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You go and then I’ll go…

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Nov 072010

Jon Stewart wrapped up the Rally for Sanity with an interesting if irrelevant analogy… He equated the American people cooperating with each other by the traffic entering a tunnel going into New York city. The idea is that we cooperate with each other to achieve a common goal because we all have to merge for any of us to merge, we all have to get to work and collect a paycheck, we all have to plow our way through the tunnel… Except we ALL don’t. There are a select few that are swept by helicopter to the rooftop of the building they need to be at minutes before they need to arrive. They don’t sweat the commute on a daily basis, they spend tens of thousands of dollars per week to stay in the city in the lap of luxury should their schedules require it.

The reason that Stewart’s analogy fails is that there really is a philosophical difference with how the left and the right approach the role of government and ultimately how that philosophy manifests their actions and policies… The left still believes that government can perform vital and necessary functions for the American populace. The right is convinced that only the private sector can rule the world and in the last thirty years they have almost completely relegated control to corporate interests… The brutal truth is that “you go and then I’ll go” is really the fleecing of the American people by the most powerful companies in the world:

Wellpoint and then Halliburton – You go and then I’ll go…

Mosanto and then BP – You go and then I’ll go…

Exxon-Mobil and then Wal-Mart – You go and then I’ll go…

Merck and then Wells Fargo – You go and then I’ll go…

You go and then I’ll go, you go and then I’ll go.

When will we go? When will we recognize the American dream were being sold now is stamped “made in China”? Corporations in a global economy are global… Government of, by and for the people is OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE!

The realization of Republican economic policies has the American people being repeatedly slapped by the largest, most profitable and powerful corporations that do business in this nation… You go and then I’ll go, you go and then I’ll go.

Sanity was not restored Oct. 30th 2010, it was not evident Nov. 2 2010, it is not likely to return in the near future…

I will however struggle with all my might to bring it back. I will blog, discuss, tweet, argue. You can too, have a conversation, diffuse a delusion. I’ll spread the truth and you can too.

You go and then I’ll go, you go and then I’ll go.

Chamber of Converse (advocacy)

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Oct 142010

Rachel Maddow takes the GOP advocacy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and boils down what it means to our democracy in terms so concise that one cannot fail to deduce that ordinary citizens should be horrified that these people have any influence on our elections. Politicians of all persuasions and the media that continue to treat this issue as a non-starter better take heed. Americans get a tad testy when overtly abused by the elite and if you think the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t qualify, think again.

Share this with everyone you know, this election may be that last time we have a chance to stem the tide of corporate cash drowning out the voices of the electorate.

Sarah Palin limbo queen

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Oct 052010

The level of political discourse on the right is dragging it’s knuckles, shoulders, ideals and values along the ground in what would be an impressive political contortion if it weren’t so potentially destructive.

The crop of GOP / Teaparty “candidates” have lowered the bar to previously unimaginable levels before the entire Republican party collectively pretended that Sarah Palin wasn’t a desperately unqualified choice for the Vice President. The process of justifying the reckless choice by John McCain has paved the path for the likes of Christine O’Donnell, Joe Miller, Rand Paul and Sharon Angle… candidates that couldn’t and didn’t get any national traction before now because quite frankly mainstream politics on BOTH sides considered them ridiculous.

Functionally John McCain is the best friend that Democrats have ever had, he created the environment that allowed the party to accept high school level intellect to play in the national political stage, he created the environment where such level of competence is considered, by some, adequate to demand serious consideration for the most serious of positions. John McCain created a limbo line that has so lowered the bar on the right that anyone with a morals cannot possibly hope to pass… not over but below the bar the Republicans seem to hold ever lower…

Of course Democrats will only reap the benefits of what John McCain hath wrought if they get their shit together an slam the door on the nonsense that is the current GOP. Voters need to make candidates like those referenced above laughable even for Republicans if we are going to move this country forward… Make a call, talk to a neighbor, attend a rally, offer to provide transportation to get out the vote… Get involved, get excited and VOTE!

Can you fear me now?

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Aug 302010

Sixty-Four days until the midterms and literally the only thing that is coming from the right is a list of things that the American people should fear:

Fear the President (cause he just might not be American)

Fear the Muslims (cause terrorists didn’t do 9/11 Islam did)

Fear the President (cause he IS a Muslim)

Fear the deficit (even though Republican administrations are responsible for 82% of it)

Fear gay marriage (cause their love and commitment affects your marriage how?)

Fear health care reform (cause slogans like pulling the plug on Grandma are scarier than Anthem Blue Cross raising premiums 20% again?)

Fear the stimulus (cause 3 million more people were out of work that would be SO much better)

Fear the Census (it’s just a Government plot to get your phone number and take your rights and stuff)

Fear the FEMA re-education camps (this would have been too ridiculous for a FEMA run by the GOP, can you imagine the coordination?)

Fear the stripping of your constitutional rights (except all the ones that the GOP has actually suggested be modified, revoked or denied)

It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so horrifically effective on low information voters and those who rather stoke their preconceived prejudices with any blather that might fit, regardless of veracity.

So the next outrageous claim that you hear from the right, remember this, they are only putting voice to the absurd to see if it can get some traction, can spark some insecurity, can prey on the frailties of the human condition. The GOP has nothing left but to take a few steps, spew some crap and question… “Can you fear me now”?

Florida Florida Florida

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May 182010

Here is your lesson in pure unadulterated bullshit for the day…

British Petroleum would have you, me and everyone else believe that there is around 5000 barrels of oil spilling from the disaster that was the deep water horizon…

Independent estimates based on the video that BP finally released put the number at somewhere between 50,000 and 70,000 barrels a day…

Who’s right? Let’s run the numbers shall we?

5,000 barrels a day breaks down like this:

5,000 barrels x 42 gallons per barrel = 210,000 gallons per day.

210,000 gallons per day / 24 hours = 8,750 gallons per hour.

8,750 gallons per hour / 60 minutes = 145.8 gallons per minute.

145.8 gallons per minute / 60 seconds = 2.4 gallons per second.

70,000 barrels a day breaks down like this:

70,000 barrels x 42 gallons per barrel = 2,940,000 gallons per day.

2,940,000 gallons per day / 24 hours = 122,500 gallons per hour.

122,500 gallons per hour / 60 minutes = 2041.6 gallons per minute.

2041.6 gallons per minute / 60 seconds = 34 gallons per second.

So it is either 2.4 gallons per second or 34 gallons per second… Now watch this video and tell me that BP isn’t blowing smoke even faster than they are blowing oil.

The “Drill Baby Drill” crowd is going to suck on this and hard in the midterms just think for a moment of the timeline… think about how Florida will feel about this spill by November, and think, just for a moment, of the words uttered by the late Tim Russert…

Florida

Rain on your charade.

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Apr 122010

The right says that Obama makes us less safe… It is my true pleasure to rain on their charade.

Thousands more Americans have survived the first year of the current administration than that of Bush/Cheney.

Obama insisted that the United States would not employ torture, a policy that makes it more likely that our soldiers and citizens will not have to suffer torture.

The world has a much higher regard for the United States now that we have a president that has respect for the rest of the world.

China is now willing to cooperate on sanctions against Iran, something the previous administration could never have achieved.

Obama has just negotiated the largest nuclear reductions in decades, a move that adds to our security both physically and fiscally.

Forty seven world leaders have just convened at the request of president Obama for the express purpose of securing loose nuclear materials, a commitment the Bush administration could never have secured from so many and a initiative that makes the whole world more secure.

Rhetoric is just rhetoric, facts are facts and the facts are that those who have been spouting the meme that president Barack Obama has made this nation less safe have something other than our safety on their agenda.

Consider your charade officially rained on.

Selling truth to power

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Apr 112010

Truth has no functional purpose for the current Republican Party. There is no factual argument or logical debate that serves the purpose of the GOP.

The policies of the GOP are sold as widespread populist ideals, they are in fact not. The policies of the GOP are narrowly focused on the destruction of any regulation or oversight that might curtail the ability of the wealthy and powerful to exert that power. The exertion of power for the benefit of the powerful is a dangerous and destructive cycle that sucks the life from the true social and economic heart of the nation.

Redistribution of wealth is not a fantasy, it has been going on in this nation since its creation. The fantasy is the idea that the distribution is from the wealthy to the poor. The wealthy and powerful have rarely been victims in the history of this nation or any other in human civilization with the exception of those brief moments when inequality exceeds the people’s ability to endure it. Making the middle class fear redistribution to the lower class, while making the lower class fear redistribution to the poor while the wealthy suck ever more of the pie is the most ruthless and destructive of tactics the GOP has utilized in their 40 year quest to return our democracy to a monarchy in which wealth is king and all must be forced to kneel before it.

The only counter balance to the crushing inequity of power is the intelligent application of rules. Regulations create the balance, the fairness, the framework for the American dream to exist. The Republican Party, by the demonization of the government and sensible regulation, damage access to the American dream by all but those who have already achieved it.

The debt was exploded by the GOP for the benefit of the rich. The economy was compromised by the wealthy with the assistance of the GOP and their systematic dismantling of banking and financial regulation. The fabric of our institutions has been decimated by the GOP and their insistence that government cannot be effective, an assertion that they actively prove given any opportunity or authority.

There is no value in the advancement of the Republican Party for most of the American populace. There is no benefit to the lives of the American people in the election to the government representatives that believe the government is completely ineffectual and would like nothing better than to prove it to their “constituents”. There is no payoff for the undereducated masses that fall prey to the various wedge issues or manipulative rhetoric that the GOP deploys to further their systematic plunder of the nation.

Voting for the GOP for the vast majority of Americans is an exercise in self flagellation, without benefit, for those who are unworthy and the benefit of those who acknowledge the average voter as only another rube to be bilked for a buck on the path to even more power and wealth. Our democracy was not created to establish a new frontier for the interests of the powerful. Our union was created to establish a country where equality was more valuable, more sacred and honorable than money, station, title or power.

The government of the United States was created to be of, by and for the people. The Republican Party has proven demonstrably that they do not represent the ideals, aspirations or interests of those people. It is imperative that people recognize how their fears and prejudices are used to convince them to vote against their interests, their economics, their health, their well being and their very lives. Our collective future as a beacon of freedom and opportunity depends on preserving opportunity for everyone not only those who already have every benefit that money might buy, including the Republican Party.