With the midterm elections just over two weeks away, it seems like a good time to review exactly what things the GOP is a-okay with: Emailing bestiality porn? Check (Carl Paladino); Dabbling in witchcraft, but shunning masturbation? Check (Christine O'Donnell); Saying gays and sexually active single women shouldn't be allowed to teach? Check (Jim DeMint); Calling unemployment benefits unconstitutional? Check (Joe Miller); Eliminating Medicare? Check (Paul Ryan); forcing the US to withdraw from the UN? Check (Sharron Angle); Advocating repeal of the 17th Amendment? Check (Joe Miller again). Who says the Tea Party is intolerant? Indeed, aside from playing Nazi dress-up as a father/son bonding experience, you can do and say just about anything... as long as you want to "take back your country."
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Any wonder why the Tea Party folks, who are not ignorant, toothless racists, are about to help destroy the Democrats in two weeks.
Here is who owns Congress: (Surprise: It is not Dems or Repubs.)
http://motherjones.com:80/politics/2010/09/congress-corporate-sponsors
Any questions now, as to why we taxpayers end up bailing out huge banks & insurance companies?
We don't have that here in the US anymore. There are no simple people. We have complex public opinion formulas and a lot of science backing extremely accurate pollster statistics that hinge upon not a majority vote, but for a simply higher turnout than the opposition calculation. It is the product of funding, of capitalization to hired specialist professionals, who do nothing but strategize spin and speech, what should be said, and what to avoid. The strategy is a careful orchestration of catch phrases and doctrine.
Our candidates have no mandate or redaction. They dare not speak the truth, and they are not allowed to ad lib at random. All questions are pre-censored and pre-arranged in advance at any public venue. Even debates have confined topics. The media has no direct access because news is not about individual belief, but that one off-handed remark that kills a candidacy.
There is too much money at stake, and too little substance in true leadership ability. This is what a corporate plutonomy has become. Some may call it a plutocracy, as a tribute to the egos of our conjured representatives in office.
I call it the failed attempt of a proposed system of self-governance, because greed has no master, and idealism is utopian. The price tag for this experiment gone awry has yet to be paid. And the Fools on the Hill line their pockets for short-sighted gains...
America waits for this election and we will be in disbelief if any of these Tea Party candidates win. People have to know, if you voted for Obama, you have a civic duty to vote this election. Otherwise, we are doomed, America as we know it is finished.
tha would have help the economy was filibustered
by the republicans.
The Tea Party is ultimately doomed as a political movement unless they change some of their positions. American won't give up Social Security. We'll move toward Universal Healthcare. Yeah the Federal Government will have to be cut back at some point, and taxes will have to be raised, defense spending cut back. Those things are inevitable.
The problem is the Tea Party has forced out all the moderate voices, the voices of reason, in the GOP. Extremist parties, or those focused on very limited positions, are gone from American politics for good reason. They don't speak to a majority of the electorate.
What will happen if the GOP/Tea Party makes big gains is nothing... We'll have no meaningful legislation for two years and lot of grand standing while Americans continue to suffer. And then they'll be exposed for what they are. Just children flinging a fit, and they'll be voted out of office.
Basing their entire electoral strategy, and indeed an entire election, on one huge easily-disprovable lie: That "government spending" suddenly went "out of control" on January 20, 2009, and that since then the federal deficit and debt have "tripled."
Why more Democrats are not calling out this lie and pointing out the reality that the truth is exactly the opposite (the current administration has gotten the previous one's reckless, irresponsible, out of control spending under control, and has been not reckless and irresponsible but careful and responsible about it), is beyond me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/opinion/11krugman.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/the-non-surge-in-government-spending-continued/
But seriously, some of these people go on their moral crusades, mainly to try and appease the voters, who are themselves sometimes very moralistic, we are talking about the GOP, here, however, since this is a free country, that also contains godless heathens, and more liberal thinkers, and Independents who are anxiously looking for promising candidates from ANY party that actually sound like they know what the Hot Place they're talking about, and might stand a good chance of reducing and eliminating deficit spending(that's what I'm looking for, anyway), it might behoove some of those folks to back off the old fire, brimstone, and steely-eyed moral righteousness stuff a little. Or, maybe even a lot. Especially in view of all the hypocrisy evident in organized religion, these days.
Still with the Iraq war still going on. It is pretty hard to forget that Bush and the Republican congress got us into that "cakewalk", with a lot of very misleading talk about weapons of mass destruction. Trillions of dollars are flowing out of our country as well as a lot of our best people because of the Iraq fiasco.
The Iraq war was a pretty big lie. That is not the kind of lie you forget or forgive. Hell will freeze before I vote for a Republican.
I am often confused about what standards the tea movement uses to vet their choices