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10 Crazy GOP Meltdowns After Obamas Re-Election
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2013 Jan 3, 7:37am 1,656 views 2 comments
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So Republicans are batshit insane schizoids? Who woulda thunk it besides 51% of the country...
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2013 Jan 5, 4:16am
House of Fools: Shutting Down the Republican Politics of Blackmail
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanjay-sanghoee/republicans-debt-ceiling_b_2405171.html
Hallelujah! The fiscal cliff has been averted and America is saved. Yes, I am laughing too. For one thing, the deal that our leaders cut only buys us a couple of months until automatic spending cuts kick in, or in other words, they need to reach another deal by then or it will be déjà vu all over again. For another, we all know that the 'cliff' hanger was just the opening salvo for a much bigger drama about to unfold in Washington -- this time over the raising of the debt ceiling.
Prudently, the president tried to eliminate this looming threat to our economic security by tying it to the fiscal cliff debate but the Republicans sabotaged that idea. Not surprising, since the debt ceiling is the biggest weapon that the Republicans have in their arsenal right now and since they are still desperate to derail Obama before the economy really improves and he can get well-deserved credit for it.
The reason this is so bothersome is not just because Congress, and the House of Representatives in particular, can't seem to get any business done, but because the debt ceiling is not some pork barrel program that our politicians are welcome to knock themselves out fighting over. The debt ceiling impacts the very solvency of our country, and as such any gamble with it is a gamble with our survival as a nation and individually. To put it more bluntly, the stunt that the Republicans are about to pull is personally directed against all of us.
First let's get clear about the debt ceiling. If the ceiling is not raised, as it has been dozens of times in the past -- through presidents from both parties, it will basically be the equivalent of the United States of America declaring bankruptcy, which will lead to a shutdown of our government, vanishing of all financing sources for anything, a crippling market crash, business meltdown, widespread unemployment, global economic crisis, and catastrophic chaos also known as "the end of the world."
From the above it should be clear that not raising the ceiling is not an option under any circumstance, regardless of the deficit. Then why would the Republicans pick this particular fight, knowing full well that they will have no choice but to relent in the end?
Simple. Because the debt ceiling is a loaded and cocked gun to America's head with the safety off. One false move and the damn thing could go off, which means that America dare not even breathe against the wishes of the GOP. It's called the politics of blackmail and the Republicans have been perfecting it ever since Bill Clinton was elected to office. The actors may be different today but the play remains the same.
The problem is that the Republicans are out of fresh ideas, even bad ones, and cannot think of a single viable way to balance the budget without gutting our nation's infrastructure and cutting social safety nets like Social Security and Medicare that are critical to the welfare of millions of Americans. At the same time, the GOP is so beholden to its wealthy corporate sponsors that any compromises it makes with the Democrats is sure to backfire for them at the time of the midterm elections in 2014. The powerful lobbies that fund the Republican party machine have a single-minded agenda, and that is to take government completely out of the equation so that the working class winds up at the total mercy of the business sector and to permit the creation of an oligarchy that can control America. Finally, the constant threat of primary challenges by tea party extremists looking to unseat any Republican with the least bit of sense is making it nearly impossible for the GOP to govern responsibly.
President Obama wants to be bipartisan, and that is a noble goal. But he needs to recognize that no matter what he does, a party that is bankrupt of ideas and having its strings pulled by special interests and fanatics has no choice but to resort to blackmail in order to get its way. The trouble with blackmailers, moreover, is that once you pay them off, they will come back for more, and the precedent that the White House sets at the beginning of this new term will determine the tone for the next four years.
I don't blame the president for compromising on the fiscal cliff, but the debt ceiling is a whole other matter. Given the severe consequences of a potential default, there is no end to what the GOP might demand, and if the Democrats allow them even a minor foothold, the GOP will use their leverage to rip the heart right out of our government -- for nothing less will satisfy them. The Republicans, partly due to their overwhelming thirst for power and partly because of pressure from the fringes of their party, have lost the ability to be even mildly objective about any issue. Whatever Obama wants, the Republicans will automatically want the opposite, and they will happily blackmail him to get their way.
The irony, of course, is that our deficit has been increasing for decades and that George W. Bush added $5.1 trillion to the deficit during his presidency with the cooperation of his own party. Of that $5.1 trillion, 35 percent of it arose from tax cuts which were gratuitous and designed to disproportionately benefit the rich, and another 17 percent from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The deficit under Obama, on the other hand, has risen primarily due to the financial stimulus package (which was necessary for our economic survival after the market crash of 2008), an extension of the Bush tax cuts (which could not be reversed in the middle of an economic crisis), and mandatory spending that the president had no control over. In this context, our current deficit is primarily the creation of the wasteful policies of the Bush administration and so it is atrocious for the Republicans to hold our economy hostage over it now.
In my previous piece on Republican obstructionism, I discussed the GOP's thinly veiled strategy of deliberately slowing down our economic progress in order to discredit the Democrats. This strategy will reach critical mass in the showdown over the debt ceiling, and there will never be a better time for the president to shut down the Republicans' policy of blackmail. The debt ceiling might be a big problem but it is not an unsolvable one. The president has legal options to go it alone and while they may be contested later, he can avail himself of those options in the near term to remove the only bargaining chip that the Republicans have and to get their unending blackmail to finally stop.
If that sounds high-handed, consider this -- the Republican politicization of the debt ceiling can only lead to one of two things: 1) Rapid and deleterious shrinking of our economy just when it is starting to improve; or 2) The decimation of our freedom and the creation of an oligarchic order in which the entire nation runs for the prosperity of a select few and according to their dictates. Compared to these grim outcomes, a little bit of partisanship is a welcome alternative, and the president would be doing us all a favor by holding the line.
The Republicans will fight back, naturally, and threaten to let the U.S. economy collapse for the sake of false principle, but if they do that, they will finally have revealed just how low they have sunk and how little they actually care about the American people; and that in turn will lead either to the party's expedited demise or a genuine rethink of their policies -- both of which can help American politics become functional again.
http://newsone.com/2082964/republicans-against-obama/
Glenn Beck’s New Year’s Resolution: Anyone Who Mentions President’s Name Will Be Fired
Beck continues to loses his mind
http://newsone.com/2121731/glenn-beck-barack-obama/
Shortly after President Barack Obama won re-election last month, NewsOne compiled the often ridiculous — and always dramatic — reactions of Republicans. Now you can add Glenn Beck‘s name to that list, after he announced this week that his New Year’s resolution involved firing anyone who mentioned the President’s name on his show.
Bitter much?
1) Albert Peterson a wealthy Washington, D.C., defense contractor, couldn’t even wait for the elections to take place. In fact, he was so distraught over the prospect of Obama possibly winning his presidential bid that he shot and killed his wife, Kathleen (pictured); two young sons, Christopher, 13, and Matthew, 16; then took his own life. Peterson was obsessed about politics and would send daily e-mails to friends and family about its climate. In addition to losing a dear uncle, the 48-year-old man was reportedly driven in to depression at the thought of Obama winning a second term. Ironically, both his father and an uncle committed suicide in past years, with Peterson making an unsuccessful attempt at taking his own life five years ago. Friends and family concur that Obama’s potential win pushed Peterson over an edge that he had been teetering from for quite a while.
2) Holly Solomon was so incensed that Obama was, yet again, elected president that she took out her ire on her poor husband, Daniel. Since her husband failed to vote, Holly blamed him for what she thought was a calamitous result, Obama’s re-election. So instead of balling Daniel out, Holly ran and did the next best thing: try to run him over with her Jeep! The 28-year-old woman believed that her family would continue to suffer hardship due to Obama’s policies, spurring her to chase her husband around a retail store parking lot. When the miffed wife finally did plow Daniel down, the end result for him was a fractured pelvis, torn artery, and possible permanent disfigurement. Solomon was arrested and charged with domestic violence and aggravated assault.
3) Donald Trump (pictured) certainly showed the world how really juvenile he can be, when he went on a Twitter tirade upon learning that Obama would occupy the Oval Office again. The sore billionaire loser with the offensive comb over incessantly whined about how the election was a “total sham and a travesty…. We are not a democracy!†But do you think “The Don†hung out with failed GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney and his crew after the election? NOT! Supposedly, “Trump does not like to be associated with failure.†Well, karma is a be-atch and now Obama’s controversial critic is getting his just desserts! There is a petition through the site signon.org that urges Macy‘s to dump Trump and his branded goods from their advertisements and stores. Thus far, more than 607,000 people have signed the petition, with the million mark being not that far away. The petition, which was organized by attorney Angelo Carusone, has been signed by such A-listers, such as the singer/actress Cher, who grew tired of Trump’s political bellyaching and racism against the president. “Where’s my pen!â€
4) Eric Dondero (pictured), a well-known political blogger at the Libertarian Republican has vowed to banish all of the Democrats he knows in his life, including family members. The day after the Obama won, the conservative wrote:
Starting early this morning, I am going to un-friend every single individual on Facebook who voted for Obama, or I even suspect may have Democrat leanings. I will do the same in person. All family and friends, even close family and friends, who I know to be Democrats are hereby dead to me. I vow never to speak to them again for the rest of my life, or have any communications with them. They are in short, the enemies of liberty. They deserve nothing less than hatred and utter contempt.â€
Wow, talk about sore LOSERS!!!
5) Henry Hamilton, 64, was sickened by the election results after learning that President Obama would reign over these United States again. The Florida tanning salon owner allegedly took his own life after telling his partner two days post-election that he would not live to see Obama win a second term. When authorities found Hamilton’s body, they stumbled upon two empty prescription pill bottles, along with a copy of his will and the cryptic words “F**k Obama!â€
6) A few conservative CEOs across the country lost their ever-loving minds upon learning that a U-Haul truck would NOT be pulling up to the White House! The day after the elections, Robert Murray, CEO of the coal company Murray Energy, actually read a “prayer for America†to his employees and then layed off 150 of them across three company locations when his candidate Mitt Romney lost his presidential bid. The layoff notices blamed Obama’s “war on coal†for the job cuts. Meanwhile, Papa John’s pizza CEO John Schnatter (pictured), a staunch Republican, announced that franchise owners will likely have to cut hours for employees in order to pay for the president’s health care law, Obamacare. He also stated that some of the cost will be passed on to consumers as well with prices going up between 11 and 14 cents. Finally, Zane Tankel, a New York-based Applebee’s franchisee, said he would halt plans to expand his 40-restaurant empire and put a freeze on hiring because the health care law would cost him too much.
Watch the companies laying off because of racism Obama’s re-election here:
7) Election Day eve got pretty ugly at the University of Mississippi, when hundreds of students gathered the school’s campus to riot after the race was called for Obama. There were plenty of racial slurs hurled about the President and African Americans in general. Additionally, Obama signs were burned to the ground. Police eventually broke up the mob scene, which lasted until the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
8) A McDonalds in Follansbee, West Virginia, stirred up quite a bit of controversy when the American flag was hoisted up the pole upside down the day after presidential elections. Many onlookers who were up in arms surmised that the McDonald’s owner, Karen Mezan, was protesting her displeasure at the re-election of President Barack Obama. When calls about the irreverant protest flooded the City Manager’s office, the flag was taken down. The owner says that the flag incident was a misunderstanding that was “ill timed†and an “unfortunate mistake.†BTW, West Virginia was one of the states that went solidly for the Republican presidential Candidate Mitt Romney! ‘Nough said!
Watch news coverage of this McDonalds’s here:
9) Anti-Obama Republicans in Texas last week tried to incite a civil war, post-election, demanding that their state splinter-off from the rest of the country and the “maggots†who helped secure a second term for President Obama. Meanwhile, semi-anonymous petitions began circulating online for dozens of states to be allowed to secede. The Supreme Court has ruled that secession is only allowed if a revolution occurs or there is approval from three-fourths of the states. With the petitions having only a tiny percentage of residents signing so far, 20 states have posted petitions to have their states secede, and since the President won re-election, another 30 states have joined in. You can find the secessionists on the White House’s “We the People†website, which was started last year to encourage government openness. The White House must respond to a secession request if a state submits more than 25,000 signatures in 30 days. Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina have reached those thresholds. Oy Vey!
10) Mouth almighty and all-around baffoon Rush Limbaugh pointed his skeevy little finger of shame at the women in this country for putting Obama back in office. The man who typically spazzes out with misogynistic rants spewed yet another vulgar one regarding Obama’s win. The obnoxious GOP mouthpiece said on his radio show that he blames the gender gap for the president’s victory and women for falling in to Obama’s trap, “He treats them like vaginas and they say he’s my man.†There is just ONE word to describe Limbaugh: idiot!
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