YOU KNOW THAT PITCHFORK LEANING UP AGAINST THE SHEEP-PEN?

You know that manure encrusted pitchfork leaning against the sheep-pen?  I hope we don't need that come the Fall of 2014!!!  When Americans hit the street to change history, it looks like a swarm of humanity heading to church.  WE SHALL OVERCOME AGAIN!!! The Republicans are cowards through and through. Not one of them had the courage to challenge Boehner for his Speaker position! As soon as the gavel came down, the knives came out, and members of the Republican Party have waged war on Boehner incessantly. They rage at him and threaten him like spoiled children demanding candy. They treat their Leader that they elected like they treat the American Woman, African Americans, Hispanics, or Veterans. Since Obama ran for office we have been subjected to a constant and escalating din of their slander and false witness against him.  Their vile inner-family squabble has paralyzed all legislative progress on the Federal level.  Of what possible use are Republican Representatives?  Since the outset of the financial crisis, Republicans have obstructed reform and filibustered reform votes at every opportunity.  The Republican House hasn't passed a single jobs bill and only passed 13 bills as the majority.  Their disparate elements, The Fascist Corporatists, the Anti-American ignoramus insurgent Tea Party which is partially manipulated by the Corporatists, the Aynn Rand Libertarians, and the Religious Zealots.  None of these groups have anything in common.  They all have contempt for politics and most alarmingly, they hate each other as much as they hate Obama.  THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE GUTS TO LEAD.  Like a cancer, the voters of California broke years of gridlock and went Blue.  Now they're in the black.  Voters in Minnesota followed suit and passed an honest budget with no landmines while paying back the schools money taken from them by Republicans.  Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility.  Every statistic bears that out.  My arthritis wanted to stay up last night so around 4:00 AM me and old Art watched the Hunger Games on Netflix. The movie told of a dystopian future where young people fought to the death to provide the wealthy with entertainment. They called it "the peace" because only the combatants were fighting. Before being forced to fight the kids lived in poverty with no chance at an education. Many elements of the story could be lifted from life today. Fans of war are cheering to send our kids to die in a war that's been going on for thousands of years. Their kids won't go. Their arms industry friends will sure prosper though. For thirty years I've heard Conservative politicians talk of how the best of America is behind us, blaming labor unions for runaway costs while taking salaries 2,000 times that of the working man. Faith is shaken and huckster ministers preach a twisted selfishness having no resemblance to the teachings in the New Testament. They attack our teachers who invest more in our children than anyone in the community except parents. I have news for Conservatives. War is not security, it is war. Education is not a waste of money unless it is spent on your ignorant mind. Teachers start work at 7:00AM and get off about 8:00PM and they have health insurance and retirement. When more folks belonged to Unions, folks who didn't earned more money. There is virtually no middle class anymore due to conservative policies and blunders. 50% of Americans live in poverty. The Hunger Games and Conservatives love of Aynn Rand values makes the more of a template than a fantasy.   They are so harsh, they treat the Speaker like a child after it is born. They simply never had the capacity to govern.  Golly, I wonder if all that Republican talk about the "Soviet Union" being our number one enemy over the last couple of years has created any suspicion in Russia of America in Russia complicating Obama's relationship with Russia. It all started out innocently enough. They were too lazy to get Bin Laden so they tried to convince the American people the "Soviet Union" was the real threat. Sometimes when you spew diarrhea from your mouth it has real world consequences.  Americans can take an accurate measure of the depth of the Republican intellectual pool.  Louie Gohmert says, "Mankind has existed for a pretty long time without anyone ever having to give a sex-ed lesson to anybody. And now we feel like, oh gosh, people are too stupid unless we force them to sit and listen to instructions. It's just incredible." He must have the dullest children in Texas or else he's a liar. Kids ask questions and they deserve an answer. Nobody forces kids to go to sex ed. Every kid that goes must have a permission slip.  Republicans fear education and wish to limit the spread of informed voters.  BREAKING NEWS...THERE WERE MORE STUPID REPUBLICANS IN TEXAS THAN ORIGINALLY ESTIMATED.  A State Senator claiming to be a Dr. claims,  pregnancy only occurs after “accurate intercourse”.  Does this mean dyslexic people can't reproduce or that there is no such thing as sloppy sex?  State Rep. Jodie Laubenberg claimed  “In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits where a woman can get cleaned out."  She was asked to clarify and she did.  She explained her misunderstanding that a rape kit is for getting the goo out and not collecting evidence therefore abortions should never be needed.  That begs the question, "Is a heart valve the faucet you turn to get a transfusion?   Common sense...to Conservatives on the Court? HELL NO!!! The law passed Congress with only about 35 nays. Remember all the bitching Republicans did about "activist" courts when they simply interpreted the law. That's what you call a Freudian slip.  When killing 4,500 Americans in a war of choice and trashing the economy just isn't quit enough to show how little you care for America you take away their voting rights and allow the Klan to run the elections and decide who votes.  Texas immediately announced voter ID plans which were struck down last year.  You have to show your gun, your cowboy hat, a picture of your horse, your birth certificate, answer a simple random "civics" quiz about Rev. Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, or George W. Bush, and show your white skin.  Today, more than any other day, it is important for the survival of our Democracy to dedicate our hearts and passion in honor of Representative John Lewis. He has taken the beatings and nearly died...many of his close friends did die to ensure voting rights. This June marks the anniversery of their death at the hand of the Klan.  He has offered forgiveness to those that have beat him. Today, dedicate yourself to restoring the Dream.  First Congress must re-enact this Law then go forward with a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote.  The time for tact with old friends has passed.  Voting GOP is destroying our way of life and our rights.   The activist Supreme Court is dismantling voting rights. Is it important to vote in America? Not if you are Hispanic or African American. How can anyone of conscious vote Republican? As the demographics change, the Supreme Court makes it possible for racists to disqualify Hispanic and African American voters.  We have Fascism not Judicial temperance with this ruling all to facilitate more White electoral victories while suppressing African American and Hispanic voters.  My arthritis wanted to stay up last night so around 4:00 AM me and old Art watched the Hunger Games on Netflix. The movie told of a dystopian future where young people fought to the death to provide the wealthy with entertainment. They called it "the peace" because only the combatants were fighting. Before being forced to fight the kids lived in poverty with no chance at an education. Many elements of the story could be lifted from life today. Fans of war are cheering to send our kids to die in a war in Syria that's been going on for thousands of years. Their kids won't go. Their arms industry friends will sure prosper though. For thirty years I've heard Conservative politicians talk of how the best of America is behind us, blaming labor unions for runaway costs while taking salaries 2,000 times that of the working man. Faith is shaken and huckster ministers preach a twisted selfishness having no resemblance to the teachings in the New Testament. They attack our teachers who invest more in our children than anyone in the community except parents. I have news for Conservatives. War is not security, it is war. Education is not a waste of money unless it is spent on their ignorant mind. Teachers start work at 7:00AM and get off about 8:00PM and they have health insurance and retirement. When more folks belonged to Unions, folks who didn't, earned more money. There is virtually no middle class anymore due to conservative policies and blunders. 50% of Americans live in poverty. Thirty years of Reagonomics has left the American economy in a shambles.  The Hunger Games show Conservatives love of Aynn Rand values makes this more of a template than a fantasy.

ENOUGH WITH THE METRO SEXUAL SPIES ALREADY!

The OldSheepHerder longs for the days when spies were more like Humphrey Bogart’s character of Sam Spade in the movie The Maltese Falcon than David Bowie in Labyrinth.  Metrosexual spies have had a bad run lately.  Take Julian Assange.  The Mastermind of Wikileaks, a tell all publication of spy gossip and classified information is holed up in an embassy because two women charge that things got out of control and Mr. Assange became nasty when it was just their intention of having sex with a worldwide hero.  These two gals should have talked to sweet little Bradley Manning, finally getting a trial after rotting in jail a couple of years.  Manning fell under Assange’s spell, delivering a cache of classified documents that could choke several herds of horses.  Julian set about publishing the classified information, exposing Manning, while being hailed as a hero for all his Xerox work and no risk.  Those two fame seeking Swedish gals should have taken stock of Manning’s situation before hoping in the sack with Assange.  That’s still no excuse for rape.  While feeding his lust for fame and adoration, Julian Assange hung Bradley Manning out to dry.  Hmmm?  Would you go to “war” with a guy who greets you, after you’ve taken out a machine gun nest, by shaking your hand and dropping a grenade in your pocket?  Manning got the grenade and some pity while Assange got ill earned fame and glory.  The latest boy to have come under Assange’s spell is Edward Snowden.  He’s announced that his sole purpose in seeking employment as an NSA subcontractor was to steal classified information.  This speaks volumes for the Republican model of “contracting out”, don’t you think?  America’s corporate media types are enamored with Snowden.  They may be getting a decent wage, yet as professionals most of them are just shills for corporations, presenting the news according to corporate standards and they know it.  Within their sad little circle, it seems as though they are clumsily trying to manufacture consent that Snowden’s actions are somehow heroic.  I think you can believe that the Patriot Act savaged the America we once knew and turned it into a quasi-Fascist state yet still understand Snowden is a self-aggrandizing idiot.  The only reason we have the Patriot Act is that Bush was a moron, his staff were morons, and most of the GOP Congress were morons.  Like today their focus was, “No Niggers, no vaginas, end Medicare, privatize Social Security, and no taxes.”  When they were warned REPEATEDLY OF THE TERRORIST CELLS AND BIN LADINS PLANS OF LEADING AL QUEDA TO STRIKE AT THE US WITH PLANES THEY WERE TOO STUPID TO RESPOND.  They just needed a few more tools to get it through their thick head that when the terrorists come calling it’s time to cancel that little vacation to Crawford, the brush can wait, and go Boston on their ass.  Facts meant as little to Republicans then as they do today.  Fearing Bush’s extreme limitations, which matched his administration and party, and wanting to protect our country the Democrats became a party to making the police state.  Bush and the Republicans are more of a threat to America than Al Qaeda ever was.  Good intentions muddled by fear result in horrific decisions.  The police state must be undone BUT NOT IN THE NAME OF SNOWDEN AND ASSANGE!!!  Our Grandchildren should laugh at a brief period of time when some virulent Fascists gave corporations the same rights as human beings while excusing them concurrent responsibilities.  The activist Supreme Court is dismantling voting rights.  Is it important to vote in America?  Not if you are Hispanic or African American.  How can anyone of conscious vote Republican?  As the demographics change, the Supreme Court makes it possible for racists to disqualify Hispanic and African American voters.  Long live Whitey!!!  Half of Americans live in poverty while paying tribute to oil companies for the last 100 year of American history.  Republican rhetoric about taxes just doesn’t mesh with reality.  You don’t hear that on the news do you?  Wealthy corporations simply pay no taxes.  Our tax system is so complicated because it is a long gift list written by corporate Congressmen so their sponsors don’t pay taxes.  Wealth not votes steers and determines policy.  Damn reason!  Damn the future!  Ignorance is knowledge.  Fetuses are people and babies are an unwanted burden on society.  You prevent pregnancy from rape with rape kits.  You gotta admit it…George Orwell was a punk!!!  But the OldSheepHerder has digressed.  I guess one more thing troubles me about Snowden.  Do you think Sam Spade would trade a life of confinement in some Ecuadorian embassy over a girlfriend that can hang upside-down on a stripper pole?   

THE MANURE JUST KEEPS GETTIN' DEEPER

Republicans are terrified for America (themselves) and see 2014 as a stepping stone to groom their awesome stable of candidates for President to read better and not be as personally repulsive as Mitt Romney was.  It is just unacceptable to them that a woman, Hillary Clinton, should be elected after Barrack Obama (who is 1/2 African American).  Republicans are fairly certain Negroes and Women are not really Americans.  And besides...Benghazi!  Republicans are so bent "to get to the bottom" of Benghazi, they publicly demand e-mails they are already in possession of. It could go back to their literacy problems.  Maybe its just a cry out for a Democrat to read them for them.  In 1995 Right wing fervor burned bright and was completely out of control.  An extended witch hunt by Ken Starr was attempting to overturn the election of Bill Clinton was underway.  To Republicans nothing was out of bounds.  They allied themselves with the most radical militant groups in the country to unseat the President.  Then Oklahoma City happened.  McVeigh perpetrated his mass murder because he felt personally wronged by the events at Ruby Ridge and decided to extract his pound of flesh from the government by murdering employees at the Social Security office and their children at the day care.  The most astonishing fact of this boiling resentment is the leadership of the Right Wing applauds the heavy handed police tactics used at Ruby Ridge that causes all this boiling resentment when it is used against people of color or another religion.  You’ll never hear anybody say, “Boy those Right Wing guys sure have a lot of brains.”  The Right Wing is populated with people that pay homage to the Constitution by violating it and lobbying for laws contrary to basic Constitutional principles.  Conservatives took no responsibility to dial back their caustic rhetoric in an effort to not incite the unstable.  In fact Conservatives have significantly INCREASED INFLAMMATORY AND INCITEFUL RHETORIC.  President Clinton handled the tragedy like the true statesman he is.  Republicans maintained and fostered their dark alliances.  The Boston Marathon was dedicated to the victims of the Newton massacre.  The Right Wing has come to revile the victims as pawns in the gun safety debate. The Right Wing identifies with Boston and the Founding Fathers throwing off the shackles of tyranny.  Hearing the rumblings that a mere 10% of Americans support this extremism, and having lost the last election decisively, the extremist can only preach fear and filibuster.  What cowards.  Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi voted on gun control with the Democrats and received a poison ricin letter in the mail.  Senator Carl Levin D-Michigan received a poison ricin letter in his field office.  The President received a ricin letter.  In order to maintain our sense of objectivity should we gather up some Saudi and Al Qaeda suspects?  The attempted poisonings with ricin have Right Wing fingerprints all over them.  The Boston bombing has been impeded by NRA obstruction of putting a simple marker in black powder, making its origin traceable when it is used in bombs like Boston.  The entire Republican Party and its most visible politicians, commentators, media outlets, and organizations have been organized FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS in a manner that produces VIOLENT LONE WOLF DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.  The calls for second amendment solutions, assassination, secession, and street violence are so common with Republican politicians and on right wing media that the nation has become numb to this violent talk and threats.  These kinds of threats and actions are not Free Speech.  These are acts of sedition.  They are the actions of an insurgent movement bent on destabilizing our economy, our security, and our common welfare.  If Conservatives truly cared for the futures of children, they would consider the consequences of their harsh treatment of Gay Parents and how that harsh treatment affects their children.  Holding a Bible in one hand doesn't give one God like prerogatives to mistreat people.  The same political constituency righteously sited their rights to own slaves in the Bible.  Corporations employ these zealots for their purposes by feeding them cash.  The complete absence of any review or reflection on their hate filled position is shocking.  When all else fails it’s time to pound the impeachment drum to deny Americans of their elected government.  Their world view won't change but they will feel even more threatened after their prejudice is no longer codified in law.  We see Conservative Legislatures attempting to establish State Religion.  We see them establishing “personhood” amendments for clusters of cells while eliminating food, housing, and medical welfare for living children.  We see them openly and repeatedly disputing that rape is even traumatic or serious criminal offense.  We see them celebrating guns in the aftermath of 26 people being blown to pieces by a madman that they are opposed to putting through a background check.  We see the GOP base accepting a twisted version of reality without ever questioning it or checking out its authenticity.  I'm hoping an amendment is offered during the second go around with the gun safety debate placing heavy sanctions on the level of a trillion dollars, for every mental health incitement, frivolous and unfounded call to arms, slanderous and false statements to advance political agendas, and assassination incitement. Canada prohibits the broadcast of "news" which is mostly false.  Each of us will have different interests.  It's important to respect each other’s rights, negotiate in good faith and by reaching political compromise, some of our interests are met and we all can enjoy some progress.  If you poison the well by refusing to compromise, by refusing to talk, by refusing to negotiate in good faith then girder these unreasonable positions by seeking to aggressively limit other citizens’ rights, you aren't a participant in Democracy, you're an insurgent.  The underpinning of contemporary Conservationism is Fascism. Conservatives define their rights and freedoms as the right to oppress and steal other’s liberty as they chose. I just don't see that in the Constitution. What Conservatives want is a western version of Somalia.  Congratulations to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal for refusing to surrender during the Civil War. It's 2013 and Republicans still regard kids having a racially integrated prom in the old hateful context of "race mixing" and call it a Leftist idea. It is a Ku Klux Klan idea that the prom was still segregated. You know...the guys that lynch African Americans for having eye contact with them and for not stepping off the side walk when their White superiors pass. Each member of the school board, the superintendent, and every state official should be sued personally out of their personnel pockets not public funds for perpetuating this bull shit. When the government entity is sued, the taxpayers pay and it’s no skin off the bigot’s ass. They should be held personally accountable.  Compulsive liar and budding megalomaniac, Rand Paul spoke at Howard University, an African American University, and condescended to the students in a way that only a hack deluded hillbilly chiropractic optometrist could. He asked the students if they were aware that Republicans were the anti-slavery party. Emphasis on WERE. It seems the penile penetration/ejaculation argument that is central to defining marriage took a shit when Justice Kagan asked attorneys if it was within the parameters of the rights of the state to deny marriage licenses to couples over 55 as they will not produce children. The lawyer evaded the direct question claiming instead the couple was fertile. It had to be explained to him that couples over 55 produce no children. The courtroom erupted in laughter. Even Scalia laughed at him. What is it about the birds and bees and these yahoos?  Sadly, it has come to my attention that just like the Post Office, The Pentagon ran a deficit last year. The proportion of that deficit ran up by the Post Office pales in comparison to the deficit ran up by the Pentagon making it an urgent mandate that we de-fund the Pentagon. Next up...requiring Wall Street to capitalize the annual bloated salaries of their CEO's for the next 75 years at the nearest credit union.  We are now in a prolonged skewered era of our tax system where poor and middle class people pay direct supports to a minority of wealthy people and corporations as they plunder our shared resources and ship jobs overseas to Communist countries and Third World Countries paying slave labor wages. At every attempt to reform this corruption, Republicans obstruct and even lobby to enhance this newer form of slavery. Private profits and shared risks are the guiding principles of the GOP.  One thing is for sure. People don't seem to be getting a lot smarter. When I hear people lionize Reagan, I just shake my head. If "Morning in America" is paying 18% on bank loans and 22% on credit card interest, you got a hell of a lot more disposable cash than I do. Through the Nixon/Ford (second term) stories of long bread lines and short supplies came out of the Soviet Union. These stories multiplied during the Carter administration compounded by the USSR's invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. As the USSR failed to provide domestically, their Imperial designs crumbled, spelling the end of the USSR. I call him "Right Time, Right Place Ronnie." Republicans claim he defeated the greatest communist empire on the planet. I gotta take exception to that claim. His party invested in the greatest communist empire on the planet. Ask Mitt.  The unelected corporate interests that control the Republican Party have no interest in the civil wellbeing of our nation.  Their one and only interest is profit.  They distort and manipulate every issue through that perspective.  TheOldSheepHerder has a suggestion for lobbying the cowards in Washington.  Ask them if they are going to stand with the American people or the home grown terrorists like the Boston bombers, the ricin mailer, the gun manufacturers, or other American insurgents.  Remember that these mounting numbers of acts of domestic terrorism are going to be great for automatic weapons sales and big clips. 

IT'S TIME TO REDEDICATE OUR MOVEMENT

Do you ever get the impression that defecating on the American Apple pie is the Republican strategy and platform?  The GOP leadership has admitted there is no debt crisis yet continues their war on the citizens of this country.  We have paid our tribute to the wealthy now it is time they pay their fair share of taxes and relinquish their preferential treatment in the tax code.  I have a proposition that may seem a bit radical but I do wish that you would consider it.  Working people are being enslaved by corporations and the current tax structure. We the people support the rich with tax subsidies and tax write offs.  We want to move away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy but Conservative politicians have structured tax policy in such a way that we have little money to invest in alternative energy.  We want to preserve the environment but that ideal of rapidly expanding green energy crimps the Koch brothers’ accumulation of unusable wealth and our payments to them.  States gerrymandered districts have make it nearly impossible to vote in Democrats.  More people voted for Democratic candidates yet the GOP still holds the House in this rigged game.  The GOP even went to great lengths to suppress the Democratic vote.  We see the corporately sponsored and paid for Supreme Court Conservative Justices taking retaliatory action against the Democratic coalition of voters that said the wealthy should pay their fair share by ending the Voting Rights Act.  In these very urgent times, the best the Republican Party has been able to come up with is a strategy of disciplined stupidity, by letting the Sequester cuts take place and filibustering last minute Democratic solutions.  They are after all, the paid obstructionists of Wall Street and the Extremists.  The Progressive Caucus can make a gesture which by its very name change will articulate the positions of the Progressive Caucus and define the opposition to these changes for what they are.  I suggest that the Progressive Caucus change their name to the “Progressive Abolition Caucus”, standing against corporate enslavement in the tax code, in the environment, at the voting booth, in the clinic, in the work place, in our schools, and every other place corporations have usurped human priorities in the interest of accumulating unusable wealth.  The Confederatization of politics must be beaten and shamed so no fantasy of the South Rising Again can be sold to home grown insurgents who would and have torn our country apart.  Insurgency, Secession, and the dismantling of social safety net programs and support of the decay of infrastructure in deference to making our subsidy payments to millionaires, billionaires, and highly profitable large corporations can’t be mistaken for politics as usual but defined as the crippling national economic enslavement that it is.  Its way past time we articulate our message in an “us against them manner.”  It’s taken 16 years for the idea to get out there that supply side economics doesn’t work.  A simple message is a more effective message.  Having a pointed message which is repeated every time you speak to the American people and is reflected in the name of your Caucus’ name would go a long way to adding clarity to what can be confusing for voters to grasp.  Corporate enslavement isn’t working out for America.  It’s corrosive to our laws and institutions and is the primary corrupting influence in our government.  If citizens that fear public transit and drive a car as a result can’t write off that expense as a “security” measure, corporations should not be able to write off jets for security purposes.  America is NOT a catered luncheon.  Waiting the Republicans out is not good enough.  We need a national coordinated effort to say the Democrats will no longer tolerate corporate enslavement of their constituents.  For every tax loop hole banks, corporations, and Wall Street enjoys, the Democrats need to counter with a mirrored tax break for poor and working people.  Grover’s gang will oppose these and this will expose them further to their constituents.  Instead of showing Norquist opposes tax cuts for working people a couple times, the point could be driven home for 2014.  If it’s not good for the goose it’s not good for the gander.  The GOP assaults the public with shocking proposals and calls them necessary and patriotic.  Democrats need to do more than just simply counter this nonsense and brain washing of the public.  We need to wage an all-out assault.  Nobody can afford to be a dignified man in a suit from Washington.  In America, those men do not exist.  If you are not marching behind the likes of Elizabeth Warren, announce your retirement.  We need leadership from the Progressive Caucus with a short message, that people are rallying around, have staying power, are truthful, represent our values, and can serve as a legislative foundation.  With his flaccid leadership on filibuster reform and near desertion on gun safety legislation, Harry Reid has shown he is tailored to lead the Blue Dog Caucus not Senate Majority Leader.  The President needs to stop fretting about getting “his homework done” and stop offering up things like chained CPI.  That’s like telling Granny she can get a new wheel chair…right after you amputate her legs.  CONFRONT THE REAL PROBLEMS AMERICA FACES, NOT THE RED HERRINGS THE GOP THROWS OUT IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE!!!

THE FISCAL CLIFF

What is the threshold where pursuit of personnel political objectives becomes a dereliction of ones responsibilities as a voter or a legislator?  What is the threshold where defying the will of the majority becomes the systematic plan to overthrow representative Democracy by making it dysfunctional?  Is it patriotic to stand on the freeway and obstruct traffic because you have an opinion that traffic should move the other way?  This is how Republicans use the filibuster.  When the consensus is to move one way, Republicans submit a letter which starts a filibuster on the matter and stops the discussion, or traffic.  The 112^th Congress has used the filibuster more than any Congress in American history.  They have denied the Administration appointments to the Courts, thereby disabling our court system by blocking appointments at a historically highest rate.  Law and order Republicans?  By having a full complement of judges on the bench, the Department of Justice would be better able to deal with the back log of Wall Street thieves from 2008.  These guys contribute heavily to the Republican Party and expect NO PROSECUTION.  The bench is about half filled.  The Republicans are for Law and Order like Stalin and Hitler were Human Rights Activists!  Voters that continue to support this party are acknowledging broad disagreement with established civil law relating to voting rights, racial equality, women’s rights, health care, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and public education.  Republicans will continue to filibuster to dismantle these institutions that underpin our society while lobbying for the super-rich and corporations that often pay minimum wage if they are based in this country at all.  Sedition is defined as:  1. speech or behaviour directed against the peace of a state  2. an offence that tends to undermine the authority of a state  3. an incitement to public disorder.  If you’ve heard Louie Gomhert, Michelle Bachmann, Peter King or any of the Tea Party office holders speak, they don’t criticize our government, they attack it with slander and lies and never apologize when proven wrong, are never punished by the Republican Party for their inflammatory remarks and the consequence is that their lies spreads like a cancer in our country THEY CLAIM TO LOVE SO MUCH.  Ill informed voters, repeating the lies, becoming enraged and hateful.  Spreading sedition has become the national sport of the Republican Party.  There are still idiots that are so filled with hate from the GOP and their upbringing; they think Obama is a foreigner.  Just to counter all the voter suppression mischief, Democratic districts should require Republican voters to identify Obama’s birth place!  Seriously, with all the turmoil of the last twelve years, we often hear America being compared to Rome.  The only Empire that is crumbling is the Republican Party.  Rome depended on loyal and ignorant peasants blindly supporting the blood thirsty Emperor against their own interests.  Right now the Tea Party is in the process of eating their own.  We learned as children, how much a simple statement can become distorted in the game of telephone, whispering into the ear of the person next to you, until the message had been delivered to the first person who said it.  When you start out with a lie as the Republicans and Fox News do, the end message is hyper virulent and toxic.  This is by design.  Their Super Pacs, this election cycle, proved to be a complete fraud.  Sara Palin’s is her own personnel checking account.  Dick Armey tried to get control of his with an armed guard.  Dick Morris’s Super Pac was modeled after a pyramid scheme.  Morris sold contributor’s information to other contributors and kept all the money for himself, using none of it for political activity.    The scams don’t quit.  What would you expect from a party whose “coalition” is built through lies?  There is a sort of Stockholm Syndrome relationship with the GOP and its base.  There are three big threats to our economy.  The first is the GOP base.   In spite of all available facts and against their own interests they keep voting Republican.  The second threat is conservative media which scrupulously avoids the facts in order to brain wash the base into this bizarre value system of worshipping rich people and loathing their peers while calling themselves Christian.  The third threat is the seditious Republican legislators who crashed the economy and have done everything possible to gum up the gears of government to prevent economic recovery.  The Republicans use the power of their offices to spread slander, lies, fantasy, hate speech, throw tantrums, avoid work altogether, and even refuse to raise the debt ceiling on spending that they had authorized, reducing our credit rating, and inflicting increased costs on the taxpayers with the ensuing higher interests rates paid on our debt.  When you think about it, Conservatives from all quarters have express such contempt for government that it has turned into a mission of destruction of our government.  Obama’s re-election was met with calls for secession from the Fox News masses.  All the hate speech had done its work.  All the slander had done its work.  These ignorant masses, the highest demographic of American citizens on Social Security Disability and Medicare along with their neighbors who had received multiple income tax reductions from the administration would not be governed by this Nigger President another four years.  The most conservative member of the Supreme Court, Anthony Scalia, has addressed the issue of secession, defining it as illegal and foolish.  The aptitude of Republicans for governing our nation was revisited again when John Boehner couldn’t get enough votes to bring his Plan B Bill to the floor because many in his party felt it wasn’t worshipful enough to the super-rich.  Boehner said the serenity prayer to rally them and when they didn’t rally he adjourned the House, hit the Bar, and basically said fuck it, let Harry Reid and the Senate deal with this shit because I’m going home.  Now that’s what I call leadership!  At least everybody that keeps up with politics that knows about AA got a good laugh.  The deep and abiding common factors in the Republican psyche are that only they should benefit from tax dollars while resisting every penny in taxes paid.  This narcissistic world view impedes intellectual and spiritual growth.  The Republicans had planned on electing Romney and robbing working people on a grand scale to “address the fiscal cliff.”  That didn’t happen. They had a year to plan and they can’t adjust.  The dictionary calls that maladjusted.  They refuse to acknowledge the outcome of the election.  All the voter suppression favored their candidate.  All the voter fraud was perpetrated by them or their agents.  Having the grace of Al Gore, even though he won the popular vote, is beyond the capabilities of the Republican Party.  Republicans are incapable of putting their country first.  Typically Republicans expect civil treatment from the community at large but feel no obligation to conduct themselves that way.  Their rigid ideology precludes them from government service.  Demanding that an entire nation adapt to meet the perceived needs of a small percentage of the super-rich who need accountants to apprise them of the level of their wealth is tragic.  Where in World history has indulging the excesses of the wealthy benefitted a nation?  History is clear.  It is admirable and desirable to prosper.  At a point that these goals become all consuming, you have admitted failure and are stealing from normal community obligations.  When your community has crumbled, where will you prosper?  President Obama knows that Congress controls the purse strings.  He also knows that Federal unemployment benefits have expired.  Making this deal ensures people can buy groceries.  If this is what makes him a Kenyan Mau Mau, then sign me up.