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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ~ Plato
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Busiest day? My birthday! LOL
I am glad that the blog did so good, with so many out there it becomes like having all the channels on cable.
So much to view and so little time to really see which you really want to view.
May the coming year have more answers then questions!
A lot of good people here and may we all continue to be friends and follow travelers.
Our little blog won’t be two years old until next March. It’s been a good place and since our bloggers all care about keeping it that way, we will continue to be friends and fellow travelers. 🙂 It’s nice to talk things over, isn’t it?
Remember when the House Republicans decided to waste time and money impeaching a president they knew in advance wouldn’t be convicted by the Senate? House Republicans must derive some kind of pleasure from being irrelevant at the expense of Americans!
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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/01/republican-new-us-house-will-go-after-obamas-health-care-bill/1
All those who are NOW covered by their parents insurance to the age of 26, those who can’t be canceled or denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions, and Seniors who don’t need to worry about that donut hole along with others already enjoying benefits of the Affordable Care Act should be disgusted by the Republicans actions! It’s up to each of us to make sure every American knows who these idiots are and what they are doing! We must let voters know exactly what Republicans do once they are elected! They aren’t simply the Party of Hell No, they are the Party of Regression!
Ah we are once again starting a new Congress, already seeing all the new and can be unreasonable hopes of them actually doing what the people want. This time that hope is coming from the Right side and once again I have the feeling they will find it as disappointing as the left side found the pass one.
There will be some points made and often there will be minor and best that could be pointed to.
But I do feel that it will not be as they hope for, perhaps that is for the best.
Since I have concluded that by and large the masses do not truly know exactly what the want or what is for the best.
More just best guesses and moment thoughts.
Remember Boehner has already stated that none of them who are elected takes an oath to listen to constituents. Nope, he says their oath is to the Constitution. I’m sure listening to constituents won’t happen, and I’ll be watching carefully to see whether they follow the Constitution.
Even more interesting will be whether or not their constituents actually notice. I don’t think they will. They didn’t last time they were in the majority. It was enough that people with the little “R” behind their name were in charge. They seemed to have no expectations beyond that and they certainly didn’t have to worry about their expectations being exceeded.
Fnord they will have to be in a real rush otherwise what is good in the reform will become apparent.
Then they will have no support for repeal and riots in the streets!
They have the rock and the hard place, having painted the reform as the deal with Satan.
To back down and not try it will cause the base to finally wake up to the hollow delusions that they have been spoon fed.
I know. But to state in advance that you know what you’re going to do has no chance seems to be saying it will be OK to be irrelevant and to pursue futility. That’s all their constituency expects of them anyway.
“First, the rule of law. We always hear members of Congress talking about swearing an oath to represent their constituents when in reality the only oath we take is to the Constitution. We pledge “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” No more, no less.”
FULL TEXT: Boehner Delivers Remarks on Congressional Reform and the People’s House
http://gopleader.gov/news/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=209488
2011: Calling Time on Capitalism
Recent decades have seen a massive redistribution of wealth, imposing the cost of successive crises on the poorest. Enough!
The end of 2010 brought renewed Washington rhetoric, media hype and academic me-too declarations about the US economy “recovering”. We’ve heard them before since the crisis hit in 2007. They always proved wrong.
But recovery noises are useful for some. Republicans claim that government should do less since recovery is underway (of course, for them, government action is always counterproductive). Likewise, Republicans and many centrist Democrats claim that income redistribution policies are no longer needed because recovery means growth, which means everyone gets a bigger piece of an expanding economic pie. Recovery hype also helps the Obama administration to claim that its policies succeeded.
Yet, this is more fantasy than reality. After all, the nearly 20% of the US labor force that became unemployed or underemployed in 2009 remains so as we enter 2011. No recovery there. Worse still, a quarter of those who found work since the crisis began only got temp jobs without benefits. Second, foreclosure actions by banks – including those who got most of the government’s bailouts – continue to eject millions from their homes. No recovery there, either (except for the bigger banks).
Third, consider why the Federal Reserve decided last month to create another $600bn of new money, and why Congress and the president agreed in December on an additional fiscal stimulus (extending Bush’s tax cuts, reducing social security withholding for 2011, etc). They took those steps because all the previous bailouts, monetary easing, tax cuts and government fiscal stimulus expenditures had failed to end this crisis. Those immune to hype recognize that more of the same policies that failed before might do so again.
More importantly, the recovery noise distracts from a more basic failure of our economic system: its fundamental instability.
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/01-2
Senator proposes permanent US bases in Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110102/ap_on_re_us/us_us_afghanistan
“We have always been at war with Eastasia.”
sigh
First about 2,000 black birds fell out of the sky. Now dead fish.
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=136195&catid=2
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/02/arkansas.fish.kill/
With this guy in charge, let’s hope the Republicans keep to the mantra of going overboard on all these investigations into the Obama White House.
BTW – Issa thinks the Obama White House is the corrupt? Where was the truth mirror during the 8 years of the Bush White house? Oh, I forgot – GWB is a Republican and saving our country…….yeah, sure.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/02/darrell-issa-obama-corrupt_n_803331.html
If the Republicans keep going forward with all these investigations, I suspect the unemployed and under-employed Americans are going to get mighty upset because these Republicans promised to create jobs. And with those extended Bush tax cuts – those jobs should have already been created!!
The average American does not have much patience for these GOPPERS to become like the keystone cops – tripping all over themselves, spending millions of dollars on needless investigations to only prop themselves up as some type of beacon of all that is saintly in politician land.
I predict by the time the presidential campaign of 2012 gets into full swing, everyone will have had their belly full of these sanctified, glorified and holified repukes.
wicked
January 2, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Busiest day? My birthday! LOL
My birthday as well
Hope everyone’s New Year is off to a good start and holds nothing but good for you and yours
Well, dang it, Freebird, I forgot. Shame on me. So it was a doubly busiest day. HA!
(Actually, my birthdays are a real drag and something I’d prefer to ignore.)