What happens when the guy elected to filibuster votes for cloture?
In the final weeks of the campaign to fill Ted Kennedy's senate seat, money poured in to Scott Brown's campaign from all over the country. Now after just one vote that is not lockstep with the GOP, angry conservatives from coast to coast have overtaken Scott Brown's facebook fan page demanding refunds for campaign contributions, calling names and getting all kinds of ugly.
Remember the words of Tip O'Neill "All politics is local". You may have helped to elect Scott Brown, but you didn't vote for him.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Where were they for the last 10 years?
In regards to the Tea Party, Palin wrote in an opinion published on Wednesday in USA Today: "Some have tried to portray this movement as a commercial endeavor rather than the grassroots uprising that it is. Those who do so don't understand the frustration everyday Americans feel when they see their government mortgaging their children's future with reckless spending."
Where were they during the last decade? Clinton ended the 90s with a budget surplus that lasted for a couple years. Bush saw this as an opportunity to cut taxes on the rich and wage a non-essential war that The Project for the New American Century had been lobbying for since 1996. And let’s not forget totally taking the teeth out of the S.E.C. and deregulating Wall Street. Those three “reckless spending” actions – massive tax cut, Iraq war, Wall Street deregulations – are the reasons for America’s decline and why our children’s future have been mortgaged.
Why did they sleep for the last 10 years and suddenly wake up now?
How many are the same militia types who hated Clinton?
Where were they during the last decade? Clinton ended the 90s with a budget surplus that lasted for a couple years. Bush saw this as an opportunity to cut taxes on the rich and wage a non-essential war that The Project for the New American Century had been lobbying for since 1996. And let’s not forget totally taking the teeth out of the S.E.C. and deregulating Wall Street. Those three “reckless spending” actions – massive tax cut, Iraq war, Wall Street deregulations – are the reasons for America’s decline and why our children’s future have been mortgaged.
Why did they sleep for the last 10 years and suddenly wake up now?
How many are the same militia types who hated Clinton?
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The case of the missing blogger... solved.
My co-blogger called me out recently regarding my lack of blog posts. I had at one point begun to write a blog entry and realized that my once freely wagging tongue and proudly conservative wielded pen were suddenly strangely restrained. What was this block? What was it keeping me from lashing out in an impassioned plea? I was suddenly struck by the impending danger that might come from stating a differing opinion than the Obamanical sheeple who would hate and discredit anyone who dares present a differing thought than the one that is poured out of the West Wing through the mouths of talking heads on the alphabet networks (and the MSNBC, CNBC, BONBC...) like Koolaide at a Jim Jones, People's Temple, Last Dance party.
Yes. I get it and fully understand, it was really tough for the Left during the previous 8 years, I'm mean, the torture chambers and rape rooms of Fairfax Virginia and Bakersfield California were filled by the verbal detractors of the regime, plucked from their homes by W's secret police, even as they sat and watched Kathy Griffin on Bravo!
Please, even with W in office, God forbid you actually showed the man support, for fear that your car would be keyed. Not only was it okay to openly hate the man and his administration but it was really in vogue! Being "Anti-Bush" certainly didn't make you "edgy" or "different", it really made you "boring" and "typical". Every comedy show was focused on making fun of the President. Every Hollywood actor with a mouth, used it to spout their diatribe. Music. Whatever the artistic media. It was all the same! What if the tables were turned? Would you being willing to die for the Right's right to speak freely, the same way that they were for you?
Fast forward to today. Four months into the Presidency of Barack Obama and just you try to raise a voice of opposition. First DHS has actually printed the parameters of a watch list and a description of "Radicals" to watch out for... guess what... according to the definition... I am certain to make that list... mostly based on the fact that I have openly spoken out in opposition to the policies or at least the ideas and vision of the current administration. Say how you believe, out in the open and expect for the hate to come quickly and without relent. People who have been friends, family. Raise your voice even slightly with a questioning tone and watch them fall away, in support of the Motherland. Sound familiar? Otherwise, normal Germans who sold their neighbors, friends and family to the Reich and sent them to their imminent end in support of the Motherland. There would be NO political detractors. And as a blind follower of the man of much charisma, it was their feeling, as it had been taught to them, that anyone who didn't support him, 100%, was worthy of your hate and therefore, if they were taken away on a freight train, in the middle of the night, and never returned... "well, thank God they're gone," now we can get on undisturbed with our orgy of personality worship!
Look, I don't know if I plan on continuing to write, but I do know that I hate being hated. I hate having people judge me, without them ever knowing the love I have in my heart. My greatest desire has always been to bring an alternate opinion and hopefully sway a few opinions. I would like to write here again but understand this, I never made fun of your opinion, I never spit on you or your kids, I never wrote retort to make you look like a fool but unfortunately, the favor is not returned and never has been nor will it be. Just know. You are not "super different" or "really super intellectual" or "very deep"... your jet black hair, and pierced lip and nose only prove you to be a follower... never a leader, never different and unique, only mundane, normal and boring. Maybe I will write again after all... I feel better!
Yes. I get it and fully understand, it was really tough for the Left during the previous 8 years, I'm mean, the torture chambers and rape rooms of Fairfax Virginia and Bakersfield California were filled by the verbal detractors of the regime, plucked from their homes by W's secret police, even as they sat and watched Kathy Griffin on Bravo!
Please, even with W in office, God forbid you actually showed the man support, for fear that your car would be keyed. Not only was it okay to openly hate the man and his administration but it was really in vogue! Being "Anti-Bush" certainly didn't make you "edgy" or "different", it really made you "boring" and "typical". Every comedy show was focused on making fun of the President. Every Hollywood actor with a mouth, used it to spout their diatribe. Music. Whatever the artistic media. It was all the same! What if the tables were turned? Would you being willing to die for the Right's right to speak freely, the same way that they were for you?
Fast forward to today. Four months into the Presidency of Barack Obama and just you try to raise a voice of opposition. First DHS has actually printed the parameters of a watch list and a description of "Radicals" to watch out for... guess what... according to the definition... I am certain to make that list... mostly based on the fact that I have openly spoken out in opposition to the policies or at least the ideas and vision of the current administration. Say how you believe, out in the open and expect for the hate to come quickly and without relent. People who have been friends, family. Raise your voice even slightly with a questioning tone and watch them fall away, in support of the Motherland. Sound familiar? Otherwise, normal Germans who sold their neighbors, friends and family to the Reich and sent them to their imminent end in support of the Motherland. There would be NO political detractors. And as a blind follower of the man of much charisma, it was their feeling, as it had been taught to them, that anyone who didn't support him, 100%, was worthy of your hate and therefore, if they were taken away on a freight train, in the middle of the night, and never returned... "well, thank God they're gone," now we can get on undisturbed with our orgy of personality worship!
Look, I don't know if I plan on continuing to write, but I do know that I hate being hated. I hate having people judge me, without them ever knowing the love I have in my heart. My greatest desire has always been to bring an alternate opinion and hopefully sway a few opinions. I would like to write here again but understand this, I never made fun of your opinion, I never spit on you or your kids, I never wrote retort to make you look like a fool but unfortunately, the favor is not returned and never has been nor will it be. Just know. You are not "super different" or "really super intellectual" or "very deep"... your jet black hair, and pierced lip and nose only prove you to be a follower... never a leader, never different and unique, only mundane, normal and boring. Maybe I will write again after all... I feel better!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Adios, Texas
See that Join or Die flag over there? Yeah, I put that up before these teabagging morons co-opted the image. I put it up because it is pro-Union, and because its by Ben Franklin, the ultimate politician and statesman. I picked that image because its the perfect symbol for this blog, where Andy and Sandy can engage in spirited debate from the extremes of Conservatism and Liberalism without being vulgar, without hating, without lumping each other into a nameless, faceless mass of other. We both love our country, we just have different views and I want to understand his and have him try to understand mine. In a lot of places, that's not allowed but this is America where all things are possible.
Maybe its the "mainstream media" who is brainwashing me, but what are the Teabaggers supposed to be accomplishing? So 95% of the country just got a tax cut and they are protesting the inevitable tax increase? They are protesting the Stimulus Package which is supposed to create more jobs? So they are using the pro-Union image of Join or Die to promote secession from the Union? These people would do better to figure out what they want and what they represent. Right now I just see an extension of the hate, fear and bitterness that Palin liked to tap into during the election.
In the meantime, don't tread on my revolution. The Boston Tea Party was about taxation without representation and as a Boston girl I'm very proud of the role my state played in organizing this Union. The Teabaggers are just whining cause their candidates lost. If you don't like your representation put your focus on some decent candidates for the next cycle.
And please, if Texas wants to leave the Union let's give it back to Mexico.
Maybe its the "mainstream media" who is brainwashing me, but what are the Teabaggers supposed to be accomplishing? So 95% of the country just got a tax cut and they are protesting the inevitable tax increase? They are protesting the Stimulus Package which is supposed to create more jobs? So they are using the pro-Union image of Join or Die to promote secession from the Union? These people would do better to figure out what they want and what they represent. Right now I just see an extension of the hate, fear and bitterness that Palin liked to tap into during the election.
In the meantime, don't tread on my revolution. The Boston Tea Party was about taxation without representation and as a Boston girl I'm very proud of the role my state played in organizing this Union. The Teabaggers are just whining cause their candidates lost. If you don't like your representation put your focus on some decent candidates for the next cycle.
And please, if Texas wants to leave the Union let's give it back to Mexico.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
AIG "Retention" Bonuses
"It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people" - Gore Vidal
And the sense of entitlement of that four percent, is truly mind boggling. No shame, no honor, no sense of right and wrong. These are the people AIG is retaining?
When did they turn the corner on this stance?
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Fear this
Oh no! Don't pass that stimulus package it's too terrifying. Almost as terrifying as the 3 TRILLION dollars that Iraq cost.
I feel pretty solid about blaming Bush for putting this country in the shitter. And no, I'm not afraid of some action in Washington, particularly if it doesn't involve our soldiers losing their lives.
Dear Andy, I would love to disagree but...
I don't understand your Let's stop agreeing already post- what do those numbers represent? Dollars? Deaths? Your point isn't clear to me.
Also, I sort of had it in the back of my head to avoid this one topic with you, because you clearly are pro-life for very personal, religious reasons. For me, in my personal life and experience, I appreciate I that I have the choice to be...pro-life.
However, I respect that there is a separation of church and state, that not everyone holds my same views and that they should have the right to choose what happens to their own bodies. This was not founded as a christian nation, this is a place of religious and personal freedom and I don't believe in limiting rights according to any one faith's ideals.
If you can guarantee me that there will be no more rape and incest, maybe I would change my mind. Until then I remain... pro-choice. And don't get crazy and start calling me pro-abortion, nobody is happy about it.
Let the shitstorm begin...
Also, I sort of had it in the back of my head to avoid this one topic with you, because you clearly are pro-life for very personal, religious reasons. For me, in my personal life and experience, I appreciate I that I have the choice to be...pro-life.
However, I respect that there is a separation of church and state, that not everyone holds my same views and that they should have the right to choose what happens to their own bodies. This was not founded as a christian nation, this is a place of religious and personal freedom and I don't believe in limiting rights according to any one faith's ideals.
If you can guarantee me that there will be no more rape and incest, maybe I would change my mind. Until then I remain... pro-choice. And don't get crazy and start calling me pro-abortion, nobody is happy about it.
Let the shitstorm begin...
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