What is America? Is it merely a flag? Is it an armed force, with tanks and guns and planes? After all, that’s what many people see in villages around the world. That’s what simple groups of small villagers saw in Iraq…people with no television, no media elite, no sophisticated intellectual government in their region to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'obstruction'
More Idiotic Propaganda From the GOP Lunatic Fringe
March 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Media, Politics
The Republicans have lost the battle against health care for their supporters in the health insurance industry. With no more stalling options, they are trying to use propaganda to scare and distract Americans about the federal government. Most of it is just gibberish. Be assured of one thing. We are in no danger of becoming [...]
Tags: Bush administration·health care lobby·health care reform·Neocon lunatic fringe·Neoconservative propaganda·obstruction·propaganda·Republican propaganda·Right Wing·Rupert Murdoch·tea parties
Are Neoconservatives Making Us a Laughing Stock Around the World?
February 9th, 2010 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
I am sure that Senator Mitch McConnell, whom some pundit called, I believe, a “turtle-hybrid” recently feels that he has accomplished quite a bit for his Party this last year. The Neoconservatives, despite repeated and repeated and frustratingly, boringly repeated efforts by the President to have them join in, be part of the government of [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Health Care·health care debate·lobbyist pandering·lobbyists·Neoconservatives·obstruction
Neoconservative Obstruction and How to End It.
January 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics
Since 2007, there has been a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives and a slim majority of 51-49 took over in the Senate (although Senators Tim Johnson and Robert Byrd were often unavailable.) Consequently, the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party began to use the filibuster to shut down legislation. The filibuster requires that the majority party [...]
What’s the Matter with Massachusetts?
January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
Scott Brown, the Republican member of the Massachusetts state legislature, who appeared nude in Cosmopolitan Magazine, is the new Senator from Massachusetts. He claims to be something like a Republican-Independent-Populist-Neoconservative-tea-bagger. His claim to populism is apparently that he owns a pickup truck. He apparently also likes baseball and football, as did George W. Bush. In [...]
Tags: Brown-Coakly election·health care debate·Massachusetts politics·Neoconservatives·obstruction·populist·Scott Brown·senate majorityk health care reform
Profiles in Obstruction # 1: Senator James DeMint
January 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Health Care, jobs, Politics, wars and militarism
It is too easy to simply make fun of or ridicule James DeMint. And of course many would say: who are any of us mere mortals to criticize men or women who have become Senators? These are supposedly successful people in their own right, business people or former Congress persons who have demonstrated to their [...]
Tags: DeMint·Lunatic fringe·Neocon Republicans·Neoconservative·obstruction·religious right·Republican obstruction
Over Neoconservative Obstruction and Health Care Lobbying, Health Reform Passes.
December 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · 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
Lessons for the “Tea Baggers” on the Bush Recession and Republican Aid to the Rich
December 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · 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