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Election: America As An Idiocracy With ADD And Stockholm Syndrome

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Americans have just traded the little hope for some change that the Obama administration was timidly trying to bring to the country for anger, fear, and ignorance by relying on “solutions” which have caused a down hill spiral for the United States for the past 30 years. As I am writing this, the GOP and their Tea Party allies have secured a majority in the House of Representatives , and made gains in the Senate by already picking up four seats.

As it is turning out, a majority of American voters didn’t vote with their heads once again. Instead they voted with their “feelings” or their guts and against their own interests. It is not the first time and it is unlikely to be the last. After all George W. Bush was reelected in 2004 after starting two wars in his first term in office. In 2006, voters said “enough is enough” ( a Democrat slogan) and decided they wanted the GOP out. It seems that they are having a change of heart again in 2010 with electing the same people they could not stand in 2006 and 2008. That said, the unrealistic enthusiasm which took Barack Obama to the White House wasn’t fully rational either, but if nothing else it had the merit to be based on naive optimism and not on negativity.

In the 2010 election cycle, brawl is in and brain is out. Russ Feingold, arguably one a the smartest guy in the US Senate, lost his seat in Wisconsin. But to compensate this poor performance in the Mid-West, Californians have given a victory to Jerry Brown for governorship, and Barbara Boxer seems to have a clear shot at defeating Carly Fiorina. Also in the West, NPR just announced that Harry Reid managed to narrowly beat the Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle.

Remember The Bush Years? America Has Attention Deficit Disorder

A lot of voters have decided to blame President Obama for a situation he was not instrumental in creating. The attention spam of many voters is so incredibly short that it qualifies as a psychological disorder. Blaming Obama for the lack of jobs, the global recession and the general sense of malaise in America is like blaming the plumber you call after some very rude guests made your toilet overflow after taking a big dump in it. How can people be so forgetful, masochist or just plainly dumb ? Bush, Cheney, Rove and co. took an enormous dump on America, and the world by starting two wars and crashing the global economy, yet a majority of voters has just rewarded Rove and his new accomplices with a political comeback.

In 2008 America hired a janitor / plumber in chief to clean up the mess of the Bush administration. Yet, because the United States of America is like a teenager suffering from ADD, few realized that President Obama did not have at his disposal a magical wand to make all the problems disappear overnight. Just like a teen suffering from ADD, a lot of Americans except immediate gratification in whatever they do or they throw a tantrum. That is what the Tea Party is: the expression of a tantrum created by fear, anxiety and confusion.

But beside ADD, it turns out that in 2010 America is very much like an abused woman coming back to her brutal husband for a second round.

America’s Stockholm Syndrome: “The Party Has Just Begun”

On August 23RD 1973, two automatic machine-gun carrying criminals entered a bank in Stockholm, Sweden. They started blasting away with their guns terrifying the bank employees. One, a prison escapee, told the bank employees that “The party has just begun”. The two bank robbers held four hostages, three women and one man.

For the next five days the hostages were held in a bank vault and strapped with dynamite. After their release, despite the fact that they were threatened, abused, and fear for their lives for five days, it quickly became apparent from interviews that they supported their captors.

Clearly, the hostages had established a strong emotional bond with their captors. One of the woman hostage later became romantically involved and engaged to one of the criminal, and another of the woman hostage started a fund to help the bank robbers with their attorney fees. The oblivious voters who elected the GOP today are just like the two Swedish women: they were beaten for eight years but they want more, in retrospect they fell in “love” with the torturers war criminals.

What To Expect Next? Gridlock On Domestic Policies And Full Blown US Imperialism Abroad

With the GOP in control of the House and with enough votes to block anything they want in the US Senate, what we can expect from Congress is gridlock for the coming two year. Further, we can also expect from the GOP and their junior Tea Party partners to do they very best to overturn the health care reform and the financial reform bill. They will put efforts into it, and by doing so will undo most reforms made by the Obama administration.

Abroad, the very few positive improvement made by the Obama administration in foreign policies will be challenged and ultimately taken apart. With a Republican controlled Congress do not expect the US and NATO to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in 2011; do not expect any pressure at all put on Israel to stop the expansion of the illegal settlements of the West Bank and East-Jerusalem. The GOP win means that America unilateralism and full blown imperialism is officially back with a vengeance. With the GOP very much back in the foreign policy loop, what will be the next country invaded by the United States? Iran, Yemen, Somalia, North Korea who knows, but what we can count on is that “all options will be on the table”, and especially military ones.
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227 comments // Election: America As An Idiocracy With ADD And Stockholm Syndrome

  • Vierotchka
    • +2
      Vierotchka  

    • No wonder the people-hating right wing and the greedy abhor him and worked so hard to win in these elections - he is good for the country and for the people, he works for the good of the people and not against their interests.

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
    • -2
      ayipis  

    • SO DOES THIS MEAN THE "RALLY FOR SANITY" IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER FAILURE????

      and clear indication that idiots would ask "how high"..when devious Hollywood elites say "JUMP"?

    • 1 year ago
  • Nephwrack
  • Varex_Sythe
    • +2
      Varex_Sythe  
    • ayipis:

      I didn't realize that the Rally to Restore Sanity was about getting people to vote democrat. I thought it was about proving that people could gather in one place and have rational discourse without resorting to hateful signs and mindless droning.

      Oh, it was, and it did. Well, mission accomplished I guess.

      By the way, what do you do for employment?

    • 1 year ago
  • dec7734
    • +1
      dec7734  

    • musicjohnny!
      You gave Bush 8yrs. What you just couldn't give Obama the first four? What were you afraid he just might succeed? Please don't get me wrong I'm not directing this towards you alone. But as I've said before you've made it much more difficult for him and his admin. to get anything done without a fight. But now think on this: What happens if he still gets it done in this 4 years? You know how we americans are, if they are not of the same "persuasion" then they have to work harder to get any respect. What would you do then? And again I'm not trying to offend you or anyone else, I'd just like to know your thoughts on this.

    • 1 year ago
  • Nick19
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      Nick19  

    • The funny thing is that everyone says, "Oh Obama is in the executive branch and thus, he's the most powerful man in the world". The problem is that the legislative is the most power since they start making the laws in the first place. In the end, the votes to get something past may be in the hands of a redneck from Alabama and suddenly, he/she is the most powerful person in the world.

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
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      ayipis  

    • LOL...its amazing how a lot of liberals and pro-democrats are just amazed how people are stupid enough NOT to vote for their agenda..LOL

      goes to show the typical liberal mindset...its like fungus..the whole idea of "give me what i want" party...

    • 1 year ago
  • tommic
    • +2
      tommic  

    • Until the day comes where its we instead of me and mine and it becomes us and ours division will stay among us, the fabric that binds and did two hundred and fifty years ago. Something tea party activists don't understand, they'd like to go back in time until they realize thats not the way it really was.

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
  • Nephwrack
  • tommic
    • +1
      tommic  
    • ayipis:

      Thats right up there with the dumbest responses I've read on Current.
      And on your other note, its republicans who are the MOST inflexible in their positions. I find it a lot of humor, case and point the health care reform act, many republican proposals were adopted but no republicans voted for it, That is inflexibility!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • MAssappeal
  • musicjohnny
    • +2
      musicjohnny  

    • This strikes me as extremely out of touch with how Americans truly felt as they voted on Tuesday.
      The author accuses us of voting with "with their “feelings” or their guts and against their own interests" when that simply isn't the case. The reason I voted for some (not all) Republicans this election is precisely because they DO support my own interests and the others who I've talked to who also voted Republican felt the same way. This wasn't a knee jerk reaction or simply because we don't understand or don't appreciate what the Obama administration has done or is trying to do, on the contrary, the driving motivation was because we specifically and articulately do understand what direction the current administration wanted to take the country and we disagreed with it on a fundamental level. We saw the increase in the scope of government, we saw the higher taxes on small business (Don't even try to argue that point, I own one. My taxes are up.) we saw our health care premiums rise as Healthcare Reform took effect, we've see the promises of governmental transparency broken again and again, we've seen unemployment grow even as the administration promised it wouldn't, we've seen spending and entitlement programs grow in irresponsible ways (not all of them, admittedly some have been cut, but there's been enough irresponsible spending to be concerned), and we've seen government on the state, local, and federal level look out for their own interests before the interests of it's constituents. That's why we voted. It's not blind rage, it's not thoughtless brainwashing, it's not racism, it's because we see what's happening and we want something different.

      Isn't that how elections are supposed to work? If you don't like what's going on you vote to change it? Why is it now that those who voted are demonized as brainwashed morons who just don't understand the issues? The author argues that Obama has no magic wand to magically fix the economy or infrastructure or other problems left over from the previous administration. I agree completely. That's why the issues I listed above have been things that have been pushed by the President or Congress that are completely independent of those prior situations. I absolutely don't blame the current administration for the economic situation. That wasn't his fault. Do I think he could have handled it better? Yes. But that's not why I voted the way I did. I voted based on what this congress has done of it's own volition since taking office, and I feel that no matter what those on the left say, I stand by my vote as a completely logical, sound, and utterly informed vote.

    • 1 year ago
  • CitizenHill
  • musicjohnny
  • Rodashar
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      Rodashar  
    • musicjohnny:

      Your calm rational response is greatly appreciated. I have a couple of questions. Being an outsider looking in I think you have some very valid points, however I couldn't help but notice that you voted (in part) for a political party that a) typically tows the party line and 2) didn't promise any changes from the policies that put your country into the decline it is currently suffering. One would expect a person who was upset with a party for ruining the country and then voted in another party, who then became unhappy with that second party to probably pick a third party and not go back to the first party. It just seems a little weird to me.

      I'd put money on the economy either being as crappy as it is now by the end of the next two years or possibly being worse depending on what the Republicans manage to put through. I guess we'll just have to see.

    • 1 year ago
  • musicjohnny
    • +1
      musicjohnny  
    • Rodashar:

      Hey thanks for giving credence to my thoughts and taking the time to write back, to answer your first question, I feel like that's a sentiment that's been expressed by many (including myself) who fall in the moderate center of the political spectrum over the years, but what was surprising to me was how many staunch republicans/conservatives expressed the same view. Basically what I've been hearing people on the right expressing to the incoming senators, congressmen, governors, and even local elected officials is "Look, we're realizing that the current administration does not hold view that are in any way congruent with ours and it's one that we feel is damaging to the country, and that's why we're voting for you, but if you think for even one second that this gives you a free pass to go back to party line republicanism we WILL vote you back out of office before you even have a chance to say "earmark"". Basically, this election was a vote not for republicans, but for conservatism as a way to counteract the current expansion of government. Currently, republicans are the only major political party that fits the bill to accomplish that. In all honestly, I would love to see a non-republican establishment party be viable, but ultimately it wasn't for this election. So that's the feeling that I have and a lot of others have. Really, it's almost a vote against the typical Republican party line insomuch as the establishment republicans have not been fiscally conservative thus far. This time, they've run new candidates who have rooted their whole campaign in fiscal conservatism and I think that's what a lot of people wanted, but if they don't do it, I guarantee you they'll be out.
      The second question I feel like is going to be a little more tough for me to give you a satisfactory answer on because I feel like what put the country in to this position is wasteful spending and overspending on the federal and state level, and the threat of future instability due to potentially higher taxes and rising cost well intentioned but bloated entitlement programs like Healthcare Reform, and ultimately the candidates who were elected this week have promised to do something about all of those issues. The thing is that I certainly don't place all or even a majority of the blame on the current administration, so that leaves us with a pretty tough choice: do we let the current administration keep moving the country in a direction that exacerbates the problem in my opinion, or do we let the party who was instrumental in starting the problem take a crack at solving it? Believe me it was a ridiculously tough choice for me, and I mean that in all honesty. It was something I wrestled with for quite a while leading up to the election, but here's what finally swayed my vote: first, I don't see the current administration doing anything other than continuing on the course that they're on now which is more spending and governmental growth. I genuinely don't think that's the answer. Second, even though they're in the Republican party, the candidates running this time didn't strike me as the "good ol' boy" type republicans who are career politicians who want nothing more that ridiculous earmarks for their own districts. They seemed to me like sound fiscal conservatives, and that was the platform they ran on and I do feel like that's what's needed at this juncture. Third, I kept hearing the "if they mess this up, they're out and we're NEVER voting for them again" sentiment that I was talking about before. It seemed like since these candidates know that they're entering their terms while on probation so-to-speak, I felt like there was a much better chance of them sticking to the fiscally conservative platform that they ran on.

      As far as your prediction that the economy will be where it is now or worse in two years, I sincerely hope you're wrong, and frankly I could care less which party or ideology gets it done, as long as it gets done, but like you said, I guess we'll have to wait and see.

    • 1 year ago
  • Tayllerand
    • +2
      Tayllerand  

    • We need to bring the troops home, if we are going to fight the war on terror we will fight it here in our own back yard, these two wars are bleeding the economy. We are spending billions of dollars every month.The people of this country are not paying attention, I hope they dont continue watching dancing with the starts.

    • 1 year ago
  • noxidereus
    • +5
      noxidereus  

    • "A lot of voters have decided to blame President Obama for a situation he was not instrumental in creating."

      The majority of people are not paying attention and do not understand how our political system works. They just listen to sound bites. This is the reason why Fox News is successful. This is why the Republican party still exists, even though their policies only favor big business and the rich.

      It's not that Americans have a short attention span, it's that we're stupid, ignorant, superficial, consumer wage-saves. This fact is exploited by some to gain power and wealth. We are nothing more than cash and power cows, manipulated by our masters for their gain, not ours.

      That's America in a nut shell. Stupid sheep herded and exploited by the wolves. The wolves obviously want to keep it this way.

    • 1 year ago
  • MAssappeal
    • 0
      MAssappeal  
    • noxidereus:

      It's scary, really scary. I like to consider myself fairly concerned as far as politics go and I find myself regularly bewildered by some of the harder concepts thrown around nowadays. Truly, what's not distilled into its simplest language and ideas is now almost unintelligible, and politicians openly strive to keep it that way. It's a symptom I think of our digression as a country from a nation of participants in our system to one of concession to it, punctuated by some weak token attempts at getting back in the mix. It's the same thing as why trade unions are still permitted to exist while meaningful labor organization and consciousness building is almost absent (not to dump on the great work many union orgs continue to do despite everything). We as a country need to do our fucking homework and, like the kid who doesn't understand a word and gets directed to the dictionary (or dictionary.com or whatever) study up on the concepts we don't get. It's a good way to relax at night after coming home from your wage-slavery.

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
    • ayipis  
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  • dreamsenvoy
  • zHellas
  • floydyboy
    • +4
      floydyboy  

    • I'm in plumbing & heating sales. Before Bush got into office work was busy, busy, busy.1999 is when I started in this field. Back then we had 6 guys & couldn't keep up, always working hard, working late. The people who had money were spending it, the people who didn't have money were raking it in. Now there's only 3 of us & not 1 of us has gotten a raise in 2 yrs. I have seen at least half of my customers go out of business, & we're lucky to do in a week what we used to do in a day as far as sales. Our profit percentages have also gone down. This summer gave us a taste of what it used to be as far as sales. We were starting to come back. Now we're going back to the same people who started the downhill slide. All of my customers have been crying about not enough work for years now. This year, I actually have quite a few customers who are too busy & are hiring people. 3 of my friends started their own businesses this year! I've seen progress since Obama was elected. Good change was happening! Now I'm scared of the change that's coming.

    • 1 year ago
  • SamuraiDave
  • ayipis
    • -4
      ayipis  
    • floydyboy:

      ahhh the good ol dot com days..made a fortune out of that hollow hype..
      the days when people were recklessly spending money like they had money..charging expenditures on their credit cards like they don't have to pay it back........

      then obama happened....then nothing happened...that is why this happened.. LOL

    • 1 year ago
  • floydyboy
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      floydyboy  
    • ayipis:

      Can you read? We went downhill when Bush was president. I'm talking about me personally. My experience. Construction is the canary in the coal mine when it comes to our economy. Democratic president/construction & home buying up. Republican president/foreclosures & bankruptcies. That's what I saw in my little part of the world.

    • 1 year ago
  • navider
  • SamuraiDave
    • 0
      SamuraiDave  
    • ayipis:

      the shit hit the fan at the end of Bush's Administration. When Obama took office, the economy was already in shambles. Is this the shit they tell you over at Fox?

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
    • -1
      ayipis  
    • floydyboy:

      LOL excuse me im sorry i should had known that its all "about you"..but at any rate..

      question really was...did obama and his democrats really solved anything?? you voted them for change...DID YOU SEE ANY CHANGE???

      did war end??
      did foreclosure end??
      unemployment??

      what?? i know he handed out lots of money somewhere to generate jobs..where is it??

      so if i can just slip by on your "its all about me" mindset...here is a tip...

      "YOU CANNOT SPEND MORE THAN WHAT YOU MAKE"...

      okay you can apply that to your "all about me" scope of existence and you would do fine

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
    • 0
      ayipis  
    • navider:

      really, I live in a liberal stronghold in Los Angeles and i consider myself middle class the only ones trying to break my ass are the liberal democrats who keeps on taxing my ass to pay for their spending spree..

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
    • 0
      ayipis  
    • SamuraiDave:

      .........and who said he can save us from these shambles?? people did not vote obama so he can stand in there and blame Bush..shit your famous comedy central already made that clear enough what the alleged problem was..

      what is the reason why you voted for obama?? because he had pretty eloquent things to say about bush and the republicans??

      NO...you voted for him to fix the problem NOT WHINE ABOUT THE PROBLEM...

      they were running on media hype so when time comes that he has to deliver..he cannot

      honestly,,you guys expected too much from obama..thats the problem

    • 1 year ago
  • floydyboy
    • 0
      floydyboy  
    • ayipis:

      I live in an area with a lot of money, our local economy is highly driven by construction. Rich people control our economy. If they're here spending money on their vacation homes things must be going good. If they're not its a pretty good indicator that the economy isn't doing so great. Which is why my story was relevant. I thought the point I was trying to make was pretty obvious.

    • 1 year ago
  • unknown1
  • MAssappeal
  • CarlosIsDown
    • +2
      CarlosIsDown  

    • This election fixes everything. Duh! We won the wards. Unemployment is at 0% now. Obama also admitted to being a muslim that hates white people, and the new orange tan is in.

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
  • CarlosIsDown
  • ahiguy
  • Molotov
  • hunzedog
  • hux71
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • Swisher
  • hunzedog
    • +5
      hunzedog  

    • tomato / tomaahto..... wgaf....our gubment sucks.....
      the only choice we get is puke or shit...
      two parasites to choose from...tick or head lice
      copperhead or rattlesnake
      poison ivy or poison oak.
      aids or cancer..

      fuck them....

      i dont want either...

    • 1 year ago
  • ahiguy
  • Joe_Medina
    • +2
      Joe_Medina  

    • Pretty soon the people will start o realize the truth and things will either get uglier or get better for this country but one thing is fer sure things are not as good as people think.

    • 1 year ago
  • Nephwrack
  • ahiguy
  • Joe_Medina
  • timetide
  • ahiguy
  • ahiguy
  • Elevator
  • ahiguy
  • dreamsenvoy
  • MrMxyzptlk
  • ahiguy
  • NotFooled
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      NotFooled  

    • Seems like when the Democrats won in 2008 the words that came out of their mouths , " elections have consequences " and " the people have spoken " . Now that the Republicans have won , its thanks to ignorant, uninformed, racist, red-necked "tea baggers". Can't possibly be that, " the people have spoken " ?

    • 1 year ago
  • ahiguy
  • Incredulous
    • +2
      Incredulous  

    • I'm not so sure I would label this a Rove comeback, and I would much rather see the Democrats take the Senate and lose the House than the reverse. I don't think you can entirely blame these election results on the voters either. I think many of the incumbent Democratic candidates were seriously out of touch with their voter constituents, and did not make any real effort to get their incumbent feet wet and find out what the people really wanted. I blame the Democratic party as much as I blame the idiocracy we live in, and why would you assume, if the Republicans attempt everything you just mentioned that they will attempt to do, that the American people will not turn on them the same way they just turned on a Democratic party that took entirely too much for granted and did not LISTEN to the voice of the people. Clearly, the tea party does not have an ear to the ground and understand what America really wants either, so in my opinion, the Republicans can lose the ground they just gained as easily as the Democrats did, and nobody, and I repeat NOBODY is going to give Karl Rove a second chance at anything, not even a bridge game at the old folks home. He can shoot off his big loud mouth as long and as wide as he wants to, but the man is a snake, and everyone knows it.

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
    • -1
      toyotabedzrock  
    • Incredulous:

      Because the same people who where in office in 2008 that where voted out got back in!

      IE they suffered no real consequence since 2 years of lies is all it takes to get back to ripping people off.

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
    • 0
      Incredulous  
    • toyotabedzrock:

      a Republican congress took the high ground, but do you have any idea how ineffectual the Congress is and can be when the Senate stands in their way? I'm not saying it doesn't suck, but the phoenix always rises out of the dust.

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
  • Incredulous
    • 0
      Incredulous  
    • toyotabedzrock:

      thank you for calling me an idiot. I did not vote Republican, but I also know that who you vote into office doesn't make as much difference as what you would like to believe it does. The numbers you are quoting are the product of two houses, not one, and while I understand your elevated anxiety over this situation, I don't think pineapples up the ass really explain what is going on, nor do I intend to join with you in the hand wringing. What is done is done, there are and continue to be other avenues to approach this. I think you are way too young to understand the in-workings and out-workings of our political system, and the insult you just hurled at me is evidence of your naivety when it comes to someone not fully adapting your point of view.

      Voted you up last night, voting you down this morning.

    • 1 year ago
  • TomTucker
    • +1
      TomTucker  

    • P.S. it is better they don't pass any bills, either side. Whenever they do, we get screwed some how. Yeah Yeah I know but they got some good bills me like.

    • 1 year ago
  • TomTucker
  • NickerBocker09
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      NickerBocker09  

    • You simply cant cut government spending on the level that the Republicans say they want too. Actually, its funny because they said today they want to cut it by $100 Billion....sooooo they are telling me their version of cuts is $100 Billion out of TRILLIONS?!?!

      Its called revenue. Revenue has gone down and down and down because of tax breaks. Americans have PLENTY of money in their hands, or they should, and the government shouldnt be the main blame for their extreme loss of money.

      Im hoping this election becomes known as the Big Mistake, because it is.

    • 1 year ago
  • NotFooled
  • fun_size
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      fun_size  

    • Alright so the Dems got their asses handed to them and in all fairness the Repubs played a better game. I look forward to seeing the Republican party propose its new ideas for fixing our economic woes and bringing jobs back to America. Oh wait... they dont have any? Huh...

    • 1 year ago
  • tylervictoria1
  • JohnA
  • NotFooled
  • toyotabedzrock
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      toyotabedzrock  
    • fun_size:

      They won't. They will lie and say they did. Thats how all of them won.

      You get to know what we propose when it passes the house.

      Welcome to the Republican CULT of the former United States!

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
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      toyotabedzrock  
    • JohnA:

      Are you really that dumb?

      Many of the idiots you voted back in held the same office up until 2008!

      You elected Racist Rand, but guess what he doesn't know anything about the senate which means he is dependent on the "seasoned" republicans for all decision making info!

      It's like hiring BP safety inspectors to conduct independent safety checks of a BP subsidiary and claiming it is an independent inspection.

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
  • toyotabedzrock
    • +2
      toyotabedzrock  
    • JohnA:

      He wants to repeal civil rights act, during a period when African Americans are still harassed to not vote.

      Almost the entire GOP Cult is racist. They proved it over and over this year. You can deny it all you want, but it is obvious.

      The only reason they are angry is because they thought the rest of the country would never elect a black man.

      Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License Speaks Out -
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO8rvqj9rzM

      PS - I'm downloading and cutting a video to prove my point. Stay tuned!

    • 1 year ago
  • mik661
    • +5
      mik661  

    • Mike Lee is calling for a 40% deduction in goverment spending. Seeing how Social Security, Medicaid, mandatory spending and the military past and present take up about 75% of the budget where do the tea party supporters think these cuts are coming from? When baby boomers figure out that the crosshairs are on their socialized retirement the tea party will be one and done.

    • 1 year ago
  • timetide
    • +3
      timetide  
    • mik661:

      I think the tea party might disapper in an election or two. They've served their purpose so their backers will make them disapper almost as fast as they appered

    • 1 year ago
  • mik661
  • fun_size
  • JohnA
  • NotFooled
  • toyotabedzrock
    • +2
      toyotabedzrock  
    • mik661:

      Enh not if big oil can poison them first.

      I suspect BP will invest in the funeral home and cemetery business. All life insurance policies will now be required to pay rent on your cemetery plot less you risk being dug up and thrown in the dump.

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  
    • toyotabedzrock:

      I see a lot of discrentionary spending. Food stamps for the most obese state in the Union. FIMA disaster checks for people who don't own anything. Earned Income Credits going to put a down payment on a car that will be repossed three months later. Unemployment checks going to people who aren't even thinking of looking for a job. Cash for Clunkers for a car you will file Chapter 13 on before you ever make the first payment. Not to mention, farm subsidies, foriegn aid, everybodies getting free money and we are paying for it. Enough!

    • 1 year ago
  • PrivateBurke
    • 0
      PrivateBurke  
    • JohnA:

      You're right JohnA! The Pentagon's spending isn't mandatory. The war in Afghanastan isn't mandatory. A tomahawk missle isn't manadatory.

      Social services are you fuck head.

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
    • +1
      toyotabedzrock  
    • JohnA:

      You have no idea how the world works do you?

      Watch near the end and you the have answer to one of your questions.

      Second you just criticized tax credits!

      You don't care about the massive theft of Medicare that was committed by the new Florida governor?

      Or about the TX governor funneling state money to only friends?

    • 1 year ago
  • mik661
  • mik661
  • Stever_B
    • +2
      Stever_B  
    • mik661:

      No, you're apparently a racist because you used the word "white" when referring to redneck males, thereby discriminating against all the black and Hispanic redneck males we have running around.

    • 1 year ago
  • mik661
  • mik661
    • 0
      mik661  
    • Stever_B:

      I don't think its discriminatory to use racial identifiers when discussing racist people because that sort of the crux of the matter. But that was funny.

    • 1 year ago
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