DREAM TEAM

In the last election I had my dream team for the Republicans. Michelle Bachmann and Governor Perry from Texas. This was tongue and cheek just because Bachmann is completely crazy, and Perry is stupid as a rock. to my chagrin Romney and Ryan got the nod. I know it's early but I think my new dream team is going to be Rand Paul, and Steve King of Iowa. This was a hard choice because there are so many people in the Republican party who are scrambling to the lowest common denominator. I know this is a blanket statement, but from what I can tell most Republicans are not interested in the welfare of the country or the people in it, unless you're are wealthy and in big business or banking.

FAMILY VALUES?

It’s amazing how stores like Wal-Mart, K-Mart and the like put money ahead of everything.  Forcing people to work Thanksgiving to satisfy their greed is despicable.  They have no problem using their employee’s regardless of what it does to family time.  They don’t pay their employee’s a living wage, but that‘s not good enough maybe they can destroy Thanksgiving for these people as well.

MY DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK

You would expect that kind of excuse from a 2^nd grader, but not from a sitting United States Senator.  Rand Paul (R-KY) is the person in question.  He has been caught plagiarizing a part of a lot of his speeches and op-ed articles.  First he wouldn't  acknowledge it, and then he blamed the people pointing out his plagiarism.  He called those people “hacks and haters” What you see from Rand Paul is a petulant little person who won’t admit when he’s wrong, and not as smart as he thinks he is. He thinks other people are stupid, and he has to lead them down the right path in life. Basically he’s unethical, and immoral.

THE GOP'S VERSION OF FAIRNESS

I’ve been sitting back the last few weeks watching the GOP led shutdown of the government and the threatened default of the government on its debt.  What amazed me is the clowns in the House of Representatives who brought this on, and then tried to blame President Obama for the shutdown.  Michelle Bachman said it was one of the happy days of her life when she voted to shut down the government.  Of course her decisions are based on her delusion that God talks to her, and tells her what to do.  One of the talking points of the GOP was fairness.  They claimed they wanted everyone treated the same. When has the GOP ever cared about anyone besides themselves?  My congressman Sean Duffy, who said that he finds it hard to get by on his salary of $180,000 a year voted to let the government default.  I guess he really doesn’t care about fairness when Social Security and Veterans benefits were cut off; all the while he’s getting paid.  The other thing driving me nuts is the attention being paid to Sen. Ted Cruz. When you have an obstructionist, and egotist, ignore him.  He only wants attention.  He doesn’t care a bit about this country of its people.  Finally how do people who watched this debacle still think those GOP losers are heroes?  It’s like they only read the crazy peoples letters to the editor and watch Fox News, they must all be drinking the same contaminated Kool-aid.

THINGS REALLY DON'T CHANGE

What President said “They talk loudly of deficits, and Socialism, but they do not have a single job-creating program of their own, and they oppose the efforts we are making”?  You would probably say President Obama, but it was President Kennedy 50 years ago.  It goes to show that the Republicans never change their tune.  They know one line and they stick to it, because they are without ideas of their own.  In my opinion they want to see America in depression, and all that entails.  The scariest thing is that they can convince people all the gibberish they spew is right.   If people took the time to look at history they would find these people on the wrong side most of the time.

ETHICALLY CHALLENGED AND MORALLY BANKRUPT

The tea party/Republican party’s hypocrisy was never more evident when it was found out that Sen. Ted Cruz the darling of the tea party was born in Canada to an American mother and Canadian father. There is a tea party woman who has been raving for years that President Obama is not an American, and constitutionally can’t be President.  Why you may ask?  She claims that President Obama’s mother who is American married a man who wasn’t, and she claims he was born in that foreign country.  Of course this has been proven false. When questioned about the similarity of Cruz’s situation and the President she said she doesn’t think of Canada as foreign soil, so it’s okay that Cruz runs for President.  It just shows the alternative universe these kinds of people live in.  The only thing real to them is their prejudices and hate.  Facts don’t matter. They lie at every turn, and then say it was taken out of context if questioned.  They just move on to the next made up conspiracy.  Time to ignore these loons.

EYE OFF THE BALL

The media in this country are not doing their jobs.  They are fixated on sex.  Whether it’s gay marriage, which is basically a battle won, or their obsession with Anthony Weiner of New York.  Weiner’s fate will be decided by the voter’s like it should be.  The mayor of San Diego, Filner who is accused of groping women should be impeached or forced to resign or left in office.  It’s up to the people of San Diego.  Where the press is dropping the ball is in the cases of Governor Bob McDonald of Virginia who wants to tell you how to live your life, and claims to be a good Christian.  He has been caught taking money and gifts from a con-man, which at first he denied taking, but now he says he will pay it back.  This guy should be indicted and put in jail for taking bribes.  How about the Governor of North Carolina a man who lied to the people when he said he wouldn’t sign any new antiabortion laws before the election and then does sign one.  Why aren’t the news people pointing out the hypocrisy, and illegal things they are doing?  This goes back to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin and his acolytes who stripped public unions of some of their rights.  Tom Brokaw of all people said the people of Wisconsin shouldn’t be surprised because Walker campaigned saying he would do that.  Walker never campaigned on that.  Brokaw and people like him didn’t do their homework.  The news networks and newspapers are in the pockets of big business.  Of course there are exceptions.  There are people who are trying to investigate, but they are being drowned out by the company line.