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Who Is For Freedom?
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.
Raising Social Security Age?
Im sorry this video was in the last post, but fast forward to about the 4:00 mark or so and listen to John Boehner (Im sorry I meant Boner, talk about all of use middle class folk having an "adult conversation" and that maybe retirement age should be raise to 70.So, Boner thinks we are a bunch of kids who need to grow up....maybe if you have the leisure time at your job to play 119 rounds of golf per year you can make it to 70 at your job with all your mental capacities intact, but most of us aren't even going to make it to 70 especially if the GOP gets their way and repeals a healthcare bill meant to lower the costs of healthcare. They want to take away healthcare from millions of Americans and they expect us to work until 70 years old?
Boehner, get in touch with reality. I hope his district and all those districts up for votes in the midterm vote these repuke clowns out of office. How about George W. Bush back in 2001 making sure that his tax cuts he implemented to the very rich in this country were paid for. They were paid for, by the huge surplus Clinton and Gore had for us. The surplus that was squandered that was meant to solidify social security and medicare was squandered on tax cuts and a war that was never budgeted for. So don't let Boner or the repukes fool you. They are full of crap.
Category: Politics
The Repuke Spin on the Tax Cuts
John Boehner talking on Meet The Press about whether the Bush tax cuts are paid for (They never were). He wouldn't answer the question. Its more repuke spin.
Boehner is full of shit. He goes out and plays his 119 rounds of golf during the year in the ritzy golf resorts and rubs elbows with the obscenely rich and sits there and talks about tax cuts that are not paid for and says how much damage they will do if they expire.
I hope most people, repuke and democrat watch this and learn from this. If you don't get it I will explain this in the following paragraphs
The Bush Tax Cuts have been around since 2001. They were tax cuts for the wealthy....those of us making $250,000 or more individually, this is not even household income. This pertains to individual finances. 9 Years of tax cuts that were never paid for in the George W. Bush budget, the law that implemented these tax cuts is expiring.
Boehner will have you believe that letting these tax cuts expire will be a doomsday scenario. However, if they haven't been paid for it has been basically ADDING to the budget deficit that all you repukes and conservatives yell and scream and get your panties all tied in knots about. So how can you maintain and keep those same tax cuts if they were never paid for?
Also, Boehner will have you believe that these same tax cuts that are currently still in place until this January will create jobs somehow. Somehow, those tax cuts, that are currently still active will create jobs if we renew them in January.....(m taking a deep breath)...... Someone who is smarter than myself needs to come out and answer this question....IF THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO CREATE JOBS WHY DID WE HAVE A BIG RECESSION AT T HE END OF BUSH'S TERM IN OFFICE? WHY AREN'T THEY CREATING JOBS RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK?????
My answer: THEY AREN'T DOING DIPPY DO TO CREATE JOBS, THEY AREN'T. IF THEY WERE WE WOULDN'T BE IN A RECESSION WOULD WE!!!!!!
(Breathing)......Mr. Boehner is so full of crap, folks he is the leader of a republican party who answers the question about those same tax cuts like that? Thats because all the repukes care about is the obscenely wealthy coorporations who line their wallets. Thats it. Thats my only explanation. And of course are ever so wise supreme court made it possible for those coorporations to pour the money into any politician's pocket who is willing to protect their investments which means the middle class and poor in this country are screwed.
What incentive do business have to take those tax cuts and provide jobs with them? They don't thats the problem. There is no incentive for them to create jobs. Here's an idea, any business/coorporation that creates jobs in a give year (More jobs going in, than coming out) get to keep the tax cuts. If you cut more jobs than you create you pay the 39% rate until you prove you are creating jobs in this country.
Damn Im smarter than any of them. Why can't the Boehner swallow that one. Provide some incentive for your obscenely wealthy to create jobs. Until then don't buy into the Boner's (oops, I meant Boehner's) and the repukes spin machine. Thats all it is and the more they get them questioned by press members who are smart enough to ask and push the right questions, the more we will get to see how full of crap they are, repuke and democrats alikeCategory: Politics
A Non Issue
Why is gay marriage so threatening to so many? The arguements they throw at it are totallly baseless either citing how it ruins the sanctity of marriage or it will poison kids minds or some other mindless crap. Watch the crotchety old fart Pat Buchanan get his ass kicked on MSNBC. This guy needs to go crawl under a rock and never come out. He gets destroyed by both the guest debating him and the host who also gets it: Then watch this chippy who is from the Concerned Women of America. They are concerned about gays marrying, her biggest argument is ....the children. Like they are teaching kids to have gay sex in school. Give me a break. This woman is putting up a pretty thin defense and you can see right through it. Shes a homophobic bitch plain and simple. Chris Matthews wipes the floor with her blonde head. She can't even answer simple questions on her stance on gay marriage. She can't even answer the simple question...What is your opposition to gay marriage and how does it threaten straight marriages? She can't even answer the question...Anyone who watches this can see right through this woman, there is no arguement. Long story short, its time to drop the BS arguments on the conservative side of things and get with the times. Gay marriage is a non issue, there is nothing wrong with it. Nothing what so ever and listening to people like Pat Buchanan and Wendy Wright argue this makes me sick. The times are catching up to this issue, the majority of this country doesn't think like these sick bastards. This is a religious issue, therefore its not a political issue, its not a voter issue, its an issue for priests, justices of the peace and other religious and civil leaders to sort out not the government or the judicial system.Mitch Mcconnell: No Ideas
The Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is not only a pasty, shade of white, he also has no ideas currently for his party. He is essentially the highest ranking republican in politics and when asked what his agenda was in the above NPR article was essentially that he doesn't have any.
He said he would let us know in September.
Thats just great. What is the big secret? About 90 days from now is the mid-term election and Mitch Mcconnell thinks its okay to leave the American people in the dark. You have had since Barack Obama and the democratic party took control of both houses to come up with something solid for your party to run on and support as an agenda and you can't speak a word of it?
Instead your party continues to say "no" to everything the democrats do. Say what you want, but at least the democrats have a well thought out plan. Maybe its not what you agree with if you are a republican but after the last year or so is it really that bad?
Think about that: The Obama administration has passed healthcare...something Bush promised against Gore and Kerry, the repukes didn't deliver anything except a prescription drug plan that is killing seniors financially and cost this country billions to the drug companies and they gave us Medicare "Advantage".
The Obama Administration has passed Wallstreet and credit card reform, the closed Gitmo, they passed stimulus plans that were not enough because of repuke opposition but got something through. And Obama is ending the war in Iraq, granted there is the mess in Afghanistan but thats for a different post.
Plus, the Obama administration is dealing with all the de-regulation that went on under the Bush administration that included de-regulating safety in the oil industry and as a result we have the BP spill.
Everything out of the mouths of republicans, including Mcconnell's, has been about stopping this Barack Obama. Not one thing have they said has been anything constructive.
The president was elected as the leader of this country. He is the boss. Generally when most of us go into work we don't go in to say no to our boss. Even if we disagree we try to work with our boss otherwise we get fired.
Well, here is an idea, the American People in 2008 were the boss and elected Barack Obama to be The Boss for us. The republicans have gone to work saying no to their boss with no intentions of working with their boss....Barack Obama and the majority of us who voted for him. Their platform of no and no ideas have run their course.
I have to ask though, what has the republican agenda been if Mitch Mcconnell has nothing to say about? Its becoming clear that their only agenda has been attempting to get this president to fail. Thats what the republicans want because in the end they want the middle class to fail, thats the republicans plan. It has been since Reagan took office 30 years ago.
Hopefully this fall the American people will see right through Mcconnell and the rest of this party of "No Ideas", employees who don't work with their boss should be fired. Mcconnell and his republican followers need to go.
Category: Politics
Big Eddie- Let the Tax Cuts Expire
I love Ed Schultz, he tells it straight on his show and is all for the middle class and working poor of this country. He also talks about issues that no one else is touching namely the fact that not only do the Bush tax cuts need to expire on the wealthiest 2% of this country, we need new labor laws that will keep manufacturing jobs in this country.
Who else touches that topic. The free trade agreements this country has made are KILLING US. You want to know why there are no jobs you can go back to Reagan, Bush senior, Clinton and Bush Jr. for continuing free trade. We need to start taxing goods from other countries and provide benefits to good made here.
Manufacturing jobs have bled from this country because of free trade because labor overseas is so dirt cheap and they can ship those goods here with no tariffs or taxes and we buy them cheaper, end result? Jobs outsourced.
Add to that, the fact that there is no transparency with how coorporations spend their money on our politicians which means the rich coorporations foreign or domestic will own our politicians, the middle class? Piss on us, what politician will listen to the middle class. Coorporations can outspend any labor union and not have to disclose what politician they bought off.
Nothing has been done about the supreme court ruling from this past winter and here we are inside 100 days before the mid terms. Its a scary thing. The top 2% own 83% of the stock in this country. 66% of the wealth belongs to the top 2%.
The most perplexing thing is talking to the repukes who will make you think that these are massive tax increases on everyone, the most massive tax increase ever...whoa scary stuff and gets most people to believe in that. Its not a huge tax increase on anyone other than the top 2% earners in this country, its massive because that is where all the wealth is. You want to create jobs? Get that money flowing through the public pipes. That keeps teachers employed, saves social security and medicare and helps with spending on much needed infrastructure repair that this country needs desparately.
The tax increase? From 36 to about 39%. Do the repukes seriously want us to think that the wealthy paying an extra 3% in taxes is going to kill anyone in this country? Prove that keeping it the way it is is going to create one job....so far it hasn't. And it didn't under Bush either.
Big Eddie talked it up today:
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Fox and Hannity a Joke
Even Bill O'Reilly is apologizing for his and his networks piss poor excuse for breaking news. Say what you want about CNN, MSNBC and the other major news networks but they don't go airing bullshit excuses for stories just to make the president and his administration look bad. You can go back to the ACORN scandal that did in an organization whose only purpose was to get those less fortunate registered to vote.
This whole Shirley Sherrod thing has blown up in the wrong faces and its put its focus on the wrong people. Isn't Fox News coming under more fire for this? Why does Sean Hannity still have a job?
This whole thing stunk from the beginning and Fox News should be facing some stiff fines/punishment from someone. At the very least the educated amongst its viewers should be seriously questioning why they go to this station for news.
Lets re-examine that word. News.....what does that word mean anymore? I blame all the news networks for this fact, news networks have become more based on opinion based shows from either side of the political spectrum than what news should be based on....FACT
FOX however takes it to a whole new level, they purposefully air stuff without vetting it, take those bullshit videos of the tea party demonstrations against healthcare last summer when they were showing crowds from a different rally. FOX news is doing nothing more than adjusting and totally falsifying its content to satisfy their intended audience who will watch and listen blindly and believe it regardless of the truth.
This however went too far, it got an innocent woman fired, luckily cooler heads prevailed, Shirley Sherrod knew she didn't do wrong, the other networks eventually did their homework and called FOX on the bullshit.
News networks on both sides of the aisle need to do less opinion based shows and more fact based shows. I will grant MSNBC one thing, their mainly liberal lineup which I watch nightly fills their broadcasts with these little things called FACTS. CNN especially Anderson Cooper is a bit more opinion based.
Take the opinion out of the news, they won't because opinions, especially controversial/onesided ones draw viewers and ultimately that is what these news networks are all about.
30 years ago you could turn on the news and thats what you would get, news, now you get Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly spewing crap, though O'Reilly I will admit has done his fair share of sticking up for and actually realizing and admitting his wrongs lately.
Instead of focusing on Sherrod and the Obama administration lets focus on the crappy journalism of Fox News and their inability to vet their stories if only to make someone look bad.
And while we are bringing up racism at Tea Party ralliesCategory: Politics
Making America Dumber
Sarah Palin released this ad: This was all I could think off after sitting through long enough to hear this ad out: Tell me that no one is paying attention to her anymore, please tell me that no one in this country is as stupid as she is, or worse yet stupid enough to listen to her. I honestly look at her and think if she can do what she is doing then just about anyone can make it in this world, she almost became vice president. One can only hope that even her most loyal followers are starting to question her IQ.....Miss Piggy strikes again.Big Eddie Fired Up Over GOPs Values
Nobody says it like Big Eddie especially when hes fired up like tonight. The GOP blocked extending jobless benefits, many on the right called the jobless "hobos" or "drug addicts". Its sad that we have politicians who really believe this and that there are people out there stupid and ignorant enough to believe that this is the stereotype that describes all who are jobless.
My wife is jobless all summer, she gets terminated from her job with Headstart, she is no hobo, she is no drug addict, yet thats what several repukes would have you believe. Yet she depends on those jobless benefits to get her through the summer. She is a teacher who makes half of what most teachers do because she loves what she does and she gets laid off every summer, is anyone going to tell me that she isn't interested in working or she is lazy?
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Category: Politics
Repukes Need to Wake Up
President Obama can't win. He gets the residents of the Gulf Coast $20 billion, thats BILLION with a B and the out of work oil workers $100 million to tide them over till the moratorium on deep water drilling is over and the Repukes come back fighting and whining saying that we have to keep drilling, so they go get themselves a judge who over turns the moratorium.</p>
The government appealed and then another judge up held the previous decision. How is this making any sense. The president wants a moratorium to make sure that the 33 deep water wells, 33, not all of the platforms, there are hundreds of rigs in the gulf, the president just wants to shut down 33 of them for 6 months to insure they are safe.
Does Bobby Spindle (as I like to call him) really think this is a bad idea?
Dude, workers from 33 rigs have $100 million to dip into for the next 6 months. Shutting down 33 rigs for 6 months if it prevents a second oil disaster and the loss of one more life on one of those rigs to make sure they are safe is worth it. Repukes need to stop over reacting, their facts are wrong, they are doing nothing more than what they have been doing since day one for this presidents term, falsifying their talking points to see this president fail. After this spill and the loss of 11 lives I would hope that the average oil worker would want to return to a safe rig. To one that has been inspected and deemed safe. The repukes are twisting this and care about nothing more than the money that big oil is throwing at them to continue to put lives and the environment at risk.
