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Today I watched Republican House minority leader John Boehner do a full court press spin on “Meet The Press’. He blamed the Democrats for not being able to lead the nation by pointing out the problems that Obama had with blue dog Democrats. What the host failed to press Rep. John Boehner on was that the Democrats had more than enough votes IF the Republicans allowed governmental processes to take place by not resorting to the filibuster in the Senate. “Meet The Press” host, David Gregory did not press Republican Minority Leader John Boehner that his Republican counterparts in the Senate were engaging in the filibuster at record levels! Hence the Democrats had to have all 60 votes not just 50 votes plus Vice President Biden to act as the breaking vote to pass. While Rep. Boehner is a member of the House not the Senate, none the less the record Senate filibusters are the only reason the Democrats have come to a halt.
While we already are aware about Sarah Palin’s lack of basic geography, I would like to add how Fox News distorted Steve Schmidt’s interview on “60 Minutes“! Bill O’Reilly created a FULL SPIN ZONE in his “Talking Points Memo” on Monday when he said that McCain Adviser Steve Schmidt stated that Sarah Palin made the the Republican ticket stronger.
Now finally the Democrats are standing up to the right wing propaganda machine! I have always believed, even from the time of the Vietnam War, that if there is news media biases it was pro-conservative! If you were around then you would see the news media first present a “flag burning” then a Republican hawk would wrap himself in the flag and attack the flag burners. The subliminal message being “If you are against the war and OUR PRESIDENT then you are against America”! You rarely saw a non-flag burning anti-war demonstrator yet they were the majority. Well in this era Fox News seems to believe they own America. Thank God they were not around during the Vietnam War. I am sick of their self righteous, birther, tea bag waving ways.
Thank God President Obama mustered some testosterone to go on the offensive. Read the rest of this entry »
The Democrats In Congress And Obama do not need Swine Flu shots. They need TESTOSTERONE shots! Sure they can learn from the Republicans on how to be the minority party of no! To bad the Democrats did not function as the “party of NO” while the Iraq War was waging and we had control of the House of Representatives for the last two years of Bush’s presidency! We could have ended the funding for the Iraq War and shifted our attention to Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now the American people are war weary and who can blame them. It used to be we won World Wars in four years. Instead we just win Halliburton and Blackwater as parasites of our tax dollars! For God sake we have control of both Houses of Congress and the Presidency. We may not have control of both houses of Congress after the 2010 election. I don’t know who is weaker Harry Reid or President Obama! We need to go on the offensive.
As one protester’s sign read:
The Democratic Congressional Majority: Use it or loose it!
Oh poor baby Sarah Palin. Did that nasty liberal biased news media finally become too much for the “Pit bull Hockey Mummy” from Alaska? What drives me crazy about Sarah Palin is the way the news media where too scared to pursue her ties with the Alaskan independence Party and her ties with a witch hunting pastor who gave her the laying on of hands. Please note that while I am an Episcopalian I am not making fun of Pentecostals! I understand most of you reading this are not aware of Sarah Palin being a “PAL of Witch-hunters and Alaskan Secessionists”!
But then again the news media never had the guts to do follow ups on her relationship to the Alaskan Independence Party! With the exception of a few Journalists on CNN and MSNBC, Sarah Palin got a free ride with the news media. Below Keith Olbermann talks about Sarah Palin’s hypocrisy and her relation to both the Alaskan Independence Party and her witchdoctor hunting pastor! (Keith gets into this fully about four minutes into the video but I recommend you watch it in full.
Concerning Sarah Palin’s being a pal of Secessionists, she was wrongly accused of being a “formal member” of the AIP (Alaskan Independence Party). That she was not a formal member, as it was originally alleged by some, has been taken to dismiss the entire issue of her ties to the Alaskan independence Party! Well not so fast! You see her husband was a member for seven years and she even sent a video address to their convention last year just a few months before she became the Republican nominee for Vice President. You can view it on the Alaskan Independence Party website below.
http://www.akip.org/conv08.html
The AIP Goal is secessionist from America. Their own website states this as their ultimate goal.
http://www.akip.org/grege.html
Their founder Joe Vogler did not want to be called an “American” but an “Alaskan”. See the video below.
Oh poor Sarah Palin, such a martyr for the Conservative Cause! Those nasty people in the news media even asked her a question about the “Bush Doctrine”! Being the great foreign policy expert that John McCain said she is, why is such a question considered to be biased?
Yes this is Sarah Palin the one who constantly accused Barrack Obama of being a “pal of terrorists”. Yet to criticize her would result in accusations that the news media is biased! Hell this woman got a free ride! The news media never questioned her about her ties to the Alaskan Independence Party.
God imagine if Barrack Obama’s wife where a member of the Black Panthers? Imagine if Barrack Obama addressed a convention of Black separatists? The news media went on and on about the nutty Rev Wright but barely mentioned John McCain’s ties to Rev. Hagee or Rev. Parsley! But even worse was Sarah Palin and her love of a minister who conducted witch hunting in Africa! (See top video). Yet you never heard about him in the news media!
Well let me close this post with a little humor! The “Ballard of Sarah Palin” see above! These effete snobs of the Republican Party accused Barrack Obama of being a “elitist”! Yet now they wail and whine like babies that the upper 2% is going to have to pay more taxes. They call these people the “producers”! Hey what do these parasites do to earn more money then the President of the United States? Do they have more responsibilities than the President of the United States! The time has come for America’s producers, our great Middle Class to stop being a Silent Majority but a vocal one! Let’s take back our nation from these effete snobs of privilege!
Good night Sarah and good riddance!
Tonight I had the sickening experience of listening to Sean Hannity argue that water boarding is fine and that the President has the right to order it to protect America. His guest made a statement that Sean Hannity vigorously agreed with. The guest said. “There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents the President from doing this”. Oh gee I guess that is what you call a “non-activist” approach to the Constitution! Yet Hannity and his fellow travelers will preach to us about the value of a “Strict Constructionist interpretation” of the Constitution! Then they will preach “the lessons of history” as if we Democrats don’t know how freedom can be lost to the feels good solution to problems!
Well the video below shows the reason why you don’t torture! President Obama said it in his speech today! We want enemy troops to surrender to ours! They will do so if they can expect good treatment. Giving them good treatment SAVES AMERICAN TROOPS! Remember the video below how the Iraqi troops could not wait to surrender and were happy to do so! Would they be so enthusiastic after hearing Cheney?
The video above shows the good that can happen when we follow our American ideals and values! If enemy troops were to fear being water boarded or mistreated they would hold out longer thus more American lives would be lost! If they were higher ups they might even commit suicide and then we would never get the information we needed by traditional methods of interrogation! We must follow the Geneva Convention as President Obama has advocated.
Dick Cheney has criticized our President for trying to appeal to allies with his approach. Well listen to Dick Cheney in the video below when questioned in 1994 about the first Iraqi War. Note that he wanted to have allies join with us. He did not consider it wrong to appeal to allies.
The problem is that we all know that America will be attacked again and the Republicans want to set the Democrats up. Rudy Giuliani, if he were President would most likely do what he attempted as mayor and want to extend his term! Yes the lessons of history are something that Republicans preach but never learn. Our nation survived a Civil War and still had elections.
Now here is a scenario for Republicans to consider! If we allow water boarding to be defined as not constituting torture then what is to stop “enhanced interrogation techniques” from coming to a police station near you? If we allow the smirking George Bush to get away with his statement, “this is America and we don’t torture” and his definition to enter our legal code then a future President could do the same to his opponents! Am I being paranoid?
Well now what if we had a President who was “a pal of terrorists”! What if this same President wasn’t a “real American” and wanted to water board his opponents during some trumped up crises! Now you Republicans do believe President Barrack Hussein Obama is not a real American and a “pal of terrorists” don’t you? This just shows how opportunistic and shabby the Republicans are in their arguments! Republicans should be the first to make sure “water boarding” is defined as torture and illegal. But then again they lied about Obama being a pal of terrorists, because if he were Anti-American they should be the first to out law him having the authority to use it.
As I have mentioned in prior posts I would accept a limited, open and transparent “Allan Dorchowitz Court Torture Warrant” in the event of a terrorist nuclear bomb. But then again I would not desire to turn the operation of America’s ports over to the Dubai. You know the country that Halliburton has moved their corporate headquarters to. Yes Dubai that allowed covert shipments to Pakistan of materials needed by them to make nuclear weapons!
Dick Cheney is wrong that he and his fellow traveler George Bush protected us from a second attack! The first WTC attack happened in 1993! The second in 2001. It takes them a while to set up a new attack! The Republicans did not do anything spectacular. Yet the NEWS MEDIA never challenge them on this! This constitutes ANTI-LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA BIASES!
We live in a dangerous world but we must still balance security with the rule of law! The President swears to defend the Constitution of the United States not to follow the “feels good solution”! Time to learn the lessons of history else we will suffer in America our own “Reichstag Fire”!
