MediScare Goes Viral

Joe Scarborough calls it "Mediscare". The Repubs say it's being "demagogued". The Agenda Project has a response.




While I'm not crazy about the extreme approach, it certainly is attention getting; kinda like those "death panel" rants Sarah Palin was giving a while back. 

Jimmy Fallon, on "Morning Joe" this morning has a different take. 

"Any time you get to throw a dummy off a cliff, that's good stuff."



The Road to Rogue

She's talkin' 'bout goin' "rogue" again in the 2012 election. 

Talking heads on MSNBC say Michele Bachmann is so inspired by the lack of knowledge, history and whatnot Sarah Palin displays, she's tempted to throw her hat in the ring as well.  

Ten million bucks a year, Sarah's income according to Chris Matthews, is a powerful incentive.   

If I didn't think the average American is so disinterested, dazzled by personae and just plain stupid, I'd be amused.

As it is, somebody, please shoot me.

All I Can Say Is "Yahoo"

Huffington Post 5-16-11

And I do mean Trump is a Yahoo.  

 

Your Tax Dollars at Work

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by Cole Scott


















It's no wonder I read the news at the end of rather than the beginning of my day. A few tidbits picked up while perusing the online news this evening got me fired up. 

The endless meetings and evenings devoted to arbitrating duels between big businesses destroy time and energy that could otherwise be spent on higher priorities. In America today, over 13 million people are out of work and millions more are underemployed. One out of every seven is living on food stamps. One out of every five American children lives in poverty. Yet the most consuming issue in Washington -- according to members of Congress, Hill staffers, lobbyists and Treasury officials -- is determining how to slice up the $16 billion debit-card swipe fee pie for corporations.  Huffington Post  4/28/11

Meanwhile,  the President had to call a press conference on this pressing issue.

President Obama released his long-form birth certificate on Wednesday, a step that injected him directly into the simmering “birther” controversy in the hope of finally ending it, or even turning it to his advantage. . .

. . .Mr. Obama’s complaint that the controversy threatened to distract politicians from the country’s big problems produced a hall-of-mirrors-like reverberation from his Republican adversaries, some of whom had raised doubts about his birthplace but now accused the president of releasing the documents to distract from the country’s big problems.   NY Times 4/27/11



Bob Schieffer had his usual razor sharp assessment of the Donald's boorish, bombastic insinuations that President Obama is not a U.S. citizen.  Why can't we have more news men and women like this?

And, finally, Mitch & Harry are facing off in both Houses of Congress once more but nobody wants to blink first..

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced on Thursday that Republicans will force a vote on the budget that President Barack Obama submitted to Congress in February

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Designed to put Democrats in a tough spot, the move is retaliatory in nature. On Wednesday, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced that he would be staging a vote on Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget proposal -- despite a near certain expectation that it would fail to pass the chamber.

A spokesman for McConnell told The Huffington Post that the vote on Obama’s budget -- which includes across board cuts to government programs that would reduce the deficit by an estimated $1.1 trillion -- would come on the same day Reid schedules his vote.

McConnell plans to mimic whatever legislative maneuver Reid uses to bring the Ryan budget to the floor. For example, if the majority leader offers the GOP plan via an amendment to another piece of legislation, the minority leader will do the same with Obama’s budget. If Ryan's budget is offered as a “Sense of the Senate,” the same pattern will transpire with the White House plan. Huffington Post  4/28/11

And our representatives still get paid if they don't pass a budget; they're completely accessible to lobbyists with deep pockets; there is no bipartisanship that I can see and the average person, the middle class, are left to fend for ourselves. 

Awesome.

Hosed

Hosed  by Cole Scott

Published yesterday by Brian @ Waystation One for his other project on One Stop Poetry, this packs a political punch I can't duplicate...

Eww! What did I step in?

this is not another poem

but a manifesto written

in red lipstick

on the morning after mirrors

of a nation that has forgotten

its identity in drunken debauchery

and the rush of get rich,



quick scams to join the

one percent, drawn on dry

erase boards for fast exits

slowly turning the tourniquet

cutting the flow of blood to

the innocent & amputating the

masses as gangrene populace



who then will you find to

cut your grass & wash your

Aston Martin at minimum

wage?



rage against the machine

that chews the bone to suck

the marrow of the weak, spewing

bullshit rhetoric in excess, exhaust

to choke the few trees left

that haven't been martyrs to the cause

of containing self-egrandizing

laws---



Tocqueville said,

"self-interest properly understood"

was our strength, but butchered

it has been, in two word

short attention

spans



so while you sup on

caviar and crackers at state

dinners kissing the ass of those

you have indebted us to, think of me

for once, as I often think of you

when cleaning off the bottom

of my shoe.



sorry if this hurts your feelings,

i am still just waiting for

change i can believe in.

Balasana  by Cole Scott

 

Don't Drunk Dial Freedom Works

Good stuff.

Reverse Colonialization : Wham O!

What happens when it's cheaper to manufacture in the U.S. than China? 

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Some People Are Just Funny

After posting  my sarcastic comment in the Huff Post under the "Internal Goldman Emails Released:  Firm Had 'The Big Short' As Economy Fell" article, I became enmeshed in reading the comments to this article.  Amazing stuff!  Some very well read and educated posts and others just emotional, some very very funny.  One guy caught my eye and I clicked the link to his web page and this is what I found:

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Battle of the Presidential Wannabes vs Battle of the Late Night Stars

Some pretty fascinating conversations going on after Sarah Palin's appearance on Leno vs Mitt Romney's on Letterman. Not only are the talking heads saying Palin trounced Romney for viewership but the media watchers are wondering if Leno will regain his crown as King of Late Night or is this just a bounce for his return to the "Tonight Show"?

The most interesting piece I've read about it comes from a Twitterer known as SymbolMan who was in the Leno audience for Sarah's debut as a stand up comedian. He says it was laughtracked, the audience was silent or jeerish (a new word I made up) and she was poorly received. For more on this visit The Political Carnival where I first read his take.  After he discusses the SFX of laughter for Sarah Palin he lambastes Leno for the sell out.  Makes for a compelling read.