Labels
set folks
against one another
by just simply existing.
No more Dems or GOPers.
Let’s birth a new
party for everyone:
The We’Uns
Party!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Money rules
Slap!
Pow! KABOOM!
Crash! Cha-CHING!
Sounds of the season
are echoing across the land
as politicians lasso hearts
and minds of
voters with
moolah.
Florida
grows lettuce.
But the ‘lettuce’
of PACs is dirty
and dumbifies the voters by
spewing vitriolic messages of
lies, hatred, misdeeds
of fellow
GOPers.
Pow! KABOOM!
Crash! Cha-CHING!
Sounds of the season
are echoing across the land
as politicians lasso hearts
and minds of
voters with
moolah.
Florida
grows lettuce.
But the ‘lettuce’
of PACs is dirty
and dumbifies the voters by
spewing vitriolic messages of
lies, hatred, misdeeds
of fellow
GOPers.
Time to make changes
Let’s play pretend.
Pretend for just for a minute I am a believer in the two-party system, that I believe that the Demogogues and Republicrats have all the good ideas, solutions and really, really care about the future of the country and its citizens.
Now, let’s pretend a bit more. Instead of an Independent, I am a full-fledged, registered, card-carrying Republicrat and I have to make a decision about whom to vote for in a primary – Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich.
What to do? What to do? First, after a bout of projectile vomiting followed by an intense migraine, I force myself into the voting booth and pull a level for … but, wait! Mitt is a superficial, smirky rich dude and Gingrich is a fraud, laughs at ethical matters and serial adulterer.
Let’s pretend I gain some sense of sanity … and turn around and walk out of the booth without voting for either one because of if this is the best the GOPers can do, I say to hell with it.
The state of politics today – the politics of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell and John Boehner – is an agitated state in which I do not wish to be a participating partner. It is time to change the way we look at politicians and take back this country.
That is possible only by the people rising up and passing amendments to the Constitution that will force the governance by elected officials to be directly in the direction as foreseen by the founders of this country.
The desired amendments:
1) Term limits for all federal officials – legislative and judiciary, from the House members to the Supreme Court. Eight years for House members (alternating terms with ¼ up for retirement every two years), and 12 for Senate and Supreme Court judges (1/3 up for retirement every four years).
2) PACs (companies/associations/special interests) are given same status as individuals, with firm, minimal limits on contributions. Elimination of anonymous ads – pro or con to a particular candidate or issue.
3) Balance the budget, no exceptions.
Every voter is sure to have a list of their own, but without real change in these three areas, there will be no substantial change that will benefit the country and its citizens. The only ones who really don’t want these changes are those who in public office or those that control them by taking advantage of the present laws.
Pretend for just for a minute I am a believer in the two-party system, that I believe that the Demogogues and Republicrats have all the good ideas, solutions and really, really care about the future of the country and its citizens.
Now, let’s pretend a bit more. Instead of an Independent, I am a full-fledged, registered, card-carrying Republicrat and I have to make a decision about whom to vote for in a primary – Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich.
What to do? What to do? First, after a bout of projectile vomiting followed by an intense migraine, I force myself into the voting booth and pull a level for … but, wait! Mitt is a superficial, smirky rich dude and Gingrich is a fraud, laughs at ethical matters and serial adulterer.
Let’s pretend I gain some sense of sanity … and turn around and walk out of the booth without voting for either one because of if this is the best the GOPers can do, I say to hell with it.
The state of politics today – the politics of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell and John Boehner – is an agitated state in which I do not wish to be a participating partner. It is time to change the way we look at politicians and take back this country.
That is possible only by the people rising up and passing amendments to the Constitution that will force the governance by elected officials to be directly in the direction as foreseen by the founders of this country.
The desired amendments:
1) Term limits for all federal officials – legislative and judiciary, from the House members to the Supreme Court. Eight years for House members (alternating terms with ¼ up for retirement every two years), and 12 for Senate and Supreme Court judges (1/3 up for retirement every four years).
2) PACs (companies/associations/special interests) are given same status as individuals, with firm, minimal limits on contributions. Elimination of anonymous ads – pro or con to a particular candidate or issue.
3) Balance the budget, no exceptions.
Every voter is sure to have a list of their own, but without real change in these three areas, there will be no substantial change that will benefit the country and its citizens. The only ones who really don’t want these changes are those who in public office or those that control them by taking advantage of the present laws.
Monday, January 23, 2012
GOP candidates falling on their own swords
My grandfather had a saying that seems remarkably quaint in this world of instant and haphazard communication: “Answer me this….” he’d say before getting to the nut of the real question.
“Answer me this,” he once said to a 20-something grandson who’d grown a beard, “what kind of statement are you making by cultivating something on your face that grows wild on your a**?”
Well, here’s one for Republicans:
“Answer me this? What kind of statement are you making by running a bunch of candidates for president that have the collective common sense of a box of hair?”
Before the back-arching and chin-bobbing conservatives get their undergarments in a wad, I’ve voted Republican; I once entered a state senatorial campaign as a Republican. At heart I’m a glit-flittered Independent because I believe no party, and certainly no candidate, has all the answers to the important questions.
That said, this bunch of GOPers don’t have answers for anything. Period.
Are you kidding me? A spoiled rich kid. A serial adulterer with a gift for gab and a grab for graft. A goofball space cadet Libertarian cum Republican. A pretty boy who looks like he’d wet his pants if someone hollered BOO!
Let’s admit it: Barak Obama has not had a good three-plus years. He was handed lemons in 2008 and he made rotten lemons out of what was left by Bush, Inc. Obama’s domestic policy is non-existent or leans toward non-workable programs. He spent too much intellectual and political capital on health care reform.
But it’s hard to find fault with Obama’s foreign policy decisions and that’s why the Four Horsemen of the GOP Apocalypse are not talking much about that particular area of global interest.
Looking at it from a logical perspective, Mitt Romney cannot be elected. Despite his bottomless pockets, he’s too slick, too out-of-touch and too Mormon. Oh, shut up! Are you telling me that the anti-Mormon vote will not be a factor in this race? Political correctness be damned. He’s a Mormon and that’s the end of that and X-number of voters won’t vote for a Mormon. (What? John Kennedy was a Catholic and he was elected? What’s your point? Romney is no Kennedy.)
Despite his glibness and having the fastest tongue in the campaign, Newt Gingrich cannot be elected. For one thing, a newt is a salamander and no way does “President Newt” generate confidence. For another, he’s been married three times. Any conservative Christian that votes for him is gonna have to wear the “hypocrite” sign to church the Sunday after the election.
Ron Paul is 76, a doctor, author, U.S. Representative, and has more screws loose than a Korean car manufactured at quitting time on Friday afternoon. In his third run for the presidency (in 1988 he ran as a Libertarian), his domestic agenda appeals to a lot of voters, but his views on foreign policy would isolate this country, guaranteeing a major hike in unemployment … and we all know where that leads.
Rick Santorum, the winner of the Iowa Caucus (yawn!) is, first and foremost, a politician. He wants to cut government spending – Don’t we all? – and has been a vocal critic of earmarks. (Yea! That’s a point!) He is so “packaged” that wore a sweater vest as a homey touch in campaign stops. (Take back the point!)
And he’s a patented panderer for votes. In Florida a woman told him Obama was “an avowed Muslim” and instead of doing the right thing and saying, “Ma’m, you have your facts wrong,” he simply said, “I’m trying my best to get him out.”
The right-wing fringe will own Santorum if he’s the candidate.
So, okay, let’s assume Obama needs to go after one term. Which candidate will take care of that little chore in November?
That person simply is not in the GOPer lineup now.
“Answer me this,” he once said to a 20-something grandson who’d grown a beard, “what kind of statement are you making by cultivating something on your face that grows wild on your a**?”
Well, here’s one for Republicans:
“Answer me this? What kind of statement are you making by running a bunch of candidates for president that have the collective common sense of a box of hair?”
Before the back-arching and chin-bobbing conservatives get their undergarments in a wad, I’ve voted Republican; I once entered a state senatorial campaign as a Republican. At heart I’m a glit-flittered Independent because I believe no party, and certainly no candidate, has all the answers to the important questions.
That said, this bunch of GOPers don’t have answers for anything. Period.
Are you kidding me? A spoiled rich kid. A serial adulterer with a gift for gab and a grab for graft. A goofball space cadet Libertarian cum Republican. A pretty boy who looks like he’d wet his pants if someone hollered BOO!
Let’s admit it: Barak Obama has not had a good three-plus years. He was handed lemons in 2008 and he made rotten lemons out of what was left by Bush, Inc. Obama’s domestic policy is non-existent or leans toward non-workable programs. He spent too much intellectual and political capital on health care reform.
But it’s hard to find fault with Obama’s foreign policy decisions and that’s why the Four Horsemen of the GOP Apocalypse are not talking much about that particular area of global interest.
Looking at it from a logical perspective, Mitt Romney cannot be elected. Despite his bottomless pockets, he’s too slick, too out-of-touch and too Mormon. Oh, shut up! Are you telling me that the anti-Mormon vote will not be a factor in this race? Political correctness be damned. He’s a Mormon and that’s the end of that and X-number of voters won’t vote for a Mormon. (What? John Kennedy was a Catholic and he was elected? What’s your point? Romney is no Kennedy.)
Despite his glibness and having the fastest tongue in the campaign, Newt Gingrich cannot be elected. For one thing, a newt is a salamander and no way does “President Newt” generate confidence. For another, he’s been married three times. Any conservative Christian that votes for him is gonna have to wear the “hypocrite” sign to church the Sunday after the election.
Ron Paul is 76, a doctor, author, U.S. Representative, and has more screws loose than a Korean car manufactured at quitting time on Friday afternoon. In his third run for the presidency (in 1988 he ran as a Libertarian), his domestic agenda appeals to a lot of voters, but his views on foreign policy would isolate this country, guaranteeing a major hike in unemployment … and we all know where that leads.
Rick Santorum, the winner of the Iowa Caucus (yawn!) is, first and foremost, a politician. He wants to cut government spending – Don’t we all? – and has been a vocal critic of earmarks. (Yea! That’s a point!) He is so “packaged” that wore a sweater vest as a homey touch in campaign stops. (Take back the point!)
And he’s a patented panderer for votes. In Florida a woman told him Obama was “an avowed Muslim” and instead of doing the right thing and saying, “Ma’m, you have your facts wrong,” he simply said, “I’m trying my best to get him out.”
The right-wing fringe will own Santorum if he’s the candidate.
So, okay, let’s assume Obama needs to go after one term. Which candidate will take care of that little chore in November?
That person simply is not in the GOPer lineup now.
Monday, January 16, 2012
ABO (Anybody But Obama) won't win the office
GOPers,
are you
listening at all?
Mitt can not win
in a head-to-head
with Obama. Too rich,
too pandering, and
too darn
slick.
Obama,
at least,
has personal charm.
Mitt comes across as
an out-of-work peddler who
is selling snake oil
for what ails
every single
voter.
With
the field
now in evidence,
only hope to oust
Obama is for a third
party candidate to rise
like the phoenix
and offer
hope.
are you
listening at all?
Mitt can not win
in a head-to-head
with Obama. Too rich,
too pandering, and
too darn
slick.
Obama,
at least,
has personal charm.
Mitt comes across as
an out-of-work peddler who
is selling snake oil
for what ails
every single
voter.
With
the field
now in evidence,
only hope to oust
Obama is for a third
party candidate to rise
like the phoenix
and offer
hope.
Agony of old age
Old
is relative.
Feeling old is
avoidable with heavy drugs.
Does anyone have any I
can borrow? Just kidding!
Now, where's that
bottle of
tequila?
is relative.
Feeling old is
avoidable with heavy drugs.
Does anyone have any I
can borrow? Just kidding!
Now, where's that
bottle of
tequila?
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The apocalypse is upon us
Egos
of sports
figures are huge.
Money and fame don't
guarantee a long life. Most
would settle on living
to at least
Ocho Cinco.
(Ouch!)
of sports
figures are huge.
Money and fame don't
guarantee a long life. Most
would settle on living
to at least
Ocho Cinco.
(Ouch!)
Politics, Iowa Style
Bachman
out, slain
by own sword.
Perry licking fatal wounds.
Romney, Santorum, Paul leaders of
weakest pack in GOP
history. Voters left
sucking hind
teat.
out, slain
by own sword.
Perry licking fatal wounds.
Romney, Santorum, Paul leaders of
weakest pack in GOP
history. Voters left
sucking hind
teat.
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