Kentucky Governor To Mitch McConnell: Get Your Facts Straight On Obamacare
Wait just a cotton pickin minute!! You mean to tell me that Mitch by god McConnell might be … a lyin sack o’ shit?! No! Say it isn’t so!!
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Government Shutdown Was Planned For Months
Government Shutdown Was Planned For Months By Ed Meese, Koch Bros.
From the article, “So, when you are told by Republicans that the shutdown is he fault of President Obama and Democrats, you can now say with certainty that this is untrue.”
Note the article’s source: FOX news
My comment:
The Union and Confederate soldiers would often get together in the evenings, and then resume hostilities the next morning. Axis and Allied soldiers would cross the fields between the trenches to share a bottle overnight and then resume hostilities the next day.
One can be friends with a conservative, but one never forgets that they are also, always the enemy. It is their stated intention to destroy the USA and all that she has come to stand for. All that it was said she stood for from the moment she was founded, though it has taken a long time to even begin to approach those ideals. And, even though there is a long way to go to achieve those ideals. This latest manufactured “crisis” and the looming one in 9 days are just the latest examples of their attempts to do so.
This is what they have said they want, and this is what they have worked hard to accomplish.
Crime and Punishment, Military-Style: Robert Bales and Nidal Malik Hasan : The New Yorker
No disparity here:
– One dark-skinned Muslim with an Arab name kills two American soldiers. He is put to death.
– A second dark-skinned Muslim with an Arab name kills thirteen American soldiers. He, too, is put to death.
– A white Christian-American soldier kills sixteen Muslim civilians—three men, four women, nine children. His life is spared.
Crime and Punishment, Military-Style: Robert Bales and Nidal Malik Hasan : The New Yorker.
More Failed Political Theatre
July 24, 2013 – The “Amash Amendment” was voted down. What was this amendment, you might wonder? It got very little coverage really, so you wouldn’t be so out of line to ask. The Amash amendment, surprisingly, was offered by a Republican representative despite the opposition of the Speaker of the House, Boehner. It would have limited the NSA’s ability to collect the so-called meta data on phone and internet data usage, and otherwise reduced the funding and scope of the NSA. It drew, as politics sometimes is wont to do, a strange series of bedfellows. Right wing “libertarians” and “left wing liberals” joined together to support this bill and still it failed by a vote of 205 to 217. Here is the roll call so you can see how your own representatives voted.
On the one hand, it really didn’t matter how this vote turned out. We should all understand that. Should this have passed, and then succeeded in the Senate, which was far from likely to begin with, the POTUS had promised to veto it. Of course, he has promised to veto numerous things in the past and then signed them any way. However, this one, I find his threat much more credible as it is more in line with his right wing totalitarian regime approach to things. “Trust me. We’ve got your best interest at heart. We’ll give you some pretense of good faith, such as lip service about believing in same-sex marriage, but in reality, we’re going to call out the militarized police to control you and beat you into submission, while half way around the world, we kill children in your name.” {Some Afghan kids aren’t bystanders, indeed!! You right wing, murderous bastard!}
– Deep breaths – Deep breaths – Deep breaths –
It is also very likely that he would not have vetoed it because he has come out so strongly in support of the program. For example, on June 18, 2013:
Charlie Rose: So I hear you saying, I have no problem with what NSA has been doing.
Barack Obama: Well, let me — let me finish, because I don’t.
Except, we are not allowed to look at the details, so you are asking us to take your word, and since you have shown yourself to be a liar, we can’t trust that, Mr. President.
So, if you think that there was really any chance that this amendment would have succeeded, then I would like to discuss a lake I have for sale. You might be interested. It has a beautiful view, and several ships are included. Details here.
Okay, so it didn’t really matter because president Napoleon the Pig, er, I mean Obama would have vetoed it. However, it also didn’t matter, because if the POTUS is to be believed, and he has been backed on this by many in the congress, then:
Understand what that means is that each of those 205 members of congress that voted for the Amash amendment is one of two things. Either they are so spineless that they couldn’t act without sufficient support around them. They couldn’t stand on their own two feet to say, “This is wrong, and I must stand against it.” Or, they are still conducting political theatre. They saw that there were enough people in their constituencies that were at least a little upset that they would benefit from making it appear that they were trying to do something to end these programs, without actually trying to do something. Then, they can return to what is much more important to the Republicans in the House of Representatives – a 40th attempt to repeal the ACA, other wise known as Obamacare.
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Same as The Old Boss
You thought you were getting something different?
“Hollywood” hasn’t been giving you anything different for years, and you bought it. While the critics have analyzed it all and told you how great and new it all is. Yet, it has all been done before, to the point where many of the movies have literally been recycled (Here’s a bonus 20 more). Fashion hasn’t been giving you anything new for decades, and you bought it, while the fashionistas raved about how the beautiful people were decked out in daring new styles never seen before. Music on the radio (terrestrial and satellite) have become more and more homogeneous with every passing year as they have become more and more consolidated, while you bought it.
And, your political parties have become more and more impossible to distinguish from one another, while the pundits have screamed louder and louder about how different they are, while you bought it. When the reality is that if you removed the party labels, and the names; if you simply listed their “accomplishments”, you would be hard pressed to distinguish any of the last 5 presidents from each other. In fact, with two exceptions, you would be very hard pressed to distinguish any of the last 9 from each other simply by their accomplishments or policies. Those two exceptions are Carter and Nixon. One being simply too nice to have accomplished anything in such a tarnished and cut throat office, and the other being so criminal that he made the others look almost decent.
For an excellent, though brief, analysis of those policies and achievements pop over here. I’ll wait.
I disagree with the conclusions that the author has reached, because I see that history has taught us one very important truth. The power is always with the people. The people always have the ability to change the government at their will. The only questions are whether it will be done peacefully and what form will come after. Other than that, it is matters of details – how, when, and at what cost.
It is not too late for “we the people” to change the course of America. It is not too late to reclaim it from the “corporations are people” group. It doesn’t have to even be done in a violent manner. We can do it through grassroots efforts and through the ballot box, but to do so, we have to actually wake up and pay attention. We have to get our noses out of the boob tube, and care more about this:
than we do about this:
I talk to people and they tell me we need to change the way we vote. Some one suggested the other day that we should change to the Instant Runoff Voting system. There are several problems with this, but the largest is that it doesn’t actually address the problem. People are still funding and voting for Democrats and Republicans because they believe they have no real alternatives. This plurality voting system isn’t really going to change that. People are still going to place the R or D at the top because they’re still going to believe that those are the only two viable alternatives. It is that belief that has to be broken through. Until that is done, people will continue to hold their noses and vote for one or the other, and then continue to bitch and moan about it for the next two or four years, whining the whole time about how “we have no control” and “they only give us these choices.”
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