Dear Conservative Obstructionist

During the hearings on Benghazi, we have learned that aide was withheld for political reasons - By THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE MAJORITY!

Conservative obstructionist: You only read ideologue based reporting, you only get half the truth with your mind already bent towards Obama having an 'evil soul.' As much as you pride yourself on analysis can you claim pure devotion to fact when you already perceive people in power as conspiratorial?

I have found shortcomings in my own approach but one of those weaknesses is not excepting what left or right wing media tells me to think. I strongly resist evidence or the conception of events presented by the right wing. But by watching and reading "conservative" media, I have been able to dissect your mind set.

You have an obtuse view when it comes anything or anyone not far right enough to hate Obama and those liberal, lefty, socialist, communist, atheist, libtard, American hating, United States Citizens. Therefore you cannot espouse clarity when it comes to issues concerning the nation.

"You are speaking through a bullhorn and listening through a filter, nothing gets in and the same stuff always comes out."

I am not above reproach, but I allow for the people I vote for to fail and hold them to the fire. For example; I believe drone attacks must stop! They are too indiscriminate. Obama has hired an ex Monsanto guy, a lobbyist. I have signed over 300 petitions since 2003 against Bush's decisions and against Obama's.

I am not a left wing ideologue. But its easier and requires less effort on your part to lump me or anyone else in that presumed category when they show the least amount of affinity to a left wing (seeming) concept.

But I have learned that the world doesn't work in black and white, right or left. Those who have power will use whatever it takes to keep power and become what they think we want them to be.

And how they do that is divide us and give us demons.

Because you believe Obama to be some communist, socialist, devil spawn, all of his choices must be as well. Only simple minded people or sheep think in those myopic terms.

I did. I hated Bush with all my will after 2003, but there my hate was at least reasonable. He failed repeatedly to deliver on his promises after standing on the rubble in New York after 9/11. There was actual proof of his constant missteps, his disingenuous character, and his persistent poor choices.

I learned to hate, Bush the right wing president, hating him because of what I assumed must be wrong, and of course I must be right. I looked for his mistakes, longed for his failure, joyed in his descent. This was my failure of intellect, and morality. This is what sheep do, what the sheep herders want them to do, divide and fail.

The president, congress, lobbyists, the Pentagon are pawns in the game. We are arguing over the rook and if he should have made a different move. We are wasting time! We are doing what the Chessmen want us to do. They divide, and we conquer ourselves by degrees.

Obama is an administrator who can't even hire a judge without going through congress. Does he have power to war, yes. Does he have the same power Bush had, yes. If Bush made the same mistakes you cannot claim that you would be as disturbed.

Congress lives only to be reelected.
Whoever backs them, own us both. What does that have to do with red or blue. That has to do with green and gold.

I want to do more than just hate power. I want to do more than just bitch about power and get together with friends and bitch about power.

If you believe god has a plan and you also understand that no man knows the plan, then you should be living with optimism not pessimism.

If you have a heaven to go to, a place like no other where you will know only love, why would you despair about the workings of men on earth? That job belongs to god.

I know this is a long letter but I think our shared love of country strong enough to speak to truth.
This is mine.

-Dennis M. Sweatt

Conservatives Enforce Morals On The Rest of Society

Conservatives want to enforce their morals on the rest of society, because it's a religion. But they object to others not believing it.

 

And I don't believe it. But you object and call me an atheist and blame us for the decay in society.

• You tell me its wrong to kill babies, then go to Iraq and do it anyway.

• You tell me its wrong to kill babies, then stop legislation to provide birth control.

• You tell me its wrong to kill babies, then stop background checks, even if it would only save one.

• You tell me our people shouldn't have died in Benghazi, but reduced funding for embassy security months before.

• You tell me to stop blaming Bush but you continue to blame Obama even after Bush made the same mistakes, and worse.

• You tell me conservatives have a better plan for the nation but all I see is obstructionism, which is the opposite of governing.

If even one right wing congressman makes a move to create jobs, like more than a thousand, I will eat his hat.

But that might make Obama look better, so nation last, politics first.

Senator Introduces Bill To End Huge Corporate Tax Giveaway

 

Corporations offshoring profits costs both the federal government and states billions of dollars per year. One of the more egregious giveaways is known as “deferral,” which allows U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes on overseas profits until they bring that money back to the U.S., giving them every incentive to leave it overseas permanently.

By Pat Garofalo on Feb 7, 2013 at 9:30 am

According to the Congressional Budget Office, “The current tax system provides incentives for U.S. firms to locate their production facilities in countries with low taxes as a way to reduce their tax liability at home,” ultimately resulting in compensation for U.S. workers being lower. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is introducing a bill today that would end this practice and close several other corporate tax loopholes:

Under this legislation, corporations would pay U.S. taxes on their offshore profits as they are earned. This legislation takes away the tax incentives for corporations to move jobs offshore or to shift profits offshore because the U.S. would tax their profits no matter where they are generated.

Under the Corporate Tax Fairness Act, U.S. corporations would continue to get a credit against their U.S. taxes for foreign taxes they pay. That means that when an American corporation has profits in a country with lower corporate taxes than the U.S., they would pay the federal government the difference between the foreign rate and the U.S. rate. When an American corporation has profits in a country with higher corporate taxes than the U.S., they would pay nothing to the U.S.

According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, “the provisions in this bill will raise more than $590 billion in revenue over the next decade.”
Due to the proliferation of loopholes, credits, and the use of tax havens, major corporations haven’t paid the full statutory tax rate in 45 years. In 2011, the 12.1 percent effective rate that corporations paid was the lowest in 40 years.

Senator Introduces Bill To End Huge Corporate Tax Giveaway | ThinkProgress

More Republican Choke Holds on the Middle Class

A Florida Republican this week reintroduced legislation to speed up the foreclosure process for the third consecutive year, even though similar legislation has sparked outrage from consumer advocates over the last two years. 

State Rep. Kathleen Passidomo (R) is touting the new bill as a “more moderate” version of the legislation that has failed each of the previous two years, the Miami Herald reports. But while it includes some provisions proposed by homeowner advocates, it still reduces the the time banks have to process a foreclosure from five years to one, a problematic “fix” that could incentivize more fraudulent processing of foreclosure documents:

Passidomo’s bill aims to speed things up. It requires mortgage lenders to certify that they have the correct paperwork proving they have the right to foreclose. The measure includes a provision that consumer activists supported last year to limit banks’ ability to go after homeowners for additional debt after a foreclosure.

Banks currently have five years to pursue a so-called “deficiency judgment” against a homeowner. The bill reduces that time-period to one-year.

The average Florida foreclosure, the Miami Herald notes, takes more than 600 days to process. But even though Florida has more foreclosures than most other states, that length is hardly atypical. Nationally, homeowners with mortgages worth less than $250,000 are in default for an average of 611 days before they enter foreclosure. Borrowers with mortgages worth $1 million average 792 days in default before foreclosure begins.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/04/3167640/new-florida-bill-would-speed-up.html

bill: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0087__.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0087&Session=2013

Gun Control Nut Or Gun Safety Advocate

When you terrorize a people, do they not take action, even overreact? Didn't 9/11 teach us that? Orange alerts, invasion of a country that had zero ties to Osama Bin Laden. Yet the the country was united in focusing their rage onto a perceived eastern enemy. Following a mob mentality allowed George Bush to send out his war sales team onto the airwaves, spewing one unfounded exaggeration after another.

 Why take this debate, or as should be perceived a 'discussion' as a disarmament?

Both sides are overreacting to this, don't join the mob.

Right now even republican representatives are feeling real pressure from their own constituency in reaction to the Sandy Hook Massacre. Right now I do not believe that the gun is responsible for the death of those children. But how do you answer those inconsolable mothers and fathers with the solutions for justice? 

What solutions do you have to save 20 toddlers from being blown to pieces?

Can you picture yourself as the 20th five or six year old in that class room, can you imagine what it was like to watch 19 of your classmates die helplessly? Now put yourself in front of that 20th child and tell him or her that we did nothing. We stood by and waited for another event of unimaginable horror. Is stopping the sale of 30-100 clips of ammunition going to stop a person from being insane? No. Will it slow their ability to murder en masse. Maybe. And for me maybe is a start but for the gun nuts who believe in conspiracy and in a government bent on controlling and enslaving the population, this message is mute.

Will we as a nation do nothing so gun owners can have bigger toys?

How many weapons can you load and hold, while defending your home? You only have two hands.
Where will this homeland proliferation stop? When gun control reaches your bazooka, or fragment grenade will you cry foul!; government takeover?!

When you have to arm every citizen to feel safe in the Untied States of America, the grand experiment has failed. Your founding fathers wasted all their efforts and sacrifices to create a land of the free. 

That's when you know the difference between a Gun Control Nut Or Gun Safety Advocate.

You have FAILED in every "government service"

You have FAILED in every "government service" This statement is erroneous.

• Signed a bill that provided $4.3 billion in additional assistance to 9/11 first responders.   http://bit.ly/o7cWY

• On his first full day, Obama froze White House salaries.

• Through an executive order, he created the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

• The Bush-led Great Recession was costing the economy nearly 800,000 jobs per month by the time President Obama took office. But by the end of his first year, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created and sustained 2.1 million jobs and stimulated the economy by  3.5%.  http://reut.rs/i46CEE

• He completed the massive TARP financial and banking rescue plan, he also leaned on the banks and others, and recovered virtually all of the bail-out money. http://1.usa.gov/eA5jVS 

• Oversaw the creation of more jobs in 2010 alone than Bush did in eight years. http://bit.ly/hrrnjY

• Implemented an auto industry rescue plan, and saved as many as 1 million jobs.  http://bit.ly/ibhpxr

• Signed and passed Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, expanding on the Making Home Affordable Program to help millions of Americans avoid preventable foreclosures. The bill also provided $2.2 billion to help combat homelessness, and to stabilize the housing market.  http://bit.ly/eEpLFn

• Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, saved at least 300,000 education jobs, such as teachers, principals, librarians, and counselors that would have otherwise been lost.   http://1.usa.gov/ez30Dc

• Fashioned rules so that banks can no longer use YOUR money to invest in high-risk financial instruments that work against their own customers' interests.  http://bit.ly/fnTayj

• Funded Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with an extra $1.4 billion to improve veterans’ services.  http://1.usa.gov/huhqfo

• Provided active combat troops with better body armor.  http://bit.ly/hzSv2h

• Repeatedly increased funding for student financial aid, and at the same time cut the banks completely out of the process.   http://bit.ly/gYWd30   http://bit.ly/e9c7Dr   http://bit.ly/eEzTNq 

• Reformed student loan program, to make it possible for students to refinance at a lower rate.   http://nyti.ms/dMvHOt

• Oversaw a 50% decrease in cost of prescription drugs for seniors. http://bit.ly/e5b1iq    http://1.usa.gov/fVNkt9

• Signed Democratic-sponsored Children’s Health Insurance Re-authorization Act, which increased the number of children covered by health insurance by 4 million.   http://bit.ly/fDEzGv

• Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , cut taxes for 95% of America's working families.   http://bit.ly/eSEI4F  

• Tax rates for average working families are the lowest since 1950.  http://bit.ly/f74pD8 

• Oversaw establishment of an Energy Partnership for the Americas, to create more markets for American-made biofuels and green energy technologies. http://bit.ly/lZp73y

Ted Nugent Will Say Anything to Attack President Obama

Ted Nugent is willing to say just about anything to attack President Barack Obama and his administration for what he believes is an imminent effort by the government to snatch up guns. During a recent interview, he raised the bar, invoking a Revolutionary war milestone to suggest that he and his "buddies" were prepared to fight such an effort at all costs.

"I'm part of a very great experiment in self-government where we the people determine our own pursuit of happiness and our own individual freedom and liberty, not to be confused with the Barack Obama gang who believes in we the sheeple and actually is attempting to re-implement the tyranny of King George that we escaped from in 1776", Nugent said in a recent interview with Guns.com at the NBC-sponsored Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show. "And if you want another Concord Bridge, I got some buddies".

Nugent went on to accuse Obama of having communist ties, suggesting that gun-owning Americans needed to do something to "fix" the fact that he was president. (Maybe it's just me, but I'm inclined to take that as a threat)

Old Ted is proving once again why we need to have psych evals as a requirement to having a weapon.


http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/22/nugent-at-gun-industry-trade-show-if-you-want-a/192340

The Republic was Formed to Protect Moneyed Classes

Written by Allen Harris

Actually the republic was formed to protect the moneyed classes and the property owners. 

The early colonists turned Americans could only vote if they were able to prove they were land owners. The liberals don't pretend anything, they are made up of the minorities that are fast becoming the majority and will be hands down the majority by 2014. That one fact scares the repuublican right shitless. and they are right to be afraid because the laws of this country, the constitution entitles the majority to make the rules everyone has to abide by. 

The republican party may never be able to recover from the disasters that started to snowball this last November and will only escalate during the 2014 elections. Trends and polls tend to indicate the republicans will lose several governorships, state legislatures and of course control of the House of Representatives. It isn't a very bright future for the conservative extremists, for the moderate conservatives the world should not change very much, although the republican extremists are gaining in numbers the party itself is growing smaller. This is a fact and no amount of railing against fate or doom saying will change the momentum that is currently with the liberals and will only grow more irresistible with time.

Republicans are not idiots per se, democrats are not idiots either, but it is the extremists of both parties that are responsible for our current government malaise. But it just does not matter because there is a historical imperative at work here and the white America of our forefathers no longer exists...it is changing into something very different as we speak. 

Even so, that is the way of things, change is inevitable and this change is moving the majority into the hands of the former minorities and those minorities are not conservatives, they are liberal and socialistic. Cry, swear and pray all you like that is the future and it will be much better for the vast majority of our people than the recent past has been. 

Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. The very first republican president said that and he meant it; his name was Abraham Lincoln, and he died for what he believed in.

New York and New Jersy are afraid

Been reading the political reports from both sides and something interesting has occurred to me. 

Everyone in the republican ranks except those from Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersy are afraid that this latest switch in voting by republican conservatives will result in strong primary competition this coming election year of 2014. 

What strikes me as interesting is that the strong primary challenges in 2012 resulted in many republican incumbents losing primaries and then the tea party/ultra conservatives who won those primaries losing to either independents or democrats in the general election. 

Given the anal-retentive nature of those ultra conservative and purblind extremists it is quite likely the same scenario will play out in the 2014 primaries and national elections, and if it does then the house of Representatives could very well land back in the lap of the democrats with plenty of independents siding with their democratic colleagues. 

I find the whole thing curiously satisfying and i for one can hardly wait. Apparently shooting themselves in the foot and then placing that foot firmly in their mouth is a genetic thing among republicans. But it does delight me and others who have had more than enough of these unrealistic and insensitive not to say lacking in perception and markedly ignorant anachronisms.

Corporate Profits Hit Record High While Worker Wages Hit Record Low

By Pat Garofalo on Dec 3, 2012 at 9:25 am

 

A constant conservative charge against President Obama is that he is inherently anti-business.
However, businesses keep defying the storyline by making larger and larger profits, rebounding nicely out of the Great Recession.

In the third quarter of this year, “corporate earnings were $1.75 trillion, up 18.6% from a year ago.” Corporations are currently making more as a percentage of the economy than they ever have since such records were kept. But at the same time, wages as a percentage of the economy are at an all-time low, as this chart shows. (The red line is corporate profits; the blue line is private sector wages.):


Corporations made a record $824 billion in profits last year as well, while the stock market has had one of its best performances since 1900 while Obama has been in office.

Meanwhile, workers are getting the short end of the stick. As CNN Money explained, “a separate government reading shows that total wages have now fallen to a record low of 43.5% of GDP. Until 1975, wages almost always accounted for at least half of GDP, and had been as high as 49% as recently as early 2001.”