Monday, July 18, 2011

18 July 2011 Obama, the musical, and other political comedy


          ” a truly funny send-up of the Modern Major General's song from
Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. Ronnie Butler even looks like
Barack Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y54FRMedT_s

          “Commentary on Sarah Palin’s PR movie, which played to an empty theater in Orange Co CA.

          For those red state voters who still believe the teavangelist propaganda:

          And for those who can’t explain why they’re voting Republican but do anyway.

Why Congress should forfeit all pay, benefits, and privileges:
Why did Congress waste six months?
By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: July 17
           

“The House Republican strategy to link a normally routine increase in the nation’s debt limit with a crusade to slash spending has already had a high cost, threatening the nation’s credit rating and making the United States look dysfunctional and incompetent to the rest of the world.
            “But that’s not the most awful thing about it…”



…” there is the coming debate over a “balanced budget” amendment to the Constitution that would limit government spending to 18 percent of gross domestic product and require a two-thirds vote to raise taxes. It’s an outrageous way for members of Congress to vote to slash Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, aid to education and a slew of other things, to lock in low taxes on the rich — and never have to admit they’re doing it. It’s one of the most dishonest proposals ever to come before Congress, and I realize that’s saying something.
            “Every member of Congress who got us into this debt-ceiling fight should be docked six months’ pay. They wasted our time on political posturing instead of solving problems. Better yet, the voters might ponder firing them next year. This could do wonders for national productivity.”
Tea party takes its turn in debt battle
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press – 6 hours ago 
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders are giving tea party-backed Republican freshmen the run of the House this week with a plan to let the government borrow another $2.4 trillion — but only after big and immediate spending cuts and adoption by Congress of a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget.

Cassi Creek:  Speaking of idiocy and lost productivity - teavangelists are being handed the keys to the keep.  The least prepared, least knowledgeable, least willing to learn and compromise portion of the House has been told that they might control the coming week. 
            Perhaps Congressional leaders are doing this in hopes that the snarling pack of pledge signers will begin to realize that votes for petulant privatizers do not equate with a sound and stable government.  These supposed “leaders” can’t lead, won’t compromise, and unfortunately have the potential intransigence to emulate Newt Gingrich and cause a government shutdown leading to default on our national debt. 
            Hoping that the teavangelists will learn about the need to compromise is akin to hoping that golden eggs magically appear on breakfast plates all over the country tomorrow.  Truthfully, there is a greater probability of golden eggs appearing than of the teavangelists learning about economics, history, political science, and the other skills required to maintain a functional, stable government in the next decade, let alone the next week. 
            The GOP screwed up royally when they provided support for the teavangelists.    They sacrificed a party that fielded Buckley, Goldwater, and Rockefeller to the least well-educated, least capable portion of the electorate that they could have chosen.  They opened the gates and lowered the drawbridge to gypsies.   Now they have a party that actually believes the BS spouted in GOP campaign ads is, or will be, true. 
            Palin, Bachman, O’Donnell, have attracted the teavangelist mobs, funded by corporations, driven by fundamentalism, hypocrisy, racism, and an utter failure to understand that waving a misspelled placard or poster board around, praying loudly on street corners, and refusing to accept science, history, or any other benefits of education does not constitute governing.  The rest of the pledge signers who must now kowtow to the uneducated mob have equally painted their selves into the corner at the intersection of ignorance and theocracy.  That might not be a bad thing if they hadn’t painted the rest of us in with them. 




No comments:

Post a Comment