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Sarah Palin and Family Used to Get Their Health Care in Canada?
Posted by Lance Haley in 2012 Election, Campaigns, Conservatives, Healthcare Reform, Politics, Sarah Palin, Tea Party on March 10th, 2010
I would hope the irony of this little factoid is NOT lost on the Conservatives who support Sarah Palin and oppose President Obama’s Health Care Reform.
Can you spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y?
Teabaggers Are Tards!
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Glenn Beck, Government, Politics, Populists, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, United States on March 5th, 2010
TEABAGGER ANTI-STIMULUS PROTEST AT WHITEHOUSE ON 2-27-09
OK.
Let’s analyze this Tard logic.
1) Teabaggers (members of the American Tea Party) are so incensed that Rachael Maddow calls them by that name – sarcastically referencing the sexually-perverted act - that they have filed 1,239 Indecency complaints with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)against MSNBC (subsidiary cable network of parent company NBC), the broadcaster of The Rachael Maddow Show.
2) The Teabaggers were the first ones to reference the term for political purposes in their February 27, 2009 anti-stimulus protest in front of the Whitehouse (see 2/27/09 post on web containing the picture above).
3) So now their politically-correct sensitivity is insulted?
Including the Teabaggers Chief Tard, Sarah Palin?
Hail to the Chief.
Running the U.S.A. With Crib Notes and Giving the Country a Hand Job
Posted by Lance Haley in 2012 Election, Campaigns, Conservatives, Politics, Sarah Palin, Tea Party on February 10th, 2010
. . . and Teabaggers and Conservatives are worried about how Obama is running this country?
When Whitehouse Press Secretary Robert Gibbs used crib notes scribbled on his palm in a tongue-in-cheek imitation of Sarah Palin’s speech to the Teabag Party Convention this past weekend, it was a mockery of Palin that ranks up there with some of Tina Fey’s material -
Here is a close-up of Palin’s hand at the Teabagger Convention.
Please, Please, Please Republicans! Run her in 2012. Pleasssssssssssseeeee?
President Obama: Yes! It’s The Economy, Stupid.
Posted by Lance Haley in Bailouts, Banking, Business and Money, Campaigns, Capitalism, Congress, Conservatives, Credit Card Industry, Dick Cheney, Economics, Financial Crisis, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Government, How and Why We Get Screwed, Media & Communication, Politics, Sarah Palin, Senate, Show Them the $$$, Tea Party, Wall Street, Wealth Disparity & the Ultra Rich, financial industry on January 22nd, 2010
President Obama has been beyond a huge disappointment.
The reasons for his significant failure in the first year of his Presidency are varied, and yesterday I read a very insightful essay on MSN Money by Paul B. Farrell of the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch that hones in on a number of opportunities Obama could have seized upon as a result of the financial collapse that would have allowed him to increase the already significant political capital that he possessed on the day of his inauguration.
In the simplest parlance - he blew it!
This writer will have more to say on the specifics of those issues, but that is for another entry posted here on this blog. More importantly for purposes of today’s entry, I offer a humble mea culpa for my idealistic beliefs that this man was really different from all the others. I pride myself on being intellectually honest enough to admit that I was wrong about Obama’s willingness to effectuate any substantial change in this country with acumen and finesse. How stupid of me to believe that he would really first focus on the one issue that was at the forefront of every voter’s mind since November, 2007 - one year before the 2008 election – and has continuously been the leading issue for the past two years.
In the words of James Carville’s famous political mantra for the 1992 Clinton campaign, “It’s The Economy Stupid!”
Suddenly this week, the President finally has this incredible revelation that he needs to place the issue of the economy, as well as attend to financial system reform, at the top if his agenda? President Obama – how could you and all of these ostensibly intelligent people you surrounded yourself with have possibly missed that most salient and readily available information? Why did you not immediately address the failure of our economic system in it’s present form to serve the interests of its citizens, and redress the ongoing transgressions by the men who were responsible for single-handedly wrecking the underpinnings of American Capitalism? Why did you not implement substantial changes in how our economy is managed by imposing strict accountability, transparency and limitations on how the banking industry operated? Why did you trust that these financial terrorists would not not rob the national treasury for their own personal gain, instead turning a blind eye to their obvious avarice and indifference to the economic welfare of the country? Why did you not instruct Tim Geithner and the Treasury Department to direct the lending institutions to focus all of that available financial capital at shoring-up businesses and home values in order to preserve the essential assets so critical to the future of the American people, instead of bailing out these corrupt and incompetent financial giants? Why did you not utilize the available “bully pulpit” to chastise both your party and the Republicans for their unwillingness to use their legislative powers to immediately reign in these predatory financial giants, because of the “river of dirty money” (campaign contributions) running through Washington, D.C.?
Instead, you choose to ignore the over-arching importance of these matters, and wasted all of your hard-earned political capital by rubber-stamping the bailouts, and then embarking on an agenda of reforming an equally complex and failed health care system – a pathway that was historically fraught with political pitfalls and epic battles against powerful wealthy corporate interests. Anyone studying the history of American health care reform would know that simple fact.
Now, before any of you Conservatives start hooting and hollering in celebration of my criticism of the President, or my ”concession” regarding his obvious failures, let me inform you that your intellectual dishonesty for the past decade has been nothing short of shameful. Lest you think you are blameless, your willful ignorance of, as well as refusal to admit, the abysmal failure of your leaders, party, spokespersons, and Conservative media to improve the status of this country and its people - particularly Bush, Cheney, Palin, McCain, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Fox News, etc. - is completely reprehensible, and gives you no standing to believe that you have something to crow about.
You don’t.
In fact, part and parcel of Obama’s inability to effectuate change has been due to the ”political noise” you either countenenced or participated in during the election campaign in the Fall of 2008 as a substitute for reasoned and measured dialogue about what was wrong with this country. Labeling him a Muslim – when nothing is further from the truth, and cheering on those who claimed that he was “palling around with terrorists“, willfully distracted the American public from what was really at stake for the future of our country. Many of you continued to increase the sound of that chorus to a deafening roar after he was elected with the most utter nonsense – first claiming he was not a citizen in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, as well as charging that he is a Socialist, hellbent on destroying the foundations of this nation, when in fact his predecessors that you supported, as well as their corrupt political business cronies, had already virtually accomplished that objective.
In so much as you have fostered and perpetuated these opinions by either expressed belief or passive silence as to the truth, you are partially responsible for the demise of this republic. Your behavior is utterly Un-American. It is an absolute certainty that history will be far less kind to you than it will be to President Obama.
Shame on you.
And if you happen to choke to death on your teabags, oh well . . .
Fox News’ Hiring of Sarah Palin Makes Our Founding Fathers Want a Mulligan on Freedom of the Press
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media & Communication, Politics, Populists, Sarah Palin, Tea Party on January 14th, 2010
At famous cemeteries all up and down the East coast, you can hear their contorted bodies rolling over in their graves at night. Our founding fathers are watching Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin invoke their names on Fox News as though these two are patriots to the principles of truth and freedom.
In her interview with Beck on Tuesday, Palin even went so far as to make a poorly veiled attempt at comparing herself to George Washington, stating that “he was almost reluctant to serve as president, too . . . that is who you need to find to serve in government . . . those who you know will serve for the right reasons because they’re reluctant to get out there and seek a limelight and seek the power. They’re doing it for people. ”
Notice her use of the word “too“, as in “I also am reluctant, but I will do it for my country”?
You can be certain those comments make Thomas Jefferson and James Madison almost wish they could take a mulligan on the 1st Amendment’s clause respecting Freedom of the Press. After all, even men as intelligent as they were could have never envisioned two demagogues like Beck and Palin both employed by the same network. Think about it. Could you ever in your wildest imagination have believed there would be this much self-aggrandizement polished and wrapped under the guise of news and opinions?
Well thank goodness, Jefferson and Madison were also intelligent enough to know that most Americans would not listen to shameless frauds like Beck and Palin. Our founding fathers had enough faith in the wisdom of the American people to know that the principles of reason and logic would prevail over the false words and deeds from even the most duplicitous and disingenuous hypocrites that were in our midst.
That’s called Freedom of Thinking.
Sean Hannity and Fox News’ “Inadvertant Mistake”
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Congress, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Fox News, Government, Healthcare Reform, How and Why We Get Screwed, Humor, Media & Communication, Politics, Populists, Tea Party on November 12th, 2009
This week Sean Hannity and Fox News were caught red-handed showing video footage of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally in Washington, D.C. in order to bolster the perceived attendance numbers of the marginal crowd at Michelle Bachman’s Republican anti-Health Care Reform “press conference” held last week on the Capital steps.
John Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, showed the video montage that Hannity played on Fox News. Stewart’s commentary accentuates the amateur manner in which Hannity and Fox interspersed the 9/12 rally video clips with the clips from the Bachman – Republican “press conference” held in early November. Stewart points out the obvious discrepancies with witty questions as to why the trees are all green in some of the footage, and obviously changing colors as occurs in late fall in the other video clips.
Both Bachman and her Fixed Shill (Hannity) claimed that the “press conference” crowd numbered somewhere between 20,000 to 45,000 people – which ironically is the estimated number of people attending the 9/12 rally. Video footage, and estimates by the three Capitol Hill police officers, placed the number at somewhere around 4000 people. One would suspect that if there were only three Capital security officers assigned for “crowd control”, the attendance was minimal – otherwise, more officers would have been called in for duty. The officer’s estimates are likely the most accurate given their significant experience in dealing with crowds on the Capital mall.
However, the real hypocrisy committed by Hannity and the ”fair and balanced” network was his on-air apology given this week, giving John Stewart his deserved credit, with the aside that this was an “inadvertent mistake”. So Hannity is conceding that Fixed News is incompetent as a journalism network? That pathetic excuse only confirms the extent to which Hannity, Fixed News, and it’s shills will set out to deceive the public, and then lie about the deception in order to cover-up their obvious slanted political agenda.
Unfortunately, the FCC (Federal Communications Corporation) will not likely take any action for this blatant attempt at skewing the news, since Rupert Murdoch’s manipulative minions will say that it is another conspiracy by President Obama to silence them. That the network’s viewers seemingly turn their head the other way only undermines their claims that the Liberal Media is one of the principle problems in this country.
Hey Fox viewers, the lies and distortions that you constantly rant about being disseminated in this country are right their on your TV screen. Turn the damn thing off and read something with substance if you want the truth.
Lou Dobbs, Master of the Pot Shot, Bids “Adios” Due to a Bad Shot
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Media & Communication, Populists, Race, Tea Party on November 12th, 2009
Dictionary definition Pot Shot or pot-shot: n. 1) A random or easy shot. 2) A criticism made without careful thought and aimed at a handy target for attack [So called because such a shot is fired by a hunter whose main purpose is to get food for the pot.]
When Lou Dobbs suddenly announced his resignation from CNN yesterday it came as no real surprise. Dobbs had been slowly developing into the other proverbial “loose cannon” on the deck of the oldest cable news organization, and his populist rant was revealing a deep-seeded and incendiary paranoia that has only been matched by Glenn Beck in the past couple of years. Ironically, it was CNN that inadvertently gave them their starts – and it was inevitable that the network would have to part ways with both of them (or vis-a-versa). Advertisers were not going to be penalized by his unpredictable rants which tended to insult vast numbers of minorities that purchase goods and services around this country.
Dobbs can certainly find greener pastures at Faux News Network, where he will continue to blame the woes of this country on illegal aliens and other boogie men. After all, a valid birth certificate released by the State of Hawaii has thus far not dissuaded Dobbs from continuing to insinuate that President Obama, himself, is an illegal alien. This only lends more credence to those critics who lam-bast him for his ”racist conspiracy theories”. After all, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck , it must be a duck.
However, the final irony herein is that after years of taking “pot shots” at the Liberal Media, Dobbs is now blaming them in another non sequitur reference regarding the fact that he and his wife were outside their home when a bullet was fired in their direction. Dobbs claimed that it was because of all of the hatred directed toward him by the liberal media, it inflamed someone to shoot at he and his wife because of his stance on illegal immigration.
Lou, double up on that Prozac tomorrow. Officials for the New Jersey State Police played down the whole incident, stating that the likely source of the obviously stray bullet was from a hunters gun, and that the bullet went into the attic of Dobbs’ house. Now if someone really wanted you dead, Lou, you would make a pretty easy target. I am betting you are not real fast on your feet, and you’re carrying enough spare tires around your gut to support a NASCAR team on race weekend. A bullet flying randomly into an attic either came from a long way’s away, or was such a bad shot that it does not merit worrying about. Trust me, Lou. If the shooter can barely hit the broad side of a barn, even a target as big as you is safe standing out in the middle of your front yard.
Either way, I just think it’s funny after all of the nasty pot shots you have taken at people, races and cultures over the years, that you are now complaining about a stray bullet that was not even likely intended for you.
Karma is strange. Isn’t it Lou?
Do Wall Street Vampires Really Need H1N1 Vaccinations?
Posted by Lance Haley in Bailouts, Business and Money, Campaign Finance Reform, Campaigns, Capitalism, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health & Diet, How and Why We Get Screwed, Politics, Show Them the $$$, Tea Party, Uncategorized, Wall Street, Wealth Disparity & the Ultra Rich on November 9th, 2009
It is a fair assumption that people without hearts and souls are immortal, and not subject to the vicissitudes of Mother Nature’s nasty flu viruses that she visits on us annually. So why does Wall Street get first crack at these vaccinations?
I guess women, children, and the elderly are dispensable in comparison. Now that is real evidence of rationing health care and Death Panels - - just not quite in the form that the Tea Baggers envisioned. And it only cost Wall Street $5 Billion in campaign contributions over the past decade to the Washington politicians in order to buy protection from their own malfeasance, and the random cruelty of Mother Nature.
As well as unjustifiably obscene bonuses, to wit.
What a bargain.
PopuCon Teabaggers Give Whole New Meaning to Getting Teabagged
Posted by Lance Haley in Bailouts, Congress, Conservatives, Financial Crisis, Government, Healthcare Reform, How and Why We Get Screwed, Politics, Tea Party, Uncategorized, Wall Street, taxes on October 21st, 2009
There is an interesting disconnect between what the current populist-conservative Tea Party movement pretends to represent, and certain historical facts that undermine their agenda. The idea for this nascent PopuCon (Populist-Conservative) phenomenon which first appeared in Spring of 2009 is modeled after the Boston Tea Party, which was a protest against a tax levied on tea imported from England’s East India Tea Company to the American colonies.
Just one problem . . .
There have been no new taxes levied on Americans since the very day that President Obama was inaugurated.
Moreover, according to the group’s newest YouTube video promoting their Tea Party Express II tour, they are also protesting bailouts, out-of-control spending, and government-run health care.
Hey Teabaggers, did you also know . . .
1) that the bailouts (TARP funds) were approved, and the first $375 Billion were dispersed by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, when George Bush was President and the Republicans controlled Congress?
2) that George Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress took power in January 2001, outgoing President Bill Clinton had left them with a balanced-budget – which they subsequently decimated in six years, running up over $500 Billion in deficit spending (not including the $750 Billion allocated and spent on the Iraq War – which is borrowed from the Chinese government)?
3) Medicare, a government-run health care program for the American elderly, has been in existence for approximately 45 years, and some of your members would have no health care if not for this United States government-run agency.
I am still having a difficult time finding any pictures of protests regarding these very important facts (at least, according to your agenda) back in October, 2008. Can anyone help me?
This cup of tea is rather tepid and awfully watered-down.