you go to the union I belong to United Steel Workers you can find everyone's name. So my question to this web page is who is behind your page? When you hide your names it would seem to me you are ashamed or just afraid to put your name out there.

THREE AMIGOS, MCCAIN, GRAHAM, ROGERS

John McCain (R-AR.) Lindsey Graham (R-SC.) Mike Rogers (R.MI.) all took to the airwaves to denounce President Obama's dealing with Putin's Ukrainian excursion. McCain said that “the naivete of Barack Obama and John Kerry is stunning.” Lindsay Graham said “Every time the president goes on national television and threatens Putin or anyone like Putin, everybody's eyes roll, including mine. We have a weak and indecisive president, that invites aggression. President Obama needs to do something.” and finally Mike Rogers said “ Putin is playing chess and I think we are playing marbles-and I don't think it's even close.” “They've been running circles around us.”

There used to be something that was done in a time of crisis. You stood with your president at least until you actually know what's going on. These 3 clowns are constantly on television complaining about the President. John McCain is like a little boy. He is has been crying and whining ever since he lost the Presidency to Obama. He takes shots all the time. Graham who really is an idiot and shouldn't be opening his mouth about anything, especially the possibility of war. Mike Rogers is another guy who claims he knows what's happening in the world. He said that Americans weren't safe at the recent Olympics. If I was Putin and was listening to these guys I would take assurance in the fact that American is not talking with one voice. In fact I would be ecstatic. By the way these war-mongers who haven't found a war they didn't love, and spout their support for the troops, recently voted against veterans benefits. That should tell you all you need to know about these clowns.

I GOT MINE. SCREW THE REST OF YOU!

Setting aside the bigoted and the down right stupid tea party people. Why do the so-called main stream Republicans detest everyone else in the country that doesn't serve their purposes? The GOP is against just about everything that makes this country great. Health care for all. Against it. Extended unemployment benefits. Against it. Food Stamps for needy people. Against it. Minimum wage. Against it. Everyone has a vote. Against it. Environmental regulations to protect society. Against it. Veterans benefits. Against it. Government that works. Against it. There are plenty of other things they're against. What do these things have in common? They benefit the majority of people in this country. The only thing the GOP are for is businesses having no regulations, and the 1% running the country to serve themselves. The thing that is so sad is that so many people in this country have bought into this demented outlook. I have so much trouble understanding how a lot of these incompetent people get re-elected. I think that most people don't even know what's going on in this country. They work hard, and don't have the time to pay attention until election time, and they listen to the ads on TV which in general have no basis in reality. The GOP has come to realize this, and can lie with no real consequences. There are news outlets who go along with lies, and in some cases put them out themselves. The news networks have become arms of businesses for the most part, and ignore most of this stuff. When is the last time you have heard a major network news organization focus on the lies? The same discredited people are commenting on most of this stuff. Newt Gingrich; Bill Kristol, George Will, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz etc. All documented liars.

UNIONS ARE THE ANSWER

All over the news for the last year has been stories about food stamp cuts; minimum wage increase, health insurance, and pay inequality. All of these things should be talked about, but why does union organizing and the benefits of unions get no time on the air? Unions would solve a lot of these other problems with better pay, and health insurance for its workers. The only time unions get mentioned is when they are brought up negatively. The same old kinnard from the GOP about union dues. We all know the reason why the GOP is trying to kill unions. Then they have no one on the other side with any money to oppose them. A perfect example of these GOP haters are Bob Corker a Republican Senator from Tennessee who in my opinion lied about what Volkswagen was going to do in the recent election to unionize the VW plant in his state. He said he has been "assured" that if workers at the Volkswagen AG plant in his hometown of Chattanooga reject United Auto Worker representation, the company will reward the plant with a new product to build.

The Governor of Tennessee another Republican also threatened to with hold tax incentives to a plant that was unionized. Mr. Corker should be made to tell who in the company told him the story he put out. If he can't or won't he should be expelled from the United States Senate. Then there is Nikki Haley the Republican Governor of South Carolina who said "make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted and not welcome in the state of South Carolina” These people's only concern is that they can keep the workers of their respective state working for as little as possible, they do this to serve their corporate masters. Workers don't mean anything to these people, and any person who would turn away jobs because the employees might make a decent living are beneath contempt.

GOD SPOKE TO ME?

The other day I posted about military misbehavior. Today a retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin said that The Lord is a warrior and in Revelation 19 it says when he comes back. Okay so far so good. But he goes on to say that he checked this out, which I have trouble understanding because the General is probably not in touch with the lord. He states that I believe that sword he'll be carrying when he comes back is an AR-15 and if you don't have one go get one, You're supposed to have one. It's biblical. This crackpot served in the military for many years. You can't tell me that no one knew that this guy was and still is crazy. There have been several generals who have gone off the deep end when it comes to religion. They should have been booted out of the service at the first sign of this nonsense. On a related matter Tom Delay the ex-congressman from Texas said that God wrote the Constitution. I guess again that he is in touch with the lord and must have been told that James Madison was really God. The problem with these nuts is that many people actually believe this stuff.

NATE BELL BIG MOUTH #2

This is the same Republican clown from Arkansas who wondered how many Boston liberals were hiding under their beds wishing they had an AR-15 during the Boston marathon bombing. I don't know if this yokel is trying to put himself at the head of the list of ignorant GOP lawmakers, but he's giving it a shot. During a debate about a proposed Medicaid expansion bill in his state. He said “we're trying to create a barrier to enrollment.” I guess the whole idea in his mind is let as many people as possible go without any medical insurance, which means to most no health care at all. Typical Republican jerk.

MILITARY MISBEHAVIOR

There was a headline today about soldiers leaving army due to misconduct on the rise. If you have been paying attention to the news for awhile there has been a string of general officers that have had to resign for differing reasons including drugs or sexual misconduct. Having served in the army it is not hard to understand that officers and the enlisted have problems. The thing that has happened it seems to me is that in especially the officers corp this kind of behavior slowly became tolerated, sort of like what happened in the Catholic Church. The pedophile epidemic didn't just happen over night. It was overlooked and tolerated by the hierarchy, and some of these pedophiles rose in the church they accepted this culture and even condoned it. The same thing has happened in the military. You don't have sexual deviants, and drug users just pop up. Their fellow brethren knew they were there but over looked their behavior. I am not sure how this is going to be cleaned up, but for this country's sake it better be. Just because these people have risen to a high level they should not be treated with kid gloves, but booted out of the service.

REPUBLICANS WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR, ABSOLUTLY NOTHING

In Tennessee Republican lawmakers are threatening to withhold tax incentives for a Volkswagen automotive plant. Why you may ask? The lawmakers are up in arms that the workers might decide to join the United Auto Workers union a move that V.W. Is in favor of. I guess the Republicans think people shouldn't be able to make their own decisions.

In South Dakota Republican lawmakers blocked a measure that would have allowed state voter's to vote on if they wanted the state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, which 63% if the people of that state want. The Republicans have decided that the people shouldn't have a say in their own lives. They know best because they say so.

In Wisconsin the Club for Growth is suing to stop a state investigation of the 2011&2012 recall elections. They say their right to free speech, free assembly, and equal protection under the law is being infringed on. The investigation is looking into a illegal coordination between the Club for Growth and the Republican candidates that were running for office. I guess if I had something to hide I'd be worried too.

In Kansas Republican Senator Pat Roberts won't release details about how much time

he actually spends in state seeing that the good Senator doesn't actually maintain a home there. I can see why he might be a little nervous about it.

These people are the people who claim that voter fraud is rampant, and unions are destroying this country. My take on this is that these people and people like them are destroying this country in the name of a political philosophy that is morally bankrupt.

RAND PAUL IS UNTRUSTWORTHY

Rand Paul “Doesn't deserve to be in the United States Senate” Peter King a fellow Republican stated that because Rand Paul lied about the National Security Agency. He went on to say “Paul is really spreading fear among the American people.”In fact Paul condones lying he just calls it by another name. He stated “misinformation works” I'm sorry, untruth is lying, of course a well documented plagiarist like Paul who has no problem stealing other peoples work and claiming it for himself has to justify his actions some how. One of Paul’s other problems is his propensity to hire racists to work for him. The latest is the so-called “Southern Avenger” who thought it was okay that President Lincoln was assassinated. Or his Senate campaign spokesman who made racist comments about lynching. Paul tried to use his misinformation tactic to justify their actions. In fact Paul’s father Ron has published newsletters with racist overtones. Ron Paul says he didn't actually know what was in his newsletters that had his name at the head of. I guess he taught his son the misinformation tactic. When caught in something just lie, because that is what it is. My point in all of this is why anyone would pay any attention to anything this scum-bag has to say.

WORKING HARD?

A week or two ago a billionaire Tom Perkins went on about the 1% were being victimized by the other 99% and tried to compare his kind to the Jews of Nazi Germany. Well here comes another goof Sam Zell he said he agrees with Mr. Perkins, but he takes it a step further. He says the 1% work harder than the rest of us. I would suggest Mr. Zell get his head out of his ass and actually find out how hard the working class works in this country,. The place I work especially in the summer work 12 hr. days in 100 degree heat 6 days a week. You come home from work without any energy, but you still have to fix the things that need fixing and spend quality time with your family, so don't tell me the rest of us don't work hard. I have no problem with the 1% having more money, but don't tell me you work harder and are more deserving.

IT'S REALLY AN EXAGGERATION ACCORDING TO HALEY BARBOUR

Haley Barbour is a bigot and an idiot. When he was going to run for President he said in defense of the racist Citizen Councils of the 50's and 60's. “ I don't remember it as being that bad” doesn't that remind you of the old bigot from Duck Dynasty who said “ I never with my eyes saw the mistreatment of any black person.” According to these two guys when you are the ones not being mistreated I guess everything is all right with the world that you live in. As for being an idiot he tries to demean the mayor of Hoboken N.J. By calling her that LADY Mayor several times like that has anything to do with her story about what happened with the Christie administration and Sandy funds for her city. He also stated that the media is exaggerating the story about the bridge problems in N. J. that the Christie administration is involved in again saying everything is exaggerated. I have a question for him. How does he know these things? Maybe the U.S. Attorney should pay him a visit to find out. Finally he is blaming MSNBC for exaggerating the problems that were caused in Georgia because of the snow storm. He said that the Governor took responsibility for his failure to do anything, unlike President Obama, and Hillary Clinton. It's like a dog whistle for the GOP. Blame everything on the media and compare it to some made up conspiracy.

PUNDITS PART 2

In my last post I talked about Bill Kristol the no nothing pundit. He was raving about the new health law the GOP was going to put out that would replace the Affordable Care Act. He said it would be so good and really help everyone. It lasted a couple of days. The GOP Senators who introduced it didn't really seem to know what was in it. All it basically did was raise taxes on most everyone. Kristol who was raving about it obviously did know what was in it. He and people like him just are trying to get rid of the ACA for no other reason that it might actually help people, and they won't get any credit for it. The sad thing is if the GOP would have went along with it, the program would be much farther along and the credit would be shared equally in the eyes of Americans. So we can wait for the relaunching of the next GOP proposal. Bill Kristol probably won't know what's in it, but that won't stop him from cheer-leading.

PUNDITS WHO KNOW NOTHING

I was watching a little of This Week on ABC when Bill Kristol was on. He started to talk about the GOP's plan for health care. I can't understand why he fancies himself as an expert on anything. Far as I can tell he is one of he most uninformed people on this earth or is a flat out liar. All anyone has to do is check his record on the facts or his predictions to find out he knows nothing. While I'm on the subject why is Newt Gingrich on the air to spout his lies and distortions? He's on CNN, which mystifies me because they actually called him out for distorting the truth during the Republican Presidential debates. I guess my question is why are the television networks and their cable affiliates constantly having these kind of people on with a track record of lies; distortions, and very bad predictions.

I'M THE VICTIM

Victimization is something that the right-wing of this country have used and still are using to describe themselves. Thomas Perkins a venture capitalist wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal. He writes “ I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its one percent, namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the rich.” Other than being one of the stupidest things I’ve heard lately, he also is playing the victim. (everyone is picking on me).

Right-wing pundits are also claiming victim hood for former Gov, Bob McDonnell of Virginia, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, and some clown named Dinesh D'Souza who writes for conservative papers, and I don't think has ever had an honest or sane opinion about anything. These three guys are all having legal problems. In the minds of the pundits, and in their own minds they are being victimized because they are conservatives. Of course it has nothing to do with the fact their lying,cheating scumbags.

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

I wish someone could answer this question for me. Why does the Republican party have so many unbalanced people in it. It goes on and on. Every day it seems there is another stupid statement coming out of someone's mouth. A couple of days ago it was Joshua Black who said “I'm past impeachment. It's time to arrest him and hang him high.” Mr. Black was referring to a duly elected President of the United States. A few day's later we get Susanne Atanus who said “God is angry we are provoking him with abortions and same sex marriage and civil union's” her reason for tornado's and and storms in the United States. Next Steve Pearce “The wife is to submit to the husband” I guess that is okay if you're a man in the United States. Then we have Mike Huckabee who said that women need “Uncle Sugar” to provide for them because they cannot control their libido or reproductive system without the help of the government. Then today we have Mike Turner of Oklahoma who wants to ban all marriages in the state because he is having a hissy fit that a court struck down Oklahoma's ban on gay marriage. The only thing these people have in common is that their all Republican's and of course their nuts.

WHERE ARE YOU STEVE

Steve Stockman (R-TX.) is missing in action. Stockman who is challenging John Cornyn to be the Senator from Texas hasn't been seen for awhile. He has missed 17 straight votes in the House. Stockman who in my opinion needs very intensive psychiatric help is also the darling of the Tea Party. My personal opinion he has been abducted by aliens. The reason is that even the aliens can't believe this guy is real. My alternative explanation is that he is hiking the Appalachian trail like a former governor of South Carolina. The only problem is that I don't think Stockman could actually find a woman to hike with.

MIKA AND JOE

This morning on Morning Joe on MSNBC the network who the Christie administration claims is a bastion of liberal ideas who is out to get them. Joe Scarborough and his side kick Mika Brzezinski attacked the mayor of Hoboken about the way she came forward and claimed that the Christie administration tried to tie Sandy relief funds to her endorsing a certain development that they wanted. Scarborough the host had the balls to say he found the way the mayor brought these accusations more disgusting that the way the administration might have tried to coerce the mayor into endorsing the project they wanted. This is disgusting. Trying to and it seems keeping money from the city to prepare for the next disaster and help fix the recent disaster is the far greater sin The thing that bothered me the most was Mika a self confessed friend of Governor Christie and his wife questioning the mayor's reasons for doing this now. She said she would have confronted those persons who tried to intimidate her at the time. From what I have seen of Mika she can't even stand up to Joe. He pushes her around at his leisure and seems to really enjoy it. For her to say that the mayor saying nice things about Christie and then saying what his administration did at a later date is problematic is asinine. People react to adversity in different ways. The mayor wanted and needed the money for her city, at the same time she knew what was asked of her was wrong. She had a moral dilemma. She dealt with it in her own way. When the bridge scandal emerged she probably thought she might have a better chance of being believed than when she was first asked to do their bidding.

BROKAW AND NAVARRETTE

Tom Brokaw and Ruben Navarrette have had enough of “bridgegate” Isn't that sweet. Navarrette a political columnist whose bias will become apparent marches in lock step with Rudy Guilani, It was just a prank,and an inconvenience. Try telling that to the people who couldn't get to work or get medical attention. Or how about being stuck on a bridge that is a target for terrorism. He goes on to say that the media can't accept a liar, at least not a Republican liar. Shows his bias for all to see. His statement also seems to suggest that Christie is lying and he is alright with it. Mr. Navarrette also tried to defend Governor Christie's penchant for bullying, by naming several former presidents and foreign leaders who he claims were bullies. Even if this was true, Mr. Christie seems to have taken this to a more despicable level.

Mr. Brokaw seems to think this is getting to much coverage and wouldn't receive this coverage if this were Nevada or any other place. If the Governor of Nevada was a potential candidate for President I think it would, and it should. I am beginning to wonder about Mr. Brokaw. He also said that the governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker should not be criticized for the attacks on unions. He said that he campaigned on that. He never did. He sprung that on the people of the state shortly after taking office.

IMPEACHMENT INTIMIDATION

I never cease to be amazed at the stupid and moronic things said by politicians. Case in point state senator Lee Bright (R-SC) He is one of the Tea Party goofs in South Carolina running to unseat Lindsay Graham himself not exactly a rational human being. Mr. Bright thinks they should start impeaching federal judges. You would think the judge maybe committed a crime, or at least something worthy of impeachment. No! Mr. Bright's logic is that if they don't agree with what ever stupid ideas he has that is good enough for impeachment. His logic is if you can intimidate a judge with impeachment the other judges wouldn't dare disagree with you. I guess this guy doesn't realize that the judicial wing of our government is an equal part of government. The Tea Party people backing him don't understand government, and should be ashamed of putting this guy up with a chance to be a United States Senator. We have altogether to many of these incompetent fools in Congress already.

A PRANK

In the past several months since this fiasco in New Jersey concerning the George Washington Bridge and the Christie administration has been going on I haven't commented on it, because I don't know all the facts just like everyone else. I couldn't resist commenting on former Major Rudy Guiliani's comment though that this was “a stupid political prank that backfired” Is it a prank that the kids couldn't get to school on time, and that emergency vehicles couldn't get to the people that needed help in a fast time. Is it a prank to make people late for their jobs, or to tie up a town into gridlock? If Mayor Guiliani thinks these things constitute pranks, maybe someone ought to look into his administration and see what he did that he said were just pranks. As far as Governor Christie goes, my opinion is well known. Check out my post from 9/30/11 THE BULLY.

FREE LUNCH

I find this hilarious. This shows the hypocrisy of Jack Kingston (R-GA) In a previous post I mentioned how this clown wanted to make the poor kids at school sweep the floors to get a free lunch. Now according to Georgia's WSAV channel 3, Mr. Kingston and his staff have expensed nearly $4200 in meals to his congressional office. These lunches are paid for by the American taxpayer. I think Mr. Kingston and people like him are getting a free ride in this country. They sure don't want to make this country better. They fight tooth and nail to get into congress, but they do nothing when they get there. They get lavish expense accounts, they know if and when they leave congress they might get a good job as a lobbyist for some outfit that they have been doing special favors for. They work something like 1 in 3 days. It's a disgrace to Congress and a disgrace to the people who go to Congress to try and do right by this country.

GEORGE WILL PREDICTS THE FUTURE

George Will the well known columnist, and political commentator,who also is a right wing stooge for the loonies in this country recently said that New Yorkers will be begging for someone new with in 3 years to be their mayor. He reason is that the new mayor is a liberal Democrat. This may or may not be true, but to listen to Mr. Will he knows because he has such a great track record on these kind of things. Mr. Will is well known for how should I say this to be nice. He twists facts and plays with statistics to validate any view that he has or is being paid to have. He even gets stupid. He claimed once that President Obama used a personal pronoun in his speeches more that anyone before. Of course he came to be known that he used it less than the previous President. He also predicted with great certainty that our President would be Romney, by a huge electoral vote of 321 to 217, the actual vote was 332 to 206 for President Obama. He also claimed that Romney would win Minnesota because there was a marriage amendment on the ballot and it would bring out the evangelicals. I think we can say he was on the wrong side of history. Mr. Will is entitled to his opinions, but why does the mainstream media pay any attention?

CHARACTER OR LACK THERE OF

I am always amazed at the people running for office. Erick Bennett is running in the Republican primary challenging Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. Mr. Bennett was convicted of domestic violence. He does get credit for the spin he's putting on the conviction. He says since he never admitted the assault it shows how much character he has, and he will bring that character to Washington if elected. All it shows is the same thing that all these wing-nuts have in common. I am always right and everyone else is wrong.

THE DELUSIONAL RIGHT

If you want to see the meaning of delusional all you have to do is go to a web site called American Thinker. The name must be some kind of inside joke, because there is no thinking involved. Read the comments to any of the articles and you will see what I mean. They think they are the true saviors of this country and anyone who disagrees with them are working for the down fall of this country. They claim Democrats are evil, and anyone who tries to make things better for anything or anyone are doing a disservice to those causes. These are the same kind of people who would have fought against ending slavery, saying that they didn't see anything wrong with it. Sort of like the old bigot from Duck Dynasty who stated he never saw a black mistreated. These people think President Obama has had people killed. Even one clown insinuated that he had his grandmother killed. Does this remind you of the same stories that were circulated about the last Democratic President, Bill Clinton. That is why Benghazi means so much to them. They think they can tarnish Hillary Clinton by saying she didn't do anything to stop the deaths of those 4 state employees. My favorite article was one that was just posted today. The writer goes on this long rant about the President Obama's birth certificate. He claims he has proved that the long form that was released was a forgery. The fact of the matter is these people can't accept any reality that doesn't fit into their warped senses.