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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
GOP using fake economic crisis to make possibly the most blatant power grab in American history.
I was stunned when I watched that last night. People need to wake up. Living in a "Company" town, without elected representatives, without a place at the bargaining table, without a say in whether your town simply gets axed, THAT is NOT America. Hey Teabaggers! You ASSHOLES! You are helping this kind of thing along.
"Sources say Sarah is desperately trying to discredit former confidante Frank Bailey, who plans to publish a blockbuster book titled, Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years.
“The Palins’ marriage was already shaky, and this book is so scathing regarding Todd that it could cause Sarah to leave him,” dished one insider.
“This is a massive scandal and Todd had a huge part in it, according to the book. If she takes too much heat for Todd’s conduct, her only option may be to leave him to preserve her political career."
Scott Brown distances himself from the teabaggers, but doesn't hesitate to take Koch's money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnkipn-gJK4&feature=player_embedded
During the first year in office, Sarah Palin kept a jar at her desk with the names of Wasilla residents. Every week she pulled out a name, called the person and asked: “How’s the city doing”. Palin is no longer the mayor of Wasilla, the Governor of Alaska, or the Vice Presidential candidate. She is a celebrity, but she still calls people. Now when she asks “How am I doing?” she gets a variety of answers, depending on the person she happens to call. Here are just a few representative responses:
Wow! This is phenomenal! I have never voted republican in my life, but those citizens who are voting for these thieves better figure it out because the all mighty state is coming to get you! You think you own your house, well you won't! Think you've got a job! Well, you won't! Think that you'll have medicare take care of you now that you're retired? Well, you better think again and you better stand tall with us Democrats against the thieving republicans because you'll end up with nothing and wonder what happened! Recall all republicans! Let them go make a new country someplace else!
The worst part is that our present crisis is not accidental:
Bush squanders the Clinton surplus on the rich (himself) and doesn't pay for his war because that would invalidate the tax cuts. His cronies do manage to make out like bandits from the war effort.
1. McConnell insists on extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich. 2. Republican politicians hysterically insist on spending cuts because we're broke.
The hysteria about us being broke is very similar to the orchestrated rush into the Iraq war!
power hungry Kochs, Graham, & media Murdoch, make a great team - brainwashing and using low educated people and their religion as a way to vote in their pawns and like-minded political agenda to take over the country. Teabaggers: We don't hate you. We hate that you are buying the message. Do you really love your country? Then why are you voting in people who want to take away your (our) freedoms?
O/T Why Conservatives Turned on Sarah Palin The inside story.
It’s never easy to extricate yourself from a fling that got way too serious. But that’s exactly what many conservatives are trying to do after a few heady years of Sarah Palin infatuation. In the wake of Palin’s deeply unserious reality TV show and her embarrassing “blood libel” video, the bloom’s worn off the rose, rather definitively. In fact, those incidents may have provided just the convenient excuses the GOP establishment was looking for.
Now, with the 2012 election looming, Palin’s former backers are fleeing left and right. The following is a closer look at the Republican bigwigs who have fallen out of love with her: Some are former cheerleaders who’ve done a 180-degree turn, some are critics who once held their tongues but are now emboldened to oppose her, and—perhaps worst of all—many are her onetime biggest fans, who have taken to damning her with conspicuously faint praise.
MUGGED BY REALITY OUT-OF-THE-CLOSET CRITICS FRIENDS WHO DON’T CALL ANYMORE
Please read the book and support Naomi Klein ! Please force all of your GOP family members to watch this, and preach from the Shock Doctrine to them like they preach to from the Bible. Something is bound to get through. We have an obligation to spread information and to education the ignorant and misinformed.
Sadly, I know entirely too many otherwise intelligent people who continue to buy into the GOP bullshit.
I recently had lunch with an out-of-work friend (out of work for 2 years) who said he sided with the Wisconsin governor regarding unions!!!
There's no way to turn these people around when they are fed an onslaught of falsehoods from the corporate controlled media.
God bless the hard-fighting citizens of Wisconsin. But my fear is it's too little, too late. I genuinely hope I'm wrong, but I fear this country's best days are behind us.
Snyder is dismantling Michigan, under the guise of "we're broke" as well. My local paper had had a plethora of editorials praising him for his 'business background,' while blaming Granholm and Democrats for everything except the snow around here! I sent off a letter last night asking where was the reporting on this planned GOP takeover! Snyder is after the unions as well...and I was glad to see Wisconsin hold out, but I fear for us and the future of this entire country. Nice job by the GOP putting the distractions of Palin, Rush and Bachmann out there to cover for their real plan...demolish the middle class, make the rich the ruling class, and slaves of everyone else, for their poor, unhealthy lives.
“The only love they shared was the love of Sarah’s career, and everything they did was aimed at Sarah’s public image.
“Todd and Sarah stayed together solely for political purposes.
“Sarah once told Bailey, ‘We’re not like normal couples, Frank. We don’t talk.’”
“Frank Bailey was so close to Sarah that he knows where all the bodies are buried,” declared Dennis Zaki, an Alaskan journalist and photographer who has covered Palin since her political career began.”
I live in Michigan..and I did not vote for Snyder and knew from the get go that he would sell Michigan out from under us. Too many fell for the crap that is put out there and did not use their brains, and now everyone in Michigan will be fleeced - except the big corporations and foreign countries that buy my state up.
My name is Lynn and I live in Michigan just outside of Ann Arbor where Gov. Snyder resides. While all the attention was on Wisc., the Republican state legislature introduced this devastating bill. There has been very little media coverage until yesterday. AA.com linked to an article by the Detroit Free Press on protests in Lansing regarding Senate Bill 158. Sarah Jones has a great article detailing Rachel Maddow's coverage last night and what it will mean for MI. Michael Moore will be on Rachel tonight. http://www.politicususa.com/en/rachel-maddow-michigan http://www.annarbor.com/news/union-supporters-protest-as-michigan-senate-considers-emergency-manager-bill/#comments
I hate missing Rachel's show, it's like missing a really important poli sci class.
As far as the tactics of the GOP governors, it would be interesting to contrast them with the strategies of the Democratic governors. Surely they're in financial distress, too, but are they trying to bust unions?
What else worries me is that the GOP has been touting a return to states rights; if what the Michigan governor is doing is what they're talking about, we could be in big trouble.
i am encouraged that the young voters in the u.s. are not buying the republican line. they can see what is going on in wisconsin and other states. the old repub hard-liners will slowly die out and the young voters will become the majority. it gives me hope.
The lead story out of Michigan is appalling... If this isn't exposed as a blatant target aimed complete authoritarian rule of a US State, then everyone in the media whom is ignoring this is minimizing their responsibility to the public they serve.
This may seem like an odd question, but since it is clearly the intent (has been for 40-50 YEARS) of the rethuglicon party or pee-baggers to 'take over' the US - THEN WHAT?
It is all about POWER. The corpora-terrorists don't care about the money anymore, they are drunk on POWER. The only reason they are sucking the money out of the middle class is so there will be no way left to fight them.
Their view of the world for over 100 years has been a dictatorship of corporations with the rest of us demoted to feudal slave/serfs to be used and then thrown on the trash heap. Not just for America, but for the entire globe.
I saw this on the Rachel Maddow show last night, and anyone who doesn't acknowledge the blatant power grab of the Republican Party is either in denial or sympathetic to it. I hope now that people who were too apathetic or disappointed to vote, or voted Republican to stick it to Obama in their dissatisfaction with him, realize that they stuck it to themselves and those who voted differently but must suffer as well.
Any time these governors can give tax breaks to large corporations, you know that they are not serious about balancing the budget. The fact that they are trying to pay for these breaks on the backs of unionized workers, whom they conveniently scapegoat, shows that it's about disenfranchising insitutions that normally lean Democratic. Just today, an NPR CEO was forced out after he was caught on tape by the notorious O'Keefe of ACORN infamy making derogatory remarks about Tea Partiers. The efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, the National Labor Relations Board, NPR, and ACORN are part of a coordinated effort.
I am reading her book and the incident line up well with what I have read about the CIA and their activities globally. I have an incredible collection of CIA and spy books. My opinion is that the CIA is a total failure and whirlpool sucking needless money.
The stigma is the word "communist" or "communism". I have read about Whittaker Chambers and his work with McCarthy's committee. This push to neoconservatism has been here, but not as strong, since right after WWII.
The New Deal helped create a balance of powers. The Global corporate market is all about destroying the balance for far, far right corporatism.
Palin is mouthing her own warped view of the issues and economic agenda discussed in this book.
Murdock, Ailes, Koch, and others push and follow the agenda and, yes, it is scary.
Why hasn't the major media did their 'extensive' piece on the crisis? They usually like to jump on anything to support the unions. If what this country is going through now is a 'fake crisis', I hope a real one doesn't hit. 10% umemployment, cities and states deep in debt! Sure had me fooled. It may be that politicians create problems, but it's not just Republicans. Democrats have had their share too. Remember Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? Still seeing foreclosures there. Hopefully the unions will say they want to save the cities and not expect free health care and 2 for 1 matches on retirement. Good luck on that too. Politicians have no plan at all to fix this 'fake' crisis.
I was stunned when I watched that last night. People need to wake up. Living in a "Company" town, without elected representatives, without a place at the bargaining table, without a say in whether your town simply gets axed, THAT is NOT America. Hey Teabaggers! You ASSHOLES! You are helping this kind of thing along.
ReplyDeleteFuuuuuuuuucccccckkk!
ReplyDeleteOT.
ReplyDelete"Sources say Sarah is desperately trying to discredit former confidante Frank Bailey, who plans to publish a blockbuster book titled, Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years.
“The Palins’ marriage was already shaky, and this book is so scathing regarding Todd that it could cause Sarah to leave him,” dished one insider.
“This is a massive scandal and Todd had a huge part in it, according to the book. If she takes too much heat for Todd’s conduct, her only option may be to leave him to preserve her political career."
http://www.showbizspy.com/article/228000/sarah-palin-might-leave-her-husband.html
Wake up Alaska. Parnell and his cronies are set to dismantle government, in favor of big business (OIL)!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding what's behind the curtain makes it so much harder to be fooled.
Bunch o liars.
ReplyDeleteScott Brown distances himself from the teabaggers, but doesn't hesitate to take Koch's money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnkipn-gJK4&feature=player_embedded
O/T but worth the read!
ReplyDeleteDuring the first year in office, Sarah Palin kept a jar at her desk with the names of Wasilla residents. Every week she pulled out a name, called the person and asked: “How’s the city doing”. Palin is no longer the mayor of Wasilla, the Governor of Alaska, or the Vice Presidential candidate. She is a celebrity, but she still calls people. Now when she asks “How am I doing?” she gets a variety of answers, depending on the person she happens to call. Here are just a few representative responses:
http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/palin-asks-how-am-i-doing/
Wow! This is phenomenal! I have never voted republican in my life, but those citizens who are voting for these thieves better figure it out because the all mighty state is coming to get you! You think you own your house, well you won't! Think you've got a job! Well, you won't! Think that you'll have medicare take care of you now that you're retired? Well, you better think again and you better stand tall with us Democrats against the thieving republicans because you'll end up with nothing and wonder what happened! Recall all republicans! Let them go make a new country someplace else!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteShock Doctrine is an excellent book that evrybody should read! Many other examples we'd all recognize are in it....
Anchorage no more. You are now entering the city limits if Exxon, population 15000.
ReplyDeleteThe worst part is that our present crisis is not accidental:
ReplyDeleteBush squanders the Clinton surplus on the rich (himself) and doesn't pay for his war because that would invalidate the tax cuts. His cronies do manage to make out like bandits from the war effort.
1. McConnell insists on extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
2. Republican politicians hysterically insist on spending cuts because we're broke.
The hysteria about us being broke is very similar to the orchestrated rush into the Iraq war!
Thank you for posting this.
ReplyDeleteNaomi Klein is well spoken, very educated and knows the truth about the BIG fight going on in this country.
She was one of the women that came out in 2008 against Sarah!
power hungry Kochs, Graham, & media Murdoch, make a great team - brainwashing and using low educated people and their religion as a way to vote in their pawns and like-minded political agenda to take over the country. Teabaggers: We don't hate you. We hate that you are buying the message. Do you really love your country? Then why are you voting in people who want to take away your (our) freedoms?
ReplyDeleteO/T
ReplyDeleteWhy Conservatives Turned on Sarah Palin
The inside story.
It’s never easy to extricate yourself from a fling that got way too serious. But that’s exactly what many conservatives are trying to do after a few heady years of Sarah Palin infatuation. In the wake of Palin’s deeply unserious reality TV show and her embarrassing “blood libel” video, the bloom’s worn off the rose, rather definitively. In fact, those incidents may have provided just the convenient excuses the GOP establishment was looking for.
Now, with the 2012 election looming, Palin’s former backers are fleeing left and right. The following is a closer look at the Republican bigwigs who have fallen out of love with her: Some are former cheerleaders who’ve done a 180-degree turn, some are critics who once held their tongues but are now emboldened to oppose her, and—perhaps worst of all—many are her onetime biggest fans, who have taken to damning her with conspicuously faint praise.
MUGGED BY REALITY
OUT-OF-THE-CLOSET CRITICS
FRIENDS WHO DON’T CALL ANYMORE
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/84934/sarah-palin-conservatives-turned-against-kristol-
pawlenty?page=0,0
Please read the book and support Naomi Klein ! Please force all of your GOP family members to watch this, and preach from the Shock Doctrine to them like they preach to from the Bible. Something is bound to get through. We have an obligation to spread information and to education the ignorant and misinformed.
ReplyDeleteSadly, I know entirely too many otherwise intelligent people who continue to buy into the GOP bullshit.
ReplyDeleteI recently had lunch with an out-of-work friend (out of work for 2 years) who said he sided with the Wisconsin governor regarding unions!!!
There's no way to turn these people around when they are fed an onslaught of falsehoods from the corporate controlled media.
God bless the hard-fighting citizens of Wisconsin. But my fear is it's too little, too late. I genuinely hope I'm wrong, but I fear this country's best days are behind us.
Snyder is dismantling Michigan, under the guise of "we're broke" as well. My local paper had had a plethora of editorials praising him for his 'business background,' while blaming Granholm and Democrats for everything except the snow around here! I sent off a letter last night asking where was the reporting on this planned GOP takeover! Snyder is after the unions as well...and I was glad to see Wisconsin hold out, but I fear for us and the future of this entire country.
ReplyDeleteNice job by the GOP putting the distractions of Palin, Rush and Bachmann out there to cover for their real plan...demolish the middle class, make the rich the ruling class, and slaves of everyone else, for their poor, unhealthy lives.
Political Prostitutes
ReplyDelete“The only love they shared was the love of Sarah’s career, and everything they did was aimed at Sarah’s public image.
“Todd and Sarah stayed together solely for political purposes.
“Sarah once told Bailey, ‘We’re not like normal couples, Frank. We don’t talk.’”
“Frank Bailey was so close to Sarah that he knows where all the bodies are buried,” declared Dennis Zaki, an Alaskan journalist and photographer who has covered Palin since her political career began.”
I live in Michigan..and I did not vote for Snyder and knew from the get go that he would sell Michigan out from under us. Too many fell for the crap that is put out there and did not use their brains, and now everyone in Michigan will be fleeced - except the big corporations and foreign countries that buy my state up.
ReplyDeleteHey, Gryphen, there you are, on my Facebook feed again this morning. The group LOLGOP posted the link to your blog for this article!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Lynn and I live in Michigan just outside of Ann Arbor where Gov. Snyder resides. While all the attention was on Wisc., the Republican state legislature introduced this devastating bill. There has been very little media coverage until yesterday. AA.com linked to an article by the Detroit Free Press on protests in Lansing regarding Senate Bill 158. Sarah Jones has a great article detailing Rachel Maddow's coverage last night and what it will mean for MI. Michael Moore will be on Rachel tonight. http://www.politicususa.com/en/rachel-maddow-michigan
ReplyDeletehttp://www.annarbor.com/news/union-supporters-protest-as-michigan-senate-considers-emergency-manager-bill/#comments
I hate missing Rachel's show, it's like missing a really important poli sci class.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the tactics of the GOP governors, it would be interesting to contrast them with the strategies of the Democratic governors. Surely they're in financial distress, too, but are they trying to bust unions?
What else worries me is that the GOP has been touting a return to states rights; if what the Michigan governor is doing is what they're talking about, we could be in big trouble.
i am encouraged that the young voters in the u.s. are not buying the republican line. they can see what is going on in wisconsin and other states. the old repub hard-liners will slowly die out and the young voters will become the majority. it gives me hope.
ReplyDeleteAnon@7:33 AM. If the paylins were only together for political reasons, and did not even talk, how did Tri-G get here?
ReplyDeleteChris Hedges understands what is going on and wrote an article dated yesterday...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.truthdig.com/report/item/this_time_were_taking_the_whole_planet_with_us_20110307/
The lead story out of Michigan is appalling... If this isn't exposed as a blatant target aimed complete authoritarian rule of a US State, then everyone in the media whom is ignoring this is minimizing their responsibility to the public they serve.
ReplyDeleteThis may seem like an odd question, but since it is clearly the intent (has been for 40-50 YEARS) of the rethuglicon party or pee-baggers to 'take over' the US - THEN WHAT?
It is all about POWER. The corpora-terrorists don't care about the money anymore, they are drunk on POWER. The only reason they are sucking the money out of the middle class is so there will be no way left to fight them.
ReplyDeleteTheir view of the world for over 100 years has been a dictatorship of corporations with the rest of us demoted to feudal slave/serfs to be used and then thrown on the trash heap. Not just for America, but for the entire globe.
I saw this on the Rachel Maddow show last night, and anyone who doesn't acknowledge the blatant power grab of the Republican Party is either in denial or sympathetic to it. I hope now that people who were too apathetic or disappointed to vote, or voted Republican to stick it to Obama in their dissatisfaction with him, realize that they stuck it to themselves and those who voted differently but must suffer as well.
ReplyDeleteAny time these governors can give tax breaks to large corporations, you know that they are not serious about balancing the budget. The fact that they are trying to pay for these breaks on the backs of unionized workers, whom they conveniently scapegoat, shows that it's about disenfranchising insitutions that normally lean Democratic. Just today, an NPR CEO was forced out after he was caught on tape by the notorious O'Keefe of ACORN infamy making derogatory remarks about Tea Partiers. The efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, the National Labor Relations Board, NPR, and ACORN are part of a coordinated effort.
I am reading her book and the incident line up well with what I have read about the CIA and their activities globally. I have an incredible collection of CIA and spy books. My opinion is that the CIA is a total failure and whirlpool sucking needless money.
ReplyDeleteThe stigma is the word
"communist" or "communism". I have read about Whittaker Chambers and his work with McCarthy's committee. This push to neoconservatism has been here, but not as strong, since right after WWII.
The New Deal helped create a balance of powers. The Global corporate market is all about destroying the balance for far, far right corporatism.
Palin is mouthing her own warped view of the issues and economic agenda discussed in this book.
Murdock, Ailes, Koch, and others push and follow the agenda and, yes, it is scary.
Why hasn't the major media did their 'extensive' piece on the crisis? They usually like to jump on anything to support the unions.
ReplyDeleteIf what this country is going through now is a 'fake crisis', I hope a real one doesn't hit. 10% umemployment, cities and states deep in debt! Sure had me fooled. It may be that politicians create problems, but it's not just Republicans. Democrats have had their share too. Remember Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? Still seeing foreclosures there.
Hopefully the unions will say they want to save the cities and not expect free health care and 2 for 1 matches on retirement. Good luck on that too. Politicians have no plan at all to fix this 'fake' crisis.