HELEN:
Margaret, it appears that rape remains unpopular among likely voters, gays are people too, and Rocky Mountain High isn’t just a song. It isn’t final yet, but at the time that I am writing this, Michele Bachmann, bless her heart, might not be too popular with voters either. And while he wasn’t actually running for anything, Donald Trump proved to be unpopular with just about everyone.
Once the real news called the race for Obama, I tuned into Fox News to see if Karl Rove was giving refunds. I had to laugh at the meltdown that was happening. Karl wanted a recount in Ohio and some blonde woman with too much make-up lamented about the inconvenient truth of Hurricane Sandy. Evidently Sandy and fraudulent voters had given the election unfairly to Obama. Honey, Hurricane Sandy reminded us that we had a good man in the White House much the same way Hurricane Katrina reminded us that we had an idiot in the White House. And fraudulent voters are about as common as unbiased reporting on Fox News. I had to turn the channel back to the more civil CNN coverage with that lovely Anderson Cooper. Too much Fox makes me itch.
After running for President for nine hundred years, Mitt Romney accepted defeat and gave a surprisingly short and genuinely gracious concession speech. I was touched, truly touched, when he called for unity and wished the President success. President Obama too gave a lovely speech. He always gives lovely speeches. It was a tad bit long and I must admit I drifted off a couple of times. I am old and it was getting late.
But back to Mitt… you had me there, sir. You had me ready to put aside my partisan ways in hopes that our elected officials could come together and find common ground. I was all ready to write my letter to the President asking him to govern to the middle and bring us together. I would get a good night’s sleep and then write the letter in the morning and send it off to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But just before I headed to bed, this flashed across my television screen:
“The American people did two things: they gave President Obama a second chance to fix the problems that even he admits he failed to solve during his first four years in office, and they preserved Republican control of the House of Representatives. The voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the president’s first term, they have simply given him more time to finish the job they asked him to do together with a Congress that restored balance to Washington after two years of one-party control. Now it’s time for the president to propose solutions that actually have a chance of passing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and a closely-divided Senate, step up to the plate on the challenges of the moment, and deliver in a way that he did not in his first four years in office.”
– Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader
Well Margaret, so much for me giving up my partisan ways. Mitch McConnell is a jackass and the Republican Party can kiss my ass. I mean it. Really.
MARGARET:
Well, here we go again. Honey, why don’t you just move to Kentucky and run against McConnell? I would vote for you. I mean it. Really.
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Karen in Ohio at 12:50PM, great answer!
By: Easier on November 8, 2012
at 8:37 PM
penny, you presented no facts. You presented a challenge, and then when I met it, you ran and hid. nuff said kiddo.
By: noahwestmichigan on November 8, 2012
at 6:08 PM
karen: see what i mean? there’s no arguing with someone who totaly disregards the facts. it’s a lose/lose situation and i need my energy now to work on changing the house come mid term elections. that’s what we need to do now.
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 6:02 PM
Karen, where I come from we call it a prediction, ie an educated guess based on past actions of this administration. Their blatant disregard for the law and the Constitution are my evidence.
By: noahwestmichigan on November 8, 2012
at 5:57 PM
penny I met your challenge and your going to run and hide? LMAO why are Liberals always this predictable. Not one of you have the education to stand up and back your lies. Thanks for helping prove me right to alaskapi.
By: noahwestmichigan on November 8, 2012
at 5:56 PM
Karen, you need a better understanding of EP. By invoking it, he automatically implicates himself as being involved. You need to look at it again. IT has been buried, not resolved. If you have any news story that says otherwise please share it.
By: noahwestmichigan on November 8, 2012
at 5:54 PM
to karen: well said and a good answer to noah. i’ve decided to ignore him, myself…he spouts the same ole lies told over and over, most of them proven to be lies. cognitive dissonance
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 4:29 PM
PS You wrote:
“In the future Obama WILL misuse his executive powers to cover up what happened in Libya.”
Now you have the power to foresee the future? How about if you work on getting the past straight first? Thank you.
By: Karen in Ohio on November 8, 2012
at 12:50 PM
Noah, Mr. Obama invoked executive privilege, yes, but neither he nor his administration was in any way involved in Fast and Furious. This has been investigated and determined to be so. Please look that up.
Secondly, the jury is still out on Libya, and may I remind you of the SEVEN attacks on American embassies during the eight years of the Bush administration, which resulted in 47 deaths and more than 140 injured. Add that to the 3,000 deaths on 9/11, and the nearly 4,200 US military who have died in the Middle East, so far, because of Bush.
Mr. Obama has done a way better job of keeping us safe than almost any other four-year President, despite the right’s continued claims that he’s incompetent. And your rhetoric otherwise only serves to show how ill-informed you are.
By: Karen in Ohio on November 8, 2012
at 12:49 PM
GWB “abused” executive privilege 6 times, so you should be pleased at the improvement. You do know the purpose of executive privilege, don’t you?
By: Anonymous on November 8, 2012
at 12:03 PM
Sandy…..Robert Altemeyer’s book is available FREE ONLINE.
Theauthoritarians.com
By: sidney18511 on November 8, 2012
at 11:35 AM
Obama Invokes Executive Privilege on Fast and Furious. This means he is complicit in these murders, or he misused it for political gain.
In June, Obama misused his executive powers to grant amnesty to illegals and to stop them from being deported. This usurps congressional authority and is beyond the scope of powers set for the executive branch.
In the future Obama WILL misuse his executive powers to cover up what happened in Libya. We already know he lied, so he has no other choice to misuse his authority to avoid impeachment. The only reason I am not 100% against this is because Biden as President would be far worse than Obmalam.
By: noahwestmichigan on November 8, 2012
at 11:29 AM
The Authoritarians (Bob Altemeyer) is one of my favorite books. I give copies to people as gifts.
By: sandyknauer on November 8, 2012
at 11:26 AM
i’ll tell ya what noah…you prove with details that obama violated EP or dictated anything…and i’ll stand up for u. otherwise, keep urself outa here. what we need is truth. truth can be proven.
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 11:03 AM
robert and sydney…read about cognitive dissonance…so many answers there
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 10:52 AM
ponies and balloons? cmon fellas, u know wot’s under the pony.
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 10:44 AM
terri? do u think, really, that any dem can win in 2016? it seems to me to b a very dicey time for a dem to run…altho a lot depends on well we make out in the coming 4 years. and i wonder if hillary isn’t just plain tired and disgusted by now?
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 10:36 AM
alaskapi “should have stayed home and gotten drunk now that we have a dictator…”
(You betcha- Mr Obama will be able to shut down Congress and the Supreme Court. Mmmm, hmmm)”
You mean like the 3 times he abused EP and violated the Constitution to force through his agenda? Sounds like a quasi-dictator to me.
By: noahwestmichigan on November 8, 2012
at 10:35 AM
o, robert, u devil u. run a vagina for president? that’ll drive them nutz!!!
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 10:35 AM
well, robert, unfortunately ryan won his house seat so he will definitely be around, committees and all. as for possible repugs for next pres. election? cristi is a strong possibility. he is a strong personality. yes, the weight is worrisome. he won’t gladly suffer fools either as his running mate, which seriously limits the choices. rubio? he looks good, he sounds good (if u don’t listen closely) and he seems confident.
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 10:30 AM
i’m going to make a prediction. everyone’s gonna play good guy/bad guy. mcconnell is the bad guy/boehner is the good guy. obama is the good guy/biden is the bad guy. they all know the game. they’ll play it anyway. most of the deals will be made in back rooms using major compromise which should actually bode well and might even avoid the cliff, altho that’s not part of my prediction. now is the time to collar the movers, in private, and let them know lbj styel wot the emes (truth) is. it could work very well. if they’d only lissen to me. siiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 10:21 AM
i have been reading about cognitive dissonance, which explains a whole helluva lot…and that strikes me funny. do some reading about it. verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry interesting (laugh-in). it really answers the constant question i’ve had…how can they bleev this crap??
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 10:12 AM
re voting fraud. the biggest danger is the machines. i was very involved in florida, for 2 years, ’til we changed the machines AWAY from Diebold (who promised dubya his success in this state) and to optical scanners w/paper ballots and random checking. we learned how easy it was to simply walk by a diebold machine and w/a small remote, change the vote. we had many instances of voters pushing one button and consistently getting the other guy’s name on the screen w/the dibod machines. that’s where the main danger is. and the (mis)handling of absentee ballots, which is very common.
By: penny abrams on November 8, 2012
at 10:07 AM
Gato @ 8:46 AM – that was brilliant.
By: delurkergurl on November 8, 2012
at 9:27 AM
Reblogged this on The Happy Homesteader and commented:
A good friend and fellow codger shared this piece written by Margaret & Helen with me, and I am thrilled to commend them to you here.
By: Jim on November 8, 2012
at 9:04 AM
Possibly the best post election piece I’ve read to date. Speaking of date, are either of you two ladies “available”?
By: Jim on November 8, 2012
at 9:00 AM
Hi, Robert – Couldn’t agree with you more… And, although Fox is the star player here, there are other “news sources’ who have some influence: primarily “talk radio.” The problem is that their “opinions” are never challenged within the context of their own programming. To me, a classic example of this was when the DNC decided to change the venue for its final evening, from an outdoor stadium to someplace inside. When asked by Bret Baier why he thought this had been done, the Krauthammer (a man I find very difficult to watch, I must say) replied, “Well, of course, they’ve known for months what the weather was going to be. They just didn’t want to show empty seats…” To which Baier replied, “Thanks, Charles…”
Now, of course, on a REAL “news program,” one might expect the “reporter” to express some modicum of surprise at being told that somehow the DNC had a truly miraculous weather forecaster, and might ask something like, “Really, Charles? How could they possibly have known that?”
An interviewer like Charlie Rose will ask a guest a question like, “How did you feel when your puppy disappeared?” Baier usually asks something more like, “So, when your puppy disappeared, didn’t you feel pretty certain that the liberals had stolen her to be part of one of their Satanic rituals that undermine the founding values of our country?” To which the “guest” will reply, “Well, of course, Bret, that was my first thought, since that kind of thing is happening so often all over the country these days…” Cut to commercial…
And that’s how it goes. And people think, because it is labeled “news,” it actually IS “news.” And we just can’t get enough “news,” and the advertisers know that, so their money goes to anything that can remotely be called “news,” no matter what it actually is. The advertisers rake in the bucks; the “news program” does everything it can to hang on to its ratings, which usually involves upping the melodrama and “controversy” to make even the most unimportant piece of trivia seem of world import; and the people watch and listen and “believe”…
And real harm is done… As always happens when people are urged to follow their fears, their prejudices, and their hatreds.
Gato
By: gatodicima on November 8, 2012
at 8:46 AM
News flash for Mitch McConnell. Your party lost! The old way of taking the Presidency with a majority of white men is over, big time. Look at the photos of the crowd at the Democratic convention and compare them with the photos of your own garden party. Get with it, man. Say yes to the President’s plan for avoiding the fiscal cliff. Really. I.mean.it.
By: Mageen in Old Virginny on November 8, 2012
at 6:40 AM
Thanks Sidney, I’ll check it out… I grew up in the midwest. Worked in a factory right out of high school (that factory was moved to Mexico about 10 years ago). It was at the factory that I became acquainted with the religious factions that are very prevalent in the midwest. I remember how mean they could be towards other co-workers.
Several of them tried to recruit me into their church. They saw the devil everywhere and many were convinced the end of the world was near. One of them eventually got me to go to their holy roller church. People would shout out hallelujah in the middle of the sermon. It was an Evangelical congregation. I was encouraged to go up to the altar to be saved. The preacher put his hands on my shoulders. shook me and said do you feel it son, do you feel it . After several attempts and my response was still no, he told to go back to my seat and maybe I would feel it there. Apparently I wasn’t as impressionable as some thought. Maybe it was my catholic upbringing that made me suspicious of this new experience.
I left the midwest when I was 20 and now live on the west coast in the most unchurched state in the USA, Oregon. I love it here, but the outlying areas are very conservative just like the rest of the country.
By: Robert on November 8, 2012
at 12:48 AM
Robert…..you might be interested in a free online book written by Robert Altemeyer, he has studied the rightwing (how they think and their motives) since 1966. It is a frightening read. Please check it out if you might be interested, it is at Theauthoritarians.com.
I’ve read it twice. It explains the hyprocrocy and the stupidity of the right.
By: sidney18511 on November 8, 2012
at 12:16 AM