Okay, NEXT!!

Alright, I hate to be the first to admit this but Obama as a president = FAILURE! Since taking the House and Senate the republicans have been able to ram more crap past him and all the other democrats. So I think it is time that we find a new President, who can win both against Obama and whatever old, awful, white dude or crazy white lady the republicans decide to put up. I know Ralph Nader wants Bloomberg to run for President on the idea that he can win. Also because he can bank roll his own campaign. But that is not a good plan, because then we have the same problem that we have now, a pro business president who thinks that the middle class should just be happy with any break that they get. Mark my words, anything of merrit that Obama has done is about to be pulled apart brick by brick until it is unrecognizable. So I ask all of you, who should we try out next? Because moving backwards to a person who thinks that trickle down economics is good, and that you don't need any help to get back on your feet just isn't an option. As well we don't need Sarah Palin out gunning the secret service in the White House, with Todd Palin insisting that the solar panels come off the roof, because they make too much noise when the wind blows.

My Letter to the President

Dear Mr. President,
I will use your title to begin because you won it fair and square, but it is a title that I fear holds no weight anymore. I more so than most was vocal in my support of you while you were running for office, as I am merely a permanent resident with no rights to vote. I researched your points, and made sure that all my friends knew, and that they let their friends know, because I thought you represented change. That you would be like the break wall, stopping the monstrous waves from toppling this great nation. Now it is with deep regret and disappointment that I write you this letter. I have been laid off twice in 12 months, and while I thank you for my unemployment benefits, I would rather have known that you fought for the tax cuts and healthcare public option, even if it meant me sleeping on a couch and mooching off of friends. When you compromise all the time sometimes what you are left with is no better than what you started with, and I feel this is the impasse that we have reached. You haven’t done all bad I will admit, but with the big life changing items, you have failed to do what we elected you to do. You were unable to get a public option passed with a democratic house and senate, I think only because in your aw shucks way you couldn’t even get all the democrats behind it. Even now with a democratic majority you still can’t seem to get the people who, supposedly share your fundamental views to pass what you want. Sir, with all due respect I think they are waiting for a leader, just as we all are. Stop trying to cajole and charm these people, call them to attention! Rather than you announcing, a “complete capitulation” in the words of Arianna Huffington, why not take it to the people? Why not stand there during your press conference and simply ask America to let there voices be heard? If you showed enough leadership to do that, we would answer your call. You of all people should know this as a former community organizer. The Republicans have proved that the only way they know how to govern is to play nasty in the sand box, by holding things hostage and by making threats. Let them do it! Let them all go down for treason in a time of war for allowing the government to shut down. With the added bonus that maybe their pay will also be stopped until they see sense and reason.
Further more, I ask, no beg, that you become the leader that we all thought you would be. Charm, good looks, and swagger are all great things, but honestly, there comes a time when you have to ram it down there throats. You have had several opportunities to do this and you have not. It makes me wonder, as my Dad who is a US citizen didn’t vote for you, because he thinks it is unfair that he always has to choose between the lesser of two evils. Is this your brand of evil? Capitulation?
Please fight for us as hard as we fought for you, we are waiting for your leadership, and if there is heartache in there we will manage it. This country was and will always be a nation of immigrants, of people who chose not to accept the way life was, but instead chose to create it somewhere else. Everyday more of us come here, illegal and legal, but we will fight for that dream. The only question is will you?

So Disappointed!!

I understand that Obama is simply trying to make sure that everyone gets what they want and this is the only way he can think of. But he has just cut himself off at the knees by agreeing to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. I thought that given his rip roaring speeches about leadership and redistributing wealth that he would have taken a harder stance on it. The American people need to be held accountable for there actions. They voted in these republicans so let them live with the consequences. I would have had more respect for him had he simply walked up to the podium and said, fine, this is who you voted for and this is what you want. Let all of the tax cuts expire, let the unemployment go unfunded and let the government shut down. You have voted for people that have given me no other alternative or compromise except stagnation. If you don’t like it I suggest you call your senator or your congressman, when they have finished listening to you then maybe they will be ready to deal with me. Until then we are at a stale mate, but that is the way that you made it America. Instead he has let the republican’s run rough shod over him, and it is just becoming unbearable to watch. If someone could please find Michelle’s handbag, I have a feeling Barrack’s unscrewed balls are waiting to be reinserted.

Stupid Is as Stupid Does

Well the night is not quite over yet, but the democrats have failed BIG TIME!! Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Mathews all seem to think that the reason the democrats got voted out is because they just didn't sell the good things that they did. I think they are wrong. You can say what you want about the republicans but when they are told to vote for something they do it. As oppose to the democrats who spend way too much time fighting within there own party. As well they got some really shitty leadership from the President. He wanted them to work together, he bent over backwards and made compromises when he should have held firm and held the republicans accountable. Which brings me to my second point, when are the democrats actually just going to find there balls and fight for what they believe in, I am tired of this wishy washy shit that they come up with. The American people had no choice but to vote for the republicans because the democrats didn't give them any reason to vote for them. It is a sad day, and my only hope is that the president can stop them. It is time to go to work.

Wow….what a buzz kill!!

After campaigning against the famous Sarah Palin line “Drill baby, drill” it appears Obama has finally sold us down the river. How can a progressive President who believes in global warming really allow drilling along our coasts? HELLO!!! Did we forget about Haiti already, or how the earthquake was caused by drilling for oil along the Plantation fault line? And also where are all my green jobs, because approving the oil rigs off shore you are in effect taking money away from each state that gets a platform, while essentially ruining the coastline of said state. Where are all my fields of solar panels and wind turbines, hell I live in California and I only know of one wind turbine field right outside of Palm Springs. A lot of the land along Pacific Coast Highway belongs to the state or the federal government, why can’t they put the turbines up there. I wish that he would be all that he promised, more the people’s Prez rather than the Capitol Hill two stepper that he has been playing lately. We already know that the Republican’s aren’t going to concede anything, even if he flat out tells them it is because of them that he is doing this. So what’s the point? And the rest of the question begging to be asked is what makes a better President? Someone who is always trying to get elected and who would rather get/go along than make the point that needs to be made? Or someone who does what the people who elected him to do? In the never ending race of Capitol Hill, can we really trust any of these politicians?

Way to Go Ginni….Not!

So this morning The Washington Post did an article on Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has started her own lobbying and political organizing group. While supposedly “non-partisan”, it was specifically set up to cater to “citizen-activist” of the” tea party” movement. “Ginni” as she is affectionately called, says Liberty Central Inc. will educate motivated citizens to "preserve freedom and reaffirm the core founding principles," according to the group's Web site, and will serve as a way for concerned Americans to "make a difference in the fight for liberty and against the liberal Washington agenda." Now I don’t presume to know what goes on between Justice Thomas and his wife but I would assume think that a lobbying firm would not be allowed for the wife of a Supreme Court Justice. It brings to mind that she could go around selling her husbands vote on various items brought forward to the Supreme Court. It also brings to mind that anything she learns and shares in her new position could be seen as tainting her husband’s views. Allowing her this access to both the Supreme Court and to both the House of Representative’s and the Senate seems like too much direct access, and not that she would get swayed but temptation is a bitch.

Can you Really Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?

I hate to compare members of Congress and the Senate to old dogs, because I love dogs of any age, really. But in truth could it be that the majority of Congressmen and Senators are just too old to compromise. Maybe we need to stop re-electing them and start searching for new, young idealists to take their places. Because they can't agree on anything. Case in point Senator Chris Dodd (D. Conn.) has been trying to increase banking regulations for the last 9 months trying to put together a Consumer Protection Act. Today it was finally revealed, and it appears that communications between him and his Republican committee members has broken down to the point that when the Act in question finally hits the floor of the Senate, the Republican's actively plan to filibuster it. So my question is could it just be that they are all too old to figure out how to work together? And would it be wrong of me to ask if we can trade in our models for a newer ones? You know, the ones with less connections, more idealism, and less of a need to be re-elected for fear of losing power in Washington. I mean when do we take our leadership back from the soon to be diaper generation?

You Got Some Splainin to do

So I am sure we all caught Patrick Kennedy's speech from the floor of Congress but where was all this fire and brimstone when we really needed it? In the year when he decides not to run for re-election, now he chokes up about how Congress isn't doing there jobs. Was the speech also directed at himself? I mean he has been in Congress for eight terms, just long enough to say he made a difference but not really. So I say again You got some s'plainin to do! Is it just me or do we all need to take road trips up to DC, that all happen to be on the same day. My ultimate dream is that two people from each congressional district in the United States could descend onto the offices of Congress, each with video camera, and one question. Why can't you pass health care that works? And most importantly why can you work together? And for the democrats, is it fear that makes it impossible for you as the ruling party to work together and pass something, anything?

Division of Church & State...right?

In reading US history I have always thought that the two things that made America great, were the division on Church and State, and the belief that everyone is equal and are granted certain inalienable rights. But it seems like we are moving away from that at a very fast rate. We now have an Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, what does faith have to do with improving our communities, and why is anything Faith based being sponsored by our government? What happened to the division of Church and State? As for inalienable rights, why can’t gaye people have the same rights as straight people, to marry and divorce just like all us straights? I don’t care what you call it, a union, a con-joinment, but they should be afforded those inalienable rights. The whole reason there is a division between church and state is so that no one can use that as a reason of why someone should not be granted rights. Where does it stop? Since you have taken this very basic right away from them, will you continue to force them underground? In my mind’s eye I see two men kissing on a street corner, and a little girl stands to one side watching them intently. Her mother or father happens upon the scene, and her parent being of good Christian upbringing will balk that it is indecent for them to even embrace in a public area. With the money that is allowed to freely (and untaxed I might add, but that’s a different story) flow into these religious institutions will they then try and pass a law disallowing gaye men and women to embrace or express there emotions in public. I see what is happening and my questions to my esteemed House of Representatives and the Senate, is where do you stop? If you are so willing to ignore a large population of people in favor of your religious beliefs then where will it end? We all pay taxes, and bail out banks, and we are all struggling through an economy that was almost totally broke. I think that if you were truly honest with yourselves and you took your religious objections out of the argument, you could not argue that gaye men and women should be allowed at least a civil union. Not only that but just imagine how much money would roll into state and federal agencies when they do apply for their licenses. Or how much small business’ will be helped by them tying the knot and throwing parties. I might be oversimplifying the matter, but I think that it should be that simple. Every group has fought for rights, women for votes, blacks for votes, equality, de-segregation, and each instance religion has been at the crux of those arguments. Women should defer to men, because we weren’t smart enough and home and hearth was all we should take care of as our ministers once said. “Jesus was White” which means we as white people have lord over the blacks, and besides their brains aren’t big enough to comprehend schooling. Those were all noble causes that were once fought and won, have we learned nothing from our history? As of right now, we are all spitting on the Declaration of Independence, which maybe you need to be reminded of: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”. So, Mr. President, Representatives of the House, and Great Senators, I ask that you uphold the Declaration of Independence, because not doing so makes all of us hypocrites.