This is a running commentary on contemporary social, political and religious issues. From the Introduction of James Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty -- Truth, Lies and Leadership" "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary" Reinhold Niebuhr
As I sit here typing I heard the skewed media focus on those who may not
vote now for the president because of the gay marriage support. They are
not concentrating on those in his base and others who may have not voted before because of
one thing or another but are now motivated TO vote for him now. At least I HOPE it
has. A civil right should NOT be put to a vote. How many would have voted against black people or even interracial marriage in 1964 if their civil rights were put up to a vote?
If any of you, any one of you had any reservations whatsoever you need to
bag them, say a profound thank you to the president who is now risking his
presidency for those of us to whom marriage issue means a lot. That is
HEROIC! In view of that I don't care how you do it but you MUST MUST help
get out the vote for the president.
You must convince all those who had any doubt that this president is for
us. He has, in my opinion, done the best he could in other areas as
well. The gay marriage issue elevates him to incredible heights and WE
MUST support him. Moreover, the 99% should not have any doubts
whatsoever that Romney would be deadly for them and for the country as well.Gay issue aside it is economic stability which is the driver of elections
and on that issue Obama too has had to work with poisonous opposition. It
is amazing the economy has done as well as it has given the wreckage the
Republicans left him with.
PLEASE GET THE VOTE OUT FOR THE PRESIDENT. LOOK TO WHAT HE HAS DONE
WHICH IS LEGION FOR THE PEOPLE AND KNOW YOU ARE DOING A GREAT THING FOR OUR
COUNTRY. HE WILL IF ELECTED AGAIN AND IF THE CONGRESS TURNS BLUE GO DOWN
AMONG THE GREATS. I AM CONVINCED OF THAT. PLEASE, OF COURSE, VOTE
FOR HIM AND CONVINCE AS MANY OTHERS AS YOU CAN TO VOTE FOR HIM TOO!
THANK YOU, Mr. President.
From the moment he ran through tremendous opposition and controversy to
now directly after one of the most hate-infused constitutional changes in
the North Carolina vote sowing discrimination into their state
constitution, I say Mr. President thank you so very much. I ask the gay
community and ALL those who are friends, parents and co-workers of
LGBT persons to come out en masse and support the president in
November.
He has shown time and again whether it's in the area
of foreign policy or now supporting a huge number in his constituency
and base the steel that Joe Biden said the president has in his spine.
Thank you again, Mr. President, you are saving lives. I think the arc of
the moral universe bends toward justice today and, in pertinent part to
your election as the first black president, there are many who are even
prouder to be Americans today.
Yesterday's election results tell a bone chilling story. If gay groups, unions, students, young people, Democrats, Independents
for rational thought and god knows how many other groups for progressive
change, do NOT come out STRONGLY in any way possible whether it's
marches, joining the 99% group, contributions, in the media or any other format one can think of to organize, then we deserve the fate we
will get. We will get a nation that is in character as it was in 1898 except the technological control these rancid reactionary fascist-like groups will have will be stunning.
Power harnessed by the Tea Bag and other Republicans could cost
the president his office and it ultimately could cost lives. Make no mistake about if you belong to any of
the above mentioned groups the life risked whether its through no health
care, no job, no home, no educationand little representation in both state and federal congresses and a Republican presidency, the life cost may be yours!
We cannot, We MUST NOT retreat but we must -- to use a Palin phrase (sorry) -- RELOAD!
I know times are hard, they are hard for so many including yours truly. STILL the election in Wisconsin to recall its Republican Governor Scott Walker is vitally important to us all. He has
ruined Wisconsin by driving up unemployment to Tower of Babel heights. Walker and so many other Republican politicos in our nation have fired thousands of
firemen, police, teachers and other public employees so necessary for a
functioning nation and he will do more destructive things if he is not defeated. Many other
Republican governors have ruined their states too taking tyrannical control
of towns especially towns that vote Democratic. These Republicans are
an assault on our democratic way of life.
Millions of signatures were collected from all strata of Wisconsin
voters to call Walker back. The recall vote will
be taken June 5 so there is little time to spare. If you are
politically savvy at all you know this has HUGE ramifications for those of us
who call ourselves progressive, Democratic, Independent and many others who know the Republican Party is toxic for our nation. It
will send shock waves across the nation if Walker is defeated.
We ALL have a vested interest in seeing Walker
recalled. I ask IF YOU CAN PLEASE make a contribution through the sites
below as I have felt compelled to do. It does not have to be much at all. It can be as little or as much as you can afford.
If Walker is recalled by electing the Democratic candidate Barrett it will send a
chilling message to Republicans that reverberates for ALL of us. Republicans are doing things not seen since post
Reconstruction. They are using all means illegal and legal to cut the
vote of the poor the disabled, the sick, and the elderly through voter suppression techniques and
voter ID laws. The money Walker has raised from outside groups is
STAGGERING. We can beat them at their ugly game because we have the
REAL force -- PEOPLE POWER.
Please consider no matter how small (or large) making a donation to this worthy cause! Recall Walker NOW, ask me how by scrolling below or merely Google Tom Barrett Wisconsin Recall.
Best, Nat
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Tate, Recall Walker HQ
To: Natalie Rosen
Sent: Wed, May 9, 2012 12:16 am
Subject: FWD: 28 days to defeat Walker
Natalie --
I wanted to pass along this message from our next governor, Tom Barrett.
After months of historic division, job loss, criminal corruption and
partisan power grabs at the hands of Scott Walker, Tom Barrett will
offer Wisconsin a new start at healing our great state and beginning the
long job of repairing the devastation wrought by 17 months of
irresponsible rule.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Tonight, I am humbled by and grateful for the support of Wisconsinites across our great state.
Since we began our campaign, I've traveled all across Wisconsin -- never once leaving our state -- to listen to the people.
What I've heard from Wisconsinites is that they want an end to the
political turmoil caused by Scott Walker, and they want their needs
placed first.
With you standing with me, that's what I plan to do. In the next 28
days, I'll work overtime fighting for the interests of Wisconsinites,
but to do so, I need your urgent help right now to kick-start our
neighbor-to-neighbor program.
Defeating Scott Walker and his entrenched, out-of-state special
interest allies will not be an easy task. Right now our campaign is up
47% to 46% in the polls, but we know that Walker and the Koch brothers
are ready to unload everything in their right-wing arsenal in a
desperate attempt to bring us down.
Scott Walker's failed agenda has led to unprecedented political turmoil
and a sputtering Wisconsin economy that leads the entire nation in job
loss.
But while we've been campaigning across Wisconsin, Walker has been
flying all over the country raising a record $25 million from right-wing
billionaires and lobbyists who want their interests placed ahead of
working people in our state.
Big money isn't going to win this fight. You are.
To win on June 5, we will need everyone who participated in this
improbable, people-powered movement to band together and work double
time talking to their friends, family and neighbors about the choice in
this historic election.
With your contribution of $12 right now,
you'll help us defeat Scott Walker and his corporate cash with an
unparalleled neighbor-to-neighbor program of people talking to people in
their front lawns, in their kitchens, and in their living rooms about
the future of our state.
It's time to put Wisconsin first so we can focus on jobs, on education,
and on restoring our tradition of open, honest government.
In the last 15 months, you've proved that winning this fight for
working people is possible, and I can't wait to see what you'll do in
the next 28 days to lead us to victory.
My Comment in relation to NYT article and post are here
If this proves to be true,
the ever so capable president Obama adds another feather to his cap. I
cannot think of one other president Democrat or certainly Republican who
has been so foreign policy effective and right on the mark. From taking
out of the Somali pirates, retrieval of two innocent women from N.
Korea, to the killing of Alawaki, and the mother of all terrorists bin
Laden I trust the president with my life and can EASILY vote for him
another term. This is how foreign policy is conducted when you have
BRILLIANCE at the helm.
On the economy too CLEARLY it is
improving naturally not fast enough for the McDonald's generation
American public. IF we had not had such a cruel, mean, and often racist
Republican controlled House our economy would be in even better
recovery. If not for one of the worst conservative five on the Supreme
Court to possibly strike down the president's necessary and crown
achievement health care the president's election would be assured.
Defeat of any these things, however, will not matter because defeat will
be hung around conservatives' necks.
My Point: The president
is a STAR and the Republican party of old white men and some white women
cannot admit this is so. But it does not matter what they admit. The US
knows when it has elected a sterling example of leadership.
Good luck, Mr. President, this white woman's Jewish heart and my prayers are with you. My bet is on YOU to prevail!
I send the following quote from
Huffington Post to our friends and allies who desperately want the re-election
of the president. This is, I believe, one of Romney’s most damning
indictments and in my mind HIS Waterloo.
HP said as follows:
At
a town hall-style meeting Monday in Cleveland,
the GOP presidential candidate got this pointed question about his investments:
In this age of tough foreign competition, could Romney explain the "over
$1.5 million in foreign tax credits" he received since 2000?
"I'm
not familiar with that," Romney told the man who asked. The crowd booed.
"I didn't think I paid any foreign income taxes, but I'll be happy to take
a look at it."
In fact,
Romney and his wife, Ann, paid more than $1.2 million in foreign taxes on
so-called passive investments from 2000 through 2010, and paid about $800,000
in taxes on general income to unspecified countries. That's according to the
couple's own tax returns.
Their
foreign tax bills entitled them to more than $1.5 million in tax credits in the
United States
since 2000, thanks to Internal Revenue Service rules that prevent businesses
and investors from being doubly taxed on money they earn abroad.
This tax avoidance scheme is yet
another in the hundred perhaps thousands of ways corporations and the mega
rich, with their sophisticated tax attorneys, snake around paying their fair
share to our government and then tax the middle class here to pay for their
avoidance over there.This issue, I
believe, should be the most important attack against this valueless empty suit,
Romney and his Republican Party. The flip-flopper-in-chief times
10, is worse than any other candidate by far through his own economic
slither to avoid paying taxes in our country.
Receiving a tax credit in our country and paying taxes to foreign countries
is without a doubt revolting. If these know nothing Republicans want to
talk about treason insulting the president (including Romney’s assent to it by
his silence) then they should look to Romney, a presidential candidate, giving
money to foreign countries but depriving the US, the country he SAYS he loves,
of its rightful share. It is an abomination! He did not have to set
up his investments that way. It would not have made him significantly
poorer but would have helped OUR country in its effort to emerge from the
GREATEST RECESSION/DEPRESSION EVER, CREATED BY MOSTLY REPUBLICANS.The fact that he CAN do this and Romney, et
al would never change it, is testament as to just how skewed the tax system is
to the ultra rich.Republicans have a
vested interest to keep it that way while we the 99% go without jobs, without
health care and some day, if the Ryan bill Romney loves so much becomes the law
of the land, with deep cuts to social safety net programs like Medicare,
Medicaid and even ultimately Social Security.
The Democratic Party and many
others who want the president re-elected should get the message out, take
advantage of savvy liaisons they may have with the press and crush Romney’s candidacy
for the presidency in pertinent part because of the taxes he paid or more
precisely DID NOT pay to our country!
I am one of the growing number of female
football fans. Why do I love it? I love it because I see men doing
things my body never could do even when I was 20! I love the bodily
contortions, I love the long forward pass, I love the surprise
break-aways; moves one did not expect and cannot believe.
Man has always loved sport (Romans throwing others to the lions comes to
mind) and most especially we love a bruising sport like football where
one sits in the safety of the room, behind the TV or in a seat at the
stadium while others take the bashing and we safely watch it.
Someone -- maybe some lefty of the 60's -- said "The personal is
political" so excuse me if I wax so. We are a country made up of policy
which ROUTINELY goes to war -- read Rachel Maddow's book "Drift" and
you will get MY drift. We have gone to war in ALL venues nearly at ALL
times in our history. Man has always gone to war, I know, but it is
different now. Not only can we watch from our living room but the
perpetrators of war can conduct it with drones in depersonalized safety close to
home 6000 miles away from the front. We love war most especially when
we are so removed from it.
War is on the evening news or even on a TV set-up at work shown as
entertainment for those who do not have to physically suffer its
consequences. War is nasty and brutal. We sit in the comfort of our
living room while newscasters describe the shock, awe and mayhem of
battle. It looks like the 4th of July BUT it's not. The camera rarely
goes behind the scenes to show just who the bombs hit, the family's
limbs exploding or its many dead. Rarely are we shown wars' aftermath
or if we are we often do not look. It is the way of war doncha know.
War is hell; as if we could not have figured that out.
Football IS a type of war. We watch, cheer and feel good in the safety
of our home, seats in a barroom or at the game. We gorge on
food and drink and merriment while our fellow man has his body crushed,
his brain compressed, his bones ruined and sometimes the grim reaper
pays a visit.
It is the way of the world. War and often sport, especially football,
are brutal.
I am not exactly sure how after thousands of years of
evolution we can change man's hard wired drive but we ought to try. We
watch war and sport on the HDTV screen while we swig the next beer or
swallow the next piece of pizza. It's in our DNA and it's the way we
have been for millennia for better and, I believe, mostly for worse!
If
you heard the president as I did today in Ohio, he was MAGNIFICENT.
He spoke to a HUGE crowd. He was the Barack Obama I knew and loved. I
STILL know and love him. The second term will be even better than the
first IF the rotten red congressional House turns blue. We MUST help
throw the Republican wingnuts OUT. Get the president some support. I
am feeling better every day, more positive by the moment. Romney no
matter how much money it will not matter. He is an empty suit and
throwing overboard this guy Grennell was his first BIG error. It shows
you how horrendous Romney is. He threw a long time loyal Republican
supposedly expert (well I challenge that but just saying) in foreign
policy overboard Grennell who was gay because some two bit racist bigot
religious fanatics scared the *&^% out of him shows you what this
guy is and what the party has become. It is OVER for Republicans. This
is their
last gasp. The complexion of the country is changing and they will all
too soon be irrelevant. Cannot happen fast enough for me.
Romney has got to be the worst of the worst Republican candidates
EVER. I never thought I would say that after the McCain debacle of 2008
but the Republicans outdid themselves this time with the bottom of the barrel
candidate. He is just AWFUL. He could have God as his running mate and
it would not help. WOW Romney is so out of touch, he is so UNPRINCIPLED, and it is almost painful to watch him squirm in his own skin. He is just a shill for the out on a limb extremists who have taken over
the soon to be dead Republican Party. What will be left of it? NOTHING I HOPE! They
will NEVER EVER be able to win national elections with an extremist not only base
but entirety...EVER. Throwing overboard Grennell was just a metaphor
for how much of an empty suit Romney is. There is NO comparison between
Obama and him. Obama is SO SO SO far superior it's not even funny. How
does a party do that to itself? It's committing suicide right before
our eyes and Rubio or ANYONE will NOT help!
We must be buoyed up by the HUGE crowd today in Ohio.
Polls I am reading are looking so far good for all the swing states
except Florida which is neck and neck. I have a feeling it will turn to
us...I hope. BUT in NO WAY be smug just be ENTHUSIASTIC again. Our
lives and your children's lives are at stake.
Obama 2012 -- work for his re-election
p.s. Pray and help Scott Walker's DEMISE in Wisconsin. I feel he is
going down. One by one we take the nation back. Brick by brick we
build a new nation from the bottom up!
A HIGH FIVE to this brave woman. Kudos times many. This is a wonderful and in my opinion a GREAT story. As I have said many times I am adamantly opposed to all religion which requires one to lock up one's brain and throw away the key.
I dislike throwing the word
Nazi around like a game of Wonder Ball. If every political group and
person to whom one objects is labeled Nazi then no one truly is. Yet
there are unique times where the comparison is apt.
Last evening MSNBC'S Larry
O'Donnell carried a segment about the despicable anti-homosexual hate-filled
violence infused “sermon” preached last Sunday by a North Carolina Baptist
pastor. It stunned me into catatonic
incredulity so much so that I had to decompress from the poison circulating my
system. I post the segment hereand below for your review. If you view it please view both "Pastor" Sean
Harris's sermon and Larry O'Donnel's well crafted response.
Harris's loathsome
violent-to-children-who-appear-to-be-gay rant spewed his venom to a
sparse congregation in North Carolina.
It included such sweet suggestions as breaking a child's "limp" wrist
if that “limp” wrist belonged to a male. Nonetheless, many cheered and
clapped. I do not know from under what rock these intellectually mind-frozen
inhumane malcontents emerge but this is why the plethora of allies in and of
the LBGT community are so important.
Time and again I give kudos to Rachel Maddow for her work, her honesty about
her own life and her representation of it which does more, in my opinion, than
all the gay rights marches of yesteryear one could attend. I believe all
those who publicly stand up to defend the innocent other save lives.
Everything, though, is important to fight this systemic true evil that courses
through the life blood of our nation. The Republican Party has morphed
into something unrecognizable to those who were the true respectable Republican
intellects of their time. The Republican Party, now the party of hate, is
infused with right wing extremists no Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Nelson
Rockefeller, Gerald Ford and even the Republican idol Ronald Reagan could
understand.
The firing of homosexual
Richard Grennell, Romney's adviser on foreign policy, shouts loud and clear
where the Republican Party has taken itself and how its soon-to-be-leader and Republican
presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, once a supporter of gay rights, now melts
into a pile of putty in the face of opposition from the party's most extreme
base. He acquiesced to the utterly hateful Bryan J. Fisher the Director of Issues Analysis and to Tony Perkins
president of the malodorous anti-gay American Family Association. Romney
hurts a man who was loyal to the Republican Party for years. This is the stuff of which
the noxious chameleon Willard Mitt Romney is made. I hope this gives
Grennell pause to realize the morphed Republican Party to which he has
associated himself is the pure and unadulterated party of hate which will make
no room for him or other so-called Log Cabin Republicans who are gay.
There is sad simile to the German Nazi Party's
rise to power, which would ultimately murder millions in modern time. The
German party of 20th century history would plunge the world into one of its
greatest war killing machines human kind has ever known. Many Jews during
the anti-Semitic Nazi Party's assent were told to get out of Germany because
the words and essence of the Nazi party's leadership put the handwriting on the
wall for them to read. But many did not read them and most did not
leave. Many thought it only a phase. It will end, some
thought. It was only a transitory minority element within the party that
will fade with time. But it never did fade with time until it was too
late and the other everywhere was ground into dust by an element in a movement
many thought was merely going through harmless growing pains.
The rise of the Nazi Party
began with a simple speech, a book, a movie, a burning, a purge but it ended with the
slaughter, the purging and the burning of millions. It is why I make the comparison
between its rise and the rise of our own disloyal opposition. In truth,
this Republican Party of hate includes in its ranks the most extreme right wing
virulence that party has ever known which is too close for comfort to the
appellation of Nazi for me.
Elizabeth Warren was in Marlboro, Massachusetts
last Sunday. Did you see it reported by television, cable and local
newsorganizations? If you answered no I will say I did not see her either. The
media coverage of Elizabeth Warren is a DISGRACE.
This is the biggest and I aver one of the most important senate races in the
country. If Elizabeth
wins it will be HUGE and right now the polls show a close race. Hopefully
once Massachusetts
gets to see and hear her they will fall in love with her candidacy as I
did. My hope is that she will win and have as positive impact on the
state as Teddy Kennedy did for decades but she cannot do it if she does not get
press coverage while her opponent simply has to drive up in his truck and brown
jacket and a camera is in his face! It is simply unfair.
The press does a disservice to the State of Massachusetts and a disservice to the nation
with its pathetic lack of coverage of this price-above-rubies candidate,
Elizabeth Warren. We live in crucial electoral times calling for crucial
votes for the 99%. Elizabeth
will be on our side as her opponent will be for the top 1% richest.
A large segment of the press has been accused of being in the pockets of big
corporate everything skewing the election red and buying up power with Karl
Rove's deep pocket bucks making our nation into the oligarchy that many say it
is. When the press does NOT cover someone like Elizabeth Warren then I
can surely see what they mean!
The link here is to the Boston Sunday Globe article "Dying Wishes" which is about a little discussed topic of death with dignity. In addition to explaining what Death with Dignity means it offers the reader the ability to vote yea or nay to this procedure if it were put to a vote. Very few want to discuss this but I believe in speaking truth and looking reality in the face.
I vote a resounding yes to death with dignity or assisted suicide for TERMINALLY ILL patients. Both from tortured personal experience and the experience of many friends and relatives it is UNBELIEVABLE how horrendous it is
for the patient to endure debilitating and freedom depriving terminal illness and how easy it is for others to deny themselves that freedom of choice. Moreover, by doing so they deny it to everyone else as well. It is an
understatement to say a terminal illness is a horror of the greatest magnitude to endure and that it should be up to the person suffering it to make the ultimate decision for him or herself either by a health care proxy or, if possible, by oneself to either endure the suffering or end it. One's body is one's own. The suffering major religions require a human being to endure is unconscionable. I would even aver that religion is in the business of suffering and it is in its own vested and monetary interest to encourage one to endure unspeakable pain because then one goes to it for relief. I do not believe anyone can make that life or death decision for me but me.
I never want to give my hard earned bucks to a disgusting nursing home. The nursing home business is a multi-million buck scam as is the cancer pharmaceuticals business. The drug companies do not want cures
for cancer by funding stem cell research, DNA research or environmental contributors to the cancer albatross around everyone's neck to once and for all end that multifaceted malodorous malady. Slashing, burning or poisoning is the still, after decades, the treatment de jour for cancer.
The so called "war on cancer" is over thirty years old and there is, as in other wars our nation fights, no end in site. The so called "walk for the cure" of Komens does not want a cure they want people to give money to Komens for Komens. It's a big business and it translates in to BILLIONS for the cancer industry while it sucks dry those who are unlucky enough to get the disease or have a close family member that does. Even if they can buy some time if treatment is available they are often not rich enough to treat it effectively and insurance companies, naturally, will not pay for much of it and most especially will not pay for experimental treatment.
If our culture euthanizes beloved pets because it is the humane thing to do is it no less so for a human being? I will vote yes for a death with dignity bill if it appears on the Massachusetts ballot in November! You can accept this difficult decision or reject it as you choose but leave that choice up to me.
My namesake Hillary Rosen and Rachel Maddow were on Meet the
Press this morning. Both are blessings to progressives everywhere.
Rachel in particular was her usual perfect defending our cause against two
Republican heavy weights, Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference Rep.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Republican strategist Alex
Castellanos.
Rachel was wonderful, passionate and absolutely 100%
correct. I thought she and Hillary Rosen knocked it out of the park and
the Republicans on their behinds. I was particularly thrilled Rosen had
the opportunity to better explain her views which were originally, I believe,
misinterpreted. She was NOT against Ann Romney or stay-at-home
mothers. Who could be? BUT those in the 1% cannot in ANY way be
compared to those in the 99%. How middle class mothers and poor mothers juggle
a job and children is infinitely different. Ann Romney probably has NO
idea what a head of lettuce or even a gallon of gasoline costs. Why
should she? She doesn't HAVE to. Her husband’s Republican policy
reflects just that point when he wants to take away the earned income tax credit but cut taxes for the top 1%. Fairness is not in the Republican vocabulary.
Rachel is right when she said state legislatures that turned
Republican in the 2010 election catastrophe show EXACTLY what happens when
Republicans rule -- high unemployment, the emasculation of unions, no health
care and no jobs. Who are Republicans kidding?
Republicans indicting Democrats as the dividers is a
joke. Republicans are the ones who will NOT compromise, Republicans are
the ones who are virulently anti choice, anti birth control and thereby anti
women. Republicans are the ones to introduce
religious beliefs which should be separate and apart from the big government
Republicans CLAIM they loathe so much. I don't say it, Rachel doesn't say it,
Hillary doesn't say it but the CONSTITUTION says it and Republicans are blind
to that too.
Rarely does Rachel Maddow say anything in error and if does
she apologizes and corrects it immediately. That is infinitely more than
Republicans do unless their arm is twisted into an unnatural position!
My channel in the evening is stuck on MSNBC!
If you are interested in Meet the Press and did not see it Sunday, April 29 I link it below.
If you have not seen it I enclose here
the link to the PBS Frontline program aired yesterday, April 25, 2012
entitled "Money, Power and Wall Street (Part One)." It is wonderful.
In case our economic near collapse in 2007 is not inscribed permanently
in your synaptic cerebral connections and you have forgotten many of the
reasons for it, or if the subject is downright mind numbing,
shattering, and boring I link the segment to it below as well.
Frontline reduces the explanation of highly complex economic realities
to a very understandable narrative. It is, as usual, entertaining as
well.
If you have time to view it I highly suggest you do lest we all forget
why our country is so far into the economic hole that we are and who the
real sowers of this utter catastrophe and near world economic collapse were. The fault lay NOT with President Obama
but those who obstruct policies he would enact which offer the faster
cure for this lethal malady. You will be able to see how far he has had
to crawl into the mostly Republican (but not all) sewer to rescue and resuscitate this nation and how difficult a process it is.
Put the blame where it should be NOT on the 99% but on the 1% wealthiest of this nation. Do NOT elect Willard Mitt Romney
yet another member in good standing of the 1% who did not give a damn
about you, about me, and about the nation they claim to love so much!
The editorial by Jeff Jacoby in the Sunday April 22,
2012 Boston
Sunday Globe entitled “Obama a unifying force? Hardly” raised my ire. I
wrote a response to it. “Conservative” that Jeff Jacoby allegedly is
indicting the president for being the reason for the nation’s division and that
he unlike his charismatic speeches in Grant Park or during the 2004 Democratic
convention proved him to be the opposite – a divider of the nation he
promised to unite. He even compared him to Richard Nixon who vowed he
would "bring us together" and did anything but. You may see why
I saw three shades of deep red! I stated the following to him. His
article that demanded a response is here if you
care and can stand to read it and linked below as well.
You know, Jeff, I haven't
read your editorials in quite some time because frankly I thought you were not
worth enough to raise my blood pressure to Plutonian heights. So why did
I read your utterly heart attack inducing article, "Obama a unifying
force? Hardly"? I have no idea. I know I came to the end
wanting to scream YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!
What planet to you live on,
Jeff? You are proclaiming to your readers it's Obama fault for not
uniting us? After ALL the compromising that man has tried to do you have
the unmitigated gall to say that? After the pretzel the president has
turned himself into to TRY to negotiate with and placate Republicans who
ultimately would give him NOTHING you can utter such a lie? After
Republicans insulted him on numerous occasions and even courted world economic collapse
rather than raise a debt ceiling something universally done by all former
presidents you can say such things?
The president WANTED to live
out what he said in his Grant Park Speech and the myriad of speeches he has
given advocating unification of the body politic but sickening Republican Tea
Bag politics racist, uncompromising and extreme would not give this black man
an inch. God forbid what he wanted to do would work and show them up for
the charlatans most in the Republican Party are.
This well meaning man will
reign supreme over the race baiters, the Wall Street banksters and those who
would not give him credit for even killing bin Laden. You say things are
that are not, you say things are black when they are white, you dismember
history’s truth, and have no memory of what actually in reality occurred.
The fault for the
irretrievably divided broken down Washington politics dear Brutus is NOT in the
president but in the Republican Party for which you seem to advocate.
McConnell admitted the Republican Party's ONLY goal was to tear Obama
down. The president could ask for the cherry blossoms to bloom longer and
your Republican Party would say some non sequitur like see I told you he was a
Muslim, see I told you he was not born here, see I told you he is a socialist,
a Nazi, a Communist. The political spectrum ignorance of people in the
Republican Party is astounding.
The president can merely say
he could have a son who looked like Trayvon and oh my god how racist that is
they proclaim. Or gee maybe the Cambridge
police reacted too hastily when they handcuffed Professor Gates at his own
home. Guess what? THEY DID act too hastily but President Obama
being the conciliator he is scheduled a beer summit to reach out to both sides
for which he was naturally criticized for that as well. The man cannot
even cross a street without receiving criticism from the racist right who
cannot STAND a black man and his black family inhabiting the heretofore oh so
historically consistent very White House.
The reason Richard Nixon
could not bring us together was he was corrupt, did NOT bring Vietnam to an end but rather invaded Cambodia AND he
WAS a CROOK. You and your party are excrementally putrefied because of
the cockeyed way you view your country, utterly distort history, lie, and, in
fact, most especially because of Republican’s racist core.
It is people like you who
will be held accountable if the life of this president is threatened. He has
received more threats than any president in US history and it’s NOT from Democrats.
Imagine if Rev. Wright said the same things as the sick malcontent Ted Nugent
the hard rock know nothing Romney supporter. It is he and so called
“conservatives” like you who are the DESPICABLE dividers. It is most
certainly NOT the president. Hopefully, in November we will see that you
have reaped the discord and division you and your fellow Republicans have
sown. The defeat of your lies and your historical inaccuracies cannot
come quickly enough for me.
Mitt
Romney knows and was caught off guard saying that if he
does not capture the Hispanic vote they will lose and he is correct they
will. We MUST emphasize to the Hispanic community that those
Republicans saying they are for them are certainly not. This is the same
man who said on tape Arizona's "Paper's Please" anti civil liberties
anti immigrant policy in Arizona is a model for the nation and is what
he would do if elected president. He is NOT kidding. Now he's trying
to figure out a way to persuade Hispanics that he was merely referring
to computer job look up (e-verify) of citizenship. DO NOT be duped as I feel certain you will not be.
Romney, as he is SO adept at doing, will flip flop and turn himself
into a salamander to make his ideology of the day (because it changes
EVERY day) into that which he thinks will get him elected. Once in
office he will NEVER be the immigrant's friend, will NEVER support the
Hispanic community but will do the opposite.
The president in a second term and IF the obstructionist Congress is
thrown out, I am confident WILL try to enact infinitely more immigrant
friendly policies, will craft sensible immigration law and NOT leave Hispanics
out of the American Dream. He cannot, however, do this alone. He
needs our help and he needs our vote.
Republicans, if they gain power, will capture and/or even kill undocumented workers en masse. As I said in an earlier email the Republican
Party advocates for border vigilantism. Moreover, they gerrymander districts as well as enact voter ID suppression laws
to diminish the impact of the minority vote because they KNOW that vote
is usually cast for Democrats.
Therefore, I ask you, no I plead with you, NOT to fall for the
Republican Trojan
Horse. Mitt Romney and Republicans are NOT for the elderly, not for
the disabled, NOT for the poor, NOT for health care and NOT for you. Do
NOT be
FOOLED--No se deje enganar. The
Republican Party is NOT about you. They
merely want you to THINK they are.
Click here to see how much Willard Mitt Romney has flipped his positions. He has COMPLETELY changed his views on every single issue of import in the modern era. Click where it says "here" on link to see his
positions in 1994 when he was running against Ted Kennedy and now when
he needs the wingnut religious fanatics and the Tea Party to win the
Republican nomination this chameleon morphs into something
unrecognizable. Or you can click on the link below.
VERY
interesting link. You would be AMAZED (or maybe you wouldn't) how many
of those Republicans who sound the drum beat of war, love war, support
war AS LONG AS THEY do not serve. Click here
(or on the link below) if you want to see who has served and who has
not. I think I am correct when I say more -- many more -- Republicans
hid from the draft, got deferments or did not serve while they did and
still do their damnedest to make sure other less powerful people's
children fight and die on the battlefield. It is scandalous to say the
least.
Oh yes, where was our CLASSLESS candidate Romney during the Vietnam
War? Mitt Romney Spent the Vietnam War in a French Palace! Click here (or on the link below) for that web site.
Make NO mistake about it electing racist Know
Nothing religious extremist irrational science deniers will mean a country will
be reduced to near third world status where the rights of women, minorities,
the disabled and the poor are reactionarily eviscerated. It will mean the
steady decline and obliteration of the environment. It will mean a right wing extremist Supreme
Court the likes of which our country has not seen since the 1857Justice Taney Dred Scott Supreme Court decision ruling
the black man was property and not a person.
This time the court will overturn a woman’s right to choose. It will keep corporations as people and will
ensure the oligarchy that exists today will remain in place for God knows how
many generations. It will mean the 99%
will not overcome the economic forces of the richest 1% evil that smother them
by keeping a larger and larger piece of the economic pie through nefarious,
illegal and immoral means while the majority eat cake, develop diseases we
cannot afford with no health care to treat them and no one TO care. Only
death will await.
This is the most important election I have ever witnessed in my decades of
witnessing many. Defeat of the president is NOT an option. The Republican
opposition MUST be defeated by all means necessary for you, for me, for your
children and for their children! There
is, indeed, too much at stake to even contemplate the alternative.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Dastardly Speech: The violent, ugly, and filthy
comments of the disgusting hard rocker right wing extremist, Ted Nugent, were
WORSE than anything that was said by Rev. Wright in his sermon for which the
right wing screamed critical of then candidate Obama. Wright's speech was mild
in comparison to the THREATENING vitriolic speech of Nugent, a man Mr. Romney
gleefully accepted as a supporter and, indeed, went to him for support.
At least the president, good human being that he is, addressed Wright's
unacceptable comments, gave a speech about it and eschewed the vitriol of it.
Mitt Romney sends a message of so called "civility" through an
emissary. He did not even have the COURAGE not to mention courtesy to
disavow what that violent, profane and repellent Nugent had to say.
I am happy that the Secret Service is investigating Nugent. They should
but that a presidential contender with gravitas and class merely had an aid
craft a mild note is UNFORGIVABLE and insulting to the country itself including the
presidency that represents it. One should think twice before
supporting this candidate-for-president, Mitt Romney. He is an
unprincipled man based on how Mitt Romney handled this potentially criminal
threat directed at the president of the United States by someone Romney not
only accepted but his sons waxed effusive in accepting the scurrilous Nugent
endorsement.
Romney is an EMBARRASSMENT to this country he says he loves. He would not
know a principled thought if it stood directly in front of him. He says
ONLY that which is politically expedient and changes his views more often than
a chameleon sheds its skin. SHAME ON HIM for not personally and strongly
rejecting Nugent's dastardly threatening comments. It shows one who the
significantly better candidate is; one who hides under the table in the face of
a challenging event or one who addresses it head on like the intellectually and principally superior person President Obama is.
Mitt Romney, if anything God forbid happens to our president YOU and your
Republican Party of mean, racist intrinsic evil WILL be held accountable at
least by the God you profess to believe in so much!
A stream of conscious:
The Hillary Rosen controversy was the NO controversy controversy. Why didn't Hillary Rosen speak
UP for herself? Ann Romney knows about sacrifice like Lloyd
Blankfein's wife knows about sacrifice -- NOT. Ann Romney did not have
to sleep in motel rooms because her house was foreclosed on by a
bankster. Ann Romeny could pick and choose ANYTHING she wanted. She was
not a single mother she was the MULTI hundreds of million dollar wife of
a 1% er. She knows NOTHING about sacrifice. She could have had 20
children and she could not be compared to an economically disadvantaged
woman with two.
The economically disadvantagedjobless woman and family have issues with the rearing of children Ann
Romney could NOT even think about. Moreover, Ann Romney did not HAVE to
work. Economically disadvantaged women even WITH a husband need TWO ...
let me say that again for these RepublicRAT know nothings ... TWO jobs
to put food on the table.
When did Ann unrelatable Romney ever
fear she could not feed her family? When you are a haus frau married to a
1% er you economically worry about NOTHING.
Lower socio economic
women have to worry about EVERYTHING related to survival: Food,
clothing, shelter and MOST importantly HEALTH CARE. I bet Ann
Romeny, who is said to have MS, did not worry ONE second as to how she
could medically afford treatment.
Hillary Rosen, STAND UP FOR
YOURSELF AND DO NOT GIVE IN TO THESE REPUBLICAN HYPOCRITES and Mr.
President, I love you BUT why grovel at Republican's feet. They simply
kick you in the face anyway. APPEAL TO THE HILLARY ROSEN'S and people
like me YOUR BASE who have your back and ARE at your feet!
When the special prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin homicide
case, Angela B. Corey, brought second degree murder charges against George
Zimmerman I felt as I did when Barack Obama won the presidency. I felt proud to be an American. Ms. Corey’s
press conference announcing her decision and George Zimmerman’s turning himself
in to face these charges was almost miraculous. Ms. Corey is an honorable
special prosecutor who by the strength of her words, it appears, is dedicated
to the justice all those who wept for Trayvon desired. Even Mr. Zimmerman's new defense attorney
extended his condolences to the Martin family. It was civilized man at
his best.
In Trayvon’s memory we turn another corner yet again in the nation's Herculean
struggle against racism and its fight for human justice. It is a never ending
fight as one generation passes the baton of legal jurisprudence to another safeguarding
Lady Liberty's flame.
Well over two hundred years ago a group of 18th
century men steeped in Europe’s Enlightenment crafted a document -- the
Constitution of the United
States -- that has withstood the test of
time. It is resilient, it is flexible and it is brilliant. It is clear,
though, the charging of Mr. Zimmerman for the killing of an unarmed black teen
would not have taken place had there not been a volcanic push from the bottom
up.
We are in a new age. No
longer will a historically besieged people not stand THEIR ground and allow others
to run roughshod over their fundamental Constitutional rights. When I
think of the years -- hundreds of them -- it took for the black man in this
nation to disembark the slave ship and cross over the bridge to freedom, I wax incredulous. The bridge needs constant
repair. The bridge over this river of tears was forged by many. It was forged by Frederick Douglas, John
Brown, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison and a Civil War
that killed more human beings, often brother against brother, than any war in
the history of this country’s plethora of human conflict.
It was forged by Emmett Till, a young black man slaughtered
brutally by vicious racists for the crime of merely flirting with a white
woman. It was forged by Malcom X who
said “I am non violent BUT I am not nonviolent with people who are violent to
me.” He instilled a sense of pride and
power in a people who had little of either.
And, of course, by Dr. Martin Luther King who said that this nation
delivered a promissory note returned and marked insufficient funds; that this
nation will live out the promise of its creed and honor that note where its
people of color were concerned.
The Watts section of Los Angeles
burned, Bedford Stuyvesant section in New York
burned, Detroit burned, Chicago burned and the post Civil War
struggle for the rights of African Americans continued. Human beings with other human beings said
NO. The black sanitation workers of Tennessee said NO, Rosa
Parks said NO to the back of the bus.
They said NO to segregation at lunch counters, in schools, in bathrooms,
in swimming pools, at water fountains and a thousand other different venues of
every day life. I AM A MAN their signs read
because so many whites treated them as if they were something less.
There is a long road to travel before the Zimmerman case has
ended but whatever the outcome the history of Trayvon Martin’s death is inscribed
indelibly onto the American historical heart. It hangs as a picture of the
American historical landscape as does the hanged civil rights workers, Goodman,
Cheney and Schwerner for as long as this country lives.
The president has a rug in his oval office
which reads: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends
toward justice." According to the September 4, 2010 Jamie Stiehm Washington
Post article “... those words belong to a long-gone Bostonian champion of social
progress. His roots in the republic ran so deep that his grandfather commanded
the Minutemen at the Battle of Lexington. For the record, Theodore Parker
antebellum American reformers, lyrically gifted abolitionist, Unitarian
minister and Transcendentalist thinker who foresaw the end of slavery, though
he did not live to see emancipation. He died at age 49 in 1860, on the eve of
the Civil War.”
Indeed, the arc of the moral
universe is long, but it bends towards justice
in this nation once again. It feels good to be an American today!
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
A Price Above Rubies (Proverbs 31:10) -- A Gem: Every
time I see an article about Elizabeth Warren (link here ) I am going to say the same
thing. IF the people of Massachusetts do not elect her they will be
missing out on one of the GREATEST minds, ethical humans, a candidate of
IMMENSE ability especially in economics that could not only be good for
our state but great for the nation as well. She is a DIAMOND and we
simply cannot pass this utterly excellent
woman up.
PLEASE, people of Mass. listen to her speak, listen to her
discuss issues. Go wherever she is and listen to her wisdom anyone would
be convinced that she is LIGHT YEARS more excellent than Brown and
really more superior to even the best in the Senate and there are a few
-- JUST A FEW -- but she could be added to them. Please IF you can,
contribute to her campaign. Take advantage of this fabulous opportunity
to elect someone SO great to represent Massachusetts.
You MUST realize
how lucky Massachusetts is to have her. Once again she is a price above
rubies. Elect this gem while you can!
Damned if I Know: Sorry for the title's light profanity but I was just reviewing some past articles of Matt Taibbi the brilliant, creative writer for Rolling Stone who makes the explanation of the economic catastrophe of 2007 actually entertaining to read.
This is a wonderful February 16, 2011 article entitled "Why Isn't Wall
Street in Jail?" Truthfully, it's fun, read it and either weep, be
enraged or both. Whatever you choose you should choose never to forget
who REALLY landed us in this kettle of soup. You can click here or on the link below!
I post the link to his articles which appear in Rolling Stone
so that unlike most Americans your memory and my aging one are not
short about the single most damaging historical rip off this country or
the world has ever seen, in my opinion, worse than the Great
Depression. At least in the Great Depression of 1929 remedies were
legislated
to prevent another catastrophe only to be reversed 70 years later by a
Congress in love with greed and Ayn Rand -- Alan Greenspan's secret
love. I wonder what Andrea Mitchell sees in that guy anyway. I doubt
she wed him for his looks! Did I make that looksist comment? I did.
Apologies but he reminds me of a Basset Hound. I digress.
Our current economic kettle of rancid
fish the "bipartisan" "American Jobs Act" about which Taibbi writes here
is just another segment of the saga that goes on and on and on and on.
Most who read my posts and I who write them may not be around to see the utter catastrophe
this brings on but your children, if you have them, probably will. Ah, the good ole USof A
what the hell happened to it? Damned if I know. I keep trying to
figure it out.
"Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?" -- By Matt Taibbi -- February 16, 2011
Companies like AIG, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase, Bank
of America and Morgan Stanley. Most of these firms were directly
involved in elaborate fraud and theft. Lehman Brothers hid billions in
loans from its investors. Bank of America lied about billions in
bonuses. Goldman Sachs failed to tell clients how it put together the
born-to-lose toxic mortgage deals it was selling. What's more, many of
these companies had corporate chieftains whose actions cost investors
billions — from AIG derivatives chief Joe Cassano, who assured investors
they would not lose even "one dollar" just months before his unit
imploded, to the $263 million in compensation that former Lehman chief
Dick "The Gorilla" Fuld conveniently failed to disclose. Yet not one of
them has faced time behind bars."
Tulsa, Trayvon and Me -- I AM elated local authorities along with the FBI and the US Marshall’s office caught two suspects in the random shooting, killing and wounding of five African Americans as they walked on a street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. On the heels of the Trayvon Martin murder, handled SO incompetently by Florida officials, this latest act of mayhem if not handled promptly could result in more violence and rioting of people who are fed up being the main component of this nation’s indelible stain. I NEVER advocate for violence but who in their right mind could not understand a historically besieged people’s fury when they are the recipients of racist violence which knows no end?
Unlike the people they killed who will never see justice, the perpetrators of these heinous acts will get their day in court. Trayvon Martin’s murderer SHOULD get the same day in court and while they are at it in Florida repeal or amend significantly the damn “stand your ground law.”
One Tulsa news blogger said "there are always mitigating circumstances." Oh really? In this case it surely does not seem so. But I will not, like the victims’ killers would, rush to judgment. The blogger sounded like a neo-Nazi. Perhaps he is and perhaps he is not but what kind of a sadistic statement is that when two white men go around shooting numbers of black people at random, victims they did not know and who, as reported, were out for a walk. It is clear on which part of the political spectrum this right wingnut extremist lies when he makes a statement like that. Unfortunately too many in this nation feel the same as he or simply do not care. I care.
I only wish Trayvon Martin received the same care. Alas the infection and putrification of our nation which has not overthrown its Civil War past still poisons its sinew. How is it that our Founders, men of the Enlightenment and its birth of liberalism could live with the hypocrisy they created? A nation built on that liberalism seemed to forget or did not think that human beings dragged here against their will might one day rise up against the injustice viciously perpetrated against them. Our Founders sadly did not understand that the chains they placed around African American necks, the whip lashes they inflicted upon African American’s backs, the rapes they viciously perpetrated upon African American women would be revenged and that those chains would one day be thrown off, the whips stopped, the scars healed and a people would seek the full measure of the justice they so belatedly deserved.
And yet, there are still white apologists for a system so rancid it inflicts, even until this hour, mind numbing illness. Our nation is torn apart by the disease at its cancerous core eating away at the body politic which cannot live because of it. Tulsa and Trayvon have many things in common but if nothing else what they do not have in common is the Tulsa killings will NOT go unavenged like so many other black killing by whites historically have.
I believe Iowa has the death penalty for crimes such as this. I am usually against the death penalty BUT in this case IF found guilty I want that Shakespearean pound of flesh. Yes, I am angry. Any person of conscience SHOULD be angry when innocents’ lives are taken from them merely because of an accident of birth. A hate crime murder is worse than other murders because it threatens not merely the victims but ALL the members of the group to which the victim belonged. This country's war against people of color MUST and WILL stop as Malcolm X so rightly said “by any means necessary.”
The Tulsa victims, Trayvon's ghost and I want the long arc of the moral universe to bend toward the justice the Founders promised this nation. That promissory note about which, Dr. King so eloquently spoke, is STILL not satisfied and the moral arc of justice is not yet bending far enough for me.
Two Great Men: Interview by Bill Moyers of Andrew Bachevich, BU Prof. of History
I sent an email to Professor Andrew Bachevich, a well known professor of history at BU. He also is a retired career officer in the US Army, served in Vietnam and lost a son in Iraq. He knows from whence he speaks.
Dear Prof. Bachevich: Just a quick note because the night grows late but I wanted to tell you that I taped your appearance on the great Bill Moyers and watched it this evening. You were, of course, brilliant. Hard to believe that the president is touting Robert Kagan's book "The World America Made" and not yours, "The Short American Century a Post Mortem." Clearly hindsight is 20/20 but in that hindsight we surely can see the grievous error of our foreign policy ways.
This progressive who believed so fervently in the election of our president, has on her Kindle your earlier book "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War." I will, after I finish that and few others including Rachel Maddow's "Drift" (absolutely superbly written), purchase "The Short American Century a Post Mortem."
I wonder if I can convince the man I thought would be another FDR to tilt his course a little more to the left? I still love our president, but I remain disappointed in his attempt to win over those who consistently when they hit him on one cheek hit him on the other also. He needs to know his base, people like me, want America's penchant for permanent war to come to a close. My years attending BU and knowing Howard Zinn gave me hope after Vietnam that it would happen. So far it does not appear to be the case. Maybe next year, if god willing, he wins again it will. I surely hope it does not take another century, which I will never see, to do so.
Excellent interview as usual. What else would I expect of two great men!
Thursday, April 05, 2012
The Hispanic Vote 2012--No se deje engañar (Do NOT be fooled)--a letter to the Hispanic Community: It is no secret that Republicans are talking about capturing a good percentage of the Hispanic vote in the general 2012 presidential election. Some say if they do not secure at least 33% of the Hispanic vote they will lose in November against the president. Obviously, Republicans are working furiously in an effort to determine exactly how to do this. It is a difficult task when the party who claims it WANTS to secure the Hispanic vote promotes policies which clearly identify it AGAINST the Hispanic vote. One need only listen to what the Republican leadership and its base are saying.
I will not enumerate all the myriad of ways it says it will seek to, in actuality, diminish the Hispanic population in the US by advocating draconian anti-immigration practices in states such as Arizona with its "papers please" law signed by one of the most right wing extremist Republican governors in that state's history to Republicans in red states like Alabama and Mississippi which have attempted to create an immigration barrier and codify into law undocumented worker round-ups to keep small businesses from hiring them. Businesses in those states are suffering from those policies and some are in bankruptcy. Many Republicans want to ramp up efforts on the US borders to seize and kill, if necessary, those who are attempting to cross. They relegate human beings to less-than-human status. It is shameful. The Republican Party is the new Nativitist Party of this century. There are even efforts by right wingnuts to stop the teaching of Hispanic history in public schools. The list of anti-Hispanic policies by the Republican Party goes on and on. All one has to do is Google the facts.
Therefore, I ask you NOT to fall for the Trojan Horse of Republican politics that sounds so nice when its candidates tell you how much they love Hispanics and speak in Spanish for one purpose only and that is to secure the Hispanic vote. The Republican Party in reality does everything from border vigilantism to gerrymandering districts as well as enacting voter ID suppression laws to diminish the impact of the minority vote because they KNOW that vote is usually cast for Democrats.
As a last point and one which I hope you convey to the Hispanic community: DO NOT FALL for Republican attempts to place the Cuban-American Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, as the Romney vice-presidential pick in order to lasso the Hispanic vote. This is a feeble attempt to take the Hispanic population as fools. Marco Rubio is NOT a Cuban refugee. He will no more be an advocate for Hispanic people than a white racist sheriff in a southwestern state, who wants to round up Latino people by any means necessary in an effort to deport them, is.
The Republican Party is NOT about Hispanic people. It is about white people trying to cement their power which they perceive is slipping away. Do NOT be FOOLED--No se deje enganar. The Republican Party is NOT about you or any who are among the 99%. They merely want you to THINK that they are to win power at your expense. Securing your vote for that purpose is too steep a price for any of us to pay.
