Republican Sue Lowden, who is running against Senator Harry Reid in Nevada, has shown how numb the republicans really are! She is advocating paying our medical bills using the barter system, in particular giving your doctor a chicken for services rendered! So I am advocating sending her campaign contributions in the form of chickens. We can have them delivered to her by UPS, FedEx, or any other carrier you like; live, fresh or frozen, take your pick. Then the media will get a hold of it and everyone will start sending chickens to all the republicans running on bogus platforms. Wouldn’t that be a hoot!

If the republicans get called out on all their harebrained ideas maybe they will stop trying to con the public and start legislating, like they get paid to do.

The democrats need to start calling them out on their hollow threats; after all they are the majority and the republicans are using bluster to bully them. Typical of the lowlife Tea Partiers they have become

I make it a point to respond with the facts to my lost republican friends who send me E-Mails with their racist hype about Obama and they never reply. I wonder why? Everyone should do the same and maybe it will catch on and we will get back to civility once again.

When someone feels the need to blow their own horn, it is because they are inferior with regard to that subject, like the guy who pats you on the back and says (Trust me on this one!); everyone knows he can’t be trusted. When I hear the Tea Partiers ranting about what great Americans they are, I hear (Trust me on this one!) ringing in my ears.

Tea Partiers say they are anti tax and yet I have not heard them praise the Obama administration for lowering taxes for the major portion of Americans, excluding the rich of course. Could it be that the Tea Partiers are being manipulated by the corporate rich???

When I listen to most of their rhetoric, I hear a group that is uninformed and being manipulated by corporate America. For educated people they seem to show an inherent lack of intelligence.

The Tea Party claims to represent Middle America, but what I see is a cornucopia of bigoted conspiracy theorists and evangelical self righteous right wing conservatives who only seem interested in apposing anything the Obama administration is trying to do. The anger and hate speech coming from their ranks is indicative of people who are only interested in revolt, like the original Tea Party supporters. The only difference is, back then we were being unfairly taxed by a foreign power, now we are taxed by a legally elected democratic government of the people and it sounds like the Tea Partiers are advocating the overthrow of that government. When I hear Sara Palin and Michele Bachmann spouting their lies and half truths so they can line their own pockets at the expense of the naive Tea Partiers, I think they should be arrested if for nothing more than to stop the assault of their grating voices on my ears. When I hear Fox News, (The media wing of the Tea Party Movement) broadcasting fear mongers like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity to manipulate the public every night under the guise of being a news cast, it makes me ask, what is this country coming to? I believe in free speech as much as any Tea Partier, but what I do not believe in is using scare tactics and lies to frighten the uninformed into supporting a bogus agenda that only benefits the wealthy.

The Obama administration was duly elected in the last election and just because some racist radicals do not accept his place of birth as Hawaii, does not change the fact that he was legally elected. If their was any question about his birthplace it is up to the US election commission to challenge it, not some die hard conspiracy theorists who read or posted some fictitious birth certificate on the internet.

Any legitimacy the Tea Party may have had has been lost to the insanity that has taken hold of their movement and made them a laughing stock among rational Americans who only view them as a side show in American politics. Like the freak’s in any side show performance, their antics are amusing but have little impact on the real world.

Just like movie ratings and channel blocking is used to keep immature minds from being exposed to things they are not mature enough to fully understand, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh should be X rated so the Tea Partiers are not exposed to things they do not understand for the safety of the nation. The mentally challenged Tea Partiers have fallen pray to the slick media barrage orchestrated by the corporate giants like Rupert Murdoch who are using them to further their own agenda with little regard for the consequences to our nation or the bumpkins they are conning.

When I see Tea Partiers dressing up to gain media attention, I think (Disguise is the ploy of the fool!).

When I hear Tea Partiers shouting down people at town meetings I think, (Those who would suppress dialogue endeavor to subvert truth!).

When I see Tea Partiers bringing guns to public rallies, I think, (Intimidation is the terrorist’s weapon of choice!)

When I see Tea Partiers yelling homophobic and racial slurs at our representatives I think, (Verbal abuse is the instrument of those without harmony!).

When I hear Tea Partiers chanting complaints, I think (A gripe without merit is just so much noise pollution!)

When I hear well to do Tea Partiers complaining about their taxes, I think (Only the wealthy profit from an inequitable system!)

When I see Tea Partiers threatening those who appose their views, I think (Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent!)

When I see Tea Partiers promoting gun rights, I think (These are the radicals I would least like to have holding those guns!)

When I hear that Tea Partiers are better educated than most, I think (Education and intelligence are not synonymous!)

When I see Tea Partiers complaining about Obama Care, I think (Those who would deny health care to others are them selves ailing!)

When I see Tea Partiers carrying protest signs, I think (A sign lacking substance may as well be blank!)

When I hear Tea Partiers saying they want smaller government, what I hear is (Less regulation over corporate greed!

Lately I have recognized that the religious fanatics on the right have adopted a position of negativity when it comes to anything they don’t like, which seems to include just about everything. In an attempt to further distance myself from that clan, I have decided to go positive.

Let me start by saying that we can only move forward as a nation if we are positive and progress only comes when you are progressive in nature. Webster’s dictionary defines Progressive as, (of, relating to, or characterized by progress, making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities and encouragement of self-expression, moving forward or onward: advancing).

So I would like to say that I am pleased with the way that president Obama is moving forward with his campaign promises of change, like health care reform and reforming the financial markets. I see improvement in the real estate markets, if only that it has bottomed and stabilized and is now showing signs of progress, along with home construction and prices starting to increase.

I can not say enough about his efforts to increase our production of domestic based energy like wind, solar, smart electric grid and offshore drilling which I only support as a stop gap measure. His assembling of 49 national leaders to address the loose nuclear issue has been nothing but astonishing and can only be a positive step for the future.

I see this nation as having turned a corner that Bush/Cheney would never have noticed and would have stayed the course while driving over the next cliff.

Republicans have adopted the strategy of NO, not exactly a positive position; again to quote Webster’s, No: (used as a function word to express the negative of an alternative choice or possibility, used to express negation, dissent, denial, or refusal).

Now I would like to offer a piece of advice for them! Consider going positive, instead of opposing everything. Why not try coming up with some ideas of your own. I know that some of the ideas that were incorporated in the Health Care Bill were Republican in origin and yet they got no credit for them. Instead the Democrats will get all the credit when the public realizes that there are no death panels or abortion funding in the bill and that it is not a socialist takeover of the health care industry.

We are moving forward as a country and only negativity can slow us down, if you want to get on board the change train, welcome aboard, if not, get out of the way. Progress will happen with or without you and you will benefit from the changes whether you like them or not. We need constructive dialogue to make the right decisions and I know republicans have something to say, I have heard them shouting from the peanut gallery, I only hope they can get past their bitterness over having lost  the elections and can get down to the business of governing this nation rather than trying to drag it down with their negativity.

The right wing conservatives are the ones toting the guns and obstructing the political process in our country. It has been a long time since this nation has been under attack by forces aligned with the likes of the Klu Klux Klan and Neo Nazi Skinheads and White Supremacists, but now the Republican Party has chosen to support the fanatics in the Tea Party Movement who have all the markings of the radical right wing fanatics of the past.

We learned from Watergate and again in 2000 with Bush V Gore that the republicans will stop at nothing to gain and keep power. We spent eight years fighting in a trumped up war and paying the price for our naïveté in thinking that they are playing by the same rules as the rest of us. One only has to look at the way they went about ginning up the Iraq War with lies and half truths so their buddies at Halliburton and the mercenaries at Blackwater could make huge profits with no bid contracts.

Now they are trying to disrupt the Obama administration efforts to resolve the problems their greed generated and put the nation back on track to prosperity. The party of NO is doing what they have always done, obstructing progress for this nation and putting us at a disadvantage when compared to the rest of the world economies.

In case you have forgotten it was the republicans that railed against Social Security and the Civil Rights Act and now they vow to repeal the health care act if they are elected in November. 

They say that they believe in democracy but it seems they only believe when it suites them. They have no respect for the rule of law or civil discourse. They seem to believe that the rules only apply to others and not to them when they yell out their rude and disrespectful rants without regard for decorum or majority rule. They don’t seem to realize that the American people voted into office the people they want to lead our nation and they lost. Now they are behaving in such a despicable manner that upstanding republicans are dismayed at their actions. It is obvious that if they continue down the road of violence against those who are trying to improve our circumstance it will backfire on them in November.

 

To those of us outside the Republican Party it appears that compassion, empathy and equality are strangers to them. They only seem to be interested in things that benefit them personally and to hell with the rest of society. They are mostly Christians in their religious beliefs and yet they seem to have little understanding of what it is to be a Christian. When they do behave Christian like there is always an ulterior motive. They are incapable of doing a selfless act.

The party looks like it is made up of old angry southern, gun toting white men who think they can use deceit and trickery to slicker the rest of us. For some reason they think that their hypocrisy goes unnoticed. Contrary to their belief we see through their guise and are perplexed by their inability to recognize that everyone else is so perceptive. The only explanation is that they are either mentally challenged or are so egocentric that they are delusional in their thinking. Now they have resorted to slinging racial and homophobic slurs and threatening members of congress. This kind of behavior must be stopped if we ever hope to return to civility in our political system.