Middle Class Populist

This blog is from a progressive middle class perspective. I do not like Hillary Clinton after her defense of the H1-b Visa program which has destroyed the dreams of countless middle class of Americans for job security in a world dominated by the neo-collectivists of corporate America. I also do not like calling General Petraeus a traitor as he is a fine American just as is Senator Kerry who had his character assaulted. However I wonder why Giuliani does not demand that his fellow travelers in the Republican Party denounce Ann Coulter in her terming John Edwards a “fag”!

Those of you who live outside of NYC and believe that Mayor Big Mouth is a great hero need to learn who the real heroes where on 9-11.

Mayor Big Mouth Giuliani wanted to profit from the deaths of the World Trade Center by extending his term of office by six months! Just imagine our nation with Giuliani as President if we had a terrorist attack. He would attempt to pass a Reichstag “Enabling Act”. This is how Hitler came to power. No I am not calling Giuliani a Hitler. But I just wonder what happened to the Republican zeal for “strict constructionalist “interpretation of our laws and traditions. Our nation survived a Civil War and the British a World War without stopping elections or the time mandated change of regimes.

New York City has survived quite well without extending Mayor Giuliani’s term of office. Our nation can survive quite well without giving him a term of office as President. Oh yes and Senator Clinton you will not win the hearts of Middle Class Americans unless you repudiate the H1-B Visa program and support instead those who are trying to survive in the corporate collectivist jungle! Soon not only computer jobs but all college degrees will be made worthless by H1-B and the Corporate Neo-Collectivists! The Democratic Party must not assist but fight corporate America in it’s fight against the middle class. Yes it was nice that you gave back the recent contribution from Norman Hsu. Now how about returning the contributions from Silicon Valley?

Giuliani’s statements that he was at ground zero more than the rescue workers are a joke! Hell the Firefighters Union has repudiated him on his so-called record of achievement. Below is a You Tube Video by a former leader of the NYC Fire Dept.

Giuliani who single handedly saved NYC from collapse now wants to do the same for our nation! God help us! This is the man who wanted to extend his term of office by having the City Council enacting an “Enabling Act” like the German Reichstag did after the Reichstag fire of 1933! Just imagine what he could do with our Constitution when the terrorists strike our nation again! America survived a Civil War and never missed an election! The UK changed its Prime Minister within 24 hours of an election in the midst of World War II. So why couldn’t NYC survive without Mayor Big Mouth?

The candidacy of former Mayor Rudolf Giuliani is a great example of how the legitimate need to “Kick Ass” when it comes to terrorists, can be sidetracked. But then again we have been engaged in a side show in Iraq for years when we should have taken the War On Terror back to their homeland in Afghanistan and the remote regions of Pakistan. Giuliani wants to continue the disaster in Iraq while Iran continues to assist the Shiites to use I.E.D’s that kill and maim our troops. Meanwhile the Al Qaeda Homeland in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s remote regions goes unchecked six years after 9-11. One success of the Republicans is that Afghan opium production which was at record levels last year has even exceeding it’s past record this year!

Yet Mayor Big Mouth wants us to be side tracked in Iraq and talks about they will follow us home to kill us! Let me make one thing clear I fully believe they will attack us and that is why I want to bring the terror back to Al Qaeda in her home turf. If Mayor Big Mouth is so concerned about them attacking us then maybe he should take note of his own Republican Party which places portfolio security over national security! Our borders are wide open, our airports and ports are not secure and Bush is now about to send Mexican trucks all over our nation’s roads! All of this because Corporate America’s profits come before National Security!

Democrats need to learn one lesson from the preliminary success of Giuliani among Republicans because it could be used against us in the general election! The lesson is this:

When it comes to terrorism if your are not for KICKING ASS then your are for KISSING ASS! Giuliani gives the perception of “Taking Action”! Americans will always prefer that to just being docile especially after Perl Harbor and 9-11! Obama gave a good suggestion concerning Pakistan. He did not say to invade but to surgically strike and then only if we know that Al Qaeda was in a spot and Pakistan would not take action!

The time has come for America’s Middle Class to stand up and not be invisable!

Well some here at home think a Missile Shield is an impossibility, apparently Russian President Putin is concerned about facing one at his border! The Russian President has proposed that we relocate it to Azerbaijan and our government has stated this is an interesting idea! While I have been very critical of Bush in this blog I do like his idea of a nuclear shield. Yes I am critical of the Iraqi War but this blog is not a simple knee jerk left wing blog. I am a Lou Dobbs Non-PC Democrat. The fact that Bush would even consider such a shield in Europe raises some very interesting possibilities! I even wonder if the proposal to place it in Europe was not serious but a ploy to make the Russians support us or at least not oppose America using a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear installations! But that might be imputing George “Katrina” Bush with far too much competence and geo-political savvy!

An opposing issue with the missile shield is that it presupposes that Iran will be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. The problem with Iran is not just that these weapons could be used by her military locally, but as Giuliani has stated, they could be then delivered to our cities by terrorists. That is the greater danger to America! There is no Star Wars response to that.

I applaud Rudy Giuliani for stating this. The problem with Giuliani is that because he and his fellow Republicans have kept us in Iraq long after we should have left, we are no longer a deterrent to Iran.

Mr. Giuliani does not realize that rogue regimes do not fear being overthrown and transformed into democracies! They simply fear being overthrown! If the latter had been our strategy with Iraq then Iran would fear us! But with our “overburdened definition of success” it will be decades before we can move beyond Iraq since the neo-cons want us to be involved in this social engineering experiment forever! Hence we are not perceived as a threat by Iran.

If Giuliani and McCain are serious about defending our Homeland and they believe in their scenario of a terrorist nuclear strike then forget Iraq and start working on Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, Waziristan and Pakistan! Isn’t that enough to worry about!

Maybe the Republican candidates don’t understand that after six year of control of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Presidency our borders are still wide open as are America’s ports. Iraqi terrorists, if they did get a nuclear device, would tag up covertly with the United Arab Emirates Company that Bush wanted to run our ports. But no matter we are turning over our highways to Mexican truckers so the bomb will come from Al Qaeda via “MEX-EXPRESS”!

I applaud Bush on his Missile Defense Shield and his doctrine of “Pre-Emptive Deterrence” against a nuclear terrorist attack. The problem is that he has done a “Katrina” on his few good ideas by his commitment to the social engineering experiment in Iraq. The social engineering experiment will never work in Iraq on the cheap as Bush has committed to this project. The American Middle Class does not want to pay the price to have this social engineering experiment succeed in Iraq. While Bush and his fellow travelers laud creationism over evolution and support the Christian right with it’s nutty ideas to encourage Israel to occupy the whole of Palestine so as to bring about the second coming, let us remember that western democracy was brought about after long religious wars and the rise of Secular Humanism. By the way I am not an atheist but an Episcopalian!

Lets explore a nuclear shield and a Walled Border! God Bless America!

What ever happened to the McCain I actually liked? He was the only one who really had a crusade against K Street! Now he has changed to the point man for George Bush’s war in Iraq! McCain keeps chiding the democrats that if they believe the war is illegal and wrong then they should not vote to fund it. Well now that they have taken him up on his challenge he does not seem to like it. I have some questions for all of them. My first question is for my fellow democrats!

QUESTION: Why cannot we Democrats recognize that after a terrorist attack some good old fashion ASS KICKING is wholesome, Jungian Earth affirming and a genuine way of getting in touch with and “celebrating” our feelings as Americans! This extends not only to terrorist attacks but criminals on our streets who prey on law abiding citizens!

ANSWER: Oh dear now did I say something wrong? Well until you let your rage out of the closet you are going to see Republicans get away with the bull shit they so frequently do. The War in Iraq is not the same as the War on Terror. But none the less when a teacher enters a class room after a disruption and one student snickers, even if he did not participate in the disruption, he will be punished as an example.

That is why we went to war in Iraq and kicking Sadam’s butt using “SHOCK AND AWE” should make us all proud to be Americans. The problem is that we did not then quickly leave as doing so would be a great deterrent to rogue states. Both liberals and conservatives need to learn one very important lesson!

Rogue states do NOT fear being overthrown and turned into democracies! They simply FEAR BEING OVERTHROWN! It is easy for us to do the latter but far more difficult and costly do accomplish the former! Rogue states like Iran and North Korea went from FEAR to laughter when our definition of “winning” changed from merely overthrowing Saddamn to accomplishing a SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT!

Did Iraq pose a threat to us? No but like the snickering student they set themselves up with their arrogance and prior offences. We needed a whipping boy and they served the example until Bush did a Katrina in Iraq by changing our purpose by remaining to engage in a social engineering experiement!

QUESTION: If the war in Iraq is not a diversion from the War on Terror but essential to it, if the winning of the war in Iraq (however the latest Republican spin doctors currently define “winning”) is ESSENTIAL to our nations protection, then why not RE-INSTITUE THE DRAFT?

ANSWER: The Republicans know that if they reinstitute the draft it will contribute to the radicalization not only of American youth who will have to put their lives where “some” of them put their mouths, but it will have the same effect on their families! We NEVER had enough troops to engage in the SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT that Bush and his fellow travelers wanted to accomplish.

QUESTION: But wouldn’t the establishment of a secular democratic Iraq in the midst of the Muslim world be a great victory in the “War on Terror”.

ANSWER: Actually yes and no. Just as the re-introduction of the “draft” would increase our military options the negative side effects would create a harmful attitude shift here at home. Elsewhere Muslims would view Iraq as a European and especially as an “American” enclave. It would drive up the radicalization and recruitment of male Muslims both in the Muslim world and here at home. Nice idea but do you think even our so-called friends like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States would support a democratic secular Iraq with their near absolute monarchies? A wise general picks his battle fields he does not want to win battles but the WAR! A wise general knows his strengths and weaknesses. Do you want to pay the price for a social engineering experiment in Iraq? Then reinstitute the draft! We never had enough troops!

Doesn’t the Republican social engineering experiment in Iraq sound like Jimmy Carter? We could have supported the Shah and his son in Iran, but no we chose to help his undermining by letting the popular will of Iran go to it’s completion! Look what the result was! Besides just because people can vote does not make it a democracy. It takes the rule of law. Yet even then they can still hate us!

Moving on to Guilliani, when WWII was being fought the British changed governments overnight after an election. Mayor Giuliani wanted to pass an “enabling act” that would extend his term of office after the events of 9-11.

QUESTION: What would happen to America and our way of life if Guilliani were president and we had a terrorist attack again!

ANSWER: The American people must follow a “strict constructionalist” approach and say NO to Guilliani and his propensity for desiring an “enabling act”. This is America and our constitution comes first. We survived a civil war we can survive terrorists without destroying our Constitution and way of life!

The time has come for the Silent Majority - America’s great Middle Class to stand up and be counted! We must demand more from both parties!

I would describe myself as a Lou Dobbs Democrat. I just want my readers to understand I am not a conservative nor a PC liberal. I don’t represent Dobbs in this blog but my own opinion. I get a laugh when I hear Rudy Giuliani described as a “liberal”. But what worries me about Giuliani is his reaction to the 9-11 disaster. He wanted to extend his term of office! Using conservative jingo I think we need “to learn the lessons of history”! Any one remember Adolf Hitler and the “Enabling Act”! Please understand I am NOT accusing Rudy Giuliani of being a Hitler! But we must not allow our Constitution to be weakened by terrorists. Furthermore Rudy Giuliani was not essential to the national security nor the security of New York City.

In the midst of WW II the British had elections and changed Prime Ministers within twenty - four hours! Our nation has survived the assassination and death of President Kennedy during the Cold War and we survived a civil war!

Rudy Giuliani also is very confrontational and a blabber mouth! What did he do that was so great after 9-11? Yes we needed someone to talk tough and who wanted to kick butt! I have no problem, unlike some of my politically correct fellow democrats, saying that. But what would Rudy Giuliani do if he was President and we had a terrorist attack? Suspend the Constitution?

I do not want to give to Rudy Giuliani power that even the terrorists don’t have. Namely to destroy our democracy! Its bad enough Afghanistan has a record opium production and Al Qaeda is making a comeback there! With our borders wide open and no one wanting to do a damn thing about it in either party, the last thing we need is someone who is an opportunist!

As I mentioned I do not believe Giuliani wants to deliberately hurt our nation. But his actions would by laying precedents that a future Nixon could exploit in a crisis! We cannot allow precedence’s to be set that would damage our way of life! Rudy Giuliani you will not be America’s Julius Caesar! The “quick fix” is how Rome lost her Republic!