The Bush Tax Cuts - Nothing But Blood

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Saturday December 11, 2010 · 10:56 AM PST

2010/12/11 · 10:56

Conservative thinking focuses on money, often at the expense of people, harming people in innumerable ways: without regulation Wall Street could cause another recession; lack of health care reform will kill and injure thousands; indifference to the environment puts everyone in danger.

When Republicans take the American people hostage and force them to borrow $700 billion to give to the rich, they put money ahead of the effect this will have on people - and there is nothing but blood.

The President should reverse his position and take his case to the American people even if this means extending negotiations into 2011.

JapanJack

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Wednesday November 17, 2010 · 10:32 AM PST

2010/11/17 · 10:32

Democrats face a tough election in 2012. Voters’ focus will probably still be on jobs and the Affordable Health Care Act. But their decisions on these and others will be influenced by how people see the President from a morality and character perspective.

There is a strong connection between racism and the rumors spread by the Tea Party. And making this connection will not only bring justice to what amounts to a racist uprising partially based on false information about the President, but change the public's perception of the man.

JapanJack

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Tuesday November 16, 2010 · 10:34 AM PST

2010/11/16 · 10:34

A substantial number of Americans have a virulent hatred for President Obama that focuses on the man as much as his policies. Driven to irrationality by the professional right in America, they will never be reconciled to the results of the 2008 election

Now, with the election of Barack Obama, the horrors of the past are coming back and the metaphoric lynching of the President is underway.

The culprits are ultra-conservative organizations backed by corporate wealth and a compliant news media. The participants carry signs, not rope, but their aim is still the same – to do the maximum damage they can get away with in what amounts to a post Civil Rights era lynching.

Only two years after taking control of the executive and legislative branches of government, Progressives find themselves on the defensive and struggling to hang on. Why?

JapanJack

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Wednesday November 10, 2010 · 2:54 PM PST

2010/11/10 · 14:54

Republicans are having a victory party and it will be on an undisclosed Caribbean island. Agenda items are: (1) celebrate beating the Democrats (2) make plans to get rid of Obama in 2012 and (3) be entertained by Rush Limbaugh, Sara Palin, Michelle Bachmann and Fox News celebrities.

The costs are expected to run $200 million a day and some 3,000 party goers are expected. Naturally, the funding sources are undisclosed.

This should sound somewhat familiar - a lot like the noise Tea Party types made about the President's trip to Asia. Pouncing on unfounded information coming out of India from an undisclosed source, Limbaugh, Bachmann, Beck and Hannity exceeded their previous records for ignoring ethics. Quotations each of them made about the trip are eye popping.

Still, there are lessons to be learned. First among these is that those who dismiss what happened or choose to move on to the next thing may inadvertently be empowering Republicans to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

All in all, quite a lesson for Democrats. All of which leads to thoughts about their possibilities in 2012 - And how to avoid death by a thousand cuts in the future.

JapanJack

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Sunday October 31, 2010 · 5:52 PM PDT

2010/10/31 · 17:52

"Election Night in Montague - Ms T has the Last Word", is topical, both before and after the mid-term election. Written in story form, it begins when family and friends get together in the little town of Montague, Texas to watch the election results on Fox News. (The author is from the area and familiar with the vernacular.)

Attended by nine family members and Ms T, a retired and widowed school teacher, they interact all evening providing personal insights as to their views on various social issues and personalities such as Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Sharron Angle.

Later in the evening, the elderly Ms T offers desert - a chocolate cake secretly laced with marijuana. The result on the American Gothic characters is hilarious and leads to even more candid opinions.

Those on the left will be surprised, and, hopefully enlightened, by the story. Based on the theory that good intelligence leads to good strategy, some progressives may find the article useful in their own writing.

Finally, the narrator draws conclusions based on the revelations of the evening and translates these into advice for the President.

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