Budget crises and unfinished posts...

I was working on the post below before the government shutdown and budget crisis was averted. Good news came last night, fer sher. Can you imagine the government shutting down affecting millions of Americans all because of ideology? Look at this Planned Parenthood pie chart...

Planned Parenthood Pie Chart

See where it says abortion services 3%? This was a main sticking point in the budget stall, several Republicans/teabaggers were willing to shut down the government if Democrats did not agree to defund Planned Parenthood. Sen. Jon Kyl even went as far as saying that well over 90 percent of what PP does is perform abortions. When called on the remark his office said the statement was not meant to be "factual" he was just trying to illustrate that PP receives millions of dollars in taxpayer funding and the organization does perform abortions.  Oh well, la dee dah...


So I guess it's on to the next budget fight, it's gonna be a doozy. Do ya think the Republicans learned anything these past few weeks?  The teabaggers are not a majority, the Democrats hold the majority in the Senate, Barack Obama IS PRESIDENT. 


here's my yesterdays post I never got around to finishing....
If corporate tax breaks really do create jobs... we would have full employment now. okjimm


This profound statement from okjimm was in a comment to lisa today. Lisa and her teabagger friends like to spew these stupid talking points and hope we'll start to believe them, I guess. It's all those Righties ever say. "Cut taxes to corporations and the rich and the wealth will trickle down, jobs will be created! LOLOL! 

Republicans claim it is necessary to cut taxes for the top wage earners in order to grow the economy. But what they are doing is simply making the rich richer while middle class workers are seeing their taxes rise, plus there are NO NEW JOBS being created. Where are these jobs if the rich have had their tax cuts for 10 yrs now??  The Republicans choose to give tax breaks for oil and gas companies, tax cuts to the top 2%, and protect tax loop holes that help the wealthiest corporations. What has that done for our economy?

 Ten yrs ago Republicans were handed a budget surplus, they squandered it, they came into the White House as the economy was booming and left with massive job loss, huge debt and deficits, a recession so deep we are still in recovery. Yet they brazenly assert the American people have spoken, they want them to take over and FIX what President Obama and Dems have destroyed! HaaaaaaHaaaaaa!

By the way, did you watch the little speeches today in the House budget debates? It was a pitiful display of immaturity by all.  Eric Cantor stood up amongst his clapping idiot GOP friends and said "Lets not forget how we got into this mess in the first place" (speaking about the lack of budget). The idiot friends clapping and laughing were stopped quickly when Democrats started chanting BUSH, BUSH, BUSH!  The look on Cantors face was priceless! He really should not have brought up that subject. Shows their mentality....

Anyway, back to the Republicans non-governing...

  Paul Ryan and his proposed long term budget "PLAN" to save America from most certain doom.

 He wants to privatize Medicare and gut Medicaid saying it will save money, BUT it will shift the financial burden to seniors and working middle class Americans.

He wants to drastically cut spending from education, innovation and infrastructure. This does NOT create growth, but makes us less prepared to compete globally.

He's all for cutting taxes for millionaires, this is how STUPID the Righties are. This only ADDS to our mounting debt, it does NOT reduce our deficit. No where does this plan raise taxes.  Raising taxes on billionaires by a measly 3 percentage points will help our deficit problem immensely. But NO, NO NEW TAXES (for the rich, but for you middle America, hell yea!)



With an all day shopping trip then coming home to a family near crisis, I can't find the time or the words to finish this, but you get the idea, Paul Ryan and the GOP are BAD for America!

These people are CRAZY, scary crazy...

This is sure proof the teabaggers have hijacked the once respected Republican Party, and old school Republicans are NOT HAPPY. So what will they do now? According to an NBC/WSJ poll, Donald Trump is tied for second with Mike Huckabee,  the GOP is in BIG TROUBLE for the 2012 presidential race.

Think Progress: In a CNN poll released March 23, Trump came in fifth in a hypothetical GOP primary, collecting only 10 percent of the vote. That poll, however, was conducted from March 18-20, as Trump’s embrace of the birther issue was just beginning. In just two weeks, he has nearly doubled his support.Prominent Republican strategists have blasted Trump’s strategy, saying it discredited the entire Republican party. In fact, his public embrace of discredited conspiracy theories has lead him to the front of the Republican field.

 With Trumps birther stance catapulting him to 2nd place, thanks to the Tea Party, the GOP's dream of a dramatic upset win over President Obama in 2012 will never come to fruition. The Republican Party can't be taken seriously.

Mike Pence, another Conservative pretty boy "presidential contender" is nothing more than a LIAR. He said this on Morning Joe when asked if he was willing to hold up the entire budget over defunding Planned Parenthood:
 "Well— well of course I am. I think the American people have begun to learn that the largest abortion provider in the country is also the largest recipient of federal funding under Title X, and they want to see that come to an end. I think there's a broad consensus in this country, regardless of where you stand on the subject of abortion, there's a broad consensus for decades now opposing public funding of abortion and abortion providers. ... We're going to dig in and we're going to fight for the principle that taxpayers should not have to subsidize the largest abortion provider in the country, namely Planned Parenthood of America"

LIAR, the man is a liar. AND he does not speak for me or a majority of Americans like he claims. Like all conservatives claim. I won't repeat all the good Planned Parenthood does for women, children and families, we all know the truth.  BTW, Do you remember this.....
 President Obama signed an executive order at the end of the health reform debate last year, ordering that no federal funds be spent on abortion. It was a crucial move in the health reform debate that won over many anti-abortion Democrats, including former Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.).

Todays GOP,  Hijacked by a minority of crazy people called teabaggers. They want a government shutdown and some are demanding it. Mike Pence and a good number of the GOP presidential hopefuls are pandering to these crazies, the Koch brothers are financing these crazies, what the hell are these crazy people gonna do when Glenn Beck is gone from Fox??

What are your dreams and wishes for America?

In my previous post I was criticized by teabagger Linda for saying no president can give us 100% of our dreams and wishes, so I would gladly vote for Barack Obama again. She of course went a little crazy on me and accused me and liberals of only wanting what we can personally GET from the president, the nanny state will be alive and well as long as ignorance reigns, she said. I responded with some of my dreams and wishes for our country since she was SOOOOO off base in her criticisms as usual. My list was short and written in my amateurish way and at the end I asked my readers to add to the list. My good friend Flying Junior added this moving list that was worthy of a new post. Please add your dreams and wishes in a comment if you'd like.



"Too often I have failed to dream about what I would like to see happen in this country. I have become increasingly discouraged about so many things that I have seen happen around me in the last two decades that I have traded my optimism for resentment, blame and distrust. I tried to tell myself that my youthful hope simply evolved from a naiveté, unsophistication and lack of general knowledge about the true evils of this world. Now I believe I understand the degradation that has occurred before my own eyes. I think we all have a sense of blaming a willing coalition of politicians and conglomerates for the deregulation of the media, the diversion of valuable tax dollars to selfish schemes and the loss of so many protections for the common, hard-working people that have been the backbone of this country. Perhaps most disheartening of all is the deep divisions that seem to turn us blindly against each other. After the nightmare presidency of Bush, turning our precious notions of decency and responsibility upside-down, I was left with very little in the way of dreams.

But if I still could, I would dream of an America where our minds could truly be free, fed by the lofty aspirations and honest reporting of a society united by a common goal of caring for every citizen and keeping our commitments around the world. An America where the cold-hearted and insane ramblings of agitators like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck were simply relegated to the trash can of ignorance and prejudice as they once surely were in my childhood. I would dream of an America where knowledge and achievement were valued above ideology and narrow-mindedness. I would dream of an America where school employment centers did not rest until every graduate had been placed in a position of gainful employment. I would dream of an America where even the great robber barons and captains of industry remembered the value of charity and philanthropy. I would dream of an America where conservatives and liberals alike could work together in a spirit of enlightened self-interest seeing our nation as a whole, not a tapestry of haves and have-nots. I would dream of building more libraries in more small towns and promoting life-long learning for anyone who would seek it. I would dream of an America where the accumulation of wealth would be balanced by care and protection of American families, singles and senior citizens, with pensions and health care and rewards for honest toil.

But believe me, if it were up to me, I would just give up. That’s why I was so attracted by our current president. He still refuses, to this day, to just thrown in the towel!"
Thanks FJ!

Let me also say. I believe most conservatives want to live in a country they are proud of, they want the same things we liberals want, but to claim liberals are destroying this country and turning it into a nanny state is off base. Their accusations are unfounded and mean-spirited. They also have their priorities screwed up and the people they are listening to do not have the best interests of middle America in mind.


Liberals are people too, GOOD PEOPLE!