There Oughta Be A Law

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GOP cheating, Republicans, voter suppression. Election 2012, voting

There really ought to be a law against grownups (age not mind) who dress up little girls to parade around in front of other adults looking like little sluts.

But that’s not what we are talking about today.

We are talking about a growing number of other idiots who run companies of various sizes and shapes. I have counted now four, and I suspect there are more and employees quietly contact the press and show them what they’ve been getting from the boss.

Not clear?

Oh, okay. Well, some of our “job creators” are sending out letters and e-mails to their employees with words to this effect:

“Things are going pretty well but that might not continue, especially if a certain administration is re-elected. Now I’m telling you that I don’t intend to pay one cent more in taxes. So let’s be clear. I’m not telling you who to vote for, that’s totally up to you. But if the wrong person is elected, and my taxes go up at all, well, your job may be in jeopardy. It’s up to you.”

The Koch brothers are the latest to issue their threat of lay-offs to their employees. David Siegel of Westgate Resorts of Orlando has threatened to retire and take his money and jobs to the Caribbean. This pig masquerading as a human owns a 90,000 SQUARE FOOT HOUSE. Arthur Allen, CEO of ASG Software Solutions has done the same, telling his employees that they can vote for whom they wish, but if they. . .

“fail to make the right choice on November 6th… I don’t want to hear any complaints regarding the fallout that will most likely come.”

Couple this with the TV ad that Romney was running featuring him standing with a bunch of smiling miners in Ohio. CEO Robert E. Murray allegedly forced his employees to do this, threatening reprisals, loss of jobs, and intimidation to contribute to Murray’s PAC. Miners were required to take off time without pay to stand in the photographs.

Add to this with the war of suppression that is being organized for election day. Here in my own state of New Mexico, Republicans have been caught teaching poll watchers illegal tactics such as encouraging provisional balloting even when there is no problem with the voter registration, demanding photo ID from voters which is not required, telling those who have received voter purge letters that they must vote provisionally, telling Spanish speakers that there are no Spanish language ballots, and that voters who have moved within the state must vote provisionally. All these are lies.

I can but urge you to learn what is required in your state. Make sure you can step up and step in and stop illegal harassment. You need do nothing more than call the police. I’m told that in the 2008 election several Republican poll watchers were arrested and removed from the scene for illegal activities such as this.

Republican poll watchers nationally have promised to make voters (Democratic ones of course) so uncomfortable that they will feel that they are being followed by the police.

I find this simply awful. No doubt some of it is illegal. It all should be.

Voting is our precious right and the only thing that stands between us and oligarchy, plutocracy, or whatever else you might wish to call it. Every effort should be made to allow every reasonable desire to vote happen. There is far more likelihood that people who have a right to vote will be denied than that a few dozen will by design or mistake, vote where they have no right to.  It’s not worth our democracy.

Be vigilant. Call your Democratic party and find out what you can do to protect the right to vote. Do it today.

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• Voter suppression in New Mexico? (salon.com)
• The Dangers of Poll-Watchers (theroot.com)
• Report from Tennessee: GOP invites Tea Party poll-watcher to train as poll official (maddowblog.msnbc.com)
• “A Dangerous Scenario”: The Million Wingnut March Of “Volunteer Poll Watchers” (mykeystrokes.com)
• True the Vote (balloon-juice.com)
• Koch Industries, and other CEOs warn employees of layoffs if Obama is reelected (theobamahustle.wordpress.com)
• Pro-Romney CEOs forgo subtlety as part of campaign push (maddowblog.msnbc.com)
• Voting For Lyin UnFitt Mitt Romney? You’re A Traitor To America…. (theobamacrat.com)
• David Siegel: ‘I Didn’t Try To Intimidate’ Employees With Anti-Obama Email (kaystreet.wordpress.com)
• Another US firm tells employees to ‘vote for Romney’ or ‘lose jobs’ (indiavision.com)

Well, I’ll be Damned

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budget, Election 2012, GOP, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Republicans, tax plan, teabaggers, Vice president

Well, knock me down, turn around and kick me in the keister. I’m shocked, I tell you shocked. Willard apparently is prepared to turn the whole thing over to budget wonder boy and all around cold-heart, one Paulie Ryan.

You know, the guy with the budget plan that Willard never endorsed, and now it will be “his”  because there ain’t no way around that stump.

And God the filing cabinets are just crammed full of analyses of the slicing and dicing intent of the Ryan budget, so all the work is done. We just gotta plaster it all over the place and smirk as we point out that it is just this sort of budget plan that allows our Willard to zoom around the world in his private jets and thumb his nose at the IRS while counting his millions in off-shore and overseas accounts.

The abacus dweebs must be fairly bouncing off their office chairs with glee that FINALLY, accounting is back in fashion–the good old “cook the books” variety. They will razzle and dazzle with sleight of hand, rabbits in hats, disappearing girls, and coins coming from ears. You will hear that the there is no intent to reduce the poor to deaths door iffin’ they don’t get to work at them slave wages for the company man. No sirree, it’s all smoke and mirrors.

But we have the magic glasses and can see through it all.

In a pure act of desperation, somebody decided that this was the only hope. And I can’t imagine that the Democrats could be much happier than they are today.

Such is my take on the day’s events.

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This kind of sums it up doesn’t it?

I’ve been led to understand that Willard often ignores the council of his advisers (and frankly that wouldn’t be half bad since they seem rather incompetent anyway), and decides things from his regal upper crust location in the stratosphere of America.

Is this one of those occasions? Or has he taken their advice this time? It seems a bungled play for sure.

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Thank goodness Curiosity was sent to a place that is vastly more likely to have life on it!

What excuse will the GOP use after November as to why they aren’t interested in actually governing?

I’m betting that the GOP, whatever the outcome will be paralyzed by its two wings–the viciously big business wing vs the viciously insane teapots.

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The best chance the Restuplicans have of winning of course, is if they can suppress the vote.

Still, I’m not sure that they can win even then. Will “republicans” show up at the polls if everyone knows who they are? I mean consider the embarrassment! Might as well carry a sign “I’m a horse’s ASS, and I am one selfish SOB”.

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Do Republicans have their own dictionaries?

Is truth in it?

I wonder what it says?

truth: noun. A vaporous transparency, malleable, subject to change on a moments notice. A mold, used to craft a position for the moment. The opposite of reality and accuracy. Synonym: relative.

Photoshop!!! Make that Ryan Plan.

No difference.

Ryan’s is just prettier packaging.

And it carries the Ayn Rand seal of approval, which is dystopian all by itself.

Is Willard reading Atlas Shrugged today?

And so it all comes down to this.

The two hair guys.

The two businessmen, with their briefcases and adding machines. They claim we have to do this.

But they have been trapped in their airless accounting rooms for so long that they have no relationship with humans any more. Only numbers turn them on. Only free markets gets their juices flowing.

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Oh this is gonna be fun. Democrats prayed for this, and perhaps in some ways they forced this to happen. The constant hammering about the shallowness of Willard’s principles was working. He was not convincing anyone that he was a real conservative or still a hidden moderate. Ryan soothes the Teabots, which is what Democrats wanted. This makes the choice crystal clear doesn’t it? Are we teaslug bound or will we reject the dark side?

It is shaping up to be a great campaign. At least for us political types.

Have a happy Saturday.

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• A Stunning, Terrible Choice (thedailybeast.com)
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Yes, Well Don’t We All?

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Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Politics, Republicans

Congratulate me!

This is my first uploaded picture from my phone. Ain’t I just a terrific photographer?

Thanks, I knew you would agree.

This was taken this morning at 7 am and is the Doña Aña’s. I’m facing fairly south, the Organs are at my back. The sky was fairly cloudy to the East and the sun finally peeked through and threw some nice shadows. The foreground is of course the foothills. If you can see a string of brown housing about 1/3 of the way down and across, that would be the neighborhood I come from and was heading back to.

I did see, moments after I took this shot, an animal skedaddling along across the dirt road ahead of me. He was not a rabbit, (bigger) and not a deer, (smaller). I have no idea what he was but he was in a hurry.

I do want you to know that I was rather chagrined and frankly shocked that the political world continued in my absence. I was sure that I would get e-mails from the likes of Ezra Klein, Chris Hayes, and all the political pundits telling me that it just wasn’t any fun without my rapier wit. But apparently that must violate some pundit-oath taking or something, because nary a word.

So, I thought I would pontificate on a few of the things I’ve witnessed lately.

There are lots of candidates for turd of the week.

• Rush Limbaugh said that the worst thing that has happened in America since sliced bread is women being given the right to vote. Without them, men would have elected sensible men based on, you know, important and rational reasoning, and not the emotional, equality stuff that women are prone to use.  He later said he was kidding, but that was only after his (oh I f**ked up ‘dar kicked in).
• Joe Walsh who is a dead beat dad and likes to tell the President what he is doing wrong, seems unable to keep his sewer mouth closed as he continues to vilify a multiple-amputee veteran running against him–Tammy Duckworth. Wanna bet how long he will continue to be a congressman?
• Willard continues to demand that his side explain to him whether refusal to purchase health care insurance is a penalty or a tax. He’s claimed everything under the sun lately and just wants everyone to know that it’s whatever will make the most voters happy to believe. In fact word is he is sending out a poll to have America determine what his views on everything will be. Until of course, America changes it mind and then he will too. Do you think he has stock in flip-flops?
• Republicans in general are just dumb and dull. Cases in point: Louisiana State Rep Valerie Hodge who thought it just grand to have a voucher system that allowed people to choose a Christian or public school for their kids. Until of course she found out that the vouchers would be good at Muslim schools too. Then she was decidedly less happy. New York Senator Marty Golden decided perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea to invite women to a seminar where he could teach them posture, deportment and feminine deportment. Duh, yeah Marty, rethink that one.
• Rick Scott and Bobby Jindal continue to claim they will opt out of increased Medicaid coverage under the affordable health care act. Pity since the Feds pick up the entire bill for the increase and the states only pick up 10% after 2020. Something about cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face probably applies here.
• Speaking of which, we hear that Willard is begging all those swing Republican governors with lower than national unemployment to shut the f**k up in their crowing that their policies are responsible. Romney wants the economy to be BAD you dummies. Don’t tout success! It’s unREStooplican.
• Never say die. Some people are too dumb to exist. A Oklahoman representative is trying to revive the ancient practice of “nullification” to invalidate the mandate of the AHCA. Why if John Calhoun can try it, why can’t he? Lobotomy anyone?

And that’s that.

Adios.

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There Are No Rules of the Road

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Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, death, Democrats, economy, life, life in the meadow, Republicans, Sarah Palin

If I had found myself abandoned in the wilds of the US, oh say, four hundred years ago, I would surely have perished. I was not “the fittest”. Nor even close.

To what do I refer? Well, please keep the secret, but I am one of those people genetically challenged when it comes to sight. I couldn’t hit the side of the proverbial barn as they say. Without technological assistance that is.

So with bow and arrow, I would have missed the target, and no doubt starved to death.

I started wearing glasses in the fourth grade. Year by year my eyes deteriorated until I was close to the “coke bottle” syndrome. I switched to contacts, but a badly shaped eyeball made them difficult at best.

Finally, I trucked off to Canada and got the Lasix treatment where they rearrange your focal point by some voodoo magic light, and voilá, I could see, sans glasses.

That has pretty much been it for nearly seventeen years. But alas age catches up with all of us.

Which is nothing more to say than that the Contrarian and I (as part of our departure stuff) went off to get our eyes tested and glasses ordered. We have gotten to the point that watching anything written on the TV screen, requires both of us to read it. We figured we might miss New Mexico all together and end up in the Grand Canyon by mistake. I do mean IN it.

So that was yesterday.

And I’m telling you all this, simple because there are no rules of the road here, and I can tell you whatever I choose, and you can read or not as the mood or time strikes you.

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As we were driving and I was trying hard to ignore the fact that one is never quite sure where one will end up when driving with the Contrarian at the wheel, we got to talking about Brandy. The sorrow is still there, but we can talk with laughter now.

Anyway, we were talking about how she went so easy and we were not forced to make that decision to “put her down”, a thoroughly strange way of avoiding “ordering her killed.”

It came to me, that we as humans are adjudged “humane” for putting down an animal that is in pain and with no real way to correct the condition. If we were to do the same thing for a human being, we would be adjudged more often than not, a murderer. A human is required to die in misery if that be the medical situation, no matter how long it takes. ‘Course, they often don’t. I understand doctors often “over dose” with pain killers, knowing that death will ensue.

Still, we wouldn’t judge it humane to put a human being out of their misery. Except if you were Doctor Kevorkian. He judged it merciful.

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I wonder how it will play?

Democrats: lets build roads, repair schools, fix bridges. (translate: hire construction companies which then hire more workers, and all the supply companies (concrete and so forth). Job creation: immediate. Results: workers make some money, start buying crap at Wal-Mart, and Wal-Mart starts hiring more workers. Two tiered job creation.)

Republicans: cut taxes, eliminate regulations. (translate: corporations have more cash. HOPEFULLY they will expand worker pools. Hard to see why they would when nobody has any money to buy their shit.)

Does the American public at large have the brains to see this? I wonder.

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Did ya hear? Sarah Palin is heading off to Korea in a month or so to speak at a “World Knowledge conference.” I mean, oxymoron or what? What on earth could she possibly be speaking about? Is she gonna ask for help? A book list maybe? Or just pooh-pooh the notion that In_tEYE-lec-tuls are necessary in a world where everything can be decided using just good old common sense.

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Did anybody catch that Rudy Giuliani did it again? He said he will make a decision about running for the GOP nomination but not until after the 9/11 events. He does always get that 9/11 reference into everything he says doesn’t he?

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I’m just about done with Atlas Shrugged. She really is a pretty awful writer. She actually had some interesting characters but she’s buried them in so much political rhetoric that you have to wade through pages and pages of it, to get back to the story line.

I just finished “John Galt’s” radio broadcast. It went on for about forty pages of non-stop explanation of why enterpreneurs were good and everybody else was bad. This quote sums up her thinking about all of “us”.

“The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom, who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains.”

The rich man is the victim you see, and the worker is the exploiter of the rich man’s intellect. Why, Rand claims, all the things the worms at the bottom have, are the product of the genius of the top. The worms could never create a car if their life depended upon it.

This is ADMITTED mindset of the Cantors and Ryans, the DeMints and the Pauls. This is their concept of “survival of the fittest.”

Have a nice day!

While Digging Through the Dumpster, I Found. . . .

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Arizona, drill baby drill, Family Research Council, gay rights, George Rekers, GOP, gulf oil spill, homophobia, immigration, Individual Rights, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Latino rights, Lindsey Graham, Lou Dobson, Michael Brown, Miranda, Phoenix Suns, Republicans, terrorism

Well, it remains true, truth as they say, is stranger than fiction, and Merika is just the gol durned funniest place! I kid you not, and other such terms. Oh boy have we got the dishiest stuff today!

I guess one must conclude that the religious right is just the location where we can find the closeted gay community these days. There seems a never-ending list of homophobic bible thumping “ministers” all doin’ the nasty behind not so closed doors.

Anyway, one George Alan Rekers, co-founder with our good homophobe Lou Dobson, of the Family Research Council, was caught with his baggage hanging out in a Miami airport.

Seems Mr. Rekers, or Pastor Rekers, I should say, was accompanied by a lad hired from Rentboy.com a rather salacious site, noted for pairing youngish “men” with, well who ever is willing to pay. Said “Lucian” accompanied said minister through a two-week vacation in Europe.

Now, Mr. Rekers denies any hanky panky, in mock shock we are told, declaring that although he did hire the boy from Rentboy, he had no idea that it was THAT kind of site. (Odd since the description of said lad was to say the least, rather descriptive of his, err,  nether parts.)

In any case, Mr. Rekers, swears to God, that said Lucian was only there to “carry his baggage” made difficult for Mr. Rekers to do since a surgery hampered his ability in that way. Which all led to this lovely quip over at Unreasonable Faith:

He needed help “lifting his luggage,” if you know what I mean. It replaces “hiking the Appalachian Trail” and “wide stance” as the newest euphemism created by a sex scandal.

I mean, it’s a wacky world out there folks. I can imagine the activity going on at the FRC. Oh to be a fly on the wall!

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There was a reversal of poles the other day. Don’t know if you noticed or not, but it sure happened. This is near enough to make one’s head implode, and dear, wouldn’t that be messy?

Speaking of gays in the closet–Lindsey Graham (no we did not say that!)  and his stooge friends Johnny and Joey, are at it again, pretending to be grownups and messin’ around in adult conversation.

Johnny and Joey have been arguing that, why heck, American citizens, if suspected of terrorist behavior should be denied their rights. Yep, you heard that right–they should not be Mirandized, but should be turned over the military immediately, for, shall we say, more “serious” interrogation?

Now, we know why Johnny is spouting like a horses ass, since of course his precious door label of S E N A T O R is in jeopardy, but Joey? Have we forgotten the life and times of average Jews in Berlin in the 30’s and 40’s? HUH?  And, well, Lindsey, I guess we KNOW what your issue is, we just don’t know which one of them is your man–unless both.

The cold day in hell when something Glenn Beck said would be sane? Well, it’s that day folks. He DISAGREED with said three simpletons.

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Well, didn’t ya just know this would happen. The nutso Rethugs have NO idea where the idea came about that THEY were associated with such a blatantly wrong-headed chant of drill baby drill. Nope, no idea. Um…maybe some candidate or other, some minor local election might have used it, but nope, nope, not a REPUBLICAN phrase, of that you can be sure.

Was bound to happen ya know. Short memories, or more likely short minds. But happily, the good editors of the HuffPo, do recall, and do have the footage and do have the transcripts. Ain’t modern technology just grand?

It might just be that the Rethugs won’t find all that mid term election business quite as a much a walk in the park as they had assumed. And worse, we hear tell that the Prez is interested in pushing immigration reform THIS year, and that can hardly make any Rethug begging for a Latino bump feel very happy.

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Michael Brown oozed out from under his rock to attempt to resurrect himself (meaning he has a book he is trying to sell). While out, he tried to put off his general irrelevance to anything in the world by ‘splainin’ to us that he has the real lowdown on the gulf catastrophe.

According to Brownie, who knows all about bein’ a douche, the president deliberately waited to step in on the tragedy of the oil spill. As the waste product sees it,  

“this is an opportunity for a president who wants to bankrupt the coal industry, and basically get rid of the oil and gas industry, to shut down offshore drilling.” 

Now, get back under that rock Brownie.

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And now to prove that garbage pickers can find a jewel at times:

The Los Suns did a great thing the other night. It may seem like a small thing, but it was, trust me, great. They gave us reason to hope that this country is not basically too far down the rat hole to retrieve. Read it and be proud.

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Some days, well, this is how you feel, and it’s okay.  With a H/T to Elizabeth at Telling Secrets:

. . . . I am hellishly angry; I think so-and-so is a swine; I am tortured by worry about this or that; I am pretty certain that I have missed my chances in life; this or that has left me feeling terribly depressed. But nonetheless here I am like this, feeling both bloody and bloody-minded, and I am going to stay here for ten minutes. You are most unlikely to give me anything. I know that. But I am going to stay here for ten minutes nonetheless. Amen.
Harry Williams.

And that’s how it is today. Have a good one.

Turning Away in Disgust

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Arizona, Edward M. Kennedy, immigration, John McCain, Maverick, Republicans, right wing wackos

I’ve not been particularly kind to Senator John McCain over the last couple of years. I was and am passionate about Barack Obama. My partisanship turned a corner into abject disgust of the Mav when he chose Sarah Palin to be potentially a heart beat away from the presidency. It was simply unconscionable patronizing to a voting segment, namely women and the crazy right.

One expected, in fact many expected, that John would return to himself after the election. Some said, that given the egregious nature of his campaign, they were not prepared to forgive and forget. Some wouldn’t buy the “shucks, it’s just the game of politics, you know me.”

Indeed, as the months roll by since the election, we waited for the old John to return, and we were sad to see that in part he was just plain pissy mean about losing. So be it. But, faced with a strong ultra right wing challenge to his Arizona seat, he has become even more ridiculous than he was during the presidential campaign.

Perhaps you might not believe me, but actually there was a time when I half admired the Mav. I thought him one of the few Republicans that I could almost agree with, and I agreed with him on a few issues. One of the ones I most admired was his brave stance on immigration reform. In that he worked with the lion of the Senate, Edward M. Kennedy.

An excellent post over at HuffPo by Frank Sharry, documents some of this time from a personal prospective. He is utterly disillusioned by the, as he calls it, fall from grace of John Sydney. He ends by condemning John as failing to make himself believable to either side any more. He is a joke, and one that I would suggest needs to exit stage left, for good.

Arizona has passed the most racist of immigration law ever seen. It is so ugly as to be shocking to the sensibilities of normal human beings. It, as Sharry states, places a target on every Latino back. It jeopardizes the very jobs of law enforcement if any citizen complains that they failed to investigate any Latino. And John defends what he previously condemned as somehow okay now, since illegals are causing traffic accidents in Arizona!

This brings up an issue that needs be addressed. While arguably there have been persons in the history of America who were essential to her well-being, are there many? I would answer no. John McCain is certainly not one of them. We are functioning along without Senator Kennedy as well, and I would argue that he stands head and shoulders above the likes of Mr. McCain when it comes to integrity.

John’s silent excuse–I need to do whatever is necessary since I’m essential to a well functioning government, much better than my opponent for sure–doesn’t wash. He is not essential, he is not even, at this point, relevant. He is a crotchety elder who can’t get over that he’s been screwed twice, and both times, ultimately by his own party hacks.

Bush’s cadre of henchmen, led by Turd Blossom, worked him over in the primaries leading up to the 2000 election, by painting him as a philandering father of an illegitimate black baby. He was vilified by the religious right for not being crazy like them. And then in 2008, he is upended, or perhaps I should say dead ended, by a silly vacuous woman, never properly vetted, perhaps by design.

Well, that’s just too bad Johnny, shit happens. The fact that most of it occurs within your own party, is well, something you might have thought about. It does not entitle you to bounce every which way to please the voters, abandoning any realm of integrity, principle, or stand on the issues. You, sir, are not nearly so important as you think.

That is what seems to be amok our Congress today, dozens, perhaps hundreds, believing that America as we know it will cease to exist should they lose their seat. Losing an election doesn’t mean the other side is illegitimate, it merely means the other side won. You remember. You used to strut around reminding us of that fact for eight tortuous years.

Now, the continuation of civilization depends on John winning, at least as John sees it. Poppycock! Sad to say, the entire Congress could disappear tomorrow and we would muddle through until a new group wasp to speed. There are few giants around today of the likes of a Lincoln.

You sir, are called upon to actually govern while still seated. You are not called to simply oppose anything and everything from the other side as you have been doing, in some pathetic attempt to win the hearts and minds of people who are the lowest common denominator of human existence who happen to support such a law as Arizona has enacted.

Too bad Johnny, you who prize integrity and honor have lost all of that and then some. You have lost your place in history as one of the few who stood for doing what is right, regardless of label. You suck. And I hope you lose, though that means sadly that poor Cindy will probably be stuck with your mean-spirited presence more than she deserves. Her pained pinched face matches that of another Republican wife, spouse to one  gone amok, Richard M. Nixon. Fine company Mav. Oh, but I hear you no longer believe you are such. Good luck there cypher of history.

Murmurings From the Walls

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Barack Obama, employment, GOP, health care reform, Iowa, Republicans, right wing extremists, same-sex marriage

Note to self: when night dreaming (wakefully contemplating the day past) and an idea for a blog post comes along, write it down. You will surely forget it by morning. And I did. So this ain’t it.

I’ve checked my mailbox, both snail and e, and so far, no letter from the President. He does contact me from time to time you know, asking for my help. I do the best I can.  But, sure that the letter is most likely just “lost in the mail” which means its not lost at all, but IN THE MAIL. . . I thought it best to give my advice right away, so there would be no delay. Time is running short.

The Reuglicans are promising that the American (right wing barely humans)  public will rise up in November and silly slap the prez for his arrogance in actually taking care of people and their health. Well, not so fast there partner. I’m thinking a new sheriff is in Dodge and the old rules may not apply.

I got to thinking about this as I thought about what happened in my own dear state of Iowa over the same-sex marriage brouhaha that occurred last year. There were all manner of threats of throw the bums out, repeal, replace, reproach all those deemed responsible. Much of it is was silly, and illegal frankly.

The truth is there is really only one way to alter the decision in Iowa and that is by constitutional amendment. And realistically, nobody sees that as likely, and even if it is, it wouldn’t get to a vote anytime before 2013. Now that is nearly four long years since the case was decided. And guess what? Time matters.

Time is the enemy of those who have a burning issue, no matter what it is. As we have pointed out before, Merikans have a very short attention span. The rabid crazies? No, they eat breath and sleep their issue, but they are a tiny gnat in a tornado. The majority of citizenry is on to other things–vacation spots, 401K outlays, summer soccer school, and what movie to watch tonight.

Moreover, the wackos promised utterly dire consequences from the same-sex decision. The state would be overrun by swishy girly men and crass talkin’ lesbos, all here to recruit, take up residence, and otherwise transform Iowa into a paradise of gayness, all part, mind you, of the international gay agenda, which any self-respecting homophobe can tell you all about, if’in you ask politely.

So as time goes on and nothing awful happens, meaning the doorbell isn’t ringing off the door frame requesting your children be given up to the only real lifestyle that matters, and as the time for planting violets approaches, the argument grows thin. I mean, explain to me Mr/Mrs/Ms wacko exactly why I need to drop everything, expend millions, all to prevent that nice couple that lives three blocks over from marrying?

Same thing with the Health care reform law. Time will prove out that nothing much has changed insofar as those things one holds near and dear–one’s sacrosanct possession of one’s private insurance (for them that has it of course). No tax increases, no ticket for your next checkup in 2012 as the first available date, no refusal to treat your asthma–you smoked away your lungs, tough titty buster–breathe as best you can.

While I’d like there to be a few more months to let this sink in, I think that a good deal of the fear and confusion will be decidedly forgotten come November.

So, Barack, my man, let me tell you what you really need to do. Everything and anything to produce jobs. I just told you that these people have short attention spans. And doing without that new WII game is getting tiresome. People want jobs, so they can buy things. They do need jobs to pay the bills and feed their kids too of course. So listen up and dag gum it find some jobs.

I propose that you start tons of public works. It wouldn’t be permanent employment, but they won’t grump, they will be happy to have the dough in hand.

Oh and a couple of times a month, travel to some nice niche of Merika, preferably where there is some purple mountain majesty, or oceans white with foam. Give a rousing speech ‘splainin’ all this Washington stuff, and take lots of pics. They love the keepsakes.

I’m thinking that the Dems will be doin’ just fine if you do that. Who was that other party? I think I’ve forgotten their name already. . . Re. . .something, GO. . .let me remember? All I recall is that they campaigned on NO and pretty much didn’t play nicely with others. And you remember what your 3rd grade teacher said about THAT don’t you?  But on the up side, they will be forever immortalized in the dictionary, under two words, irrelevant and cypher.