Showing posts with label gop. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
A Letter to Bill Maher
10/13/2010
Dear Bill Maher,
I’ll start by sucking up and saying what a big fan I am, blah, blah, blah. Sometimes you screw up or are shockingly ignorant on a subject but you’re fighting the good fight and unlike your counterparts on basic cable channels, you admit to mistakes. A tiny mistake from last Friday’s show was the pronunciation of the county with the asshole firemen. It’s oh-buy-un (phonetically obaiyun). I think you said ohbeeon or something.
Just so you know, I grew up in Western Kentucky just north of there and it is a bigger shithole than you can possibly imagine. You’ve heard of the Bible Belt? This is the puss leaking from the penis just behind the belt. It is a horrible place full of mean, hateful people that are truly the worst on earth. You haven’t seen hate until you’ve lived amongst the Church of Christ and Baptist motherfuckers that make up the population there. Horrible, evil, haters to the core, most of them were delighted to hear about this man’s house burning to the ground and would’ve been delighted if his children had been killed as well. They would have felt it was just.
But that’s not what I’m writing about. I was really disappointed that you let P.J. O’Rourke and S.E. Cupp get away with one of the stupidest Republican tropes out there: “The government can’t create jobs.” This is utter and complete horseshit. Here’s how you counter that statement:
1. During the New Deal the government put most of America to work. Those weren’t jobs?
2. The people that are re-building all our roads and bridges aren’t working at jobs?
3. When the government gives people jobs they spend money because they have money.
4. That money being spent means people sell things meaning they have to buy things to sell meaning they have to hire people to sell the things and make the things and that stimulates the economy and creates more jobs.
5. The best way to make sure that government money moves straight into the economy is to give it to the poorest first because they’re going to spend it immediately. I’m poor. I assure you this is true.
Republicans’ problem with this is the money is going to the bottom instead of the top, and they prefer to be trickled on than raised up. That’s why they vote against their best interests (mention What’s the Matter with Kansas next time they disagree with you on that one), it’s because they believe they are better than everyone else even though they are dirt poor and getting poorer. We live in a country of idiots that function according to belief rather than reality.
There’s also the simple fact that what pulled us out of the Great Depression more than any other thing is that our government took complete and absolute control of the entire economy for four years and put everybody to work with good paying jobs with great benefits while forcing conservation and economy. When our boys came home from war they came home to fat bank accounts, free education, and health care for life and that combined with the New Deal is why we had the greatest economy, best educated citizenry, and best health in the world up until the Republicans managed to end it all.
“You can’t raise taxes during a recession” is bullshit. “Tax cuts create jobs” is bullshit. “Democratic spending caused the recession” is bullshit. “The government can’t do it better (or cheaper)” is bullshit. We have proof in recent history against all these but the Republicans keep on stating them as if they were laws of nature and they need to be called on it every time. Maybe next time you have two conservatives on, haul out that little list and point out to them how each and every one has no basis in fact. The Republican economic world view is just as H.W. Bush called it: Voodoo economics. In other words it is a religion, a belief system, not a science. It is pure fantasy and history proves it again and again and again.
I watched Overtime as well and here’s a thing that occurred to me years ago about President Carter’s time in office. The GOP hated Carter with a loathing that may exceed that which they have for Obama and were almost as obstructionist as today’s Congress. The oil supply was cut off right after he got elected (probably with strong encouragement from GOP leaders). The real nail in his coffin was the failed rescue mission in Iran. Who planned this operation? The CIA. Who gave the intel that it was safe to fly those helicopters? The CIA. Who was the head of the CIA? George H.W. Bush. What did Nixon say about Bush? “He’ll do anything we tell him.” Worth thinking about.
Thanks for your time. Please quit fucking up.
Love,
Alan Miller
Sunday, October 10, 2010
US Chamber of Commerce
Many people are under the impression that the Chamber of Commerce is some kind of benign business association, maybe even a governmental branch, that helps boost small businesses. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Chamber is, in fact, a rabid right-wing fund raising machine that cares only for profits and nothing else. They are against labor, health care reform, and regulation of any kind. They are against people and for corporate profit. This avid celebration of greed with the regal sounding name demonstrates how typical it is in the world of the "conservatives" by really not caring where their money comes from or how it was made. Most recently it turns out the CoC is channeling large sums of foreign money into our political system. Much to my surprise the Obama administration is actually making a fuss about this. Why can't they get outraged over the unprecedented use of the filibuster against Obama's agenda?
David Axelrod has managed to do something with this the GOP are masters of: He's flipped their accusations back at themselves by saying, "You need to prove you're not doing this." Amazing. Is our Democrats learning? Now they need to throw the results of their "free trade" like the massive loss of jobs, the number of us that have been pushed out of the middle class and it's rapidly shrinking size (shrinking into "lower class" and poverty) back in their faces.
Links:
Obama aide asks chamber to open its books
David Axelrod has managed to do something with this the GOP are masters of: He's flipped their accusations back at themselves by saying, "You need to prove you're not doing this." Amazing. Is our Democrats learning? Now they need to throw the results of their "free trade" like the massive loss of jobs, the number of us that have been pushed out of the middle class and it's rapidly shrinking size (shrinking into "lower class" and poverty) back in their faces.
Links:
Obama aide asks chamber to open its books
Axelrod: U.S. Chamber Using Foreign Cash To Fund GOP Campaigns
Rove, Gillespie Slam Obama for Spreading 'Baseless Lie' Over Foreign Contributions
"U.S." Chamber of Commerce campaign stash awash in foreign cash: Frisch
Senator wants Chamber investigated
Monday, August 9, 2010
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
The Bat Shit Crazy Report
I have regularly mentioned the bat shit crazy madwoman Michelle Bachmann many times before here at MTBN, but Talking Points Memo has come out with an excellent article about the other bat shit crazy loons on the right wing bench. Get to know Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC), Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), and Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) just a little better and try not to let their creepy insanity rub off on you.
Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), who also co-sponsored the "Birther Bill," brushed aside Obama's birth announcement in a local newspaper as irrelevant, saying it's "like me sending out a birth announcement for one of my children."
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has ... said Obama's nationalized the country more than Hugo Chavez has nationalized Venezuela, and called Nancy Pelosi a "domestic enem[y] of the Constitution."Enjoy!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Big Lie(s) - 1
"The vast majority of Americans are against health care reform (voted for President Bush/support the war/oppose giving milk to kittens)"
This is the right wing lie variety that most sets my teeth on edge. The loathsome Mitch McConnell made the health care claim ["We urge you to abandon the use of reconciliation to pass a partisan bill that is opposed by the vast majority of Americans."] before the vote and it is a subtle kind of lie. Though factually barely true according to the poll he was quoting, his innuendo was that Americans support his side of the argument. The fact is that the opposition to health care reform was split into to very disparate camps, one that believed like McConnell that the bill went to far and another that was in complete opposition to McConnell that believed (like me) that the bill did not go far enough. These two groups are fundamentally opposed to one another but in the continuing Big Lie to the American people, McConnell has made them one. Again, the fact is that the "vast majority" of Americans didn't believe the bill went far enough and were opposed to the GOP's position. McConnell is, at heart, a lying son of a bitch.
I remember hearing this same horrible man say that GWB had a "mandate" and that he was elected by the "vast majority" of Americans. Shrub was (a) never elected legally and (b) even if the vote count was legit (which it was not as the Republicans were involved in massive vote fraud both elections) Shrub received a minority of the popular vote the first time around and the vote was split almost perfectly down the center the second time. That is not a "vast majority" by any means and makes the GOP and McConnell specifically liars.
Though they have not said so on the record yet, if Obama or the Democrats wanted to pass a resolution saying that kittens should get a little bowl of warm milk the GOP would stand firmly against it and would claim that a "vast majority" of Americans were opposed by adding the people that think kittens should get a little warm cream, the people that think milk is bad for cats, and the people that hate cats together and claiming they think like right wing morons.
"You can't raise taxes during a recession."
This is the mantra of the right wing (including my own repulsive "Democratic" mayor, Jerry Abramson), descending directly from the "Voodoo Economics" lie of "Trickle Down Economics," once poo-pooed by true conservatives and anyone that could add. What actually happens when we cut taxes (and regulation) on the rich and corporations? We saw under Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II: The economy tanks. Why is this? Perhaps it's because when you make life easier (as if it needs easing) for the ultra-megas you make it harder on the poor and middle class. State and local governments must rely more on fees and regressive taxes like sales tax and lotteries which disproportionally effect the lower end of the economic scale to provide services that help most Americans in their daily lives. Ultimately taxing the poor is not a good way to fund government and those same services are cut drastically (god forbid you should reduce the police patrols in the rich parts of the city) or eliminated completely in the name of a "balanced budget."
The way I look at it is if you're rich and you don't want to pay taxes get the fuck out of this country. You don't want to pay a local income tax in Louisville, for instance, move to another city. We don't want your worthless, cheap ass. You are a leech on society and the community if you don't want to use a little bit of your wealth to improve it. Better infrastructure, improvement and education programs for lower income individuals, housing for the homeless, mass transit, drug rehabilitation, and so many other publicly funded programs don't only improve the lives of the people they serve directly, the improve the lives of everyone in the community by beautifying the city, reducing crime, and building community.
"America has the highest tax rates in the world."
"America has the best health care in the world."
Only if you are astonishingly wealthy. Otherwise we're 37th, just below Costa Rica and a good bit below Morocco.
This is the right wing lie variety that most sets my teeth on edge. The loathsome Mitch McConnell made the health care claim ["We urge you to abandon the use of reconciliation to pass a partisan bill that is opposed by the vast majority of Americans."] before the vote and it is a subtle kind of lie. Though factually barely true according to the poll he was quoting, his innuendo was that Americans support his side of the argument. The fact is that the opposition to health care reform was split into to very disparate camps, one that believed like McConnell that the bill went to far and another that was in complete opposition to McConnell that believed (like me) that the bill did not go far enough. These two groups are fundamentally opposed to one another but in the continuing Big Lie to the American people, McConnell has made them one. Again, the fact is that the "vast majority" of Americans didn't believe the bill went far enough and were opposed to the GOP's position. McConnell is, at heart, a lying son of a bitch.
I remember hearing this same horrible man say that GWB had a "mandate" and that he was elected by the "vast majority" of Americans. Shrub was (a) never elected legally and (b) even if the vote count was legit (which it was not as the Republicans were involved in massive vote fraud both elections) Shrub received a minority of the popular vote the first time around and the vote was split almost perfectly down the center the second time. That is not a "vast majority" by any means and makes the GOP and McConnell specifically liars.
Though they have not said so on the record yet, if Obama or the Democrats wanted to pass a resolution saying that kittens should get a little bowl of warm milk the GOP would stand firmly against it and would claim that a "vast majority" of Americans were opposed by adding the people that think kittens should get a little warm cream, the people that think milk is bad for cats, and the people that hate cats together and claiming they think like right wing morons.
"You can't raise taxes during a recession."
This is the mantra of the right wing (including my own repulsive "Democratic" mayor, Jerry Abramson), descending directly from the "Voodoo Economics" lie of "Trickle Down Economics," once poo-pooed by true conservatives and anyone that could add. What actually happens when we cut taxes (and regulation) on the rich and corporations? We saw under Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II: The economy tanks. Why is this? Perhaps it's because when you make life easier (as if it needs easing) for the ultra-megas you make it harder on the poor and middle class. State and local governments must rely more on fees and regressive taxes like sales tax and lotteries which disproportionally effect the lower end of the economic scale to provide services that help most Americans in their daily lives. Ultimately taxing the poor is not a good way to fund government and those same services are cut drastically (god forbid you should reduce the police patrols in the rich parts of the city) or eliminated completely in the name of a "balanced budget."
The way I look at it is if you're rich and you don't want to pay taxes get the fuck out of this country. You don't want to pay a local income tax in Louisville, for instance, move to another city. We don't want your worthless, cheap ass. You are a leech on society and the community if you don't want to use a little bit of your wealth to improve it. Better infrastructure, improvement and education programs for lower income individuals, housing for the homeless, mass transit, drug rehabilitation, and so many other publicly funded programs don't only improve the lives of the people they serve directly, the improve the lives of everyone in the community by beautifying the city, reducing crime, and building community.
"America has the highest tax rates in the world."
"America has the best health care in the world."
Only if you are astonishingly wealthy. Otherwise we're 37th, just below Costa Rica and a good bit below Morocco.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Onion on GOP Reaction to Health Reform
Republicans, Leukemia Team Up To Repeal Health Care Law
WASHINGTON—Citing a mutually shared vision of health care in America, congressional Republicans and the deadly bone-marrow cancer leukemia announced a joint effort Wednesday to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the historic new bill that extends health benefits to 32 million Americans nationwide.
Key Republicans and the blood cancer leukemia make a joint statement condemning the health care bill.
"Republicans have no greater ally in this fight than leukemia," said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), who was flanked by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), and the abnormal increase in white blood cells. "Denying insurance to Americans with preexisting conditions and ensuring that low-income Americans stand no chance of receiving quality health care are just a few of the core beliefs that the GOP and leukemia share." [more]
Friday, March 5, 2010
Does This "Family Values" Republican Look Gay To You?
Ah, Hypocrisy. Where Would the GOP be Without You? cont'd
It just doesn't get much better than this. Gay bashing, homo hating California State Senator (R, of course) Roy Ashburn was arrested yesterday morning for drunk driving. He had an unidentified male passenger in the car. His blood alcohol level was 0.14 (0.08 is the legal limit). Where had he been all night? Turns out he had been partying hard in a gay bar.
[...] West Sacto's openly gay mayor, Christopher Cabaldon, called him a hypocrite, claiming he has spotted Ashburn at gay clubs, including Badlands. Cabaldon blasted Ashburn in a message he posted to Facebook a few months ago: "It wouldn't bother me so bad to see Roy Ashburn at Badlands with a boy if he didn't have such a bad voting record on gay rights."
As Cabaldon suggests, Ashburn['s] voting record on gay issues is less than stellar. The Bakersfield Californian reports he voted no an anti-discrimination bill, legislation on out-of-state same sex marriages, Harvey Milk Day, and a resolution declaring the Senate's opposition to Proposition 8. The Bakersfield Californian has more about his voting record. more
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Still Feels Like a Car Crash, Huh?
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Monday, November 2, 2009
Another Reason to Hate the South
After living in Savannah, Georgia for a year, the stupidity of Southerners is no surprise to me. I'm perhaps more surprised at the Midwest numbers which I would have expected to be closer to even (I'm not sure if they're counting Kentucky in the Midwest or South). Can the GOP widen their appeal to more than just the ignorant bigots that support them now? Do they even realize their support is now limited to inbred southern whites? Or have they gone so far down the path of whoring to the ultra-right wing zealots of the country that they have begun believing their own rhetoric? This is, after all, the party that called a fraction of a percent, hotly contested victory "a mandate." More than a few times I heard Republicans refer to Bush's "election" as a vote by "the vast majority of Americans." The last I heard, 50.2% is not a "vast majority" of anything. Personally I'm just fine with the GOP continuing to become further right, more white, and more stupid. Now if the Democrats would just grow some balls and get to work.
[I posted this a few weeks ago on Facebook before I realized it's a worthless forum for political musings. I prefer to type to myself.]
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