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Showing posts with label senate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label senate. Show all posts

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Why Does Mitch McConnell Want To Kill Kentuckians And Cause Higher Unemployment In Kentucky?

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The reason for the title is in the video. He wants to do away with the ACA (ObamaCare) and black lung insurance benefits for coal miners. DESPICABLE to say the least!

He, like other reTHUGliCONS, seem intent on making life as hard on America, and Americans, as they possibly can.

What I can't understand is how reTHUGliCONS and Teabaggers can vote against their own interests by voting for This Koch brothers backed slimeball. Someone needs to ask him why he is so intent on killing Kentuckians? On second thought I, and everyone with functioning brain cells, know why they vote like they do. It's sad and disgusting.

The video won't post but you can see it here.
https://animoto.com/play/pYS28KmOGAa47oyP0UnpxA
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This guy sums up what the republican party is all about since President Obama was elected, and before, while he was running. And, he's a republican.

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If you want to know what this pic is about, go here.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80498.html 

I was so disappointed in Clint Eastwood. I'd never have thought that he was racist and an asshole.
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For more context on the republican thought process...
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/04/conservative_tribalism_conservatives_hate_anything_barack_obama_and_liberals.html

From the article;
"“Common Core,” the name for a set of national education standards, is the latest rallying cry for right-wing activists. Derided as “Obamacore,” it’s been attacked as a government attempt to usurp local curriculums and impose liberal values on conservative communities. Glenn Beck calls it a plot to turn children into “cogs” under a police state, and several Republican politicians have jumped on the bandwagon, denouncing the Obama administration for supporting the standards.

If this is confusing to ordinary observers—there’s nothing totalitarian about guidelines for what students should know at the end of each grade—it’s bewildering for Common Core advocates, who just four years ago were a boring part of the American policy landscape. Common Core was a bipartisan initiative, with support from the vast majority of governors, including Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, who has since reversed course as he preps for a potential 2016 presidential run.
What happened to make Common Core an object of hate for conservative activists? The answer is easy: “The Republican revolt against the Common Core,” noted the New York Times on Saturday, “can be traced to President Obama’s embrace of it.”
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

The Attack on the Middle Class

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   I found this in my favorites from 2 years ago and finally got around to reading it. It is Al Franken at the Netroots Nation in Minneapolis.
   I have always liked Al Franken. When he gt into politics I thought if he put the insight and intelligence into politics that he did on SNL that he would be able to do some good.
   That is if the obstructionists aka (The Grand Obstructionist Party) in Washington didn't continue with their way of voting NO on every thing that the democrats proposed. Especially if President Obama gave any inkling that he was for it.
   Most of the things that Mr. Franken talks about are as true today as they were then. As a matter of fact, many of the issues still haven't been addressed because of the way the GOP has continued to block, with filibusters or whatever type of stalling tactic that they can dream up.
   Well enough of my ramblings. Here is the link to his speech. In both text and video. With a couple of excerpts.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/6363-focus-al-franken--the-attack-on-the-middle-class

  
"This is the state that sent Hubert Humphrey, the middle-class son of a pharmacist, to the U.S. Senate, where he cheerfully waged - and usually won - great battles in the name of the young and the old, the poor and the vulnerable, the oppressed and the disenfranchised.

   This is the state where Walter Mondale - who, at the age of 20, had helped to organize Humphrey's first Senate campaign - rose to become the living embodiment of common-sense Midwestern progressive values.

   And this is the state where Paul Wellstone, a professor down at Carleton College in Northfield, became my hero - and the hero of a generation of progressives who believed, as he did, that we all do better when we all do better. We all do better when we all have health care. We all do better when we all can get a good education. We all do better when we all can earn a fair wage at a good job. We all do better when we all can find a good home and economic security and justice when we're wronged.

  Today, 100 years after Hubert Humphrey was born, nearly half a century after Walter Mondale began his legendary career in public service, and two decades after Paul Wellstone won his first race for the Senate, we gather in Minnesota to take stock.

  We all believe that we all do better when we all do better. The question is: How are we doing?

  And if we're talking about the fate of ordinary families, the answer is clear: We're losing.
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  The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens. Say you have a parent who suffers from dementia and lives in a nursing home. If Republicans pass these Medicaid cuts, you'd better be ready to take that parent in. That is a radical change to our society.

  The Republican vision is one in which we cut billions from job training and education and infrastructure - the things that enable ordinary Americans to find good jobs, enable businesses to find the customers and trained workers they need to grow, and enable middle class families to build real economic security. All these cuts, just to fund more tax cuts for people who are richer than any people have ever been in the history of the world.

  It's a vision in which workers have no protections from their employers, ordinary Americans have no access to the courts when they're wronged, and big corporations control everything from our media to the Internet to our democracy.
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  The right wants America to be a nation of social Darwinism in which the powerful are protected by the government, and the rest of us are on our own.

  To achieve it, they'll say things they know aren't true, disown ideas they used to support, contradict themselves on everything from how the legislative process should operate to how weather works. They'll let the government shut down, let us default on our debts, bring our country to its knees to fulfill their ideological fervor.
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   The republicans, The TEA Party, and right wing nuts don't care about the country. As long as President Obama is president it will be that way because as much as they say that they aren't racist many of theways that they act and things that they say are.
    That is why they get so upset when they are called out on it and start talking about "taking our country back" or "Obama isn't really American" or the ever popular "He wants to turn this country into a Muslim/socialist/communist/dictator/king/sharia law abiding nation".
   C'mon people, PICK ONE!!! It's like they don't know that almost all of those things are diametrically opposed to each other.
    So it's either that they don't know, don't care or they do know and don't care because they are truly racist assholes.