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.