Mikes Diabribe Corner.
How many major bills has your party enacted to help the common man of America?
Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
Republican Politicians are Liars and Hypocrites
Another Prime example of Republican Politicians Lying and Hyprocrisy:
...Texas Governor Rick Perry is more than a hypocrite. He is dangerous. While he claims to hate regulation, he systematically passes laws/regulations that infringe on women’s rights but refuses regulations to equalize their pay. He refuses government money that would go to the poor and needy even as he provides billions in incentives for business. He has become a conduit to move middle class taxes to the powerful.
Thanks to our Republican Supreme Court and "Citizen's United" decision ... Wall Street gets a pass
"..."On average, House agriculture committee members voting for HR 992 [one of the derivatives bills] have received 7.8 times as much money from the top four banks as House agriculture committee members voting against the bill."... more from the Guardian
Personal comment: note that the Republican Supreme Court just gutted the voting rights act and thereby gutted the voting rights of millions of Americans. The section that was ruled unconstitutional by this backward leaning court was used to identify those municipalities that regularly and blatantly change the voting rules to disenfranchise American Citizens in their jurisdiction - thereby scuttling the democracy that was set up by the nations greatest minds so long ago. Now before you delude yourself into thinking that all we need to do is have Congress reinstitute a "constitutional" version of section 4, explain to me how this congress would even consider reinstituting the voting rights act??? And if they did how far this consideration would get before the Republican Politicians would shut it down - thereby shutting down the democracy we have been fighting for for over 2 hundred years.
More Republican Lying and Hypocrisy:
"...The greatest irony of all is that roughly two weeks ago Bachmann stood before the national media and called for Obama to be impeached, only to find herself chased from office by her own or her staff’s illegal activities....
Former President Bush's accomplishments:
Republican Politician's convenient memory (loss) when it comes to debt and deficit generation..."American People punished Republicans refused to pay their debts"
Republican Politician's convenient memory (loss) when it comes to shifting the tax burden from rich corporations to the middle class. New York Times Arcticle "A fairer Corporate Tax.."
The Problem with having Capitalism trump Democracy and good government: an example of privatizing the Penal system is that profits trump any attempt to reform inmates... its not in the corporations best interest
Republican Politicians are Hypocrites and Liars: Additional evidence - an article about Richard Nixon's manipulations to keep the Vietnam war going just so he could get elected president in 1968: ..Richard Nixon's Treason..
Excerpt from Reddit posted article on a new bill just passed in Hawaii to make contraceptives available to rape victims at emergency hospitals:
"...Passage of the bill marks the first step towards making sure women who are the victims of rape get the care they deserve, instead of being treated like they’re the ones who did something wrong..." Full article click here:
Excerpt from a Reddit posted Demelle blog post regarding the true origins of the Teaparty movement:
"...Finally, this report might serve as a wake-up call to some people in the Tea Party itself, who would find it a little disturbing that the "grassroots" movement they are so emotionally attached to, is in fact a pawn created by billionaires and large corporations with little interest in fighting for the rights of the common person, but instead using the common person to fight for their own unfettered profits. .." The post is at: TeaPartyOrigin
ok, I'm going to let the Democrat Politicians take over the Rant for a while. Here is an article in Wired that discusses a possible reason for the rise of autoimmune disorders such as asthma, diabetes and possibly autism and fast food. Its a very good article starting from basic facts about how our bodies work and showing how historic trends illustrate where we are actually causing these problems ourselves by how we live and what we eat.
Fact Checkers - use these to check the facts behind the news bites and emails that we are being bombarded with daily.
a snippet from Politifact.com:
Claim:¯ The
national health care reform is "a government takeover of health care."
Ruling: ¯Pants
On Fire [read - a lie meant to mislead the masses]
This claim was tapped as our 2010
Lie of the Year.
The health care law gives the federal government a larger role in the health
insurance industry, but it relies overwhelmingly on the private market. The
reform is projected to increase the number of citizens with
private health insurance.
Please note: Obama has tried to compromise with the Republican politicians and they have stonewalled his programs to improve our country at every opportunity - and they lie and distort the programs he has been able to get implemented. They are hypocrites and liars and can't be anything else because if they told the truth about who they really represent they would have to admit that they don't care about anyone who doesn't make at least $1,000,000 a year. They don't care about old people on social security/Medicare, they don't care about the working poor, they don't care about the middle class except as a source of tax funds they can give back to the rich in tax reductions - they don't care about YOU.