Rabid Dogs Don't Play Nice
by G. Polvinale 11/12/12
The Republican Party can not have it both ways. You can't represent the rich and at the same time be an advocate for the poor. You can't talk religious diversity and belong to the Christian Jihad. You can't be a champion of the people and be in bed with the corporate 1%. They can rethink it all they want. But remember who is doing the rethinking... straight, white, greedy, rich men. And their stepford wives. And their unswerving middle class robot army.
Do not ever forget just how close we came to making 1950 the year of the women. And do not think for one minute that rabid dogs will suddenly give up and play nice. Women, gays, seniors, minorities, poor, students, sick, middle class - all in jeopardy. The Confederacy is still there lurking just below the waterline, waiting to spring when we get too cocky and drop our defenses.
We need to insist that the man we elected President be that person that we elected, not a simulation like he was the last time around. Now that the election is over, he needs to remember who put him there. Insist that your President always keep your best interest at heart. Like the President said, "The choice is clear." The greedy rich who run the corporations, or the other 99% of us. Make that choice every day, every decision. There is no compromising with social terrorists.
Republicans don't need to change their message. Republicans ARE the message.
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Let 'Em Go
by G. Polvinale 11/12/12
Teapublicans want to secede. Let 'em.
Think of all the greatness that could be, that has been stifled by the Right. No more fighting over universal healthcare. No more religious persecution. No more being oppressed by corporations and wallstreet. We could concentrate on building the America everybody wants and forget about the hate and oppression from the religious right and the one percent.
It would be a beautiful day in the life of America if we shed the deadwood and pursue the dream of the founders of this nation.
We've got everything we would need. So, let 'em go. Like a bad dream.
Now What? Confederacy Lives
by G. Polvinale 11/12/12
Willard Mitt Romney and Republican ideas lost resoundingly in the 2012 election. Now what? Watch carefully, because we're going to see a really bad case of sour grapes.
They don't care if Obama WAS elected. They don't care if the Supreme Court DID decide that Obama care is the law of the land. They don't care if clear-thinking Americans have spoken in 2012. They are on a corporate jihad. And by God they're not going to let anything stand in their way.
At the Republican controlled state level, we are already seeing even more crazy stuff. As of November 10 2012, 15 states have petitioned Barack Obama to secede from the United States. Signatures obtained: Louisiana, 7,358; Texas, 3,771; Florida, 636; Georgia, 475; Alabama, 834; North Carolina, 792; Kentucky, 467; Mississippi, 475; Indiana, 449; North Dakota, 162; Montana, 440; Colorado, 324; Oregon, 328; New Jersey, 301 and New York, 169. These guys aren't fooling around. They need 25,000 signatures for the government to consider the request.
And the assault on women, social programs and reason continues in state legislatures. The Todd Akins and Richard Mourdocks aren't rogue exceptions - they represent what mainstream Republicans think.
Hasn't anyone else noticed that Republicans can't even bring themselves to call the Democratic Party by its name. It's always the Democrat Party. Code for Communist trash that needs exterminated. These people are waaaaaaaaaaay sick. They're bullies, manipulated by the corporations to cut reason and compassion off at the knees.
Here's what I see happening in the next four years. Complete disregard for the law they perceive as liberal. Pushing the religious juggernaut even further into Jihad levels. Corporations retaliating for the working class asserting itself in the 2012 election with layoffs and benefit cuts. All of the massive power of corporate and wallstreet money in this country thrown at the Obama administration and anything seen as liberal. Those crazy guys with a hundred guns at home? They'll be out exercising their 2nd ammendment rights killing and intimidating people to see it their way. States will refuse to abide by Obamacare. After all, what is he going to do... send troops in? Banks will squeeze all the people who depend on them the most - the little guys. Taking massive profits all in the name of "can't make it under Obama's oppressive stance on business." Red states will indeed secede, in one form or another. And Republicans and Tea Crazies everywhere will rail against a liberal America. You ain't seen bad yet... but it's comin'.