Day: April 28, 2011

Pleading The 4th

As most of my regular readers know I live in the state of confusion…..my bad…that should be the state of Mississippi….and I realize that unless you live here then much of what I read about means nothing to you….sorry for that….but there are some things that I need to write about and the 4th congressional district of Mississippi…..

In the last election a long time Dem representative, Gene Taylor, lost his bid for re-election….I could go into the election in detail but to save time click on the link for the post on that election…

lobotero.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/blu…..

I post this because with all the debate on the budget I wanted to see where the present Rep, Steven Palazzo, was having his town halls and wanted to see what he had to say about the battle being waged…..

This guy was seldom in debates or even in large groups….his campaign tried to keep him away from voters until after the election…instead of pressing the flesh, his campaigned depended instead on attack ads and the link between Taylor and Pelosi…the strategy worked…Taylor was defeated and now we have this guy…Palazzo…

I am not sure what to make of this guy…..three of his inner circle have resigned since January….with NO real explanations……sorry, I digress…….While searching Palazzo’s website I could NOT find any mention of town halls only that he would talk to my group if I set it up……I did find that he voted for the Ryan budget….and that is a direct fly into the face of the seniors in my area, which are many, it is a retirement spot…..I see voters remorse……..

If I had to guess this guy may be a one termer….he will most likely have a Dem challenger and a Repub one also…he is an idiot and NOT long for the Congress…….unlike Taylor…he is NOT and I repeat NOT voting in the best interests of his constituents……and he avoids face to face with crowds that he knows will be hostile…there is a word for that……

And then there is the state’s junior senator, Wicker……he was interviewed on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown, about the storms that ravaged north Mississippi and he spent most of the time giving GOP talking points on the budget, debt and basically blaming Obama for the damage of the storms….he ignored the destruction and suffering of his  constituents in the aftermath of terrible storms……so he could repeat some lame ass talking points……and this is the PEOPLE, and I use the term loosely, that Mississippians traditionally vote into office…….maybe NOW they will wake up and get over the Civil Rights crap of the 60’s, maybe now they will get over the fact that Dems gave blacks equal standing and start thinking before they vote!

To be honest….I doubt it….but it makes for a good post (at least in my mind)…….

Who Is The REAL Base For Democrats?

College of Political Knowledge

Subject:  Government/Political Theory

We have heard this term used widely in the past couple of years….Blacks are the Obama base….or corporations are the Repub base……progressives or Radical Right are the base they play to with every speech…..I keep reminding my readers that what they voted for and what they got were two different things……it was so in the ’08 election and the landslide election of 2010……and no matter how much I and others try to make the American voter see what will likely happen….we were ignored and now every body is up in arms over the lack of concern for the BASE.

Let us talk about the base for the Dems and Obama……Are progressives truly the base for Obama?  I good answer to that question is to look at their signature works…health reform….Wall St. reform…..was the base ever considered when these laws were made?  Hell NO!  If they were we would have a public option and we would have REAL regulation of the too big too fail….NOTHING in those bills were progressive other than the original thought.

If the progressives are not the base for Obama and the Dems….then who?

The Democratic Party’s real constituency is the American rich.  And it’s not just that the Democrats are funded by the rich. At the highest echelons of the party, they are the rich. The apparent “weakness” of the Democrats in the face of Republican attacks is not “spinelessness” or lack of negotiating savvy, but a logical consequence of the reality that they serve the interests of the wealthy, while struggling to maintain the appearance of doing the opposite.

Many people suffered under the illusion that the horrors of the Bush years (illegal war, torture, attacks on immigrants) flowed somehow from Bush’s personal nature–ignorant, nasty, etc.  Surely, if he were replaced with someone different, then the policies of the White House would change.

Snooze!

But instead of profound change, we have experienced profound continuity.  The wars continue and are even expanded.  The detention and deportation of immigrants continues and are likewise expanded. High-stakes testing in our schools has continued, and the stakes are raised higher.

I love being proven RIGHT!  In 2008, when Obama was a candidate for the presidency, I wrote on Daily Kos, a progressive site that was heavily invested in the Obama candidacy,  that if he were elected and his rhetoric about change….would be hollow!

The Dems have done little to change anything in Washington….especially the way the country is governed…..