Democrats & Liberals

A Tale From Tomorrow.

The date is 2020. Republicans have succeeded in regaining the Senate and the House. The Public is behind their bid to reform Medicare and do tort reform. Unfortunately, a Democratic Minority, still stinging from the defeats of earlier in the last decade have decided, in a political strategy reminiscent of the Republican's own, to use their filibuster power to effectively stall the bill in Congress. There is no end in sight, even as the credit markets reel from American debt overruns and the sky-high cost of healthcare...

Naked Republican Power

Richard Shelby of Alabama has demonstrated how a single Republican senator, though a member of the minority party, can prevent the president of the U.S. from doing his job. Shelby used a hold to prevent the confirmation of not 1 but of 70 executive appointees merely to gain some pork for Alabama. An excellent example of the exercise of naked Republican power through obstructionism.

Republicans Fighting for Financial Bums

There are 2 major parties in the U.S.: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Democrats, under the leadership of President Obama, are doing their utmost to solve the Depression the financial bums in Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and other financial powerhouses have plunged us into. At every turn, the Republicans are stymying the Democratic efforts. They are fighting FOR the financial bums and against the American people.

A Display of Astounding Ignorance

Did you know that lifting the ban on gays and lesbians openly serving in the military could cause widespread natural disasters such as earthquakes? And did you know that allowing proud, patriotic Americans to be open about who they are will cause a breakdown of our military, and open the door to a draft? If you were not aware of these things than you must not be paying attention to the stunning battle of wits being waged over President Obama’s recent promise to repeal DADT.

FBI Gets Further Information Out of Mirandized Xmas Bomber

It was the one thing I wanted to tell these people who were insisting that we would never get anything more out of the Hot Pants Bomber because he had been informed of his right to remain silent: just because a suspect shuts up at first, doesn't mean his lips are sealed for good.

How did they do it? They appealed to his family. And guess what? The fact we didn't beat the crap out of him to get more answers helped us there.

Bonuses for Economy Destroyers

Huge financial corporations, such as Goldman Sachs, have gambled away our money with financial transactions none of us understands. They outsmarted themselves and were on the verge of complete failure, when we, the people, bailed them out. This was done to prevent a total collapse of our economy. But these financial people still believe they are not ordinary people. They believe they deserve tens of million and even hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses.

General Motors for President

Do you like any of the current Republican president-wannabe's, such as Romney and Pawlenty? Or do you prefer the great Teabagger Sarah Palin? None of these or other conservative people under consideration for the most important job in America are remotely as capable as General Motors.

Come on! This should be a No-Brainer.

I mean, really folks: voting for matching revenues to spending, whether there's substance to it or not, should be an easy measure for Republicans to be bipartisan on. After all, it will restrict government spending, keep those damn Democrats from spending the country into a hole. What's the upside of a party line vote that can be so easily used to portray Republicans as hypocrites on fiscal matters?

Sold, Sold, Sold to the Corporations

We have a Supreme Court that is supposed to interpret the Constitution and the laws of the land in a way that increases the democratic voice of all our people. What the Court has done in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case is nullify the voice of real people and amplify the voice of ersatz people: corporations. The Supreme Court sold our democracy to the corporations.

Weak or Strong, Mr. President?

The loss of Ted Kennedy’s former seat, a seat solidly Democratic for as long as anyone can remember, is the only chance President Obama may have of showing conviction in his beliefs. While many pundits will promote the notion that the loss of this long standing Democratic bastion signals a shift away from the Democrats, it is too early to jump to conclusions. While health care was a major contributing factor in the loss of the late Kennedy’s seat, I believe it is a sign that the President has been too weak, and people are starting to get fed up.

The Articles of Confederation, and Why Congress Has Majority Rule.

The Republicans will surely enjoy the advantage of being able to prevent bills from even coming to a vote, much less pass. But in carrying out this policy of permanent obstruction in the senate, they unwittingly follow the terrible example of our forefathers in post colonial times, the example which eventually forced them to rewrite the Articles of Confederation into the constitution, and make all but the most extraordinary of votes a majority rules affair.

War & Peace: America’s Helpful Dichotomy

America’s response to the Haitian earthquake proves once again that it is a country capable of great acts of selflessness and compassion. In a time when government spending has become more scrutinized than ever, President Obama did not think twice about sending relief aid. This is commendable. It is important to keep in mind that we are only obligated to aid Haiti out of a shared sense of human compassion, nothing else. And despite our apparent “look-the-other-way” attitude on everyday human rights disasters around the globe, we at least helped out when a sudden massive tragedy unfolded.

One Hundred and Seventy Six

H1N1 strikes, but a Surgeon General nominee languishes. A Terrorist tries to strike on an airplane, but there is no top person at TSA.

Which of the other 176 nominees held up by Republicans will we need when the next crisis hits? What's going to be the next casualty of this pernicious strategy of mindless obstructionism?

Let Me Exploit the Disaster in Haiti...

...to discuss a very important issue for Americans: infrastructure.

The 7.0 earthquake in Haiti was about the same strength as the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, the one that struck San Francisco. We're hearing estimates of perhaps over 100,000 deaths in the more recent quake, whereas the quake in our country only killed 63 people. You'll guess that my position is that infrastructure is the difference. But there's a warning even there.

Could it be..... SATAN!?!?!?!

When the Church Lady said it on Saturday Night Live, it was a joke. When Pat Robertson says it, it tends not to be that funny. He joined Jerry Falwell in that infamous blaming of 9/11 on secularists, gays and other pet peeve populations of theirs. Well, let it never be said that he learned his lesson from that particular screwup. Now he says that Haiti's Earthquake is a result of a pact with Satan. And no, I'm afraid I'm not making it up.