Month: April 2008

Neo-populism

A term that so many fools are throwing around.  Edwards was considered by some as a “left” populist and then there was Huckabee, the “right” populist.  This is from a paper for the Democratic Leadership Council:

Populism has a checkered history, but that hasn’t stopped a new crop of American politicians from embracing it in reaction to the supposed scourges of trade and globalization.

Today’s neo-populism has right and left strands. Republican populism is mainly anti-immigration: Think Patrick Buchanan or Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Ariz). Democratic populism, personified by two newly elected Senators, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, is vehemently anti-trade. The two strands converge in the person of CNN blowhard Lou Dobbs, who blames immigrants and corporations for either taking American jobs or sending them overseas.

U.S. progressives ought to think twice before adopting the “populist” label, and not just because it’s commonly hung on such noxious demagogues as Jean Le Pen, Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The homegrown American populism of the 1880s and 1890s–the horny-handed-sons-of-toil faith identified first with the People’s Party in the 1880s and 1890s and, later, three-time Democratic Presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan–also is a dubious model.

The DLC calls thise who support public regulation of corporations, a progressive income tax, labor union rights, and such as “NUTTY”.  And then this group of lying scum, calls themselves progressives because they want to reform society.  Reform is a cowards way of saying all will remain the same with a few minor changes to make you think that they are on your side.  These centrists are nothing more than Repubs with a minor social agenda.  Corporations are still the major players with these people.

Look at what we have now.  You may sit down and thank the DLC and Bill Clinton for what is happening now with jobs and trade.  Do you really want more of these types in control of your life?  If so, Vote for Clinton and the DLC will be in control yet again.

Pennsylvania’s Reagan Democrats

During the PA primary we heard a lot about the group called the “Reagan Democrats”, but who are they?  The media tries to define them as white, social conservatives, anti-abortion, pro-gun, non-college blue collar workers.  Now that is a mouthful, but a pretty good description of the voting bloc.  But there is more to it than that fairly simplistic definition.

You may call them anything you desire, but in reality they are closet racists.  They are socially conservs because they believe the the government favors the black man.  All their problems stem from the programs such as affirmative action.

Clinton won these voters almost overwhelmingly, because she spoke their language of government programs have hurt them and that she was gonna change all that.  That she would somehow roll back NAFTA and all would be right with their small minded little world.

Do not hold your breath.  She won their vote for one reason–she is white and she could pander her butt off to them. But sorry folks, come the Fall and the general election, these little people will vote for McCain.  Why?  Repubs speak their language of all problems are the fault of the government and their unfair programs.

Another Democratic Debate?

Should there be another Dem debate?  Hillary is calling for at least two more, but Obama has yet to agree.  But should there be any more debates.  Personally, I say—HELL NO!  They have become boring and comical.

If there were to be another, it would be a carbon copy of the last one…..most of it would be the negative crap that that the campaigns are trying to use to torpedo their opponent.  Sad, the voter learns nothing from that type of floor show.

If for some reason Obama agrees to it, and I cannot see him opening himself up to those attacks from the Clinton “cheap shot squad”.  Then the rules should be nothing but issues–at the first sign of a cheap shot the mic should be cut off.

If they want to debate then debate issues not bullsh*t.

Bill Will Be Just Another Fading Political Figure

If Hillary is vanquished, Bill will feel his own pain – Print Version – International Herald Tribune

I had never thought about this situation very hard, but this makes a lot of sense. Bill would be devastated and would be a minor character once again. It would kill him to not be the big cheese in the Dem party. And the great part is that he can blame everybody for Hillary’s failure, but he will know that it was never about her, only him and he will be part of the reason she failed.

Weeekly News UpDate

All the news
NO one can use

1–Pope finally went away

2–The Church Of The Holy Sceplecter (?) in Jerusalem–a fist fight between Christians–not the Christian thing to do.

3–woman finds 12 ft gator in her kitchen is Fla.

4–people pay thousands of dollars to run marathon across Sahara–more money than brains

5–more plane and auto crashes

6–tornadoes in Texas

7–more crazies in police stand-offs

8–Wes Snipes gets 3 yrs in prison

9–yet another shark attack in Calif–man dies

This is just bullsh*t–this is local news not national……and in no way helps me or anyone to understand why sh*t happens!

Clinton And Jobs

I have heard all the speeches, well maybe not all, but most would be a better statement, by both the Dem candidates and the ones that least impress me are the ones about keeping the jobs in the US and preventing anymore lose to overseas.

You people listening and believing the crap they shovel–have you tried to look back at the past losses and when they began?  Probably not, but anyway, the huge losses began with the advent of NAFTA and your boy, Bill Clinton and his DLC lackies.

Now I ask, why would you support people that supported the jobs losses that you now want to save?  The whole I was for it before I was against, just does not wash with me.  People!  People!  It is the profit they want to preserve, not the jobs.  Oh, jobs make an excellent subject while on the stump, but that is about it.

Ask yourself what does the programs that they are proposing actually do to save jobs in the US?  Once you realize that you are being played like a cheap drum, then the whole complexion of the electoral race changes.  That is if you truly want to know what is what, or you are just voting for some “American Idol” type.  Popularity not results.

Political Quote Of The Week

This week’s quote is my answer to when people say that if you vote some anyone other than the two parties, that your vote was wasted. I do not agree and will never agre.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams

MY feeling is that principle is far more important than some damn silly political party.

Ballot Box Gives What Revolution Cannot

For many many years Maoist guerrillas fought to control the country of Nepal.  Many deaths and many peace attempts and nothing was accomplished but more and more blood shed.  Recently a peace accord was signed and basically all parties honored it with minor outbreaks of violence here and there.

Then the election process began and the results were not what most of the world was looking for.

Nepal’s Maoists have accomplished at the ballot box what they did not achieve as guerrillas on the battlefield — winning a chance to transform their country.

Officials said Thursday that the former rebels have won the most seats in the Himalayan nation’s new governing assembly.

The Maoists, who are still considered terrorists by the United States, took more than double the number of their nearest rival in an April 10 election meant to seal a peace deal that ended their decade-long insurgency.

While the Maoists will not have an absolute majority in the 601-seat Constituent Assembly, they are expected to form the backbone of Nepal’s new government and usher in sweeping changes to the impoverished country.

Now we will see if they will try and push their Maoist ideology or if it was just they wanted the power to control the country.  Once again, extremist gain more power through the ballot box than with the gun.

Lott’s New Gig

Jackson Free Press: Jackson, Mississippi – Noise – Lott Uses Old Campaign Cash to Help Lobbying Clients

Gee, Trent is not wasting anytime becoming a inside moving and shaking. But let me see, should not that money be used for something other than feathering Lott’s bed? Let me see the money was donated to help Lott out during his political heyday. Here is a thought. Why does that money belong to a candidate if they are no longer running for office, if it was given in that spirit? The money was given in good faith to a candidate to serve the people, not add to his personal bank account. Since he was a “servant of the people” the money belo0ngs back where it originated

McCain And Poverty

John McCain has said the government is not the only answer to solving the problem of poverty. Here are his thoughts on poverty.

In his formal remarks, Mr. McCain distinguished himself from Johnson as a Republican who would not turn solely to government for solutions to poverty. “I have no doubt President Johnson was serious and had the very best of intentions when he declared the war on poverty in America,” Mr. McCain said. “But the army that he enlisted was mostly drawn from the ranks of government bureaucracies.”

In contrast, Mr. McCain called for a “People Connect Program” that would provide tax breaks to private companies and federal loans and low-interest bonds to small towns to help provide high-speed Internet service to isolated communities like Inez — a way, he said, “to knit together all of the United States with 21st-century information networks” that “will make location less of a factor in the potential for economic success.”

This is just lovely. This has been the answer to poverty the whole time tax cuts for the rich……someone please explain that thinking to me. I have missed that chapter on social justice. But have that types of solutions been tried in the last decades and poverty continues and continues to rise. So once again, I ask you to explain this thinking to me.