Maybe, he isn't you cup of tea, maybe he isn't all 'pretty and smiley and just right' for your belief in what passes these days, as a true progressive candidate (few are left, few are being listened to, few are being held up by the worthless MSM) but at least, Congressman Grayson gets it, and not only does it he get it, but he has been named by the Republicans as the Number One Democrat in our party to be defeated. Wonder why? I don't. Wonder why the Republicans are spending more on getting rid of him, than any other House member? I don't. I get it completely.
You may not like his style..he is brash, he does not give a shit about party politics, he does not give a shit, about how others in his own party view him. He is a self made man, who came up the hard way, married to an (OMG) a Polynesian wife, with five children, who he adores, and who have been given death threats, but know this:
Unlike President Obama, what he has done, which has had Elizabeth Warren, William K. Black, Joe Stiglitz, Simon Johnson, and even Paul Volcker have done is this simple aspect of where we are now:
They have all had the courage to stand up for the truth, of what has happened to our nation.
We all know this by now, don't we? To deny it any further, is to deny where we are going from this day forward: we are being led into the absolute and most untenable situation in our government.
To allow the insane Republicans to again overtake our nation, because President Obama, chose to not stand up against the corruption, that has overtaken our entire financial markets.
You know what? I wish I could deny this, but I cannot, and from the get go, this is what Congressman Grayson has understood, that sooner or later, all of this would indeed catch up with all Americans, and now it has. How can we continue to deny that? We cannot.
This is the price we are paying now:
And that is why this amazing new movie, Inside Job, is so important to our nation, why we must have the courage, unlike President Obama and Gethner have failed to do....
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Why we elected them into office:
To restore the Public Trust in our nation, now it is lost, because they did not, get the message, but now, we are faced, with the last and final truth of our own party, aren't we?
And this was exactly what Alan Grayson understood, as did Elizabeth Warren, and so many others..like William K. Black and others have done. The truth is we know, what has happened to our nation, but the Obama Administration, had failed to act on any of this, have they?
Now it is too late for that...
President Obama refused to stand up for us, and the Republicans are coming down with all their 'fuck everyone in our entire nation' that apparently President Obama was too naive to understand, but signed on to what we refuse to have face up to,,,,,,
My own feeling on this, is that we 'lost our government' a long time ago, but what I did not expect, was this:
The final selling out of what was left of our party, by Obama, and his Rubinites, that have literally sealed the deal, that has led our entire party into a deep confusion, whereby, we cannot trust either party.
NOW...what I happen to come to conclusion is this:
We just rubber stamped the Alan Simpson crap, and Peter Pederson crap, and we continue with the endless war machine (the only jobs available in our nation) that will continue to bleed us all dry, or we understand this this basic truth:
President Obama is not, who we thought he was, and he never was. Our two party system is dead in the water, and if we can face this truth, then maybe, we have one more chance to carry this Democracy and Republic again.
If we cannot face this, then I suppose we are dead in the water...we will end up with the Sarah Palin's of America.
Know this,I respect the difference of opinion you may have, and I respect, every single person, that will indeed stand by President Obama, given what he was given by so many years of distrust, by our financial markets, but in the end, all of this rests upon his choices.
The real problem is now, this has become, as so many have said it would, a issue of States' rights, as to the Fifth Amendment....the real problem is that President Obama, chose the wrong people that have protected the Banks/Wall Street who are now being shown by all 50 State Attorney's to finally step up to the plate they of course had to. They were forced to, they had no other choice, and that is absolutely disgusting at this point for most Americans, who have been forced, to pay and pay and then pay again, for a system that is so completely overwhelmed by the 'Shock Syndrome' and the horrifying aspects, of how both parties, have sold our entire industrial complex overseas, through NAFTA, but expects us all, to continue to pay the greatest price of all, by ignoring, the most basic tenants of the law of the land:
You do not shit where you eat, you do not force Americans, to give up their basic tenants of 'property rights' to feed the mafia Banking Cartel, that got away with turning our entire nation into a new third world nation. You do not, President Obama, cannot be held accountable for what most Americans are now facing:
It is called, as Congressman Grayson has called it: FRAUD TO COVER UP MORE FRAUD...
But at least let us know this: from the get go, who has stood up for Americans: Congressman Alan Grayson:
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Pay attention to this folks, ok?
I honestly feel, as if our own party may be on it's last legs, but let us know this basic truth: There are still a few people in our party who 'get it' who truly understand what is at stake here, and who truly understand that what most Americans wanted:
75 percent of the American people wanted a Public Option for our Health Care Reform Bill, the same amount of people wanted a return to Glass-Stegall, a strict return to sanity in our Fake Financial Reform Bill...our votes, seem not longer to court, no matter what party we belong to, or, worse than that, how much money we prop them up with.
What part of that, do we not understand? I think I do. What we are witnessing now is an unraveling of our entire government, but please, stop blaming the horrifying out of control, Tea Party, because some of these same neighbors you have, have been lied to. They get that. We do not, and know we are going to pay the ultimate price.
Yes, they are horrible racists, they are the most fake Christians, we could every have, but in the end, what they do understand is this simple fact:
All of America rests on what was once know as the Public Trust, between our government and the people. That was lost, which is exactly what President Obama ran on, then abandoned. No, I do not blame him, but this is the most basic tenant that our nation ever resided upon:
You do not steal from your own, you do not take their homes away from them, after you have already forced them to pay for the greatest 'transfer of wealth' in our nation's history. You do not uphold the illegal laws of Wall St./the Banks that are putting Americans into the streets, forcing them to live in their cars with their families, after they have been forced into giving up everything they ever believed in.
You do not do that, and get away with it, President Obama. Now all of this is catching up with our nation, isn't it?
What you do not do, President Obama is to place another fucking 'Fake Pecora Commission' in place, (that we have to pay for) that have done nothing as we learn on the side, that AG Eric Holder, is letting everyone free, holding no one accountable from AIG, like Joe Cassano, and Goldman Sachs, who was charged 15 minutes of their bullshit manipulation of the markets...$ 550 million, chump change, to get off the hook. We've seen this play out, and now because of the 'internets' as Bush called it, we've seen, day in and day out, just how fucking 'rigged' the entire system is.
Americans are totally sick to death of a system that is so corrupt, and so systemically insane, that we are now facing, the absolute worst part of the outcome:
A nation that has not only lost it's moral compass, but a nation without a true leader. Instead, what we have is President Obama, who sends out 'trail balloons' in place of leadership, who continually moves further and further to the right, and is rubber stamping, what Geithner is rubber stamping:
Rampart FRAUD TO COVER UP FRAUD.
How is this playing out?
I can only imagine how the phones must be ringing off the hooks in their offices today from everyday honest hard working Americans who are being illegally thrown out of their homes, because these same people cannot even get anyone on the phone from their own Banks/Lenders who are refusing to renegotiate their loans.
Then there is another darker side to the outcome in all of this chaos and mayhem which is playing out behind the scenes in our nation. Let's call it a 'nice quiet polite revolution.' Middle class Americans who played by all the rules, who continue to get fucked over and over again by a system so deeply entangled in corruption, that they are just walking away from their mortgages, or they are choosing to squat in their own homes, paying the banks as little as possible until they can finally get their day in court. They are fed up, they've had enough and are just saying fuck it, plain and simple.
Fuck the rules. Fuck playing the game the banksters want you to play. Fuck being the good citizen. Fuck filling out every form, fuck paying every tax. Fuck the government, fuck the banks who own them. Fuck the free-loaders, living rent-free while we pay. Fuck the legal process, a game which only works if you’ve got the money to pay for the parasite lawyers. Fuck being a chump. Fuck being a stooge. Fuck trying to do the right thing—what good does that get you? What good is coming your way?
Fuckit.
When the backbone of a country starts thinking that laws and rules are not worth following, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to anarchy.
TV has given us the illusion that anarchy is people rioting in the streets, smashing car windows and looting every store in sight. But there’s also the polite, quiet, far deadlier anarchy of the core citizenry—the upright citizenry—throwing in the towel and deciding it’s just not worth it anymore.
If a big enough proportion of the populace—not even a majority, just a largish chunk—decides that it’s just not worth following the rules anymore, then that society’s days are numbered: Not even a police-state with an armed Marine at every corner with Shoot-to-Kill orders can stop such middle-class anarchy.
And this is exactly what the Attorney General's of all 50 States are watching playing out in their own neighborhoods, while Timothy Geithner continues to play this high and mighty 'fools poker game' (he's the idiot in the corner holding nothing but a hand of jokers).
We did the right thing. We voted for the first Candidate, who we thought, was like MLK, or we thought, was like Robert Kennedy, or we even thought was like Teddy Kennedy. Unlike any Democratic hopeful, would restore, what we had all lost in our party; The basic premise of the working man's/woman party, who would fight tooth and nail to rebuild our dying industrial base. He ran on this, don't pretend now, that he did not..
Someone that promised to fight for the Middle Class, someone that promised to restore the basic premises of the Democrat Platform, which is a long lost dream, that is disappearing in front of our eyes. Can't we even find the fucking courage to admit, this truth in our own party?
We may have one last chance as a party to overcome, the Rubinites, the Clintons, and the rest of these assholes, that are leading the Blue Dogs, to a final conclusion in our nation:
It took me the last 8 years of my life, on doing deep research, to understand, why, Social Security and Medicare and the State Pension funds are being raided. The worst of it all, is the continued on job in America, that most people can get: TO GO TO WORK FOR THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Hey, guess what? I get it, and I get it all.
What I did not want to come to the conclusion was this horrible truth: both teams are working for the same side of the the 'money machines' that have now overtaken our nation. They have the 'best health care' in our nation, they have the best life you can not even imagine..they travel on private jets...to do what they call the 'national security' to the best vacation spots, and they give themselves raises, every year, without any due justice at all.
Both parties have all abandoned our entire nation, but we keep refusing to own up to that, don't we?
One person does not: Congressman Alan Grayson. What part of that don't we get yet?
Neither does Elizabeth Warren, or William K. Black. or Simon Johnson, or so many others.
The very reason I fear for our nation, is because, after so many years, I can see very clearly, what is going on:
There is virtually no difference between the Neo-Liberals, and the Bush, Neo-Republicans. After they both took us over, from the illegal Shock Syndrome, of 9-11, and how we all bought into the final take over of the the total privatization and global economy, then I think that was the beginning of the end.
Stop asking yourselves why President Obama refuses to back up THE SAME 50 STATE ATTORNEY GENERALS' that are on their own declaring their own moratorium on the Freeze for the Foreclosure Mess. I think we all know why that is happening, don't we?
I dare anyone .... to blame me as an Obama hater. That is not the issue, and it will never be the issue. The issue now, in front of our very eyes is this:
How can our own party survive, when even our own President refuses to stand up for property rights, for Americans?
The underlying aspect of our government is now in question, and again, I MUST remind you all of this: Our party platform, to stand up for all Americans in in great question here. But, I refuse to buy into the fact, that President Obama did not have a choice. He did.
So did President Clinton, and so did all the Greenspans, and Bernanke's and Geithners. They were the stewards of our nation, that voted the other way to sell off what is left of our party, and what is left of our nation.
For the past 40 years I, like many of you, have been a volunteer for our party, and now, what I realize is this: We cut our losses now, and choose to primary our own President, to force him into a sane fiscal stand for Americans, or we lose to the most insane elements of our nation. That is what is one the line here, at this point in time.
Again, I do not blame President Obama, for where we have come. I actually think we were all 'set up' for this final swiftboating of entire nation, but then again, we are desperate need of a leader with Guts.
The day that Alan Grayson is lost as a Congressman, is the same day that Bernie Sanders will lose....it is the same day, when we can all call it day, when America died, because those that had the courage to speak up, when it mattered most, were all bought off, by the Supreme Court, that has now designated, the Corporations as the final take over of our nation.
Do you still want to remember what a true Democrat and progressive looked like in our nation/
Alan Grayson:
1. End the wars, and bring the troops home. Even if Obama didn’t cut a dollar from the defense budget, all the money spent on the troops, and all of the money that they spend, would be spent in the United States, and that money would circulate in the United States, boosting aggregate demand and creating jobs.
2. Direct the Attorney General to prosecute foreclosure fraud and other white-collar crimes vigorously.
3. Determine that China is a "currency manipulator" (which is stating the obvious), and impose trade sanctions on China, to offset Chinese manipulation of the exchange rate.
4. Accelerate the award and performance of infrastructure projects and competitive grants to the full extent of FY11 appropriations now, instead of the usual end-of-September orgy of contract awards 11 months from now, to accelerate the spending of appropriated funds in order to create jobs.
5. Employ Government control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to: (a) finance and refinance loans at lower rates, and (b) temporarily eliminate the down payment requirement — if you can make the monthly payments on the house, then you can own it. (This is, in effect, how FHA mortgages have worked for years, but only at the low end of the market.)
Alan Grayson is a member of Congress from Florida’s 8th Congressional District
If you do not think for one skinny minute think that President Obama's big plan to overcome the Republicans in 2012 is to name Hilary Clinton as his new Vice President, then perhaps, you will never 'get it' in which case, I feel very sorry for all of you.
Hey, its all good right: No it is not, and it's time to cut our losses, in our own party.
It is high time, for us to reclaim our party, before it is too late. We are in the at the midnight clock of that moment, because, simply, we elected the wrong man at the wrong time.
Flame on. Get it now, or get it later, when the Republicans take over, and all of a sudden, Impeachment is wayyyyy back on the table. Funny how that happens, when no one stands up for the Middle Class, isn't it?
Thanks as always.
Be sure to tune into Alan Grayson's press conference tomorrow. His state has been one of the hardest hit, by the deep corruption, that is being ignored by Geithner, and not only that, Grayson, unlike any other person in our nation, knows exactly what Wall Street has done, and how they did it...
Wish I could say the same about our own President. I cannot.
Ms. B.