Do Liberals hate the Obama Compromise, where the super rich get a tax cut for two years, unemployment is extended for one year and the 99's get nothing? Hell yes we do! As well we should.
The bill, H.R.4853, is estimated to cost $858 billion, and is entirely financed by increasing the federal deficit. In addition to the income tax extension and the unemployment insurance, the bill includes a one-year reduction in social security taxes, a two-year reduction of the estate tax (35% with the first $5 million fully exempt), a smattering of tax cuts designed to help middle-class families, and about $55 billion in pork for special interests.
Serioulsy, what's so wrong with being "far left"? Think about it,, what has the "far left" ever been wrong about? Were we wrong about the Iraq war? When has the "far left" ever been on the wrong side of social issues? Was the far left wrong about the Civil Rights Act? President Obama is being urged by some to govern from the center. The center of what? My daddy says the only thing down the center of the road is a yellow line. The President can't govern from center
Black Agenda Report editor and columnist Jared A. Bell says it's the Professional Left versus the Left of Us.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was partially right when earlier this year he dismissed the “professional left.” There is indeed a professional left, those whose entire careers and claims to fame are based on permanent liberal challenges to power and who arrogantly dismiss as immature, and worse dangerous, those who would push leftward beyond those limits. “Don’t go too far,” they tell us, “vote for us or THEY will get elected and then we’re in real trouble!” But that’s because liberals aren’t in real trouble. They don’t really believe that. If they did really believe that corporations were leading the planet to doom or that the fascists they are protecting us from are just outside the gates would they really only respond by a few rallies and a vote for a Democrat? Then maybe they are as “f&*king stupid” as Rahm Emanuel said they are.
Way, way under the mainstream media radar the biggest prison strike since Attica went unnoticed in the MSM in favor of a "missing popular dancer in Las Vegas".
In the spirit of Attica, nearly 40 years later, prisoners at six prisons in Georgia organized a non-violent labor strike to demand better conditions for themselves. Specifically the inmates demanded a living wage for their work, educational opportunities, decent health care, an end to cruel and unusual punishment, decent living conditions, nutritional meals, opportunities for self-improvement (rehabilitation), access to their families and just parole decisions.
Perhaps even more remarkable than the strike, in which inmates shared information via text messaging on phones bought from prison guards, is that the strike went virtually unnoticed by mainstream American media. That so many chose to ignore what has been called the largest strike of its nature in American history, speak volumes to how Americans continue to think of the American Prison System or what scholars and activists have more commonly referred to as the "Prison Industrial Complex." The inmates themselves have another word for their reality: "Slavery."
So, if prison inmate can rise up in protest of their conditions what's wrong with us so called free folks? IMHO, until President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder make good on their promise to restore integrity to the Justice Department,there will be no peace on this earth.
The Department’s public integrity section is under new leadership—the most highly qualified it has seen in recent decades. It has seized the right moment for an internal reassessment of the approach to prosecuting public corruption. That should entail recognizing that dedication to fair process must take a center seat even if some scoundrels get off the hook as a result. This reassessment must include some introspection about mistakes and abuses of the past as well, because the most serious misjudgments in the public integrity arena relate to active cases in which the Justice Department is defending utterly indefensible positions. In the end, the Justice Department will also have to learn to operate in the harsh sunlight of public attention, disclosing its mistakes and striving to correct them. This is the essential path back to public trust after years spent straying in the wilderness.
As long as elected officials pander to what Ministry of Truth describes as the perfect gop voter there will be no peace on this earth, they are not in the center, they are far right, and us far lefty's are nothing like them.
You can basically break Republican voters into 4 subgroups, and they are Cruel, Hateful, Wildly Misinformed, and Constantly Scared S#@tless. The perfect storm of Republican ideology on the MooseMeter of "WTF are they talking about" is all 4 at once.
The four steps of creating the perfect GOP voter:
1. Find some way to wildly misinform people
2. Play up to their hate (Try calling your opponents Hitler)
3. Play to their cruelty in persecuting the object of their hatred
4. Do your best to scare the living s&*t out of your captive, misinformed viewers about the IMMINENT DANGER of terrorist attacks, socialists, communists, race based cruelty, anti immigrant furor or the Next Big Government Takeover that is going to destroy America.
Our President is not walking the center line down the center of the road just because the gop put a horse head in his bed. They got their tax cut for the rich, at the expense of the country, but that's OK, because it exposes the gop for what it really stands for, Greed Over People. President Obama takes the far left position on DADT, the Dream Act, Equal pay for equal work and access to health care reform. His job approval rating among us far left liberals is just fine.
A friend of mine said they wanted President Obama to act more like George W. Bush and just bull doze his agenda through. I said I wanted President Obama to act more like John Shaft (Richard Roundtree or Samuel L. Jackson). But in the end I believe he acts more like Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, what we've gote here is a failure to communicate directly to the American people with out the mainstream media distorting what we decide with all spin all the time, unfair and unbalanced, pandering to the typical gop voter.
President is NOT moving to the Center. There is NO Center.
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Cool Hand Luke. I like that on so many levels - except the ending.
Someone on MSNBC said the success of the Congressional actions of the last few weeks and the positive approval of poll after poll with both the new bills and President Obama demonstrates that "moving to the center" as the pundits now call it shows the center is LIBERAL.
After all, stalwart Republicans are lamenting Obama just "ate our lunch."
Both parties "compromised" and we get extension of unemployment benefits for people sitting around doing nothing, gays in the military, Obama-style arms-control, government-controlled food standards, and passage of 911 health care giveaway for those who gave their all when we were attacked.
During the course of this, the Republicans again repeatedly revealed their true nature. The next batch coming in will be even more gloriously despicable and will begin to try to dismantle the social services safety net screaming about "no money" - except for that 1% of Americans who have more wealth than the bottom 90% of Americans, who were basically given that money by the Congress they bought and sold!
As the economy recovers and the Democratic Senate and the Democratic President slap down the insane Republican agenda without 98% of Americans taken hostage, I hope President Obama will continue to "move to the center" - right now it is looking pretty good, and only a few Republicans have seemed to notice what we have always known - we do not live in a conservative country, we just live in a "simple (minded)" country, easily duped and confused, easily bought and sold, easily out-Foxed.
But people are waking up!
The people would wake up a lot faster if the media would wake up too. They are so busy spinning the facts, telling us what they want us to know instead of what we need to know under the Faux claim of being fair and balanced they enbabled the gop infused Tea Party to regain the peoples house.
I had such high hopes there were more of us than it was of them. Meaning there were more of us who cared more about our country than our party.
Come January we will get what we deserve if we the people don't wake up and stand up.
Peace be with you and yours yellowdog. Thank you for your support and your encouragement. I still believe in a place called HOPE for CHANGE we can believe in. Together we can make that HOPE a reality.
When all the hands on the fist work together they form a mighty fist.
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