Buffalo Boy's Blog

As the last few weeks have gone on if you watch and listen to democrats and republicans go at it over the whole NYC Mosque thing and the whole thing by the republicans to "change" the 14th amendment I have to ask just who is preaching for freedom and respecting our constitution.

Republicans will hide behind the damn thing and make sure every one knows how patriotic they are when painted into a corner yet they want to tear the thing apart and take away rights and freedoms.

Democrats want some civil discourse on the issues and republcans want to ban things and tell religious groups where they can and can't build recreation centers.Its laughable.

Yet republicans will readily call President Obama Hitler and a Nazi. Who are the Nazi's here?

Add to that the big argument that never seems to go away about gay marriage. Republicans and conservatives have no good reason for banning gay marriage other than they don't understand the gay community and thus they feel threatened by it. Either than or republicans and conservatives are just as racist as they sound.

Republicans and conservatives are the first ones to say how they don't want big government yet what are they doing in all the above examples? They want government to control certain peoples lives. They want the government to limit freedoms and rights given to us by our very constitution that they like to hide behind and say how perfect it is. Its enough to make your head spin.  

These are simple isses folks.

1. Gay marriage: There is no threat to traditional marriage, sure its different than a traditional marriage but there is nothing out there to show that kids brought up in a gay marriage have any less chance of turning out any different than if they grow up in a straight marriage. That is one of the arguments you hear from many republicans and its never backed up by data or anything they just state their same old talking points, most of them fear based.

2. Birthright citizenship: One right that makes this country unique, whats the problem with this? And seriously how often does this happen where its a concern? Do we really need to feel threatened by giving a kid who is born in this country citizenship? The parents still don't have it. The fact is its not even the main immigration issue. Its how to handle those already here illegally who are not our enemies yet republicans talk about them like they are living out of their backyards or something. They aren't.

A start to the problem that would begin to satisfy republicans would be to get every illegal alien in this country on the payroll which would mean yes...spending money on law enforcement who would go to employers and not punish those workers working here illegally but get them on payroll and then get them on the pathway to legal citizenship. The main problem is they are here and not contributing to the tax base.

Lastly, once you get them on payrolls and contributing to the tax base one way or another there has to be a liveable wage not a minimum wage established in this country, lets face it no one can live on minimum wage, its hardly enough to feed yourself nevermind put a roof over your head and provide transportation to and from the job that feeds you and your family.

3. "The Mosque that isn't really a Mosque" is a non issue. If republicans want what is really a recreation center with a basketball court and prayer space relocated then they have to agree that every church regardless of denomination be moved X amount of blocks away, that includes Christian and Catholic churches and Jewish Synagogues.  And again, this would be the government interfering in our lives. Not to mention that there is a Mosque already that has been there for 30 plus years not far from the proposed Muslim recreation center.

The whole argument is that this center somehow poses a threat, it doesn't and getting your panties in a knot over it is making this whole country look like a scared little kid wetting its pants over absolutely nothing. Its been 9 years since 9/11, its time we let our guard down just a touch and realize that not all Muslims are radical and want to kill us,

Did anyone realize that our military is in Iraq and Afghanistan right now spending billions upon billions of dollars protecting and establishing governments for.....gasp.....MUSLIMS!!!!! We are America folks we are supposed to be a land of diversity, that includes Muslims. Muslims died in 9/11 too, not just the ones hijacking the planes, innocent ones died that day who were near the WTC.

So, its about time the republicans and conservatives zipped up and stopped the fear mongering crap that makes them look like whiny bastards. Its completely see through and there are much more important things like the economy that need to be addressed. But that is what the republicans are good at, they are good at directing attention away from real problems because they have no real solutions other than to tax cut everything and privatize everything.

They preach small government yet when government suits their agenda they want it to control the citizens of this country who don't see eye to eye with them like gays and muslims and illegal aliens. They have no backbone, no tolerance for those who aren't christian and white. Thats called being a racist. At the very least republicans and conservatives are prejudice, prejudice toward anything or anyone that doesn't agree with their morals, their beliefs and convictions. It seems to me that their approach is a lot more like Hitler than they are claiming the ever so patient to a fault, willing to work with both sides of the aisle President Obama.