What They're Feeding Me

This week of political donkey-and-elephant shows is off to a rousing start. Democrats have been saving some nice tricks for this week, as on Thursday the whole politically-minded elite is holding its breath for (fanfare) The Health Care Summit. Today Obama dropped the Health Care Plan he wants to pass, and made it clear it doesn’t need Republican support, so if Republicans filibuster the Democrats will use reconciliation. If you were paying close attention, you were told this last year, in April, when the President’s budget was passed. Joe Lieberman is pressing repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Dennis Kucinich wants to lower the retirement age for six months to 60, to get those people out of the workforce thus creating an estimated one million jobs. Obama is on the road selling the reforms he wants. Complicated policy debates of the last year are being articulated by our President in stump speeches to explain what has been accomplished. And the new face of the Republican Party, Glenn Beck, went batshit crazy about “progressives” all night at CPAC, even bashing Teddy Roosevelt for his “socialist utopia.” Well now it’s all out there, isn’t it: America has Presidents of different ideologies, and they do what they think is best. Reagan, Bush and Bush Junior destroyed our economy and left us jobless. Clinton balanced the budget and Obama is going to reform the health care system. Happy Monday.

Blame your political opposite, rather than acknowledge that in this country, we have a problem with violence.

(Joe Stack flew a plane into a building with anti-government, anti-corporate, “communist” intentions.)

And it isn’t isolated to people in our nation.

We spread the guns.

(Click here to see a large detailed map of US Military Bases Worldwide)

The media is outraged. The only way to get on a political talk show is to be so angry you’re entertaining. Never forget this, that entertaining news programs are not news programs, they are entertainment. You’ve obviously decided what kind of angry ranting you enjoy these days, Olbermann or O’Reilly. Decide and watch and agree. Or watch the other guy, and drink whiskey, and yell.

We are not outraged, but the media shows nothing but outrage. We mock the National Enquirer while the NY Times publishes rumors of sex scandals and the TV media talks South Carolinian politicians’ affairs.

A terrible thing happened yesterday in Texas, and the more we focus on anti-government terrorists the more power we give them. The majority are sane but worried. We are a nonviolent society, we will never pick up arms against our fellow Americans. There is a crazy, violent minority in this country that likes to rant about the Constitution while trampling on other peoples’ rights. They are neither right nor left. They are amongst all of us. They are not really playing politics, they’re playing “messaging,” which is another way of saying “they’re so deep in Kool-aid they breathe sugar and talk Red 40.” They spout only rhetoric and think only in talking points.

The populist rhetoric from two alternate propagandist views of modern America in his suicide note is proof enough that he has no basis in reality.

Blame is what got us to this point. Pay attention just for today to everyone who is complaining about people unlike them. Worse things have happened.

These people complaining about everything, blaming everyone but themselves, are disgusting. It’s hard, selfless work to be informed enough to stay quiet, and humble, and human. These people are gullible enough to think killing people will make America or the world any better. They must be met with an equal dedication to nonviolence.

All violence, creating a sense of a lack of security, is terrorism. Terrorism exists to distract us from our greatness. If Haiti was God’s will, then fear is the terrorists’. Ignore terrorism. Do not embrace the fear. Do not act from fear.

A group of conservatives got together and tried to save conservatism in America. The Mount Vernon Statement is proof, conservatives still don’t get it. First and foremost, guys, “The Declaration of Independence” might be a “founding document,” but we don’t govern based off of it. We govern based off of the Constitution. The Constitution restricts the government from establishing a religion and never mentions God. So half of your proposals are out on their face.

Signatories and why history has discredited them.

Edwin Meese, former U.S. Attorney General under President Reagan

If you need me to explain why Reagan failed, you shouldn’t be reading this blog. Start here and work forward.

Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America

“We are the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization with a rich 30-year history of helping our members across the country bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy.”

Edwin Feulner, Jr., president of the Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation is Powell Memo progeny: “The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s most broadly supported public policy research institute, with more than 580,000 individual, foundation and corporate donors. Heritage, founded in February 1973, has a staff of 244 and an expense budget of $61 million.”

Lee Edwards, Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation, was present at the Sharon Statement signing.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council

“Family Research Council (FRC) was founded in 1983 as an organization dedicated to the promotion of marriage and family and the sanctity of human life in national policy.”

Becky Norton Dunlop, president of the Council for National Policy

“The Council for National Policy is a secretive forum that was formed in 1981 by Tim LaHaye as a networking tool for leading US conservative political leaders, financiers and religious right activist leaders.“

Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center

“Leaders of America’s conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public’s understanding of critical issues.” – Because reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Alfred Regnery, publisher of the American Spectator

Because there’s no conflict of interest here, selling people the story you’re involved in.

David Keene, president of the American Conservative Union

“We believe that capitalism is the only economic system of our time that is compatible with political liberty.” – this, from the oldest conservative lobbying group in America.

David McIntosh, co-founder of the Federalist Society

“Law schools and the legal profession are currently strongly dominated by a form of orthodox liberal ideology” – “…it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.” – So they believe the Judiciary is the Legislature, then.

T. Kenneth Cribb, former domestic policy adviser to President Reagan

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform

“ATR was founded in 1985 by Grover Norquist at the request of President Reagan.” More Powell Memo money-shuffling. Paid to get paid by ripping everyone off. Advocates of a national flat tax, which is also called “regressive” when economists talk about it. Poor people paying an equal percentage as the rich? Absurd. Every penny means more to the poor. Norquist was implicated in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.

William Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government

“The time is ripe for an independent, nonpartisan political movement that fights for hardworking taxpayers against the special interests that continually push for big government nationwide.” Oh, so an independent group that advocates exactly what Republicans always say? This appears to be a project of the Cato Institute, also Powell progeny, and is spawning further sub-projects and groups to obscure its activities. They’re planning a “NetRight Nation,” attempting to co-opt the highly-successful Netroots Nation for progressive bloggers.

Elaine Donnelly, Center for Military Readiness

“The armed forces should not be used for political purposes or social experiments that needlessly elevate risks, detract from readiness, or degrade American cultural values.” AKA No gays in the military. They work full time on this issue.

Richard Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com (websites have chairmen?)

“That’s why ConservativeHQ.com focuses on the real threat to conservative victory: Big-Government Republicans.” So anyone who votes yes on anything while a black man is President: get out of the party.

Kenneth Blackwell, Coalition for a Conservative Majority

“…co-founded in November 2007 by indicted former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell to ‘help conservatives better convey their message to voters and take back control of Congress.’” – This is the Tom Delay of… the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal! DING DING DING! And Blackwell: “Blackwell gained national prominence for his dual roles as Chief Elections Official of Ohio and honorary co-chair of the “Committee to re-elect George W. Bush” during the 2004 election.”

Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring

“Social Security Reform — to achieve financial independence, not dependence” – they want to gut Social Security. They work full-time on this.

Kathryn J. Lopez, National Review

Another website selling access to the story of its’ own Kathryn Lopez signing the Mount Vernon Statement.

So chew on those for a while. This is the platform that they’re secretly pushing, behind all the flowery language of their “statement.” They’re just saying what they’ve always said: they don’t support a woman’s privacy rights, they don’t think gays are people, and they’re pretty much not into government, but want to control government. Government is not fine, but we are fine governors. More Patriotic Christianity.

Bill O’Reilly, interviewed Sarah Palin on Fox News. Fox News is the propaganda arm of the GOP, the President of Fox is a former GOP Congressman, who feeds GOP talking points to the hosts and writers. Asked if she believes the President is not an American, the former half-term Governor says, “No. And those wild conspiracy theories about our own government I think shouldn’t have a part of the dialogue of the debate.” When pressed to clarify (O’Reilly should be asking her totally different questions), Palin then says “I see the danger of more of the same of the mainstream media wanting to paint Tea Partiers as radical wacko conspiracy theorists.”

The danger is the media, not the birthers. Simultaneously speaking out of both sides of her mouth, Sarah says conspiracy theories are both not fine and fine, just like Rush Limbaugh and Rahm Emmanuel using the same word to describe the same people. One is fine, one is not fine. You would question her morals, but then you’d remember that she uses her disabled son as a campaign tool:

Sarah Palin is pushing herself away from the Truthers and toward the Birthers. There are Truthers in both parties, but there are Birthers in only one. The Truthers in the Democratic Party would likely never again vote for any GOP candidate, but the Birthers are already definitely Republicans. It makes no political sense for a Republican to be a Truther. Get all that?

Truthers inevitably blame Bush or Cheney for being responsible for 9/11, or negligent (which is evident via the public record.) Ronald Reagan had a rule about not blaming other Republicans, which is why the modern Republican Party is the zombie corpse of Reagan, marching in lockstep. There is little to no public infighting in the GOP. Everyone must eventually apologize to Rush Limbaugh, the still-echoing voice of Ronald Reagan on the radio. Democrats rarely agree unanimously, which paces Democratic legislation’s eventual passage.

Populism against the Democrats in the name of down-home racist anger, and war, is Patriotic Christianity. It’s what you get when you listen to Rush, watch Fox, and believe Sarah. The highest-paid people in this country’s media are baiting one half of our political system every day. They use keywords like “freedom” and “liberty” and “God” but remain substance-free in their own policy ideas, and instead focus on Demonizing the Democrats. Eventually the name becomes Demoncrat and you’ll never vote for your own interests again because of wedge issues like gay rights and abortion and secession (which will never happen). Fox, Sarah and Rush are all part of the GOP noise machine, a bizarre political theater where lies are okay because it’s for Reagan. Media is the solution to this festival of untruth. Better to train a camera on every one of these Patriotic Christians and expose them for the Treasonous Nihilists they are. Demand Question Time.

We’ve already agreed as a society to help the elderly, disabled, mentally-unstable or developmentally challenged, those with “special needs.” They get health care and other services, because they’re likely to have less money because of their “special needs,” and because “they’re people, too, just like us.” People without any “special needs,” who are poor but not “special” receive nothing close to the help we provide “special” people. Are they not people “just like us?” Real health care reform is about those people who are not special, just poor. They are legion.