To try to
convey all my thoughts and feelings on what has happened to the Republican
Party over the last decade would be an entire book in and of itself. The
highlights are such; for some reason the elected Republicans and their media
shills became lying, paranoid infants when Obama took office, having felt
unlimited power at their fingertips prior to that via the misnomer, The Patriot
Act.
I know many
Republican citizens who have no place.
They are not Democrats but they do not even recognize their own party
anymore. The
Republicans will say and do anything to hurt the administration, even when they
get caught in lies, self contradictions and pick-and-chose quoting. This is not
the way of our Joe Citizen Republican.
Last night
was the end for me though. Prior to yesterday this was just a huge annoyance
bordering on the frightening. It seemed The Republican party was cutting of our
noses to spite Obama's face. What I saw last night was chilling.
I was
watching The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. The bit he was doing was illustrating
how far the Republicans have gone over to the insanity side. Regardless of what
you think of him or his show, the quotes and clips were real and full, not
snippets out of context.
The Republicans
were praising Putin. Calling him Ronald Regan. Showing a photo of him riding a
horse with no shirt on along with his
typical dead eyed scowl. Then in comparison they showed Obama riding a bike and repeatedly
insulted his wardrobe, somehow implying that the fact that he rides a bike and
wears "mom jeans" makes him less of a president and that we should
idolize Putin for being a "man's man" by ring a horse with no shirt
on. I think one of them even used the phrase "muscles bulging". At
this point I got confused. Were they casting for a western or talking about the
effectiveness of a leader? They said Putin was a better leader than Obama. Below is a quote from yesterday's paper
giving a brief synopsis of all of this:
Stewart
saved the best for last during the segment. After showing all of these
conservatives calling Obama weak and indecisive while fawning over Putin and
basically wishing he was their leader, Stewart showed clips of many of those
same people complaining that Obama acts like a dictator and rules America with
an iron fist. Apparently, in the conservative mind, Obama is a 'weak, mom-jeans
wearing DICTATOR KING!' As Stewart hilariously highlighted, either something
happened to these people as children to create this inherent cognitive
dissonance, or they will just do whatever it takes to undermine the President
at every turn.
Putin is well known for using his media as a propaganda
machine to build himself up and American conservatives have swallowed it. When
they said we needed a leader like him who "hunts bears" what they
were referring to was a photo of him having hunted and killed a tiger. Which
actually he did not. The tiger was trapped and tranquilized and had to lay
there and wait for Putin to arrive so he could shoot him. Yes. Remind you of
anyone Sarah Palin?
It is no secret Putin pines for the old USSR days. Yet the
Republican praised him for how "when he speaks everyone reacts immediately"
yet they forgot the "for fear of their lives" part. Putin is an old
fashioned dictator and it is obvious to anyone, except the Republicans, who for
some reason cannot stand Obama. I have my personal thoughts on why that is and
I am going to keep them that way.
After all of this information overload (and I highly
recommend you watch the 5 minute segment on youtube.com: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-6-2014/big-vladdy---semi-delusional-autocrats
)
To me this five minutes sums up everything that has gone
wrong with the Republican party.
Having said all of that, Today I received mail from the Republican
Senate Leadership Survey. I have seen enough of these to know this is a real
one. Basically, a survey from the Senate on how you think the leadership of
this nation is doing and what they should or should not do in teh future, with the pretense your opinion
matters. Now this is important. It gives our Senate an idea of what We The People
want. We all know that surveys are only as meaningful as their method of
question forming, so listen to the questions this survey asked. Now remember,
this is a United States political party. One that prides itself on being fair, conservative
and patriotic. Italics are my ideas. Words in quotations were put there by
them.
Real questions:
·
What is
important? Blocking efforts to pass another wasteful "stimulus" plan?(well the second great depression did not
happen and everyone has paid back the money so "wasteful is hardly an
appropriate word here )
·
Do you believe
raising taxes has had a positive effect on our fragile economy?(loaded question, "fragile"
implying a yes answer is the only right one)
·
Do you believe
President Obama's strategy of treating all other countries as equals to the
United States has strengthened our security and weakened the resolve of those
who seek to do our nation harm?(Conjecture,
opinion and projection, all traditional propaganda tactics)
·
Do you support a constitutional
amendment to protect traditional marriage between a man and a woman?(by traditional does that mean the bride has
to wear white and everyone must dance to YMCA at the reception?)
·
Is it the responsibility
of Republicans in the Senate to hold President Obama accountable for the
actions of his administration in
Benghazi, the IRS Scandal, wire tapping journalists...? (Benghazi was an attack on us, this "scandal" was politics as
usual, and the only wire tapping I know of is by the government, sanctioned
through the Republicans sacred cow The Patriot Act)
·
Do you believe
ObamaCare is a total disaster that must be repealed?(yes, lets repeal something we have not fully implemented yet based on
the projection of unqualified
Republicans who have proven they will do anything
to block Obama's success)
The list goes on and on,
but some especially non-biased phrases include:
·
Republicans do
best...promoting a strong, proud America (because
only Republicans want that)
·
...liberal
special interest handouts...(as opposed
to conservative's protection of the top 1%ers)
·
...Congress need
to listen more closely to grass roots Republicans on such issues as spending,
ethics
·
and immigration
reform...(why is ethic in with spending
and immigration reform? This implies spending and immigrants are unethical)
·
...dramatic
Obama-Democrat drive to initiate European-style socialism in America...(I have no idea what they are even basing
this on except possibly delusional paranoia. And if they do not like socialism
lets first get rid of their social security and Medicare, two highly socialist
programs)
I have a few problems with
this.
First, and most obvious,
is that this is so slanted it is useless as a true gauge of people's wants, and
if I ever hear the results of this crap quoted to back up one of their Fox News
idiots rants I will put a fist through my TV. The "IRS SCANDAL"? You
mean when the Democrats were accused of targeting republicans for IRS audits?
Because I am sure that was a vital and nationally destructive
"scandal"( that lasted 3 days in the news) and was never perpetrated
by the Republicans.
I love "liberal
special interest handouts" even though the Republican equivalent to that
is "special interest kickbacks".
Believe me I barely
scratched the surface of this piece of propaganda.
What frightens me is that
many people do not think for themselves. They simply follow party lines blindly
and never question sources or motives so things like this, worded in this way,
paint a disastrous and probably frightening picture of the Democrats while making
the republicans look like, direct quote here, "strong, proud Americans"
like only THEY want that?
People, no, fellow
citizens, this has gone way past cat fighting and politics as usual. This
"no Obama at any cost" has hurt our country. We have been successful
as a 2 party nation because, though our party methods differ, our goal has
always been the same...America first. Historically, on the good days, the 2 parties
hash things out, both trying to win their side, concluding somewhere in the
middle or possible leaning a bit to one side, but in the end, something good
for America.
Not anymore. Republicans
first showed disrespect for the office of the President. If you are worried about
looking weak to other nations, then the last thing you want to do is belittle
and embarrass your leader. Then they decided that not only was their way always
the only right way, but they promoted the smallest, most extreme faction of their
party, the Tea Party, and managed to alienate everyone but their own tiny group. Even long time Republican elected
officials are switching parties or going independent because they no longer can
be affiliated with the fantasy world that is the "grass roots of America".
Finally, they are so desperate now that they will vote down their own bills if
it means making Obama look bad. Their policies, or rather their lack of
policies and their refusal to negotiate have created a bad America, and yet
they insist this America is all the administrations' fault.
I hear them clamoring of
impeachment and incarceration but if you look at the facts, look at the stats,
you will see the worst terrorism we have had in the past decade has been the
Republican party, the ones who deserve the scrutiny and incarceration.
Lets wake up people. Stop
believing the scare mongers and start thinking for yourselves again. If you
don't, then doing so may not even be an option in the future.
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