Republican Dirty Tricks

Archive for the ‘American Nightmares’ Category

Glenn Beck Debases, Dishonors and Disgraces MLK’s Dream

Still unable to accept the outcome of an election not decided by the right-wing Supreme Court, tens of thousands disgruntled white people gathered on the very spot where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech 47 years ago to decry the African American President that normal people legally elected to clean up the abhorrent aftermath of 30 years of class warfare Reaganomics and 8 years of disastrous Bush policies.

Beck, a incredibly-wealthy huckster told Forbes magazine that he could “give a flying crap about the political process”, but is only in it for the money, and who uses his Rupert Murdoch and Saudi Prince Alwaleed-owned Fox News show not only to convince his willfully ignorant audience into losing their money by “investing” in a gold coin company currently under investigation, but also to espouse an ideology meant to cultivate divisions in this nation – lest people turn their anger on the big moneyed interests that Beck convinces his dupes to loudly rally to support.

Bussed to Beck’s Restoring Honor ™ rally courtesy of billionaire climate denier right-wing billionaire David A. Koch of the oil giant Koch Industries, the so-called “non political” event steeped-in politics attendees were praised by half-term governor opportunist Sarah Palin, praised “patriots” in the audience for “knowing never to retreat”… from… I guess… the legally-elected black guy in the White House… and directed to join FreedomWorks, the Astroturf funding arm of the Teabaggers run by former representative Dick Armey, who holds the notable opinion the government-run socialist healthcare known as Medicare- that many of the Teabaggers currently enjoy without a sense of irony – “trashes the Constitution.”

Of course, Republicans traditionally become born-again Constitutionalists during Democratic administrations when it seems like their true constituents – big-moneyed interests and their transnational corporations – may have to loosen their grip around the neck of working people if “pesky” government gets in the way.  This is nothing new.

Beck, who has ensured that racial wounds remain wide open so that our economic royalist masters can drive a wedge between the people who they seek to control, has called the first African-American President a “racist with a deep seeded hatred against white people” as well as railed against the very philosophy of “social justice” that Martin Luther King devoted his life to.
Read the rest of this entry »

Only a Republican could be quoted saying that peace talks are the biggest threats to peace and be taken seriously, just like when Bush schooled we ignorant Plebs on June 18, 2002 saying, “I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.” on Christiane Amanpour’s Sunday show George Will told the American People that “…the peace process is the biggest threat to peace in Palestine.”

This comes on the heals of the announced this week from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that there will be new peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, so the real problem for Republicans is not how they can effectively aid in the peace process, but how they can stop progress in order to deny a Democratic administration any victories while in office. Of course, the unprecedented Republican obstructionism on all fronts proves once again that Republicans care nothing for country or community – only to the profit of their benefactors – transnational corporations whose only goal is to ride the working people of this nation to the bank without pesky government interference. If they can stop Hillary Clinton from positively affecting peace in the Middle East, they improve their chances of convincing the willfully ignorant of this nation to put them back in power so they can continue turning them into compliant serfs.

As if normal people weren’t already convinced that the Republican Party is a nest of morally-bankrupt, greed centered oligarchs (and their willfully-ignorant sycophants who adopt the agenda of billionaires in the hopes said billionaires will one day meet them for a beer), we have more proof that Republicans would be quite content having millions die in perpetual war in order to maintain their own power.

Republicans are sick… sick… sick… and the most tragic part is that their ideology is like a virus that sickens us all.

Read more at Crooks and Liars

In the face of the Wikileaks documents exposing the futility of our murderous, un-winnable, adventures in Afghanistan, Congress approved ANOTHER deficit-ballooning war supplemental while nixing deficit-neutral funds to prevent the layoffs of approximately140,000 teachers.  Proving, once again, that the “deficit hawk”, “we must cut spending” meme only gets trotted out when Republicans are further turning the screws on the Middle Class their policies are actively meant to destroy.

A House aide said that the teacher money is a top priority for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey, D-Wis… but apparently not as important as pouring unlimited resources into Afghanistan – historically unconquerable since Genghis Kahn.

The final bill contained 37 Billion for a war that, according to the leaked Pentagon internal documents, is destroying our economy and making us less safe.

The bill also cut $10 billion in funding to prevent teacher layoffs, $1 billion for summer youth employment, $5 billion for Pell grants and $701 million for border security, all of which were offset and budget-neutral, whereas the war funding actually increases the national debt.

Here we are again.   Fake Republicans and Democrat in Name only, so-called “deficit hawks” who only seem to appear when the late, great, American Middle Class needs relief from the disastrous effects of 30 years of Reaganomics.
Read the rest of this entry »

The schizophrenia of being a modern conservative is enough to give normal people sharing the same air a perpetual knotted stomach. For example, the conservative penchant for proclaiming Jesus as their favorite “philosopher” while re-writing the story of the original liberal “community organizer” into some free-market capitalist crusader Hell-bent on teaching the lazy poor people to pull themselves up from their bootstraps.

The hypocrisy of today’s Cons turning the “Prince of Peace” into a vindictive, war-mongering, selfish, greed-centered, version of themselves is illustrated beautifully at Tea Party Jesus – where the literal words of today’s Christians are put in the mouth of Christ as evidence to the unbridled dishonesty and disingenuousness of Con philosophy.

Canadian-American economist, prolific author and proud progressive John Kenneth Galbraith put it correctly when he said,

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

Not only are they in desperate need of moral justification, they are in on a constant mission for historical justification – even if that means they have to simply “make it up.”
Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama’s Facebook page announced, “We’re going to keep on fighting until wages and incomes are rising, businesses are hiring again, Americans are headed back to work again, and we’ve recovered from this recession.”

Sound’s wonderful, but I’m done with promises… promises…. like most normal (non-Republican) Americans, I’m numb from promises and looking for ACTION.

The gap between the rich and poor is the widest in decades. Well-fed Republican bastards are, AS USUAL, fighting for tax cuts for the rich – although it would add to the deficit they suddenly care so much about – while simultaneously blocking the extension of unemployment benefits for those out of work in the worst economic climate since the FIRST Republican Great Depression.  Their reasoning is simple – the more people unemployed at election time, the better their chances of getting their boney fingers around the neck of power again. THAT’S how much Republicans hate the “small people” of this nation.
Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United ruling, the Corporate takeover of our government is complete and Karl Rove can now openly solicit massive contributions to his cause of getting his pudgy fingers on the neck of power in the name of our big-moneyed “betters.”

From Rawstory :
By David Edwards

A recent Supreme Court decision hailed by Republicans but condemned by most Democrats may be helping to stuff the coffers of conservative political groups founded by Karl Rove.

President George W. Bush’s former senior adviser admitted to Fox News Tuesday that his American Crossroads 527 and Crossroads GPS groups have benefited from the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

The Republican National Committee actually lost money in 2009 but Rove doesn’t think his groups are part of the problem. The party ended the year with $10 million fewer dollars than at the start of the year.
Read the rest of this entry »

Independence Day is bittersweet for anyone with a brain and a knowledge of history, knowing that our Founding Fathers – true students of the Liberal Age of Enlightenment – handed us a system of government “of, by and FOR We The People” not seen since the time of the Romans and, in spite of their warnings, we allowed big-moneyed interests to turn it into a Plutonomy mired in endless wars.

Since recorded history, the philosophy of self-governance was an aberration. Societies were structured hierarchically with hereditary rule by the rich in partnership with religious institutions promising the underclass rewards in the afterlife.

Our Founders were also well aware of the dangers of having a standing Army. Elbridge Gerry, our fifth Vice President under James Madisan  vocalized a common sentiment when he damned standing armies as “the bane of liberty” during Congressional Convention debate in 1789.

At the Virginia convention to ratify the Constitution in 1788, Patrick Henry denounced standing armies because they “execute the execrable commands of tyranny.”

James Madison said, “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. . . . [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and . . . degeneracy of manners and of morals. . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. . . .

Thomas Jefferson was aware that so-called “voluntary” armies needed a “pauper class” for their existence. Jefferson largely away with America’s standing army by the end of his Presidency. He was so proud of his accomplishment in the defense of true liberty that he wrote to his friend Dr. Thomas Cooper and said, “our men are so happy at home that they will not hire themselves to be shot at for a shilling a day. Hence we can have no standing armies for defense, because we have no paupers to furnish the materials.”

Our Founders are surely rolling in their graves to see what we have become.. a militaristic, nationalistic, dying empire, with the largest disparity between rich and poor and the least upwardly mobile of all the industrialized nations.

Patrick Henry noted, “We have heard that there is a great deal of bribery practiced in the House of Commons of England, and that many of the members raise themselves to preferments by selling the rights of the whole of the people.” Surely he would be appalled to know of the millions of dollars greasing the hands of today’s so-called representatives and the corrupting influence of money in politics – especially now in the light of the Citizen’s United Supreme Court ruling that allows unlimited corporate monies into our system.

While Millions of Americans remain unemployed and cut off by Republican obstruction from life-sustaining benefits and all branches of the military meet and exceed their recruitment goals, it’s clear that the Republican war against the middle class has turned “The Land of the Free” into “The United States of Serfs and Lords.”

U.S. House Representative Dennis Kucinich gave spoke to our endless military adventures and their damage to our economy and our liberty….
Here is the transcript…
Read the rest of this entry »

Every time the Teabagging darling Rand Paul opens his mouth, he gives normal people (non-Republicans) the opportunity to see the regressive, backwards, divisive, dead-end vision the Libertarian “philosophy” holds for America.

In the few short days since he won the Kentucky Republican primary, Paul inserted his foot into his mouth on Rachel Maddow’s show concerning his desire to roll back progress on civil rights and, because he, himself is not disabled, also expressed his interest in abolishing of the Americans with Disabilities act.

Paul also didn’t miss the opportunity to take up the Republican raison d’être and jump to the defense of poor misunderstood corporate America by defending BP’s need to cut corners in the name of greed with the flippant retort, “accidents happen.”  This all while the BP created oil geyser continues to destroy the ecosystem and economy of the Gulf Coast and beyond.
Read the rest of this entry »

It is often said that if you want to truly know a person, then meet their friends.   With this truth in mind, it turns out that (not surprisingly), cult-philosopher of the right-wing and libertarian crowd, Ayn Rand, was a big fan of the disgusting sadist William Edward Hickman, who kidnapped and dismembered a 12 year old girl in 1927.

In her journals, Rand glowingly wrote that Hickman, “is born with a wonderful, free, light consciousness — [resulting from] the absolute lack of social instinct or herd feeling. He does not understand, because he has no organ for understanding, the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people … Other people do not exist for him and he does not understand why they should.”

Normal Americans (non-Republicans) spent the past year bearing witness to the clutches of teabaggers protesting health care (of all things) while waving various signs extolling Ayn Rand philosophy, believing themselves to be the “Atlas” who would be sure to shrug off the burdens that the unwashed masses inflict on their superiority when they dare demand a society that works for everyone, but truth be told, these teabaggers themselves are often the very “humanity of mud to be ground underfoot” and  “fuel to be burned” that Rand assigned to the working class.
Read the rest of this entry »

Spewing dead-end Republican talking points like a perpetual regurgitation machine, Palin found an enthusiastic reception this past Sunday on Corporate America’s protection racket and propaganda channel, Fox News, where she went over the same old dead end policies that have brought America to the brink of disaster with a wink and a smile and promised more of the same if God wills her to run for President.

Fresh from her speaking engagement at the first ever convention of Teabaggers where Palin was caught amateurishly referencing cheat-notes of the same old dead-end Republican talking points written on her hand, she poured on her “folksy charm” wrapped in her MIFL (Maverick I’d Like to ‘F*%#’) brand – cleverly coupled with the intent to further confuse the barely literate “everyman” Republican constituents who “want their county back” from the African American their fellow citizens legally elected to help protect them from the exploitations of the very corporations they loudly rally to support.

F*%#ing Ameuture

Read the rest of this entry »