I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't. I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would. OK, I'm too irresponsible to own a gun and I know the local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius. And I voted Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies through abortion so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.
I proudly voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits. And I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the democrats see fit. I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some liberal fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters. And I voted Democrat because it is unlikely that I'll ever have another point of view.
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Did you know?
The original Constitution of the United States that was ratified in 1789 had only one reference to religion: [Article 6] No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
The de facto motto of the United States, adopted as part of the Great Seal of the U.S. by an Act of Congress in 1782 was E. Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One). Congress changed it 174 years later (1956) to “In God We Trust.”
The original ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ was written in 1892 by Baptist Minister Francis Bellamy who DID NOT INCLUDE the words “Under God.” Those were added by Congress 62 years later (1954).
The U.S. didn’t issue Paper Currency until 1861, and ‘In God We Trust’ didn’t appear on it for 96 years (1957).
Just after the Red Scare in the 1950′s, CONGRESS CHANGED the Pledge of Allegiance and our Nation’s Motto over the FEAR of COMMUNISM.
In a time when fear is traded like a commodity, and the word SOCIALISM is being used to create the same fear as the old word COMMUNISM, let’s REMEMBER that our country was NOT founded on fear. NO, OUR NATION was founded out of HOPE for a better world where all people were EQUAL – that we were ONE from MANY.
Let’s not let fear change our nation’s great tradition & direction again.
If the Obama presidency has taught us anything, it’s that his most vocal critics–teabaggers and birthers– aren’t the most agreeable people. They sometimes don’t know what they believe in–or even why, but boy do they vigorously express that which they think Fox News wants them to believe in. Last nite’s steel cage match style debate only reaffirmed that assertion. Now, having political convictions and concerns for the sanctity of your country is noble, but not when you’re always wrong. And not just wrong, but not even in the same galaxy. So, here’s a typical conversation with your average teabagger/birther regarding their typical grievances that plague America and keep Americans up at night.
Teabagger and/or Birther : Obama wasn’t born in this country and is a Muslim!
Normal human being: Firstly, of all the 2008 presidential candidates it was John McCain who wasn’t native-born. McCain was actually born on a naval base in Panama, though it’s safe to assume he’s old enough to have helped construct the canal. Secondly, I am fairly certain that Hillary Clinton, the most calculating, egomaniacal and power-starved of all the Democratic presidential candidates; furthermore, a woman who refused to acknowledge she was behind in the primaries and actually circulated a photo of Obama dressed up as some sort of muslim cafeteria lunch lady, would’ve jumped on the “birther” question faster than Bill on a college sorority girl. Lastly, that pesky commie thing known as the constitution strictly forbids any religious test being imposed on a candidate. Therefore, Obama could belong to the first church of Shaft and it would be meaningless.
Teabagger and/or Birther: But Glenn Beck told me so.
Normal human being: Yes, says the guy who dropped out of college after just one course and who’s one thorazine away from playing with his own feces. Furthermore, a man that makes the demented, screaming hobo on the street corner look more stable and serene than a buddhist monk.
Teabagger and/or Birther: Yeah, but he’s on Fox News and they’re true americans, as well as fair and balanced.
Normal human being: Fox news is notorious for being totally in bed with the right-wing, hiring fake journalists with no college education whatsoever, were cheerleaders for Bush throughout his entire presidency and never even so much as criticized a loud fart from President Bush, and deliberately distort facts in order to satisfy their rabidly wight-wing agendas. They are about as balanced as Lindsey Lohan after an all nite drinking binge; their CEO and founder is Rupert Murdoch, a foreign-born right-winger who only became an American for personal business reasons; and the second largest shareholder of Fox News is a Saudi Arabian. So technically, Fox News is a muslim company and Bill O’ Reilly is an Imam.
Teabagger/Brither: Obama is the joker and his healthcare plan is reminiscent of Hitler’s Dachau concentration camp.
Normal Human being: Firstly, the depiction of the president as Heath Ledger’s breakout role in The Dark Knight makes about as much sense as depicting George Bush as Minnie Mouse. Secondly, each and every time I open a history book that covers 20th Century European History, German Chancellor and Führer Adolf Hitler’s healthcare plan is the last thing that jumps in front of me. That you would make such a comparison based upon a plan that was, by and large, written by major private insurance industry trade group, America’s Health Insurance Plans, and big health insurers in general is not just grotesquely inaccurate, but nauseatingly offensive to the unspeakable horrors committed by Hitler’s Nazi regime.
Veterans For Peace Supports Historic Wave of Democratic Occupations
Veterans For Peace enthusiastically supports the "Occupy Movement" now spreading to many U.S. cities and towns.
Planning for the occupation of Freedom Plaza, in Washington, D.C., began in March. VFP members were there to get it started and have been there every step of the way. Since then, our members across the nation are participating in other, similar efforts and we want them to know we support their work.
VFP believes the Occupy Movement is an important piece of what is needed to change priorities in this country so we can begin turning away from militarism to a culture of peace and justice. Throughout history, this kind of nonviolent action on the part of large numbers of ordinary citizens has been the most powerful and effective way to throw off the yoke of oppression such as the one weighing on so many of our fellow citizens today -- whether that is unemployment, insecure retirement, lack of health care, inadequate food, housing and over all, corporate rule.
Peace with justice is not some kind of isolated "niche" issue to be addressed by its own isolated movement. Peace with justice is part of the fabric of social change that is needed to establish an equitable, sustainable culture that benefits the 99%, not just the 1% making the decisions for all. The only way we are going to get on the road to that goal is to strike common cause with the many organizations already struggling for that better life.
When Lawrence Goodwyn wrote in "The Populist Moment," that the populists were "...people who created the psychological space to dare to aspire grandly," he could well have said the same thing today about the Occupy Movement that VFP is proud to endorse.
These are the real patriots!!!!!!!!!!
Herman Cain has offered up a confusing jumble of answers on his position on abortion in interviews, leaving it unclear whether or not he favors certain exceptions for rape and incest.
Cain, then a lower tier candidate, baffled FOX’s John Stossel in an interview several months ago on abortion when he said “I dont believe government should make that decision” and that if a woman is raped it’s “her choice” whether to end the pregnancy. But in the same one minute span he said that abortion should be banned in all cases. “I’m pro life, period,” he said.
On Meet The Press last week, Cain repeated that he does not believe in exceptions for abortion, but when asked a hypothetical scenario about a woman whose health is in danger replied “That family is going to have to make that decision.”
Then in an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan on Wednesday, things got weird. Cain said he believes in “abortion under no circumstances,” but then, asked if he would apply that to rape and incest, started making what sounded like a passionate argument for choice in general. “It’s not the government’s role or anybody else’s role to make that decision,” he said. He added: “I can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation. The government shouldn’t be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make.”
The ambiguity is especially weird because abortion is, in theory, one of Cain’s signature issues. He made his hardline stance against abortion in all cases a central part of his 2004 Senate run, making headlines in Georgia when he ran an ad accusing pro-life opponent Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) of being insufficiently tough on the issue because he favored exceptions for rape and incest.
“There’s a big difference between me and Johnny Isakson. And it’s not just the color of our eyes,” Cain said in the ad. “I believe in life from conception. Johnny’s voted pro-abortion 14 times.”
But that was a shift too, apparently: in a 1998 Nation’s Restaurant News interview making the rounds now, Cain proudly touted that he supported some exceptions on abortion.
The result? No one knows what Cain’s position is. We reached out to the campaign for clarification and will post their response.
Update: Herman Cain just tweeted “I’m 100% pro-life. End of story.” Which doesn’t seem to answer any of the questions raised above.
After all of that liberal brain matter ozzzing out. If Fox News is as one sided as the claim is,the stats show more people belive in Fox. If so then Zero is gone
THE HITS KEEP COMING:OBAMA ECONOMICS America’s National Debt Will Surpass 100% Of GDP On Halloween, First Time Since WWII…
The greatest liberal since FDR.And the Messiah still wants more debt.
The one thing, among many, I will point out about conservatives is they are never wrong in their eyes. Other conservatives can do no wrong, its amazing how ignorant they are. And how ignorant I am for actually trying to set them straight lol. Notice that Bush killed the economy but conservatives blindly refuse to accept this because he was a Republican. We were losing 750 thousand jobs a month when Obama took office you rednecks. If you notice the top 10 poorest states in the nation are all die hard conservative, its laughable really that conservatives are so ignorant that they will vote for a Republican to kill the unions so they can all work for $8 an hour. You guys are pure genius! The problem with Republicans is that you don't want anyone else to have anything; you are all haters pure and simple. Be gone with you all.
Well at least with Cain, a baby has a chance to make it out of the womb. Google Margret Sanger and see how she said how to keep the black folks under control.
I really like Herman Cain. In fact, in many ways I believe that Herman Cain is precisely what Barack Obama pretended to be and what the independents and moderates voted for in the last election.
He IS a post-racial candidate. He IS a healer. He IS someone who does not see red states and blue states. He IS someone who put childish things behind him and plowed forward to make something of himself.
He IS smart, successful, …people actually remember him going to class at his college and his social security card is issued in a state where he has actually once resided.
His instinct his entire life was to bridge any divide between “black America” and “white America”…between Main Street and Wall Street, between Christian and Jew, between problem and solution.
These…are the very things that Obama said he was…and the propaganda machine refuse to vet. We found out the hard way, the un-vetted candidate was nearly the polar opposite. He is a race warrior, class warrior, ethnic warrior, religious warrior… and sometimes agitator.
He is a Jeremiah Wright inspired, Bill Ayers mentored, George Soros backed, Cooper Union heralded, Rashid Khalidi counseled, Midwest Academy prepped…radical-in-chief.
Herman Cain is the putative “do over” vote…getting the guy that Obama pretended to be…this time with transcripts, passports, social security cards and birth certificate in order.
Obama worked as a minor leaguer in Illinois Senate voting present and barely registering as a freshman US Senator. NO background in foreign affairs, NO grasp of math, business or economics, NO real law practice background to speak of. He had LESS resume’ than Cain on every aspect of the Presidency. The distortion media has simultaneously glossed over and inflated every element of a really thin gruel of “accomplishments”.
Obama is not short on “awards”, “prizes”, “gifts”, …he has been handed much. He has earned little.
Obama doesn’t do…doing. Obama does talking. When you get right down to it…Obama is not a doer of pretty much anything. He is the guy who gets handed a lofty title and he pontificates, evangelizes, BS’s, about it, takes credit for any success and builds a blame machine for every failure. He takes no responsibility…in both uses of the word…ever. He shirks responsibility and shifts responsibility and fakes responsibility.
Obama never “owns” a problem…only credit. Greek columns and halos and land, titles, fetes and kudos he collects like so many Cracker Jack trinkets.
This is a guy who is in Who’s Who and ought to be in Who’s He?
Cain is actually the guy the independents and moderates thought they were voting for the last time.
The difference is…the BIG difference, is the propaganda machine will pull every dirty trick to cover for Obama, promote Obama, fail to vet Obama, fail to investigate Obama’s scandals…and they will rake Herman Cain over the coals.
The 999 plan is flawed…but it isn’t as flawed as the attempted seizure and overthrow of our free market economy. Let Paul Ryan and Mitch Daniels take a crack at massaging it, clean it up and repackage it…and it can be presented differently.
No, I do not believe Herman Cain is the perfect candidate. But I do believe he is the guy people actually wanted last time. He IS the one they were waiting for. Build the right team around him…sharpen the message…and he wins.
We have to rally around somebody. Because the Occupy Scenario should alert us to this truth…a loss this time could be devastating. Radicals are spoiling for a fight to keep control over this land of ours.
We really need to start asking the right questions. Such as:
Ask not what your country can do for you…ask what your country can do to you.
Anon 2:54 the definition of stupid is the action of doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. Regardless if it's Obama or Cain you will get the shaft once again.
Frankly I'm over this latest episode of mass white guilt nor have patience for those saying they are victims of Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome, even though they come from a community that exemplified themselves proudly as decendents of free black oystermen in Northern Suffolk. Victimization for personal gain has become our national malaise.
To repeatedly put your foot into a cow pie and expect it to come out clean and order free is just plain stupid.
Cain, appears to be the only GOP candidate with a plan. He also the only one who really seems worthy enough to vote for. America needs good positive LEADERSHIP, something it's been seriously lacking these last few years. Romney? No way, he's a RINO. Palin? Very capable, but she'll always remained tainted because of the media. Huntsman? Bought by China. Bachmann? She blurts like Biden. Perry? Can we take a break from Texas governors with controversial political backgrounds? Paul? Bit of a whack-job.
Cain is smart and has a proven, solid leadership and common sense background. And he's NOT a politician. Cain would also surround himself with smart, capable people in key positions. Visions on national security and foreign policy? Give me a break. The main concern is economy/jobs. If anything, Cain would actually improve national security and immigration. Foreign policy? Anything Cain would do would be an improvement over our current dismal foreign policy. America's current crop of leaders have become a laughing stock everywhere overseas and here at home. No respectability. It's time to bring pride and respectability back to America. Let's elect a genuine American who who knows how to work and knows how to lead and puts America first.
I like Mr Cain and I like PIZZA too! But I do not like what has happend the last three years under our White House Commuity Leaders watch.
How did that HOPE'e thing going for you now that your no longer have a job, house, health-care, and money? Not so good I bet.
Romney and Perry "pretty boys" are like plastic Ken dolls. When you pull the string they say the say tired statements. Pull enough times and you keep hearing the same thing over and over. Not much passion in either one.
Pizza king Cain may have convictions and is passionate but there exists a healthy mistrust of what he says and what he will do if he would become president. Many voters are not prepared to roll the dice with him and crap out with snake eyes.
Bachmann is fading fast and we have grown tired hearing about her five kids, her foster children and why we should not to settle with compromise. Many have tuned her off. Tea Party followers abandoned her for Perry and she will remember this for a long time.
Who's Huntsman? Santorum has a future and is scoring points with every debate. But according to the rank & file it's not his time. Keep an eye for him to move up.
Paul scores points every debate and full of fight defending his convictions. I wish he were younger and looked like one of the pretty boys so the gals that voted for Kennedy, Clinton and Obama would vote for him.
Gingrich is waiting in the tall grass for the right opportunity and will likely move to the top whereupon he will be pounced by the media and his fellow Republicans. Gingrich could bite them back but will likely take the high road by explaining his position following Reagans 11 th Commandment. Conservative voters look at him as the alternate to Romney and Cain.
Herman Cain is a breath of fresh air in a room that has held the stink of fetid politics and politicians for far too long. He is a straight talker and as such his response to questions are from his own head and heart, unmeasured and uncalculated. He is an affront to the perverted and highly bigoted media view that a black person cannot function as an individual. He's supposed to carry his massa's water. For that reason he'll commit a gaffe or 2 or even 3. But again, because he's conservative he will not be given the treatment that Joe Biden, the gaffer in chief, is afforded.
I'll say amen to Herman all day long. I'll watch him run the gauntlet and cheer for him and pray for him all the way. He has to endure the process and as a black conservative the liberal opposition, the media and even the operatives who infiltrate these boards sowing seeds of doubt will judge him harshly with their own special brand of bigotry. But Mr. Cain has already shown that not only is he a survivor he is an achiever and unlike the pretender who lives in the Whitehouse today he is capable of leading us to a post racial era because he knows from whence the divisiveness emanates. He has experienced it and conquered it. He has them all scratching their heads. All of those politicos and media types who have spent their lives perpetrating fraud are baffled at a real person and a black one at that. But real America recognizes it and likes it and, God help us, I hope we can steel against the mutants who want us to be something else other than the free republic our founders gave us.
11:56 Be careful what you wish for. God help all of us of you are wrong about him. So what happens if Cain doesn't get the nomination do we go away angry and not vote? Do we fight amonst ourselves seeking those we can blame? Do campaign donations dry up while Obama sucks the nation dry?
This post racial America is a load of crap. Listen to what the speakers said during the dedication of the MLK memorial in DC then tell us we are post racial.
The last time there were prayers for a presidential camdidate we got Obama. God acts is strange and wonderours ways.
More Hit Parade Moments:
Laast week Obama compared OWS to the Tea Party.
CBS 11 News has learned of an investigation into the possible sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl at the Occupy Dallas campsite.
Last time I checked there weren’t any sexual assaults at Tea Party protests.
It sounds like in the report the girl was an active participant with a 20 year old something. No matter what its is still rape. Only liberal thinking parents would allow a 14 year old to go to a protest such as this.
It all makes sense now. When Biden started mentioning rape everywhere, I asked “who raped who?” There must have been a reason he was de-sensitizing us!
It’s all clear now.
HYPOCRICY AT ITS BEST:
Obama Casts Himself As Champion of The Poor — Tonight: Heads To Liberal Hollywood To Pick Up Bags of Campaign Cash From Millionaire Supporters…
I’m sure he fails to see the contradiction.Thats always the way demacrats like to show themselves as chapions of the poor all the time while receiving bags of greenbacks from wealthy liberals Kind of like the UN summit on hunger while dinning on the finist meals
Just one of the many hypocritical faces of the narcissist in chief.
Good news continues to mount on the economy. Third quarter profits were up 16% from last year’s third quarter numbers and the stock market is having its best run in God knows when. Yep, things are really looking bleak these days, for the doomsayers, that is. If Europe manages to avoid imploding, many analysts – the same ones mind you that warned us we were headed into a double-dip recession only six weeks ago – predict a far rosier prognosis for the economy in 2012.
Clearly the news points to the only conclusion possible. That, despite all the nonsense coming out of the Right about how over-regulation and those terrible tax and spend policies are keeping corporate America from unleashing its full potential, the only remaining stumbling block to a full and robust recovery is that six-letter word that every first-year economics major has engrained into their cranium: DEMAND!
Profits are soaring; the market is climbing; investors know a phony issue when they see one. Right now they’re buying and the reason they’re buying is because, despite persistently high unemployment numbers, the economy is actually much stronger than anyone expected.
What this reminds me of is that period during FDR’s second term when he bowed to Republican pressure and took his foot off the gas pedal, letting all the steam out of the recovery. The result was that the economy slid backwards and unemployment, which had been steadily decreasing for four years, shot back up.
There is a time for easing off the accelerator and a time for flooring it. History has proven conclusively that during tough economic times, the latter is clearly called for and justifiable. With interest rates at historic lows, now is the perfect time for short-term stimulus spending to get people back to work.
When demand begins to go up, corporate America will begin to hire, not before. The only thing cutting will bring about is a reduction in demand, which will cause an increase in unemployment, which, ironically, will increase the budget deficit.
When will these clowns ever learn?
Cicero
I agree the only moron at the MLK cermony who made any sense and spoke the truth was of all people Andrew Young
A few days ago, I had a discussion with a relative about Occupy Wall Street. She recited the media fed rhetoric that Occupy Wall Street has no goal. I said that there are several goals, but the main goal was to get corporate influence out of Washington. She then accused me of sounding exactly like her Tea Party neighbor.
She’s not alone. Many are embracing the similarities, saying that they both come from grass roots beginnings (despite the fact that the Tea Party lost its claim to be a grass roots movement from almost the beginning), and that they are both borne of frustration.
According to the Nation’s Richard Kim on MSNBC’s Up With Chris Hayes, once you scratch the surface, the differences become much more stark. Key, says Kim, is the contrast in views on civil rights and on economics. In essence, the Occupy Wall Street movement is protesting the top heavy economic structure of the U.S., while the Tea Party resents what they see as a system of money being funneled from the wealthy to the poor. This Tea Party view is especially apparent when it comes to civil rights. They think that the government has done far too much to help African Americans.
Transcript and video from Mediaite.
“I wanted to push back on the idea that there’s a huge overlap between the tea party and Occupy Wall Street,” Kim explained. “I reported on both of them on the ground, and I think on a superficial level, you see this frustration at Washington, but it’s coming from fundamentally different places. When you talk to Occupy Wall Street people, they think Washington is wholly owned by Wall Street, and they are mad because Washington has not done enough to fix the economy. When you talk to tea party people, they think Washington has been overrun by special interests. And what they mean by that are unions like SEIU, ACORN and Van Jones…and what they think the problem in Washington is that it’s redistributing money away from the top to the bottom.”
A 2010 CBS News/New York Times poll of Tea Party members found that just one percent are African American, and that more than half (52%) believe that too much has been made of the problems facing African Americans. This view could explain the Tea Party’s love affair with Herman Cain. Essentially he kills two birds with one stone. Herman Cain believes that racism is a thing of the past. Supporting a Cain ticket is a great cleanser for the conscience and gives the Tea Party an opportunity to say, “See, we were right. Racism is in their imagination. My new black friend says so.”
The hits just keep on coming.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 18% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22.
That’s the lowest level of Strong Approval ever measured for this president.
And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.
So 18% of the Nation are still clueless morons.That’s the same percentage of people that have an IQ below 85.Liberals and blacks are the base right?
More personal hits from Obama:
President Obama says that he’s aging rapidly in “dog years” but that he still has enough energy for a second term, the Washington Times reports.
Said Obama: “These president years are dog years. . . I may be gray, but I’m not tired. My passion is still there. My vision for this country is still there.”
Yep he is just like a dog, except he squats and craps on us the taxpayer and the Constitution. Now all he has to do his go into the traffic and chase cars.
From The DC:
— President Barack Obama told an audience in Nevada on Monday that he will be regularly announcing “executive actions” his administration will take to “heal the economy” without the “dysfunctional” Congress.
“I’m here to say to all of you and to say to the people of Nevada and the people of Las Vegas, we can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won’t act, I will,” Obama said.
“I’ve told my administration to keep looking every single day for actions we can take without Congress, steps that can save consumers money, make government more efficient and responsive, and help heal the economy. And we’re going to be announcing these executive actions on a regular basis,” the president said.
In other words crap on the Constitution for I will be a dictator.
With that being said, Ghaddafi doesn’t need them anymore, so maybe Obama could have some of his old military uniforms and fake medals?
Who was it that said over a year ago that Zero would make the Congress irrelevant? It was that crazy Glenn Beck.
Can you hear the rumblings for impeaching Obama, or are we too afraid to do so in this wonderful post racial America? Being a decendent of a slave and slave owner if've decided to file a lawsuit against myself. I hope I win.
no one owes you a thing anon 9:30. Again liberals and blacks thinking they are owed soemthing for nothing they did. Nothing new here so lets move along.
I must confess I’ve never been much of an optimist. Whenever I see a truly beautiful day, my mind tends to focus on the clouds that I’m sure are coming over the horizon to ruin it. For nearly fifty years, I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Whoever came up with “May the bluebird of paradise shit on your head” must’ve been thinking of me. Taking good news in stride has been the biggest challenge in my life.
But this week two things occurred that lifted my spirits up several notches. The first was today’s news that European leaders have apparently reached a deal to save the euro, sending the Dow up more than 300 points. The S&P 500 is up more than 13% this month, its biggest gain since 1974. For those of you who’ve been paying attention, this could be the biggest break – and by break I mean good – the economy has gotten in years. The sword of Damocles that was hanging over the head of most of the Western world has, for the moment, been stilled.
While details are still a bit sketchy, the highlights are as follows: a 50% write down of all Greek debt (which still has to be agreed to by Greek bondholders); and the setting aside of $1.4 trillion in rescue funds for other fragile economies on the Continent, including Italy and Spain. Assuming there are no last-minute snags or foul-ups, 2012 could be a very good year, economically speaking.
And speaking of 2012, that brings me to the second bit of good news that greeted my weary eyes. And that was the results of a new poll (albeit a Democratic one) that revealed that Republicans are in trouble as far as the House goes for next year’s election. Seems the incumbent curse is now afflicting them just like it did the Dems in 2010. With Congressional approval now sitting at 9% – the lowest ever recorded – voters are far more likely to support potential challengers, even if the challenger happens to be a Democrat. If they manage to gain 25 seats next year, the Democrats will take back control of the House after having been thoroughly trounced in the previous election.
Don’t laugh; they might just pull it off, for the poll also shows that the public has grown tired of the Tea Party shenanigans. Tom Jensen, Director of Public Policy Polling, which conducted the poll, said, “The reality at the district level matches the reality at the national level: Americans think John Boehner and the new majority have gone too far.” And the news gets even better. Polls taken by Reuters and NBC/Wall Street Journal – both taken on October 10th – show Democrats ahead of Republicans by margins of 48% to 40% and 45% to 41% respectively.
For once that light at the end of the tunnel doesn’t appear to be a train coming. Of course my lesser angels will do their best to try and ruin my spirits. After all, if we’ve learned anything about Europe and early polling it’s that neither can be depended on when push comes to shove. But, for now at least, I’m choosing to see the glass as half-filled.
The clouds be damned.
This no more than raising the debt ceiling here in the states.Again a liberal mindset on economics. Let's say that Greece has a come-to-Jesus austerity moment (you tend to use religion in your arguement) and the EU gets Greece bailed out. Next up are Portugal, Spain, Ireland, and Italy. Greece didn't get austerity religion until the gun was put to its head and the hammer cocked. None of these others are getting the austerity religion and they are seeing the troubles in Greece. So, the pattern here is that nothing will change in these EU countries until they are standing on the trap door with the ropes around their necks and the executioners are gripping the levers. The EU is not wealthy enough to bail everyone out. Also, the French and German people are already tired of this sad melodrama draining away the wealth they have so industriously built up while profligates like Greece basked in the sun on holiday. OK, the industrious Germans more so than the French. But, you get the point. There is a breeze blowing and the EU house of cards is poised to fall.
I ask the following two simple questions: Do you serve in congress? If you do or dont If debt is the problem, how can more debt be the solution?
Media bias at its best again. Cain is catching flack on allegations of sexual wrong doings. Gee, he is a black man who scares the hell out of liberals and "prays" on women. Excuse me how long did the NYT bury The Edwards affair when they knew he was humping his girlfiend who gave him a baby while his wife was dying from cancer. Can we speak of Jesse THE PREACHER who has fathered two kids outside of his marriage. Lets not walk that street you morons.
More liberal love being spread by the King fsmily but its from the republican side of the family as was MLK.
(Politico) — Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece says the Rev. Jesse Jackson should stop comparing the Occupy Wall Street protests to the civil rights movement, arguing that her uncle would not have condoned the movement.
“I believe that Rev. Jackson is doing a disservice,” Alveda King said on Fox News Monday morning. “My uncle, the whole [civil rights] movement, was founded in prayer, in crying out to God in a peaceful movement. And this [Occupy] movement is not peaceful.”
Jackson visited Occupy protesters in Atlanta over the weekend to show his support and told protesters in Woodruff Park that the Occupy demonstrations were an extension of the King Jr.’s Poor People’s Movement, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
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Facts on the Opportunist Jesse the LIAR
Dr Alveda King has more class in one of her hair follicles than the whole of the DNC and White House combined.
Though he began characterizing himself as a Baptist minister in 1968, Jackson had never actually earned a traditional ordination. He failed out of the Chicago Theological Seminary during his first year there. Kenneth Timmerman — author of the authoritative book Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson — explains: “[There is normally] a two- to three-year process for earning that title [Reverend]. Jesse Jackson got himself ordained two months after Martin Luther King was shot. It was essentially a political ordination, a shotgun ordination. … He did not go through this two-year process. He never submitted himself to the authority of the church. He has never had a church himself, and he has been accountable to no one.”
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Specifically, Jackson claimed that he was on the balcony with King immediately after the latter had been mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet on April 4, 1968, and that he had cradled the dying civil rights leader in his arms as he took his final breaths. At the moment King was shot, Jackson was actually in a nearby parking lot talking to a group of musicians. Kenneth Timmerman describes what happened next: “When the shots rang out, he [Jackson] fled and hid behind the swimming pool area and reappeared 20-30 minutes later when the television cameras arrived on the scene. That’s when Jesse Jackson told other Southern Christian Leadership Conference staffers, ‘Don’t you talk to the press, whatever you do.’ … Nobody had given him that job. He took that job. Call it ‘entrepreneurial instinct’ if you wish, but on the spot he realized that he had an opportunity to spin the events to create his own persona and create a possibility for him to become a leader in the black movement. He had no prospects at that point.”
Thank you Dr. King.Jesse Jackson has never done anyone any service except to himself.
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