Reading between the lines, I gather that Republicans are starting to coalesce around a legislative agenda to celebrate their recent midterm victory:
- Ban abortions after 20 weeks.
- Wipe out all of Obama's new and pending EPA regulations.
- Repeal Obamacare bit by bit.
- Figure out a way to obstruct Loretta Lynch's nomination as Attorney General.
Oh, there's still some desultory happy talk about tax reform and fast-track trade authority and other "areas of agreement," but that seems to be fading out. Poking a stick in President Obama's eye is very quickly becoming the order of the day.
I would like to forgive those who stayed home during this midterm election and refused to participate.
But I can't, for you have truly fucked us good.
P.S. Just for fun let's look back at when the Republicans had a reasonable agenda.
Hell I would vote for those guys.
I'm watching from Ireland. By hook or by crook, the GOP have managed to win a lot of gubernatorial elections. They are going to screw the minorites as regards voting rights. This will only get worse...in my view.
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DeleteI hate when I can't spell.
I saw that Casey, Goodman, and Schwerner are going to get the Medal of Freedom (posthumous) this month.
DeleteWouldn't it be nice if the various voters' rights groups could get an umbrella organization together named for Casey, Goodman, and Schwerner. Let their names be heard daily for as long as it takes for this country to take democracy seriously.
This country needs to get its act together and remember that having the right to vote and the responsibility to vote is something that ordinary people have died for in this country within our lifetimes.
Ted Cruz is yelling that net neutrality is "Obamacare for the internet."
ReplyDeleteOnly problem is, as with health care, this issue favors the vast majority of consumers. Big business doesn't like it.
The Democratic Party must make it clear just who benefits from the Republican agenda. And repeat it over and over again.
The real reason that US internet service providers are terrified of strong net neutrality
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Barack Obama says the internet is a public good, and that’s why the US needs net neutrality
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A Free And Open Internet. Thanks, President Obama
DeleteAn open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life. By lowering the cost of launching a new idea, igniting new political movements, and bringing communities closer together, it has been one of the most significant democratizing influences the world has ever known. “Net neutrality” has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas. That is why today, I am asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to answer the call of almost 4 million public comments, and implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/10/a-free-and-open-internet-thanks-president-obama/
I love Prez Obama's approach to the GOP takeover.
ReplyDeleteOK boys the ball is in your court, it's time for you to create legislation, show me what you got. Let's get to work. You know these slugs aren't going to pass anything because it would make the Prez look good. The sick fucks.
I would be happy if they passed a budget without gutting social service programs. But shutdowns and impeachment hearings seem to be in the cards.
ReplyDelete#ThisPresident has the tenacity to deal with their nonsense. Tenacity being, biting off more than you can chew--and chewing it. Up.
ReplyDeleteBRILLIANT. hook line and sinker. the gop fell in deep. right over the cliff. Watch carefully how their given control hangs them for 16. The evil doers will fail once again in front the world and country. Keep moving forward.
ReplyDeleteabortions after 20 weeks are usually for the health of the mother or because the fetus is nonviable. what a bunch of dicks.
ReplyDeleteThis didn't come from the GOP, it came from the fantasy writing of a Mother Jones contributor.
DeleteA different take on the election
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Don't miss this G:
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I have a hard time believing dems stayed home and did not vote. Who, if they are paying attention to anything would be so lax, so uninvolved?
ReplyDeleteI stll can't accept it.
I'm still reeling from last week's results and what they might mean to the rest of us. I read something recently that said that if you stayed home and didn't vote, you actually DID vote...for the GOP. Their voters have now made decisions for all of us.
DeleteNot only was our turnout abysmal but, in many states, far too many Democrats who wanted to vote were stripped of their rights by voter suppression laws, intimidation, reduced voting periods and locations, deliberately misleading information, and hacked voting machines.
The GOP became the United States Chamber of Commerce?
ReplyDeleteAmerica on the road to becoming a third world country.
ReplyDeleteOur only hope the the teabaggers and republicans spend all their time fighting each other and nothing gets done.
Then again they could be sneaky like the republican legislator here in Michigan and pass everything in the middle of the night.
A lazily made list from a biased opinion based on no sources or reality, not impressed. Mother Jones fiction.
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DeleteYeah bro at 10:08, put your faith in lackluster opinion pieces that suit your way of thinking rather than searching out facts. Stay as far away from reality as possible.
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Seem to remember the Speaker of the house talkin about Jobs Jobs Jobs as a priority in the past, whaqt happened there?
ReplyDeleteThey are still talkin, it is the action they have a problem with.
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What ever happened to those guys?
They died or became democrats.
To be fair, neither party is what it was in the 50s, in the 60s, in the 70s or really 80s.
ReplyDeleteBoth parties are stupid and play games.
Democrats used race to get what they want and hide from the media
how else to explain why they put up a fully inarticulate (with strict speech control) and unaccomplished candidate
how else to explain why they put up a fully inarticulate (with strict speech control) and unaccomplished candidate
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You are absolutely right !!!! The republicans were stupid and playing games when they put up a fully inarticulate (with strict speech control) and unaccomplished candidate Sarah Palin.
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Here's a comment about McCain I cut and stole to repost here, off topic I know but genus none the less
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin, a far-right fundamentalist, fiscally-irresponsible, operationally-reckless, intellectually incurious, self-serving, power-abusing, pandering,vindictive, war-mongering, lying, intolerant, ideologically-driven, book-banning,pro-big-oil, anti-environment, anti-animal rights/welfare, animal-skinning, global warming delusionist with links to secessionists, and who denies evolution in favor of the supernatural mytho-religious story of creation and who used her office to dismantle barriers between church and state.
Still, McCain offered the most fraudulent and self-serving praise to promote Palin:
“She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.”
“I think she’s the most qualified of anyone recently who has run for vice president to tell you the truth…”
“She did fine in the interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. She did a great job in those interviews.”
McCain graduated in the bottom 1% of his class at the US Naval Academy. In a more just world, he’d be running a “Joe the Plumber” franchise with Wurzelbacher, not sitting as the Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. With Palin as his plumber's helper.
Since the 1956 Republican agenda is too progressive for today's GOP, perhaps we should look at the agenda from 1856? No, that won't work, because the Republicans of that time were adamantly anti-slavery and friends to the workers. When you think about it, there is no era of Republican politics which were as extreme and reactionary as the party is today. I am frightened for my new granddaughter's future.
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