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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
"Knowledge about government is power" --GovTrack
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Innocents Abroad -- Mark Twain
"It liberates the vandal to travel--you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction." - The American Abroad speech, 1868 - Mark Twain
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. - Letter to W. D. Howells, 5/20/1891 - Mark Twain
Click the picture (below) to enlarge this WaPo, color "sample":
Yet another reason to use a Google Voice phone number on all forms, and all your calls!
http://gizmodo.com/5858727/congress-can-shove-the-robocall-bill-up-its-pork+fed-ass
http://gawker.com/5733642/robocall-victim-takes-robo+revenge
http://lifehacker.com/5674575/press-pound-to-escape-political-robocall-lists
CALL EVERY ONE OF THEM and tell them what you think!
Grover Norquist is a soldier in the same army as the Koch brothers. I consider both to be enemies of the state. Both their names closely entwined with the names of either those convicted of, or investigated for, criminal activities.
Grover Norquist is a demented zealot who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth; born to a Corporate VP, Norquist is a fat, middle aged, radical right-wing lobbyist. After being a career student who has never worked a real J-O-B in his entire 54 years on the planet, Norquist became a lobbyist.
THAT is why Norquist has ZERO frame of reference for what WE-THE-PEOPLE are all about. He is clueless about what it means to be an average American under seige from the right for at least the past 30 years.
Grover Norquist is a soldier in the War againt the American middle class. He fights from behind the front lines, preferring to manipulate and financially influence his causes from the shadows.
When Norquist steps into the daylight, below is the kindda crap he spews:
"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
Truth is ... Norquist probably struggles to drag his own pasty-white buttocks to that tub.
So, when you wonder what is motivating the current Republican Congress to hold our nation hostage, the answer is easy. Private money. Money funneled from the Corporatocracy through lobbyists like Norquist to their sock-puppets in Congress.
Here ya go, read more about it in the LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-norquist-paralyzing-congress-20111004,0,2329509.story
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."--Albert Einstein
At a time when the Corporatocracy is in the news daily, for screwing-up the whole damn planet, California Repukes have the infinite wisdom to place two Billionaire, has-been CEOs atop their ticket.
“California Republicans installed a pair of wealthy businesswomen, first-time candidates Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, atop their ticket for the fall campaign.”
Fiorina was a crap CEO at HP, and she and Meg Whitman both resigned from their respective corporations when the going got tough. In short, they took the money and ran … for office. Will they do the same for Californicate? If so, watch for the California budget deficit to go from around $19 Billion to about $19 Zillion!
It never ceases to amaze me how the Kool-Aid drinking, one-plank-party-platform (cut taxes) GOP voters continue to vote against their own best interests. Well they tried a Republican Movie Star and that flopped, so now they wanna try some Billionaire CEOs. Wowzers, is this the female electorate response to the whole Sarah Palin debacle, maybe? Sheez, more flakes & nuts for the land of the flakes and nuts!
Lincoln Survives; Fiorina, Whitman Win In Calif.
Defending Raghead Comment, South Carolina State Senator Says ‘We’re At War’ With Foreign Countries
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/04/raghead-show-canceled/
Wow, where do they find 'em and who votes for 'em?
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."--Plato
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Coordinating Wall Street’s Stealth Lobbying Campaign To Kill Reform
Wall Street, Banks, Insurance companies all screwed WE-THE-PEOPLE.
Now Republican obstructionists and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are doing Wall Street’s bidding in trying to prevent reform.
Numbers help put this mess in perspective.
Banks have $7-TRILLION dollars in deposits.
Just 9 of those banks paid BONUSES of $33 BILLION dollars to its employees despite their company’s huge losses.
“Nine banks that received government aid money paid out bonuses of nearly $33 billion last year -- including more than $1 million apiece to nearly 5,000 employees -- despite huge losses that plunged the U.S. into economic turmoil.”
Those bonuses are more than the budget deficit of the 5th largest economy on the planet: the STATE of California.
“The $32.6 billion in bonuses is one-third larger than California's budget deficit. Six of the nine banks paid out more in bonuses than they received in profit. One in every 270 employees at the banks received more than $1 million.”
How about this … the whole COUNTRY of Greece is begging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU) for $60 Billion dollars in financial aid. Hell, 9 banks in the U.S. paid their employees more than half that amount in just job BONE-USes!
Now one of the companies that WE-THE-PEOPLE bailed-out appears to have lied before Congress about what it was up to during the crisis that it helped to create!
“In late 2007, as the mortgage crisis gained momentum and many banks were suffering losses, Goldman Sachs executives traded e-mail messages saying that they would make “some serious money” betting against the housing markets.
The messages, released Saturday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, appear to contradict statements by Goldman that left the impression that the firm lost money on mortgage-related investments.”
People … these Robber-Barons will lie, cheat and steal from ANYONE, including their Mommas. And now Republicans, the GOP, the RNC, are holding-up … OBSTRUCTING reform of the banking industry. WTF!?
GOP = Grand Obstructionist Party.
Some of my sources:
Susanne Craig, & Deborah Solomon. (2009, July 31). Bank Bonus Tab: $33 Billion --- Nine Lenders That Got U.S. Aid Paid at Least $1 Million Each to 5,000 Employees. Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition), p. A.1. Retrieved April 25, 2010, from Wall Street Journal. (Document ID: 1810571301). http://tinyurl.com/299dg4b
This story isn’t highly publicized. The Associated Press reported it but not a lot of Main Stream Media gave it any play. The Oregonian has it Saturday in a small box at the very bottom of page A2 .
So ask all of those who tell you that Main Stream Media is Liberal to explain the downplay of a story about the Republicans begging their Activist judge pals on the Supreme Court to unleash the Corporate purse strings of their Corporate cronies.
The RNC wants to be allowed to buy elections with Corporate money. Where is the Tea Bagger outrage, huh? Not a peep. Why? Coz Tea Baggers are clueless and hypocritical.
Ask a Tea Bagger if they have any CLUE that one of the key factors leading up to the real Boston Tea Party was the monopolistic British East India “COMPANY”. Ya know “COMPANY” as in “Corporation” as in “Corporatocracy”. And a Monopolistic, as in a Monopoly, company.
The good news is:
Democrats counter court finance ruling
Legislation to target group, corporate campaign spending
Remember back in January,
“In a 5-4 decision in January, the Supreme Court found corporations have the same rights as individuals when it comes to political speech and can use their profits to support or oppose individual candidates, as long as they do not do so in direct coordination with campaigns.”
Talk about “activist judges”, sheez. Corporations are not Individuals and should not have the same rights or be treated as Individuals, any pinhead can get their head wrapped around that! Activist, right-wing Supreme Court judges, were just doing their political best to assist their political party, and that party’s owners/handlers (Corporatocracy) to gain a political advantage in upcoming elections. And anyone who believes that the Corporatocracy has the best interests of WE-THE-PEOPLE on their agenda … is just stupid.
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I favor Universal, Single Payer Health Care. To that end the current legislation disappoints me.
But now I feel much more supportive of it, thanks to the right-wing-nut whack jobs who are melting down in the eleventh hour. If these jack-holes are so opposed to the bill to demonstrate their opposition in these lying, fear-mongering, ignorant ways, then I'm confident it is the right thing to support it.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/20/tea-party-spit/
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/20/little-punk-staffer/http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/19/boehner-eliminate-bank/
http://vodpod.com/watch/3278468-rove-loses-his-cool-in-debate-with-obama-aide
Apparently, according to Newsweek's preview of Hank Paulson's upcoming book, old Hank doesn't think that Conservative Republicans are the brightest bulbs in the box. And this from a dude that was a Treasury Secretary during the Bush nightmare:
http://mydd.com/2010/2/18/hank-paulsons
Repukes do seem to be turning on themselves these days.
That's an easy one ... coz they're closet cases.
I think there might be one in this picture:
Is anyone else sick and tired of the hypocrisy of the right-wing-nuts?
How about a little fatigue from watching our country being destroyed by the Corporatocracy?
Anyone else sick & tired of watching the shadow gubbermint dictate to WE-THE-PEOPLE?
How do you feel about Fox News and Wal-Mart running the country?
There was no controversy, the dude just told it like it is and his boss and the Dems failed to back him up. Wimps.
I don't like Republicans. I don't even like anyone who likes a Republican.
You gotta problem with that?
But, right about now I'm not all that enamored with Democrats either. I think the time for a legitimate 3rd party is overdue.
Hey Iowa, how about "pulling the plug" on your Insurance Industry lobbyist!
"Grassley Endorses "Death Panel" Rumor"
The guy's a lying sack of crap.
Hey, how can ya go wrong holding a Ho' Down with keynote speakers like Joe the Plumber, Karl Rove, John Bolton, Sarah Palin, Lush Bimbaugh, Ann "the man" Coulter, and Newt Gingrich? I mean really, how ya gonna top that guest list, huh? It's a regular GOP Dream Team! WTF are Gee-Oh-Pee'ers thinkin? ;-)
Here ya go ... a few posts about this past week's CPAC gathering:
Another goodie: http://www.atlargely.com/2009/02/cpac-where-psychotics-can-roam-without-medication.html
"Traitors" even: http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2009/03/traitors.html
This is the Nuke Chicago crowd: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/28/155810/965/727/703039
Muther Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/02/john-bolton-cpac-benefits-nuking-chicago
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/02/cpac-conservatives-blame-others-not-their-own-ideas
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009020926/cpac-prediction-another-ann-coulter-tantrum
The Republican Party gave us the current recession, just like the Republican Party gave us The Great Depression. Despite the fact that Republican economic policies have historically proven to be WRONG-headed, over-and-over again, these dumb-asses want to dictate to the majority how we should proceed to repair the damage that Republicans have caused. WTF is that about!?
On last night’s news I saw Repuke after Repuke march up to the podium and stick his fat jowls into the microphone and whine and cry about tax cuts versus spending. Amazing.
Do these shit-for-brains Republican’ts really think that our memories are THAT short? I mean hell, when they were in charge of every branch of government they cut their executive pal’s and the upper 1% of the populations’ tax liability to damn near zero in order to prove to us that when the rich have more monies they will start more businesses and hire more of us great unwashed masses, and that will take us to the promised land. They have been preaching that stupid-fucking-lie to us for decades!
Ok ass-holes, how’d that work out for ya? It was a 100% FAILURE. It didn't work. It was a train wreck. It doesn’t work, and Republican economic policies are dead-fucking WRONG. Period. Look around people. This is a Republican economy we are stuck in right now.
Now who are you going to follow on economic policies? The same Morons who brought us to this point? Or are you finally fed-up enough to try a little change, hmmm?
Obama went directly to the Republicans. He went unarmed (so-to-speak). Obama went ALONE into their midst. Obama dropped some very positive and sensible elements of the stimulus package from his proposal in an effort to appease and cooperate. But, at this stage, it isn’t about the details of the stimulus package proposal for the Republicans anymore. Republicans are willing to play politics with the economic health of our nation. The economic health that they themselves are responsible for mis-managing. Now they want to delay the repair of their own damage and play politics while the majority of us are at risk and/or suffering as a result of their own misdeeds.
Obama is America’s President so he has to be diplomatic and as bipartisan as he can be. As citizens we have no such constraint. Let’s take back our country. Call and tell every Republican Senator where YOU stand. Tell them you are willing to donate MORE monies and more time and more effort to their political opponents in the next election cycle, and Blog about their misguided opposition to this economic stimulus plan and that you will not forget their opposition to it over time, and that you will not allow this issue to fade with time and that you will not rest until a political price has been extracted from those who are obstructing WE-THE-PEOPLE this time around. It ain’t enough to vote and then sit back and watch people. This is government for and BY THE PEOPLE. Get in the game. You can can be a game-changer. Yes We Can!
Bipartisanship? DeMint Predicts Zero Senate GOP Votes For Obama’s Recovery Package.»
Here is the Senate Org chart for ya:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/e_one_section_no_teasers/org_chart.htm
Keep an eye on their voting record:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_teasers/votes.htm
Let’s git ‘er done.
Hey, have you received YOUR bail-out check yet? No? Me neither.
In yesterday’s vote on the stimulus bill in the House, Republicans all joined forces and followed their misguided leader, Ohio’s John A. Boehner (who should consider changing his name to Bone-US) like the obedient sheep their party has become. Willing to follow Boehner right over an economic and political cliff the way their party has already done to this nation, over and over again, ever since Ronnie Raygun. Boner told them how to vote and just like Stepford wives, they all obeyed. But, thank goodness and Democrats for this:
Democrats proved to be slightly more free-thinking as a handful of their own broke ranks to vote with the dark-side (Republicrats). But, far from enough to matter, so fuck ‘em. We’ll just have to keep an eye on those “rebels” ‘til next election cycle! ;-)
Here’s a link to see how they ALL voted:
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 46
(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)
So ask yourself this question … why should we give a damn what Republicans think about the stimulus package when it is Republicans whose misguided, dumb-ass economic policies brought us this mess in the first place, hmmm? I know I don’t (give a damn what Republicans think anymore)!
Oh sure, it’s very appropriate for our President and our party leadership to talk about and promote bipartisanship (ya see how much that effort gained for the country so far). And obtainable bipartisanship is a noble cause; it’s a good thing to strive for … but as citizens, it is our job to call ‘em the way we see ‘em.
The way I see it, Republicans fail to learn from their mistakes and want to blindly forge ahead with the same bullshit ideas that got us in this mess in the first place. Republicans continue to favor the Corporatocracy over We-The-People. Republicans only want to bail-out their rich executive pals and help them to buy some more executive jets with taxpayer bailout dollars. As long as they continue to be stupid, and want to bail-out Wall Street before Main Street, we should continue all-out efforts to reduce their ranks. Fewer Republicans = a healthier nation. There is this citizen’s stimulus plan.
Hey, have you received YOUR bail-out check yet? No? Me neither.
Sounds sorta like Barbara Bush telling us how well-off the poor folks of New Orleans were to be in the Houston Astrodome. Did I mention that I don’t like Republicans, or that I don’t even like anyone who likes a Republican? Damn, they are some dumb muthers.
RNC Chair Candidate Distributes ‘Barack The Magic Negro’ As His Christmas Greeting»
Who names their kid “Chip”, anyway?
The Republican Party is now confined to being the party of the south, and no matter how many Dixie Cups you save the south will not rise again.
According to this bullshit appearing on MSNBC:
A new Senate star emerges from the auto row
Tennessee Republican Bob Corker is pivotal deal-maker in Thursday talks
The short of Corker’s so-called plan is a 3 pronged plan to
1) Screw Labor
2) Screw Labor, and
3) Screw Labor.
If this jack-hole named 'Corker' is the GOP's idea of a 'Star' the Republican Party is truly screwed.
The fact is that Senate Republicans are holding the so-called bail-out plan hostage and the hostage is American, living wage jobs.
I have said that I currently oppose any bail-out for any Corporatocracy. And, I still do. Let them go bankrupt and work their way out of it. Let’s force their hand rather than be threatened and frightened by anymore of their lying rhetoric.
Let’s NOT allow Senate Republicans to force Labor to make any MORE sacrifices while dumb-ass corporate executives get a taxpayer hand-out so they can continue to advertise $84,000 Cadillac Escalades during Sunday night football, as they did this past week!
Republicans will never be satisfied until they can permanently create an American under-class that is desperate enough to work for pennies like Chinese workers. THAT is their ultimate goal.
That is the GOP Republican end-game. It always has been. The suffering created by dumb-ass, out-of-touch auto industry executives and Republican failed economic policies must be shared by all, and not just the American worker.
I have purchased (never leased) literally dozens of American cars in my life time. I have only ever owned ONE Japanese car for a brief period.
But, if dumb-ass Harry Reid allows the GOP Republican MINORITY to dictate the terms of any bail-out which ultimately puts the weight of the changes on the backs of the American auto workers … from where the sun now stands, I have spent my last red cent on American iron. Period.
Secondarily, deep-south Republicans continue to ply their old-school scare tactics:
“It’s quite unlikely that an auto rescue package will cause riots. But if they did occur, a likely proximate cause of public outrage at that point would be the loss of three million jobs that will have resulted because the bailout was not passed.” [SOURCE]
Here is the TRANSLATION of what that ass-hat is really trying to convey:
My rich executive handlers are about to take it in the shorts, and so all you peon laborers had better bend over and spread ‘em for whatever bail-out concessions we demand of labor, or we might just take our show on the road to China, which we are already planning to do anyway, then you’ll be out of a job altogether, which you ultimately will be anyway.
Do you get it folks? This is a no-win deal already. It’s over. Go find a new job out of the auto-industry because that industry was murdered by failed Republican Economic policies, long ago. The only measure of satisfaction you have available to you is to take some richie-rich executives down with you. That’s it. That is the best you can hope for until there is a massive, paradigm shift in thinking and legislation which favors American manufacturing AND the labor that makes it all possible. Labor trumps capital and until that fact is accepted, we’re all screwed. And that acceptance cannot be advanced until there is a complete and total breakdown of the old, old system that is now faltering. Let it go.
Do you wonder why Ford is less at risk than GM & Chrysler? Because Ford has been selling little, high mileage puddle-jumpers to European consumers all along because gas has been $10/gallon in Europe. Meanwhile they have continued to bone the American consumer by denying us access to those kinds of rigs. NOW, you’ll start to see those types of vehicles brought into the U.S. market while GM & Chrysler play catch-up. The point is they have had the rigs available, just not to the American consumer who they have chosen to screw for decades! And now they want the very people they have been screwing all along to lend them a helping hand. Screw ‘em, and the horse they rode in on.
Redemption for Texas? This could cause me to stop saying stuff like, “When they give the country an enema they’re gonna stick the nozzle in Texas”!
Vice President Cheney and former Attorney General Gonzales indicted in Texas.»
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/cheney-gonzo-indicted/
Joe Lieberman is a self-centered, egomaniac, and an embarrassment to the Democratic Party. Lieberman is a hypocrite and a traitor to the Democratic Party. LIEberman is not a Democrat but a registered Independent who backed the Republican candidate for President instead of the Democratic candidate. LIEberman is a Republicrat and a weasel.
So, why is Harry Reid still working with that clown?
If LIEberman is threatening to turn Repubican’t, LET HIM GO. We didn’t get 60, but we got enough to do some good, so let this clown go. Show LIEberman the door. Kick his ass to the curb. Do it NOW.
Pretending to work with LIEberman does not net any points toward bringing us all together.
LIEBERMAN SNUBS NOSE AT VETS
http://www.americablog.com/2008/11/lieberman-snubs-nose-at-vets.html
I still think that both the House and the Senate need new majority leaders … ones with spines.
WTF is Harry Reid talking about when he says this crap:
Nothing worse than a traitor. I hope that in a couple of weeks time LIEberman will have ZERO committee assignments.
Per Daily KOS these are decisions that are made by the Democrat's Steering Committee, which includes the following members:
Stabenow
Kerry
Harkin
Baucus
Inouye
Conrad
Byrd
Levin
Kennedy
Kohl
Wyden
Boxer
Bingaman
Leahy
Clinton
Call ‘em and tell ‘em your own preference. It’s soon to be YOUR government again.
We just suffered through 8 years of Elmer Fudd speak, we don't need anymore!!!
There is a fine line between organized religion and organized crime. It's a stretch to categorize the Mormon Church as a religion ... seems more cult-like. Isn't Oregon's Senator Gordon Smith a member?
If churches want to play politics and donate millions of dollars to political campaigns I support removing their tax-exempt status. http://www.americablog.com/2008/11/mormons-are-coming.html
“Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge "developed from first-hand sources" of a car crash that involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in 1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not entirely, kept from the public. And in documents suing the Navy to release pertinent information, lawyers for the NS News Service allege that a cover-up may be at play.” [SOURCE]
McSame just like McBush.
Here is the closing sentence of the editorial in today’s Farmington, New Mexico’s “The Daily Times – The Four Corners Information Leader”:
"This year, all of our previous endorsements have supported the Republican ticket.
We, however, must break ranks and endorse Barack Obama for president."
[SOURCE]
Here’s a link to the words of David Frum, speechwriter for George Bush and now working at the right wing American Enterprise Institute:
But, be careful DEMS, it ain’t over ‘til it’s over. Never forget 2000, and 2004!
Watch out folks! The Shadow Government, bank-rolled by the Corporatocracy, is pissed that the great unwashed masses rose up and out spent them this campaign season!
They are in shock that the Internet … the great equalizer and latest battlefield, allowed $150 million–plus to be collected in average contributions of only $86/each, in a single month.
Man, does that ever piss them off. It pisses them off because they are accustomed to buying elections by being the big bidder in the great auction that is America. WE-THE-PEOPLE even out spent the tax exempt Religious Right.
So of course, they are now trotting out a load of crap about credit card fraud, the same way that they have been spinning a load of crap about the size and scope of voter fraud in order to purge legitimate voters. New spin, different issue, same cause. The cause is power and influence. It’s about control.
It is about grabbing power, and the Corporatocracy hates to be out spent.
Ya done good, WE-THE-PEOPLE. Ya done REAL good. The conservative John Adams referred to WE-THE-PEOPLE as the ‘rabble’. Apparently, the ‘rabble’ got roused.
But watch out! They want to take this away from you too. It adds insult-to-injury that WE-THE-PEOPLE used credit and debit cards as your weapon of choice too. The very chains designed to shackle and enslave you, and supplied by the Corporatocracy. You turned those against your handlers and keepers of the Corporatocracy the way the founders turned pitch forks and plowshares against the redcoats. Now they’re looking for ways to take back control and limit your ability to participate in a process they fight every day to own.
Don’t let them win. Keep on keeping on … through the tape at the finish line. No let up. ‘Down’ isn’t good enough … only ‘down, and OUT’ will do. Remember, it ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings, and she has only just begun to clear her throat.
Here is a red-flag warning for ya; be careful to consider the sources, and the slants presented in this WaPo story. Take nothing at face value anymore:
McCain Campaign Linked to Race Baiting Hoax???
Yeah typical of Republican'ts to talk a lot of smack about how much more patriotic they are, yadda, yadda, yadda, but the truth is they are dumber than rocks. Click the link below to see how they treat our flag when they think no one is watching ...
Check out the whole story on AmericaBlog including a video of how McCain's campaign treats the American flag: http://www.americablog.com/2008/10/huge-american-flag-dumped-on-ground.html
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Did I mention that I don't like Republicans? Heck, I don't even like anyone who likes a Republican.
Is this for real?
I mean, McCain whines about the source of Obama campaign monies and then asks Russia for money for his campaign? WTF? If true, doesn't that reveal who one of the members of our shadow government might be?
Or, at least which one the GOP candidate intends to bring into his administration and give preferance to if he can manage to steal the election using their investment in his campaign!
Hell, the FIX is probably already in ... that's why Bush has suspended Posse Comitatus and has the Army's First Brigade at the ready!
Lemme suggest to you who the truly UN-American one is:
Here is how stupid some Republicans are … some of them in North Carolina voted some richie-rich textile magnet into the U.S. Congress while he insults the majority of the very electorate who were dumb enough to vote for his lard ass.
Here are some facts about Representative Hayes:
Hayes owns a hosiery mill in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina. His parents were Robert Griffith Hayes, Jr. (October 21, 1907 - November 12, 1998) and Mariam Winslow Cannon (January 22, 1916 - August 4, 2007), daughter of textile magnate Charles Albert Cannon.
Charles Albert Cannon was the son of James William Cannon and president of the Cannon Mills Company from the 1920’s to the 1960’s.
Cannon Mills manufacturing plants were located mainly in Kannapolis, North Carolina (from the Greek for city of looms) and Concord, North Carolina.
There were multiple plants employing thousands of people during this time, running three shifts and producing sheets and towels.
So Hayes himself was born Richie-rich and was campaigning along side of cowardly DICK Cheney who used something like 5 deferments to avoid serving in the military during Vietnam. What the hell do either of these two clowns know about real, working, Americans?
Those two blow-hards want everyone to believe that they are somehow expert critics on the subject of working hard!
That is not the saddest part. The saddest part is that enough cracker-asses in North Carolina are fooled by the rhetoric of these two haters to actually vote against their own, personal, best interests and cast their lot with these right-wing-nut-jobs like Hayes. No wonder the Confederacy lost the Civil War! There must be something in the air and water down there that predisposes folks to being ignorant.
These fat, old, pasty-white politicos are total hypocrites. Racists. God, Guns and Gays are divisive issues meant to incite you into a frenzy which might divert your attention away from the FACT that they are GOP Republicans and the GOP Republican platform is all about the rich and damn the poor. Everything about the Republican Party Platform is about trickle down economics. Take a friggin’ look around people … the GOP Republican Party platform brought you The Great Depression and now they have done it again …. why in the hell would you be stupid enough to allow them to divert your attention to goofy, emotional issues which are by and large meaningless??? HELLO!!!??? Sheez, aren’t you tired of this type of bullshit politics yet people? It only works if YOU and I LET it work. Grow a brain people; stop the nonsense.
Rep. Hayes: ‘Liberals Hate Real Americans That Work And Achieve And Believe In God’»
Later the lying sack tries to deny he said what he said:
Rep. Hayes Lies: I Never Said ‘Liberals Hate Real Americans’
Oh yeah, he did say that. He said exactly that. Click the link above and listen to the recordng for yourself. Typical Republican.
Here's a link provided by one of the commenters on Think Progress that includes a picture that captures the essence of what's really going on: http://arisfreedomswitch.blogspot.com/2008/10/calling-for-real-americans-to-stand-up.html
Bachmann Lies, Denies She Ever Called Barack Obama’s Views ‘Anti-American’»
I’ll tell ya who is anti-American … these lying, hypocritical, Nazi, right-wing, bitches and bastards of the GOP, that’s who! They lie, and then they lie about lying! Just click the link above and watch the video, and you decide for her what her real policies might be because, like any good Republican, she seems confused about her own policies! Confused my ass, she’s lying through her teeth.
Let's do this ... every single time one of these GOP Republican Bush Bum-lickers gets caught lying their ass-off, GIVE a few dollars to their opponent regardless of where they are, here is the link to donate to
No cell coverage where you live? No problem, just ask your friendly Secret Service agent to dial up Verizon and / or AT&T and ask them to build a new 6-figure cell tower in your back yard, problem solved.
Sheez. You may have already seen this story in the Washington Post:
Verizon and AT&T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch
The company I work for supplies me with a Verizon cell phone for business. And, I carry an AT&T phone of my own for personal use. I don’t even turn the Verizon on any more. It stays in my laptop bag because it gets zero bars in my office, and zero bars in my home office, too. It’s a useless piece of crap. A paper weight, really. The AT&T gets full bars in both those places but, apparently the owners of our company, who live in a different city altogether, prefer Verizon for whatever reasons [mine is not to question why, mine is but to do or die].
But, perhaps I should forward them this story about how the McCain’s work around this issue. Just build me a couple of new cell towers. One near the office, and one in my yard and call it good!
Listen, for those of you who read the WaPo report and think that this lack of cell coverage is somehow a security issue and that must be why the Secret Service is calling the telecom giants on behalf of the McCains … forget about it. You can be certain that the U.S. Secret Service has access to satellite phones that work independent of any / all cell tower issues.
This was just a couple of Richie-riches using the U.S. Secret Service to do their private bidding, and for nothing more than their, and their guests’ own personal convenience. And, if you read the WaPo piece you’ll be able to connect the dots between the McSame campaign, and the giant telecom LOBBYISTS of the Corporatocracy, scratching each others’ backs.
Bush lives on a semi-remote Texas ranch, so of course, McSame lives on a semi-remote Arizona ranch. How about we amend the Constitution to disallow anymore ranchers from running for Prez.? All in favor, say *I*! The “I”s have it.
GOP Republicans are some crooked bastards, and McCain campaign hired the crooks ... making McCain one of them!
Mortgage firm arranged stealth campaign
Obama now leads McSame in one of THE previously reddest states in the union! This is significant because Missouri has traditionally been staunchly Republican’t.
It is also significant to note that part of the reason that Bush’s tenure has been such a cluster is because Bush stole elections, lost the popular vote, and never got that all-important ‘mandate’ from WE-THE-PEOPLE.
Bush-Cheney-Rove stole the election(s) but, could not steal that intangible ‘mandate’ from WE-THE-PEOPLE.
Meanwhile, it is obvious that WE-THE-PEOPLE have endorsed Obama, and he only needs to win the election despite GOP dirty tricks, vote stealing, and manipulation of Main Stream Media and he’ll have that missing mandate, no-problem.
Yesterday Obama drew a HUGE crowd in St. Louis, Missouri.
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (CNN) – Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill chastised Governor Sarah Palin for recent comments that she likes to visit “pro-American” parts of the United States.
“We have reached a new low in American politics when someone dares to say that one part of America is more pro-American than another part of America,” McCaskill said at an afternoon Barack Obama rally. [SOURCE]
Claire McCaskill blasts the McCain/Palin campaign: “stumbling, erratic, all over the map”Obama draws record crowd in St. Louis
100,000 people
Huge Obama crowd in Missouri
Obama Says Meet Me in St. Louis - and a Record 100,000 Turn Up
There ya go folks. This is significant. Not unexpected, but significant.
A Republican.
The former Secretary of State in the Bush Administration.
Retired General - U.S. Army.
Former National Security Advisor (1987–1989)
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993) during the Gulf War.
Vietnam Combat Veteran – Officer. Wounded.
Powell obtained an MBA from George Washington University in 1971 and then served a White House fellowship under President Richard Nixon.
Powell was reportedly being considered as a potential Vice Presidential running mate by John McCain, who is on the record as highly regarding Colin Powell.
Here is an excerpt from Huffington Post:
[snip]
McCain's high opinion of Powell as one of the "most credible, most respected" men in America is not merely an election-year spasm, either. When asked in 2001 if he would have chosen Powell for a Cabinet position had he succeeded in his first presidential run, McCain said "oh, yes." During two December 2000 appearances on NBC Nightly News, McCain described himself as "exuberant" over Powell's selection as secretary of state, which he predicted would secure "a beneficial effect on the conduct of American foreign policy." McCain added in another TV appearance that President Bush was "blessed" to have Powell working for him. In 2003, when Powell faced criticism from Newt Gingrich over his plan to travel to Syria, it was McCain who rose to the secretary's defense on MSNBC's Hardball, when he said: "I think it's appropriate that Colin Powell is going there."
Even at the end of Powell's somewhat frustrating tenure in George W. Bush's inner circle of policy advisers, McCain praised his overall performance, saying: "When he took the helm at the State Department nearly four years ago, I was confident that Secretary Powell would lead with honor and distinction ... I have not been disappointed." And in a CBS interview during this year's primary race, McCain suggested that one of President Bush's chief failures "was not to listen more to our military leadership, including people like General Colin Powell."
[snip]
Colin Powell backs Barack Obama
… and Bon Jovi ain’t the only one that doesn’t want to be associated with McSame:
For The Fifth Time, McCain Campaign Illegally Uses Artists’ Copyrighted Music»
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