Bless our Republican friends who care so much about this world’s people:
Storm Tips: Staffers attended conference sponsored by controversial anti-gay activist
Posted by legistorm on Monday, September 21, 2009
A handful of GOP congressional staffers attended a conference earlier this month organized in part by an evangelical leader who has faced controversy based on statements that he doesn’t believe it is wrong to stone gay people to death.
As Legistorm reports in the above article, the Repubs still have friends struggling to make the world safe for the pure.
BTW if you don’t know this blog Legistorm, get acquainted. It is a gold mine of salary and other info useful to those of us interested in cultivating our ulcers.
If you missed Obama’s speech to Congress last night, I am posting a video of it below. It appears to this listener that he balanced the uncivil and morose Republicans in the audience with some of the best Obama-isms possible. Now let’s see if he will “call out” the fear mongers and the liars. Let’s see if he can regroup and bring his language to life.
It was a good speech, and I find myself hopeful again.
Have you heard the Republican chair’s ad for a Senior Bill of Rights?
How about that! If you remember Marc Antony’s speech to the Romans prior to the murder of Caesar, you recognize the clever suggestions that things never documented are in fact true. Where is the evidence that Obama’s plan puts bureacrats between the senior and his/her physician? Where is the evidence that this plan lessens possible health care as one’s age advances.
And why, most of all, is it necessary to split off senior Americans from just plain Americans with this silly-assed notion of a bill of rights. We are already divided by race (African-Americans), sexual prefs (gay Americans), so surely we do not need the country to be splintered even more.
From bradblog.com, some current info that is intriguing.
SIBEL EDMONDS’ DEPOSITION: VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT RELEASED
Long-gagged FBI whistleblower’s full under-oath testimony from Ohio election case, details Congressional blackmail, bribery, espionage, infiltration, more…
Just over two weeks ago, FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was finally allowed to speak about much of what the Bush Administration spent years trying to keep her from discussing publicly on the record. Twice gagged by the Bush Dept. of Justice’s invocation of the so-called “State Secrets Privilege,” Edmonds has been attempting to tell her story, about the crimes she became aware of while working for the FBI, for years.
No More Faith: The Senate Topples Into Incompetence
by Hunter
Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 07:30:03 AM PDT
It seems absolutely assured that there is no American problem or catastrophe that will not be dealt with by our government by lavish, staggering public giveaways to the very corporations most directly responsible for the problem. We are currently mired in a Great Recession, to use the term that seems most commonplace at the moment; the result of which has been trillions of dollars in giveaways and subsidies to the banking and insurance giants whose foolish, outright stupid acts caused the very collapse we are saving them and us from. They are Too Big To Fail, and you and I are not, and so you and I can suck eggs, from our elected leaders point of view. There is apparently no war too costly for us to fund indefinitely; there is no apparently stimulus package that can exist unless it funnels money only to the top of the economic chain, and not the bottom. We talk glowingly about putting Social Security in the hands of Wall Street tycoons, a new and immense treasure chest for them to play with, to collect fees on, and to gamble with at will. We provide lavish tax breaks to extraction companies, to oil companies that make record amounts of cash. America’s auto industry has mismanaged themselves for decades, fighting every government request; we will come to their aid now, yet again, because they are also Too Big To Fail.
If you are even half as angry and disappointed as I am, you need to read the entire Daily Kos piece here.
I can but say that I am getting more and more frustrated with Obama.
Now he is approving shipping suspects off to countries that terrorize suspects.
What, I am beginning to wonder, has he followed through on of the pledges that caused me to support him so passionately.
I hope I am wrong.
But if we are to go on in the trail Bush made, playing the game as it is always played, we maybe should have elected Hillary. She is accustomed to and probably good at the smelly stew of politics as usual.
Gitmo is not closed.
We appear to be still involved in dubious interrogations.
The gay community has gotten zip.
Health care reform is being traded away so the pharmas are not annoyed.
The public option is vanishing.
We are sinking in Afghanistan. Anyone remember the Russians there?
What the hell has happened to the new light that almost broke on our horizon?
What in the hell is going on with the Democrats? Why does Obama insist on bipartisanship when it has been clear since January 20 that the Republicans only goal is to torpedo this Administration? Why are the Blue Dogs adding their disinclination to serve the public to make sure that the Obama Administration does not work?
If there is a symbol for total frustration, I want someone to send it to me.
I like Obama. I am glad I voted for him. But I cannot fathom why he or others in the party are allowing nitwits, liars, and the generally-indifferent-to-the-wellbeing-of-the-people to derail the program.
We had it in our hands. Have we totally fluffed it away?
Sarah Palin may have pulled her “death panel†charge out of thin air, but she seems to have won the day anyhow: The Wall Street Journal reports that the Senate Finance Committee, which is crafting the only bipartisan health-care reform bill in Congress, will drop the “end-of-life†provision.
If there is a more spineless group of human being on earth than the U.S. Congress, I would like to know where they are. One squirrely woman and a group of loud-mouthed oldsters who cannot be bothered to read the proposed legislation have buffafooned our mighty leaders into dropping some proposed legislation. This is not governing by the people; it is hiding from bullies.
God awmighty, when are we going to insist on some people with guts to get those special health care, big salary, high prestige jobs.
