Shakespeare and the current Republican Party do not exactly fit within the same imagery. We do not see Sarah Palin quoting Shakespeare, something that might not surprise us to hear from either the President or the Vice President. The point is that we have long, long since reduced our expectations of erudition or even fiscally [...]
Entries from August 18th, 2010
What’s in a Name? Republicans Are Now the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party
October 31st, 2009 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Media, Politics
Tags: health care reform·lobbyists·media and politics·neocon·Neoconservative·Politics·Republicans·Right Wing
Tax the Rich.
October 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
It is about time that we begin to attack the problem of our inadequate national revenues. We have not had sufficient revenues to balance the budget since before Ronald Reagan. After Ronald Reagan’s cutting the tax rates of the top income brackets by 50% and quadrupling the military budget in the early 1980s, we have [...]
Tags: Bush tax cuts·Economics·Health Care·health care reform·tax cuts·taxes
Turncoat Lieberman, Bought By Health Insurance Companies
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
The clear message is that Senator Joseph Lieberman, like Duke Cunningham and others, including Senator John McCain of Arizona, has now taken his former respected status and sold his character and reputation to the highest bidder. In Lieberman’s case, his reputation was earned as a supporter in his early career of issues such as civil [...]
Tags: filibuster·Health Care·health care debate·health insurance industry·Lieberman·lobbyists·Neoconservative·Republicans·Right Wing
The Public Plan and Private Profit
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care
Sometimes we can become so involved with our own expertise that we can calculate ourselves out the door, down the street and into a trash bin. To use one example, why did we not see that President Bush and Vice President Cheney…which it seems now so crystal clear…had ulterior motives for attacking the country of [...]
Tags: Health Care·health care reform·health insurance·public option
Jobs, Wind, Solar, Natural Gas, Kerry, Boxer, Carbon and the Obstructionists
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics, Science & Technology, jobs
We need jobs and we need them soon. We have about 15.1 million people unemployed, with jobs falling now at the (slowing) rate of about 200,000 per month. That’s almost one out of ten people unemployed and more than that if you consider those who would like full-time employment but have been in part-time employment [...]
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Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way!
October 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
How long must we put up with this indecisive attitude on the part of Congress? Whom do they work for anyway–health care lobbyists? It is time we told Congress that we want the health care insurance industry to stop fighting the public option. It is time we told some Senators and Congress members to stop [...]
Tags: AHIP·Blue Dogs·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance lobby·Landrieu·Lanrieu·Mike Ross·Nelson·opt-in·opt-out·public option·Republican health reform obstructionism·Senator Olympia Snowe
The Big Lie
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
The Big Lie. We know what that is…the concept, that is. It is not a new concept. It is the idea that if you tell a big enough lie and tell it often enough people will begin to believe it.
But it has been revived in the last 30 years.The idea that, for example, you can [...]
Tags: Americans for Prosperity·cutting taxes·Dick Armey·economic fallacy·FreedomWorks·Milton Friedman·Neoconservatism·political lie·Reagan·Republican promises
Reality, Dreams and Politics
October 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, Media, Politics
Every day we live our lives, most of us, in stark reality. Some of us may say: What? Stark reality? Few of us think of “reality” as being stark or even thinking of our daily lives as being reality. We live in an atmosphere that is a visual and audible perception of events, a parade [...]
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Mobs, Revolutions, Moral Majorities and Totalitarian Governments
October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
There is a lot to be said for civic activism. The Civil Rights movement, addressing a leftover 19th Century attitude towards African-Americans called segregation, was a wonderful example of the dedication of a huge number of individuals who banded together to do the right thing.
It is always the right thing that seems to succeed [...]
Tags: health care fraud·mobs·reactionaries·revolutionaries·Right Wing groups·tea parties·totalitarian government
There are Lies…Damned Lies…And Then There Is Fox News!
October 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
Rupert Murdoch is not a likable man. He deals in…is mired in…sleaze media. But like the operator of any profitable strip club, he knows his business. From a sleaze-business operator’s standpoint, he is both successful and from the purely business point of view–the abstract point of view–he could be said to elicit some appreciation for [...]
Tags: advertising boycott·Fox News·Fox news advertising boycott·lobbyist pandering·media pandering·pandering·racists·right wing republicans·Rupert Murdoch
Another Cheney…Another Wave of “Terror?”
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Danger! Deep, dark, debilitating, fear! Fear of death, fear of assassins, bombs, explosions, knives, men in black masks, hiding…waiting! Anarchy and people murdered in their sleep! No it’s not Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe. It’s Dick Cheney. That is what Dick Cheney was selling and a lot of people bought it.
We must invade Iraq, he [...]
Tags: Al Queada·Cheney·fear·Halliburton·Iraq war·Politics·terrorists·war profiteering
The Economy, the Stimulus and Coming Out of the Recession
October 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
Economists like to say that the current recession began in December of 2007. But things had not been going well for the average American for some time before that. The recession only made things worse for the average American household. Long before the recession began, things had been in a gradual decline for the average [...]
Tags: economy·income inequality·incomes·jobs·recession·stimulus·wages
Free Enterprise Is the Province of All Americans, Neo-Conservatives and Liberals.
October 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, Economics, Politics
The United States of America is the land of free enterprise. We base all our political and many of our personal decisions on that simple premise. We refer to the United States as the Land of Opportunity. The question we must ask is this: Is it true?
As you might expect, it is not as simple [...]
Tags: Conservative·economy·Free Enterprise·Liberal·Neo-Conservative·Politics
Why Republicans Are Terrified of ACORN.
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Do you think that the attacks on ACORN are some kind of recent phenomenon? Do you think that the successful Republican technique of sending in James O’Keefe, a film maker and a couple of scuzzies to pretend to be prostitutes looking for a place to set up was the best Republican effort? Yes, it did [...]
Tags: ACORN·Republican·Right Wing·Think Tanks
Health Care Reform: Can’t Sit It Out. You Must Get Involved.
October 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
Let’s talk about the health insurance companies. They make a lot of money. And they say that most of their customers are happy with their health care insurance. If so, those must be the customers who have either never had a serious illness or injury or those who have had such an experience and the [...]
Tags: health care reform·health insurance companies·United Health Care·WellPoint health care