THE AMERICAN DREAM

Who could forget the introduction to America of Congresswoman Susan Molinari at the 1996 Republican Convention. She was married to a fellow member of Congress. Nobody seemed to care about the residency details because she was so wholesome and fresh.

She walked among the crowd, flashing her wonderful smile and telling us how she wanted her baby to grow up in an America that was already what she wanted it to be. The conventioneers loved her. As she talked about her baby, none of the people had a naughty thought in their heads about her. There was no way she cried out with the usual "AAAGGGHHH! I'M CUMMING!" during consummation. Not this wholesome, all American girl. She cried out the pure "AAAGGGHHH! WE'RE MAKING A BABY!" when she was performing her wholesome, all American wifely duties.

We all were enchanted by her vision of the American Dream. But her dream didn't include remaining in Congress where she could help achieve that dream of wholesomeness and fine dental work.

No my friends. She reinvented the American Dream. She parlayed her new found celebrity and became a talk show host. Sadly for her, it was on radio and nobody could fall in love with her smile and wholesomeness.

A gig on FOX News is the dream of all Republicans. They can go there. Spew whatever rhetoric they want and never have to worry about being questioned. And the money's good.

Sarah Palin is the latest to try and parlay a good look and a good knowledge of right wing catch phrases into a talk show gig.

The other part of the American Dream is the goal of former legislators and high ranking officials to start lobbying groups and think tanks. There, these turkeys can strong arm businesses and other issue groups into giving them big money in thanks for steering legislation through Congress that benefited them.

I'm 46, but still, that's old enough to remember when it meant something to tell your kids they could grow up to be a Congressman or Senator. Now that's just a stepping stone to the real American Dream of being a lobbyist or talk show host.

TRUTH 101 TO THE RIGHT'S RESCUE

The same tired arguments the righties have been using for years are failing. The economy is still teetering. President Obama made a gaffe that no matter how hard they tried, the righties still couldn't inflict any damage beyond what a juvenile mosquito could inflict on a rhinoceros.

So, in keeping with my well earned reputation for kindness and gentleness, I will submit these proposals in an effort to help the righties from further sinking into the infinite chasm of irrelevance.

The one thing we all want to hear is how this or that will create jobs. Job killing stuff is a turn off. We're a sexual society. Turn us on with the hot booty of job creation.

GLOBAL WARMING: Forget everything you've read and heard about global warming, climate change, Co2, whatever. This is an opportunity for economic success. It's getting hotter so that only means more air conditioners will be sold. Thus creating jobs. Global warming is good for America. Especially if you buy an air conditioner made by General Electric. (Disclaimer. I own stock in General Electric. That had no bearing on the content of this suggestion)

HEALTH CARE REFORM: Forget all that nonsense you righties have been harping about freedom to choose health providers and government picking your doctor and Canadians coming hear because they didn't want to hear what the Canadian Doctor told them. That's boring.

Tell the masses that it's more satisfying to do it yourself. Sell home health care kits so people can diagnose and operate on themselves. They don't need these quack doctors anyway. And with less doctors, that means less wacky malpractice awards. We all win. Plus we can prescribe ourselves medical marijuana and Viagra. Think of how much embarrassment we'll save shy American males when they don't have to tell the nurse or secretary he can't get it up.

IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: The tired old "we're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here" argument is crap and we all know it. The debate must be framed in a way the glorifies what we're doing and brings us back to the old days when all that mattered was glory and killing Native Americans.

Tell us we're over there to slaughter Iraqis and Afghans because they're savages and don't deserve the land on which they're living. We could do a far better job raking sand. Growing opium and drilling for oil. Do a few TV ads for the Army telling young men they can be like Kit Carson and General Custer. Once we have the Iraqis and Afghans either killed or locked down in reservations, we can have another Oklahoma type land rush. Think of the jobs we can create and we don't have to feel guilty because these people were savages.

MORAL ISSUES: We're all tired of old men telling us to abstain and love Jesus and pandering for cameras outside of church. These guys get boners too. A good many of them put them to use with women they aren't married to and guys in airport restrooms. If you're gonna do it, provide pictures. Who doesn't want to see a "Magnificent Pair."

Glad I could help...

OBEY! OBEY! YOU MUST OBEY!

Watching the rank and file Republicans obey their masters is both entertaining and kind of pathetic.

The Supreme Republican posts the days talking points and dutifully, all the little obedient Republicans repeat them.

"Remember to call all Democratic sponsored programs, no matter how important or insignificant, socialist." It would be really funny if that made it through as a resolution and Congress mandated a National Socialist Day of Remembrance for Ronald Reagan.

But you can really see the obedience in the well groomed look of many young and up and coming Republicans. You ever see Eric Cantor? This dude can rattle off a right wing talking points like Olivier reciting Shakespeare. His hair is perfect. The skin on his face doesn't even move when he talks and his suit is never wrinkled from his excellent posture. President Bush had excellent posture and wore very nice suits.

Mitt Romney, another up and coming Republican that has good posture. Wears nice suits and does a great job reciting right wing talking points. What's funny about him was that he was pro life and pro state wide health insurance in his home state before entering the national stage and prostrating himself before the Supreme Republican.

Sarah Palin learned her talking points well and the Republicans even bought her a nice wardrobe in anticipation of a long and loyal career. She's starting to become a joke even among the righties now though. Too many pictures of her in Wrangler jeans instead of expensive clothes from Sax 5Th Avenue. The poor woman lives in Alaska but that's no excuse to the high level Righties that demand a well tailored look from their stooges. Formality over function is a hard and fast rule.

AND THE WINNER IS...

It is an honor and privilege to have been a part of this great race. Both contestants are pricks of the highest order.

Bluepitbull: Your body of work as a prick is almost unparalleled in the annals of prickdom. Your hiding behind comment moderation is one of the tenants of prickism. It's interesting that your opponent, Time, also practices this.

But this is one race. If this were judged on complete body of work, you my friend Bluepitbull would win hands down.

But because of Time's hard work and relentless prickness since the start of this race, the Justice Clarence Thomas, Long Dong Silver Trophy for the winner of this years Prickness goes to Time.

Congratulations Time. You can now take your place along side other great pricks like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

THE PRICKNESS STAKES

Some of the feuds between bloggers can be incredibly entertaining. Especially when looking at them objectively. Thus is the feud between noted righty, Bluepitbull, and noted Lefty, Time.

This has never been about an issue as far as I can tell. It's mostly about who's the bigger prick.

Because the "prick" is ideological in nature, it can't be measured by anything like a ruler, (Or yardstick.Heh heh heh.)

So how does one measure the amount of prickness in another?

I'm biased towards the Lefty of course. I think Bluepitbull is a way bigger prick than Time. Although at times, Time has shown a great deal of prickness.

I hope somebody out there has enough wisdom to figure out a way to decide who the winner of "The Prickness" will be. Until then, all we can do is route for our favorite and hope nobody gets hurt.

And, they're off!

A SHOVELFUL OF THANKS

A trip to the circus got me thinking about how everyone has a primal need to be appreciated and thanked.

Many are of course worthy of thanks. Veterans. Firemen. Police Officers. They deserve thanks for keeping us safe. Construction workers that build our stuff. Manufacturing workers that manufacture. Entrepreneurs need to be thanked for creating jobs. Plumbers need to be thanked for keeping our pipes flowing.

But I saw a guy that nobody thinks about thanking today and if you ask me, he's just as important as anyone.

He is the Circus Shit Shoveler.

This poor skinny guy was the hardest working guy I've ever seen. If there was a pile of shit he was on it. He never got a break. An elephant would drop a load in the parking lot, the shit shoveler was right there with the tools of his trade. A shovel and a wheelbarrow.

He risked his life cleaning up after the lions. He didn't have a whip and a chair. Just a shovel. I don't think the lions were intimidated. But they didn't mess with him so even the lion in his primal state, appreciated the shit shoveler.

No doubt, this poor, hard working man took a shitload of abuse and teasing. We all cheered the feats of the trapeze artists. We cheered the lion tamer and the knife thrower. We cheered the dancing elephants. We even cheered the ringmaster for doing nothing more than standing around pointing at stuff. But while all this was going on, the one guy we weren't cheering even though he was without a doubt, the hardest working and most important guy there was the shit shoveler. He dodged the elephants and the lions and the camels and dancers, nimbly shoveling the shit so they wouldn't step in it.

The next time anyone thinks he/she deserves a thank you or a pat on the back, remember the Circus Shit Shoveler. Your job isn't as tough as you think.

GET THESE GUYS SOME CERTS

It has always been standard republican campaign rhetoric to promise no new taxes and fiscal restraint.. The republican voters all nod their heads in defiant agreement and put this years "Republican and Proud" bumper sticker on all their vehicles.

But a funny thing happens not long after a republican gets elected. he looks at the budget. Discovers that providing vital government services like police, fire protection, ambulance, planning, development, building and maintaining streets and bridges, employee costs, funding all the promises he made to constituent groups, national defense, regulation enforcement, and a million other things, costs a boatload of money.

We all fondly remember the transformative Ronald Reagan. (I dutifully bowed my head in honor of my right leaning visitors) We remember his tax cut. But he also raised taxes three times. Remember Bush I? "Read my lips. No new taxes!" He raised taxes also.

In my home state of Illinois we had a succession of three Republican governors. Every one of them said he wouldn't raise taxes. You guessed it. Once elected or re-elected, every one of them said "Oh my goodness! It's worse than we thought. We need to raise taxes." Of course they would always offer the obligatory promise that this was a one time thing and taxes would never be raised again.

Here's the message. When somebody tells you what you want to hear, smell his breath. Most likely it smells like shit because that's what the guy is full of.

ONLY REPUBLICANS ARE ALLOWED TO BE PROUD

Righties feel a biological obligation to bash anyone for being proud of anything but Republicans and Republican approved stuff.

If a black person says he's proud to be black, Righties have to jump all over the guy and call him a racist. Then they have to remind him/her how great America is and Africa sucks and Pat Buchannon is the real messiah.

If a Liberal says he's proud of our Troops, a Rightie has to jump all over him/her as well. They remind us that we were against the Iraq invasion and Vietnam so we must really hate those that did their duty for real Americans like the Righties.

The Righties wear their pride in assholism as a badge. They think they are the only ones with a right to be proud of all that is good and great about our Country. Their bodies quiver with glee when Dick Cheney gets presented a rifle at an NRA convention. They almost go into orgasmic convulsions when Cheney pretends to be pointing the rifle at something. It's a good thing for those commies in North Vietnam that Cheney had to unwillingly take those five deferments or he would have shot every last one of those pinko bastards dead.

Some of my hobbies permit me to spend time with several Republicans. None of them ever say they are Republicans with a happy face. They always angrily grumble that they are Republicans. Their reasons are never really because they want low taxes or less government. It usually comes down to they don't like welfare or The Jeffersons or something.

I love the irony when Republicans bash President Obama. They will raise hell about Mrs. Obama being proud that America finally has a black President. But then they are ashamed because America has a black President. They at least have the sense not to say that out loud among people they don't know. They just call him a socialist or not a real citizen.

Well folks. This Lib is just as proud to be an American and a Liberal and a Democrat as any Rightie is proud to be proud of stuff Righties are proud of. May God bless us all and may God bless America.

SARAH PALIN AND THE FEAR FACTOR

A common, yet deluded accusation among right wing bloggers is that we Lefties are "scared of Sarah Palin."

While I am admittedly intimidated by any woman that skins moose and fillets fish better than I do, politically, none of us has any fear of Sarah whatsoever.

The reason we vilify Sarah is not because we hate her or because she's an intellectual lightweight. There are plenty of intellectual lightweights among Righty Nation to make fun of.

The reason we mess with Sarah is so Righty Nation spends it's time trying to show her to be something other than the deluded, intellectually challenged right wing fool she is.

The strategy has worked wonders. The Righties still don't have anyone on their side that has exhibited any talent other than the usual recitation of right wing talking points because they have been busy trying to create the illusion of talent and intelligence around Sarah Palin.

Bobby Jindal exposed himself for the clown he is after his pathetic rebuttal to President Obama's outstanding address to our Nation. Mitt Roney thinks he's going to get his own planet in the afterlife. Who wants any more Mormans knocking on doors anyway. Mike Huckabee has molded his political personality around Larry the Cable Guy.

I guess that in a sense, I can understand the Righties rallying around Sarah considering the poor crop of Righties they have to choose from.

Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh still speak for the Republican Party whether Michael Steele likes it or not. The pathetic Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have been getting schooled by Judge Sotomayor. One of these jokers was so desperate for something that might at least get his face on the news and a nod from Rush Limbaugh, he did his best Ricky Ricardo imitation.

It is because of my kind and gentle nature that I went ahead and let the Righties in on the joke. And I notice some of their sites are grasping for subjects. This gives them a subject they can take back to their blogs. I'm always here to help.

Thank you for reading Truth Shall Rule.

KILLER REPUBLICAN IRONY

A disturbing trend in republican talking points is their use of violence to get their deluded points across.

No matter what the program, they have to frame it as a "killer."

We want out of Iraq. republicans claim people will be killed. I guess they haven't been watching the body count.

We want health insurance reform. Republicans call it a "job killer." Hell. They call everything a job killer.

Legislation to set limits on pollution. They call this a job killer. I suppose the republican that came up with this "killer" thing figures pollution doesn't kill anyone.

The Republicans have been proclaiming the death of America is imminent if we adopt programs that help Americans. The only good thing about the "death of America" talking point is that it pisses off the old time militants in Iran who think they own the copywrite to anything resembling their infamous "death to America" chant. Screw those assholes.

The Republican hierarchy is good at talking about killing stuff even though many of them never had to kill anyone because of draft deferments.

The best irony of this though is when asked about sane gun control that keeps firearms out of the hands of felons and psychotics, Republicans say "Hell no! Guns save life!"

Republicans live in Bizarro America.

GRANPA DID ALRIGHT

I didn't have anything to say about what's going on today. It looks like everyone else has health care and Judge Sotomayor stuff covered.

So I just thought I'd put up a picture of my Grandma Laura.

Grandpa did pretty good.

PART TWO: WHO'S REALLY IN CHARGE?

In our first report, we saw that the Republican effort to put a clown in the White House to balance out when they accidentally got a good Republican elected. This is to further show how the Right's mantra of "less government" was furthered by planting either an idiot or a greaseball on their ticket.

This started with Warren Harding. After the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, the Republicans knew they needed a real do nothing clown in the White House to do nothing so they could start ruining the economy. Harding was best know for poker and making out in cramped spaces. Republicans were safe in knowing that his peccadilloes would occupy him while they were laying the seeds for the Great Depression. But Harding was also an affable guy. He pardoned Eugene Debs and did some other stuff that would tick off the right. Knowing this, the Republicans put "Silent" Calvin Coolidge on the ticket with Harding. This was, at least they knew the number two guy would be of service to them in case Harding went and did something like pardon Eugene Debs.

The strategy worked for the silent leaders of the Republican Party when Harding died in office. They had their man, Silent Cal, who would look the other way whilst the Great Depression loomed. No regulation and buying on margin would look good for a while so the real fatcats fattened up on the largess of no government looking out for the little guy.

After c Coolidge finished his second term, the Republicans figured it didn't matter if they had the usual clown or somebody with talent at the top because things were screwed up so much to their liking that nobody could have stopped them. Herbert Hoover may be remembered in a bad light. Hoovervilles and all. But he was a pretty decent guy in reality. A hero in Europe for getting Europeans fed after WWI. But the shit hit the fan on in 1929 and Hoover was impotent.

The Republicans knew they would just have to cool their heels, and eventually find a good candidate instead of a clown to run for president when the Country finally forgot what their policies of less led to.

They found their man in Dwight D. Eisenhower. A great American. Everybody liked Ike. Poor Adlai Stevenson never had a chance. But just to be sure the greaseball factor was honored, the Republicans put the notoriously greasy Richard Milhouse Nixon on the ticket with Ike. Tradition was preserved.

1968 brought perhaps the greasiest Republican ticket ever, rivaled only by Bush/Cheney. Nixon was greasy, but real smart. The Republicans don't trust anyone that's too smart so they put Spiro Agnew on the ticket with Nixon. Although Agnew had some positive aspects, he fought racism, he was kind of like the Sarah Palin without breasts of his time. We all knew he wasn't up to the job, but he thought he was. Nixon and Agnew both lived up to their greaseballness by leaving their offices in disgrace.

Gerald Ford screwed the Republicans. He was a decent and pretty sharp guy and had a decent and pretty sharp guy as his running mate. The Republicans knew the economy was going to hell in 1976, so rather than take a chance and elect Ford, which would cost them the White House for a long time, like when Hoover lost, they said screw this and we got the smart and affable, but sadly ineffective Jimmy Carter.

The Republicans had their ace in the hole though. The eternally over rated intellectually and presidentially Ronald Reagan. But he made us feel good. I guess that's something. Reagan blessed the Republicans by giving us silly stuff like "voluntary compliance." That worked. I always thought Reagan may have ticked off the Right because George Bush I was a pretty well qualified guy. But the Republicans felt Reagan was sufficiently Coolidge like so it didn't matter who his running mate was as long as Reagan didn't die. Imagine the amount of pant shitting the high level Republicans did when that creep tried to assassinate President Reagan.

George Bush I was an interesting story and offers more proof of my premise of the greaseball and/or idiot factor of Republican presidential politics. Dan Quayle. They made absolutely sure an idiot was on the ticket.

Of course, the idiot factor proved an undoing when Clinton defeated Bush in 1992. Quayle had four years to show he was anything but an idiot. America just couldn't take a chance on Bush I not surviving his second term. The idiot placement plot failed the Republicans finally.

They made up for it in 2000. They found the biggest idiot of them all in George W. Bush. And just to be sure all their bases were covered, the Republicans got the greasiest guy they could find outside of Tookie Williams to be his Vice President. And to the joy of supply side right wing fools everywhere, these two left our government and our Country in shambles.

PART ONE OF A SERIES: REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS

I was reading some of my history texts earlier when an odd phenomenon showed itself to me.

The habit of the Republicans to begin with an outstanding President, only to work towards the dumbing down of one of his party's successors.

Remember the great President Abraham Lincoln? Of course. We all remember and honor Honest Abe. His greatness started this trend because above all else, Republicans demand mediocrity. (Look at Sarah Palin) It didn't take the Republicans long to get Ulysses Grant elected President. He was a great general who also gained fame for presiding over as corrupt an administration we ever had.

Teddy Roosevelt was another of our greatest presidents. The Republicans had to cool their heels during the Wilson Administration but they eventually made up for Roosevelt's greatness by getting Calvin Coolidge elected. Just to be sure, they followed the detached, but he was an excellent card player and could have sex with his mistress in a small closet without anyone noticing, Coolidge with Herbert Hoover.

The cycle repeated itself when Eisenhower was elected. He was a very good president. Everybody liked Ike. He was so good in fact, the Republicans decided to run Nixon after him. Then they ran Nixon again in 1968. They would have run him in 1964 but they figured they would lose so they ran the smart Barry Goldwater instead. What they didn't understand was that Nixon was smart also. He was such a good shyster he hid it from the Republican power brokers. When they found out it was too late to stop Nixon but they put Spiro Agnew on the ticket with him so there would at least be a clown one heartbeat away.

1980 was going to be a banner year for Republicans. They could get a real fool in there. Ronald Reagan was their choice. They didn't even have to brainwash him or train him in old talking points. Reagan had them all memorized from his "Time for Choosing" speech. Reagan managed to keep preaching tax cuts and fiscal discipline for eight years, despite the big tax hike he had the year after his tax cut. Then for good measure the Republicans got the bumbling BushI elected in 1988. The Democrats were complicit in that with the nomination of the woefully uninspiring Michael Dukakis. (I voted for Jesse Jackson in the primary)

The ultimate culmination of the dumbing down of the presidency came with the election of George. W. Bush in 2000. This was necessary to the Republicans because Nixon, Reagan and Bush I, for all their lack of brilliance, just weren't bad enough.

The good news is that the cycle can now start over and the Republicans may well give us somebody capable of being President next time around. But unfortunately, many Republicans think even the brain dead Bush II wasn't dumb enough because some of them still sing the praises of Sarah Palin.

I have been long known for my humility as well as fairness and balance. I humbly ask the Republicans, if you insist on tailoring your message to idiots, please don't run one also.

Thank you for reading Truth Shall Rule.

EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD

A common theme from pundits who in reality have no freaking clue WTF they are pundisizing about is their call for "leadership." Turn on a talk show and one of these jokers will decry a "lack of leadership" or some variation of that theme. Translated, that means these they have no clue but don't want to come off as without answers because that would make them look stupid.

The problem with government from the federal level on down is not lack of leadership. The problem is too much leadership and not enough "followship." The greatest leader in history would be just another loser if he had no followers because the followers thought they should lead.

Al Franken just said he was going to Washington to be Minnesota's Senator. Not just one of sixty. Good for him. Bad for America. We can't all be in charge. We want health care reform? We want out of Iraq? We want our economy growing? We want to stop polluting? We want all kinds of wonderful stuff. Fighting for TV facetime so everyone can see what a "leader" you are is a worthless pursuit. We have a leader of the Democratic Party. He is also President of The United States of America. It's his job to lead. The rest of the Democratic needs to be good followers. Then President Obama won't have to work compromises with assholes like Mitch McConnell or John Boehner.

There is a time for rogue behavior and a time for closing ranks. The Republicans closed ranks for years under Bush and we are in the worst financial shape since the Great depression. It's time now for the Democrats in Congress to learn from the party discipline of the Republicans and fix what Bush and the Republican Congress broke.

AYN RAND: CONTINUING THE EXPOSE'

Just to continue our discussion of the adopted bible of the neocons and their deluded neocon disciples.

Atlas Shrugged is a long book. 1,100 pages. It has been chosen by the neocon elite for precisely that reason. You see my friends, just like the Christian Bible, there is so much in it that it can be interpreted any way the reader, or in the case of the neocon snake oil salesmen, wants.

It strikes me as humorous now, that powerful wealthy people would go on strike because they believe they're responsible for all that is good. But just as they don't want regular working folks in their neighborhoods, they want the right to strike reserved for the bourgeois.

Let's look at some that are fabulously wealthy. A few sheiks are worth 50 to 100 billion dollars. I guess it was through hard work and vision they were the sperm that fertilized the hard working egg. It ain't easy inheriting rich oil fields.

Warren Buffet is worth 50 billion. He surely must be a neocon. Except he votes for Democrats. Bill Gates has a claim to being one of the heroes Ayn Rand made up a story about. He has got to be a neocon. Don't remember him going door to door for President Bush either though. Hmmm.

Every movement needs it's prophets. Then they need some good mythology. The neocons have Ayn Rand. She was even kind enough to serve up a good fictional story they could build an ideology around. And her name and William F. Buckley's give a ready, albeit confusing, answer to every question posed to them.

Any event that happens need not be analyzed rationally by a neocon. They can just sit back, put a few fingers on their chin and say "Atlas Shrugged." And all the other neocons and neocon disciples will nod in agreement. Even though only the true neocons that are in on the secret really know WTF is happening.

If after reading this you still want to be a neocon in spite of being duped, here's some advice to help you be a good one. The trick is not hard work and scholarship. The trick is to just act bored. William F. Buckley was the master of acting bored. In reality he was a sexual deviant and Nihilist. My kind of guy. Just take a sip of whatever it is you're drinking. Give a medium sigh. Then say "Ennui." You'll be the life of the neocon party.

THE DIRTIEST SECRET OF THEM ALL

Of all the great con jobs, Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme. The guy that spent twenty years selling the Brooklyn Bridge to unsuspecting fools. The irritating lady in my hometown that says her car dealership wants you to pay less. These all pale in comparison the the greatest con job in American, and perhaps world history.








This starts decades ago with a book by a lady named Ayn Rand. Her book was called Atlas Shrugged.











The book is 1,100 pages long. But being well renowned for my exceptional ability to take the most complicated subject and reduce it to a few sentences that make more sense, I shall do that here and so you can spend the time it takes reading this piece of neocon propaganda on more worthwhile pursuits.











Rand's book basically comes down to these narrow points. Wealth is good. Extreme wealth is great. Government's role is to protect the wealthy and the property of the wealthy. We only go to war when rich people and their property are threatened. Other than that, screw the rest of you. You wouldn't be shit if it wasn't for the wealthy.

















Rand's book has become a kind of life manual for the neocon movement. What is sad is that although only two percent of our population falls into the class of extremely wealthy, there are millions of others that call themselves neocons even though the movement by definition thinks they are shit.











You see. A tenant of neoconism is that less is always better. Less government. Less regulation. Less taxes. They know that less of these things equals more for the extreme well to do. They know that less access to health care for example, means they don't have to wait for their kidney or liver because the rest of us don't have access. They know that less regulation means less OSHA violations being found out and punished. It means less chance a worker injured on the job will be able to collect on workman's comp. It means workers can't organize because the Labor Dept. has nobody to conduct a fair election.











This all adds up to more for the top tier, and less for the rest.











The scariest thing of all is how the neocons accomplished their goal of less without anyone even knowing. (Until now that is. Your welcome.)








Look at how our elections have been decided since BushI. Willie Horton. Rumors about Kitty Dukakis being nuts. Bill Clinton's affairs. BushI was a sissy. (The guy was a WWII hero. Even I had trouble with that but it worked for the Clintons) The Clintons murdered Vince Foster. John Kerry was unfit for command even though he commanded troops in Vietnam and killed enemy combatants and had two Purple Hearts. The list goes on and on.

















But the is not about the lies and innuendos both sides repeated. The dirty secret is that this entire scenario was orchestrated to stop government from governing.











Congress is now a useless body of men and women that hate each other. They no longer care about governing in the interests of America. It's all about the "jab."














The average American's ability to pay for health care is in it's death throes. What is Congress doing? Calling each other names. Guys that are real good at calling each other names make big money and have achieved celebrity status. James Carville. Alex Castellanos. Many others.








Talk show hosts and fake news show hosts are A list celebrities making millions. Sean Hannity could type the word poopyhead 100,000 times. Print it as a book and his followers would buy every copy.

















The neocons have frozen our political system and our government and we never saw it coming. Our best and brightest political leaders blindly went down the course of attack politics with no ideas or concern for our Nation. Their advisors are not entrusted to come up with ideas that will make America an even better place to live. They're paid to come up with todays version of calling one side socialist or the other facist.














May God help us.

MARK SANFORD SAID THE NEOCON LESBIAN HOTTIES WERE "A MAGNIFICENT PAIR"

Okay. Okay. This is my last dig at poor Governor Sanford. Thank you for indulging me.

But on to serious business. In the last post, although most of us, Right and Left, don't believe the sexual practices of our elected officials should matter and they're none of our business, the fact is that the sexual practices of our elected officials is big news and a big campaign issue.

I'm not defending the practice. I'm guilty of banging out four posts about Governor Sanford's peccadillo's. Interesting coincidence that that's how many times Mark banged his Argentine hottie.

But as long as this stuff generates readers for newspapers and blogs. As long as it generates viewers. As long as it generates votes from people with no clue or care about what's going on as long as they're voting for someone they think "Shares their values" we might as well accept it and have fun with it.