Alan Grayson has been a godsend in a mostly disappointing Democratic Congress. Like John Yarmuth of Kentucky, he has been elected in a district that is not a cakewalk but still fearlessly stands up for what he believes is right. With the Healthcare fight raging on and getting closer to an up or down vote, Grayson is once again trying to speak for the will of the majority of the American people who would like to see at least a public option in the Healthcare bill that will eventually be voted on.
Its about time. For decades Progressives in Kentucky have been completely disgusted with the anti-American tactics used by Mitch McConnell and his minions in the Kentucky Republican Party who followed him like obsessed disciples. When President Obama first entered office I could not believe that a man as seemingly intelligent as he is could ever think he would be able to work with a man such as McConnell. Now, it appears after reaching out to McConnell and his radically Corporate Republian Party and pulling back a bloody nub just as we predicted here the President has had his fill. Thankfully, he is finally taking McConnell and his crowd to task.
Man for so many years in rural America we have heard that Democrats would take our guns, although no Democrat has taken a gun from a rural American that I know. Now, it appears as if the guns aren't all Obama and the rest of us in the "Socialist-Nazi-Communist" cabal that is trying to turn the Capital into Red Square want to seize from rural Americans. Yes, now the good ole boys had better brace for the next fight. Yes, Glenn Beck watchers now we want your fishing poles!!
We all know how loud, boisterous and idiotic the tea-bagger movement was in disrupting the townhalls last year with their rude behavior and little concern for fellow citizens views. With that in mind proponents of Universal Healthcare are also waging a campaign to be heard. Thousands of them rallied today in Washington D.C. to make their voices heard. It remains to be seen if they will get the same airplay as the opponents of Progress in our country.
Everyone knows about the banking industry imploding upon it's own greed and crashing the economy. Everyone also knows about them recieving a huge bailout on the taxpayer dime and deficit. Despite all of this, it has been business as usual for the big bankers on Wall St. Not one banking regulation has been reinstated and indeed the profits have rolled in proving that in the American Capatalist system, one group of folks constantly get to cheat everyone else in the market as they are allowed to never take risk in their investments. Now these folks seek to bankrupt cities and states across the country.
It appears that despite the Bush Administration being ushered out of office business as usual has continued for more than just the bankers. Sadly, not one banking regulation has been re-instated and now it appears another Bush-era company is continuing its outrageous practices too. Albeit under a cover name, Blackwater has continued its lucrative snatching up of contracts for training American soldiers. Now, Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri is taking issue with that fact.
Straight from the files of the radical tea-party movement we get this story. In some places it appears that if you want to get a cup of coffee or a pizza, you might just have to deal with a gun-toting mob to do so. You see, a grassroots effort is underway to bring attention to open-carry gun laws and use them to bring about more concealed carry gun laws. However, this new movement may do more harm than good as it not only makes gun-control advocates very nervous, but it has started to expose some rifts among gun advocates.
In the race to replace Kentucky's "Crazy Uncle" Jim Bunning in the United States Senate a new poll is out. It has found that Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo and radical eye doctor Rand Paul with significant leads in the Democratic and Republican primaries. Besides the top four of Mongiardo, Conway, Paul and Grayson no other candidate seemed to garner much support.
Well, here we go again. From the Party that hates anyone that does not look and act just like them we have another gay-bashing Republican politician. Forget the fact that in America one can pursue any lifestyle they want as long as it does not infringe upon another's rights. Forget the fact that discrimination has no place in American life, despite who is being discriminated against. The fact of the matter is that the Repubicans are simply going to bash gays because there are not enough of them to do much about it, and it has been a winning strategy for them in the past.
The Kentucky Senate race was getting quite boring. Leave it to eccentric, Looney Tune Jim Bunning to heat things up. One would like to think that the outgoing Senator who was shunned by the McConnell machine because he is a can or two short of a six pack decided to shake up this race but then you realize that well, Bunning is a can or two short of a six pack. However, his callous, uncaring and hypocritical "stand" earlier this week against the nation's unemployed has indeed ignited the Kentucky Senate race, which quite frankly was becoming a yawner.
Ah Karl Rove. A liar so disgusting even his own friends dubbed him "Turd Blossom". Now, realizing he was the "architect" of one of the most dishonest, disgusting and corrupt Administrations in history he is seeking to rewrite history and diffuse he and his former boss's sorry spot in it. However, his writings on the Bush years are full of even more lies, and an assault on all of those who exposed the Bush agenda for what it really was.
What do you do when you are the party of no?? The Party of no new ideas, no vision, and no compassion?? Since you know you have absolutely nothing to offer in the way of policy for the future besides the failures of the past, you get desperate. Instead of even trying to come up with a workable vision of the future, you insult your own donors and the American people by acting like spoiled rotten children who are not getting their way.
With the crashed economy came many struggles for the American worker. Honest, hardworking folks who had already seen their wages stagnate in the last few decades now became unemployed or underemployed. Because of this last year Congress, seeking to show that they felt the pain of the American people decided to vote to forego their cost of living increase. This year, some in Congress are even suggesting a decrease in Congressional pay as the economy continues to struggle. While this may indeed be a popular idea among the American people a better idea would be to link raises and bonuses of elected officials and Corporate CEOs with the wage increases of the average American worker.
The memory of the banking industry, spurned by Republican policies of de-regulation and greed crashing our economy should be quite fresh in most Americans minds. Especially now that so many of them are still unemployed by those actions and millions have lost billions from their 401ks. However, what should be most infuriating to Americans is after being bailed out for crashing our economy it has just been business as usual for these folks with their huge bonuses for running their businesses and indeed our whole countries economy into the ditch.
Like me you are probably fed up with the hypocritical actions of the hypocritical tea-bagger movement. These folks will lovingly take advantage of government programs while denying others the same right, and hating their government. Now, there is an alternative that seeks to change our government while not hating it.
Boy, the world of the Republican mind can be quite twisted. A Republican Senator from Kentucky who is retiring and has clearly been off his rocker for some time does what every Republican in their heart wants to do and blocks unemployment benefits for millions of workers Republican policies displaced as well as costing jobs and threatening the Television access of rural Americans and somehow that is the fault of the Democrats. However a deeper look shows that this is just what Republicans want and as usual with any move by the national Republican Party is ripe with fresh hypocrisy.
