26 January 2010 I don’t trust any of them or like any of them

26 January 2010 I don’t trust any of them or like any of them


This is a winter of discontent.

I find that I am greatly disappointed in the Obama administration.

If what I hear and read today has any validity it appears that Obama has decided to cozy up with the GOP and ignore those millions who voted for him believing that he might bring about some change from the abuses and sell outs of the Bush administration.

I realize that politics is about compromise. But the Democrats controlled both Congress and the White house and did nothing with that numerical superiority beyond squabble away any ghost of leadership and throw away any advantage they had toward passing legislation. The Democrats have displayed their utter contemptibility by allowing a minority party to control nearly every action in Congress and to field a program intended to discredit the people’s choice for POTUS because of their racist, corrupt, and anti-intellectual base. They, the Democrats, should have linked arms and run roughshod over the GOP, passing legislation and bringing about positive change along the way. The cowards, who care far more for their hopes of re-election than for the good of the citizenry should be drummed out of office and their pensions stripped from them.

Yes, Obama entered office with immense problems resulting from the Bush Admin. He has managed to stave off the very real threat of national economic collapse. But he has done nothing to restore the legislation stripped from the financial game by Clinton and Bush so the exact same situation could happen again. We are still at grave risk. The job situation is not going to improve despite the GOP claims that “business will create jobs if taxes are lowered.” If taxes are lowered, there will be no change in unemployment rates. The GOP’s supporters have already off-shored &/or outsourced every job that can be given away to third world countries and our industrial/manufacturing base is gone forever.

I didn’t care that much for Obama as a Democrat. He offered many changes but most of them fell prey to the Bush-bankrupted economy and the rest were so watered down by Democrats afraid to offend the GOP base that there is no positive change. I like Obama even less as a Republican. His plans to center and attempt further bi-partisan dealings with a political party that has already committed to destroying any plans or projects he advances, leave me hoping that what I have heard are merely rumors. But logic tells me that we are seeing just one more political chameleon act that will produce nothing good for the U.S, citizen.

The GOP is truly contemptible. Their paid lie agencies run blatantly untrue claims about health care, the economy, and anything else that they can confuse in the mind of the voter. They champion the anti-intellectual voter, knowing that in them, they find an easy mark who will believe every lie about Obama that is used to sway opinions. They court theocrats to expand their base while wallowing in the deepest pits of corruption and hypocrisy. They have left any real conservative agenda behind in their efforts to appease the corporations that own the GOP elected officials. They are willing to sell out the nation’s armed forces in wars to control oil and other mineral rights for their corporate owners. They cloak this malfeasance in the guise of a holy war, hiding the fact that the true Republican platform these days consists of racism, corruption, lies, anti-Semitism, and theocracy.

The splinter parties are continual jokes, easily manipulated by corporate contributors as the Tea Party mob is by Fox News, or of so few members that they have no chance of ever being placed on the ballot in most states.

It is time to rebuild the Democratic Party or let it die rather than have it flail around as it does now, wasting the best majority control they could have imagined. It is time to abolish any participation by religions in our politics unless the churches involved are honest enough to admit that they are functioning as a political party and are therefore subject to taxation like any political party. It is time to make all political ads identify which party they are supporting and exactly who paid for them, names of people and corporations, not throw-away campaign entities that exist only on paper.

It may well be time to limit the length of political campaigns to six weeks. With modern communications and travel there is no excuse for any longer campaign.

This is a winter of discontent and it will lead to a poor excuse for spring as we watch any hope for change fade away with the cherry blossoms.

Dinner tonight is stuffed zucchini and oven-roasted pork tenderloin with chutney.

Tomorrow will be a very long day as Gloria has class in Limestone at 1000 and class at ETSU in Johnson City at 1340. I have my 1020 and 1130 classes and then have to pick up meds for Gloria in Greeneville on the way home. We may have Chinese takeout tomorrow. By the time I get home I won’t feel much like playing at being a chef.

Currently it is snowing. The back deck is covered now but the prediction is for very little accumulation. We would prefer no snow on the roads tomorrow.