We have come to the end of December 2009. We recently completed a year in which a former political administration, the Republican Bush Administration, did its best to ruin our country. And, as you will see, men portraying themselves as patriots were everything but patriots. We are talking about the Project for the New American [...]
Entries from August 18th, 2010
More on…Project for a Ruined American Century
December 30th, 2009 · No Comments · International affairs, Politics
Tags: military industrial complex·Project for the New American Century·war mongers·wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
The Myth of the American Political Center
December 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Because of the intensity of the debate on health care reform, and the Republican ideological war on the middle class, we are now hearing much talk about the “American Center,” the supposedly independent political middle. The fact is that there is no political middle, polls notwithstanding. The only poll that matters, politicians will tell you [...]
Tags: Health Care·Media·media and politics·Politics·Republicans·Right Wing
Over Neoconservative Obstruction and Health Care Lobbying, Health Reform Passes.
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
Right to the end, the Neoconservative Obstructionists in the Senate fought their hardest for the health insurance industry, trying to get every benefit they could and putting pressure on all Democratic Senators with any political vulnerability.
They fired salvo after salvo at health care reform. They said that the American People were basically ungrateful to [...]
Tags: Health Care·health care lobby·health insurance·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Neoconservative·obstruction
Neocon Senator Lindsey Graham and Petty Piddling While Rome Burns
December 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina likes to parade himself as a man who would consider options and act in a bi-partisan manner. He made a big show of voting for an impeccable Supreme Court Candidate, Judge Sonya Sotomayor, a woman of almost unparalleled accomplishment. Big deal. Most over-the-road truckers I know would have made [...]
Tags: Health Care·health insurance industry·health insurance lobby·Neoconservative·Senator Lindsey Graham
Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.
December 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Shame on the Neoconservatives, as they call themselves. They want to be called “Republicans.” But we can’t really call them Republicans, can we? They are not traditional Republicans. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were more or less traditional Republicans. Neoconservatives are more like the old Dixiecrats. In fact the manic racist Strom Thurmond [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Cheney·health care reform·health insurance industry·Hitler·Lieberman·lobbyists·Lunatic fringe·Nazi·Nazis·neocon·Neoconservative·Politics·President Obama·Right Wing·Rupert Murdoch·tea parties
Fools, Damned Fools, Morons…and Sean Hannity
December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Media, Politics
There are a number of so-called commentators who are paid enormous sums to distort the truth on Fox News Channel in order to persuade poor and middle class people to vote against their own best interests. Sean Hannity is perhaps foremost among those.
If you tell a sophisticated New Yorker that Sean Hannity is basically from [...]
Tags: Neoconservative propaganda·Obama·Republicans·Right Wing Propaganda·Right Wing Talk Show Hosts·Right Wing Talk shows·Sean Hannity
Lessons for the “Tea Baggers” on the Bush Recession and Republican Aid to the Rich
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, International affairs, Politics
In November of 2008, while Barack Obama was winning an election, George W. Bush was already planning his exit. In addition to the two wars he was leaving us, the Bush Administration was preparing a surprise, a giant drop in the economy. Republicans in Wall Street had engineered speculative financial instruments based on derivatives tied [...]
Tags: Bush administration·deficit·Economic meltdown·jobs·national debt·Neoconservatives·obstruction·tea parties·the Great Recession·unemployment
EXXON or Cap-and-trade? Higher-Gas Prices or a Million New Jobs?
December 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics, energy
EXXON Oil Corporation has very profitable sales of about $1 billion per day. It also spends more than any other corporation trying to prevent alternative energy. The excess profits you pay in gas prices…buys all the latest alternative technology. They’re hedging their bets. They want gasoline at exorbitant prices and then they want to own [...]
Tags: anti-global warming scientists·clean energy·EXXON·gasoline prices·global warming·global warming deniers
A Plan for Jobs and Ending the Recession
December 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics, jobs
There has been talk recently–finally–about creating jobs. The talk has been about using some of the TARP money to create jobs in various sectors. As a reminder, the TARP funds were those funds used from the Treasury to shore up certain banks and other investment firms plus AIG, which was ostensibly the only insurance firm. [...]
Tags: creating new jobs·economy·Geithner·green jobs·jobs·President Obama·right wing republicans·stimulus·the Stimulus plan·using TARP for jobs
Down to the Wire on Health Care Reform
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
Americans used to be winners. Now we are losers. The current crop of middle-aged Americans are so far from reality that it almost makes a grown man…of which there are fewer and fewer…cry. We started out a year ago electing a man as President who said that he would initiate the process of creating a [...]
Tags: Congressional debate on health care·Health Care·health care debate·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska·Senator Blanche Lincoln·Senator Evan Bayh·Senator Landrieu·Senator Lieberman·Senator Mark Pryor
The King of the Pretend Populists
December 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Steve King is a populist. In his own mind. He is a member of the House of Representative from Northern Iowa, an area of the country apparently so devoid of intelligent human beings that they have voted more than once for a man who, among other very interesting things, has not only voted in favor [...]
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What Campaign Finance Reform Means for Jobs.
December 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, General, Politics
The 2008 election for all federal offices cost over $5 billion. The campaign finance for President alone cost over $1 billion. The election funding for the Presidential campaign and the election campaign funding for Congress are out of control. Those numbers alone should tell us what we need to do. We need to stop [...]
Tags: Campaign finance reform
How About This: Reform or Die!
December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Politics
Of course, we’re all going to die some day anyway. But health care reform and Republican, that is Neoconservative Obstructionist, opposition, have a lot to do with how soon we’ll die. And what about the death knell for the private health insurance lobby? The appearance of the grim reaper has sent the health insurance business [...]
Tags: Burr·Grassley·Health Care·health care debate·health care lobby·health care plan·health care reform·Lieberman·Lunatic fringe·McConnell·Obama health care plan
Dick and Junior Go to War
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · International affairs, Politics
This will be short. There is not much to say that is not obvious to anyone with a brain. In 2001 we were attacked by Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization headquartered in Afghanistan and supported by the tribes that encompass the Taliban, a severely strict and radical Muslim group that was in power in much [...]
Tags: Afghanistan·Bush·Bush administration·Dick Cheney·Iraq war·Right Wing·Rumsfeld·war in Afghanistan