tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post7229830764981559878..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: The Dude PresidesKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-66494976283796575872013-10-19T10:27:03.846-04:002013-10-19T10:27:03.846-04:00@All--
I apologize for the preceding rant.
I kno...@All--<br /><br />I apologize for the preceding rant.<br /><br />I know that many, if not most of you Sardonicky participants ALREADY are voting 3rd party and that I'm the late-comer here.<br /><br />One should never post when one is tired and grumpy after a long day's drive.<br /><br />Still, I will send Karen an image of my bumper sticker when it's completed, because I'm proud to have finally joined the "Throw the bastards out!" movement.Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-50551532657277142902013-10-19T02:09:58.164-04:002013-10-19T02:09:58.164-04:00Yes, the article is from Fox News, but the author ...Yes, the article is from Fox News, but the author is a former Editor-In-Chief of the New York Times Magazine, which must count for <i> something </i> amongst Progressives. <br /><br />So, perhaps, you'll listen to his explanation as to the worthlessness of BHO as a leader:<br /><br />http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/10/mr-obama-presidency-is-no-place-for-amateurs/<br /><br /><i> 'I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them,” Harry Truman once lamented. “That’s all the powers of the President amount to.”<br /><br />As usual, the plain-speaking Truman got it right: presidential power is the power to persuade. Too bad the current occupant of the White [Barack Obama] has never learned this basic lesson.' </i><br /><br />Barack Obummer doesn't govern, or even dare to try to <i> persuade.</i> <br /><br />Instead, he <i> dictates, </i> with his mellifluous, hypnotic voice, and then goes off to Mt. Olympus for a rest, or, at least, to the golf course for some mindless recreation. <br /><br />Which means that he doesn't do any actual <i> work, </i> but only that he tells his factotums what he wants, and, imperiously, <i> expects </i>--perfesser-style--that his "dictums" will be carried out <i> per </i> his undetailed wishes.<br /><br />Would that it were so... <br /><br />You guys (twice) elected an incompetent nitwit to change the world. <br /><br />Instead, he has spit in your faces and reaffirmed the <i> status quo. </i> So the joke's on you. <br /><br />I suppose that I should wax victorious, except that neither McCain nor Romney were anyone's "prizes," either.<br /><br />My 2014 bumper sticker will read: "VOTE THEM <i> ALL </i> OUT! VOTE 3rd PARTY IN 2014!"<br /><br />I'll send Karen a digital photo of the bumper of my car when it's complete.Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-34721118002104022052013-10-18T20:44:27.795-04:002013-10-18T20:44:27.795-04:00I swore years ago I wasn't going to send any m...I swore years ago I wasn't going to send any more letters to Congress. Like a smoker who keeps quitting and restarting, I have my lapses and send another email. And Congress Critters don't make it easy with their zip code challenges and half-hidden contact menus.<br /><br />Gerrymandering is another crooked political contortion whereby the majority is replaced by a minority. Antidemocratic but legal.<br /><br />I hope resisters at least do what Rose is doing: looking at the picture and deciding where her efforts might bear fruit. If such work can be multiplied through sewing circles, book clubs, peace and labor groups, the effort can yield results.<br /><br />Another way of getting through to a congress person is to attend his/her community meetings with a group primed on a few key issues and ready with follow-up questions by other questioners. <br /><br />Why allow the hacks and phoneys to serve comfortably? If the local paper doesn't report the furor whenever the congress person comes to town, report it via letters-to-the-editor. It takes fire to make them sweat.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-81133212750408711862013-10-18T20:31:48.552-04:002013-10-18T20:31:48.552-04:00So McConnell got his costly dam. He explains that...So McConnell got his costly dam. He explains that it is crucial to several<br />states and it may be so. The timing however immediately after his handshake with Reid is suspicious.<br /><br />Maybe there's hope. Evidently Bernie Sanders is not ruling out running for<br />the presidency.<br /><br />Pearl the cynic. <br />Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-80014715656761789892013-10-18T19:39:05.355-04:002013-10-18T19:39:05.355-04:00@Jay -- you're so right. I'll be contacti...@Jay -- you're so right. I'll be contacting my senators and representative, but Levin's not running again, so what does he care? and Stabenow has 5+ years left on her term...and Dingell's 87...need I say more? They've been more or less on the right side of most issues that I've cared about, but Stabenow's answer to Chris Hayes's question about entitlement reform last week was typical weasel-word empty-set rhetoric. He asked her a yes/no question about whether she would stand firm against chained CPI and she did a couple minutes about 'preserving the program for blah blah blabbity-blah' -- which I clearly understood as "no." So I will definitely be calling her office.<br /><br />As for the others, Levin's retiring, so he doesn't care, and Dingell is 87, so he may or may not run again. He's been a pretty good rep, though, so a phone call might not go amiss.<br /><br />Thing is, the whole country's gerrymandered in a way -- we've self-segregated into urban blues and rural reds. And the reds are generally far more passionate and politically engaged than the blues. (Interesting how "blue" has become a synonym for "sad" or "down" -- because that's certainly how many of us feel these days. And that, I believe, is central to the TeaTerrorist plan.)<br /><br />Thank you, Karen, for so eloquently and trenchantly exposing the truth of our current situation. Not for nothing are you the top pick of both the New York Times editorial staff AND the readers!Rose in SE Michigannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-18690588596048261902013-10-18T18:05:16.134-04:002013-10-18T18:05:16.134-04:00B.O.: “The challenges that we have right now are n...B.O.: “The challenges that we have right now are not short-term deficits; it's the long-term obligations that we have around things like Medicare and Social Security.”<br /><br />TILT!<br /><br />Along the lines of what Pearl wrote a few days ago, now is the time to throw the gauntlet down before reps and senators. If they follow B.O. down that road on Medicare and SS – or sit on the fence– they’ll never get your vote again. You’ll actively work against them.<br /><br />On the other hand, if they push bills that charge a minifee on each Wall Street transaction, tax capital gains fully, raise the FICA tax ceiling, and get real about income taxing the top 10%, then you’ll back them in every way you can, come the next election cycle.<br /><br />Willie Sutton had it right: he conducted his business where there was money to be had. You don’t find trillions among the unemployed, children, the broken and the sick. <br /><br />When government is serious, it finds the money among the deserving and undeserving rich, those who are coddled and over-bonused, like rapacious CEOs and the investment banks Bernanke put on welfare via quantitative easing (cash, freshly printed). That's where the money is. Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-61411373888055099422013-10-18T12:37:29.167-04:002013-10-18T12:37:29.167-04:00Karen, you're right up front in Krugman's ...Karen, you're right up front in Krugman's comments section. More and more people are getting wise to the economic con The Money Party (both wings), as you have said, are putting over on us. Obama is intent on paring down Social Security and Medicare - he keeps slipping that into his speeches and 'pressers', either directly or indirectly. A very bad sign. The Democratic Party is becoming a bigger menace than the GOP, if that's possible, by offering the electorate the false hope of change.James F Traynornoreply@blogger.com