Showing posts with label Mitch McConnell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mitch McConnell. Show all posts
Thursday, November 8, 2012
It's Over! America Wins!!
CONGRATULATIONS, MR. PRESIDENT!!
In the final hours of the election, before the first polls closed and votes counted, Republicans continued to insult the president and demean those who vote democrat. Not even wishful thinking and praying from all republicans could get Mitt elected. Republicans had every opportunity to win the election by working with the president rather than against him. All of the economic and jobs bills that came from the president had more republican ideas than democrat ideas, but republicans chose to make it their only effort and job to make President Obama a one-term president.
Mitch McConnell sounded the hatred and anger in his pledge to ruin President Obama's administration through outright partisanship and deny him anything at every turn. Full transparency into how all republicans are to act hostile to the president. Technically, this was treason on the republicans part because they openly abdicated a civil war, expecting citizens to rise up in arms to "take back the country" from overt obstructionism to using "second amendment remedies".
Mitt Romney was supposed to win through the use of voter suppression laws, his billionaire friends and donors, lies, "Citizens United", and rigged voting machines in Ohio. In the case of the voter suppression laws, it seemed to back-fire because those very laws designed to discourage minorities, veterans, and women, also alienated his own republican voter bloc.
However, Mitty-boy did most of the damage to himself by identifying the middle-class as those who earn $250,000 up to one million and alienating those who do not by calling them moochers, only wanting a handout and "not wanting to take personal responsibility to earn a living". Mitt also said "Let Detroit go bankrupt". Mitt angered our allies as well as refuse to show America at least eight years of his tax returns and responded to a crisis prematurely without waiting for the facts. Mitt also showed that he does not know or understand foreign policy and flipped on allowing his record at Bain Capital and his tenure as governor to show what kind of person he is. Instead, he has only showed us how much of a bully he really is from his youth to a spiteful candidate.
The republicans failed in their efforts to block the vote and tried to use race and gender as a definitive factor to divide the electorate. Hopefully, this will be the last we'll see Mitt or any other plutocrat run for office. So, who will it be in 2016? Jeb Bush? Chris Christie? Jon Huntsman? Donald Trump? We shall see in 2015, so get ready for that campaign to get uglier. Republican strategist are already learning from this election and planning their next platform to run on, so be prepared to hear more euphemisms and code talk to influence their base while skewing or dismissing the facts of the matter.
Should the republicans regain the White House, there will be a campaign to bring a "right-to work" law that would give organizations to bust unions and erase pensions and retirement accounts, and take away the rights of workers to have a voice in the law. If they can get that to pass, Civil Rights will be next, just as Rand Paul wanted.
If you can, influence the young on the importance of education, inform the clueless and misinformed, use logic where needed, and keep up with important issues to call out those who lie or "opinionate" actual fact.
Go get'em tiger!
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Payroll Tax Cuts Extended!
With tax cuts for everyone in the million dollar club and up since the the Bush Tax Cuts was put into law by a House and Senate full of Republicans, today, 160 million working poor and middle-class Americans were granted an extension of the payroll tax cut. Of all things that most Republicans and all Tea Party Republicans did not want, it was giving a tax cut to the rest of the working class..
Boehner should be crying by now.-----^
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Although Boehner could care less what Democrats and have asked for in fairness in sharing tax cuts, but he had to capitulate to increasing criticism from the "right" as well. The Tea Party coalition did not want the Payroll Tax Cut to pass and told Boehner to vote against it, even after the deal was approved by most of the Senate Republicans and Mitch McConnell in an actual bipartisan effort with Democrats. Millions of working class Americans waited in anticipation of the Payroll Tax Cut to pass easily especially since it was, in essence, a tax cut that all Republicans vowed, promised, and signed an oath to keep. Obviously this was one tax cut all Republicans failed to exclude in their anti-tax pledge to Grover Norquist.
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Boehner folded like a broken accordion and had to shovel out a list of excuses to why he changed his position to pass the Payroll Tax Cut. Republicans, especially Tea Party Republicans (those who lean towards and those who admit to being Tea Party Republicans) view this as a defeat and an embarrassment to the GOP. Although the Payroll Tax Cut is only a two-month extension, it does give some relief to working Americans to afford the little things in life with the pittance afforded from the Republicans.
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It is clear that Republicans only support the rich and corporations, it is very hard for other middle-class Americans who vote Republican to affirm that said Republicans actually represent them. Instead, Republicans tend to only represent district with large businesses in them. The neighborhoods that are within such districts are just excess baggage under the delusion of having such representation. Rhetorically speaking, it leaves the question of "what would happen if corporations, large estates, and exclusive neighborhoods were allowed to become a district of their own? Would other Republican leaning districts with no large businesses or wealth still have that representation?". Obviously the answer is "NO!". This is the clarity of Republican representation.
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People who tend to take a centrist position on the subject want to blame both sides for the impasse in Congress are now silent in knowing that only the Republicans are to blame, especially when John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have vowed to make President Obama a one-term president at any cost, even if it means further sabotaging the country in the process. The actions of office holding Republicans will now face upcoming elections in 2012 and find their own pink slip or layoff notice in hand. This would also be the harbinger of death for the Bush Tax Cuts as it would expire on January 1, 2013. Let us be prepared for the new fight of the year when corporations would begin pouring more money into the Republican coffers to extend further or make permanent the Bush Tax Cuts that are now known to have not worked and further eroded the fragile U.S. economy.
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For now, Cry Boehner Cry and watch the Tea Party boil over!
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