A political, musical two-fer for you
Here's Camp Feingold's latest ad on what we need less- and more- of in Washington:
It reminds me of something I read yesterady. I want to pull out a comment from Working Joe on yesterday's post:
One of my long time friends is a Fox News drone. A few months ago, he informed me that he just hates Russ Feingold. He couldn't give me any specifics. As a conservative, he should have been happy that Feingold cast the only vote against the Patriot Act, which contains clear constitutional violations. He should have been happy that Feingold voted against TARP. He doesn't even know those things.
Johnson is running ads that he'd be the only manufacturer in the Senate. Johnson got into manufacturing the old fashioned way - he married into a manufacturing family. Johnson is an accountant who married the business owner's sister. I knew Johnson must be quite vapid when the Green Bay Press Gazette, which I've only ever seen endorse one Democratic candidate at any political level, endorsed Feingold and blasted Johnson.
But that information won't drift down to voters like my friend who fits into the angry white male category. My friend is very angry when he drives his concrete truck into Milwaukee and sees a "ghetto rodent" (his comment) sitting on the front stoop drinking a beer at 9:30 a.m. and it infuriates him that these people are sucking off his tax dollars. Yet, when I pointed out that his concrete truck driving is seasonal and that he draws unemployment compensation in the winter months, which is sucking off my tax dollars as a business owner, he asks why I am personally attacking him. He doesn't see the contradiction in his views. He accuses Obama of vast overspending but ignores the OMB chart I sent him that shows the greatest costs to the deficits are two unfunded wars and the unfunded Bush tax cuts.
It's all emotional with my rightwing friends. This emotion is immune to facts and reasoning. And this emotion, these angry white people, will take down one of the best senators Wisconsin has had and will put a lesser man in his place.
My colleague at OpenLeft, Mike Lux, who served in the Clinton White House, once told me Tea Partiers were this decade's media's hype version of "angry white males". I certainly don't want to put all the anti-Feingold folks into one racial/gender category, but I'm with Workin' Joe that a whole lot of misdirected anger from teabaggers can take down one of the best Senators Wisconsin- and this nation- has. That's unacceptable to me. I hope it is to you, too.
If you didn't get to enter the contest yesterday, we're giving away a rare, numbered Neil Young print (only a dozen were ever made).
How do you enter? Simple. Chip in to Russ on our Blue America page and your name goes in the hat. It's a two-fer: you could win a cool piece of memorabilia, and you'll feel better on November 3rd- trust me.
And this emotion, these angry white people, will take down one of the best senators Wisconsin has had and will put a lesser man in his place
And yet...if I say that that is how democracy works and that the people of Wisconsin deserve the consequences that they reap from their actions...I am vilified.
All I can be accused of is espousing the virtues of democracy and the Constitution as outlined by the Framers.
Even the right wing should love me for that.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
who's off to pick up my absentee ballot and do my part to vote against 'Bagger Marco Rubio. If I have a paycheck, I'll chip in a few $$ to Russ as well.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
who's off to pick up my absentee ballot and do my part to vote against 'Bagger Marco Rubio. If I have a paycheck, I'll chip in a few $$ to Russ as well.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I have a few Conservative friends. I live in Texas. It's the law.
I've argued with one for hours, corrected his misperceptions, backed up with facts & links, and even got him to concede a number of points and admit some of his own beliefs were flat wrong...
And the very next day, he was back to making the exact same claims again, armed with new RW links to "Fox" and WND, reinforcing his false beliefs that I already disproved the day before.
"Reason & Logic" is wasted effort with Nutters that have their minds made up.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Yes it is truly amazing that people are so blind with eyes wide open. So many of these people are voting against their best interests and even when it is explained to them the why, how and what for, they still go back to their irrationality. These people will never be reached. Just like the idiots who say, "keep the government out of my social security" or some such thing. Hopefully the Democrats will prevail as a majority but if they don't it may work out that the idiot Teabaggers will screw things up so fast that we will be done with them and the Republican Party for many years to come. Unintended consequences and all that.
I thought that same thing after the Nixon presidency. Then the Reagan presidency. Then Bush I. Then W, in my opinion the worst in the history of the United States. I am sure that when everything goes to hell the people responsible will never get one tenth the credit due. Never underestimate the ignorance of the United States voting public.
republican, at the end of the day they'll still vote against their best interests.
"Reason & Logic" is wasted effort with Nutters that have their minds made up.
And yet, moderators on this blog seem to continue to argue that being bipartisan was the way to deal with these nutcases.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
There is a lot of free floating anger out there. I'm angry. I'd like to think that I have a sense of what the problem is, and where the anger should be directed. Fox News sustained propaganda barrage has been a tremendous success for the corporatists that own them. They've managed to take the anger which should be directed against the corporate elite and morphed it into blind hatred of the Left which is beyond any reason. Simple, hateful solutions for complex, difficult issues - you can count on Fox to deliver.
"Here's Camp Feingold's latest ad on what we need less- and more- of in Washington:"
Tits?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I had ability to edit last night, but, curiously, I don't see it available today. Strange...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
hard lately.
I know I am...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
12% as much - now that's a bargain.
Russ Feingold needs to win and that is the bottom line. Please consider donating or making calls on his behalf through organizations like Democracy for America, MoveOn.org, or directly call his campaign and figure out how you can help from your home and your phone. Peace.
Damn I want Russ Feingold to win this thing. He is the only one with the courage to stand up for the Bill of Rights when the Patriot Act came unveiled after the mysterious Anthrax and 9/11 attacks. We need to stand up for him!!
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I had ability to edit last night, but, curiously, I don't see it available today. Strange...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I wish it were only twice as hard.This damn mobile device seems to have a mind of its own. Sadly, it's Republican mind...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
When it gets to a Republican mobile device it is time to cut your losses. Just pack it all up and go sit on a beach. There is nothing left to do.
Verisimilitude, dude. Gut feeling or faith over facts. Then there are the fabricated "facts" and inconsequentials such as the president's religion, nationality or faith.
We lawyers say "If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law and the facts are against you, call the other guy an asshole.".
We're arguing over whether our team or theirs is better. I've had discussions with my conservative friends and relatives, as well, who quote fabricated figures from Rushbo or O'Lielly and have to go out to research the facts and find that they're pleased that they made me look up the facts which they aren't really concerned with.
I sometimes feel that they consider themselves better than their confederates who think that they are relying on truth.
Paul C
we're not supposed to say those kinds of things, about the tea partier class of folks because, you know, if we just talked to them like intelligent, learned people, why, they would see the light! or some "progressive" bloggers would have you believe.
no, they won't. not because they aren't actually capable of understanding facts, but simply because they willing choose not to. nothing can penetrate that mindset, because it's a mindset not caused by true ignorance, but by a willfull refusal to see the truth.
just because your head feels better, when you stop beating it against a brick wall, isn't a very good reason to beat it against a brick wall to begin with.
The first birther I ever met was a woman. I know plenty of conservative females who are buying into this "mama grizzly" line of bullshit. The Bush years took a huge emotional toll on the country and it's still reeling. I call it Stockholm Syndrome. They're in love with their captors...still. Read Mugsy's comment above. How many of you have had the same exact or similar thing happen to you? I have. Reason is out the window with these people. Some of the ones I know personally have had nervous breakdowns and that is no exaggeration. They did not (and still can't) believe their "conservative" heroes could have double crossed them like they did. So they blame the usual suspects, egged on by fox and the corporate media.
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