Category: Politicians
Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on the Michael Savage show last week (see story at ProMNPolitics) and said she was “spending as much time as possible in my district”. No she’s not! She’s not here at all, and I know this because I’M IN HER DISTRICT. Where are you, Michele?
Then she sent out the pack of lies she calls her newsletter. In it we find this:
Credit Card Rates Are On the Rise
I predicted last year that unintended consequences could occur through enacting the Credit Card Act, and now we learn that credit card rates have risen to their highest point in nine years.
Typical Bachmann — she wants to take credit for obvious “predictions”.
Who the fuck does “Joe the Plumber” think he is? He’s a nobody. He’s an unemployed right-wing extremist asshole, the last I heard. He is no political expert. Yet he’s running around endorsing candidates like he’s someone important. What is it with these right-wingers? He’s probably as dumb as a rock and yet he’s endorsing candidates!
He endorsed the unkempt Tea Party candidate, Chuck Purgason, who was easily defeated already by Roy Blunt. Sounds like the dumb shit half-governor Sarah Palin pulls on a regular basis, since she’s also endorsing losing fringey candidates.
The Plumber and Purgason
Democrats are treating Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) like the certain Senate nominee this fall, but Blunt’s rival in next week’s Republican primary is getting an insurgent boost from Sam “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher.
Wurzelbacher endorsed state lawmaker Chuck Purgason for the Aug. 3 Republican primary in Missouri, saying in a new television ad (which he paid for) that voters “do have a choice” in the race. He noted his emergence on the national stage and said he’s made it his goal to “stop politicians like Obama.” Wurzelbacher calls Blunt a “Washington insider,” and Purgason a “man with character.”
Wurzelbacher is clashing with Michele Bachmann, who endorses more “mainstream” Republican lunatics like Roy Blunt (even if she only does it on Skype).
Why are idiots like this “Joe the Plumber” cartoon character and his buddy Sarah Palin endorsing anyone for anything? They aren’t politicians. They have no political jobs. They are nothing but fame whore morons.
I found another one! This one is very long and was meant to be a post for another website, but I thought it was a little too mean in tone, so I deemed it not fit to publish. Well, it’s fit enough for Citizen Sane, so this is its world-wide debut. This article is from some time in March 2010, shortly after the Coffee Party USA organization came out with their “civility pledge” which I thought was just beyond ridiculous. We’re talking about politics here, not Zen.
Dear Coffee Party, USA, there is no point in agreeing just for the sake of agreeing, especially in politics.
My philosophy is that people should fight for what they believe in, especially on the state and local levels, not what someone else tells them to believe in. That’s the reason why I don’t belong to a political party and very rarely join groups. Politics exist for debate and argument.
Sure, some people have to do it. The purpose of agreeing and finding common ground on the federal level is to reach agreements in the Senate and House only for the purpose of getting bills passed. Before that happens, they debate and argue strongly on many issues. (See Congressman Alan Grayson in the video — he is presenting an idea he believes in and wants others to support as is. He is not asking people to water it down and change it so it’s more right-wing). Congressmen and women don’t agree just for the sake of agreeing; they have to do it to get legislation passed, or the country would be at a standstill. That is the theory, at least. In fact, this misguided seeking out of bipartisanship is why the U.S. government has nearly been at a standstill for over a year.
I have heard tea baggers and now Coffee Party USA members complain that our government doesn’t listen to us. Yes, they do listen to us. They run their lives by poll numbers and focus groups. They are aware of protests and phone calls. Their staff tallies them. But it’s like that old saying about praying, (the idea that God always answers prayer, but sometimes he says “no”.) Our government does hear us, and they just often say “No”. That’s not the same as not hearing us. It’s unrealistic to believe that our government in a country with 300 million people should always do exactly what we want. There are 300 million different opinions on things, and that’s how it should be. We do not want to be a country of lemmings, we want to be individuals. That’s the only way political progress is ever made.
Yeah, and . . . . . . ?
For five years, I have been asking people to get so mad they get out in the streets and protest an unjust war. We need millions of people to protest the killing in the Middle East still being done in our names. We still have an unjust war going on, but Americans would rather do this ———— >
Look at how watered down and nearly meaningless the final agreement was at the Coffee Party in San Francisco. What is that sign supposed to mean? That could be a Tea Party sign.
Where politics should really be passionate and full of argument and debate is on the state and local levels, yet this is what the Coffee Party USA seems to want to stop. They want people to reach consensus just to prove how civilized we all are. State and local political organizations are where politics should not be middle of the road, watered-down generalized nothingness. State and local politics should be passionate enough to move people to hold rallies and demonstrate.
Why would anyone want to identify and empathize with the Tea Baggers? Yet, that is exactly what the Coffee Party USA people want us to do. Listen to their Blog Talk Radio show where they point out what we all have in common with [racist homophobic] people who want limited government. It’s downright chilling to hear.
From the excellent video series, “Climate Denier Crock of the Week”.
Peter Sinclair writes,
“He’s everywhere on the climate denial circuit.
He’s not a scientist. He’s a classics major and journalist.
How is it that he’s been able to sell himself to climate deniers as their number one spokesman?
First, like any good salesman, Lord Monckton knows his customer.”
There are many others, and most of them are not scientists, they are salesmen, and they work for big energy companies or the GOP, or both.
Here is Part II
Aren’t you glad we have an atmosphere?
This meteorite was seen in Wisconsin on April 14th, 2010. This video was taken by a dashcam on a police car.
Today, President Obama announced the end to the space program as we know it, and the beginning of a “new one”. I’d prefer new shuttles with bigger windows, but that is not to be. Obama spoke at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to “discuss the Administration’s goal to seek new frontiers for human space flight. The President declared that he is “100 percent committed to the mission of NASA and its future,” and laid out steps and investments that the Administration is making towards space exploration.” Older astronauts were none too happy with Obama prior to this speech. They thought he was giving up on the space program, and it sounds like he’s not going to do that at all. But landing on an asteroid is a priority? We should be building a base on the moon and going from there. I’m not sure what throwing a few billion $$$ on an asteroid landing is going to accomplish. I also don’t think that leaving spacecraft building and flying up to private corporations is a great idea.
This is from WhiteHouse.gov:
[President Obama] announced a $6 billion increase in NASA’s budget over the next five years, focusing on making cuts elsewhere as the government instituted a freeze on discretionary spending. The President said that this investment will increase exploration of the solar system and also Earth-based observations that will increase our understanding of the world and its climate in order to protect the environment for future generations.