March 10, 2013

What the hell is wrong with people whom use their power and influence

to cause unnecessary hardship and suffering among those in need?

What the hell is wrong with people whom use their power and influence to discriminate against other people and encourage other people to hate?

What the hell is wrong with people whom use their power and influence to tell other people whom are bothering nobody how to live their lives?

What is wrong with the Koch Brothers and their allies anyway and what makes them hate people less fortunate then they are? It's one thing to simply ignore people in need (it happens all of the time) but what makes people GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to hurt others? Somebody leave a lump of coal in their stockings when they were kids? Seriously.

March 7, 2013

So, what's the alternative (re: Drones)?

I get the problems many people here- and elsewhere- have expressed regarding drone strikes and I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't the least bit concerned about them but if we don't use drone strikes to get at these guys hanging out in remote, lawless regions, then what DO we do to get them before they plan, organize, and carry out attacks against us and/or our allies? What would everybody concerned about drone strikes be more comfortable with? What kind of oversight does everybody suggest? Get rid of AUMF? Then what?

What's Rand Paul's alternative proposal? Did he touch on that during this filibuster rant yesterday? If President Obama were to stop drone strikes today and at some point, hypothetically, somebody that we've had in our sights, does something, will Rand Paul then turn around and lambaste President Obama for "not doing anything?" Will he excoriate his Republicans whom attack him over his inaction? Remember how they all used to blame Clinton for not doing everything in (and sometimes not in) his power to get OBL prior to 9/11? Notice how they're jumping all over President Obama right now over 4 dead diplomats in Libya? Does Paul want us to send troops in everywhere to get these guys and if so, will he support these efforts or sit on the sidelines, like so many typically warmongering Republicans did during the limited Libya intervention, and carp about the President (mis-)using our military forces?

Raising questions and demanding oversight about all of this is what Congress and an informed citizenry is supposed to be doing (and, frankly, should have been doing more of during the previous 8 years of Bush/Cheney's "war on terror&quot but once you've identified the concern(s), then we need to decide on a better way to accomplish the same goals, which I presume that everybody shares (eliminating/incapacitating terrorists). These are all perfectly legitimate concerns. Hopefully, Congress is able to sort through them all in a responsible manner and come up with reasonable alternatives, which would be a far better use of time than a huge long-winded filibuster rant that Rand Paul pulled yesterday IMHO.

March 7, 2013

Lots of things

but my biggest pet peeve is that they spend hours upon hours endlessly attacking Democratic proposals that seek to address real concerns of average people and tell us why this or that won't work and why but they never bother to offer up any alternatives or really any solution for anything at all. I know why that is- they just don't care about people not in their race/class/income bracket- but I wish that they'd just be more honest about the fact that they don't care instead of acting like they care but that they're just trying to save us from bad solutions and, in the process, obstructing the rest of us from trying to do right by the majority of people in this country. Since their ideas are supposedly so superior to ours and they have all the answers, surely they should be able to tell us their ideas and persuade the public to demand that they get adopted post-haste, right?

Yet, all they keep talking about is that damned "blank piece of paper" they want to start over with all the time whenever Democrats try to suggest something.

March 5, 2013

So much for the party establishment's efforts to "rebrand" the party then

Seems like they are bound and determined to remain in thrall to the Tea Party radical fringe. *ugh*

March 4, 2013

The GOP is doing a pretty good job destroying itself all by itself IMHO

President Obama hasn't actually done much at all to "destroy" them other than be elected POTUS twice now.

Then, of course, there's this article worth considering: http://thegrio.com/2012/09/13/from-jack-ryan-to-mitt-romney-obamas-foes-tend-to-self-destruct/

March 4, 2013

Why does it matter with Jeb Bush thinks about immigration?

He's not POTUS and he's not a member of Congress. He's not an elected officeholder of anything right now. President Obama and Congress can still push ahead without him...............right?

March 1, 2013

Lego guns scare some people too

I get why some people are jittery after experiences like Columbine and Newtown but people need to get a little perspective. Pictures of guns are not going to kill people, lego guns are not going to kill people, imitating guns using your hands is not going to kill anybody, and elementary school-age children playing cops and robbers during recess is not going to hurt anybody nor does it mean that any of them are likely to show up toting guns and shooting up the school the next day. I can kind of understand worrying about toy guns as some of them are so realistic that they might be mistaken for real guns but none of the other stuff should be viewed as threatening much less be cause for suspensions or other disciplinary actions.