White Supremacists Come Armed to anti-SB1070 Rally

This is America? Really? What about the old creed, give us your tired, your hungry and your poor? Is America really that off purpose that white supremacists feel this threatened? Maybe. I sincerely hope not.

Tea Party Not a Factor in Tuesday's Elections

From all the media attention they have garnered for the last year, it seems the reality is that the teabagger movement is not as powerful as they try to make themselves out to be. Sarah Palin is getting herself in trouble with the teabaggers. She just endorsed the Republican Senatorial candidate in California, Carli Fiorina and the teabaggers are pisses at her. None of the teabag party candidates won on Tuesday's House and Senate primaries. All the incumbents won.

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Liberals in Rochester. Oh, no.

Last weekend there was an interesting incident on the Rochester Downtown Development authority's Facebook. I had been posting links to stories in The Rochester Citizen. Ron Harman, a local kook, started commenting on my links and an controversy ensued which resulted in an article in Tuesday's Oakland Press.

Last night I got to address a meeting of the Downtown Development Authority on the issue.

Politico Proves that the Tea Party Leaders are Using Tea Partiers

Wow, if the tea party people don't turn on the Republican party after this bombshell, I don't know what to think. Politico broke story with a secret memo that Politico obtained talking about how to stir up a fake grassroots movement and use it to their own benefit. Click here to view the memo.

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Tea Partiers, You Need to Distance Yourselves from The Republican Party

Wow, Jon Stewart hit it out of the park last night with this story about the crazy people in the Republican Party, making the point that if the Tea Party wants to be respectable, they need to distance themselves from the Republican Party.

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The ACORN scandal was completely made up

The right wing in this country went crazy with the James O'Keefe video of him and his girlfriend dressed as a pimp and a whore showed up and they claimed that employees of ACORN were going to help them set up a child prostitution ring. The only problem with their claims, they were all lies. The really sad part is that the lies and the resultant media frenzy actually succeeded in driving ACORN out of business.

This is a long-standing organization that helped poor people in this country, so it's a really sad event that ACORN was forced to declare bankruptcy and close its doors, especially when the allegations that caused this were completely fabricated by low life James O'Keefe and helped along by Fox "News" and other right wing media organizations.

Porn Star to run for Senate as Republican

Porn star, Stormy Daniels says the recent scandal that officials of the RNC have been frequenting lesbian bondage sex clubs pushed her over the edge to run as a Republican for the Senate seat currently occupied by David Vitter, who admitted to have been a customer of the D.C. Madame.

"While most of the reaction to an RNC-funded outing at a Los Angeles bondage-themed nightclub in February has been critical, it has won the GOP at least one supporter -- a porn star.

Stormy Daniels, an adult movie actor and potential candidate for U.S. Senate in Louisinia, has apparently decided -- perhaps satirically -- to renounce the Democratic Party and become a Republican.

In a press release on Tuesday, Daniels proudly embraced the Republican Party.

"While this decision has not been an easy one, recent events regarding Republican National Committee fundraising at Voyeur, an LA based lesbian bondage themed nightclub finally tipped the scales," Daniels said.

Daniels, who first floated the idea of running against Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) after news broke that he had been linked to the high-profile prostitution ring run by the "D.C. Madam," said she sees the RNC-funded nightclub outing as a sign that the GOP's values now best match her own.

"As I have said for well over a year, it is time that our government and our tax policy begin rewarding entrepreneurship and creativity again. It is time again to inspire positive risks and out-of-the-box thinking in the interest of growing a strong economy and a strong America," Daniels said. "For me, this spirit can be summed up in the RNC's investment of donor funds at Voyeur.

"I know from experience that a mere $1900 outlay at a club with the reputation of Voyeur is a clear indication of a frugal investment with a keen eye toward maximum return," Daniels added."

A VERY Disturbing poll

I really don't understand the Republican mind. These numbers are alarming, 24% of Republicans actually think President Obama is the anti-Christ. 67% of Republicans think President Obama is a socialist, 57% say he's a Muslim, 45% responded he wasn't born in the United States, 38% say he's doing things Hitler would have done.

Put this together with the types of things that Sarah Palin is doing on her Facebook page, using cross hairs on a map to indicate which Democrats she thinks Republicans should "target" and you have a disgusting showing of lack of political savvy and sensitivity for the times we live in, especially when you couple this with the actual violence that is being incited at Fox News.

Rachel Maddow covered the violence and threats that have been received by some Democrats' offices over the health care legislation President Obama signed into law.

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What has this country come to? Racism and homophobia cannot win.

This country has been though one of its most divisive periods in history. Probably not since the civil rights marches in the 60's, the health care debate brought out the worst in America. When the opponents of health care came down to the end, instead of admitting defeat, the Republicans (Tea Party) they yelled racial epithets at African American Congressmen and an openly gay Congressman. And no one in the Republican party denounced these actions, not one.

If I were a Republican/Teabagger, I'd be ashamed of these people and call them out for their actions. But not this group of Republicans. They actually encourage this kind of behavior. It will be their downfall and ruination. America is at its heart a nation of good, ethical, moral people. The fear mongering of the tea party and their friends in the Republican party will destroy their once proud, sensible party.

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YES, WE DID!!!! House Passes Health Care Reform

Wow, I couldn't stay up to night, but I just read that health care reform has finally passed through the House or Representatives. No, it's not perfect, but it will save lives and it will save money. Why and how did it happen? It finally happened because of leadership by President Obama and because of the grass roots in America. It was about real democracy, people that cared about other people and taking to the streets.

It means good triumphed over evil. Truth triumphed over lies. Commonsense won out over hysteria. Hurray for America. We can still get hard things done.


Former Bush speechwriter, David Frumm put it in perspective for Conservatives

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Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.

It’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. Conservatives may cheer themselves that they’ll compensate for today’s expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections. But:

(1) It’s a good bet that conservatives are over-optimistic about November – by then the economy will have improved and the immediate goodies in the healthcare bill will be reaching key voting blocs.

(2) So what? Legislative majorities come and go. This healthcare bill is forever. A win in November is very poor compensation for this debacle now.

So far, I think a lot of conservatives will agree with me. Now comes the hard lesson:

A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.

At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994.

Only, the hardliners overlooked a few key facts: Obama was elected with 53% of the vote, not Clinton’s 42%. The liberal block within the Democratic congressional caucus is bigger and stronger than it was in 1993-94. And of course the Democrats also remember their history,and also remember the consequences of their 1994 failure.

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Now the truth about health care reform opposition is coming out

The tea party people have been saying their opposition has nothing to do with racism. I've thought differently all along. But what happened today in Washington, I think bears out my worst fears, that racism is at the core of the opposition to health care reform, and any other major changes President Obama has on his agenda.

"Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) claimed Saturday that healthcare protesters at the Capitol directed racial epithets at Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) as he walked outside.

Carson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus along with Lewis, told The Hill that protesters called Lewis the N-word.

Tea Party protesters held a rally outside the Capitol on Saturday, which included speeches by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and actor Jon Voight, and then proceeded into the halls to lobby members at the 11th hour.

Lewis was one of the leaders of the civil rights movement alongside Martin Luther King. Jr. "

Do You Have to Be Stupid to Be a Teabagger? That's a Rhetorical Question

This a hysterical conglomeration of people talking about health care reform. They really have NO idea what they're talking about. They don't seem to be able to name even one thing that is actually in the bill to be against. They seem to be against big government, against rationing of health care, the 2700 pages that make up the bill and on and on and on. You can't help fix stupid.

Chris Matthews takes on Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity

I've used this video of the man with Parkinson's disease in a prior post, but on Hardball with Chris Matthews, interviewing Tim Phillips of American for Prosperity, Chris takes on one of the groups behind the tea party demonstrations. This is quite possibly the most callous display I've ever seen, a tea bagger throwing money at the man on the ground telling him there's nothing free "in this party of town."

Phillips doesn't condone what a couple of men did in the video, but tries to make the case that the man with Parkinson's disease should join the tea party movement because with the "government takeover" of health care he may not be deemed worth treating.

HOGWASH!!!! Phillips is an out and out liar and he knows it, but he has a client to represent. Where does AFP get their money? No on knows. They don't have to reveal where their money comes from. The clip speaks for itself.

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Disgusting Callous Display by Teabaggers

At a health care rally in Columbus, Ohio, this disgusting display of callousness took place between a man with Parkinson's Disease and a couple of teabaggers. Is this what our country has become? Really?

Have tea baggers lost their moral compass? It sure seems like it to me.

Listen to Tiffany's Story - Abortion is Not a Black and White Issue

The abortion issue is again at the center of the health care debate as we move toward passage. It's not the black and white issue those on the right would have us believe. Tiffany, the woman in the video, had to make a choice, let both of her children die in utero or have a selective abortion. Some in Congress want to take away Tiffany's choice to save one of her children. Don't let them do it. Tell Congress to fix abandon the Stupak language.

Oakland County Republican Party Forgets to Pay the Bill

I was amused on Monday when apparently David Law and the Oakland County Republican Party finally realized that their web site was down. Their web address renewal had expired on March 9, but it wasn't until Monday, March 15, someone realized that their web site was down and directing visitors to one of those generic pages that come up when a url is expired. You'd think the party that holds itself out to be fiscally responsible would one, notice their web site was down for more than 5 hours, but also be responsible enough to put the renewal on an automatic renewal, so embarrassment like this didn't happen.

Way to go, David Law and the Oakland County Republican Party.

Coffee Party in Troy, Michigan

The first gathering of the Coffee Party in Troy, Michigan had about 60 people gathered together. We have another meeting set for March 27 where we will start to flesh out our plans. Please join us. This is a real grassroots movement that will only grow with time.

Taking Corporate Personhood to the Next Step

Well, it had to happen. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people, Murray Hill, Inc. is launching a bid for a seat in Congress. Murray Hill won't have to ask for corporate donations, they are a corporation. The bright side is that they won't be asking for money from we the people. I'm sure other corporations will kick in some money to advocate for Murray Hill for Congress.

The ad doesn't say which party Murray Hills, Inc. belongs to. I suppose it doesn't matter. Murray Hill, Inc. can afford to start its own party, the Murray Hill, Inc. Party of American. Murray Hill, Inc. can even take donations from foreign owned corporations.

Wow, Beck is going after Christians now

Glenn Beck isn't content going after the Obama administration and liberals. Now he's going after churches that talk about social justice or economic justice. Some Christians are now calling for a boycott of Becks's show on television and radio. Jim Wallis called on Christians to leave Glenn Beck. I wonder how Christians will respond to this latest rant by Beck.

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