The Crazy Runs Deep In You Republican

So the crazy runs deep with the republicans, tea baggers, and conservatives (or am I being redundant?). The craziness combined with the simple petulance of the elected republicans completely over powers any reasoned criticism of HCR and (possibly with the assistance of the main stream media) totally prevents reasoned criticism from being heard and evaluated by the majority of Americans.

My complaints that the bill requires me to pay money directly to private corporations or face a financial penalty are simply out shouted by the screamer demanding secession. The criticism of the process which points out that Obama made secret (or rather attempted to keep them secret, but failed) deals with the pharmaceutical and for profit hospital industries, along with the fact that the final bill was mostly written by an insurance industry lobbyist, are drowned out by the republicans in Congress pulling petty and childish procedural games to prevent the bill from going forward and complaining that they didn't get 60 votes for a second vote, although there had been the 60 votes for the first vote. So the argument they are apparently making is that the majority should not rule any more, although they should with a mere 50 votes plus the VP when Bush was president, but not in the presidential elections apparently either, so it is hard to know just which argument we are going by at any given time. Perhaps it is the "When I got the votes I win, when I don't got the votes we wait until I do got the votes" theory of governance.

The same thing happened with Clinton. The crazies went so crazy that most people stopped listening to any criticisms of his policies and supported him as a person. (No not the high mucky mucks in the republican party nor the belt way pundits, but the average person who votes.)Suddenly criticizing Clinton became something that marked you as a person who, if you were not a crazy right winger, then you were giving aid and support to a crazy right winger. You were weakening all liberals and progressives, not with standing that Clinton was neither liberal nor progressive.

Same here, this is not an historic bill, it does not give the people what every democratic president for the last century wanted to give them. It is a conduit for money to the insurance, the pharmaceutical, and the for profit hospital industries, which provides some benefits as sort of collateral benefits to individuals. Try raising those issues and the screaming from the right about creeping socialism and from some of the left about how you want to kill people by keeping them from getting insurance completely drowns one out.

RNC

So the republican national committee is prepared to pass some sort of resolution naming the democratic party the democrat socialist party. Many have made fun of this, but it does interest me in a kind of safely abstract way.

Why would they do that do you think? It really makes no sense. The democrats are not going to change their name because the republicans want them to. With the exception of the right wing radio guys no one in the media is going to change what they call the democrats. Every time a republican says it people will laugh at them. So?

Are they connected into some sort of secret giant brain that has given them the ANSWER. Or was I wrong the other day and is the republican party DOOOOOOOOMED?

Recent meeting of RNC

Rudy

"Marriage, I believe, both traditionally and legally, has always been between a man and a woman and should remain between a man and woman," said Giuliani. No that is not quite right:

"Marriage, I believe, both traditionally and legally, has always been between a man and a woman and should remain between a man and woman [who should be his cousin, then a man and another woman and then a man and yet a different woman]," said Giuliani.

There all better now.

I Don" Know

I don't know, but I'm beginning to think that maybe The Memorandum might be kind of sort of right wing in its point of view.

UDATE: It's late afternoon now, after 5:00 p.m. that above was posted this morning. Apparently nothing has happened all day as the same stuff is at the top of Memorandum that was there this morning. That is stories that link to the Special Olympics joke by Obama on Leno.

Ok A Some Fun, Maybe

So skippy posted this and was attacked almost immediately. Maybe I can be too and drive up my traffic..

A Quick Social Security Moment

I'm always willing to let somebody else do my work for me. Check out Hulabaloo on what it appears that Obama is ready to do to Social Security.

I think that she is right, if he moves forward on this, essentially paying off people who voted against his stimulus package he will probably crack his coalition. I hope he's smarter than that, but we will see. He was willing to give the republicans billions in unnecessary tax cuts so we will see what else he is willing to give them.

More Democratic Voter Fraud Revealed

The actual prosecutor filing his complaints

Oh wait, my mistake more republican lies about voter fraud revealed. Oh noes all these allegations made before the election by the republican prosecutor of Hamilton County (actually that's redundant) turn out not to be true. Who could have thought, once again?

These people are scum they do not believe in democracy.

Various Things

Nothing to do with the post, I just like it.

Who could have thought that the previous administration could have been so incompetent that they didn't even keep the files of the various terrorist in one place.

I mean I was afraid that they were watching my every word on the computer and listening to my every word on the phone. Wow I guess that I don't need to be that worried after all. Or perhaps they just aren't that worried about them foreigners, but rather us internal dissidents. Oh who am I kidding, I'm just not that important.

A second bit of information is that it appears that the current pope is planning on bringing back some of that old time religion. Hallelujah!!!!!!

Finally, from my home state it looks like the Republicans might not be convinced to back the stimulus package. It is amazing, who could have predicted that? Republicans not being bi-partisan. Well when you have been perfectly wrong for the last two decades I guess there is no reason to start being right. There might be a song there somewhere.

Stuff About Yesterday

You know laughing at right wingers is a never ending joy. Just how stupid can these people be? He might not be president because he (and the Chief Justice) miffed a couple of words. Do these people not have anything to do with their lives? Do you not have attorneys who can tell you about these minor errors and how they affect things? Oh, well.

UPDATE: Oops.

The other fun guy was Rick Warren (that is Pastor Rick Warren) who was very careful to make nice to everyone in his invocation. My guess is that he got scared because of the incredible explosion of disapproval that accompanied his choice by Obama. It ain't Billy Graham time any more. I suspect that the good Rev. lives inside a bubble and is never really challenged or confronted by anyone. Even the wealthy and powerful are kind of afraid of him and his power (real or imagined). When people who aren't afraid of him attack he figures he'd better be cool. Of course, with any luck he pissed of a fair number of his own followers who wonder why he didn't "speak truth to power." Power being the LGTB people who complained loud and long.

Holder/Firedoglake

You know that Firedoglake is a really great blog, but this is just bullshit (of course it is EmptyWheel).

I've been in the NLG for over twenty years and I know those people were not violent and the pardon was welcomed all around progressive organizations in the U.S. and most of the world. There are probably many things not to like Holder about, but this is not one of them. His bucking the rank and file at DOJ is a good sign in a future leader of that department.

What is going on, are people in the progressive world so ready to attack our own that we now buy into right wing talking points. The people who were pardoned were not themselves people who had committed violent acts. Several Nobel Peace Prize winners asked for them to be pardoned. They were required to fore sware violence in the future.

Not only that but it's badly written.

And the Revelers Dance

And the revelers dance.

Ok I Give Up

More on the horse race and the rabid right and just too too nice demos.

The more I watch Obama and McCain and how the election is being played out the more I think that even if Obama wins (not a for sure thing) he will have a great deal of baggage that will prevent him from governing effectively.

He will face the same kind of rabid continuing attacks from right wingers that Clinton had to endure. Further, if (when) the Republicans regain power in one of the houses then watch for impeachment.

The deal with the rabid attacks from the right are that he is doing everything possible to assure that those of us who would support him in the same fashion are being discouraged. Therefore, when he gets out there and puts out his hand to his corporate masters they will simply bite it off and demand more. The Republicans will continue to attack and insist on pushing back and driving us back to "those glorious days of yesteryear when bigots lighted faggots to illuminate the night sky with the burning bodies of the unbelievers." Just ask Sarah and Todd.

The apparent melt down of Wall Street and the lending industry does kind of throw a wrench into the above theory. It is possible that Clinton and Bush have left enough of the Roosevelt New Deal in place to prevent a complete melt down. Or it is possible that the wealthy have enough pull with their welfare case workers to get enough bucks to save themselves yet.

But we will see. Obama could be force far enough to the left to still make a difference, but I do doubt it.