Holy crap! Finally someone is asking the question that I have been asking for a decade.
I mean….really? Carson, Pakai, Jindal, Trump and the list goes on……they have zero chance of the nomination…..but the MSM chases them for interviews…..why?
I guess it is easier than having to actually work for a story……..and these journalists win awards…..how is that for humor?
Why Do Journalists Take Delusional Presidential Candidates So Seriously? | The Nation.
Daily Agitator
You have heard of “March Madness”…you know when b/ball nuts go ape shit? Well….welcome to August Madness!
This is the time of year when morons and imbeciles go crazy. The time of year when Congress is on one of their many breaks and the Prez is on vacation and the political news is a bit thin.
So the internet conspiracists, whackos, hate merchants and total goof balls hit the air ways knowing that they can get some much coveted media attention. Whereas, if the politicians were actually working at their jobs then these idiots would be mostly ignored or ridiculed for the morons they really are.
This silliness will end when the overpaid and under worked representatives return to Washington to actually pretend that they are doing the business of the country. This unfortunate happening occurs every year and as each year comes about the silliness gets more and more pathetic. The really sad part is that some of the Congress actually buy into the craziness and then return to Washington like all is well and that they were just supporting the people. HA!
This year is quickly coming to a close and the major battle has been the health reform issue…it is debatable that it will be solved before the end of the year….but for the sake of argument and this post….we will say that it is…..
But what will be the burning issues in the coming year? In my opinion, it will be one of two, possibly both, immigration and energy…..most likely the biggest and loudest will be the energy issue…..and within the debate on energy the NEW evil will be the “cap and trade”……but what the Hell is “cap and trade”?
Good question, because there is probably NO one outside of the Washington debate that really knows what it isa….other than some BS about taxes and a rise in the power bills…..
Just thought I would give my readers a little heads up before they are bombarded with the crap being slung by both sides of the political spectrum….good luck…
The biggest sticking point on any energy bill will be “cap and trade”….thius from the EPA website:
The cap and automatic penalties for noncompliance ensure that the environmental goal is achieved and maintained.
The cap ensures that the reductions are achieved and maintained over time even as new power plants are built. The trading program gives power plants the flexibility to choose how they meet their target emission reductions, which minimizes compliance costs and lowers consumer electricity prices.
There you go sports fans….that is the official EPA stand on how cap and trade will work….now the Repubs will have a different point of view….
‘Cap-and-trade’ is code for increasing taxes, killing American jobs, and raising energy costs for consumers. Middle-class families are struggling during this recession, and the last thing they need is even higher costs of living and weaker job security, which is exactly what ‘cap-and-trade’ would deliver.
The so-called “cap and trade” proposal amounts to a carbon tax, plain and simple. The plan would cap emissions, such as carbon dioxide, and force companies to purchase “credits” from companies who use less energy to meet the governments’ emissions requirements. House Republicans agree that we should work together to make real progress in promoting clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment, but “cap and trade” is not the answer.
What will it be tax or no tax? Next year this debate should turn into yet another political circus of misinformation, lies and games…my question is what will be the vehicle for the silliness?
A Gulf South Free Press Opinion
The following post are for my friends in Mississippi….granted they do not have much to celebrate but they need to know what the morons they voted for are doing on the taxpayer’s dime. I thought I would take a day out and report on their plight.
I saw this report on projo.com and thought I would pass it on to Mississippians for they probably did not get too much of this in their local rags that is best used to wrap fish in.
At least 14 Republican governors have recently issued, or will soon issue, similar letters urging their representatives in Congress to reject health-care overhauls that may create millions of dollars in new costs for state governments.
The Republican governors’ collective lobbying effort was reported Tuesday by the Washington-based publication The Hill, which described the move as a “coordinated attack on Sen. Max Baucus’ health-care reform legislation.”
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, the association chairman, issued a letter to Mississippi’s congressional delegation on Sept. 8, “and did share it with his Republican governor colleagues,” according to Kempe. “It was sent through the RGA policy person to our policy team, back in early September, via e-mail.”
Gov. Barbour? Yep the man in Mississippi….the governor that did not want stim money to help put people to work…..the governor of a state that has about 12% unemployment…..the governor of a state where about 20% of the population is uninsured…. a state where damn near 30% of the population lives in poverty…….The GOP in Mississippi are doing nothing to make the lives of the people in this state any better….could that have anything to do with the large number of minorities in the state? After all the GOP has become and will always be, in the South at least, the party of old white guys that are still stuck in the 50’s and not in the good way.
As long as Mississippi continues down this disguised “racist” path, it will continue to be a backwoods society….maybe we should try to change the state motto to read, “Welcome to Mississippi…set your clocks back a hundred years”.
Professor’s Classroom
Subject: American History/Politics
Sen. Kennedy died the other day and I was surfing the web for stories and posts and I found that many right wing sites were filled with stories about his past, the drinking, the women and that damn bridge. I thought just how moronic this was…why?….the man did a lot for the people of this country from kids health to civil rights to cancer research, on and on….and yes he made many mistakes and had many victories, but regardless what you thought of the man personally….to think only of his failures and mistakes is just pathetic.
When did the US become such a hot bed of hate? When did American society move from a society of the poeple to a society of vile, disgusting people?
There will always be some form of hate in the US, whether it is racial hatred or gender hatred or whatever…but the hate that I question specifically is the political hate or also fondly known as partisanship.
My question is: When did the vile and deep hatred of the opposing party begin in Washington? Good question, right?
Political hatred or extreme partisanship has been festering for decades in Washington and among our different political parties, but the vile, disgusting and festering zit we know today came to a head in the early to mid 90’s.
It began in earnest when Bill Clinton was elected as president after it more or less hijacked the GOP for its own …his life and attitudes became a focus of the far wing of the GOP…this revolt brought the likes of the Newt to power and mouth organs like Tom DeLay and the hate served as a platform that swept conserv Repubs into control of the Congress in 1994.
The hatred played well with mid America and because it did many conserv jumped unto the bashing bandwagon to gain political advantage….and as they attacked liberals the tone became more and more vile and hate filled. I am old enough to remember the days after Watergate and I cannot remember this much hate and name calling done by anyone. That dark corner of America history was handled with intelligence and like adults. Today’s hatred and handling of issues is like a couple of 7 year olds fighting with each other at day care.
Because the hatred was working and working very well the misinformation and lies became a constant part of the attacks on the opposition. It began with the antics of Clinton and he gave his opponents lots to use against him and slowly as the Washington claptrap got louder and louder the people picked up on the hatred and it has snowballed to where it is today. All the hatred began as opposition to a person and now it has morphed into hatred of ideas and those who work with them. It is damn silly!
There comes a time when our elected officials have to start acting like adults. Right now one party has lost so much support that it may NEVER return to its past glory. One day an adult will step forward and start whacking these kids on the pee-pee.
It is suppose to be about what is best for the people of the country….not about who said what and why. Demonizing is NOT the answer to our problems….all it does is waste time and money and accomplishes NOTHING but a continuation of hate.
Maybe the pea brains on the far right are correct in using Jefferson’s quote….but it should be the people rebelling against ALL politicians who are not working on their behalf…I mean both of the parties….not one of these stuffy pricks has Americans in mind as they go about their daily spewing of hatred.
Does conservative talk show host, Rush Limbaugh have a part in the future of the GOP? Or is he just a windbag that likes hearing the sound of his own voice? Just what is his role in this comedy special?
Limbaugh in recent days has made no efforts to step out of the spotlight. He had a banner headline across the top of his Web site that read: “Hilarious: Democrat Party Launches Yet Another Anti-Rush Web site” and linked to the site.
And on Wednesday, Limbaugh challenged Obama to a verbal showdown, calling on him to visit his talk show for an “intelligent, open discussion” on issues like health care and taxes.
Limbaugh also accused the White House of orchestrating an attack on him, telling his listeners that the Obama team is demonizing the radio host since President George W. Bush left office.
There’s a reason White House aides have dubbed conservative radio ranter Rush Limbaugh the new face of the GOP – polls showed he’s a big, fat target of opportunity.
Only a tiny fraction of voters younger than 40 – 11% – have a positive view of the talk king, a survey James Carville and other Democratic advisers to President Obama took last fall found.
That – combined with Limbaugh’s more recent wish to see Obama “fail” – was all the White House needed to launch its coordinated campaign this week to cast Limbaugh as the hydra-headed leader of the temporarily headless GOP.