You say that you want to restore America's honor? Wonderful! Let me help you! When exactly did Americans lose their honor? Did they lose it when a black man was elected President? Or did they lose it when the Republicans first voted for their own self-interest rather than for the American people? Did we lose it ten years ago, we elected a man of Bush's exemplary paragon of intellectual caliber? Did we lose it when Obama tried to save the country from total economic collapse with a stimulus, or did we lose it when Bush the Younger destroyed an economic surplus, and gave us a deficit, compounded with two unnecessary and unaffordable wars, a housing bubble, Guantanamo, and the worst economic disaster since The Great Depression? Did we lose our honor because we finally have a healthcare system that is a good beginning for the many poor who will be needing it in the years to come? Or did we lose it when businesses began to downsize, and outsourced jobs abroad for cheaper labor? Did we lose our honor because some people did not like the way President Obama handled the Gulf oil spill, which incidentally started through the criminal negligence of BP and Transocean? Or did we lose it during the Bush administration's inexcusable and atrocious response given to Katrina? Or was it when FEMA became gutted and privatized by Bush? Did we lose our honor when the Democrats saved the auto industry, or did we lose it when we stopped building things in this country, and now depend on cheap slave labor from abroad? Mr. Beck, we need to restore our honor, it's true. But you are far wide of the mark on the cause for restoring our honor. You speak of fluffy generalities like "faith, hope and charity," But your rally was funded by men who lied, cheated, stole and killed for money. I thought we turned the corner on January 20, 2009. We are trying to restore our nation's honor. You just don't want to see it!
Dear Mr. Beck:
This is what they will replace what they repeal!
Limbaugh Clone Filling in for El Buttbo
Now that the long slog on health-care reform is over and the fight over financial reform is about to start...Will the GOP continue it's unprincipled opposition to ANYTHING proposed by the Democrats in Congress?
Perhaps. Sen Bob Corker (R-TN), openly lamented the failure of the GOP to make any meaningful input to the financial reform legislation that passed out of the Senate Banking Committee. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) And Jim Webb (D-VA) ignored GOP leadership when if forbade a hearing on the military health system. Maine's Senators, Snowe and Collins broke from the GOP herd on same gender marriage. Does this mean that the grown-ups have finally stood up and re-asserted their control? In a word, no.
With David Frum, former Bush speech writer being sacked from his position at the American Enterprise Institute for suggesting that the GOP leadership basically stepped on its collective dick, would indicate otherwise. This for saying that the GOP stance on the health-care reform, now the law of the land, was Waterloo...for the GOP. Oh, and let's not forget, in his interview with ABC, Frum said that the GOP was working for FOX News.
Ideological purity trumps realistic assessment. In their silent acquiescence to the vitriolic rhetoric from the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks of the country, the GOP has painted itself into a rhetorical corner. The GOP can't be seen as negotiating with the born-in-Kenya, communist/socialist/nazi, isn't-really-president Barack Obama. To do so would result in an immediate backlash from the right wing-nut noise machine...which is following an agenda that has more to do with ratings than the good of the country...And its equally rabid audience. Never mind that the audience has been misinformed by the same RWN noise machine.
Instead of doing the right thing and working for the American people, the GOP is going down the rabbit hole with the red-meat, lunatic fringe...now mainstreamed by American media outlets, including FOX Noise...And reflexively opposing anything offered up by the Obama White House or congressional Democrats. The scorched earth politics of the GOP will continue. The GOP leadership will continue to take its direction from the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks of the American right. The grown ups will remain seated quietly in the background whilst the children run amok.
Political Gangbanging – Being a Revolutionary when your guy won!
I’d like to think I am pretty engaged in politics. I mean I watch a lot of news, I read a lot online and I get out to the occasional political rally. Well there are a lot of things that bother me about the political climate in America today and being that I am a Black man, obviously the Tea Bag Movement is one of them. Since the Health Insurance Reform Bill passed these Tea Baggers have gone crazy! I mean seriously crazy! Calling Democratic Politicians and threatening them, their families. What about cutting gas lines at the homes of the brother of a Democratic Politician or death threats and "baby killer" talk on the voicemail of Bart Stupak? Really, how the hell is Bart Stupak a baby killer? Do they even know how hard ol’ Bart worked it to get the abortion language to his liking? I doubt it, or maybe it doesn’t matter since they hate Obama so much.
Now I am far from a punk! I’m not saying I’m the toughest guy in California, not even close, but I ain’t no punk. Back in the day I did my fair share of dirt. So I when I see Tea Baggers out there yelling "nigger" to American heroes like Congressman John Lewis or calling a Black man like Obama a Nazi (when we all know they go home and their kids are the ones with the swastika tattoos) or when I see them openly carrying weapons at what are supposed to be political rallies, I get upset and want to respond with the same shit, but I can’t because that would be wrong. Sometimes when I get with a group of my friends and family we talk about these cowards, a lot. Probably more than we should. Someone will say "Man I wish one of them Tea Baggers would come to me talking that shit" or "Stop with the Nazi mess" or "You know what they really want to call him is nigger".
It seems to me that things are starting to look like the 60’s. That is a scary thought right? What if these racists get crazy like they did in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s? I mean they used to hang Black people, White people who associated with Black people, Immigrants and whoever else they didn’t like, right? Today it would be the same people but let’s not forget the Gays, Latinos, Progressives, Muslims, Jews, you get the point right? The Right wing was crazy back then!
But, they weren’t the only active ones! Back then the Left wing had a lot of "fire power" themselves, right? There was Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Cesar Chavez, The Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, Revolutionary Youth Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, Gay Liberation Front, there are tons more but you get the point. To me, the Left wing was a lot more politically active back in the day.
Fast forward to when George W. Bush woke a sleeping beast in America that eventually leads to us electing our first Black President. Electing our first Black President leads us to the Tea Bagger Movement. What will the Tea Bagger Movement lead us to?
Let me start off by saying that I am not encouraging us on the Left to fight back the same way the Tea Baggers do. I mean we could though, right? I just gave you a list of activists from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s and some of them were non-violent and some were extremely violent! Remember "By Any Means Necessary" wasn’t just a slogan!
The corporatists, fascists and real Nazi’s have their "soldiers" on the street; they are Tea Baggers, who will be ours on the left? Will we have civilized discourse on our side as demonstrated by the Coffee Party Movement? Or will the "intimidation" delivered from the Tea Bags lead to another Black Panther Movement or Weather Underground?
People forget that the Panthers used to associate with like minded "White" and Latino groups! I mean the way things are now, a lot of the time Blacks and Latinos have beef, but what if they get smart and realize that we have a bigger enemy than each other. What if Black Gangs and Latino Gangs took their beef and directed it at the real enemy? What if Rollin’ 60’s Crip Gang, Bounty Hunter Blood Gang, 18th St Gang and MS13 Gang decided that there were bigger fish to fry? What if they decided that those fish wear hats with Tea Bags hanging from them?
Now I don’t recommend these gangsters grabbing their AK’s and Uzi’s or how about just the one’s with legal guns and going to the Restore the Constitution Open-Carry Rally April 19th, 2010 at Fort Hunt National Park in VA to show off their heat. I mean the Black Panthers did it at the State Capitol in CA in 1967. Would that be a good look now? Probably not! We’d be like the Tea Bags. Plus we all know what happened to the Panthers and we know what would happen if Blacks and Latinos showed up at one of these. But what I do recommend is that we start linking together for a bigger cause; for a bigger fight and I also recommend that we do it smart!
The Right has teamed up the Republicans, Tea Baggers, Anti-Abortion groups, Ant-Gay groups, Corporatists etc. We need to do the same! We need to respectfully communicate with our natural allies!(BTW, some of our "natural allies" actually think they are Tea Baggers, we need to work on that) We need Blacks, Latinos, Progressives, Gay Groups, Anti-War groups and even Hip-Hop heads and Gangsters to take a minute to get engaged. Make sure everyone you know who is eligible to vote, votes! Try to attend a rally or two this year! Donate to a cause or to a politician you believe in. Like we sometimes say "Don’t talk about it, be about it!"
A lot of racism and hate is directed at the Blacks and Gays, but as we touch on the Immigration issue, please believe Latinos will get there turn to be called all kinds of names.
The Left has a tendency to in-fight, but I know that when we all get our heads on right we are capable of making a huge amount of noise! The Tea Baggers are on TV everyday! We should be too! We need to make a scene! Now we need to be smart about it, but we need to make a scene. I don’t mean intimidate them; most of them are scared cowards already, nah we need to show them that we can play politics too! We can rally too! We can raise money too! We showed some backbone in the Healthcare debate down the stretch, but we aren’t done!
Imagine a Movement where Blacks, Whites, Latinos, Asians, Gays, Labor Unions, Anti-War groups and other Progressive minded groups got together and made something happen? Wait a second, we have done this recently! November 2008 we all got together and even grabbed some people from the other side of the aisle and made something happen! We made Obama the President of the United States! Let’s make it happen again in the 2010 Mid Terms! We can push the Republicans all the way out of here if you want to!
Get up! Stand up! Make something happen! NOW!
Macarone
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Man, you need an intervention like, soooooo baaaaad!
Seriously! Dude! Therapy!
Seriously dude, get some help!
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My Congressman from CNY's 25th District (NY) will vote for healthcare!
I frequent several BB's with a heavy right wing nut presensce. There, the views on the current health-care reform bill are all in lock-step with those of the GOP congressional leadership and the rest of the right wing punditocracy. It is their firm beleif that the watered down, milque-toast version of health-care reform currently making it's tortured way through Congress is nothing short of a communist take over of America. But in their belief they shown just how truly ignorant they are of both this nation's roots and its history.
Taking their cues, and their misguided talking points, from the GOP leadership and others, they cast those talking point about as uncritically as a drunken sailor on liberty casts his seed about. They fail to ask the most basic questions of both themselves and the right-wing leadership they so slavishly follow. And more's the pity...ignorance such as theirs, whether naive or willful, the lack of critical thought, the unquestioning acceptance of out-right lies, will be the death of the Republic. Not some outside enemy...just ignorant rubes, such as they, who can be led by the nose like fatted calves to the slaughter...never realizing the threat until the bolt gin is pressed firmly against their foreheads. But by then, it's too late.
El Buttbo finally reveals himself!
Ya been served Boehner!
They should play that clip for Congress tomorrow at the summit. I will post any response by Beautiful Mind Beck to show any shallow cruelness on his part. Same with Limbaugh.
Choose your delusion.
Let them eat cake!