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Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Quote of the Day -- Former President Karma Ediction
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Now Fearing For Our Nation
Seems this President Trump was offered to have a virtual debate with Joe Biden and he turned it down. He won't appear. It seems clear and obvious he felt he couldn't shout down and interrupt so he wanted no part of it. Then this happened, too.
Trump Calls Sen. Kamala Harris a ‘Monster’ in Rage-Filled Fox Interview
He went berzerk, calling Kamala a "monster" and a "Communist." In his unexpected rant, he attacked Hillary, again, and Obama too. He announced he is refusing next week's debate. He blasted all the media, claiming all the polls are rigged.
Anyone who's paying attention politically now is or should be concerned from now to November 3, especially, and then from that time to January 20. It seems clear this President is already rather "melting down." I'm afraid it's only going to get worse and more so as we get closer to these dates.
He's losing it, folks. With it, he's also sealing his political defeat.
How bizarre that we are and must be concerned about our nation due to the man who is supposed to be leading us all.
How bizarre that we are and must be concerned about our nation due to the man who is supposed to be leading us all.
More proof, as though we need it.
This broke yesterday.
Esquire Magazine said it right.
Last evening, in the Vice Presidential debate, this happened.
Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday night joined President Donald Trump in refusing to commit to ensuring a peaceful transfer of power, dodging a question about how he would handle a Joe Biden victory and parroting Trump's baseless narrative about widespread mail-in voting fraud.
This news broke this morning.
What isn't frightening about this is infuriating. This President and his Vice President seem to think we are their banana republic.
Thanks, Republicans.
And God help us all.
Links:
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Precisely How Poor, How Bad This Republican Party President's "Leadership" Is
This is what it's come down to. This is how bad, how poor the excuses for leadership from this White House, from this President has gotten.
The TV networks break away from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES because he goes counter to his own, our own health experts.
I don't know what's more frightening--the coronavirus pandemic or Trump's handling of it. Neither are predictable and both could kill.
- CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News cut away from President Trump's lengthy coronavirus briefing on Monday night.
- During the briefing, Trump chafed at the idea of continuing the widespread order for people to stay home, saying it was harming the economy. His top infectious-diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, had said social-distancing measures would need to be in place for "several weeks."
- CBS told Insider that it "plans to continue covering briefings whenever possible" but may cut away for other programming. MSNBC told Insider that it "cut away because the information no longer appeared to be valuable to the important ongoing discussion around public health."
- Critics of the president have called for networks to stop airing the briefings. "All of us should stop broadcasting it, honestly," MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said on Friday. "It's going to cost lives."
- On Tuesday, Seattle's NPR station, KUOW, also announced it would not broadcast the briefings live "due to a pattern of false or misleading information."
Thanks, Republicans!
Meanwhile, I just ran across this.
It's not saying a great deal because he's never enjoyed traditional support most Presidents get and we are in a national emergency so I get that his supporters are behind him but still.
Additionally, more reason for concern.
60% of Americans approve of Trump's coronavirus response: poll
I don't know what's more frightening--the coronavirus pandemic or Trump's handling of it. Neither are predictable and both could kill.
And then there was this cold, incredibly callous ignorance from, yes, another Republican only yesterday.
And keep in mind, this is from a man who is 69 years old.
So again, thanks, Republicans! Many thanks.
Additional links:
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Republicans and Their Very Official, Un-American Work of Disenfranchising Fellow Americans
The fact is, Republicans have been gerrymandering the nation and for at least decades.
The power that gerrymandering has brought to Republicans
What is gerrymandering someone might ask? Defined, it is
"...In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan-advantaged districts.
The fact is, what they, Republicans, have been doing and trying to do is to get anyone and everyone who might not be aligned with their voting patterns, from being able to vote. This would include the following groups, proven, historically:
--Young
--Elderly--at least, elderly who aren't already-wealthy
--Poor and/or impoverished
--The physically-challenged
--Minorities including:
- --Blacks and African-Americans
- --Hispanics and Latinos
This took place 2016:
North Carolina's Deliberate Disenfranchisement of Black Voters
Not to be done there, this happened 3 days ago.
Black seniors kicked off bus taking them to vote in Georgia
This story broke only yesterday and it's happening right next door, no less, in neighboring Kansas.
Iconic Dodge City Moves Its Only Polling Place Outside Town
The entire city has 27000 residents. 60% of those residents are Hispanic. So if you're white and Right Wing and Republican, what to do?? Why, move the one polling place, as it says, outside the city limits.
It is stunning.
This, too, is going on now, in Georgia.
This, too, is going on now, in Georgia.
Georgia’s ‘exact match’ law could disenfranchise 909,540
And it's how they got a man with a horrible reputation even in his own political party and with zero government experience elected to the White House, the highest office in the land even though he got at least 3 million less popular votes than his political opponent. Sure, you get out-voted but hey, load the voting districts your way and voila! The Electoral College makes you President anyway!
And sure, Democrats are legally capable of gerrymandering also but the fact is, Republicans have used it and been using it to load their--our--voting districts for years now, as I've said and shown here.
Not done there, not done with just gerrymandering, this political party took it further, much further, too. Not only do they use these voter ID laws to help them in elections, disenfranchising fellow citizens in the process, but they've publicly admitted it, as well.
Some Republicans Acknowledge Leveraging Voter ID Laws for Political Gain
This, to me, is the worst aspect of these voter ID laws and their requirements, this next point.
It's been also proved there is nearly zero true voter fraud, on anyone's part, too.
There is a great "meme" out there on social networks I've seen recently. It asks, how bad is your political party if your way of "success" is to keep Americans from voting?
And the answer is, bad. Really, really bad. And not in a Michael Jackson way, by any stretch.
So what all this means, what we need to do, as a nation, as a people is, first, get the Republicans out of power, out of office, and then, once and for all, make gerrymandering and voter ID laws, both, illegal. We need to truly, truly take back the vote.
We can do this.
We must.
Vote November 6!
And VOTE BLUE!! Vote Democratic! Then let's work and fight for change.
Links:
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Quote of the Day -- On This President
"Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration. When prime-time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of “deep-state” machinations — I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove. To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit."
--Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Question for Republicans: Donald Trump??
A question for Republicans just now.
How?
How in the name of all that is good and sane and intelligent and true is Donald J. Trump your candidate?
How is he your presidential candidate?
The highest office in the nation. Easily, arguably the most powerful position on the planet, given our nation's economy, relative to the rest of the world alone, but also given that he would be Commander in Chief of the most powerful, expensive, weapons-laden military force in the world?
How?
Let's go over his traits.
He's sexist.
Former Donald Trump Executive:
'He's a Supreme Sexist'
Donald Trump’s Unconscious, Unending Sexism
He's misogynist.
Donald Trump has one core philosophy:
misogyny
He's deeply, deeply racist.
Here Are 13 Examples Of Donald Trump
Being Racist
He's homophobic.
Trump courts the homophobes
He's a simpleton, frankly.
Donald Trump speaks like a sixth-grader
He's wrong about any number of topics, both national and international.
He has courted and even praised Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin.
He's a widely known and repeated liar, publicly and privately.
Donald Trump's 'Big Liar' Technique
With all his bankruptcies--is it 4 or 6?--he's a horrible businessman. And that's supposed to be one of his BEST traits.
And geez, he's even fighting you all. He's fighting what is supposed to be his own political party.
And he's been doing it through the entire campaign. This next link is from back in May of this year.
And with all that, rather understandably, there are plenty, plenty of you who cannot and do not support Mr. Trump, your own candidate.
More Than 160 Republican Leaders Don't
Support Donald Trump
So much of him and his candidacy is unparalleled, unprecedented in the history of our nation, it's so bad and apparent.
It's one thing if you all did this to yourselves but you're proposing to do this, to unleash him, on the rest of us, on the entire nation. Heck you're proposing unleashing this deeply dangerous man on the world.
Truth be told, at this point, even given all the above, I could go on about him, about Trump and what other, additional, ugly, negative traits he has but for now, here, I'll stop with these.
About what other candidate for the presidency of our nation could this have ever been said? One of them, maybe but all of them? There's no one, no one. Go all the way through our history, no presidential candidate has ever been this phenomenally bad and/or so unfit for this office. Again, no one. Warren G. Harding, bad as he turned out to be wasn't this bad.
So I ask you Republicans---how in the love of God and nation and all that is good is this your candidate for the presidency of our United States? We all know how we got here but how could you let this happen? And a lot of you aren't even apologetic about it. A lot of you are STILL supporting this man.
We know you've all been "party firsters", putting the success of your political party ahead of the nation's best interests and for years. It's obvious. For the last nearly 8 years, you've obstructed anything and everything our twice-elected President has put forward, nation and people be damned, because you wanted your party to somehow "come out on top." Sure. That's obvious.
But none of us thought you would go this far or this low, to even propose, let alone try to elect someone of Donald Trump's character and low abilities to the highest office in our nation.
No one. We no way thought you would go this far. Heck Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and George W. Bush weren't this bad. (Well, truth be told, Sarah Palin was this bad but she was only the Vice Presidential candidate and we knew those two didn't have a chance).
So please, now, at this point, we're only 28 days away from this election, again, for the love of God, will you please, please all come back from the brink and somehow, somehow fix this? Take Trump off your ticket, put in someone else, admit defeat, give it up, lose this election and let's all move on. It's for even your own good but especially for the good of the nation.
And yes, we know you won't do it but we're this desperate. We thought we'd ask, anyway.
So here's a thought. Once Mr. Trump is beaten so badly, so thoroughly this November 8 in the polls, once he and all of you are cast out (and frankly disgraced, once you see the votes against him and you), as you most surely will be, won't you all join us back in the world of sanity and, again, intelligence? Won't you, once again, work for the better of the entire nation and not just your political party? Please? You used to compromise and work together with others, with (shudder), Democrats.
It would be good for all the people, sure, but heck, it would even be good for you, good for your party, good for your brand. You used to be for Unions and higher wages and and the middle- and lower-classes and Social Security and just, all around, the good and growth and health of ALL the people, not just the already-wealthy and corporations.
Won't you join us?
Please?
Saturday, December 19, 2015
"The Force Awakens": Ironically Racist (Warning: Some Minor Spoilers)
It needs to be said and recognized.
The new version of "Star Wars", JJ Abrams' adaptation, "The Force Awakens" is, yes, ladies and gentlemen, racist. And simply and blatantly so. And here's how.
There is one, count 'em, one black actor as a main character in the entire movie. Apparently there aren't any black people in space.
And to really balance things out, there's one Latino, too. As we can see, there are a few Asians but that's it.
Second, if you see the movie as I did, note what this actor's training was while he was a Stormtrooper.
It's stunning.
He was in "sanitation." Seriously.
Third, the black character fails. And he needs all the white people to save him. Seriously, that's what happens.
And then fans turned out to be even more racist. Soon as they heard there was a black hero character in the film, they went full goose, public racist, out to the world:
Racists Urge Boycott of 'Star Wars: Episode VII'
In ugly fairness from them, however, they were also angry a female character is central to the story. They really went nuts when it turned out the female character has feelings for the black guy.
Imagine that.
Ironic, isn't it? A bunch of white fans flip out because a black guy is a main character in what was, apparently, probably a favorite movie of theirs and then it turns out the movie itself is racist.
Friday, March 1, 2013
More on the Catholic Church's gay hypocrisy
First Andrew Sullivan and others call out the Pope for his boyfriend (which I reported on yesterday) and now this from Newsweek:
For residents of Rome, the sight of courting priests is hardly an anomaly. But a recent exposé is rocking the Catholic Church
In the basement dining room of Le Mani In Pasta, a trattoria in central Rome, a young, glossy-eyed couple stare at each other across a table for two. They smile and blush over a private joke. There is no handholding or kissing, but they are clearly more than friends, even though they are both wearing dark shirts and the telltale white clerical collar.
For residents of Rome, the sight of courting priests is hardly an anomaly. The phenomenon is a well-known secret here, and one that was largely ignored until last weekend, when the Italian weekly magazine Panorama published a shocking exposé called “Le Notti Brave Dei Preti Gay,” or “Good Nights Out for Gay Priests.” Investigative journalist Carmelo Abbate spent 20 days undercover posing as the boyfriend of a man who ran in gay clerical circles, secretly videotaping the sexual escapades of three Rome-based priests. Abbate caught the priests on hidden camera dirty dancing at private parties and engaging in sex acts with male escorts on church property. He also caught them emerging from dark bedrooms in time to celebrate mass. In one postcoital scene, “Father Carlo” parades around seminaked, wearing only his clerical vestments. Abbate’s “date” even had sex with one of the priests to corroborate the story. “This is not about homosexuality,” Abbate, who is not gay, told NEWSWEEK. “This is about private vices and public virtues. This is about serious hypocrisy in the Catholic Church.”
If you read the entire Newsweek article, you'll find it pretty fascinating.Not to be done there, amazingly enough, there's another, too:
If you're Catholic, you'll likely find both articles shocking and surprising.
One of my favorite quotes from these articles and that keeps getting repeated is this:
“This is not about homosexuality,” Abbate told The Daily Beast when he published the exposé. “This is about private vices and public virtues. This is about serious hypocrisy in the Catholic Church.”
That second article. above, gets even more provocative in its description of what may have taken place even than the first.
Someone by the pseudonym "gardgengirl" wrote the following comment after the 2nd article:
the catholic church...
quite possibly the single, most corrupt organization on the planet.
highly cunning, they created a facade to hide their double lives behind.
raised a catholic, i saw the sham at about age 14.
at its core, it's a secret society for sexually perverted, greedy men.
hello?
virgin birth? ruby slippers & brocade gowns? women excluded from the hierarchy? altar boys galore?
a sovereign country unto itself? stolen riches, properties, & art? tax-exempt status?
a genius, tho evil, concept that lasted for centuries, until the internet came along.
And who, at this point, can be certain she's completely wrong?
In case you're not done there, there is another article here:
Monday, December 31, 2012
On The Beatles, 1964
From Newsweek Magazine, 1964, when the Beatles arrived to America:
"Visually they are a nightmare: tight, dandified, Edwardian-Beatnik suits and great pudding bowls of hair. Musically they are a near-disaster: guitars and drums slamming out a merciless beat that does away with secondary rhythms, harmony, and melody. Their lyrics (punctuated by nutty shouts of “yeah, yeah, yeah!”) are a catastrophe, a preposterous farrago of Valentine-card romantic sentiments."I hope the author didn't give out stock recommendations, too.
Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek.html
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Major-league, Midwest, Republican stupid
Well, it seems Missouri and Kansas outdid ourselves in the last 24 hours.
As would happen, the "major-league stupid" is from 2 different, Right Wing, Conservative Republicans. You no doubt heard, right?
The first, from Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin when he said women aren't likely to get pregnant from a "legitimate rape"--his term, apparently--because the female body somehow blocks these, rocket scientist that he is.
Forget that he's not a doctor. Forget that there's no scientific, biological support for this very Right Wing contention, he put it out there, regardless.
The response, fortunately?
G.O.P. Trying to Oust Akin From Race for Rape Remarks
WASHINGTON — Fearing that a seat crucial to winning a Senate majority could slip away, the national Republican establishment on Monday unleashed a furious campaign to drive Representative Todd Akin, the party’s newly selected nominee, out of the race against Missouri’s Democratic senator.
Amid an uproar over provocative comments on rape and abortion that Mr. Akin made in an interview broadcast on Sunday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee declared that it would withdraw financial and organizational support for Mr. Akin, including $5 million in advertising already reserved for the fall. In the interview, Mr. Akin said victims of “legitimate rape” rarely got pregnant.
What too many people don't know, however, is that Mr. Akin's stance on this issue is far from solitary. He's not the only Republican who ever said or mentioned this very wrong idea as truth:
"The thing is, his comments were hardly some kind never-before-heard gaffe. Arguments like his have cropped up again and again on the right over the past quarter century and the idea that trauma is a form of birth control continues to be promulgated by anti-abortion forces that seek to outlaw all abortions, even in cases of rape or incest. The push for a no-exceptions anti-abortion policy has for decades gone hand in hand with efforts to downplay the frequency with which rape- or incest-related pregnancies occur, and even to deny that they happen, at all. In other words, it's not just Akin singing this tune.
Take Christian Life Resources, an educational site, for example. It reprints an 1999 article on the topic that seeks to make the same distinction between categories of rape as did Akin, and for the same reason. Wrote John C. Willke -- a physician who in the 1980s and early 1990s was president of the National Right to Life Committee -- in the piece, originally published in Life Issues Connector:
When pro-lifers speak of rape pregnancies, we should commonly use the phrase 'forcible rape' or 'assault rape,' for that specifies what we're talking about. Rape can also be statutory. Depending upon your state law, statutory rape can be consensual, but we're not addressing that here .... Assault rape pregnancies are extremely rare."
So this gaffe by Todd Akin is informative, at least for me, if not for lots of us. Who knew a group of people actually thought women might not risk pregnancy if it's a "legitimate rape"?
What sexist pigs.
The second stupid thing to come out of the midwest Monday was, rather famously, from our own Kansas Representative Kevin Yoder when, again, rocket scientist that he is, he decides to skinny dip in the Sea of Galilee while on a very official trip, representing our own US federal government.
Man, I love these people.
Links: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/us/politics/republicans-decry-todd-akins-rape-remarks.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/08/20/159397067/issue-of-abortion-back-in-spotlight-in-swing-states#more
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/aug/17/barack-obama/obama-says-ryan-supports-banning-all-abortions/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/20/legitimate-rape-an-old-right-wing-trope.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/chuck-winder-rape-abortions_n_1366994.html
Friday, July 20, 2012
Quote of the day
"It's probably hopeless by now to try to excite the GOP's conservative base about Romney, not only because of ideology, but even more because of sociology. Romney's life, career, and manner all combine to remind the white working class why their parents and grandparents voted Democratic." --David Frum, Republican and former speechwriter for George W. Bush
Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/18/romney-campaign.html
Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/18/romney-campaign.html
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Quote of the day (from a Republican)
"For 20 years now, the GOP has been giving away the votes of professionals, upper-income non-whites, college-educated women, and other comparatively economically successful groups.
The party has rebased itself on the votes of whites without a college degree. Mitt Romney must gain almost two-thirds of their vote in 2012 to have any realistic hope of winning the White House.
Non-college whites are the most alienated and pessimistic group in the electorate and also the most nationalist. They may resent the "foreigner" Barack Obama, but there is one thing they hate even more: outsourcing—and those who do it.
Tanner is right that free trade, including outsourcing, raises national income in the aggregate. But it does not raise the incomes of each and every one of us individually. Trade creates losers as well as winners. John Stuart Mill proposed a solution to this conundrum more than 150 years ago: trade freely, then tax the winners to compensate the losers. That solution is not congruent with the Cato Institute philosophy. Result: losers and prospective losers—and they know who they are!—fear outsourcing. The losers and prospective losers also happen to provide the GOP with much (or most) of its voting muscle.
You want to change that dynamic? You'll have to reorient the party to a new voting base—one that does not thrill to the music that the Romney campaign has been playing all this week." --David Frum, former writer for George W. Bush
Link to original article here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/18/defend-capitalism.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
On David Frum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Republican solutions for America's broken health care system
Don't look here. There aren't any. No Republican solutions, that is.
From The Daily Beast, today:
"If you’re a Republican, the Supreme Court’s decision might be akin to the apocalypse. Kentucky Congressman Mitch McConnell seems to think so. On Fox News Sunday, the senator called the healthcare law the “single worst piece of legislation that has been passed certainly in modern times.” Asked by host Chris Wallace what he’d do to replace the law that would extend coverage to 30 million people, McConnell stumbled. 'The first step we need to take is get rid of what’s there,' he said."
Because, face it, Sen. Mitch "I Got Nuthin'" McConnell and his band of Republicans have no solutions whatever for fixing America's horribly broken, dysfunctional health care system.
The corporate lackey.
The dolt.
Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/01/jack-lew-nancy-pelosi-john-boehner-and-more-sunday-talk.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Monday, April 23, 2012
The new Wal-Mart, Mexico banking brouhaha
There are far too many details for me to go on about it here. Suffice it to say, it should be huge, if it isn't totally ignored. I'd like to know three things: First, are there any charges that need to be filed here in the US against whomever is involved?
Next, are there any charges that need to be filed in Mexico? Personally, I hope this will be pursued by the press and justice systems of both countries and that if they find any wrongdoing, they are prosecuted to the full extent of the laws in both countries.
Finnally, I'd like to see if any international laws were broken, too, as well as any other nation's laws, in addition to Mexico's, and if they're prosecutable. This is, after all, the company that wants to be cleared as a banking company in this country, too, as they've made clear. I think for most Americans, it will be extremely illuminating that Wal-Mart is a banking company, also, in Mexico, besides a retailer. I hope it's fascinating just where these revelations go, in positive ways. Meaning, if laws were broken, I hope everyone liable is held accountable, not the least being corporate Wal-Mart, anywhere and everywhere they may have broken any laws. Keep in mind, that Wal-mart all but owns Arvest Bank here in the States, too. (See last link, below).
Links: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/business/at-wal-mart-in-mexico-a-bribe-inquiry-silenced.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120422; http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/22/8-revelations-from-walmart-s-mexican-bribery-scandal.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvest_Bank
Sunday, February 26, 2012
A Republican--a Bush, no less--on the current Republican Party
"I used to be a conservative, and I watch these debates, and I’m wondering, I don’t think I’ve changed, but it’s a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people’s fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective, and that’s kind of where we are." --Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, brother of former President George W. Bush, son of Former President and Director of the CIA George H.W. Bush. Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/02/24/jeb-bush-2012-candidates-troubling.html
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Quote of the day
Thursday, October 20, 2011
More good Kansas City news
US News & World Report has an article out right now on the "25 Worst Cities for Young People"--AND KANSAS CITY AIN'T ON IT. Take that, Kansas City haters. Denver? Yep. Portland, Milwaukee, Louisville, Columbus--all on it but we aren't. See? Things can always be worse. Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/20/worst-cities-for-young-people-from-seattle-to-cincinnati-photos.html
Monday, June 13, 2011
"Having it both ways" Brownback
Really, I get so tired of people--mostly Republicans--like Sam Brownback and Texas Governor Rick Perry--who bemoan our big State or Federal spending but then, when the money troughs are open, there they are, slopping up the stuff as much and as fast as they can, for as long as they can. Another very recent example:
TOPEKA | Democratic leaders in the Kansas Legislature are frustrated by what they see as Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's attempt to take undeserved credit for big highway projects financed partly through a sales tax increase he previously criticized.
He bitches and moans about increased taxes and spending, but then, when the tax has gone through because the people know we need good roads, he goes out and takes credit for the "jobs it creates".
And sure, it's not unusual for any human being to be hypocritical--any of us. It's just the really big, glaring instances that turn your stomach, you know?
Just to show we're equal opportunity on this subject, here's another political group of hypocrites:
By JOHN HANNA, The Associated Press
TOPEKA | Democratic leaders in the Kansas Legislature are frustrated by what they see as Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's attempt to take undeserved credit for big highway projects financed partly through a sales tax increase he previously criticized.
Brownback completed a five-city tour earlier this month to highlight 36 projects that are a part of the 10-year, $8 billion transportation program enacted last year. The projects will cost the state more than $1.8 billion, but Brownback predicted they'll generate thousands of construction jobs while making the highway system safer.
His administration also has launched a website where people can follow the progress of individual projects under the transportation program and see how well the state fulfills a mandate to spend at least $8 million in each of its 105 counties.
The Democratic leaders noted that when Brownback ran for governor last year, he criticized the Democratic nominee, Kansas Sen. Tom Holland of Baldwin City, for voting for the sales tax increase. Brownback had the backing of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, which had opposed the tax increase, and he called raising tax rates to deal with budget problems "unwise and unsustainable."
Sam Brownback---just one more big, political hypocrite.He bitches and moans about increased taxes and spending, but then, when the tax has gone through because the people know we need good roads, he goes out and takes credit for the "jobs it creates".
And sure, it's not unusual for any human being to be hypocritical--any of us. It's just the really big, glaring instances that turn your stomach, you know?
Just to show we're equal opportunity on this subject, here's another political group of hypocrites:
Sure, it may not be new but we have to point it out, these glaring hypocrisies, now and again (again and again?), in hopes there will be less of it in the future.
Friday, May 20, 2011
There's a brilliant idea, right there
Let's see, super-religious zealots, rampant under-education, nuclear weapons and now this:
Oh, yeah, that's a great idea.
Makes for the perfect recipe, really.
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