Margaret, I am beginning to wonder if there are any grown ups left in the Republican party .
I ‘ve been asking myself that question since 2004 when George Bush got 35 more electoral votes and 4.1 million more popular votes than John Kerry. The next day he announced that he had political capital and he “intended to spend it ‘cause that’s the kind a guy I am.” I swear that man was the biggest jackass ever to live in the White House.
It was so good to see an adult take office in 2008 when Barack Obama won 192 more electoral votes and almost 10 million more popular votes than John McCain. But then the Republicans obstructionism in the Senate started and eventually, thanks to the dumb asses in the Tea Party, the complete collapse of any type of governing ramped up 2 years later in the House. They vowed Obama would be a one term President, and everything we learned in kindergarten went right out the window.
This year, Obama won by 126 electoral votes and more than 4 million popular votes. Always changing the rules of the game, the Republicans are demanding that Democrats need to compromise. I hear that McConnell and Boehner actually bragged to the press that they laughed at the President’s plan. Just who the hell are these guys? Even Fox News eventually had to call the election for Obama. You know what, Margaret? If Obama were to leave a flaming bag of shit outside Boehner and McConnell’s office doors, I’d cheer him on. Higher taxes for the wealthy was pretty much the central theme of the election. Mitt was against it. Obama was for it. Mitt lost. End of story.
How about the Republicans finally tell Grover Norquist and the other wackos in their party to sit down and shut the hell up? I know if we leave it up to those Tea Party nut jobs, they’ll be digging up Ronald Reagan’s dead body and running him in 2016.
The Republicans want compromise? How’s this:
- In exchange for Republicans agreeing to once and for all get out of our vaginas and our bedrooms, we Democrats will let you start another war just as soon as you get another Bush in the White House.
- In exchange for Republicans agreeing to fully fund the social safety net for this nation’s poor and elderly, we Democrats will do everything in our power to starve camels and make the eye of the needle wider.
- And here’s the really big one - If Republicans will agree to take Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove and make them simply “disappear”, we Democrats will not let Bill Clinton speak at the 2016 Democratic Convention.
In truth, I am pretty disgusted with all politicians right now. They’ve all gotten a little too predictable for my taste. Republicans want more money for the wealthy and more war. Democrats want to take care of the poor, the elderly and want more money for education programs… On second thought, I’m really just disgusted with Republican politicians.
If this is the best we can expect from Republican leadership, we have a bigger problem than going over some cliff. How about we just pass the President’s plan? If it fails, the Republicans might actually stand a chance in the next election. If it succeeds, the Republicans might finally have to move into the 21st Century.
Show me a fiscal cliff and I will gladly push McConnell and Boehner over the edge. Maybe then the grown ups can roll up their sleeves and get something done. Because how the hell is any deep thinking going to happen if those two insist on spending the whole day pissing in the baby pool? I mean it. Really.
Helen for Queen!! We need to set that up right now and let you make the rules cuz I love how you think.
Such whining and gnashing of teeth with the Baggers. And the finger pointing……..my little grandson says that if you point your finger at someone, there are still 3 fingers pointing back at you. I actually prefer pointing “the bird finger” !!!!
You know, fiscal cliff and debt ceiling are made up words……..by the GOP, of course, to scare people. And this issue is one they created by trying to make sure the President was a one term guy. Obviously didn’t happen. Now they are between a rock and a hard place because they owe their souls to the billionaires who stupidly gave them money and they have no choice but to raise taxes, but the consequences if they do raise taxes on the top 2% will be devastating for the BAgger legislators. Too bad, so sad !!
Their plan is to let us go over the cliff for 2 days and on Jan3rd, they will agree to what is now on the table and then try to take credit for “saving the country” They are swine !!! They they will start with their debt ceiling game.
The debt ceiling is simply paying the bill for the money CONGRESS, ie The House of Representatives, has already spent. The House has been controlled by the Baggers since 2010 so the onus for the spending is on them. they make the decisions on how much to spend and what to spend it on. BTW ***** they made the decision to cut embassy security spending so they are basically responsible for whatever they consider to be bad security in Bengazi at the embassy. You see how they are………it always comes right back to their front door and more and more people are finally seeing the truth.
Please, please, please, go to FCC.gov and on the Home page is a button that says TAKE ACTION. Leave a comment about that damn fauxfox Mogul trying to buy The LA Times and The chicago Tribune. they have rules in place to keep Media consolidation to a minium and they are actually thinking of waving their own rule to allow that jackass to buy the 2 newspapers. We do not need any more Propaganda crap coming from them. Because the corrupt supreme court ruled in their favor several years ago and allowed them to be able to tell their reporters they can lie, it is certainly not in the best interest of the country to have this guy owning not only a huge majority of TV media but now print Media. this has to stop.
The purging going on over at fauxfox is simply to get worse people whom they can control even more to spread their propaganda garbage. Really, pull that guy’s visa and send him back to Australia and let him spew his crap where he sleeps !!!!!
By: Colorado Blue on December 7, 2012
at 12:08 PM
Good news: Better than expected November jobs report! In spite of Hurricane Sandy which was expected to adversely affect it, it’s a good number. Glad President Obama was re-elected and can take some credit.
By: Terri in NY on December 7, 2012
at 10:54 AM
As a nation we are NOT broke. We are in debt but not any more so than in years past as a percentage of the economy. And the rest of the world is doing much worse than we are – just look at the interest rates on T bills. Other nations are essentially paying us to take their money right now because T bills are the only real safe bet.
“But what is China calls our debt in!” “It would destroy the country!” NOT. The biggest holder of American debt is …… Americans. And the biggest foreign holder of American debt is England. Furthermore, what people that buy T bill are getting is a promise that we will give them dollars when they cash them in. We can print all the dollars we want to so if China asks for their trillion dollars we just run the printing pressings for a couple of overtime shifts. “But than the dollar will loose all its value!” you say. That is not actually true but even if it was that would mean that if China asks for their trillion dollars they will get shafted – so they won’t ask for it.
The biggest problem in our country right now is crappy infrastructure and high unemployment. Not really the time to do the austerity thing.
By: JJ on December 7, 2012
at 9:08 AM
How anyone can call Obama’s policies a failure when they have been kept from passing by the opposition in the Congress just amazes me. If we actually try his ideas and they don’t work, fine, we’ll move on. But you can’t just call them a failure, block them, then say they didn’t work. We didn’t really try.
Yet somehow we keep trying Supply Side and it keeps failing, but if we just try it again it will work. Bullshit. Never worked, never will.
By: olandp on December 7, 2012
at 8:57 AM
Really? Really? Your guys are always good and the other guys are always bad???? Really? This is what is totally wrong with “politics” in America. There is so much dislike and distrust on both sides that there is absolutely no chance we will ever have effective government in the near future. AS A NATION WE ARE BROKE….The debt must be paid and then we can have a discussion about what to do next. In the mean time, let’s all be nice and sweet and STOP all this mean dialogue. For heavens sake, it’s Christmas…you know, the time for brotherly love. Let’s at least have a cease fire during the month of December. Let’s reflect on what’s right and CEASE all other forms of criticism…..I want the stars of good will toward men to be brightly shining for a few weeks. Is that too much to ask??????????? Stop the political and reflect on the glorious! Let this be our benediction for just one month.
By: susan binns on December 6, 2012
at 6:49 PM
It’s going to be really really interesting when the the new tax laws hit….
get out your wallets and checkbooks everyone……
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/12/06/howard_dean_the_truth_is_everybody_needs_to_pay_more_taxes_not_just_the_rich.html
By: uawtradesman on December 6, 2012
at 5:33 PM
Oh thank you thank you thank you … again you put a big smile on my face and gave me a bunch of well- needed chuckles.
By: Denise on December 6, 2012
at 5:25 PM
Helen:
We could use you on our baseball team. You keep hitting it out of the park.
By: jsri on December 6, 2012
at 5:00 PM
By: Anonymous on December 5, 2012 at 12:24 PM you said
“Absolute proof that age does not equal wisdom. No substance or truth. Just left sided dribble.”
Anon. I see it’s time to double up on your incontinence meds. You’re dribbling again.
By: JohnDoe on December 6, 2012
at 4:52 PM
Delurker: that is hilarious. I distinctly remember G.W. Bush hosting the likes of Sean Hannity, etc. while he was president. They have a short memory; or they think we do. Fox and Friends must be one of the worst shows in the history of television.
A side note: did anyone see Bill O’Reilly asserting that Christianity is NOT a religion; it’s a philosophy? Glad we have him to wage the imaginary “war on Christmas.” Do people really buy this crap?
By: Terri in NY on December 6, 2012
at 1:50 PM
For some free entertainment, watch this!
Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade Outraged MSNBC Hosts Invited To White House
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/steve-doocy-brian-kilmead_n_2243935.html
By: delurkergurl on December 6, 2012
at 10:54 AM
Thank you again, Helen! Spot on, as always. More and more frequently, I’m embarrassed to be an American—not for what we’re trying to do, but for what the GOP does in order to obstruct what we’re trying to do.
By: That Other Jean on December 6, 2012
at 10:12 AM
I have to admit that you are a brave soul, sir . . . actually admitting that you worked in the GDumbya administration and all. If things started downhill with Ronnie Reagan, they surely bottomed out with GDumbya . . . and that is when we really WERE the laughing-stock of the world. Our reputation has improved greatly with Obama in office.
By: Bo on December 6, 2012
at 8:27 AM
I am a retired international attorney and for 8 years during the Bush Administrration, I had to re-assure my clients that I did NOT vote for that idiot. The American electorate was the laughing stock of the world.
However the destruction of the Republican Party began with the ultra-consevatism of Ronnie “Win one for the Gipper” Reagan! I now live in China as I was worried that the uniformed U.S. Electorate would elect “Mitt the Dimwit”
By: Robert L. Lockridge, Kunming, Yunnan, China on December 6, 2012
at 5:31 AM
You realize that even’s Reagan’s corpse would be too liberal?
By: Lizbet in Olympia on December 5, 2012
at 11:21 PM
Thanks Helen! Another gem of a post. Call me a bot, I agree with everything you wrote. I can’t remember the last time I disagreed with you on anything.
Our friends across the aisle should realize that this country needs all of us to work on the monumental problems facing us. I agree with them that we need to clean up the waste, there is a lot of wasteful spending out there. However, they never really talk about the subsidies to big corporations much. When wasteful spending is mentioned they are usually speaking of the 47 percent and recently their darling target, “free phones”. Well, I never understood why we should subsidize corporations, which are making money. It goes against the grain of a free market economy, that concept so dear to our fellow republicans. Cut the indirect subsidies to Walmart for example, that should amount to some decent savings for us taxpayers. We subsidize Walmart when we, the taxpayers, have to foot the bill for healthcare and food for the employees they underpay. It is a shame really that such situation should be allowed to exist.
By: Easier on December 5, 2012
at 9:32 PM
Hi, Terry – Well, that IS kind of special, isn’t it?
It’s just so apparent that they are SO screwed, and by their own doing… My husband (Universe love him, and I certainly do) is a “Republican” by nature, and even he hasn’t got a single argument in their defense these days. Time to sit back and let them hoist themselves by their own petards, whatever a petard is, and how the hell the hoisting actually happens… (Actually, I just looked that up. A petard is a small bomb, and to be “hoisted by one’s own petard” means to be injured, yourself, by something with which you intended to injure others. It’s also related to the French word for fart… Thanks to wikipedia for that info. And things are seeming more and more appropriate, the more research I do.)
XO to the Porch, and to all the Wise Women, and the Men Who Love Them and have some F-ing RESPECT…
Gato
By: gatodicima on December 5, 2012
at 9:07 PM
Yes, Gato, boys will be boys! They think they’re special because they can also write their name in the snow without getting snow on their fingers.
By: Terry Waggle on December 5, 2012
at 8:40 PM
[...] Governing is for suckers. [...]
By: I bring you the opinions of others that you may form your own. « imwastedpotential on December 5, 2012
at 5:09 PM
Love lt! Love it! Thank you ! Words of wisdom…..truly!
Carolyn W. Crouch
By: Carolyn Crouch on December 5, 2012
at 5:06 PM
CNN is reporting that all republican senators have fallen into Helen’s vagina. Search and Rescue has been suspended due to darkness.
By: Tire Rod on December 5, 2012
at 4:15 PM
Aahhh… Another message from the kiddie pool…
Gato
By: gatodicima on December 5, 2012
at 4:04 PM
You made me guffaw yet again. Thanks for the chuckles and have a joyous holiday season.
By: 2legit on December 5, 2012
at 3:31 PM
Ladies, I hope the “flaming bag of shit outside Boehner and McConnell’s doors” builds up some steam, which it would if left to ferment in their respective hallways over the recess. Many people would love it, and I would happily volunteer to set them aflame. Then run away. Great post!
By: ermigal on December 5, 2012
at 3:13 PM
You rock!
By: Katie on December 5, 2012
at 2:50 PM
Right on with your assessment of the Republicans! The MSM has gotten to the point where I refuse to listen to them. It’s too bad there aren’t more “liberal, progressive” places to listen to other than MSNBC! The Republicans are just a bunch of white noise in my opinion!
By: Victoria on December 5, 2012
at 2:32 PM
Helen, I’ve got something for you to look at, because in my books, it’s just so sad: Amendment CRPD: Campaign Rights Person’s with Disabilities, that was turned down, simply because Rick Santorum and his Goons don’t want to ‘talk to the UN’ at the big person’s table. I’ll get my poem, if you pardon me, it is long, but it mentions exactly what happened:
Here is my poem, feel free to use, repost with my permission: we’ve got to fight.
When I was born, they said; “We don’t think she’s gunna make it”.
When my parents released me and traveled across route 66,
I was in a shoe box.
Given wrong medication meant for a 10 year old,
The shook me every 2 hours round the clock, keeping me breathing
They fought to keep me alive.
When I was 6, my parents made me normal.
No school allowed for the disabled,
Only coloring, music and beds.
At age 10 I was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy,
Because they could only keep me in school by waiting.
My parents fought for me to be intelligent–I had to hide.
My friend went to France,
They Locked up her wheelchair “for evidence”
Entering back into the USA.
She was literally in prison for 5 weeks, until they could conclude, no bombs were found in her wheels.
I wanted to go to London, Paris, and Canada,
But no visa could we get:
“We don’t think Your Gunna Make it”, they said,
“you’re two disabled people on the Lam.”
“You need an attendant to proove that you can.”
CRPD was the amendment,
an addendum to free us for travel,
To be normal, to be free.
Senator Dole wrote it, realizing we were tied up
in Endless bureaucracy.
One man was pulled from a plane,
Never got out of Legardia.
His crime? He was heading for Australia.
“How dare he? He walks with crutches!”
“He has no right to go where he chooses!”
I have sat on endless committees,
Praised for my contributions;
ADA, Faculty Support, EOE, Olmstead, HIPAA, MiCASA,
ED504, the works, Employers, said “she unhireable”
I’ve owned my own businesses since 1992.
They gave up on me,
I fought for my own self dignity.
CRPD, Campaign for Rights Person with Disabilities,
Was to be a joint act between congress and the UN.
It was our ticket to travel, our right to be treated
As an American Citizen,
But senator Santorum and his Goons, In fear of meeting the UN
And their agenda to superseed the government,
Took away our rights.
We rose, 500 groups to protest, calling the Government night and day,
Over 5000 people yelling, “let us travel, Let us be human”
Santorum and his Goons, locked us in a box:
“We the People” is a euphemism; it means nothing.
We ain’t people, we’re just crips.
And like when they’ve given up on me so many years ago,
the Doctors, the hospital, the schools, the employers, our government
has given me up again. The sad part is,
they’ve given up on all of us:
They vote for themselves, not for us.
All my life, I’ve been in training: fight for the right to be human.
I now find that I must say to you all: you must fight for the right to be an American, no matter what they say. Stand up against this fascism of not being people, because my friend, Rick Santorum and his Goons,
See you only as Pawns.—Mary Miller 12/04/2012……sad, really sad.
By: Mary A Miller on December 5, 2012
at 1:48 PM
Thanks Helen, you nailed it again. I kind of wish all the republicans would just leave the country. They could take all the people signing succession petitions with them and live happily ever after in some white, male dominated outpost! Keep up the posts ladies.
By: Annie in Maine on December 5, 2012
at 1:46 PM
Right on target again! Thank you
By: Sharon on December 5, 2012
at 1:44 PM
That “nudge” over at Faux News is actually the start of a very healthy shove – unfortunately not at the edge of a cliff. Ten to one Rove et al. are actually smart enough to realize this which means they will hate it all the more.
By: Mageen in Old Virginny on December 5, 2012
at 1:42 PM