Setting the Record Straight

When I talk to my Republican friends and colleagues I get the feeling that they really hate President Obama.  I don't where I come up with these ideas.  Maybe it is the nine or ten e-mails and text messages I get each day depicting Obama as a monkey, as a slave hung from a tree, as Adolph Hitler, as Osama Bin Laden, and any other number of horrible images that bring out the sickest racist thinking in our society.

Some of them are actually funny and not too racist, but most of them are sadistic and hate filled.  But, as my readers know, I do not censor anything.  I have never once asked them to stop communicating with me, and if I ever run for political office I may have to explain why I continue to associate with these buffoons.  I simply do not believe that anyone should be censored, and I will ultimately hold someone's actions against them, not their words. 

Now, that certainly does not mean that I have no right to challenge your thoughts and opinions on any subject.  And, if you don't like my comments on religion and conservatism I am sorry, but it is amazing to me that you can even read my blogs or hear me with your head that far up your ass.  As I have illustrated in previous blogs, conservatives are ignorant little piss-ants that are too stupid and immature to tackle the real problems facing our country.  They continue to tout conservative principals while evidence time and time again suggests that those principals have severely damaged our country and our world.

I know why liberals like me think that President Obama is a mediocre president and why we think that the Democrats are spineless jellyfish afraid of their own shadows.  But, I wanted to find out why lifelong Republicans, who championed the policies of President George W. Bush, hate President Obama so much.  When I ask them, I find out that the things they hate Obama for, were actually caused by Bush.

So, I am going to set the record straight.  Here is a list of verifiable facts from real sources (not Fixed News). 

Mythical Republican Rant #1: President Obama's 2009 budget caused a $1.4 trillion deficit!

Reality Check: The 2009 budget was Bush's, not Obama's.

The CBO (Congressional Budget Office for people who don't watch the news) (For those of you who are still dumbfounded, the CBO is a non-partisan mandated board that studies various congressional budget issues and puts forth reports and projections.) said in a January 7, 2009 (before Obama took office) report that the expected deficit due to the Bush Administration budget will be $1.2 trillion.   (9)

Mythical Republican Rant #2: "Obamacare" is bankrupting the government!

Reality Check:  While Health Care Reform is actually insurance reform and not nearly as cost effective and productive as Single-Payer systems in Canada and England, it has actually reduced the projected budget deficit, not increased it as claimed by my bat-shit friends.

     CBO and JCT estimate that, on balance, the direct spending and revenue effects of enacting the Patient
     Protection and Affordable Care Act incorporating the manager's amendment would yield a net reduction
     in federal deficits of $132 billion over the 2010-2019 period. (Media Matters For America) (The CBO
     and JCT - Joint Committee on Taxation, also non-partisan)

     CBO also estimated on December 20, 2009, that the Senate bill will continue to reduce the deficit
     beyond the 10-year budget window that ends in 2019 "with a total effect during that decade that is in a
     broad range between one-quarter percent and one-half percent of GDP." (Media Matters For America)

Mythical Republican Rant #3: The economic stimulus and out of control spending by the Democrats is why we are in such a fiscal crisis!

Reality Check: The Bush Administration's war spending and tax cuts are chiefly to blame for our fiscal problems and debt.

Bush Tax Cuts, War Costs Do Lasting Harm to Budget Outlook

     Some commentators blame recent legislation — the stimulus bill and the financial rescues — for today’s
     record deficits. Yet those costs pale next to other policies enacted since 2001 that have swollen the
     deficit. Those other policies may be less conspicuous now, because many were enacted years ago and
     they have long since been absorbed into CBO’s and other organizations’ budget projections.

     Just two policies dating from the Bush Administration — tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan —
     accounted for over $500 billion of the deficit in 2009 and will account for almost $7 trillion in deficits in
     2009 through 2019, including the associated debt-service costs. [6] (The prescription drug benefit
     enacted in 2003 accounts for further substantial increases in deficits and debt, which we are unable to
     quantify due to data limitations.) These impacts easily dwarf the stimulus and financial rescues.
     Furthermore, unlike those temporary costs, these inherited policies (especially the tax cuts and the drug
     benefit) do not fade away as the economy recovers (see Figure 1).
    

(Media Matters for America)

     Without the economic downturn and the fiscal policies of the previous Administration, the budget would
     be roughly in balance over the next decade. That would have put the nation on a much sounder footing to
     address the demographic challenges and the cost pressures in health care that darken the long-run fiscal
     outlook.
     (http://www.cbpp.org/)

Mythical Republican Rant #4: Obama gave away tax payer money by bailing out the banks and AIG!

Reality Check: This myth has been perpetrated by Fox Noise and the Right Wing media. 

The bank bailouts and TARP were created in 2008 under President Bush.  When Obama took office, the Bush Administration had already given away $350 billion.  No one had accounted for the money, and we are not really sure how it was spent.  When Obama took office he hired Elizabeth Warren to keep track of the remaining money promised to the banks.  (Taken from statements by Warren)

Our government had recovered 75% of the TARP funds paid out due to Obama's diligence once he took office. (usgovernmentbenefits.org)

The problem is that Republican voters have been privy to all of this information before.  Even the most hypocritical idiots cannot deny which president did almost all of the damage to the economy and our country as a whole.  While Obama is not the liberal lion that I would have appreciated, the country is in much better shape than it would have been under President McCain (especially considering that McCain would have died already and we would now by run by President Shit for Brains (If she didn't quit first). 

Works Cited

CBO Report. 7 Jan 2009. Web. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9957/01-07-Outlook.pdf.

CBO Report. 19 Dec 2009. Web.  

     http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10868/12-19-Reid_Letter_Managers_Correction_Noted.pdf.

Horney, James and Ruffing, Kathy. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. 28 Jun 2010. Web.                 

     http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3036.

Joint Committee on Taxation. Quoted By Media Matters for America. Right-Wing Media Whine That

     Obama Accurately Blamed Deficit Problems On Bush-Era Policies. 14 April 2011. Web.

     http://mediamatters.org/research/201104140021

Media Matters for America. Right-Wing Media Whine That Obama Accurately Blamed Deficit Problems

     On Bush-Era Policies. 14 April 2011. Web. http://mediamatters.org/research/201104140021

U.S. Government Benefits Help. Date Unknown. Web.

     http://usgovernmentbenefits.org/hd/index.php?t=tarp+funds+repaid

Warren, Elizabeth. Yahoo Finance. 06 May 2009. Web Interview. 

     http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/242629/

Don't Look Now, But We Are Out Of Tea

The problem with nut bags is that they are completely unreliable.  What you haven't been hearing from the "liberal" media is that the numbers at Tea Party rallies are downright embarrassing.  Michelle Bachmann held a rally in South Carolina and only 300 people attended.  I have had more people at weekend parties I've thrown.  If you can only draw 300 people in South Carolina when you preach hate towards everyone that isn't white, you are really in the toilet politically.

If you have been a "Liberal Voice" reader, you will probably remember a blog that I wrote explaining why the Tea Party is not a real movement.  Once again, I have been proven correct.  Real movements gain steam by attracting open-minded people to the movement.  The Tea Party is now and has always been full of aging white bigots that have nothing in common with our diverse society.  Those aging white bigots are now dying off (hallelujah), and they have been exposed for the idiots they truly are.  When the average American thinks that you are stupid, you are in trouble.  These are the same Americans that worship reality TV and hold up signs that say, "Snookie for President!" 

But, let's have a little (very little) sympathy for the Tea Party, because they are unknowing victims of Corporate America.  If our media is so "liberal" how come they never asked where the money came from?  They simply accepted and legitimized an organization that mysteriously showed up in 2009 with buses, signs, permits, and $100,000 paychecks for Sarah Palin.  Really, no one questions these actions?  By the Tea Party's own admission, they have been in existence for over ten years.  Why didn't they gain notoriety until Barack Obama became President?  The Tea Party of today is nothing more than a Rove/Koch production.  And now, that the Tea Party has been outed as a lunatic factory, big business is moving on. 

Do you really think that Karl Rove is genuine when he bashes the nuts that he created?  How does no one see through this?  Karl Rove realizes that he got his money's worth.  The Tea Party effectively saved the Republican Party.  Republicans were able to masquerade themselves as Tea Party members, and now they have control of the Congress back.  If the Tea Party were still relevant, Karl Rove would be riding that gravy train all the way to the 2012 election.

If you think I am naive about Karl Rove's intentions let me ask you this, "'Why didn't he denounce the 'birther' crap before?' 'Why did he wait two years?'"  All of sudden the Republicans are on the side of rationality, and the "liberal" media is eating it up.  Headlines read, "Has Karl Rove Set the Record Straight?"  There is no "liberal" media.  Media is corporately controlled.  If you don't think so, then why didn't Leslie Stahl challenge the CEO from Cisco when he ridiculously tried to convince America that high corporate tax rates were the reason jobs were being shipped overseas?  A real reporter would have asked, "Are you sure it's the tax rate and not the fact that you can pay sweatshop labor rates in Bangladesh?"

Republican voters never get it.  They are so easily scared by "boogie men," that they voted George Bush for President twice because he "kept our country safe."  It is so easy to tell a Republican a lie and get them to believe it.  It is why they never believe anything that is true.  For instance, only 38% of this country believes that climate change is real.  Never mind the evidence that we have and the total consensus by the scientific community.  They choose to believe the "scientists" hired by the oil companies. 

I know I am beating a dead horse, and I hate to say it (Oh, who am I bullshitting...I love to say it), but Republicans are so easily duped because of their faith in religious leaders.  They think that "God" creates monster storms to punish America for abortion and homosexuality.  They never once consider that these storms may be caused by people, like no harm can be caused by dumping horrible toxins like carbon monoxide into the air.

Before you get on your high horse (sorry...too many horse references), yes I realize that not all religious people think or behave the same way.  But, it is enough to really effect policy in our country.  Stupid things are done by stupid people in the name of religion, and the Tea Party members are shining examples of the religious right-wing.  Corporate America has realized that as long as people think that it is "God" and not “man” that is causing harm to our planet, they can continue to pollute for profit.  A corporation's job is to make a profit, nothing more, and nothing less.  If they don't maximize profits they can be sued by their stock holders.  It is up to lawmakers to hold them in check, and our lawmakers are failing.

Mark my words, long after the Tea Party is dead and buried, Corporate America will find a new group of idiots to latch onto.  They have been doing it for years.  It started with southern plantation owners that talked poor people into fighting a war against fellow Americans.  It moved onto the anti-union nuts, anti-civil rights nuts and finally to the evangelical nuts where it still resides.  They are told the same lie over and over again, and they continue to believe it.  And, the media continues to fuel the fire in order to secure ratings.  The Tea Party will die, and a new group will take their place.  But, the "leaders" will have a very familiar face with very familiar money.           

   

Why are Democrats holding back?

The President of the United States was "caught" on camera the other day telling Democratic Party donors that Congressman Paul Ryan is the biggest hypocrite walking planet earth these days.  My question is, "Why doesn't President Obama call him a hypocrite in public as well?"  It is very evident that Ryan's budget is a farce meant to completely reverse the "New Deal," the most successful system of government anyone has presented to this country since the United States Constitution.  And Ryan is a hypocrite because he voted for two wars that weren't paid for, tax cuts for the rich that weren't paid for, and a prescription drug bill that was never paid for.

Ryan is yammering on about fiscal responsibility when he has never shown any fiscal responsibility himself.  Ryan is a joke and his budget is a joke, and Obama should say so.  In fact, he did say so but not publicly.  It is time for Obama to take the "kid gloves" off, and destroy the Republican Party.  Call them "'un-American,' 'un-patriotic,' and 'anti-life.'"  Don't fear Wall Street either.  Corporate interests will come around when they realize you are the only game in town.  FDR was able to shut conservatives out for fifty years.  I say another fifty would do us a world of good.

You see, the difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to being caught by hidden microphones and cameras, is that the Republicans keep saying things they shouldn't, and the Democrats say things they should.  For instance, when Scott Walker thinks that he is talking to one of the Koch brothers, and describes in detail how he wants to destroy teachers' lives, that is something you shouldn't be caught saying.  But, when Barack Obama makes sense and a hidden microphone happens to catch him making sense, I don't think it is a negative politically for the President. 

It was very heartwarming to see the labor movement in Wisconsin take the Tea Party on head-to-head.  Now, in the Tea Party's defense, you don't really need teachers when the IQ of the people in your family wouldn't qualify any of you for public education anyway.  In fact, before the 1920's, I think they simply euthanized people like Sarah Palin.  I may be wrong about that.  But, we need more of that.  We should never have let the Tea Party gain the momentum that they did.  It started with the health care bill and we ended up losing a public option.  Then we lost seats in the House and Senate.  Let's learn from our mistakes. 

The problem is that liberals have been very lazy.  Why did we let it get to this point?  Why did we get so complacent?  It is really difficult to expect the President to be a liberal leader when the Tea Party is placing three times the amount of pressure on Republican congressmen as we are placing on Democratic congressmen.  Don't we understand that Corporate America has talked us into staying quiet?  If I hear one more person tell me that their vote doesn't count, I am going to puke.  Remember, when we have large turnouts Democrats win.  When we have small turnouts Republicans win.  It is that simple.  The President will take reelection.  Let's give him the liberal Congress he deserves.  No more staying home on election day or voting for third party candidates.  If the President has the votes to pass liberal policies, he will do it.  In the end, we are actually the ones we were waiting for.