I swear to God, someone should take all of the GOP members of Congress out behind the Capitol and whip their asses until they beg for mercy.
Remember the days when people spanked children for misbehavior? These purported grown-ups need and deserve an ass-whuppin’.
There is no valid reason to block the debate on the financial reform necessary to forestall another meltdown.
Once again the Republicans to a man and woman are engaging in obstruction rather than carrying out their mandates to make life easier on their constituents.
They are doing this because they hate Barack Obama. They hate him because he is black, articulate, strong, courageous and has called them on their b.s. They hate him because he is not some percocet-addled Pillsbury Doughboy spewing bullshit on talk radio as if he really has something to say. Rush Limbaugh has poisoned more minds and hearts against Obama, dividing the country in the process, than any single individual in this country and set civility and discourse in politics back fifty years.
Meanwhile, on cluster Fox, the ultimate pasty white freak Glenn Beck said last week that parents should pull their kids out of public school before they are subjected to socialist brainwashing. This is the guy who sees hidden messages on the outer walls of 30 Rock. I am going to put it plainly; he speaks for the lowest most illiterate and craziest element of our society, mainly concentrated in the “deep” south.
It is fat white men with ED who despise Obama, and who are making it impossible to get anything done in Washington. If anyone reading this has bought into the paranoid crap that has polarized this country, from the Tea Partiers to the new vigilantes on the Arizona border and the failure of reason and abdication of responsibility bringing on the immigration crisis, here is what you should do:
Inform yourselves. Find out the truth. Find out that Barack Obama’s birth certificate really does state that he was born in Hawaii. Why the hell should he have to produce the original for anyone. He was elected by the majority of the American people and he is the President of the United States. The paranoid lunatic right has done everything but spit on him, and the other day somebody in North Carolina tried to shoot him.
Shame of shames on the new low-class, rhetoric spewing, fulminating and irresponsible people who misrepresent themselves for the money and power to hole up in Washington making water balloons and worse.
Here Comes the Crunch….
A big heart, a brilliant mind.
One of our greatest faculties is the ability to project our fears upon other people and circumstances and mistake that for reality. Maureen Dowd, writing in the NYT, had this to say recently:
“Just as some Americans once feared that John Fitzgerald Kennedy (who was a Catholic) would build a tunnel to Rome, now some fear that Barack Hussein Obama (whose name sounds scary) will build a tunnel to Mecca.
In “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” a history of such national follies as England’s South Sea Bubble and Holland’s Tulip Frenzy, the Scottish historian Charles Mackay observed: “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
He also concluded that people are more prone to believe the “Wondrously False” than the “Wondrously True.””
Well, here comes the Crunch, the Clutch, the Crush– the Follies and all of their petty would-be saints.
Those of us who believe that in putting Obama into office we did a good thing for the country and the world need to read the Media Matters debunking of Forbes‘ spurious article published last week.
This piece in MM provides terrific, grounded and founded arguments against the theory that Barack Obama is some anti-American subversive who somehow ended up in the White House.
Every time Sara Palin puts on a clean pair of panty-hose she robotically pronounces Obama as a “socialist”– this, evidently, with no idea of what socialism is and what it is not. Unbelievably, we’re still hearing from “birthers” and Obamaphobists who think the President is a Muslim– as if that were a huge mark against him.
Thanks to Obamaphobia, Limbaugh, Beck and company have hijacked any residual circumspection on the part of the Far Right and trumpet across the air waves that the America you knew and loved has been stolen from you.
Put on your flak jackets and hit the streets. All we have to arm ourselves with is the truth, and believe me, it’s out there– the Media Matters piece would be a good starting point for flyers and posts nation-wide. The base that rolled up its sleeves and swayed public opinion in favor of a good, decent and brilliant human being, on the theory that we need such a person in the Oval Office, needs to get going.
The Obama-phobic coterie of blowhards intending to sweep the November elections has neither the depth of intellect, the prowess, or the balls to lead a march, much less hold office and reasonably, rationally, represent a constituency.
Barack Obama has kept his promises to us, but we’re letting him down. We needed, for the past two years, an America that was united behind its president, not the Tea Baggers– Tea-Party/Carpet Baggers…. America the Beautiful is not suffering because of anything done by Barack Obama; it is suffering because egotistical fat men who want some semblance of power back are ejaculating lies all over everyone else and because the Democratic Party has slid back into the apathy that gave rise to eight years of a war monger in the White House.
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