Not Born Yesterday: The One-Way Dialogue of a Texas Republican House Member and the Constituent Who Knows Better
I received an email from my Congress Critter, Rep. Micheal C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX,26th) who will no doubtedly hold onto his seat, not because I'm boycotting this facade of a "democracy" we have in 2010 but because of the overwhelming number of my neighbors who will buy and swallow whole the steaming pile of shit Burgess is selling in this email. To be fair, the eager consumers of steaming piles of shit served by Democrats to Democrat voters is just as rancid as their Republican counterparts and each causes the same condition of chronic and fatal political blindness and deafness which we and our nation will be fortunate to survive. Before I share my response to my Congress Critter let me first share his Roger Ailes authored email filed under fiction in my desktop recycle bin:
Over the past two years, I have stood up and voted against numerous bailouts, stimulus packages, tax increases, and unprecedented expansions of the federal government – over $11 trillion in spending increases. I am honored to have been recently recognized by two distinguished organizations for my pro-growth, fiscally conservative voting record in the United States House of Representatives.
Those of you who have been taking notes on FINREG and understand even a fraction of it must think I'm nuts by the title of this piece. Because, those taking notes already know that the House version already passed by Chairman Frank's committee and passed by the Democratic Majority in the House and triumphed as more historical "reform" by House Democratic Leadership has loopholes so big on the "reform" aspect of the bill that you could drive the entire $600 Trillion derivatives market and "Too Big To Fail" right through it because that's exactly what the loopholes in the House bill does. Likewise, that's exactly what Senate Chairman Dodd's bill does. There are some reforms like the political death bed conversion of Sen. Blanch Lincoln and her Agricultural Committee with their derivatives reform bill, then you have Kaufman-Brown and Senator Dorgan on Too Big To Fail and the Sanders Amendment to audit the Fed but most of these, in particular the Sanders Amendment, are opposed by the Obama White House. We know what happens to reform items when the Obama White House doesn't support something or says they support it one day in public and then abandons it in private to appease certain Senators, Blue Dog House Democrats or union presidents but outright and fervent opposition to something that is popular with the people? I guess that depends on what you believe and how well you remember late July and June 2009 before the Teabagging Town Hall August recess as to whether or not the latter is a cleverly placed bad analogy... with purpose. If we're still waiting and hoping on "change we can believe in" am I crazy to imply that there's hope as we go down the path of yet another lobbyist-led exercise in Orwellian Newspeak and doublethink where the status quo is again protected as the people are yet again sold on the facade of "reform" on Opposite Day yet again? How is that a cause to hope?
Ladies and gentlemen, here's your hope:
The facade of FINREG "reform" will be BETTER than the health insurance monopoly expansion "reform" because it would be very politically UNPOPULAR to pass an individual mandate forcing all Americans, rich and poor alike, to buy CDOs from Goldman Sachs and the like under penalty of IRS fine as they did with the health insurance monopoly expansion's individual mandate.
*cure choir of angels*
There you go, Democrats. It's not hope, it's a punchline. The bar is barely off of the ground so go ahead and trip... (READ MORE)
Mike Malloy mentioned an Alternet article about a Republican candidate in Oregon who sells a book that compares the intelligence of African adults to that of an average 10 year old child. I hope that the voters in Peter DiFazio's district hear this about the Republican challenger.
Here are some details: Art Robinson, Oregon GOP Candidate For Congress, Sells Book Comparing Africans To Retarded Children Posted by B. E. Wilson at 9:22 am June 30, 2010
Iraq War 2008: Photo Made Fort Bliss Soldier Heroic Figure Of Iraq War; PTSD Led To His Death
7:19 am MDT August 31, 2010
Joseph Dwyer carries a young Iraqi boy who was injured during a battle between the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi forces near the village of Al Faysaliyah, Iraq, on March 25, 2003.
PINEHURST, N.C. — Officers had been to the white ranch house at 560 W. Longleaf many times before over the past year to respond to a "barricade situation." ...
Sept. 1: Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense discusses how some veterans may feel about the Obama administration if they keep former Republican Senator Alan Simpson as co-chair of the Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform after he made unflattering comments about them.
A man has taken several hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. There are reports that the man is demanding that the channel show programs encouraging solutions to the population crisis and pollution.
Here are some details at MSNBC:
Man holds hostages at Discovery TV building
Gunman previously convicted for protests at Maryland building
SILVER SPRING, Md. — A gunman with a possible explosive device strapped to himself entered the Discovery Communicatio ...
Posted yesterday at www.fourfreedomsblog.com by yours truly... What is Sacred Ground? Much has been made in recent days about the so-called 'sacred ground' at Ground Zero in New York City. You're aware that a vocal minority opposes the building of a community center and neighborhood resource that ha ...
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