CDM takes no shit!

Check out fellow blogger and friend Complaint Department Managers post about a run-in with a conservative that started out funny, then turned pathetically sad.  The old geezer uses his military service as a sorta badge of honor, but there is NO honor in the things he says about President Obama and the office of the president. If this guy is so proud of his service and his conservative views then he needs to take a step back and examine his heart, he misplaced it!  He has no respect for our president and no respect for anyone who does not share his faith, military standing and party affiliation. I wonder if he respected Dubya?

my head is exploding...

Last night at midnight I had a "jumping off the Obama bandwagon" post all prepared. I'm glad I decided to wait til I could gather my thoughts and think somewhat clearer before I clicked that publish button. My bloggy friends here are as divided on this tax cut legislation as the democratic party is. So whatever I say here will be hated by some and agreed upon by others. I have decided I will stand with President Obama.

That doesn't mean I agree 100% with this bill,  I think what Bernie Sanders said in the filibustering speech could help fix some of the things progressives have a problem with, like the estate tax, tax cuts for the rich, So


ABOVE..That was yesterdays work on this 4th draft, and above that was 2 days ago...I can't think straight this week for some reason. All kinds of talk being thrown around, different opinions being tossed around, Obama, Clinton, Sanders...I'm jealous of those who have made up their minds and stand by their convictions. I'm floundering and wobbling....

This morning I'm back to my original opinion on Obama and the legislation. I think the rethuglicans have taken him to the woodshed on this proposed bill that he calls a framework. I believe it is another massive stimulus that will only empower the thugs next year. They have it all planned out, they will take their case to the Americans on this bloated deficit problem, which they have contributed to BTW, and they will start with entitlements, mainly Social Security. They are on the path to wipe out SS and Obama seems oblivious to this. Bringing in Bill Clinton yesterday to give credibility to the presidents proposals was to me a sign of desperation. The public is not happy with the way Obama crafted this bill on the laps of the rethuglicans, so he presumes Bill Clinton can calm the fears and convince the people this legislation is the best he can do at this moment. So by giving the GOP their demands  the democrats are adding their demands to the point this bill is exploding the deficit at a time we are trying to get it under control. 

The only person I see with any common sense and clear thinking is Bernie Sanders.....during his 8 hour speech he faulted the payroll tax holiday calling it a dangerous step that could hurt Social Security and also spoke on the "overly generous proposal" on the estate tax which would be reinstated at a rate of 35% on everything above the first 5 million of an individuals estate and everything above the first 10 million of a couples estate, He said "this is not a tax on the rich, this is a tax on the very, very, very rich"

He has it right when he screams CHINA, CHINA, CHINA!!!

Will I be back here in a few days with a different slant? Maybe...

I was Googling 'why isn't the tea party enraged over this huge spending bill', and stumbled upon this,
I like what she says here...


"See, politicians are, to borrow the now politically correct Jerry Brown word, whores. They can be bought. And the Republicans, in particular, are cheap whores at that.
There will be something for everyone in this bill–this is the Stimulus that Obama should have put forth to begin with but instead paid off the states and parasitic unions and states instead. This stimulus might actually jolt the economy while spending the next generation into abject oblivion.
It had to be done NOW, though, because the party is over for the Republicans and Democrats. Come January, the American people will be angered if they see Republicans spend like this.
This bill will get a bunch of them primaried again. They. Don’t. Care.
Just like the Democrats didn’t care about Obamacare. The Republicans are hoping you don’t notice what they’re doing here. And they’ll try and blame the Democrats.
They can say the bill passed in the lame duck Congress if the economy still stays bad. If the economy turns around, well, they can say they forced the Democrats to pass the bill. They also hand Obama the Presidency, but hey, this is all about Right Now.
Expedient and indulgent, our elected officials are a disgusting group.
Yes, yes. I know, this is politics. But I’m sorry, it makes me want to throw up when I hear Republicans talking about cutting spending and then okay a florid spending bill because they know their little treats would cause howling rage if they owned the House and put forth such a stinker a couple weeks from now.
My solution? Scuttle the whole thing.


.in fact I like every word of what she says.

rethuglicans say America can't afford $250 for seniors...two-hundred and fifty dollars!!!

Another typical day in the life a Rethuglican. Even after President Obama gave them what they wanted in the tax cut extensions, the rethuglicans came back today and stopped the Democrats efforts to give an eeeensy teeensy weeeensy $250.00 check to seniors, Social Security recipients who will face 2 years now without a cost of living increase. Well, hell sure Obama and dems urged Congress to approve this, saying seniors are facing hardship without their increases. I guess that's all the rethugs had to hear before throwing down the gavel!  NO MORE INCREASES FOR YOU!!  OFF with their heads, Damn it! Those damn lazy seniors, how dare they say they need a cost of living increase EVERY YEAR!!  Don't they know we have a deficit problem? Don't they know we need to extend tax cuts to the filthy rich so it can trickle down?? How ungrateful of those seniors, they got a SIGNIFICANT increase in '09!!
I'm gonna check with my poor elderly mother tomorrow incase I need to make a correction, but I think she got $16.00. That my friends is sixteen dollars a month raise. Wow stop the presses..... So because of this astronomical raise, unfortunately the resluglicans opposed another raise this year and next.  I guess that makes them deficit hawks. I think it makes them chicken livers I want to feed to my cats...


The measure was brought up under a fast-track procedure in the House that required a two-thirds majority for passage. The 254-153 vote in favor of the bill fell short of that.Twenty-six Republicans voted for the bill, while 141 opposed it. Democrats were in favor, 228-12.

The Compromiser

In the final question of today's press conference, President Obama was asked by Jonathan Weisman of the Wall Street Journal how he would respond to Democrats who think he's compromised too much in agreeing on a two-year extension of all the Bush-era tax cuts -- even for the wealthiest Americans -- and that they have a hard time figuring out his core principles on what issues he would go to the mat for. Obama then responded forcefully, saying that the positions of such people on the left would result in getting nothing done, except having a "sanctimonious" pride in the purity of their own positions.

"Sanctimonious pride in the purity of their own positions"......Sounds like conservative republicans to me. President Obama is describing republicans. Yes indeed the republicans take pride in the purity of their positions and they fight with everything they have. WHY is it wrong for democrats to fight? Why is it wrong for democrats to be arrogant and show a forceful pride in their core beliefs? They seem to fear the big fight against the big bad republicans.

President Obama says he will visit the tax cut extension for the rich in 2012. That is a joke! No way will he put himself in that position during a campaign....
Democratic caucuses are meeting tonight and again tomorrow. The shit is hitting the fan, stay tuned, this is far from over...

UPDATE: Shaw breaks it down beautifully, please read her post!!

The Deal.........but is it Done?

So, I have surprised myself, I'm feeling more numb than angry.  President Obama just spoke on the tax cut extension decision.  ALL tax cuts are to be extended, he has agreed to extend ALL because of Republican DEMANDS. The Republicans were willing to allow unemployment benefits to run out for 2 MILLION people, they were willing to allow MILLIONS of Americans taxes to go up by $3,000 in January. They demanded permanent tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires but got a temporary 2 year extension, and in exchange for the extension of ALL tax cuts the Republicans have agreed to extend unemployment benefits for 13 months. How giving of them.....

Other details include a temporary two percent reduction in payroll taxes to replace Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax credit from the 2009 stimulus bill, and a compromise on the estate tax, which will be set for two years at 35 percent, with a $5 million exemption amount.

 source:CBS

 
The stupid GOP are still tonight saying the American people stand with them on these extensions for the wealthy!! WTF! This is what makes me angry, the LIES coming from the moron GOPers...

This is the presidents compromise with Democrats and Republicans, but according to Bernie Sanders there might not be 60 votes. Bernie says he intends to work hard to make sure there are not 60 votes to pass this piece of legislation.  What will happen then? Who will get the blame if the vote fails and taxes go up on the middle class, and more importantly what will happen if the unemployment benefits end for 2 million Americans? If the people are paying attention it is 100% positively on the shoulders of the GOP.  Do Not Forget, the GOP stood in the way for middle class tax cuts and voted NO until and unless the wealthy got their tax cuts extended.  They are hypocrites to cry about the deficit, they caused our huge debt and deficit problems in the first place but will fight to add to it while trying to pass the blame for it onto President Obama and Democrats.

I believe the American people are awake and paying attention to this tax cut debacle.  The suffering and the unemployed have a stake in these decisions being made by Congress, these decisions are having an immediate and personal effect on the people. They are paying attention!

Make no mistake, the Republican Party is fucking the American people and in 2012 they will get theirs....

My Conclusions

I've come to the conclusion the liberals are wasting their time debating the issues with close-minded conservatives. It's the Democrats who constantly bend over backwards to appease the Republicans in Washington (it makes me ill just to write those words), and here in blogland the conservatives say they are debating but I'm through listening to their crap which will NEVER sway me, NEVER make me second guess my liberal views.  I will NEVER understand how they think, where they get their points of view from, and how they come to their conclusions on how this country should be governed.  We were subjected to 8 years of incompetent governing by the Republicans yet they have managed to convince a large portion of our population that somehow they have learned from their mistakes and deserve another chance. But to get this chance they have lied and manipulated the people. What happened yesterday on the Senate floor is proof they have not changed one bit. Yes, those votes were symbolic, but how else can we get it through the peoples heads their precious GOP are NOT standing with you the middle class and poor? Their top priority is to make sure the rich stay rich at the expense of all the rest of us, 98% of us.

So to you Rational Nation who calls the democrats demothieves, and to you lisa and Linda who call Obama a socialist marxist dictator who is hell bent on destroying America ON PURPOSE, I'm not gonna debate you, I'm also not gonna call you names and cuss, I'm just gonna ignore you because we are very different people with very different world views and nothing will change that. Nothing.
Peace

taxcut extension speeches

There are some good speeches from the Senators going on right now on C-Span 2 before the 2 votes on taxcut extensions...

I think we know the outcome of the votes, but the speeches are always interesting to listen to. The GOPPERS are showing America their true colors today!!