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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.Americans have just traded the little hope for some change that the Obama... more
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Companies that have run ads on the Glen Beck show are pulling them. (It's about time)Companies that have run ads on the Glen Beck show are pulling them. (It's about... more
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GOP politics are being reduced to a terrifying absurdity. Obama tags, right wing terrorists and a great white hope fill the Republican imagination. Republicans are praising right wing terrorists. Republicans are joking about Obama Tags and political assassination while longing for a great white hope. The sky is turning grey and Republicans are losing their collective mind.
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Are the Republicans really going crazy, or is this just politics as usual?GOP politics are being reduced to a terrifying absurdity. Obama tags, right wing... more
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One Marine said, "I see the way propaganda and information war is waged on America's sons and daughters, and how patients are treated when they have a vaccine reactions," adding, "That should trouble all Americans." (emphasis added)
One soldier that Wagner interviewed said that the military flu vaccine issue "is the worse cover-up in the history of the military. When the issue, I believe, of the use of the vaccine comes out, I believe it will make the Walter Reed scandal pale in comparison."
CDC targeting pregnant women for an H1N1 vaccine contradicts its own advice.
In New ACIP Guidelines: Guidance for Vaccine Recommendations in Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women updated version (May 5, 2008), CDC refers to the live attenuated influenza vaccine LAIV), commonly called “live vaccine,” reporting:
1. “If a live-virus vaccine is inadvertently given to a pregnant woman, or if a woman becomes pregnant within 4 weeks after vaccination, she should be counseled about the potential effects on the fetus.”
2. “Live vaccines pose a theoretical risk to the fetus.”
3. A chart in this CDC report specifically designates "pregnant women" as persons who “should not be vaccinated with LAIV.”One Marine said, "I see the way propaganda and information war is waged on... more
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As the title notes more advertisers are pulling their ads from the Glenn Beck program. Earlier this week, it was reported that 36 advertisers were pulling their spots, but now, that number has increased to 46. Some of the more notable companies that dropped their support are
Applebee’s, Bank of America, Bell & Howell, DirecTV, General Mills,Kraft, Regions Financial Corporation, Vonage, Geico, LexisNexis', Lawyers.com, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson.As the title notes more advertisers are pulling their ads from the Glenn Beck program.... more
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Conservative media figures are blasting Democrats for trying to draw political gain from the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. But on Thursday, it was one of their own -- former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee -- who went there.
The 2008 Republican presidential candidate suggested during his radio show, "The Huckabee Report," on Thursday that, under President Obama's health care plan, Kennedy would have been told to "go home to take pain pills and die" during his last year of life.
"[I]t was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don't have as long to live might want to consider just taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them," said Huckabee. "Yet when Sen. Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 77, did he give up on life and go home to take pain pills and die? Of course not. He freely did what most of us would do. He choose an expensive operation and painful follow up treatments. He saw his work as vitally important and so he fought for every minute he could stay on this earth doing it. He would be a very fortunate man if his heroic last few months were what future generations remember him most for."Conservative media figures are blasting Democrats for trying to draw political gain... more
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It's no longer the end of the beginning but the beginning of the end for the haters out there. The thin veil of decency and decorum as come clean off because the lack the intellectual prowess to maintain the facade. Now that they can no longer hide it will be easy to call them out and expose them for what they truly are. The man declaring himself a proud terrorist is well within his rights to do so. The elected official enthusiastically agreeing with him is in serious violation and needs to be removed from office.It's no longer the end of the beginning but the beginning of the end for the... more
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PLAYING THE HEALTH CARE GAME...
We have all watched in amazement as the defaced photos of President Obama as Hitler held by wild eye'd crazy people screaming loudly with no more of a purpose than to disrupt and to stop the Democratic process. These loud mouth antagonists following their seemingly well distrubuted scripts of Anarchy 101. These people who now claim, to be Blue Dog Democrats or, independents etc.. All also claim to be only wanting a different type of health-care reform? When the truth is self evident by any person that would quickly choose a sign of Hitler and swastikas' to taunt as if these evil signs and symbols had something remotely to do with health care. By their own professed actions they show more to be the apostles of the extremist far right locked in "goose-step" with others like them across the country... following the lead of organizations like: NEWSMAX and Christopher Ruddy, Rush Limbaugh's along with the other hate screaming Neocons and Fascists. It seems rather amazing as after eight years at the helm with Bush, leaving the country on it's knees ruined. Now these over-caffeinated and angry losers, who only want democracy- Only if "they win", are at it again!
We need not forget ~ That some of our goose-stepping colleagues have been assigned to be here.
You can hear some of their voices here among us everyday. They are on a mission... Their own mission to instigate hatred, conflict, discord to disrupt the process and ultimately to destroy Democratic process.
You might ask... Why would they do that? Because, A Democracy is not a "Republic".
You hear their voices twisting the honest need by real people for Obama's Health Care Reform as an "Evil Socialist Plot" to take over the country and the government. These people are deliberately trying to push everyones buttons to cause, a riot and revolt between each other. They want that!!! The truth is, they are nothing more than a group of people with their own agenda that has less to do with Health Care.... and more about their own twisted political beliefs. = > To them.... IT IS ONLY ABOUT THEM!
They want to disrupt this political process by yelling "FIRE" in a crowded movie theatre!
SO NOW.... LETS TALK ABOUT THE REAL ISSUES HERE...
"HEALTH CARE and THE MILKING OF THE CASH COW! "
FIRST.... IT IS NOT ABOUT HEALTH CARE: It is all it about MONEY!
The Huge Money that flows into all these MEGA BUSINESSES. Business like; BlueCross, Blue Sheild and all of the other major health care insurance companies. This is all about keeping that money coming into their pockets! This is huge money!!!! BILLIONS!!!! That these industries are making EVERYDAY, EVERY HOUR, EVERY SECOND. All coming from the wallets and the backs of the hard working people across America.
"ALL THEIR DISCUSSION ABOUT HEALTH CARE THIS IS ONLY ABOUT KEEPING THAT MONEY FLOWING INTO THEIR POCKETS!!!! "
The Obama Health Care Reform Plan, when passed will stop that cash flow and their Milking of the "Cash Cow" and that damages their bottom Line! >> THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT!
(2) IT IS NOT ABOUT THE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE:
Every one of these Paid Government elected Politicians are lying through their teeth about how bad Government run Healthcare is . Because All of them have "Government Run Healthcare" themselves. (AND THEY ALL LOVE IT !)
(3) WAKEUP!!!
Health Insurance Companies have been bleeding all of us with as much money as they can get from our pockets !
(4) THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRIES ARE ADDICTED THAT MONEY:
They are addicted to that cash flow like a drug. Like any addict or Junky... they will: LIE, CHEAT and, STEAL in order to continue that cash flow and keep that (MONEY/DRUG) coming in.
What we are all witnessing on all media everyday are these Addicts doing everything and anything to continue to protect their overcharging of population by Billions and Trillions of Dollars !!!
THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT !PLAYING THE HEALTH CARE GAME...
We have all watched in amazement as the defaced... more
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Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican of California has sent a letter to White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig, asking for more information into their effort to collect information about the opponents of Obama's health care reform by gathering what they were saying or writing.
It brings to mind the image of the "enemies list" that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican of California has sent a letter to White House Counsel... more
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The Associated Press
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A San Bernardino County Republican group has distributed a newsletter picturing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on a $10 bill adorned with a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken.
Linking Obama to demeaning racist stereotypes drew denunciations from various GOP officials after the illustration appeared in the October newsletter of the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Thursday.
Diane Fedele, president of the group, said she had no racist intent.
"I never connected," she told the newspaper. "It was just food to me. It didn't mean anything else.''
The Obama campaign declined to comment, saying it does not address such attacks.
The newsletter was sent to about 200 club members and associates last week by mail and e-mail. The club is a volunteer group that is not directly responsible to the state party, said California Republican Party press secretary Hector Barajas, who denounced the newsletter.
Fedele said she had received the illustration in e-mails and decided to reprint it to poke fun at a remark by Obama that he doesn't look like other presidents.
"It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement. I really don't want to go into it any further,'' Fedele told the newspaper. "I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn't my attempt.''
Sheila Raines of San Bernardino, a black member of the club, complained about the image to Fedele.
"This is what keeps African-Americans from joining the Republican Party," she said. "I'm really hurt. I cried for 45 minutes.''
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The Associated Press
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A San Bernardino County Republican... more
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Number Three: Bush: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" - Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit and destroyed much of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, President Bush tried to cover up is administration's poor response to the disaster by claiming nobody could have seen this coming. Mr. Bush said "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
Of course, just a week earlier Bush had discussed the possibility that the levees may not, in fact, hold up. So in this instance, G.W. was actually able to display an ignorance of his own thoughts, actions and comments from just a week prior.
What is more impressive is that Bush's commitment to staying ignorant was so strong that he was willing to disregard the fact that he was actually correct about something and move forward in blissful ignorance of his own words. Pretty impressive. The GOP must be proud.
Number Two: Mark Penn doesn't know how the Democratic Primaries work - Coming in as our runner up, Mark Penn is actually a Democrat, but a Democrat that Republicans can be proud of...
See the other four moments at: http://stonecipher.typepad.com/the_stonecipher_report/2008/08/its-like-these.htmlNumber Three: Bush: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the... more
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