We go to work in unnerving heavy traffic, fighting to get there on time so that we won’t be one of those who is on the list for the next layoff. We come home to find out that the neighbor down the street who lost his job 9 months ago and never found another has [...]
Entries Tagged as 'tea parties'
The Danger of Armed Insurrection in America Today
October 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics, wars and militarism
Tags: Corporatism·Neocons·Neoconservative·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·Right Wing·tea parties
Racism and Neoconservatism
April 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Media, Politics
What Must Be Said… Since the late 1960s, Americans have held the belief–which we now know has been a false belief–that we had gone past a society filled with race hatred. We should have known after the shifts of Democrats to Republicans in the Reagan era that it would be a long time before we [...]
Tags: bigotry·confederate states·Neocon Republican racism·Neoconservative racism·political racism·racism·racist right wing radio·racist tea party marchers·Reagan southern strategy·Southern political strategy·Southern strategy·tea parties·White Supremacists
The Bible and the Federalist Papers
April 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics, Science & Technology
The year 1776 was not much different from the year 76. In both years and eras there were no airplanes, cars, electric lights, radio, telephone, telegraph, television, Ipods or Ipads. There was no electricity, no steam, no combustion engine, no natural gas power, not even propane. There was no Internet, nor were there railroads, buses, [...]
Tags: Federalist Papers·Federalist Society·Neoconservative propaganda·revisionist politics·Right Wing politics·tea parties
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
The Grim State of the Nation
February 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Economics, energy, Health Care, jobs, Politics
As we are about to enter the third month of 2010, the nation is in its worst financial and economic condition since, perhaps, 1939. We have large-scale unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness, hunger, lack of living essentials, and many working families with huge credit card debt. The Neoconservative Republicans who control the Republican Party, have decided [...]
Tags: clean energy·economy·energy·food banks·Health Care·health care lobby·health care reform·homelessness·hunger·jobs·reconciliation·Rupert Murdoch·stimulus·Supreme Court·tea parties·tent cities·unemployment·unemployment insurance
Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.
December 19th, 2009 · Comments Off · 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
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
Health Care
November 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care
Over the next month…we hope and expect…the Senate will debate health care. That is, they will try to pass the reform of health care and health insurance and a whole new system of health care delivery for Americans. They will debate the so-called Obama plan, the health care plan of the Democratic Party. There is [...]
Tags: Health Care·health care debate·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance industry·Obama·Obama health care plan·Republican health plan·tea parties
Reality, Fantasy and Leadership
November 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics
Since the latter part of the last decade of the 20th Century, the once-great United States of America has fallen into a trap. That trap is that we can continue to be great without paying the price for greatness. Everyone knows the price but no one is willing to pay it. The price is a [...]
Tags: Bush administration·Europe·fantasy·fundamentalist christians·Gore·leadership·Lieberman·Lunatic fringe·political reality·Politics·reality·recession·Republicans·Right Wing·slavery·tea parties·war
The Health Care Reform Battle and the Neocon Alternatives
November 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · General, Health Care, Politics
On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the members in the House of Representatives of the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party spent an entire day doing their best to obstruct and prevent legislation. But the Affordable Health Care for America Act passed by 220 to 215. It was bi-partisan. One Republican voted with the Democrats. And 39 petty, cowardly [...]
Tags: Bush administration·Health Care·health care reform·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Neocon Republicans·Republican health care plan·tea parties
Mobs, Revolutions, Moral Majorities and Totalitarian Governments
October 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · 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
Join In an Economic Revolution
October 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics
Rather than complaining about our lives, our incomes, our ability to maintain some kind of minimal lifestyle, it may be time to do what every good militant has done since before Lenin or George Washington….join up. We need to bite the bullet and become more active in some kind of populist group. Some may participate [...]
Tags: carbon tax·Economics·Health Care·import duties·lobbyists·Politics·President Obama·Republicans·tea parties