What Goes Up, Must Come Down.

If you still have any doubts about just how sleazy Slick Rick (Debates are bad for your political health) Perry is, here is a little preview of an upcoming article in Rolling Stone that should put you over the hump.  

I find it amazing how the Far Right Wing Nuts and the Tea Party Numnuts speak of Ronald Reagan as if he were the greatest politician who ever lived.  Here is a guy that raised taxes 11 times and tripled the national debt while inflation went through the roof.

Their favorite video clip is the one showing ole Ronald (I might have been a bad actor but I’m a worse President) Reagan saying, “Tear down that fence.”  And now they cheer Herman ( A pizza in every pot, or is it, pot in every pizza?) Cain every time he says he will build an electric barbed wire fence around the country.  Go figure. 




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The Incredible Shrinking Candidate

Here is a headline for you:

Perry Brings Aboard GOP Heavy Hitters

Then you read who these heavy hitters are that Texas Governor Rick (Where did everybody go?) Perry has brought in.  Well, they are GOP consultants who worked for Bob Dole, Steve Forbes and Fred Thompson.  Oh yeah, those are some real winners.

So today Perry trots out the ole flat tax plan…again.  The reason I say again is that this plan was thought up in 1981 and every five or ten years some politician who is getting his butt kicked drags it out to spin to folks who are looking for anything to grab hold of.  The flat tax plan has never made it past the talking stages and there is no reason to think it will last more than a few weeks this go around.

The main reason it will never be a law is the same reason none of the other tax plans will make it though Congress.  Do you think the large corporations in this country like GE, Exxon, Bank of America, Boeing, Goldman Sachs and Chevron, who actually run this country and pay no taxes now…not one cent…would let the politicians they have bought for good money, change the tax laws?    I don’t think so.  They believe in the Republican version of the American Dream; make a ton of money and pay no taxes. 

Speaking of large companies, a new report out shows that of the hundreds of thousands of companies in the world, 147 of them control everything financial.  Here is the top ten on that list. 
1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc

Excuse me, could you move your arm.  Now turn a little sideways, thanks, oops, the other way.  Ok thanks.  Now if you can hold your breath and let me breathe, I’ll do the same for you….World population is coming up on 7 billion, I’m just practicing. 

A lot of folks have compared the Occupy Wall Street crowd with the Tea Party bunch but there is one really big difference.  At least the Occupy folks can spell which is way more than I can say for the Tea Baggers.

Lindsay Lohan is in trouble again.  She is supposed to be doing her community service at the Los Angles morgue but they wouldn’t let her in the first day because they said she was late.  I don’t get that. Just about everybody in there is late.  The late Mrs. Brown, the late Mr Smith….


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Political Déjà vu

When I hear someone say, “Well, you know, we learn from history,” I always think, no we don’t.  I don’t think we learn much at all. We wouldn’t still be having wars, fighting over minor social differences and continuing to destroy the planet instead saving it if we did.  I think we keep repeating history.  We keep doing the same ole crap over and over thinking that it will have a different outcome.  There is a word for this. Insanity.

I find this to be especially true in politics.  You would have thought the Republicans would have learned something from the Democrat’s fiasco in 2004.  Here was George W. Bush nearing the end of his first term which was nothing short of disastrous.  He and his cronies had started a needless war that they were losing, spending money like they were Democrats and his approval ratings were in the dumper. I mean here was a guy so over his head and out of his league that it wasn’t funny.
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So the brilliant thinkers on the Democrats team thought that  “Anyone but Bush” would put them back in the White House and they came up with flip-flopping, wishy-washy John Kerry.  Does this sound familiar to what’s happening now?

The problem is there weren’t enough “Bush Haters” to kick him out of office and there aren’t enough “Obama Haters” to kick him out of office.  To defeat a sitting President, you have to come up with somebody that really wants to be President.  Somebody the people really want to be President.  You know, somebody that has a plan, a vision, not just stupid campaign slogans and dumb talking points that some hack writer in the back room has pooped out.  Certainly not somebody like Rick Perry who has said he is exhausted from the debates.  If he doesn’t have the energy to get through the debates, the President’s gig would kill him. 

The Republicans biggest knock on Obama was and is that he just doesn’t have the experience, and now their flavor of the month, Herman Cain has absolutely no experience…NONE…NIL..ZERO….  This guy has never been elected for anything so his fifteen minutes will be up in about a week.

More than likely Mitt Romney will get the nomination in the end and since he is simply the Republican version of John Kerry, history will repeat itself once again.

Today's good read is The Burning Soul by John Connolly.  Another great adventure featuring  private detective Charlie Parker.






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A Modern Day Fairy Tale

The Republican debates.


We have Snow White, ie Michele Bachmann, pure as the driven snow…actually she is just white and homophobic.

Bashful…Newt Gingrich.. He very seldom has much to say and keeps to himself.

Dopey…Rick Santorum doesn’t seem to understand what is going on.

Happy…John Huntsman is just glad to be included.

Grumpy…Rick Perry thinks everyone is picking on him and doesn’t understand why they won’t let him pack heat during the debates.

Sleepy…Mitt Romney can pretty much sleepwalk though the debates and win.

Sneezy... Herman Cain seems to have a medical condition and can only say “999.”

Doc…Ron Paul, a doctor by profession but doesn’t seem to understand the part about helping his fellow man as he is against any kind of federal help to anyone, no matter what the circumstances.

I love how the Republicans always like to call their opponents flip-floppers.  Evidently changing your mind about something is worse thing you can ever do. Yet when we look back though the polls for the past few months we see that the Republicans seem to flip-flop about every two to three weeks on who they love.   First they just loved Trump, then Bachmann, then Romney, then Perry, and now Cain.  By the time we get to the actual election a year from now they will be down to Joe the Plumber.

Herman (I’m the black version of Ross Perot) Cain’s 999 plan has so many holes in it, his next plan will be 911 because he will need all the help he can get.




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Flake Of The Week

Republican candidate for President, Herman ( If you are not rich, its your fault) Cain is the newest flake, uh flavor of the week to move to the top of the polls. It is mostly because of his 9 9 9 tax campaign which sounds simple but once you look at the details; it benefits corporations and the rich while slamming  the poor and middle class. Cain, who has never held an elected office of any kind, made a bunch of money for his company by laying off 14,000 employees. Why do you think the Tea Party and conservatives like this guy?

Speaking of flakes, remember ole Harold (Your guess is as good as mine) Camping, the preacher who said the world was going to end back in the spring, well he is at again. Now he says it’s going to end on October 21st. Damn, and I had a great costume lined up for Halloween. I was going to get inside of a giant condom and go as Rick Perry.


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Koch Me If You Can

Let’s put a face on some of the biggest donors for the Republican/Tea Party. Here are the real rulers of the party: The Koch brothers. David and Charles are head of Koch Industries of Wichita Kansas, a chemical, textile, trading and refining conglomerate.

These boys are the wheeler-dealers who keep the money flowing to the GOP (Greedy Obstructionist Pinheads) which appears to entitle them to run rough-shod over governmental regulations. They remind me of another pair of crooked brothers: Frank and Jessie James except they don’t use six-guns when they rob the government of taxable income so that law abiding citizens have to pick up the tab. 

They picked up the mantle from dear ole dad, Fred Koch, who was an early adviser to the founder of the John Birch Society, which fought against the civil rights movement and the United Nations.  Talk about the apple not falling far from the tree and rotten to the core. They would like to abolish Social Security, the Federal Reserve System, welfare, minimum wage laws and federal agencies -- including the Department of Energy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Here are the latest allegations against the Koch’s according to a report coming out in November’s issue of Bloomberg Markets Magazine.

• Koch Industries made improper payments (described by the former compliance director who discovered them as "bribes") to win business in six countries over eight years, a possible violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. One criminal law professor called the findings a "smoking gun.” The company described the payments as "activities constitut[ing] violations of criminal law."
• Koch Industries sold millions dollars worth of refinery equipment to Iran after President George W. Bush declared the nation was part of the “Axis of Evil.” The company claims these sales were legal at the time, and says it has since cut ties with Iran.
• Koch Industries allegedly pilfered 1.95 million barrels of crude oil pumped from federal lands by falsifying purchasing records, a Senate investigation found. One former worker said the company routinely incorrectly measured the oil, calling this practice the “Koch Method.”
• Koch Industries ignored federal regulations for pipeline safety — resulting in the deaths of at least two people in a pipeline explosion in Lively, Texas in 1996.

These two boneheads are probably the largest contributors to the Republican/Tea Party in the country and have been foaming at the mouth for Corporate Chris (I have a few big ideas but mostly I have a BIG appetite) Christie to jump into the 45^th running of the President’s cup.  The Koch brothers have a anti-labor and anti-regulatory agenda and Christie would have fit this plan to a T, but it seems that Corporate Chris didn’t get the memo laying out the Sarah Palin plan on how to be a half-assed governor and has decided to finish his term as Governor of New Jersey.

 Just another example of how money is corrupting the political system in America when you have creeps like this pouring cash into campaigns for their own self serving reasons.

The rats are jumping from the sinking ship.  More of Michele ( Where did everybody go?) Bachmann’s staff has hit the door as her gaffe-riddled wacko presidential campaign limps down the road toward oblivion.  


Texas Governor Rick (I’m ambidextrous. I can piss off both the Right and the Left) Perry’s campaign seems to be picking up momentum.  Of course things always go faster downhill.
 

Willard (Why do you think I go by Mitt) Romney is pretty much holding his own right now.  I get that, I mean who else would want to hold it.


Harold (Who said pizza and politics don’t mix) Cain seems to be gaining some support.  I think his new slogan “A pizza in every pot” or is it “Pot in every pizza” is starting to get some attention. 



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