Chalk up a big win for the American people, President Obama and the Democrats, they finally stood up to the unethical and un-American Republicans, and won an important victory for the future of the democratic process in this country.  Unable to accept the normal legislative process of passing laws by majority rule, and unable to accept defeat in the elections and the public arena of debate, the republicans threw a 24 billion dollar temper tantrum that hurt the country and the economy, and in the end, got nothing for it except exposed for the truly rotten sons of bitches that they are.

Not only did republicans shut down the government because they lost the legislative battle, Supreme Court Battle, and presidential reelection battle over Obama Care, they took us to the brink of defaulting for the first time in history, up until yesterday evening, with John Boehner, their head clown, finally allowing a virtually clean vote to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling.  World markets, leaders and economies grew ever more anxious as the deadline for raising the debt ceiling loomed, with a potential global recession about to created by a handful of ignorant, hateful, tea bagging republican congressmen.  A minority of American politicians were able to shut down the government and threaten to sabotage the entire global economy in an illegitimate effort to de-fund the Affordable Care Act.  And the insanity of this was their leverage.  They assumed that the President, being an intelligent and responsible leader, and democrats, also caring of the country and the consequences, would simply back down and pay the ransom.  Since this deplorable stunt had been pulled once before and the president and democrats capitulated to some degree, these hostage takers grew more bold.  President Obama rightly saw this time as the necessary time to stop this destructive pattern in it’s tracks, before it became a normal way of governing, with the minority ultimately getting their way not through elections and the legislative process, but through extortion and sabotage.  They were already doing it in the Senate with the abuse of the fillibuster, but this scorched earth policy became the House of Clown’s more lethal weapon.

Thank you President Obama, thank you Harry Reid (you still need to get rid of the fillibuster), and thank you democrats in both the Senate and the House for staying united and standing up to the bully minority party of assholes for a change.  Gerrymandering, fear mongering, hate-mongering, misinformation, right wing radio, and Fox Propaganda News Channel have cultivated the seeds to bring us such undeserving elected republican clowns like John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Michelle Bachman, Eric Cantor, Mark Rubio, Rand Paul, and Steve King, to name just a few of the recognizable assholes on tv that make you wanna bang your head into a fence post and ask “how? why? how?”

And this time, even the slight and casual news consumer came to pay attention to politics.  The polls that came out last week by the Wall Street Journal revealed that an overwhelming majority of Americans knew who were to blame for the shutdown.  The president did a great job of explaining the truth in the beginning, and continuing to communicate the importance of not governing by crisis and hostage taking.  The republicans showed everyone but their most ardent supports and a few misguided voters their true character of selfishness and real values.  Their real values are not Christian, they are not compassionate, they are not fiscally conservative.  They are calloused, and represent the interests of the super wealthy and tiny percent of our society.  They favor profit over healthcare, and corporations over people.

I sincerely hope the president and democrats have learned the value of standing up with some spine when you know the truth is on your side.  This proves that if the republicans really wanna play hardball and show Americans what being a republican really is, all the democrats have to do is stand up against them, and explain the truth.  The majority will understand, a large minority of tribal right wing partisans will disagree no matter what; but the good guys, the middle class and the poor will win.  And the rich scoundrels like Mitt Romney and his piss-ant army of radical tea bagging republicans will lose.

Cheers!

We have entered the second week of the government shutdown brought to us by the selfishness and stupidity of the republicans, led by the lying Weeper of the House, John Boehner.  He continues to stomp his feet and throw cry-baby temper tantrums about how the president just isn’t being fair.  To hear the way republican Senator Rand Paul told it on the Sunday morning talk programs, they have been trying really hard to compromise with a mean President Obama who is ruling like a tyrant.  These two liars, Rand Paul and John Boehner, along with their new buddy Ted Cruz, the serial killer-looking new junior Senator and Dr. Seuss fan from the great and politically screwed up state of Texas, are attempting to actually have us believe that they are just doing the will of the American people, they are shutting down the government and threatening to default on bills soon for the first time in history because President Obama is a tyrant and the democrats don’t want to compromise.

I’ve really had to refrain from throwing my shoe at the plasma tv and breaking it when I hear these clowns stand there on national tv and tell one bold face lie after another about what they are doing.  “Lets be clear” Ted Cruz kept repeating on Meet the Press the first Sunday of the shutdown.  We can now safely determine that in republican lies and propaganda, “lets be clear” translates into “let me lie with a straight face.”

What makes me want to throw a beer can at the tv when I’m not wearing shoes is when I then hear the pathetic “journalist” on tv pretend that the liar before them may have a point.  The reporter, instead of trying to get at the truth, which sometimes require you to call a fact a fact and a lie a lie, merely bounces back what the other ‘side’ is saying.  Thus they are a useless parrot most of the time, acting as a go-between mouthpiece for politicians on both sides, merely repeating back both sides and then wondering why we have divided country. And this is the so called neutral dipshits of CNN and the other “neutrals.”  Fox of course continues their never ending promotion of republican propaganda, coordinating their talking points to that of the G.O.P.  They are a joke to begin with.  Unfortunately, the joke is on us as we have a large base of low information voters who do watch Fox and take it for news.  That shows year after year in media polls where Fox viewers are consistently shown to be less informed on actual facts.  This has been proven year after year since George W. first invaded Iraq, and Fox viewers continued to think Saddam Hussein had a direct link to 911, years after all the facts came out and disproved it.  Their number 2 asshole Bill O’Reily continues to call himself an independent.  Greta Van Sustran continues to pretend to be a liberal who came to Fox Propaganda Channel to be “fair and balanced” instead of selling out her soul for a face job that didn’t really help.  Sean Hannity continues to be their number 1 asshole, but Bill tries really hard to catch him.  Their morning crew continues to pretend to not be Rupert Murdoch’s brain damaged  nephews and nieces that he gave a job to as a joke.  Ironically, MSNBC, who is a liberal news channel that admits to being a political channel of liberal opinions and liberal talk shows, provides the most facts among the major networks that I have seen.  They may be partial, but they are accurate.  Fox lies, and CNN and the other pathetic lot just parrot the lies, bullshit and propaganda that politicians give them.

And the result of an American public that relies too heavily on television news to get it’s political information is a low information voter base that is easily manipulated, and a polarized, tribal group of conservatives who have lost their minds and are about as easy to reason with as a fence post.

Thankfully, so far, President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are doing what is absolutely necessary in the face of the government sabotage being carried on by a small group of gerrymandered jerk-offs in the republican controlled House.  It is necessary to preserve the way our democracy is supposed to function.  Let me put it simple so as to be clear to all you Ted Cruz, Tea Bag Party folks out there who love clarity:  the basic concept is a representative government, elected by the majority of us, to enact and enforce laws within a Constitutional system.   Laws are debated, and then voted on by this elected majority who won their elections by a majority vote (usually: not with Gore and George W.)  ObamaCare was debated, fought, compromized, watered down, delayed, but voted on by the House, the  Senate, and signed into law by the president.  It was debated again in the last presidential election, it was a center piece issue and clear choice: vote Romney to repeal, vote Obama to keep.  Even the voter paying the least amount of attention knew this.  Obama won reelection.  Now, the minority party, who didn’t win the votes in the legislative process, or the presidential election, or the Supreme Court lawsuit they tried to have it struck down with, now these people are using monkey business to hurt the lives hundreds of thousands of Americans by shutting down the government.  They are saying that since they didn’t get their way through the democratic process, they will try to sabotage the entire government and the country until we decide to “compromise” and give the cry-babies the candy that they want, which is the old way of allowing the health insurance companies to take your money and deny you care for their profit.  Plain and simple.  Give the thieves back their gold, let your children and population die of untreated illness.

Under these circumstances, what kind of leader would Obama be if he allowed this new way of governing by manufactured crisis continue?  It’s been bad enough with a gridlocked Senate due to republican fillibusters prohibiting a simple majority from ruling. Now we have a minority in the house shutting down the government in a back door effort to get the health care law they want, not the one that won in the legislative process.

And now, these farces of responsible lawmakers are claiming that denying the U.S. Treasury the ability to pay for bills that the congress has already incurred if they don’t get their way on health care legislation, is a legitimate tactic as well!  Despite the financial and economic meltdown that economists are saying this could trigger, these ignorant son-of-a-bitches are actually threatening that as backup to the plan of the shutdown getting them their way.  So they are doubling down on  extreme ignorance and lack of concern for the welfare of the country.  Ted Cruz said it was legitimate to use the debt ceiling as a negotiating tool on future legislation.  This phony sack of shit knows better, he is an educated man.  He is just happy to lie through his creepy face that defaulting on America’s already incurred debt in order to get what his minority party wants in the future is legitimate, and the fault of the democrats and President Obama for not compromising.

I’m tired of hearing that line of bullshit, and I’m tired of the media not doing a better job of explaining the process, and that the republicans are attempting to change the legislative process through sabotaging the government by refusing to pass a budget or pay it’s debts.

I’m thankful that President Obama and Senator Reid are holding strong in the face of the suffering that the extreme in the republican House of Clowns are causing the country.  We know that Obama and Harry Reid don’t want the American people to suffer because of republican shenanigans, as they compromised way too much in the past and gave in to past republican hostage taking.  It appears that they have learned that if you negotiate with the minority of republicans under the threat and weight of sabotage, that the swine will continue to do it.  Especially since they can’t win in the elections anymore when the issues are stark and clear.  Otherwise, we’d have elected Mitt Romney.  Thank god we didn’t.  I just hope Obama and Reid and the democrats remain united in standing down this republican temper tantrum that is damaging the country, so it’s the last time we have to do it for awhile.  So far, the White House has done a good job of explaining the situation in terms that are easily understandable and true, and President Obama has led that charge with daily pressure.  Bravo.

I plan on continuing to let people know exactly who is to blame here, and it’s not even close.  The republicans have reached a new low.  Don’t let them try to spread the blame around, this load of shit is all in their making and they have the power to stop it.  We don’t owe them a damn thing in return for them doing their job.  They can take their warped concept of “compromise” and stick it up John Boehner’s ass.

 

Day one of punishment to Americans for voting against the minority and attempting to make health care more affordable and accessible for all.  This government shutdown is brought to you by the republicans who refuse to accept the election results and the legislative process of passing laws because they do not agree with the law.  The facts are simple and objective.  Republicans in the House of Clowns refuse to accept that Obama Care has been enacted into law through the Constitutional process, and are trying to force changes to the law by the illegitimate method of not funding the federal government, causing an unnecessary shutdown that will impact and hurt millions all across the country.

And they are hoping that we are too stupid to realize what they are doing.  They are hoping that with the help of the Fox Propaganda Channel and other right wing mouth pieces in the media, that repetition of their lies will confuse the majority of Americans enough to blame all of Congress and the President for this manufactured and unnecessary crisis.  They were also hoping that President Obama and Senator Harry Reid would once again cave into their hostage taking methods of governing by the minority, and “compromise.”

Thankfully, President Obama and Senator Reid have finally agreed to stand up to these assholes and refuse to pay any more ransom.

The republicans’ methods are undermining what is supposed to be a democratic process in this country, where the majority is supposed to rule.  Not able to win the last presidential election, where there was a crystal clear choice of keeping Obama and the Affordable Care Act, or exchanging him for Mitt Romney and his agenda of repealing Obama Care “on day one,” voters chose to give the president a second term.  They also chose not to let the Senate be taken over by the right wing idiots that the gerrymandered House of Representatives has been infected with.  So the House of Clowns has decided that shutting down the government is going to be the new way they enact changes to laws they don’t  like.

We have already seen the government nearly crippled by the minority of republicans in the Senate abusing the fillibuster an unprecedented number of times to prevent the majority from ruling.  I’ve been extremely critical of Senator Reid many times for not getting rid of the fillibuster all together.  Finally, Mr. Reid appears to realize that he is not dealing with reasonable people across the partisan aisle.  He is dealing with a minority of right wing zealots who’s disdain for the basic concept of democracy is now painfully on display.  He and Mr. Obama both seem to have finally come to the conclusion that negotiating under blackmail is not negotiation, it is not compromise.

It was a mistake in the past to negotiate under these circumstances during the 2011 manufactured crisis of raising the debt ceiling.  It only emboldened the hostage takers.  Now their bluff has to be called, and sadly, it was not a bluff.  The republicans are willing to disrupt the business of the country out of spite, because they want to deny millions of Americans affordable health care so that they can go back to the old way of the real “death panels” which are the health insurance companies denying coverage to sick people so that they can enrich themselves with huge profits.   That system bought us the most expensive health care delivery system in the developed world, but not the best health care results.

The debt ceiling is again scheduled for a vote in the next few weeks.  Prior to Obama being president, this was a routine vote that always passed.  It is not a vote to authorize new spending, it is a vote to authorize the government to write the checks for the bills it has already incurred.  Republican hostage takers tried to use this as a ‘negotiating’ tactic in 2011 when the economy was more vulnerable than it is now, by threatening to cut off federal unemployment benefits to millions of Americans at Christmas time, among other ridiculous demands.  I thought the president’s compromise at the time was a mistake, but his administration felt at the time that they couldn’t afford to have the hostage harmed, as they put it.  But here we are now, with the same low life, shithead Tea Baggers shutting down the government and threatening the global economy in the coming weeks by attempting to hold the debt ceiling hostage as well.

I applaud President Obama and the democrats for standing up to these bullies and saying enough is enough, we will not negotiate with a gun to the American public’s head anymore.

The president just made an eloquent and forceful speech explaining what is going on, and who is to blame.  He should keep up the public pressure so that the republicans’ lies, smoke and mirrors don’t succeed in confusing the citizenry about what their real agenda is.  They want to deny millions of previously uninsured Americans from enrolling in a heath insurance program that is now available on the state exchanges, thanks to the Affordable Care Act.  They want to allow the health insurance companies to continue to let sick and poor people die so that their profits remain high.  They do not care about the welfare of the majority of the public, they could not care less.  They worship the Almighty Dollar, and even have former preachers like Mike Huckabee defending the values of the health insurers denying sick children and their parents coverage.  The House of Clowns and the republican party truly is a den of thieves and greedy liars, posing as patriotic Christians with strong family values.  Nothing could be further from the truth.