I don't know how long it will last but I have cudo's for one person: Rachel Maddow. The woman is still fighting for freedom. She still supports the best candidate we have elected and that is President Obama. The man is decent, honorable, has said a hundred times, on television that he wanted a public option, and you know what... have the guts to face this if you can...
If Washington stinks, then who sent the stinkees? Me, maybe you. No one else went in that booth for us. No one else is letting the Main Streem Media get away with the same crap they always have. I've written CNN 50 times to correct a lie. Got zero from them but I tried.
I don't even bother with fox.
Media matters, Alan Grayson, great job.
Anyone who complains, whines, points fingers at the other guy, well, point them right back to us. I'm pointing at me as hard as I can. I'm sick to death of writing. My fingers hurt, a lot. But I'll be darned if I let one more day go by before I don't take responsibility for what goes on in America.
And I'm NOT talking about the President. You can fuss all you want but he didn't pack up Evan Bayh and carry him with him to Washington. He was waiting when he got there, along with the biggest bunch of jerks in America.
We send the first African American President to Washington, then we abandon him, like he was God and no longer needs us. Hardly. He can only do what we force the American people to let him do.
And I've written until I'm blue in the face about the Citizens United Decision. Have you been to their website? It is a fundamentalist haven. The have one goal and one only and that is to make us a theocracy. They were scared to death when Obama went to Washington, so the double Bush, Reagan Supreme Court got together and twisted and tortured a little case into the biggest win in history for the radical right wing religious nuts. And don't even write me about how the people who worship there are sincere.
I know that they may be. But I also know that they have not researched what denomination they belong to. Try and find it if you can. If they teach the rapture and they teach strict adherence to the Bible and you're a woman get ready to give up your right to vote. You won't have it much longer. Sarah Palin, according to her church, has no right to run for office, she can only do what some man tells her.
So point all you want, but if you're not pointing at yourself, you are blaming the wrong person... especially if you point at the President. Read your civics book again. HE HAS NO POWER BUT THE VETO. Congress has all the power. And still the man is getting rid of DADT.
And please go do two things, tell every old person that the first thing their Republican congress wants to do is give Medicare to an insurance company so they can get what they can afford from the insurance company. No more republican tax dollars going to keep you well!
And all those social security dollars? They have them.. not you. You paid IN. Now they are going to invest it in the market and then they are going to walk away with your dollars. The republican congress won't let the President get one single bill passed to regulate their mess. Oh, and if you think it's a Democrat's fault, any Democrat... every President has to rely on experts to explain those bills. Every single deregulation bill was written by REPUBLICANS. I'd love for you to find one written by a DEMOCRAT because I have a list, and so far all I can find is republicans. Phil Gramm deregulated more than any man in history. He lives in Switzerland now, and he's rich. Wonder how he got so rich in Congress. Start with Enron loophole.
I'm going to work. I'm sure that there will be plenty of people yelling at me when I get back so I'll answer after 6. EST.
I am an American. I am proud of America. I don't give a rat's behind what the republicans say about big government. They just don't want to pay to police the markets and enforce white collar crime against white collar laws. They also don't want jobs to recover, so they can blame it on the President. I actually heard a jerk a few days ago say that the stock market was just holding until the President was gone so the Republicans can take credit. Well, no news there. They always claim credit for someone cleaning up their messes.
What scares me, their next mess will be too big to clean.
I'll be dammed if I help one more republican or Citizens United and their fundamentalist agenda. Their sissy men can't do anything without getting in the woods, passing around a stick and blaming women for their troubles. F-Them. If you think Citizens United is about anything other than making this Country a theocracy you need to visit their site. Then google "David Bossie and Newt Gingrich."
You can point the finger at business all you want, but I know about 217 Democratic business leaders that are scared to death that the republican party will turn this into a two class society. Very rich and very poor. They are fighting as hard as they can and getting death threats and their houses torn up. I'm with them. I'm terrorized but I'm with them. I still have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights and until I don't, I'm going to fight.