The New Tea Party Aristocracy

If anyone remembers history they will remember the French Revolution and the French Aristocracy where the disparity between the rich and the working class reached a pinnacle and the rebellion of the people was a blood-lust where the world learned of a new device called the guillotine.  The French people overthrew their ancient government in 1789. They took as their slogan the famous phrase"Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite"--Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Equality, or doing away with privilege, was the most important part of the slogan to the French revolutionists.  What is happening in America right now has some frightening similarities.  The rich have become ultra rich and now the United States Supreme court and created the most frightening new Aristocrat of all called Corporate Person-hood.  This new Aristocrat called MR, Corporate Person-hood has been embraced by the GOP Tea Party Republicans with a passion.  They want to make Mr.Corporate Person-hood their very best friend.  In the past the GOP Republicans have had other friends like the Mr.Middle Class and Mr.Upper Middle Class but they have been left behind.  Now they have their best friend who treats them really, really well. MR, Corporate Person-hood give them a lot of money and power which they do not want to loose.  They have for the last forty years wages war on the very people they are supposed to be representing.  The most recent attacks have been by GOP Tea Party Republican governors who have taken away the rights of workers in order to serve their new best friend MR, Corporate Person-hood.  The new GOP Tea Party Republicans have now begun their attacks on the elderly and poorest Americans by destroying Social Security and Medicare as we know it.  Some states have had devastating storms, floods, and fires and the GOP Tea Party Republicans have chosen not to help but to harm by holding the American people hostage once again.  They have held up funds to FEMA unless cuts are made to fund programs that create much needed jobs.  The new GOP Tea Party Republicans continue to enrich themselves and build their power with their friend MR, Corporate Person-hood while Americans continue to suffer.  How long will it be until America has a new revolution?  My hope is that in 2012 these new Tea Party Aristocrats are swept away and a wave of Progressive Democrats come in.  America needs Progressives that can stand up against the new Tea Party Aristocracy and their new friend MR, Corporate Person-hood.  In this Progressive Democrats opinion MR. Corporate Person-hood needs to face the guillotine.  America needs jobs not more cuts to anything and everything just so the GOP Tea Party Republicons can beat Obama.  I was talking to a friend of mine and sadly it became clear he was one that was on the Tea Party side.  He said he hated Obama and all the problems were Obama's fault.  As we talked and I started asking him questions and going through problems and policies one at a time he agreed with me on almost every one.  The Policies of Obama and the Democrats were the right way to go but, in the end said basically, too bad Obama isn't white.  I believe unfortunately even in 2011 that color can trump all, even sanity in the minds of some racist Americans.
http://history-world.org/french_revolution.htm

Why are the liberals doing what they're doing?

You mean why do liberals fight for middle class working Americans and why do GOP Tea Party Republicans hold the American people hostage (Debt Ceiling)?  It is because the people that follow the GOP Tea Party Republicans feel that if you are not able to stand on your own two feet, build a business, get rich and pay for everything yourself then too bad for you.  They believe in a fairy tale world that everyone should be perfect and if you are not then go live under a bridge.  Liberal Democrats believe that the government should actually help ALL of the American people and not punish them for their imperfections.  Liberals Know that the top 2% of America (the rich) are the only people that GOP Tea Party Republicans are fighting for.  When you them talk about tax reduction they only mean tax reduction for the rich folk.  The reason we don't get cheap health care (The Affordable Care Act) is because if We (All Americans) paid into the health care system it would be Cheap.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans wouldn't get HUGE checks from big Pharmaceutical companies anymore and big campaign checks from Corporate Health Care for big profit companies.  Liberals want Jobs, Health Care, and Education Free for All Americans.  GOP Tea Party Republicans Want Health Care for profit, Jobs in China, For profit education, no regulations, and they want Americans to keep working up until they are 70 so that they can keep wages as low as possible and keep profits high.  In other words the GOP could care less about you and hates our own Government.  They say it right out loud.  "Government is the problem".  So if you want no jobs, no benefits, lowest pay, no health care, education that is not affordable and unattainable, roads, bridges, and buildings that are falling down, food that makes you ill, bad air and water, and a government that will say though luck when your state has a huge catastrophic event, then the GOP Tea Party Republicans are your choice.

The Rand Paul Radical Deficit Cuts!

Rand Paul is asking for big donations from middle class Americans while at the same time cutting their throats.

Look at the list of cuts below and ask yourself where is the sacrifice from the rich and powerful?  Where is the help from the Wall Street brokers that are getting the big Bonuses?  Just today Eric Cantor walked out of the "Bi-Partisan" talks to cut the deficit because Biden said OK we are giving some, Now it's your turn.  But Nope, GOP Tea Party Republicans are saying NO to any shared sacrifice.  The middle class has to bear ALL the burden that the GOP Tea Party Republicans are going to heap upon the American middle class.  They won't even consider closing loopholes to big oil.  Let's walk through his cuts.

Rand Paul: "Specifically, my Cut Federal Spending Act reduces funding for the:"

*  Department of Agriculture by over $42 billion.

OK maybe there are reasonable subsidies that can be cut.  I bet this also cuts Food Safety Inspectors.

*  Department of Transportation by over $42 billion.

Red Flag here.  Cuts to DOT means cuts directly to safety.  This means fewer weigh station inspections.  More overweight and illeagle trucks on the highways and freeways deteriorating them faster.  This means fewer State Troopers to check for tired or drugged truck drivers.  

*  Department of Energy by over $27 billion.

He wants to cut the very thing that will bring about new prosperity.  We need to INVEST in Energy NOT cut it.

*  Department of Health and Human Services by over $26 billion.

Yes lets cut where it will hurt the middle class and the poor the most.  All those people that have been forclosed on and lost jobs will now have even fewer options to get by.  What happens to them.  All just so the rich can keep those Bush tax cuts that were supposed to create jobs but didn't

*  TSA by almost $1 billion.

What happened to Home Land Security?  Who will be inspecting Airports, Trains, and Ports of entry.  These ideas are really scary.

*  Housing and Urban Development entirely, excluding veteran housing programs.

We can afford to pay Wall Street Bankers, and the rich but not the middle class and the poor.  We have to attack them and take away the only tool there is to keep decent wages (Collective Barganing) 

*  Department of Justice by over $9 billion.

How does that work?

*  Department of State by over $20 billion.

You might want to read what they do here and then decide about this:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/dos/436.htm

*  Additional departments and programs bringing the total to $500 billion.

HMMMM?  Seems a little vague but I bet NPR is in here somewhere.

My proposal is accomplished entirely without touching Social Security or Medicare, and believe it or not, still leaves 85% of government funding in place.

Not a word about creating jobs that would bring IN revenue (tax dollars).

It is the same old story over and over from the GOP Tea Party Republicans,  Yes we made mistakes that drove the country into this horrible situation and now you should trust us.  You can trust them alright.  You can trust that  they will give the rich that bought them the tax breaks and YOU will pay for ALL of it.

Just my opinion.

How to Grow Our Economy.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt  brought us through the first Great Depression he created jobs by investing in OUR country. He created thousands of jobs by building bridges, roads, dams, buildings, and much more. We invested in our country which put money in the pockets of the middle class. When the middle class has money they buy things. They buy cars, boats, homes, and much more. the Trickle down economics of Regan did not work and will never work because the rich don't invest because of a tax cut they invest because of an opportunity. They invest because they have people who want to buy something that they make. When you have a middle class that can Afford to buy things it creates opportunities for not only the middle class but the investor as well. We need to once again invest in the middle class and invest in our countries infrastructure, by fixing our bridges, roads, and education. Tax cuts for the rich does nothing to improve our economy. The economy was actually the strongest in the 1950 when the rich paid taxes at a rate above 90% and everything was regulated. Trucking, banking, airlines, Wall street were all regulated heavily and all of America was prospering. The results of all the deregulation since Regan has been catastrophic to our country and needs to be reversed.

What The Past Tells Us All About GOP Leadership

There was a time that Republicans had the ability to lead this country.  That time has past.  History of the last twelve years proves they cannot lead.  They took this country into two wars but didn't include them in the budget  while at the same time cutting taxes for the rich and large corporations.  They spent like we had money to spend.  Has there ever been a more irresponsible governing body in American history?  They cut regulations the allowed banks to becomes casinos and brought us the biggest crash to the economy since the Great Depression.  The elections of 2010 brought in a new wave of extremism from the Tea Party.  Americans frustration with unemployment, housing foreclosures, and watching the government bail out the Banksters and Wall Street who's corruption brought us the worst recession since the Great Depression.  This frustration culminated in the most radical group in history taking over the House of Representatives.  The GOP knew that they had to use their power to change the message of that election.  What the American public wanted was a change in the partisanship in congress.  The real message from the American people was Work Together for the betterment of the American people.  Stop all of the filibusters and get something done for the middle class.  But the GOP decided to take over the message to say it is all about the debt and the deficit.  Wrong!  They have stuck with this message hoping it would stick and that Americans would not pay attention to what they really want to do.  They want to slow down the improvement of the economy as much as possible before 2012.  How do they do that?  They do it by cutting as much as possible to the budget so there is little job growth.  More cuts to programs mean fewer jobs.  It's that simple.  The GOP Tea Party Republican attacks on middle class workers is another sign of how radical they right has become.  Does anyone other than Tea Party members really believe all of our deficit problems will be solved if American workers have lower pay, no benefits or a retirement?  Anyone that seriously looks at our problems knows that is NOT the answer.  Good paying jobs, benefits and a retirement is what makes America great.  Middle class Americans with money in their pockets to buy an new home, car, boat, and take a vacation is what will power the economy.  The idea that anyone and everyone can pull themselves up by there bootstraps and start a business is just simply far from reality.  Just look around you at all the people you know.  You know that there are many of them that are really not capable of such things.  In a perfect world everyone would do everything just right and put enough away to cover their own health care and retirement.  We do not live in such a world.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans have used over and over again very offensive, hostile, and inflammatory language in talking about the President and the Democrats.  They use words like leftist, socialist, and radicals to describe Democrats, even though their actions have been the most radical in history.  They have used the filibuster more than any time in history, they have attacked and taken away bargaining rights of American middle class workers, they have held the congress, country, and middle class Americans hostage over and over again and are willing to shut down the country in order to push policies that will hurt middle class Americans while protecting the Bush tax cuts for the ultra rich and corporations.
      Now lets look at Obama and the Democrats.
Obama was handed the worst economy since the Great Depression.  He along with the Democratic congress implemented the stimulus package and in less than two years the economy is showing real improvement even with the GOP Tea Party Republicans using the filibuster and holding the middle class hostage.  The GOP has used the filibuster more than any congressional body in history to try to block anything that would help the middle class.  The Affordable Care Act in it's original form put forward by the House Democrats would have given most Americans Health Care coverage in a much less expensive way than what the GOP Tea Party Republicans have inflicted upon us in the name of corporate profits.  Obama also has shifted the military actions in Afghanistan from more boots on the ground to less and increased the use of the predator drones to keep an eye on where the terrorist elements are.  This new approach has given much better results overall with many more terrorist killed and fewer American soldiers killed or wounded.  President Obama also gave the order to get Osama Bin laden which was very risky but should what a great leader he is under difficult conditions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/31/barack-obama-approval-ratings-reelection_n_868952.html
    The GOP Tea Party Republicans will ask Americans for the opportunity to lead this country again in 2012.  They have proven that they cannot lead and Americans have no reason to believe that they will be able to do so at any time in the future.  Putting America in the hands of the GOP Tea Party Republicans would be devastating for America as they work toward low paying jobs, no health benefits, foreign policy that will hurt America and make the rest of the world hate us.  They had ten years to do something positive and really show their ability to reduce spending and be responsible with tax payers money.  They were the worst governing body in history.  Why would anyone want to do it all again.  When Americans go to the polls in 2012 they will vote for progressive candidates that have policies that help middle class Americans and promote America's ideals all over the world.  Americans will vote to put people before profits and provide a government for the people by electing Progressive Democrats that really care about middle class Americans. 

The GOP Tea Party Republican Propaganda Machine And The Lies They Tell

It has become very difficult for the American people to get truthful information due to the GOP Tea Party Republican propaganda machine. Radio shows Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh and more tell half truths and lies over and over. There are no checks on the bad information going out to Americans. Face Book has helped the people of Egypt have a voice maybe FB can help get some facts out to the American people.  Right after Obama's election the lie was put out that he was going to take everyones guns away and stop the sale of ammunition.  The next lie was the that Obama was a Muslim and then the lie that he was not a citizen.  The excerpt below is from a conversation on Face Book  Jim H said: " the reason the birth and Muslim conversations are relevant and needed, is because the average American citizen is tuning out all serious info because they can't get past the thought that someone may be in the White House illegally and under false pretense of his religion. Go to  www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-29/poll and read the poll taken a few days before the Nov. elections last year. Here is an excerpt from the article.

A Bloomberg National Poll conducted Oct. 24-26 finds that by a two-to-one margin, likely voters in the Nov. 2 midterm elections think taxes have gone up, the economy has shrunk, and the billions lent to banks as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program won’t be recovered.

“The public view of the economy is at odds with the facts, and the blame has to go to the Democrats,” said J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., a Des Moines, Iowa-based firm that conducted the nationwide survey. “It does not matter much if you make change, if you do not communicate change.”

See? All the polls were right last year, they all showed the GOP taking back the House. The Bloomberg polls showed it too. THIS poll points to the MASSIVE amounts of MISinformation that is getting into the American Public. Obama's birth origin and religious beliefs are a HUGE distraction to the REAL news that people SHOULD be hearing. But they will never hear the real news because they can't get past the birth and Muslim issues FIRST!

Dave E said: The GOP Tea Party Republicans don't like it when you ask them to think things through to the final outcome of their actions. They prefer to say snappy things like "Job Killing Health Care" and be afraid of your government and your president so that we can get elected.

 The reason Boehner won't tell his caucus to stop mentioning Obama's origin of birth and religion, is because he LOVES the fact that there are thousands out there that are misinformed. Those are the people who will not vote for Obama NO MATTER if the economy and jobs are rising, because they think Obama is a Muslim illegal! It is a win win for Boehner to make sure his voting base are as ignorant of the facts as they can be.
Dave E.  Do you know the facts?

What Do You want for America?

Did you know that the tax rate on the rich has actually been cut to less than half of what is was in 1950?  It has actually been cut by almost 2/3rds.   The Democrats compromised with Republicans and extended the lower tax rate on the rich even though most Americans didn't want that.  Do you really want health care repealed when it just got started?  Why not improve it especially since they GOP has NO replacement plan.  None!  Even though many Americans are already being helped by it.  Do you want to wait until you're 70 to get your Social Security?  Did you know that anyone making over $110K only pays up to that amount on SS?  We all pay taxes for schools even though many people do not have children in school.  Do you really want good programs cut while the military wastes millions?
             Now that the GOP has power again in the House they have changed their message.  The message is they will focus on spending cuts, not jobs.  When the GOP starts making big spending cuts to programs that also means cutting jobs.  The president put in new protections for our food.  Now since these Tea Party People got elected our food is not safe because they cut all the money out that would pay for the jobs that would protect our food!  Do you really want unsafe food?  They want to make cuts in education.  I find it hard to believe that this is what most Americans want.  Please let me know if how you feel?    

A Message To The Rich

I love rich people.  I love the companies where the CEO goes on undercover boss and finds out how hard the jobs are.  Then without blowing their cover find out who the good and not so good workers are, and tries to do the right thing.  Love that!  We liberals have been accused of wanting to pick on the rich.  I don't know about anyone else but I don't.  Rich folks like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates Sr., Bill and Melinda Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Barbara Streisand, Oprah and others have done a lot of really good stuff and I am not sure they get enough credit for the good stuff they do.  They are giving back.  I love them for giving back and telling the GOP Tea Party Republican we don't need the tax breaks extended!  We are doing just fine!  I am sure that Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh give back to the country?  I know they are funny, charming, handsome men.  Oh wait, Well...,  they are really generous, kind men, Oh Wait,  Well..., they really sure can talk it up!  They get paid to tell half truths or sometimes even outright lies and they really do a great job!  Nobody does it better!  What has Rupert Murdock done to give back?  Rupert is so inspiring?  Oh Wait, Well..., the message they put out is so uplifting?  Oh Wait!  Well..., I know he would love to help his fellow man that is struggling.  Oh Wait!, Well...,  he sure is rich!  Listening to the right wing pundits really puts me in a good mood and I always feel better.  Oh Wait!  Well..., I never heard them say you should pick a weapon and go kill Democrats!  Everyone in American that isn't rich should just go start their own business or get a degree? I mean everyone has a high IQ and or the Aptitude to start a business.  It's just a fact.  Ask the right wing pundits.  They will tell you. What happens to the slow guy?  The church people will take care of them don't worry about it.  Telling Americans day after day that their government is bad, their president is a Marxist, Stalinist, Secret Muslim Terrorist, Manchurian Candidate is a positive, healthy message to put out day after day, especially when it is specked with innuendo's of violence.  Not to worry.  Just ask Rush or Beck.  There are really good rich people out there trying to do good things for this country.  I think if you are rich right now it would be a good time to give back like Rush and Glen do.  Oh Wait, Well..., anyway you can give back to the country that has made it possible for you to do so well.  It would be a good time for the leadership of the country to give back.  Both the rich, and leadership AND especially the RICH LEADERSHIP should give back by investing in America.  If you are a millionaire, Billionaire, or even an half a Millionaire, Billionaire or, you happen to be a Congressman or Senator this message is for you!  You can give back to America by investing in her.  You could give tax incentives to rich people if they invest in new kinds of green technologies or other business.  You rich folks could take a chance on a new business venture that might be a little risky instead of holding onto your tax cuts that you have had for the last ten years already.  But now that the GOP Tea Party Republicans got them extended for you by extortion, (they threatened to cut off unemployment right before Christmas, in the worst economy since the Great Depression.), The country needs you now.  Your fellow man needs you now.  I just heard today of more death threats on another congressman.  They were sent a fax with threats and graphic of President Obama's head in a noose.  Another received a voice-mail threat that referenced Rush Limbaugh directly.  Something about the congressman suggesting that people boycott Rush.  WOW!  OK I have to come clean, I think and I hope that businesses that advertise with these hate mongering right wing pundits will start to see that it is time to pull the plug on advertising with them.  That would really be "giving back to America".  It would give back some sense that corporations can be morally responsible and just do the right thing by not advertising with hate mongers.  Hate does tend to pay apparently in America.  What a shame.  If the big companies stop advertising with the hate mongers then Maybe these irresponsible pundits could use their talents to also do something  good.  Maybe they could start a conversation about how to help their fellow man.  Probably not.  I can dream can't I?

The Party That Doesn't Want To Get Along

Susan Estrich has it right on the GOP Tea Party Republicans           Breaking from Newsmax.com

Bachmann Stokes Political Rhetoric Fires

By Susan Estrich

You have to hand it to Rep. Michele Bachmann, who was the official tea party responder to the president's State of the Union address.

No phony sincerity from her. No moving mention of her colleague lying in a Texas hospital, whose family celebrated that she could actually watch an hour of television. No forced rhetoric about all of us being Americans first, healing our divisions, finding greatness in our collective strength.o platitudes about sitting together and working together and moving forward to try to solve some of the country's problems. Bachmann went on the attack against President Obama from the first line of her speech, devoting all but the last minute to making the case that he is to blame for the state of the economy. In the wake of Tucson, only one imperative remains: Blame it on Barack.

Bachmann is going to fight the last war until the last cable station turns out the last light. She may not have much to say about solving the country's problems, but she's got plenty to say about who's to blame for them: Obama.

You remember when Obama became president — it was morning in America and then a storm blew in? No?

Bachmann has the charts to prove it.

Of course, the charts don't show you what went wrong under President Bush or what went right under President Clinton. But why let facts get in the way?

The point is to throw mud and assign blame. Isn't it? Isn't that what most Americans were tuning in to hear from their leaders?

Tell us: Who should we blame? Who can we tag for this? Who is it we should finger for destroying our well-being, our jobs, our lives?

The only thing that was nearly as painful to witness as what happened in Tucson was the way talking heads on both sides literally used it to talk about their favorite subject — themselves.

Enough about Gabby Giffords. Can we get back to talking about Sarah Palin? Or, just give the mike to Bachmann!

I don't know what "the American people" want, and I don't trust anyone who pretends they do. But I do believe there are a whole lot of people in this country who might not agree on much other than that they are sick and tired of the way politics is discussed and done.

It's not a left-right issue — quite the contrary. The far left and the far right have more in common, in terms of their styles of discourse and engagement, than either does with everyone else.

Bachmann was not selected to speak on behalf of the tea party movementfor her economic acumen. Her job was not to bring people together. She did not even pretend to outline an alternative economic program.

She was there to be a lightning rod — not to prevent a fire, but in the hopes of starting one as big as possible, knowing that the rest of us, no matter what we say, will always crane our necks to catch a glimpse of the wreckage.

State Of The Union 2011

The message from the president was inspiring.  Invest in America.  Invest in education, infrastructure, and science.  The president went around the world and brought back jobs, thousands of jobs.  The Republicans have done nothing but obstruct.  There new path for America is to do nothing and cut everything.  Gut health insurance leaving millions of Americans with none.  Guess what when you cut spending you also cut jobs.  The president wants careful spending to keep the fragile recovery going in a positive direction.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans have only one plan, to make sure the country is in bad shape, really bad shape.  They want to country in bad shape so they can run on it in 2012.  They do not care about the country or average Americans.  They only care about power and the next election cycle.  The president will save over 1 trillion dollars with what Republicans usually like, spending cuts.  The Republicans don't like the presidents cuts.  Why you ask?  Because they are the presidents cuts.  The message from Republicans is good luck.  You need to pick yourself up by your boot straps, we need to cut, cut, cut.  No investment in anything.  You have problems?  Too bad, figure it out.  Notice a pattern here.  Under the Republicans the country lost 8 million jobs, ran the country into the trillions in debt, two wars, and caused the worst economy since the Great Depression.  If you listen to the pundits and Fox news you won't hear anything good.  It's all bad day after day.  The presidents bad, the democrats are bad, the unemployed are lazy, the Democrats are going to take away your guns, time is running out, they are Socialists. Think about it.  It,s all about making Americans afraid and then the Republicans will save you.  Except they don't.  They only make things worse.  The president inspires and is leading us in a positive direction.  It feels good.

"Lets Do IT! " America!

I can hear Ty Pennington screaming it out, "Lets do it!"  Then the action begins, a house destroyed and a new home built in a week.  We need an extreme makeover American addition!  Remember when we actually did build cool stuff?  We were first on the moon.  We built the interstate freeway system, bridges like the Golden Gate, Dams like the Boulder, buildings like The Empire State Building and icons like The Seattle Space Needle.  We have just been through the worst Recession since the Great Depression!  I am not sure people get what that means.   Right here in the USA 1931there were people starving to death in the streets of America, "Food riots start in various pockets of the United States. Grocery shops get looted by people.  It was bad, really bad.  Fortunately we as a country didn't have to watch people starving and dying on the streets because President Obama, Democrats and even some Republicans knew we could end up there and did Tarp and the Stimulus to try and save us from what did happen back in the thirties.  The Stimulus did work but not fast enough for the American public.  The Republicans did not seem to care what regular Americans were going through since they were against TARP.  Mr. Paulson's proposal, labeled the Troubled Asset Relief Program, was backed by President George W. Bush, both presidential candidates and the Democratic leadership in Congress, but opposed by most Republicans. Passed on a second attempt, it led to a series of enormous loans to banks that inflamed widespread public anger but were later widely credited as being one of the crucial factors in helping to avert a global depression.  The Democrats were not able to go far enough in helping Americans in these most difficult days.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans stopped them at every turn.  They used the filibuster more than anytime in history to block legislation that would have brought many more jobs and improvements in our weak infrastructure.  Now the the GOP Tea Party Republicans want to hurt Americans even more.  Their intention is to make sure that there is as little to no job growth from now until 2012.  They want all the power and if you, the regular working American, have to suffer a little longer so they can get all the power again, that's what they will do.  They plan to STOP ANY legislation that will create jobs so that they can blame Obama for it and take the presidency in 2012.  If you want to help do something about this then please pay attention to what the Republican Congress is doing NOT what they tell you.  They have messages that sound impressive.  Messages like "We want to cut taxes", "Stop the JOB Killing Health Care", and so on.  Those messages sound good to the average American but those messages have nothing to do with the facts of where we are as a country.  We do not need to cut taxes when we have a huge deficit.  We don't need to raise taxes.  Taxes can stay right where they are.  What we need are jobs and tax paying citizens that can afford to pay the taxes we currently have.  The GOP Tea Party uses the same messages over and over again because they sound good to people that need every dime they have.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans will stop at nothing and say anything to get all the power and to make sure your wages are kept low and tax burden is higher.  Vote for Democrats in 2012 that want to help you.  They want to create jobs for the middle class and protect us with regulations from the Wall street banksters that want to gamble with your mortgage money, improve the health insurance bill to lower costs by spreading the cost of insurance and buying medicine in large quantities using the power of our US government which will lower the deficit.  Do not listen to the GOP Tea Party Republicans but watch what they actually do and pay attention to what it means to average working Americans.

Jim DeMint Has A Plan For 2012

Jim DeMint, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and the rest of the GOP Tea Party Republicans have a plan for America.  They plan to keep the economy as bad as they can so they can run on it in 2012.  The Tea Party is a racist organization and the GOP is now in colusion with them in attempting to destroy Obama and to hurt the country in the process.  The Tea Party people have tried to convince America that they care about the the country.  You can pretend all you want but the facts outside of the right wing Fox(not really news) bubble say different.  When you have 90% of Radio pundits calling the president a Marxist, Manchurian candidate that was not born here, secret Muslim Terrorist, and the GOP Tea Party Republicans and Fox News staying silent on it or backing it up with innuendo and you have the Tea Party people that carry signs with the president as a Hitler, Nazi, Joker, with a bone through his nose, Yes the Tea Party is racist and GOP leadership is complicit. 

The GOP Tea Party Republican Pundits Defend Sarah Palin!

Mark Levine and Sarah Palin defend the indefensible. A congress women gets shot through the brain and instead of saying maybe we should tone things down, they go on the defensive. Don't you dare blame us. Yes, when president Obama was called a Marxist, Socialist, Stalinist, Secret Muslim Terrorist and was not born is the USA, and is out to destroy freedom and take our guns away they stayed silent. Yes they stayed silent and maybe added a little remark here or there that might feed the sick twisted frenzy from the right. Now they say poor Sarah Palin, don't pick on her. Poor Mark Levine don't pick on him. They want to promote the hate speech because it makes them rich.  I have no doubt that Rush and the rest will follow suit if they have not already.

Amanda Knox is Innocent

Boycott Perugia Italy! Amanda Knox is still imprisoned there. There is NO justice in Perugia Italy. Do NOT vacation there. Boycott Italy. Pass it on.

GOP Tea Party Republicans Say Don't Blame Us

It is funny how when you point out the fact that the GOP Tea Party Republicans have been overall silent when Beck, Hannity, Palin, Savage, Oriely, Fox not really news people called the president a Marxist, Socialist, Secret Terrorist that was not born is America, and wants to take your guns away, destroy freedom and the country.  They don't want to take any responsibility for it but, the fact is When McConnell was asked about the president being a Muslim instead of saying outright he is a Christian. McConnell said, I take him at his word. Making sure to leave some doubt alive.  This has been the case over and over.  The party of personal responsibility doesn't want to take any and doesn't want America to point out any of it.  Now that it is in their lap we as a nation need to hold them accountable.  Democrats always want to forgive and forget and then move on to what is best for the American people.  This time we need to hold their feet to the fire.  We need to say NO.  You have done these things and now you need to take responsibility for them.  As a nation we need to protest and boycott the sponsors of the hate.  We need to let the sponsors of Radio and TV that we will NOT buy their products as long as they advertise with Beck, Hannity, Palin, Savage, Oriely, and Fox not really news.

Boycott hate speech.

Gabrielle Giffords and twenty others were shot by a lunatic!  But why were they shot by a lunatic?  I truly believe that this would never have occured except for the likes of Right Wing Propaganda radio and TV like Fox (not really)News, Rush, Beck, Palin, Hannity, OReily, Savage, and the like.  I hope that everyone reading this will boycott Hate Radio and TV broadcasts that promote the hate speech we have been seeing. Radio shows like Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Mike Savage should be boycotted. TV shows like Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Bill Oreily, And Sarah Palin should be boycotted.

Dancing with the Tea Party, The Tea Party Effect

Bristol Palin was upset on Dancing With The Stars because of what people were saying about the vote.  She felt that she was as good as the others and that the people who thought she didn't deserve to go forward were just haters.  The truth is she was only getting voted forward because of the Sarah Palin fans and the Tea Party people.  The Tea Party people have an effect.  They don't really know what they want.  But they know what they do not want.  They don't want a black president, they don't want to pay taxes, they don't want gays to serve in the military or get married, and they mostly don't want anyone to disagree with anything they don't want.  The tea party effect is to confuse everyone including Bristol Palin.  They vote for her even though she is not the best thing.  They do the same thing for America.  They have the effect of being bad for America.  The Tea Party people were all over the place and America was trying to figure out what the hell their message was.  One message from them was we don't want taxes.  Wow that's a great idea.  lets get rid of taxes.  Next they wanted the two parties to get along.  OK, that is a good idea but, they only want the two parties to get along if it's the stuff they want them to get along on, like not giving gays and lesbians the right to serve openly or marry.  Americans need a bad guy and the GOP Tea Party Republicans are really, really good at pointing at someone even if they know they are really NOT the bad guy.  The American people don't know what to believe and with Republican leadership like Jim DeMint, Mitch McConnell, Michele Bachmann, and John Boehner , talk radio hosts like Hannity, Beck, and Rush and reality show actors like Sarah Palin willing to spew lies like the president is a Muslim, Socialist, Marxist, Manchurian candidate, it's no wonder Americans think that the President and the Democrats must be the problem; When in fact the opposite is true.  Americans want to believe their leaders.  They want to believe that what their doctors, lawyers, judges, police, authority figures and leadership tell them is true.  Americans want to believe their news broadcasters are telling them the truth.  They want to believe that their mortgage brokers and bankers are giving them good advice and leading them in the right direction.  Unfortunately American ethics has become weaker than ever especially when you have Fox news not reporting the facts, mortgage brokers pushing bad loans on unsuspecting first time home buyers, Wall Street selling financials they know are bad, and Pharmaceutical companies selling drugs that they know will harm or kill people, all for the sake of increasing the bottom line.  Huge corporations and foreign governments are now buying our elections.  Is that what the American people really want?  I don't think so.  The Tea Party is having an effect and it is not a good one.  They seem to think the deficit is the only problem and tax cuts and spending cuts are the only solutions.  When the country is just coming out of the worst economy since the Great Depression and the countries economy is still fragile the last thing we need is to cut jobs.  The Tea Party leadership in the house read the constitution on the floor which was cool but then on the first day they broke there own stated rules that everything would be done following the constitution.  They disregarded the constitution by allowing Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) to take legislative actions without being sworn in.   They weren't sworn-in when they participated in legislative actions on Tuesday and Wednesday. That resolution is expected to disqualify any votes they took before they were sworn in.  I don't know but I am guessing they will count those votes anyway.  Yes the Tea Party is going to have an effect.  They will work for fewer jobs for Americans moving the middle class toward poverty and, They will work hand in hand with the GOP Republicans to lead this country down the path of Wall Street, big corporations, and the ultra wealthy continuing to make the biggest profits in history on the backs of middle class Americans.

Ideas you won't hear from Republicans

Ideas you won't hear from Republicans, raise the Cap on SS, a transaction fee on all wall street transactions, investment in infrastructure creating jobs, making cuts in military spending, capping spending on elections,stopping the tax breaks for shipping jobs to China, forcing candidates to debate instead of buying TV adds, and helping the middle class.

2010 Was A Tough Year. What's Next?

It seems like Americans could not catch a break in 2010.  The market collapse that began in 2007 is still holding us all back.  Our government did some things right trying to keep us from going into an all out depression but did many things wrong.  TARP and the stimulus package was the right idea but the banks should have been forced to modify the mortgages for people to allow them to stay in their homes.  Instead it was left up to them to do the right thing.  They didn't.  The stimulus money should have been put into the infrastructure of our country in a much bigger way.  Building electric speed trains, a new electrical grid, solar, wind, electric cars, and other green energies with a national transition to a green economy would create thousands of jobs with equipment built here in America.  But the transition is coming much too slow.  Power hungry Republicans have blocked every attempt to spur the green economy with the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes instead of a majority vote.  The GOP flooded the our elections with TV commercials that at minimum twisted the truth or just spread outright lies.   money from large corporations and even organizations from outside our country.  It is an outrage how right wing republicans and the Tea Party people have lied to the American people.  On top of all that there was the biggest oil spill in history, and the mining disaster.  It is really difficult for the American people to get the truth about what is happening in DC when we have the right wing propaganda machine Fox News and 90% of talk radio spewing out lies to America.  Watch this video about a study on Fox News viewers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBA61YrA68Q&feature=related .  Get ready for the next couple of years of things only getting worse for middle class Americans as Reublicans attempt to repeal healthcare, raise the eligibility age on Social Security to seventy or seventy five, stop any investment in building a green infrastructure, strip any meaningful regulations on Wall Street, and basically screw regular working Americans while handing out bonuses to the rich.  You can change this.  Call or write your congress member and tell them you want jobs, a single payer health care system, regulations that stop the banksters from gambling with your mortgage and investments, caps on election spending, candidates to have many more debates in national elections, and the cap on Social Security raised to keep it funded rather than raising the qualification age to 70.  Seventy?  Are you kidding me?  Why not make the qualification death?  What this really does is keep people from retiring and keep them in the workplace, keeping pressure on wages.  Young people will have a harder time getting into the workplace because older people are staying longer.  On top of all that the GOP Republican Tea party people, will do everything they can to STOP any job growth until after the 2012 election cycle so that they can say it's Obama's fault there are no jobs.  So I hope all you hard working regular Americans start to get active and see what the GOP is really got in mind for you.

The Truth Republicans Don't Want You To Know

What are the Death Panels.  Well to start with there is no such thing.  Republicans are really good at making up scary sounding stuff that is NOT true.  What they call "Death Panels" are actually Voluntary conversations that have NOTHING to do with the government.  They are FREEDOM.  THEY ARE YOUR FREEDOM!  Don't you want to make your own decisions of what happens when you are leaving this world and make sure your family and doctor are clear about them?  If you are sick and dying and loose your ability to make decisions about how to handle your death, do you want to make that decision in advance or do you want everyone to guess at it?  Issues like this are why I quit the Republican party and became a Democrat.  I actually voted for Regan.  I didn't realize until years later that he destroyed the American worker by killing the Air Traffic Controller union.  That began the slow spiral down to fewer good jobs, lower wages and fewer benefits for workers.  At the same time the Right wing propagandist really began to pump out the message that unions are BAD and get paid way too much.  Too bad most Americans have bought into it.  For the last thirty years Americans have been getting the shaft without even realizing it.  Here are a few examples:  "We want to cut taxes" (what they don't tell you is they aren't talking about the taxes of the average working person.  They are talking about taxes for huge corporations and the ultra rich),  "Obama Care is Socialism" (It is no more socialism than Social Security or Medicare).  If it had been "Socialism" that would be a GOOD thing because everyone would pay into the healthcare system and lowered the cost for ALL Americans.  Why is that a Bad thing?  Someone please tell me.    There are many more examples of Republicans propaganda but this blog would be way too long.  2011 could be a very tough year.  I hope Americans start to realize that Democrats are on the side of average workers and that the Republicans are NOT.  Republicans only want to help the rich.

Lindsey Graham and the GOP Tea Party Republicans in 2011

I watched Meet The Press this morning and watched Lindsey Graham spew out his vision for 2011 with a snarl on his face. He just looks plain mean and nasty. One thing he said that stood out. "If Democrats come over to our way we can work together." Is that compromise? I can see the game plan now from Lindsey Graham and the Republicans is to make sure there is no job growth. Lindsey wants to raise the age to 70 or 75 to qualify for Social Security instead of raising the cap, take away our health care instead of improving it, Privatize FannyMay and FreddyMack, and above all make sure to STOP ANYTHING THAT CREATES JOBS so they can run on NO JOBS in 2012.