So the affordable care act is deemed to be constitutional by the highest court in the land,with the republican appointed chief justice siding with the majority, win for the American people right?

Well not if you are a repub­li­can, like medicare, Medicaid, social secu­ri­ty and every oth­er fed­er­al plan which aids the poor and dis­pos­sessed, repub­li­cans have tak­en to the air­waves with fear-mon­ger­ing and lies, “it’s a tax , it’s a tax, the pres­i­dent has vis­it­ed a mon­u­men­tal tax on the American peo­ple”. The only thing is that it is a total lie.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Affordable Care Act (Obama care) is uncon­sti­tu­tion­al under the com­merce clause. Chief Justice Roberts sided with Associate Justices, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, and Alito.

Hence the ini­tial euphor­ic shrieks and cries of joy com­ing from the right when net­works like FOX and CNN announced the deci­sion with­out dig­ging deep­er into the ruling.

The rul­ing went fur­ther how­ev­er, the court ruled that under the tax­ing author­i­ty the law is indeed con­sti­tu­tion­al. 

The old repub­li­can nay-say­ers were imme­di­ate­ly on the doom and gloom mes­sage, “Obama has just imposed a mas­sive tax on the American peo­ple”. Leading the charge was Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell the old cur­mud­geon from Kentucky, remem­ber him? yes the same Mitch Mc Connell whose sole respon­si­bil­i­ty is to make pres­i­dent Obama a one term pres­i­dent, not look after the peo­ple’s busi­ness, remem­ber him?

Other Senate obstruc­tion­ists like Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn a med­ical Doctor and oth­ers were out trum­pet­ing the tax narrative.

One thing the lame stream media does not both­er to ask is, “do you gen­tle­men and gen­tle ladies at the top of the fed­er­al food-chain have good med­ical insur­ance”? “Do you have to vis­it emer­gency rooms to get med­ical care”? Do you get dumped from Insurance plans because you have pre-exist­ing con­di­tions”? “Do your kids have to for­go insur­ance because they are not working”?

The truth is, what pass­es for media are just cor­po­rate enti­ties in the pock­ets and owned by the very peo­ple repub­li­cans rep­re­sent, so don’t hold your breath wait­ing for those ques­tions. Conversely what you may well hear is the same media trum­pet­ing the cam­paign talk­ing points of the Romney cam­paign. David Gregory in an inter­view on the NBC Sunday morn­ing talk show “Meet the Press” all but told ‚rather than ask House minor­i­ty leader Nancy Pelosi it was a tax. http://​www​.msnbc​.msn​.com/​i​d​/​3​0​3​2​6​08/.

The real issue is, why do repub­li­cans who are paid by tax dol­lars, paid very well, have top-tier med­ical Insurance , bet­ter than the aver­age American with health Insurance, but does not want the mid­dle-class and the poor to have health insurance?

And of course those of you who are famil­iar with these blogs know that my next ques­tion then becomes as always, “how does repub­li­cans man­age to con­vince peo­ple to mil­i­tate and vote against their own self-interest”?

Mitt Romney President Barack Obama

Like oth­er sig­nif­i­cant leg­is­la­tion which has moved this coun­try for­ward, end­ing slav­ery, end­ing Jim Crowe, school inte­gra­tion, and oth­er social pro­grams I artic­u­lat­ed above , repub­li­cans have fought tooth and nail to pre­vent progress.

True to their (modus operan­di), a group of repub­li­can Governors Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, South Carolina’s Nicky Haley, Florida’s Rick Scott, and New Jersey’s blow-hard Cris Christie has pon­tif­i­cat­ed that they will not abide by the law, in essence they will not move to set up exchanges as dic­tat­ed by this afford­able care act.

This means that American cit­i­zens liv­ing in these states with­out health insur­ance, will be pre­clud­ed from get­ting the care they need, because their repub­li­can gov­er­nors have decid­ed to put pol­i­tics and far right lunatic ide­ol­o­gy over com­mon sense, their health and ulti­mate­ly their very lives.

What these gov­er­nors will not acknowl­edge is that whether they decid­ed to obey fed­er­al Law or not, it will be enact­ed, the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment will step in to set up the exchanges whether these ide­o­logues agree or not, so as they pon­tif­i­cate about not need­ing the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment inter­ven­ing in their states, by default, they are actu­al­ly invit­ing fed­er­al author­i­ty into the afore­men­tioned states.

One won­ders if states like Louisiana with its pover­ty and low per­cent­age of health insured, New Jersey a blue state, real­ly want this kind of pos­tur­ing from their elect­ed leaders?

Jindal Walker Haley

Scott Christie

Let’s look at the facts, experts have said even if we argue that it is a tax as it is deemed con­sti­tu­tion­al, only about 1 – 2 % of peo­ple who have no insur­ance, will pay a of what amounts to about $95.

The truth is, there is evi­dence that this whole health care idea came out of the ultra-con­ser­v­a­tive think-tank Heritage Foundation, and is the cor­ner­stone of Romney-care the sig­na­ture accom­plish­ment of Mitt Romney repub­li­can can­di­date for pres­i­dent in the state of Massachusetts

This presents a conun­drum for Romney, as for­mer con­tender Rick Santorum allud­ed dur­ing the pri­maries Mitt Romney was the worst can­di­date repub­li­cans could field to go up against the pres­i­dent, exact­ly because of Romney-care.

It was no sur­prise then that despite the all out assault by repub­li­can elect­ed lead­ers and their plants in the lame-stream media, by Monday morn­ing July 2^nd senior Romney cam­paign advis­er Eric (etch-a-sketch) Fehrnstrom was on MSNBC telling NBC’s Chuck Todd that Romney agrees with the pres­i­dent and democ­rats that the penal­ty in the law which would penal­ize so-called free rid­ers is not a tax but indeed a penal­ty. I won­der how Mitch McConnell, Coburn and oth­ers will remove the egg from their faces?

Romney knows ful­ly well that he will be total­ly inca­pable of artic­u­lat­ing a path for­ward being the cre­ator of Romney-care, in sup­port of which he stat­ed emphat­i­cal­ly and cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly that the penal­ty was not a tax.

Obviously the obstruc­tion­ists in the House Senate and lame-street media did not get the memo.>

I real­ly get that a coun­try which is still major­i­ty white could resist the eman­ci­pa­tion of slaves, the removal of Jim Crowe laws, school inte­gra­tion, and the civ­il rights act.

I get that, but how is get­ting insur­ance when you had none a bad thing?

Most democ­rats cor­rect­ly believe that the gov­ern­ment have a right and indeed a duty to help the most vul­ner­a­ble, not with hand-outs but with hands-up.

Most repub­li­cans con­verse­ly believe that gov­ern­ment should have no role in help­ing the poor,dispossessed or help­less, they fun­da­men­tal­ly believe that those roles should be left up to char­i­ties , church­es, and oth­er NGO’s and for those who can­not access help from the aforementioned/​Well tough, they are out of luck.

Republicans fun­da­men­tal­ly espouse the nar­ra­tive that those who are not rich or well-off are sloven sloths who failed to take advan­tage of the great­est sys­tem in the world as they see it, Capitalism.

On that basis, those peo­ple are prob­a­bly bet­ter off not get­ting any help , in oth­er words they have no use for the poor.

Republicans pulled off an egregious act yesterday in the US house of Representatives, it was never done before, yet it was planned and timed for the very day the US Supreme court was to hand down a ruling on the Affordable care Act,dubbed (Obama care).

At the center of the tragedy perpetuated by the republican house of representatives is Attorney General Eric Holder,and the so-called fast and furious gun-walking program started under the Bush Administration and ended under Attorney general Eric Holder.

Eric Holder  Daryl Issa.

Michael Mukasey

House republicans investigating the fast and furious program involving the ATF, decided to hold the Attorney General in contempt of congress. Attorney General Holder and the Justice department argues that they have handed over thousands of documents to the house oversight committee,chaired by Daryl Issa republican from California. The Justice Department and democrats insists that the investigations is nothing more than a witch-hunt, designed to embarrass the Obama administration which has been an impeccable and scandal-free administration thus far.

Democrats insist that if Issa wanted a thorough investigation he would have called former Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey under whose watch the program started. Lost in the theatrics of republican web of deceit is the fact that a federal border agent was murdered allegedly by Mexican drug dealers. On that basis it is important that there is a detailed and comprehensive non-partisan investigation done by Issa’s committee with a view to determining what really happened.

Issa admitted on FOX misinformation to Cris Wallace that he had no information that there was any kind of cover-up involving the Obama White House, yet as soon as he was done he went back to insinuating that the fast and furious program was intended to create gun crimes on the mexican border which the administration would then use to push gun control laws here in the United States. Nut-cases on the fringe had already concocted all kinds of conspiracy scenarios to include what Issa parrots, real reporting on this case has shown that Attorney General Holder did not know about fast and furious and as soon as he found out about it he stopped it and reassigned the agents involved.

Issa will not allow those facts to get in the way of the right-wing talking points which is nothing but lies, hate and misinformation. Anyone who thought that Daryl Issa would be above using his congressional authority in such a blatant political and shameful way must now reconsider. It is now clear to everyone who have eyes that republicans will do any and everything in their power to destroy this president. There is nothing beneath republicans, there is nothing they will not do to gain power or get their way.

THE PLAN WAS TO HAVE WHAT THEY THOUGH WOULD HAVE BEEN A SUPREME COURT OVERTURN OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (OBAMA CARE) AND THE DOUBLE WHAMMY OF HOLDING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS, ALL ON THE SAME DAY.

DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS ANY OTHER REASON WHY THEY SCHEDULED THE HOUSE VOTE ON THE DAY THE COURT’S DECISION WAS DUE?

THEY WERE STUNNED WHEN IT DID NOT HAPPEN THEY WAY THEY PLANNED. THE TALKING POINTS WAS TO FURTHER THEIR 3 ¹⁄₂ YEAR NARRATIVE THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS ILLEGITIMATE, HELD TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND IN CONTEMPT OF THE CONGRESS IN ONE FELL-SWOOP.

THAT WAS THE REPUBLICAN PLAN.

Instead they are left with eggs on their lying despicable faces, left to cry in their drinks and plan more atrocious deception and demagoguery.

Joe Scarborough host of MSNBC’s (morning joe) tweeted that republicans by doing what they did, seemed petty and political, no one will accuse Scarborough of being a flaming liberal. I too have some P words I would like to use to describe them , but I will refrain from stooping“g to their level.

House minority whip Stenny Hoyer Democrat Maryland argued that the period which would lead up to a contempt of congress vote, is one that would take 87 days, house republicans voted to hold Holder in contempt in 7 days, yet they cannot pass any legislation that benefits the people who put them there to do their business. Many observers to this nightmare of a party wonders how in hell anyone could vote to put these lying, hateful , miscreants into office when all they care about is enhancing the agenda of the 1% ? Time after time on every issue republicans have been wrong. They warned and declared dooms-day when social security was enacted , medicare, and every social program designed to help average Americans, to include the civil rights Act, the voting rights Act, and every other piece of legislation which moves this nation forward.

On every issue republicans have been wrong, yet they never waver when America is to wage war on other nations, that is the only purpose of the republican party to wage war. Many of the low-information voters who actually drink the proverbial cool-aid and follow these kooks are living off the very social programs and safety nets their party demonize and demagogue.

Members of the congressional black caucus in a show of solidarity with Attorney General Holder led a walk-out of democrats while the travesty was being perpetuated, true to form their were some democrats who as expected were scared shitless of the NRA surrendered their principles and voted out of fear to hold the AG in contempt.

Say what you want about republicans, they lie they are racist, they cheat, they conspire to deceive, and whatever else you may accuse them of they are that, but republicans would never under any circumstances vote with democrats to hold one of their own in contempt . This was not only a sad day for the nation, for the house of representatives, and for the process, it was a sad day for democrats.

The actions of democrats who voted for this contempt of the Attorney General was a cowardly and reprehensible act. As a member of the human race I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees, the argument that they were afraid of the all-powerful national rifle association is bogus.

These are the same bogus democrats who call themselves blue-dog democrats, they are not real democrats they are wolves in sheep clothing, nothing more than trojan horses. These are the very people who were the last to come into the fold when Barack Obama won the nomination, they are not much different from the hateful despicable republicans they are simply worse.

For 12 years the US Supreme Court has changed the narrative from liberal judicial activism swinging the pendulum to far right conservative activism.

From Bush Vs Gore which took the elections away from the legitimately elected Al Gore for president in 2000, to Citizens United, and now the show me your papers law in Arizona this court has shown that it is willing to exact its will on the direction of the country, irrespective and contrary to the will of the majority.

However the most momentous decision is yet to come, all over the country and the world we wait as the Supreme court will reveal whether it will strike down the signature piece of legislation the president passed in his first term. The question that pundits and prognosticators debate is whether the Affordable Care Act will be left to stand, whether the individual mandate will be struck from the law, or whether it will be struck down in totality.

Again, despite the ruling of the supreme court the larger question seem to be one that I have asked many times in this forum.“How do republicans manage to convince so many people to militate and vote against their own self-interest”?

Though this president has a nuanced persona about him, it is now time for him to adopt a more strident stance against the reactionary forces on the right, amassed against him.

The decision:

THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT IS UPHELD BY THE US SUPREME COURT.

Chief Justice Roberts Ass. Justice Kagan Ass. Justice Breyer Ass. Justice Sotomayer Ass. Justice Ginsberg

Ass. Justice Kennedy Ass. Justice Scalia Ass. Justice Alito Ass. jus­tice Thomas

In a 5 – 4 decision the highest court in the land has affirmed the legitimacy of the president’s signature accomplishment. Republicans are already lining up to launch a political assault against this piece of legislation which prevents Insurance companies from dropping or turning away people with pre-existing conditions, and which allows young adults without a job to stay on the insurance of their parents until they are age 26.

The republican party has made it clear that they do not care about the average middle class American, they have not shied away from the notion of trickle-down economics. The Republican candidate for president Mitt Romney stated that he did not care about the poor, he argues that if rich people are given more opportunities to make more money it will work for the betterment of the middle and poorer class. The truth is that it hasn’t worked yet they still persist in pushing this idiocy.

The truth is when the middle class is empowered they go out and purchase homes, cars, furniture , appliance, clothes and whatever else they need. Conversely when that money is given to the very rich they do not even know they have it until their accountants tell them what their bottom-line is, and they certainly do not go out and spend it.

Mitt Romney in his assault on the decision, has his usually frothing at the mouth response, lies innuendos and misinformation. Romney obviously feel that he can win the election on lies and misinformation. He also seemed to believe that saying “Obama-care” somehow diminishes the president. In his less than five-minute comment he used the term Obama care over and over and over again.

House number two republican Eric Cantor has already intimated that he will schedule a vote July 11^th to overturn the Affordable Care Act. Romney lies that the affordable care act will increase taxes on the average Americans and add billions to the deficit, the truth is the non-partisan congressional budget office has said the opposite is true, yet Romney continue to use the same tired old lies and avoid doing interviews, obviously the Romney campaign believes their candidate can continue to lie and duck his way into the White House. It is yet to be seen if the American people will fall for that deception.

The late liberal lion of the senate, Ted Kennedy must be smiling today, he wanted the president to take what he could get,this president has staked his presidency on helping to provide health care for the American people, he has been vindicated.

The challenge for the American people now is for them to avail themselves to the benefits for them and their children for generations to come. As republicans continue to demagogue and demonize this bill I continue to ask what is it that causes people to vote against their own self interest? Senator Kennedy railed at republicans in his life-time, he famously asked “what is it about the middle class you find so offensive, what do you find so objectionable about the poor”?

Today I echo that sentiment.

OBAMA CARE (S).

Republican pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Willard Mitt Romney is run­ning for pres­i­dent on the cam­paign strategy“I am not Obama.

Noticeably absent from Romney’s strat­e­gy is truth. Romney has made sev­er­al claims on the cam­paign trail ‚and on the garbage spew­ing FOX net­work which have been fact checked and proven to be lies. Not to be deterred Mitt Romney refus­es to allow truth to get in the way of his nar­ra­tive, so he dou­bles down , know­ing that as he speaks he is in fact telling lies.

Romney state time and again that the pres­i­dent goes around the world apol­o­gis­ing for America. It’s a lie.

Romney goes around the coun­try includ­ing in Cincinnati Ohio June 14^th stat­ing that pres­i­dent Obama has not nego­ti­at­ed a sin­gle trade deal.

It’s a lie, President Obama nego­ti­at­ed trade deals with Panama, South Korea and others.

He said the pres­i­dent insti­tut­ed a stim­u­lus that did no good.

It is a lie hun­dreds of teach­ers , fire-fight­ers, cops, and oth­er work­ers owe their jobs to the stimulus.

Romney’s litany of lies is stun­ning­ly dis­hon­est, yet he keeps repeat­ing the same debunked malarkey.

Hannnity of FOX misinformation

Romney goes around the coun­try stat­ing that pres­i­dent Obama stat­ed if he did not get unem­ploy­ment under 8% it would be a one term propo­si­tion for him. That’s a lie , a state­ment tak­en out of con­text. Mitt Romney tells the American peo­ple time and again lie after lie, after lie and when he is called out on them he con­tin­ues as if truth does not matter.

So then, there must be a big­ger strat­e­gy behind Romney’s lies. Bear in mind that the sin­gle most iden­ti­fi­able thread which runs through repub­li­cans is that they are patho­log­i­cal liars. I am still left scratch­ing my head at the bold-faced utter dis­hon­esty of Mitt Romney, some­one who is offer­ing him­self for the most pow­er­ful office in the world,the American presidency.

At play here is the Carl Rove orches­trat­ed Orwellian strat­e­gy, tell as many lies as pos­si­ble make the pres­i­dent scary as hell, bom­bard the air­waves with swift boat type adver­tise­ments the likes of which they ran against John Kerry, fund­ed by the likes of State of Israel zealot casi­no tycoon Sheldon Alderson, and oth­er mem­bers of the one percent.

Reports are that Alderson has pledged to spend, get this , one hun­dred mil­lion dol­lars in his quest to buy the elec­tions for Mitt Romney.

Thanks you Supreme court for the gift of cit­i­zen’s unit­ed , cor­po­ra­tions are now peo­ple, the votes of the aver­age man is worth nought,nada, zero.

Those who have the most mon­ey will be able to shape the nar­ra­tive, the air­waves will be bom­bard­ed in so-called swing states to the tune of what ana­lysts say will be over a bil­lion dol­lars spent in advertising.

Obama won the 2008 elec­tion by rough­ly 6 per­cent­age points over Arizona Senator John McCain. Some num­bers crunch­ers argue if race was not a fac­tor Obama would pos­si­bly have won by an over­whelm­ing 17 point mar­gin, some­thing sim­i­lar to Reagan’s win over Jimmy Carter, 1980.

Obama won large­ly on the mas­sive turn out of col­lege age young peo­ple who cast­ed race aside, Hispanics and African-Americans. President Obama is fight­ing an up hill bat­tle this time, he is the incum­bent. There is no evi­dence there will be any­where near the turn out he had from those groups as they did in 2008.

Romney’s han­dlers under­stands this , and they are run­ning a dis­ci­plined cam­paign, a cam­paign of lies , but dis­ci­plined indeed. They have man­aged to run their can­di­date with­out him hav­ing to give specifics on any of the many things he has promised. He appears on the Rupert Murdoch’s organ of mis­in­for­ma­tion where they repeat the cam­paign talk­ing points to him and he nods and smile.

Romney has not out­lined an eco­nom­ic plan that make sense, in fact he has not been allowed to speak to the press, sure­ly his han­dlers have not yet fig­ured out how to con­vince the already low infor­ma­tion elec­torate how he pro­pos­es to cut spend­ing, give tax breaks to the wealth­i­est Americans and grow the Pentagon’s bud­get. It is impos­si­ble to do, yet he has been run­ning around the coun­try spew­ing the same garbage and has not been held to account for his lies.

What lessons are there to be learned from the recall elec­tions in Wisconsin if any?

Tea Party installed Governor Scott Walker took a hatch­et to the rights of ordi­nary work­ers to orga­nize and have col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing. One could rea­son­ably argue that at a time when there are eco­nom­ic con­di­tions which mil­i­tates against large pay increas­es and ben­e­fit pack­ages, this is not nec­es­sar­i­ly a bad thing. After all, states, like indi­vid­u­als, must learn to live with­in their means . Those are per­fect­ly legit­i­mate argu­ments to make. Personally I nev­er quite under­stood why gov­ern­ment, from coun­ty up to the fed­er­al lev­el, con­tin­ue to run large deficits. Each and every house-hold have to man­age their fis­cal respon­si­bil­i­ties. It is unfair and bur­den­some for Government to main­tain bloat­ed waste­ful bureau­cra­cies, then force already over-bur­dened tax­pay­ers to take on even more taxes.

It is not unrea­son­able in my view, that ordi­nary work­ing peo­ple expect their gov­ern­ment to adopt strict dis­ci­pline in the way it han­dles its fis­cal house, after all every American fam­i­ly is expect­ed to live with­in its means.

SO THEN, WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH WHAT WALKER DID ?

Scott Walker

In order to under­stand what the fuss was , and con­tin­ue to be, regard­ing Scott Walker’s approach, one need to peel back the entire façade which envelopes the Scott Walker persona.

Walker came to office backed by the Tea Party, as we have point­ed out before the Tea Party con­tin­ue to parade as a grass-roots orga­ni­za­tion. That is the far­thest thing from the truth.

The new tea Party came into exis­tence at about the same time Barack Obama was elect­ed pres­i­dent of the United States at the end of 2008. they argue that they are con­cerned about The expan­sion of the fed­er­al bureau­cra­cy, and run away spending. 

Again were those philo­soph­i­cal pure objec­tives I would be a Tea Party activist. The truth is there are a few things that bear some scrutiny.

(1) When did these things come to the fore? 

As I inti­mat­ed the Tea Party came into being at around the time pres­i­dent Obama was elect­ed to the pres­i­den­cy, so those prob­lems are not new ones which just hap­pened on the scene November 2008

(2) When did the issues dear to the Tea Party become an issue?

Big Government is noth­ing new, The last Republican Administration expand­ed the fed­er­al bureau­cra­cy, to include , Home-land security.

(3) When did the fed­er­al debt become an issue?

The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has always been a big spender, the last pres­i­dent had a sur­plus and a bal­anced bud­get on assum­ing office. He left a ruined econ­o­my, two unfund­ed wars, large tax-cuts for the rich­est Americans and sky-rock­et­ing deficits.

(4) So why are these issues now that Obama is president?

Well the out­rage of the Tea Party start­ed before Barack Obama even could enact one pol­i­cy, which may not cause con­ster­na­tion to the aver­age no-repub­li­can , but it does cause me some heart-burn.

President Bush 43^rd actu­al­ly did the first stim­u­lus, lis­ten­ing to Obama’s crit­ics one would be hard-pressed to hear any men­tion that pres­i­dent Obama inher­it­ed big gov­ern­ment and bal­loon­ing deficits.

(5) So then what’s the real issue?

I’m glad you asked. 

The Obama Administration reg­u­late banks, the Obama admin­is­tra­tion looks out for the envi­ron­ment, the Obama admin­is­tra­tion care about the aver­age American.

So why would the Tea Party have a prob­lem with those issues?

Well again I’m glad you asked this ques­tion, we have now come full cir­cle. There are peo­ple behind the Tea Party’s right-wing pop­ulism who need the legit­i­ma­cy of what many would have you believe is a grass-roots movement.

Enter Billionaire broth­ers David and Charles Koch, both men are American Industrialists who own and oper­ate com­pa­nies rang­ing from Oil to lum­ber to paper prod­ucts. Heavy tax­a­tion by gov­ern­ment cuts into their bot­tom-line, reg­u­la­tions lim­its their abil­i­ty to destroy the envi­ron­ment, and Unions are anti­thet­i­cal to what the Koch broth­ers want.

Those are the rea­sons so much mon­ey was poured into Wisconsin to keep Scott Walker in pow­er. Those are the rea­sons the Koch broth­ers give so much mon­ey to Carl Rove’s super-pac American cross­roads. That goes to the heart of Scott Walker’s response to a wealthy female donor when he cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly stat­ed that his desire is to divide and con­quer, that’s why Walker was bust­ed when he thought he was talk­ing to one of the Koch broth­ers on the phone. 

So the desire of the peo­ple of Wisconsin to see fis­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty in gov­ern­ment caused them to val­i­date Walker. The only prob­lem is that the repub­li­can/tea-par­ty’s plan is noth­ing more than a Trojan Horse.

Following on my com­ments on the upcom­ing elec­tions recent­ly, I will con­tin­ue to expand on what I see to be a despi­ca­ble cow­ardice and con­nivance in these upcom­ing nation­al elec­tions. You may be sur­prised to learn that I am refer­ring to Democrats.

It has become clear… well at least to me, that there are two dis­tinct wings in the demo­c­ra­t­ic party.The last two term demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­dent Bill Clinton has left an indeli­ble impres­sion on the par­ty. He is con­sid­ered the actu­al defac­to leader of the party.

Hillary and Bill Clinton are still incred­i­bly pop­u­lar in the par­ty, as such many who were nev­er on the Obama express, whis­per that Hillary should have got­ten the Nomination over Barack Obama. I’m not quite sure what is the for­mu­la for that determination.

George Washington report­ed­ly turned down being crowned King, telling the peo­ple that they ran away from the British King and as such America did not need a King, smart man.

However if recent com­ments by Anne Romney are any­thing to go by Quote “It’s our time , it’s Mitt’s time” such pre­sump­tu­ous arro­gance.http://​www​.nypost​.com/​p​/​n​e​w​s​/​n​a​t​i​o​n​a​l​/​o​u​t​t​a​_​m​y​_​h​o​u​s​e​_​E​1​8​W​Z​X​I​i​c​M​J​E​p​o​P​x​H​e​D​scN It seem the Romneys believe that they are enti­tled to the pres­i­den­cy.

It seem that America is head­ed the way of a type of plu­to­crat­ic Monarchy of sorts. Recent Supreme Court deci­sion cit­i­zens United has also sig­nalled with some degree of cer­tain­ty that the coun­try is indeed head­ed for , if not already a plu­toc­ra­cy.

The Clinton Wing of the Democratic par­ty is the lib­er­al equiv­a­lent of the Tea-par­ty in my esti­ma­tion. Many of them still have not got­ten over the loss Hilary Clinton suf­fered at the hands of Barack Obama.

It was democ­rats who start­ed the despi­ca­ble nas­ti­ness in Pennsylvania and Ohio dur­ing the Primaries between Hillary and Barack. It was so-called democ­rats who were show­ing up with the card-board car­i­ca­tures. After the pri­maries were over repub­li­cans sim­ply picked up where the so-called work­ing class whites in Pennsylvania and Ohio left off.

I make that argu­ment in light of the glar­ing chasm in the num­bers, as it relates to Obama and whites. I believe if these vot­ers were in Obama’s col­umn this race would have been a fore­gone conclusion.

Bill Clinton did not have to do so much when he was pres­i­dent, he had Paul Begala, James Carville, George Stephanalous and many oth­ers includ­ing some who were sim­ply in it for what they could get out of it. Hillary Clinton had the entire con­gres­sion­al black cau­cus as sur­ro­gates. The ques­tion is where is the con­gres­sion­al black cau­cus ? Why are they not out there as sur­ro­gates for this president?

This mon­th’s job num­ber of 69 thou­sand, though noth­ing to crow about is a far cry from when Obama took office and the econ­o­my was hem­or­rhag­ing 700 thou­sand jobs per month. Though not fan­tas­tic I will read­i­ly take 69 thou­sand jobs cre­at­ed as against 700 thou­sand lost.

Republicans have blocked the pres­i­dent at every turn, why would the elec­torate reward them for bad behav­ior? The jobs bill which Boehner refus­es to bring to the floor of the house would , by many esti­mates cre­ate hun­dreds of thou­sands of con­struc­tion jobs, which in turn would cre­ate a pos­i­tive cas­cad­ing snow-ball effect on the economy.

When that jobs bill is added to the over 2 tril­lion dol­lars report­ed­ly in the hands of big busi­ness­es, yet they refuse to hire work­ers , it leaves lit­tle doubt that there is a con­spir­a­cy afoot to jam Obama’s pres­i­den­cy at every turn.

Big busi­ness­es want to return to the Bush years which saw the coun­try’s econ­o­my reach the brink of ruination.Nno reg­u­la­tions, and uncon­scionable craven tax cuts for the 1% . In Mitt Romney they have A per­fect emp­ty ves­sel who stand for noth­ing and will do the exact bid­ding of the 1%. 

Grover Norquist their no tax guru they all pledged to , have stat­ed that they only need a pres­i­dent to sign the Bills that gets shov­eled to his desk. Romney is that person.

The tragedy in all of this is that the elec­torate, which many cred­it with being intel­li­gent, seem will­ing to reward obstruc­tion­ist repub­li­cans who have lift­ed not one fin­ger to end their suf­fer­ing and has made it clear that they stand with big busi­ness. They seem pre­pared to give pow­er back to them so they can get back to tax cuts for the rich, dereg­u­la­tion, Ponzi gam­bling by big banks ‚wild unreg­u­lat­ed spec­u­lat­ing by oth­er finan­cial insti­tu­tions, mas­sive destruc­tion to the envi­ron­ment by large cor­po­ra­tions, and ille­gal unfund­ed for­eign wars.

Never mind the month­ly shed­ding of 700 thou­sand jobs when the pres­i­dent took office.

Never mind almost 4 years of obstruc­tion­ist tac­tics from republicans.

Never mind that when he took office no one knew where the bot­tom would be, when would it end.

Never mind that over 4 mil­lion jobs were cre­at­ed under Obama’s watch.

Never mind the auto indus­try was saved and ful­ly solvent.

Never mind that man­u­fac­tur­ing is com­ing back to America.

Never mind that most of the top tiered lead­er­ship of Al Qaeda has been eradicated.

Never mind that the King-pin Osama Bin Laden has been neutralized.

Never mind that this pres­i­dent has passed uni­ver­sal health care , some­thing no oth­er demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­dent was able to do.

Never mind that this pres­i­dent has passed sev­er­al laws and giv­en sup­port to women and peo­ple whom have been out of the so-called main­stream before.

Never mind that this pres­i­dent repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell”.

Never mind that this pres­i­dent signed the Lilly Ledbetter act into law.

Never mind that the pres­i­dent end­ed the Iraq war

Never mind that this pres­i­dent has restored the coun­try to promi­nence and respectabil­i­ty on the world’s stage.

Never mind that this pres­i­dent in his first term has opened up the mar­ket place for green ener­gy and has allowed more leas­es for oil and nat­ur­al gas drilling, even more than his pre­de­ces­sor, a drill baby drill pres­i­dent Bush.

Never mind that on the ques­tion of immi­gra­tion this pres­i­dent has deport­ed more peo­ple out of this coun­try than any oth­er pres­i­dent. Acquiescing exact­ly to what the lunatic right wants, yet he is accused of not uphold­ing America’s laws.

There are more than ade­quate rea­sons for this pres­i­dent to run on his record and be eas­i­ly re-elect­ed. Where are the democ­rats wo are sup­posed to be out there trum­pet­ing this pres­i­den­t’s record of accomplishment?

The fact of the mat­ter is, when­ev­er things fall apart they allow a black guy to have a go at it, ask David Dinkins about that. The pro­grams he start­ed were all cred­it­ed to the ego­ma­ni­a­cal Rudolph Giuliani. Yet most if not all of those ini­tia­tives were start­ed by David Dinkins. Yet they have effec­tive­ly scrubbed the Dinkins may­oral­ty from the annals of New York City dia­logue as if it nev­er happened.

To his dis­cred­it nei­ther Dinkins nor the lily liv­er­ied democ­rats have stood up to the pompous lit­tle ego­ma­ni­ac Rudolph Giuliani, they allowed them to use revi­sion­ist his­to­ry to dis­tort and destroy his legacy.

They will attempt to do the same to Obama, as they have done repeat­ed­ly to President Jimmy Carter. Over and over again they have ridiculed President Carter as an abject fail­ure, the every­thing that was wrong with demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­dents, weak feck­less, inde­ci­sive. The truth is they wont men­tion the fail­ures they have had, from Hoover all the way down to bush 43^rd.

Democrats have allowed repub­li­cans to use the mil­i­tary to launch ille­gal and unau­tho­rised wars all over the globe to sat­is­fy large cor­po­ra­tions, and they sign on as lambs to the slaugh­ter, afraid of being labeled weak. President Carter’s pres­i­den­cy was defined by the débâ­cle in the Arabian desert, had it suc­ceed­ed his pres­i­den­cy would have been seen in a dif­fer­ent light. Never mind that the same prin­ci­ple applied to Obama’s deci­sion to go after Bin Laden the way he did. Had he failed his pres­i­den­cy would have been over, the sim­i­lar­i­ties are uncanny.

Yet despite the mon­u­men­tal risk Obama took to neu­tral­ize Bin Laden, enter­ing a sov­er­eign nation(Pakistan) with­out autho­riza­tion, (as he said he would as can­di­date Obama) it did not stop Donald Rumsfeld from say­ing it was an easy deci­sion to make, a deci­sion which required no more than 15 min­utes, 12 of which should have been spent on cof­fee break.

Donald Rumsfeld for­mer Defense sec­re­tary was even­tu­al­ly fired by pres­i­dent Bush, an abject failure.

People on the left do not have real fight­ers look­ing out for their inter­est. Democrats are feck­less cow­ards. Republicans set the agen­da , dis­tort the facts and cam­paign and gov­ern by lies. Democrats do noth­ing about it.

If pres­i­dent Obama los­es this elec­tion his par­ty will be respon­si­ble, not republicans.

Republicans do what they do, they do not care about any­thing but pow­er and the cause of the filthy rich. they do not hide that, they allowed the coun­try’s AAA cred­it rat­ing to be down­grad­ed over a pro­ce­dur­al mea­sure,( rais­ing the cred­it lim­it). They refuse to pass a bill which would put work­ers back to work, pol­i­tics at it’s worse.

If a par­ty can risk the eco­nom­ic via­bil­i­ty of the coun­try to fur­ther polit­i­cal ends ‚there is no telling what else they will do to gain power.

Democrats will lose if they once again fail to com­mu­ni­cate this to the electorate.

I don’t agree with all the peo­ple who sup­port me. And my guess is they don’t all agree with every­thing I believe in,” Romney told reporters before fly­ing from California to Colorado Monday evening. “But I need to get 50.1 per­cent or more. And I’m appre­cia­tive to have the help of a lot of good people.”

These are not the words of your low­ly blogger,They are the words of the esteemed Republican can­di­date for pres­i­dent Mitt Romney. Romney uttered these words on his cam­paign char­ter, in response to ques­tions from the press regard­ing his sched­uled Tuesday fund-rais­er in Las Vegas Nevada with (Carnival Barker) Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has posi­tioned him­self as one of the most well know big­ots in America. Trump despite his wealth, has shown that mon­ey can­not buy class. He con­tin­ues to fan the flames of racial hatred with the birther issue, which essen­tial­ly ques­tions the legit­i­ma­cy of President Obama’s pres­i­den­cy, by sug­gest­ing that he was not born in America.

After the pres­i­dent released his birth cer­tifi­cate and the ver­bal stomp­ing he admin­is­tered to him , in which he labeled him a car­ni­val bark­er, some thought that intel­li­gent peo­ple would be free from the big­ot­ed rants of the orange-haired-buf­foon.

That has not turned out to be so, Trump an ego-mani­a­cal nar­cis­sist has attached him­self to the Romney cam­paign like a par­a­sit­i­cal crus­tacean. Trump knows that there real­ly is no bad pub­lic­i­ty, he is in it to improve the trump brand, as such his tele­vi­sion show gets rat­ings and most of all he gets to hear his name men­tioned on tele­vi­sion. Trump fan­cies him­self as a major play­er in American pol­i­tics, after all, why not? Citizens United has basi­cal­ly put the pres­i­den­cy up for the high­est bid­der, why should he, the (car­ni­val bark­er) not be a player?

Trump does not care what hap­pens as long as he gets the afore­men­tioned, of course it would be bet­ter for him if Romney gets into the White House where they want envi­ron­men­tal reg­u­la­tions rolled back and the vig­i­lance of the envi­ron­men­tal Protection Agency done away with. This kind of men­tal­i­ty is not con­fined to Trump there are dozens of filthy rich bil­lion­aires who are will­ing to put their mon­ey where their mouths are to defeat Obama. They seri­ous­ly see cit­i­zens unit­ed as an open­ing of the door to pur­chase the elections.

Romney knows that the far right-wing of the repub­li­can fringe is sus­pi­cious of him, as such, he is pre­pared to hold his nose and cozy up to Trump, he is will­ing to roll the dice to see what trac­tion he may squeeze out of the birther issue. It is also con­ve­nient for Romney to say what he said in the open­ing state­ment of this blog. So he gets to say the nasty things he would like to say about the pres­i­dent, using sur­ro­gates, while keep­ing his hands clean. How suc­cess­ful will this strat­e­gy be? The birther issue has been debunked, as such those who espouse it are seen as racist vile crea­tures of the lunatic fringe. Like every­thing else Romney tries to have it both ways.

Conservative icon George Will blast­ed the orange-hair-buf­foon on tele­vi­sion last week say­ing quote:

“I do not under­stand the cost ben­e­fit here” “The cost of appear­ing with this blovi­at­ing igno­ra­mus is obvi­ous, it seems to me.” “Donald Trump is redun­dant evi­dence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American pol­i­tics,” Will con­tin­ued. “Again, I don’t under­stand the ben­e­fit. What is Romney seek­ing?”http://​www​.the​blaze​.com/​s​t​o​r​i​e​s​/​r​o​m​n​e​y​-​r​e​f​u​s​e​s​-​t​o​-​r​e​p​u​d​i​a​t​e​-​t​r​u​m​p​-​o​n​-​t​h​e​-​b​i​r​t​h​e​r​-​i​s​s​u​e​-​p​o​ll/

I think that what we have heard com­ing out of Mitt Romney’s mouth is the most despi­ca­ble vile but cow­ard­ly and rep­re­hen­si­ble type of pol­i­tick­ing imag­in­able. From Rush Limbaugh’s onslaught on Susan Fluke, to not stand­ing up to the hate mon­gers who demand­ed that his very qual­i­fied gay for­eign pol­i­cy advis­er step down, to the woman who called the pres­i­dent a trai­tor, no courage from Romney. Many peo­ple are won­der­ing when will Romney have his sis­ter-Souljah moment. But if what Romney had to say on that air­plane is any indi­ca­tion of his char­ac­ter, we will have a long wait.

Donald Trump is a clown , if Romney allows him­self to be han­dled by a clown, what does it make Mitt Romney?

As the Election cam­paign heats up we have been giv­en a taste of what’s in store for us for the next 6 months. We can look for­ward to a steady diet of lies racist innu­en­dos and a con­stant [oth­er­ing] sic of Barack Obama.

We may also expect the same old pre­dictabli­ty of wishy-washy Democrats. They will hide wher­ev­er they feel will afford them some cov­er and they will leave all the heavy lift­ing to the President. Yet those cow­ards on the bal­lot come November will not hes­i­tate to ride his coat-tails in the event he is succesful.

Republicans have argued that this elec­tion will be about the econ­o­my. After all why not? Mitch McConnell Republican Minority leader in the sen­ate syn­op­sised the entire­ty of repub­li­can strat­e­gy for the dura­tion of Obama’s pres­i­den­cy. “Our only goal is to ensure that Barack Obama is one term pres­i­dent” This state­ment came while the pres­i­dent was just inau­gu­rat­ed and grap­pling with try­ing to save the coun­try from a total finan­cial col­lapse. They have spent the last 3 ¹⁄₂ years doing every­thing in their pow­er, and trust me they have pow­er­ful friends , to destroy the pres­i­den­cy of Barack Obama, pick up the pieces lat­er and gov­ern for anoth­er decade. That is the strat­e­gy of repub­li­cans. Real patri­ots those republicans.

It is clear that the elec­tions will not be about the econ­o­my as the talk­ing heads on cable have been par­rot­ing, it will be about lies.

On issue after issue, repub­li­cans have dis­tort­ed pres­i­dent Obama’s record and have vir­tu­al­ly got­ten away with it. Cable hosts like Wolf Blitzer, Candy Crowley and Howard Kurtz of CNN have allowed them to lit­er­al­ly spout their talk­ing points as truth, with­out stop­ping them and point­ing to what they know are lies. Fox mis­in­for­ma­tion does not pre­tend, so we know what to expect from them , but CNN has parad­ed as a gen­uine News Organization , which they real­ly aren’t .

One of the knocks against Democrats is that they are wishy-washy, they have for decades allowed repub­li­cans to frame the debate paint­ing them as what the repub­li­cans want them to be at any giv­en time. Big spenders, tax and spend lib­er­als, social­ists, weak on nation­al defense, lovers of big gov­ern­ment, and a whole hosts of oth­er labels which are bet­ter suit­ed to repub­li­cans , but which they suc­cess­ful­ly project onto democrats.

What do democ­rats do ? Nothing, they do noth­ing, they parse and speak from the cor­ners of their mouths even, though they are the par­ty of bal­anced bud­gets, look­ing out for the poor and the mid­dle-class, the par­ty which keeps the peace, and the par­ty which have striv­en for the rights and dig­ni­ty of all Americans.

Republicans are gen­er­al­ly racists and liars, some racists, some liars, some racist liars, they may be all those things , but they are disciplined.

President Obama is out cam­paign­ing and stick­ing it to Mitt Romney the can­di­date of the 1%, many argue that the pres­i­dent should leave some of the heavy lift­ing to sur­ro­gates. If recent occur­rence are any barom­e­ter, then the pres­i­dent is doing what he needs to do, do what he wants done, himself.

With friends like Ed Rendell and Corey Booker Newark’s Mayor it is clear to see why the pres­i­dent can­not trust his mes­sage to democ­rats. Many democ­rats are look­ing out for their own brand, or are either sold out to the very spe­cial inter­est the pres­i­dent is lash­ing out against.

Barack Obama has a ter­rif­ic sto­ry to tell, he has pulled the coun­try back from the precipice of finan­cial ruina­tion, under his watch we have had con­tin­u­ous growth and over 5 mil­lion jobs cre­at­ed, Osama Bin Laden is dead and General motors is alive. the lat­ter coined by Joe Biden so I can­not take cred­it for it. A health care Bill has been passed and even though repub­li­cans have stat­ed their inten­tion to repeal it, we are yet to hear what their plans are for the coun­try’s over 25 mil­lion peo­ple who have no health care and the tens of mil­lion more who have insufficient.

What’s inter­est­ing is that repub­li­cans have offered up not one sug­ges­tion as to what they would do with the peo­ple whom are already cov­ered under the afford­able care act(Obama care). So we must con­clude that all the young peo­ple now cov­ered untill age 26 on their par­ents insur­ance will be thrown off, these peo­ple are not heavy users of health insur­ance because of their age, but what will hap­pen to the seniors, and the mil­lions who were told they had pre-exist­ing con­di­tions before the afford­able care act became law?

SO WHY IS THIS ELECTION CLOSE ?

This elec­tion is close because Republicans are ‚mas­ters of lies and decep­tion. It is an absolute art-form which enables one to con­vince oth­ers to take actions against their own self-inter­est. Marvelous indeed, repub­li­cans have tapped into hate, fear and anx­i­ety of the ill-informed mass­es of whites in this coun­try. They have paint­ed the pres­i­dent as an Other, Socialist, European Socialist, Fascist, Kenyan, Illegal Alien, Traitor,Arab, and a pletho­ra of oth­er deroga­to­ry names with a view to dis­cred­it him and to nul­li­fy his presidency.

This is at the heart of Mitch McConnell’s state­ment about mak­ing Obama a one term president.

This is at the heart of what they mean when they talk about tak­ing back their coun­try, take back their coun­try from who ? what makes them feel this land is any­more theirs than it is Obama’s or blacks or any­one else?

Trump  Palin

It is what’s at the heart of the birther non­sense, pro­mul­gat­ed by this orange haired ego­ma­ni­a­cal moron, it is what at the heart of this clue­less race bait­ing idiot Sarah Palin. One would have thought that after pres­i­dent Obama squished Trump at the White house cor­re­spon­den­t’s din­ner he would have dis­ap­peared like the Carnival Barker he is. But his over-sized ego will not allow him to dry up and blow away.

These are the faces of the mod­ern-day repub­li­can par­ty, the par­ty which has with­out a doubt staked its claim as the par­ty of the 1%. They havent even tried to cov­er this up, yet mil­lions and mil­lions of peo­ple will fol­low a bought-and-paid for cor­po­rate shill over the cliff, like rats to the wail­ing flute of the pied piper, vot­ing the inter­est of the 1 %.

Joan Walsh Editor of Salon​.com http://​www​.salon​.com/ put it suc­cinct­ly, when she stat­ed it was one of the most embar­rass­ing days of her life when the pres­i­dent of the United States had to show his birth cer­tifi­cate to an orange haired bul­ly. I agree with Joan Walsh, I dis­agreed with President Obama, I would not have released my birth cer­tifi­cate, he had no oblig­a­tion to do so and as pres­i­dent of the United States I would be all too will­ing to have that issue dom­i­nate the dis­course all the way to the next elections.

Joan Walsh.

Republicans have noth­ing to run on , in any oth­er coun­try this pres­i­dent would be a shoo-in for a sec­ond term. Some argue that race does not play a part in their crit­i­cisms of Obama. After all they argue he was elect­ed pres­i­dent even though he is a mem­ber of the minor­i­ty. To those I say with due respect, have you seen the most recent cen­sus reports as it relates to the latter?

There is a chasm between white men and pres­i­dent Obama as far as the polling data in con­cerned. This leads me to con­clude what I already knew and what we became aware of many years ago. The most feared man in America is an edu­cat­ed black man. Barack Obama has unearthed their deep­est fears, they have nev­er been forced to com­pete on an even play­ing field. They made the rules, they offi­ci­at­ed the games, they picked up the ball and went home when they saw fit.

This all came crash­ing down when Barack Hussein Obama became the 44^th pres­i­dent of the United States of America.

Every lie they ever told for over three hun­dred years were laid bare. Staring back at them was the by-prod­uct of every­thing they had tried to kill, sup­press, and emasculate.

Like a phoenix the Black race has shown its indomitable spirt and its will nev­er die, but that it poss­es the will to rise from the ash­es of what some thought was its demise.

Like a phoenix we will con­tin­ue to rise.