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More Republican Hypocrisy: Attack Stimulus But Work To Gain Stimulus Funds! :(

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Republicans voted against the Economic Stimulus legislation in February 2009, and are using it as an issue against the Democrats and President Obama in the midterm elections, but yet they have worked to gain stimulus funds for their districts and states! 🙁

What total hypocrisy this is!

Among those who have done so are:

Senator John McCain of Arizona
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota
Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana

So, in other words, campaign against stimulus funds and “earmarks”, but put your hand out and ask for funds to do exactly what you are working against! 🙁

How can anyone believe anything the GOP campaigns about? Can anyone honestly expect that a Republican Congress will NOT promote “earmarks” and stimulus spending if they feel it is to their benefit?

So the Republicans are saying: “Listen to what I say, not what I do!” Hypocrisy to the extreme, which should NOT be rewarded at the polls nine days from now! 🙁

“Obama Derangement Syndome” And The Republican Party

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The Republican party has a disease which is spreading widely, and making them look totally ridiculous to anyone who has any brains or common sense!

That disease is “Obama Derangement Syndrome”, which is a condition that blames President Obama for EVERYTHING that goes wrong, even when the President has NOTHING to do with what went wrong!

So it is Obama’s fault that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie failed to win $400 billion in federal aid for the state education system in the competition for federal funds, because the state failed to provide necessary information! It apparently is Obama’s job to make sure every state competing for the grants has filled out the forms correctly! 🙁

It is Obama’s fault that we entered into the Afghanistan War in 2001, according to Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, even though Obama was a state senator in Illinois at the time and George W. Bush was President!

It is Obama’s fault that a mosque will be built at Ground Zero despite the fact the New York City Planning Commission approved the project, and another mosque is already there for many years, two blocks from the site of the new project!

It is Obama’s fault that British Petroleum failed to follow basic rules and regulations, resulting in the oil spill, even though the government reacted quickly to start dealing with the crisis, which BP could not figure out rapidly to resolve satisfactorily!

It is Obama’s fault that his father was born in Kenya and was a Muslim, even though his dad left early and his mother’s white family was Christian!

It is Obama’s fault that the economy has not turned around “on a dime”, rapidly overcoming the mistakes of eight years of the Bush Administration!

We could go on and on and on, but the point is that Obama is being blamed for everything, including original sin, by the opposition–more than any President has been blamed after only 19 months in office, and really even in a complete term of office!

The fact that the Republican party has not come up with one original idea on any government policy, and expects the American people to put them back in control, simply by employing “Obama Derangement Syndrome”, shows exactly why they SHOULD NOT be given back power, as they drove our country “into the ditch”, and now want the keys to take over the country again, a description Obama gave himself as a joke at several public appearances!

The real disease of America is not “Obama Derangement Syndrome”, but instead “Republican Derangement Syndrome”, as they are themselves dividing and fighting in an internal civil war between right wing and far right wing within their party!

Witness the refusal of the losers in Nevada, Arizona, Florida, and Alaska to endorse their opponents, and the loony people such as Michele Bachmann who raved after the Washington Mall rally of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin that there had been one million people there, while CBS News estimated the crowd at about 87,000! 🙁

The Republican party is bitterly divided on the far right, and delusional about who should take responsibility for mistakes or failures, and even on basic facts such as size of crowds! 🙁

Is this the group that the American people want to take us into the future? Certainly, we can hope that they have more common sense than that, but we shall see in two months! 🙁

The Extreme Right Gone Berserk: The Tea Party And Michele Bachmann! :(

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The extreme right wing in America is going totally berserk in their hatred of President Barack Obama! 🙁

In Northern Iowa, the local Tea Party Movement put up a billboard, which has now been removed, which depicts President Obama as a “Democratic Socialist”, in between Adolf Hitler as a “National Socialist” and Vladimir Lenin as a “Marxist Socialist”! The implication is that Obama has pursued the same policies as the Nazi and Soviet leaders! Of course, this shows total ignorance of what Nazism and Communism were all about! 🙁

Also, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, long a wingnut, has lost two staff members on her office and committee staffs, after her assertion that Barack Obama is trying to “enslave” the American people! These staff people felt they were no longer able to work for a woman who is so divisive and reckless in her statements! The race between Bachmann and Tarryl Clark for the congressional seat is showing a growing narrowing of Bachmann’s lead, making it a real horse race!

These whacko statements and depictions of the President are, of course, covered under the First Amendment, but it is about time that Republican leaders and talk show hosts on radio and Fox News Channel deplore and condemn such irresponsible and reckless statements and actions!

But based on everything we have seen in the past 18 months, don’t count on that! 🙁

Michele Bachmann To Be Challenged By State Senator Tarryl Clark In Minnesota!

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Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, arguably the most controversial woman in Congress, with outrageous right wing views, and newly the center of conflict for her defense of BP and criticism of the Obama Presidency on the Oil Spill Crisis, has a strong Democratic opponent in the wings, hoping to unseat her from her 6th Congressional District seat after two terms!

The woman opposing her is Democratic State Senator Tarryl Clark, who is gaining a big “war chest” to attempt the removal of one of the key figures that Democrats would like to see out of Congress!

The removal of Bachmann would be a major feat, and would be a bright moment in what is likely to be a rough year for the Democratic party in Congress, being that the party in the White House traditionally loses seats in Congress in the midterm election!

Bachmann has been both a blessing and a curse to the Republican party, as often her utterances and activities have put the GOP in a bad light, putting party leaders in a position of being unable to figure out how to react. At the least, she makes many Republicans squirm at her outrageous statements and assertions! It would be a plus to see her leave this December, so we can hope for the best, while not expecting it to happen! 🙁

Congressman Joe Barton: Favoring BP Over Victims! :(

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Republican Congressman Joe Barton of Texas, at the beginning of the committee hearings today with BP Chairman Tony Hayward, was highly critical of the Obama Administration for gaining a $20 billion “slush fund” and “shakedown” from BP yesterday in the Oval Office! 🙁

What an outrage, for Congressman Barton to be more concerned about a corporation which has caused so much economic and environmental damage in the Gulf Coast, destroying the livelihoods of fishermen, small businesses of all kinds, and the shorelines of four states dependent for a lot of their state income from tourism! 🙁

The Obama Administration has already issued a denunciation of Barton, well deserved repudiation of his greater concern with big business, rather than the average American harmed by the BP recklessness! 🙁

Barton is following a trend begun by Michele Bachmann, and rapidly being voiced by conservative talk show hosts and other Republicans and Tea Party activists! 🙁

This is good news for the Democrats and President Obama! Let conservatives and Republicans and Tea Party people continue to denounce what President Obama has accomplished, as that can only help sustain the Democrats as the party of the people, concerned about average Americans and ready and willing to make corporations be held accountable!

It is hard to imagine in November that being critical of the government and for BP is going to be a winning campaign for Tea Party favorites and Republicans! So, go right ahead and dig your own demise, is what progressives and Democrats should be encouraging right now!

As sad as this crisis is, it is an opportunity to show the true colors of the GOP and their allies! 🙁

Michele Bachmann And The BP Oil Crisis: Supporting BP, Not The Victims! :(

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Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann can be counted upon to speak up as a whacky, loony embarrassment to the Republican Party and the nation on a regular basis, and she has done it again! 🙁

At a time when British Petroleum Corporation, the company responsible for the horrific oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which has destroyed the economy and environment of the area for a very long time, is ready to take action in a responsible way, Michele Bachmann is suddenly advising them to be uncooperative! 🙁

BP has agreed to a $20 billion escrow fund to pay for damages done and lost income that so many people have suffered, and they have also agreed to suspend dividend payments of more than $10 billion to shareholders of the company for the rest of the year. President Obama was able to gain this agreement, and despite the criticism of talk show hosts ranging from Fox News Channel to MSNBC to radio shows, he is to be commended for obtaining the concessions by BP!

But Bachmann instead has condemned the escrow fund as a way for government to gain more control over people’s lives, as a way to promote redistribution of wealth, and said BP should not be “fleeced” and become “chumps” to pay for “perpetual unemployment”!

Bachmann spoke to the Heritage Foundation, not famous for having any understanding of the lives of ordinary Americans or having sympathy for those less fortunate! 🙁

Bachmann and the Heritage Foundation, and assuredly, the many other conservatives and Republicans who will back what she says, needs to be condemned by all fair minded people! 🙁

This is the greatest man made disaster we have seen, and it is essential that the national government be involved in the resolution of this matter!

After a slow start, President Obama is finally taking a strong position which, hopefully, will lead to the beginning of resolving this horrible situation! But of course, the capping of this massive oil leak is of even higher priority to stop the hemorrhaging that we observe on television and the internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week! 🙁

Hawaii Settles The Issue Of Barack Obama’s Birth: He Was Born In Hawaii! :)

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The “Birther” movement has been very active and refusing to concede that President Barack Obama was, indeed, born in a hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.

This craziness has continued despite contemporary newspaper reports of his birth to his parents. All kinds of people, including some members of the Republican Party, including Michele Bachmann, have been unwilling to drop this farce of an issue!

Orly Taitz, the California dentist and lawyer who has been the titular leader of the “Birther” movement, refuses to give up the fight to declare that Obama is not eligible to be President, because, according to her, he was born in Kenya!

But now, the Hawaii state government, led by Republican Governor Linda Lingle, has made a public statement of the facts of Obama’s birth information, and she has said she personally saw his live birth certificate in the archives, and that no more will the state government react to the nearly 50 requests a month for proof about Obama’s birth!

Realize that this is no Democrat or liberal saying this! It is the REPUBLICAN governor of the state, certainly NOT a liberal, who says this!

So Orly Taitz, Michele Bachmann, and all of the other crazies who continue to promote this issue–it is time to cease and desist, or be considered certifiable for admission to a mental hospital! 🙂

Tea Party and Militia Right Wing Extremism On Display! :(

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Today was the anniversary of Oklahoma City, and right wing gun toting militias and Tea Party activists were demonstrating in Arlington, Virginia, fully armed, and in the District of Columbia without arms because of DC restrictions. There were also demonstrations all over the country by people seeing conspiracy, and concerned about “internment camps”, and spouting racism in many cases, unwilling to accept the Obama Presidency as legitimate.

All kinds of wacky statements were made by so called “preachers” and right wing radicals across the country, including former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo stating that we needed to send Barack Obama back to his “homeland”, Kenya; and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann referring to the Obama Administration as the “gangster” government in a weekend speech. Recently, Sarah Palin spoke about “reloading” to promote and protect basic constitutional rights.

The failure of these politicians to realize that they are helping to create and light the fuse of potential violence, and to create a toxic political atmosphere is extremely disturbing. Talk radio and Fox News Channel also continue to encourage propaganda and lies to further their agenda of making it impossible to unify the nation around anything the Obama Administration proposes, or attempts to accomplish.

And when Rush Limbaugh asserts that the Iceland volcanic ash is God’s way of punishing America and the world for the passage of the Health Care Reform legislation, what can one say except that rhetoric is becoming more ridiculous and loony! There is absolutely no sense of responsibility or culpability in Limbaugh or other talk show hosts realizing the deleterious effect they have on millions of easily manipulated listeners and watchers who could be provoked to disastrous actions that we would all mourn, if god forbid they were to happen! 🙁

Bill Clinton Compares Oklahoma City Bombing Atmosphere To Today

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Former President Bill Clinton has warned that the country is in a dangerous political environment similar to 1995, when we saw anti government militias spewing forth anti government rhetoric, which influenced Timothy McVeigh to make the decision to bomb the Oklahoma City Federal Building on April 19, 1995, killing 168 and injuring a thousand people.

This was the greatest domestic terrorist attack in US history, and many are concerned that as the 15 year anniversary of that event comes on Monday, that a similar event might happen.

Clinton pointed out that he was not criticizing those who wish to be critical of government, but the hot political rhetoric fuels the fires of extremists who go too far. He referred to Michele Bachmann at a Tax Day Tea Party rally calling the government a bunch of “gangsters”, which he said is not acceptable language, as the people running the government were elected by a majority of the American people.

Clinton pointed out that with the growth of the internet, the danger of extremist and violent groups to organize and conspire has grown, so he expressed his hope that we could keep our political opposition within legal bounds.

Monday, April 19, will be a day that all law abiding Americans will watch to see that we can keep our disagreements and anger within legal means!

Is Sean Hannity Crazy? Suggestion Of A Palin-Bachmann Presidential Ticket In 2012!

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Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel is famous, or infamous, for making ridiculous statements, but one particular assertion this past week goes beyond the pale! 🙁

He suggested that Sarah Palin was as bright and intelligent as President Barack Obama, and thought an excellent GOP ticket for 2012 would be Sarah Palin for President and Michele Bachmann, notorious Congresswoman from Minnesota, as Vice President! 🙁

Is there anyone sane out there who agrees with Sean Hannity? How could anyone in their right mind make such a statement? 🙁

The thought of such a ticket would be enough for many to say goodbye to the United States! This is the most preposterous ticket ever conceived by anyone!

One thought though–while both are scary, at least Michele Bachmann has been a practicing attorney and is obviously intelligent and competent! Sarah Palin has no qualifications at all, and went through multiple colleges before finally gaining a bachelor’s degree in communication.

The problem is that while Michele Bachmann is qualified intellectually, her views are so terrifying that it is enough to promote a nightmare! LOL

No matter how one looks at it, the “dream ticket” of Sean Hannity is an absolute “no brainer”! 🙁