THE COUNTRY NEEDS A DEMOCRATICALLY CONTROLLED CONGRESS AS WELL AS A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT
DIVIDED GOVERNMENT LEADS TO DEADLOCK. THE CHANGE WE NEED WILL COME ONLY IF OBAMA HAS THE CONGRESS BEHIND HIM
People of all political persuasions have been sharply critical of the way the Democrats have run the Congress for the past two years. The voters overwhelming expressed through their vote in 2006 that they wanted the war in Iraq brought to a screeching halt. They were tired of the killing of American soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians, tired of the $10 billion a month that the U. S. was spending on a war that cannot be won, and tired of the lies that were flowing out of the Bush administration with the ease of a babbling creek flowing gently down the side of a mountain.
President Bush’s approval rating has been falling faster than a bolder down the side of an incline and the Congressional approval rating was diminishing even faster.
It appeared to the people that all they needed to do was to kick the Republican bums out and the Iraqi problem would be solved. However, the Senate has a weird house rule that before a piece of legislation can be brought to the floor, 60 Senators out of its 100 members must vote “Aye” on the question of cutting off debate on the bill before it. If the leadership cannot garner the required 60 votes, the opposition party can talk the proposed legislation down and the vote will be delayed until such a time as the 60 votes acquired.
Unfortunately, the Democrats had only 49 seats they could count on while 49 Republicans voted in solidarity with the Bush position on the war, on taxes and a whole host of issues dear to the heart of the conservatives. There are two independents—Joe Lieberman from Connecticut and Bernie Sanders from Vermont; in 2006 they voted with the Democrats in organizing Senate, but even then the Democrats fell nine (9) votes short of the number needed to end debate which means that many bills the Democrats hoped to place into law including legislation to bring the war in Iraq to an end, were killed by Republican filibusters.
We must have a filibuster-proof Senate and an overwhelmingly Democratic House of Representatives if the Barack Obama’s program for change is to come to fruition.
McCain is going around the country pleading with the voters to deny the Democrats the seats in the Senate they need to stop the war and to pass the Obama agenda. He is attempting to strike fear into the minds of uncommitted independents, indecisive voters who even after all of the months this campaign has lingered on, all of the debates, all of the punditry, the unending commentary, and nearly two years of polls, there still are people who are undecided.
Recently on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Jon Steward posed a question to John Oliver, one of the show’s regulars—“How could anyone be undecided after almost two years of the primary campaign, followed by three presidential debates, one Vice Presidential debate and volumes of television, radio and newspaper ads, two national conventions, and 24 hour cable news coverage?” Oliver reported to Stewart that he had just completed a study of these “undecided” voters and he found the a large percentage comprised those who are stupid, some were racist Democrats, others were so insecure they simply could not make up their minds, and finally, there was one last group who are poor, downcast Cub’s fans. Obviously, Oliver was joking, but it does seem strange that anyone who knows anything has yet to decide for whom to vote on November 4, 2008.
It is obvious that McCain realizes that his chances of winning the presidency are diminishing every day that passes and that the only thing the Republicans can salvage from this disastrous campaign for the GOP is a few seats in the Senate.
McCain is attempting to strike fear in the hearts of Americans that should the Democrats control the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate there would be no “checks and balances.”
McCain is mourning the potential loss of control by the right-wing of the Republican Party in the Supreme Court if Obama is elected. Of course, for me and my kind, that is precisely what we hope to do. We have had enough of Thomas and Scalia’s Neanderthal perspective on the Constitution and are underwhelmed with the decisions of the rookie Justices—Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Alito and the nearly dominant conservative posture of the court with Associate Justice Kennedy being the only one that flirts with both sides of the aisle.
McCain’s supporters, perhaps members of one of his 507’s are motoring through Michigan and other states with a truck loaded down with lies, misrepresentation of Obama’s platform, racial slurs, and out-and-out meanness either engendered by ignorance or an abject disregard for the facts.
Even McCain and Palin, on a daily basis, in town after town, state after state are telling the same lies they have been tossing at Republican followers from the beginning of the campaign.
McCain and Palin tell crowds that Obama wants to raise taxes, redistribute the wealth, steal money from taxpayers and hand it over to people who pay no taxes. The crowds, not knowing the facts or bothering to explore the truth, boo and scream like a herd of ignorant hyenas.
Palin out and out lies when she says that Obama supports a tax increase on those earning $42,000 when the wicked witch of the North knows damn well that no one who earns less than $250,000 will pay one cent in increased taxes.
John McCain rants and raves about Obama the “redistributor” of wealth, i.e. taking money from the average taxpayer and giving it to people who pay no taxes. McCain the former Navy hero is precisely that, a “former” hero who has lost his honor and his glory in his malicious and aimless attempt to win the presidency. Since when does a “tax cut” for those who earn less than $250,000 become a redistribution of the wealth.
When George Bush choose to rob the middle class of their rightful share of America’s wealth earned during the Clinton administration, Obama’s plan would simply return to those earning under $250,000 the income that was shamelessly stolen from them by the Bush/McCain arm of the Republican Party.
A TV reporter in Orlando, Florida asked one of the most ridiculous questions I have ever heard from an alleged TV reporter. Taking off on the McCain/Palin lie that Obama’s tax plan was socialistic, Barbara West quoted Karl Marx who said “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
In other words, Barbara West, implied that Barack Obama is a Marxist. She also falsely accused Obama of being an organizer of Acorn and went on to ask if Biden was embarrassed about Acorn signing up voters for the Obama campaign. The truth is that the Obama’s people paid Acorn to register voters during the primaries, but have not used their services in the general election.
I do not know Barbara West, but having been a former president and The Obama registrants solicited by Acorn were strictly for the primaries Chairman of a television broadcasting corporation decades ago, I personally would have terminated any reporter who made such charges against a man or woman running for the presidency of this country. She is definitely ill-informed, but knowing that she works with a Fox station I can understand why she is permitted to uses lies, inferences and other means to misconstrue the public’s image of a candidate that is not a Fox conservative.
The American people should not be deceived into believing either McCain or Palin. They have become so accustomed to lying; they would not know the truth even if it slammed them in the face like a lemon merange pie.
In the final week of the 2008 presidential election, look out for McCain to throw the kitchen sink and the outhouse at Obama in a desperate attempt to get himself elected.
At his age of 72, this is the final curtain. He is attempting, by hook or crook, to stop what appears to be Obama’s moment in history.
Unfortunately, McCain has run a horrendous campaign. If he can not manage a successful political campaign, why should anyone believe that he can manage the country. He has been erratic, indecisive, and inconsistent and has forced himself into a corner where he was compelled to resort to deceit, mendacity and dishonesty. It is tragic to see a former hero turn himself and his campaign into a mud slinging throng of conservatives, out of touch and hopelessly lost political cowards.
I knew the moment he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate that he was going dirty. If his first executive decision is so obviously incompetent for the simple reason that he only spoke with Palin twice before selecting her as his running mate to the highest office in the land and one of the most powerful in the world, it is symptomatic of a complete lack of executive experience, God forbid that he be placed in a position where he will be required to make life and death decisions in the name of this great nation.
The most telling denunciation of McCain’s candidacy for president is the group of conservatives who have abandoned the Republican nominee:
General Colin Powell
Christopher Buckley, the son of William F. Buckley the philosophical father of modern conservatism in America
The Arizona-members of the Barry Goldwater family including the granddaughter of standard bearer of contemporary Republican conservatism, C. C. Goldwater, endorses Obama for president.
The granddaughter of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower
William Weld, former Republican Governor of Massachusetts
Former Republican Senator of Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee
Former U. S. Representative from Iowa, James Leach
Former Virginia Governor, Linwood Holton
Former Los Angeles Mayor, Richard Riordan
William Ruckelshaus who served in both the Nixon and Reagan administrations
Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of President Richard M. Nixon
Four star Air Force General, Merrill, and “Tony” McPeak in addition to the twenty five generals and admirals who stood with Obama on the stage of the Democratic convention
Kenneth Adelman, former Security expert in the Bush Administration
Scott McClellan, former Press Secretary for George W. Bush
Former Republican Minnesota Governor, Arnie Carlson
Wisconsin Republican State Senator Barbara Lorman
Former Republican U. S. Senator for Connecticut, Lowell Wicker, Jar
Actor Dennis Hooper, one of the few admitted Republicans in Hollywood
Members of the Ronald Reagan family.
When Republicans break ranks, it is a very important statement about the quality of the Republican candidate for president.
Our first job is to get Barack Obama elected president, but simultaneously, we need for the Democrats to control the Congress in order to pass the legislation vital to the Obama program for change.
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