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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Health Care Law Repeal Taken Up in the House?

As the Boehner and his lackey, Cantor, already know it isn’t going to happen. Even if the House passes a bill to repeal the Health Care law, the Senate isn’t going too, and even if that happens, the President is going to veto it.

One thing’s for certain, this is a huge waste of time, and money. It’s all a show, and the GOP members of Congress all know it’s a show, and the talking heads at FOX PAC all know it’s a show. The only people who don’t seem to know it’s a show are their supporters/viewers. The Tea Party folks, and Limbaugh listening, Beck watching, mindless conservative rabble. The people who all complain about the government until their trailer court gets hit by a tornado, or is flooded out by a hurricane. The ones who declare you can have their guns when you pry them out of their cold dead fingers. And Rush, Hannity et. al., will sing their praises and claim the Dems are the party of No, and their listeners will nod vigorously, while forgetting blissfully how the GOP – 99% of the time as a block – voted against everything in the past two years.

The GOP members of Congress, in the mean time, will all thump their chests and say, “We put up a valiant fight to repeal the evil Obamacare, but those nasty Democrats wouldn’t allow us to, all they wanted to do was obstruct, obstruct, obstruct!”

Gee, I wonder who those mean old nasty Democrats might have learned that tactic from?

And here’s another thought, there’s nothing more important right now for the GOP Congress to tackle?

Like, oh I don’t know?

Passing a budget?

After all, it was one of those things the GOP was all upset about until it came into power. Now suddenly it’s, “Budget, smudget we’ll get around to it after we do all this really important stuff”.

And, what about passing the Defense Authorization Bill?

Gee, maybe the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan would like to know there’s money to support them?

I don’t know, maybe?

 

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Propaganda …

 
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Posted by on January 17, 2011 in Politics, Right Wing Crazies

 

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Posted by on January 16, 2011 in Lunatics, Politics, Right Wing Crazies, Tea Party

 

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Words don’t matter

One day, when one of your children draws cross hairs over a brother or sister’s face in a picture; don’t worry, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a drawing.

If they scream at one of their siblings “I’m going to kill you!” Don’t be alarmed, it’s just words.

If they scream at you, “I hate you!” It’s nothing to be upset about. It’s OK, words don’t mean anything.

If the teacher says “I wish someone would punch another teacher in the face”, and some student does it, it’s not the teacher’s fault; it’s the fault of the student who throws the punch. If the same teacher says, “I wish someone would punch (put your kid’s name here) and your child gets beat up. Don’t blame the teacher. It’s not their fault. It’s those kids who beat up your kid.

Patrick Henry didn’t really mean to inspire anyone when he said “Give me liberty, or give me death!” They were just words.

“Common Sense” by Thomas Paine didn’t really hold any sway in the fight for Independence, it was just some words.

The Declaration of Independence doesn’t really mean anything. It’s just a bunch of words. You weren’t supposed to really believe that all men are endowed with anything …

“Love thy neighbor as thy self,” doesn’t really mean that. Words don’t have any consequences. They don’t mean anything. “I love you” doesn’t really mean that.

The Ten Commandments are just words, guidelines maybe, they can’t really mean anything.

Or is it just the violent words that don’t mean anything? The ones meant to whip up the base?

But they really can’t mobilize the base can they? I mean, they don’t have any meaning. Do they?

 
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Posted by on January 14, 2011 in Lunatics, Politics, Right Wing Crazies, Tea Party

 

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There’s no tie to right wing rhetoric and violence in America?

In 2007, Lou Dobbs – then at CNN – prominently backed a sweeping law against undocumented immigrants in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.


Fourteen months later, and just 20 miles from Hazleton, Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old Mexican, was murdered by teenagers yelling racial slurs and “this is America, go back to Mexico” as they kicked him to death.

According to a New York Times report, “Many people believe the debate fueled by Hazleton’s actions helped create the environment that led to Mr. Ramirez’s death.”

 
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Posted by on January 12, 2011 in Immigration, Lunatics, Right Wing Crazies

 

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“Do whatever you have to do” to stop the remaking of this country?

C’mon, when has Glenn Beck ever said anything that could be misunderstood as suggesting violence should be used against the Government?

“It falls to the people. It always has fall on the people. But I asked, I said, ‘Between the radio audience and the TV audience, I got about 10 million guard dogs.’ We need people who have understood the Constitution and understand this theory of remaking America, the fundamental transformation, to stand guard and watch them every step of the way — guard and bark and growl and do whatever you have to do, because these people are hijacking our country.” [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 7/28/09, via Nexis]

‎”Do whatever you have to do…” whatever you have to do? The definition of “whatever”: “pron. 1. Everything or anything that …”

“Do everything you have to do…”

“Do anything you have to do…”

Beck is a charlatan and a liar. Telling his listeners to do “whatever you have to do” is telling them to use “any means necessary” to achieve an overthrow of the constitutionally elected government. He is not a patriot, he is a coward – because he wants others to act for him – and he is a traitor to everything he claims to hold dear, including the Constitution and the freedoms outlined therein.

 
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Posted by on January 12, 2011 in Constitution

 

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People Are Trying to Muzzle Descent With Shrill Cries of Imagined Insults?

So, Sarah speaks, and of course she blames everyone else for what happened, and called her and others words as simply being part of “vigorous debate” in America. She called those calling her and others out as starting a “blood libel”. Claiming people are trying to “muzzle her descent with shrill cries of imagined insults”.

“Republicans don’t retreat, they reload” or “I hope that’s not where we’re going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out,” are not “imagined” Ms. Palin.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/8255089/Arizona-shooting-Sarah-Palin-accuses-opponents-of-blood-libel.html)

Asking that you, and other so-called “patriots”, to not use violent rhetoric is not stifling you – or them – from exercising free speech or descent. Talking about “reloading” and “watering the tree of liberty” may be how people talk about politics in Wasilla, but most Americans try to leave the political speak of the 19th century where it belongs, in the the 19th century. You are not qualified to talk about “peacefully engaging” when you have time-after-time used discourse that is violent. Please do us all a favor and just fade away like all other failed vice-presidential candidates, your foot note is waiting.

 
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Posted by on January 12, 2011 in Lunatics, Politics, Right Wing Crazies

 

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This is not Patriotic …

The so-called “patriot” or “citizen” in this picture is not just making some “political statement”, he is making a direct threat of armed insurrection against the freely elected constitutional government of these United States. That, by the way, is not patriotic, it’s treason.

 
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Posted by on January 11, 2011 in Constitution

 

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Tree of Liberty Needs to be …

Well, you got your wish. The tree has been watered with the blood of a Congresswoman, her aide, a Federal Judge and nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green, born on 9-11, who wanted to help her community. Ain’t it a proud moment?

Words have meanings, and they have consequences.

Don’t glibly throw around words about revolution, and watering the tree of liberty, unless you’re willing to see – and live with – whose blood is spilt to pay for your words.

Just because the 1st Amendment protects your right to say it, doesn’t mean you should. Yes Tea Party, this means you. You can disagree with the President and the Democratic Party without talking about murder and insurrection. Stop comparing yourselves to the patriots of 1776, because there is no comparison. You, and your rhetoric, make me sick.

 
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Posted by on January 11, 2011 in Lunatics, Patriotic, Right Wing Crazies, Tea Party

 

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Republicans and Tea Party Upset by Suggestions Rhetoric Lead to Attack?

In the wake of the attack on Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Republicans have become especially sensitive to suggestions the conservative Tea Party movement, with its anti-government stances, was contributing to a more poisonous political environment. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., noted Sunday that the suspect in the Tucson rampage was connected to Internet postings that included Marxist and Nazi literature. “That’s not the profile of a typical tea party member, if that’s the inference that’s being made,” he said on CNN.

Well, excuse me Senator, but the Nazi movement was a conservative movement, in spite of what Glenn Beck, Limbaugh or Hannity say. Fascism is a right wing political movement, not a left one. And, oh by the way, weren’t those Tea Party members who beat a woman into the pavement, kicking her in the head at a campaign event last fall? You remember Senator. When they grabbed her and shoved her to the ground and gleefully stomped on her head, like some scene out of Schindler’s List. Yeah that would make the Tea Party, and the GOP which so ardently jumped into bed with it, akin to which former political party of Hitler’s Germany?

Not to be outdone, Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, who ran as a tea party favorite, said on “Meet the Press” on NBC: “I just hope we can have some civility and move forward. You have extremes on both sides; you have crazy people on both sides. Your job as a leader is to talk to people in a rational way. To bring down the rhetoric”.

Well, let’s see Congressman? Members from your beloved Tea Party beat up a woman during a campaign event in Virginia (see above), show up to rallies carrying pistols and assault rifles holding signs declaring that, “the Tree of Liberty” needs to be watered. Speakers at Tea Party rallies talk of revolution, and of “reloading”. Why would anyone think the Tea Party movement might have influenced what happened? Gee, I can’t imagine.

Of course the GOP and Tea Party don’t want to accept any responsibility! But if you spew violent rhetoric aimed at the government, and government officials, you own it when it happens! You can’t have your cake and eat it too!

And Congressman, this nonsense about, “You have extremes on both sides; you have crazy people on both sides,” is a crock of … Show me one instance of where any MSNBC host has ever talked about putting anyone in “cross hairs”, or “reloading” or acted out lighting a GOP leader on fire! Show me one instance of a Democratic Senate candidate saying if they lost then they’d turn to “2nd Amendment remedies”. You can’t, because it never happened. The responsibility for the rise in hate and violent “rhetoric” lies squarely at the feet of the conservatives in our country. You said it, you own the outcome. Words have meanings, and they also have consequences.

 
 

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