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July 2011 Archives
Just Get It Over With
There was no other excuse for this blown call other than the fact that this umpire probably wanted to go home. Its a terrible excuse and a shitty ending to a great game that I did stay awake to watch. If you didn't see it, he was out by a mile and thus the need for instant replay in MLB, for umpires who are as bad as this call was:
Category: Sports
Stand Up for Your Base!
I'm just about done. I will never vote republican, but if Barack Obama doesn't grow a set and stand up for medicare/social security/medicaid over the next several weeks and accepts nothing less than tax increases to the wealthiest Americans and cooperations then he's not getting my support in 2012.
70-80% of this country is behind him if he just gets tough on this. We have your back if you just grow a set Mr. President. Since day one its been compromise after compromise. The repukes have dictated things since the day you took office, from the stimulus package which was watered down because half of it went for .....wait....tax cuts to appease the repukes, you caved on the public option in the healthcare bill despite 65% of Americans having your back, and then you extended the Bush tax cuts....and here we are 7 months after the extension of the Bush tax cuts and not only did they not create one single job during the Bush administration, but since December they haven't created one bloody job since you extended them.
I dare one conservative/repuke to get on this post and tell me one job that has been created by extending the Bush tax cuts. If those cuts were meant to be permanent why did they set to have them expire in 2010? Why have an expiration date to begin with? Why hasn't anyone tracked down Bush and asked him that.
Enough is enough. Seniors, the working poor,and individuals with disabilities did not cause the national debt. And they sure as hell shouldn't have programs that they and every American pay into cut like they are freebie programs that no one counts on.
You ask the average repuke and they will tell you that you shouldn't need social security, that you should work until you are dead. Maybe if you are a rich politician.
Through all of this, I just question how taking away subsidies from big oil is a bad thing? Yet Repukes will have you think big oil is going to collapse if you take them away. The subsidies they get are a fraction of the massive, gouging profits they take in.
How is it that taxing millionaires and billionaires a little more is going to kill this economy, they are sitting on trillions in profits anyway, they aren't hiring, trickle down is more like flooding up, to the very rich.
So, Obama needs to stand his ground or he will be a one term president. I don't know who I will vote for in 2012 if this president doesn't hurry up and grow a pair of nuts. It doesn't even require that, not when the voting public is by in large behind you.
Category: Politics
