Bob Shrum remarked, in response to item about the mega
farmer that Romney visited with in Iowa, that next thing you know he will visit
a 5-star restaurant with $300 meals and say that it is a food bank. Gramma Windy says: I guess now, if you ask Romney, he will
say: “I like farms. Some of my best friends own 54 of them.”
Says Gramma Windy: The most important amendment: #9.
“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” This very clearly states that (1) the
government cannot deny a man and a woman the right to enter into heterosexual
marriage, if they so choose. Or force
either one of them to marry a same sex partner, against their will, and (2) the
government cannot force a woman to have an abortion, or to use contraception,
against her will. Or deny her the right
to have as many children as she chooses.
Overheard: Just remember this: If the right wing can't count on your vote,
they don't want your vote to count.
If pharmacists can decline to fill women’s
prescriptions for contraceptives, according to their conscience, can grocery
store checkout clerks who are teetotalers decline to run up purchases of
liquors, according to their conscience, and can waitresses who are vegans
decline to serve meat to their customers, according to their conscience?
During his 14 years in office, Paul Ryan only
had two bills passed: (1) to name a
postoffice, and (2) to get tax breaks for archers. Because he is into archery.
So Dick Gregory suggests that the conservative mantra is
that: Look, we’re going to do something
really, really hard on Medicare, and we’re going to do something really, really
hard on Social Security…Yeah, but how about something really, really hard on
the rich?
Rachel Maddow says that Ryan is not a fiscal conservative,
he is a supply-sider, which is that you cut taxes on the rich as deeply and as
often as you can then sit back and watch the magic happen. Used to be called voodoo economics.
How dare they pontificate about the undeserving poor? Those right-wing pundits of Fox News and
conservative talk radio who are paid millions
of dollars a year to bloviate, to spew brown stuff out of their mouths, are
the least productive members of society.
What have they ever done for you or me?
They do not inform or educate us, make not even a pretense of elevating
the discourse, foster hate and stir up resentment, distort and distract and
destroy civility, foster conspiracy theories, demonize members of any
demographic, civil, or political group outside of themselves, make a mockery
out of journalism. How can they sleep
nights? How can they live with
themselves? How do they justify their
existence? How do they fool their
followers? How do they justify those
millions? They are unproductive parasites on society.
Lawrence O’Donnell says we know how Paul Ryan’s career will
end. He’s 85 days away from becoming the
next losing vice-presidential candidate who will never become president. See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755883/ns/msnbc-the_last_word/#48654868 Ezra Klein, whom I consider to be one of the most knowledgeable and
articulate about budget and monetary policy, says here that the
Medicare discussion so far has made him want to slam his head into the wall a
thousand times.
Did you see where Ryan was heckled at the Iowa State
Fair—questions shouted about war on the middle class and cuts to Medicare—and
the protesting women were hauled away by security, he remarked that they
couldn’t be Iowans, because Iowans are respectful. But, according to Ed Schultz, they are
members of a group called the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. Hmmm, sounds like community organizers to
me. Meanwhile, President Obama was also
at the fair, over in the beer tent buying beers for customers. When he plunked down money enough for ten
beers, the crowd started chanting: “Four
more beers, four more beers.”
BTW, here is a video clip of a Ryan “Pay to play” last fall,
in which he jeers at a 71-year-old man being taken down for heckling him. http://www.salon.com/2012/08/13/paul_ryan_thinks_losing_entitlements_is_funny/?source=newsletter
Problem with hecklers at Ryan and Romney appearances, it
will give the Romney team and supporters the excuse to arrange for busloads of
protesters to show up at Obama and Biden appearances to try to shout them
down. They’ve got the money to do it.
D J Dione says that Romney has done a rare thing, brought
Republicans and Democrats together, because how often do you hear them cheering
for the same thing, The Ryan Pick for VP.
The majority of white men vote Republican. What?
Are they not related to, or in relationship with, women? Aren’t they affected by issues that affect
women—pay scale, reproductive rights, health care, child care?
Andy Borowitz places Sarah Palin above Paul Ryan as a VP
candidate, because, although Palin didn’t read, Ryan read Ayn Rand.
The most common reaction to Ryan’s pick as VP by Republican
strategists and campaign operatives ranges from gnawing apprehension to
hair-on-fire anger [according to Politico].
FOX NEWS a cult? Someone
pointed out that a characteristic of a cult is that members are warned not to listen
to anyone else, not to read anything not approved by them, that everything else
is a LIE, LIE, LIE. And that is what Fox News purveyors such
as O’Reilly, Hannity, also radio spewers such as Beck and Limbaugh, tell their
viewers, listeners, all the time. “Don’t
listen to those liberal commentators, don’t turn on msnbc or pbs, don’t turn on
Air America, don’t read mediamatters. They
will poison your mind and destroy your faith.”
When I read something posted by a conservative vilifying Ed Shultz, Al
Sharpton, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell, and others, I know that they haven’t
even turned them in. They are only
repeating what they have been told to believe.
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