REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL VICTORIES IN NEW JERSEY AND VIRGINIA ARE NOT A REFLECTION ON OBAMA, BUT ON THE POPULARITY OF THE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR
The Republican Party, nationally, continues to have a miserable 20% approval rating due in large part best described by Bill Maher this week on Late Night: “The Democrats have moved to the right and the Republicans have moved into the insane asylum.” We have seen the biggest exhibition of imbeciles at fake Tea Parties, Rigged Town Hall Meetings, comments by senile old Republicans coached to shout out mindless remarks about Obama as a Fascist, a Communist, a Socialist, a non-citizen,
HOWEVER, IT IS NOT TIME FOR THE OBAMA POLITICAL TEAM TO TAKE FOR GRANTED THEY CAN HOLD THE HOUSE AND SENATE IN 2010.
The two primaries held the week of November 3 in New Jersey and Virginia contrary to the expected celebration on Fox News [Bill Krystol, Sean Hannity, Dick Morris, the several anchors on Fox’s morning and afternoon Fox News that I never watch, Bill O’Reilly] and, of course, the always disconcerting Chairman of the RNC, Michael Steele [their token minority leader] etc.went into a tizzy like a bunch of kids at a high school party on ecstasy.
My advice to my Republican friends is that you should not become too excited about victories in New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races in 2009. There were too many conflicting local issues to blame this one on Obama.
Besides, in the case of Bill Krystol as Jon Stewart of The Daily Show likes to remind him when he is a guest of the Stewart show as the man who “Is always wrong.” And, in fact, Stewart is correct.
Krystol, editor of the very right wing The Weekly Standard is a neo-conservative which if they aren’t they should be a major embarrassment to the Republican Party. He fought like the devil to invade Iraq in order to establish an island of democracy from which the U. S. could operate to convert every other Middle Eastern nation to democracy. Every election held outside of Israel under the banner of democracy has elected parties in opposition to America and Israel and more often than not selected an aggressive Islamic Party prepared to kill, kill, kill. Thanks Bill, we really appreciate the brilliant analysis you and your fellow neo-conservatives have offered on the state of affairs in the Middle East.
They promised us that the people of Iraq would hurl bouquets of flowers at our soldiers’ feet, and that we would pay for the war from the proceeds of the sale of Iraqi oil. To date we have not received one $.01 from that oil, but we have watched as over 4,000 of our young men and women were slaughtered by IEDs and car bombers, and we have/will spend close to $2 trillion dollars all told before this, the greatest miscalculation in the history of U. S. diplomacy and strategic defense is over. Weapons of mass destruction that threatened the very existence of the U. S. and touted by the one of the least qualified Secretaries of State to ever hold the office, Condoleezza Rice, were never found anywhere in Iraq. Nonetheless, she warned that we could well see a mushroom shaped cloud hovering over our major cities in the near future.
The Republican’s neo-conservatives started this war on a big fat lie and will end it with out nation near bankruptcy because he spent far more than the $50 billion projected the war hawks and on top of that mountain of foolishness, they gave a massive tax break to the top 1% of the American people.
We could go on and on and on, but the fact remains is that the group of clowns that had the audaciousness to go television after the election results were in to declare that Barack Obama’s entire presidency had been kicked to the curb by these two elections should tell us something about the stupidity of this group of do-nothing Republicans.
On November 5, 2009 a group of right wing, ill-informed kooks organized by the mentally challenged Congresswoman from Minnesota’s 6th District, Michele Bachmann, protested in front of the U. S. Capitol against Health Care Reform.
Some of the unknown [to me] Congressmen literally threw the bill into the wind and were applauded by some senior citizens and mentally old people who fail to recognize that we have arrived in the twenty-first century and that 44,000 people are still dying annually for lack of health insurance.
Bachmann is a wonder to behold. I could tell she was a stranger on the planet earth when I real in her biography that she attended Oral Roberts University and was a member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod a wildly conservative cousin of the Lutheran Church of America. When you meet an adherent to the preaching of Oral Roberts or any Evangelical offspring of mainstream Christianity you can rest assured you are on the far right of the faith that the vast majority of the Christians throughout the world hold true.
She was very active in local pseudo-political activities while practicing law. In 1993 Bachmann and other associates opened the New Heights Charter School. However, imposing her personal, right wing beliefs upon the curriculum and the faculty, a group of parents of the children who elected to attend that school along with the public school district complained vociferously about Bachmann’s people inserting Christianity into the school’s curriculum which to them amounted to the use of public funds for a religious school.
Denise Stephens, longtime Republican accused the school’s board of directors which included Michele Bachmann “of trying to set up classes of Creationism and advocating that the school include in its program something called twelve [12] Christian principles. ….”
Further, the school officials banned such movies such as Walt Disney’s Aladdin making the horrendous claim that this popular children’s movie “endorsed witchcraft and paganism.”
During a heated school meeting Bachmann, according to Stephens, became angry and asked, “Are you going to question my integrity?” and along with four other likeminded school board members resigned on the spot.
When Mark Kennedy the 6th District Congressman chose to run for the U. S. Senate seat vacated by Mark Dayton of Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party [DFL], Bachmann jumped into the fray; and she came loaded for bear. Because of her hard right credentials, the religious right pours millions into her campaign coffers:
According to Bloomberg.com news, evangelical conservative leader James Dobson put the resources of his organization behind her 2006 campaign. Dobson's Focus on the Family planned to distribute 250,000 voter guides in Minnesota churches to reach social conservatives, according to Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota Family Council, a local affiliate of Dobson's group. In addition to Minnesota, Dobson’s group also organized turnout drives in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey and Montana.[16]
During a debate televised by WCCO on October 28, 2006, news reporter Pat Kessler quoted a story that appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and asked Bachmann whether it was true that the church she belonged to taught that the Pope is the Anti-Christ. Bachmann stated that her church "does not believe that the Pope is the Anti-Christ, that's absolutely false... I'm very grateful that my pastor has come out and been very clear on this matter, and I think it's patently absurd and it's a false statement."[17] Bachmann is a member of a church that is part of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, whose doctrine teaches that the Roman Catholic papacy is the Antichrist identified in Scripture.[18]
After being elected to Congress, Bachmann appeared on Chris Matthew’s Hardball, during which she joined the chorus of other out-of-control Republicans by criticizing Barack Obama and his association with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright and a fellow board member of a prominent Chicago charity, Bill Ayers. “…Usually we associate with people who have similar ideas to us, and it seems that it calls into questions what Barack Obama’s true beliefs, and values, and thoughts are.”
When Matthews asked her “How many people in the Congress of the United States do you suspect as being anti-American?” she replied, “What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would [the news media] would they would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America…”
At the protest Bachmann organized in opposition to the Obama Health Care bill before the Congress, she enticed several little known Republican Congressman who no one of importance has ever heard of before to speak. Several of them took copies of the bill and tossed them off the platform like trash. For those of us who have fought for health care reform, for the 50 million people without any health insurance, for the 44 million who die each year for lack of health insurance, for those who have been forced to file bankruptcy because of ridiculously high medical bills, and for those who can not afford to pay one more penny for premiums than they already pay, these Congressmen and Michele Bachmann should go to hell, straight to hell and do not pass go.
John Boehner, one of the most heartless and least charismatic Republicans [nearly has bad as Mitch McConnell] and top leader in the House Republican caucus, also spoke. Very dramatically he produced a booklet from his suit coat and waved it ostentatiously. “This is my personal copy of the constitution.” And he began to read: “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the ...”
The only problem is that Boehner was not reading from the Constitution which he esteems, but without knowing it, the leader of the Republicans in the U. S. Congress was reading from the Declaration of Independence. What a fool! Cincinnati, Ohio can surely find a person to run for Congress who knows something about government, especially about the Constitution.
And to top off a day of total disaster, the person who led the Pledge of Allegiance got the words totally screwed up.
Now you know why the Republican Party has a twenty [20%] percent approval rating by the American people.
The most absurd exploit of the week was Boehner’s introduction of the Republican Party’s version of health reform. 130 days after they said they would present their version of health care, a bill was finally introduced. Evaluated by the Congressional Budget Office, it was determined that the Republican version would increase the number of uninsured—yes, you read it correctly—would increase the number of uninsured from 47 million to 69 million and increase the deficit by $84 billion.
After all of the town hall meetings planned and paid for by the insurance companies and the Republican Party design to make Obama’s health care reform look ridiculous, too expensive, too much deficit, too much debt and laced with the lies about death panels, cutting Medicare and Medicaid, radically increasing premiums, rationing health services, and implementing a government operated health insurance program called the public option, this crowd of bozos come up with their version of a health plan 130 days late, with an increase in the number of uninsured than we have now by 29 million and a larger debt by $84 billion than proposed by the president. If it were not so tragic it would be humorous. If it were not so stupid, it would laughable.
To be sure that I am fair and balanced, I will take a minute to speak of the Democrats.
This does not mean that Obama and the Democrats should rest in the shade of the victory of 2008. I can run off a list of things I wish that Obama had done differently.
1. I wish he would not have appointed the former employees of Goldman Sachs—the very company that lead the way for Bush’s Great Recession. It looks bad and people are pissed off that Obama is acting like George W. Bush II
2. I wish the Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner would move faster to get some of the $700 billion dollars into the companies that are going to hire lots of people fast.
3. Geithner needs to get some new rules and regulations out to banks that not only puts a cap on their bonus’s and benefits, but forces them to loan money to worthy creditors, particularly if they are creating jobs.
4. Do not compromise on the Health Care Reform with those who have been enemies of this legislation for decades and are in the hip pockets of the insurance business.
5. Don’t give General Stanley McChrystal the 40,000 troops he is seeking. 40,000 more troops will not win that conflict for the U. S. and he is too steeped in traditional military tactics to put together a creative approach to a war that nobody in history has really been able to win.
6. Obama attempted to write a bi-partisan health care reform bill to no avail. As I said in my posting, “Screw bi-partisanship” Republicans can neither spell nor practice it.
7. Through Executive Order, pan the “don’t ask, don’t tell” before you become a victim of what appears to be a strong need on your part to be liked by everyone.
8. Kick Geithner’s ass and get this country going again. Listen to Paul Volcker who is probably the best advisor you have to trust and lean on.
9. Give Hillary lots of attention and responsibility; she is a superb Secretary of State.
10. Gibbs is only an average Press Secretary; by the way, the Fox News scenario was a mistake. Do not mention the word Fox anywhere to anyone. Maybe silence really is golden and will make that miserable crew go away.
11. I hope the president’s political strategists are in gear of 2010 and 2012 because things are going to get tougher including you, Mr. President.
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