Voice for the Voiceless Edition

Repeat after me...
Black voices aren't *ahem* allowed to be heard in the court of public opinion because they are well...black.
Black folks should be seen (used for props) and not heard because they are well...black.
Black folks couldn't possibly know anything about anything because they are well..black.
Black folks need to STFU and STFD because they are well...black.

This seems to be the mantra of the Lame Stream Media and the status quo because black voices are absent from the conversation. If you want to hear what black folks have to say about the issues of the day you have to subscribe to Sirrus/XM radio or subscribe to Direct TV. In other words you have to PAY to hear from black folks.

Maybe if black voices were heard we wouldn't be in this mess. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus tried to tell y'all the Obama Compromise was going to be paid for on the backs of the middle class and the poor.

Scott's biggest concern was how the president's plan is going to be paid for.

"Finally, we have a choice," Scott said. "If we are going to do a tax cut, somebody is going to eventually have to pay for it and you can't give everybody a tax cut like it's Oprah Winfrey or Santa Claus. You get a tax cut. You get a tax cut. And eventually somebody is going to have to pay for it."

Many in the CBC seem worried that when the Republicans take over the House next year, the way it will get paid for is by repealing health care or cutting back on education spending. Scott took it one step further, "We're on track to essentially extend them all. The idea that you're going to extend them into a presidential year and then cut them? We've already established the principle that failure to extend the tax cut constitutes a tax increase. And if we can't do that, if we can't cut them off now, what is the chance we're going to be able to do it… in the middle of a presidential, congressional election…The last presidential candidate running on a platform of increasing taxes was Walter Mondale. That was not a successful strategy."

Rep. Barbara Lee (D.CA) and Elijah Cummings (D. MD) tried to tell y'all Medicare and Social Security would be at risk if the Bush tax cuts were extended. This is the same Barbra Lee who tried to tell y'all going to war in Afghanistan was a very bad idea.

I wonder what part of the gop will never respect an African American democratic President don't they understand?

Nobody listened when Alabama State Senator Hank Sanders warned they wanted to take us back to before the Civil War.

The media didn't want us to listen to Reverend Jeremiah Wright and they darn sure didn't want President Obama hearing anything he had to say.

We need some Affirmative Action or Quotas in the media. For every white male conservative voice there should be a black male liberal voice. For every white female conservative voice, there should be a black female liberal voice. Let's have some fairness and diversity. All white is not right.

Until and unless we start having some real fairness and balance in the media, tea party groups will continue to thrive. Until and unless we have a free press that informs the public instead of distorting what we decide we will continue to send our sons and daughters to war based on dead wrong intelligence.

Let's address it, not suppress it.
Peace Out.

Redeyes Week In Review

Or, We must laugh to keep from crying like House Speaker Orange Bohener.

Or, Here Comes the Clowns

The week begin with Speaker Elect John Boehner weeping and wailing his way to the House podium. The Rude Pundit has the best description I've heard, here is an excerpt (warning post contains Rude Pundit language)

So the demonstrably unstable Speaker of the House, John Boehner, took his new position from Nancy Pelosi by requesting a comically large gavel. Overcompensating to the hilt, he held his surrogate penis aloft and made a speech that left the Rude Pundit wondering a few things.

Yep, The Wingnuts are here reading the parts of the U.S. Constitution they like! This is what happens when Hate wins over HOPE. I wonder how long it's going to take the Tea Baggers to realized they've been Punk'd big time?

After calling for bills to go through a regular committee process, the bill that would repeal the health care law will not go through a single committee. Despite promising a more open amendment process for bills, amendments for the health care repeal will be all but shut down. After calling for a strict committee attendance list to be posted online, Republicans backpedaled and ditched that from the rules. They promised constitutional citations for every bill but have yet to add that language to early bills.
Republicans say there are subtle reasons for these moves and that they certainly will follow their own rules throughout the 112th Congress. But the hedging on some promises shows just how hard it will be to always match the sharp rhetoric of the campaign with the ugly and complex work of running the House.

Ya Think?

Republicans took control of the House last fall based on commitments to slash government

spending, yet even as they basked in their rise to power Wednesday, they were already under fire for reducing the amount of spending they plan to cut right away.

Republican leaders such as Paul Ryan of Wisconsin took to the airwaves early in the day to deny that they were retreating on spending cuts, following reports Tuesday that the cuts would be $50 billion instead of $100 billion.

Ryan’s explanation of why the number went down was plausible, but also technical and legalistic-sounding. It likely did little to alter the perception for many grassroots conservatives whose busy lives allow sometimes only a few moments a day to pay attention to headlines. The lesson for those absorbing at a glance: Republicans were already letting them down.

I agree with Booman, They have so much Stupid to give. It will be like a fire hose of Stupid for at least the first nine or ten months here.

President Obama really shook up his White House Staff this week...he replace a short, white guy from Chicago, with a tall, white guy from Chicago as his COS. This made the MSM very happy because it was proof Obama was moving to the Center blah, blah, blab, blab.

Our economy still sucks for 98% of America. Jobs are STILL being outsourced. Wall Street is now riding a hooker and cocaine driven surge. Labor has been ignored by the Democratic Party for the last two years. Americans want JOBS and HIGHER TAXES FOR THE RICH, not cuts to social security and more war.

The last thing Obama needs to hear from is MORE banksters.

And in my honest opinion, Blue Dogs are just Republicans who can trick Democrats into voting for them.

Are some progressives to passive? Hell YES they are! Enough!

The greatest tyranny exists on an inner level. This negative rule of the inner critic or superego harasses us, mocks us, undermines our decisions, and assumes to know what is best for us. Meanwhile, our inner passivity (called the subordinate ego in psychoanalysis) is an enabler, a hidden codependent, which allows the harsh inner critic to punish and limit us. With insight we're able to resolve the conflict between inner aggression and inner passivity and claim our authentic self.

OK, I started out laughing but all of a sudden it's not funny anymore.

So, cool, the shiny, new House opens with a series of lies and hypocrisies, with the craven traditional Republicans trying to keep the lid on the just-elected nutzoids so they don't f^&k up 2012.~The Rude Pundit

"I just left my district this morning, and I saw people who came to me saying, 'Look, I need a job.' I just dealt with -- I just helped my fifth foreclosure progression process, many of them with tears, losing their houses. "~Rep. Isiah Cummings (D MD)

The CBC took a gut punch in the last election. In the Tea Party swarm of the House of Representatives, CBC members lost 3 committee chairmanships and more than a dozen subcommittee chairmanships. CBC alum Barack Obama did pretty well for himself these past 2 years with lots of partners in the 111th Congress, but the 112th is a new ballgame. And the Tea Party would like to strip some of the very programs that have benefited the middle class and Black America, if they can.~Jill Tubman

"One finger pointing the blame don't make no impact. But you ball up all them fingers into a fist and you can strike a mighty blow."~Irma Hall's character, "Mother Joe", in the movie Soul Food