“Confronting the Malefactors
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: October 6, 2011
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people.”
Posted at 09:57 AM ET, 10/06/2011
“Farewell, Sarah
Sarah Palin’s long goodbye is finally over. She announced Wednesday that she will not run for president this time around. By the time she got around to making the announcement, though, few people cared and no one was surprised… “
…Palin will fade. She does not have the diligence to build an organization. She is fated to be an after-dinner speaker, fees slowly declining. But she had made her fortune and showed others how it can be done. So long, Sarah — from headlines to footnote in about three years. Who’s next?”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/eric-cantor-occupy-wall-street-mobs_n_999853.html
“Eric Cantor Condemns Occupy Wall Street 'Mobs': They're 'Pitting Americans Against Americans'
“WASHINGTON -- Top House GOP leaders assured attendees at the 2011 Values Voter Summit Friday morning that despite all the attention on fixing the nation's economy, they remain committed to pushing the priorities of social conservatives, including defunding Planned Parenthood and defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) addressed the gathering of religious conservatives in Washington, D.C., where several of the GOP presidential candidates will also be speaking.
Cantor used part of his address to attack the Occupy Wall Street protests and he condemned political leaders who are supporting them.
"This administration's failed policies have resulted in an assault on many of our nation's bedrock principles," he said. "If you read the newspapers today, I, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country. And believe it or not, some in this town, have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans. But you sent us here to fight for you and all Americans."
But when he spoke at the Values Voter Summit in 2009, Cantor expressed a very different sentiment toward another movement that was arguably "pitting Americans against Americans" -- the Tea Party.
At that time, Cantor praised those protesters as "fighting on the fighting lines of what we know is a battle for our democracy.”
"People are beginning to wake up and see a country they don’t really recognize," said Cantor.”
Cassi Creek: The “Occupy Wall Street” protest is growing in size and spreading to other streets.
While I wish it had more coherency, more clear direction, I support its intent and hope that the protest continues to swell. The most important aspect of the “occupation” is its existence as a marker of anger among the citizens.
The depth of despair fueled by a future that has no jobs in it is underscored by the loss of hope that America will return to the nation it was when we were all Americans, solving the nation’s problems together, before the great polarization. This is going to continue to bring about what may become a true populist movement, rather than a pseudo-movement funded by billionaire plutocrats and hate-filled teavangelists.
Herman Cain dares to call the protesters “un-American.” Other people behaving in that same “un-American” manner paid for his right to attack the protesters and the purpose of their protest. Otherwise, Mr. Cain would be just another pizza delivery driver instead of the millionaire token he is today.
Eric Cantor, child of privilege, dares to attack the protest as class warfare. Mr. Cantor should also recall a bit of the history he never learned. He seems very willing to eliminate the 1st Amendment and its guarantees of assembly and free speech. He would have the “occupiers” arrested and removed but has no problem with a mob of teavangelists marching through Washington D.C. in support of tax cuts and deregulation for the banks and financial houses that own little Eric. Rather than look for ways to foster new jobs and to rebuild a crumbling infrastructure, Little Eric throws the teavangelists do nothing bills to destroy Planned Parenthood and to waste time and money in fueling the “Defense of Marriage Act.” He knows full well that such social concerns have no valid cause to be brought to the House floor. His only purpose in doing so is to foment and fuel further class warfare.
On erev Yom Kippur, Mr. Cantor is doing all he can to support a political wing of the GOP that would happily deport him for the facts of his birth. When the teavangelists have done with the Latinos, the Haitians, the Asians, and the others whose skin makes them an easy target, Eric, they will have no qualms about coming for other minorities. You may think your privileged birth and your ties to the uber-greedy renders you safe. But you and I, Eric, are the age-old enemy of those who preach hatred. The U.S can easily follow England, Spain, France, Eastern Europe, and even Germany.
That sound is a growing anger at the super-rich and the greed that drives them to destroy the global economy while changing the U.S. into another 3rd world nation populated by fools who voted their selves out of any chance of living in the America that existed only as recently as 2000.
I’m glad to hear that sound of people in the streets. I don’t want to hear gunfire, but the rightwing demagogues are stirring up the 2nd Amendment hate mongers on talk radio and television. Kent State wasn’t that long ago.
Shabbat Shalom!
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