Bloodbath. Sweep. Wave. Victory. Obama Rejection…..

call it what you will. The Dems…you and me…..were hornswaggled and soundly beaten by the very same people that got us into this mess in the first place. 

This speaks very badly for the intelligence and foresight of the American populace in general, or maybe the members of the current Democratic Party are the biggest chickenshits we have ever seen. It's a toss-up either way, in my estimation.

When you have the most narcissistic, ignorant, grifting female in America……hoisted upon us by the GOP, remember……..using President Obama's own words (the ones she herself mocked just a few years ago)……to goad the Repubs into action, you have come full circle in mental gymnastics. 

"So, establishment types, remember that you didn’t build this! This majority that swept you into power tonight is thanks to the rank and file commonsense conservative grassroots. That’s who built it. And they expect results. They deserve the best for America."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/05/sarah-palin-warns-gop_n_6105208.html
(We'll leave that commonsense conservative grassroots meme for another time…..)

And then there is this nonsense to go along with it: http://tinyurl.com/kvbbc32

The SCOTUS opened the door and the Big Money came rolling in….being carried in part by the "religious right" whom the conservatives are surreptitiously using with their anti-abortion and contraception issues (see Justice Ginsberg's warning), and supplanted by the Koch Brothers' money-is-no-issue-for-us-to-buy-the kind-of government-we-want. Throw in the "we lose when everybody votes" meme the Repubs have used in secret for decades, but now have brought front and center…and we are going to pay for it.

"McConnell’s next play is perfectly clear. His interest lies in creating two more years of ugliness and gridlock. He does not want spectacular, high-profile failures that command public attention — no shutdowns, no impeachment. Instead, he wants tedious, enervating stalemate. McConnell needs to drain away any possibility of hope and excitement from government, so that the disengaged Democratic voters remain disengaged in 2016.
http://tinyurl.com/mtqte9p

I am ashamed of the Dems themselves…trying to be Republican lite. Are you ashamed of the accomplishments that this president has battled to achieve?? Did you not get everything you thought you should get when you thought you should get it?? Are you freaking afraid of the NRA?? Have the scientists' dire warnings (and possible solutions) caused you to panic, not wanting to upset McConnell's coal-supporting buddies….maybe letting the future generations deal with it?? Are you actually becoming to believe that it is all those "lazy, mooching  unemployed takers wanting free stuff" that is ruining it for everybody else instead of Walmart and Wall Street?? Are you also secretly afraid that all those brown/black/yellow/purple people are going to take way your "good" life, too?? 

I am not a great church-goer at this stage of my life, having "been there" all through my youth, but this quote came to mind:

        So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I will spit you out of my mouth.   Revelation 3:16

I really feel that since we….Dems….cannot even stand up for what we believe in, cannot back up and cheerlead for the things their President has done for us ( but we can complain, and run from them in order to appear "above it all."), and cannot even attempt to get a word in edgewise about our goals to our corporate media, we got what was coming. 

The next two years before the next presidential election will be very telling. If a failing educational system, privatization of all necessary services in the name of "saving money and efficiency", letting "free market" rule your healthcare choices, watching fewer groups of citizens being able to vote, watching a gradual militarization of the police forces that are supposed to be protecting you, seeing more of our state and government lands being exploited for profit by fossil fuel corporations to the detriment of people's health, and state governments decimating women's healthcare services…………..just don't take it out on this President. Blame Big Money, and yourselves.

Well, Now.....

When Chuck Todd starts admitting the truth.....it doesn't look too good for the GOP/Tea Party.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/chuck-todd-ted-cruz-shutdown-nbc-poll_n_4097167.html

Yes, Geraldo....

it's ALL about the hoodie. We should be VERY afraid of people we've never personally met, people who act in unusual ways from the norm. We should be suspicious of those strangers that speak to us in awkward ways, talking in circles and making no sense: they may be on drugs. Those people with hate in their eyes, casting aspersions on the rest of us: they may be up to no good.

And if there is a hoodie involved: http://www.cafepress.com/+sarah-palin+sweatshirts-hoodies..............you can be SURE they're dangerous.


And then there is this:http://www.cafepress.com/+rnc+sweatshirts-hoodies.


And, not to be outdone: /www.billoreilly.com/p/Restore-the-USA-Shop/Restore-The-USA-Hooded-Zip-Front-Sweatshirt/35091.html?dispid=219

WE'RE IN TROUBLE, FOLKS

Yes, we are. The "dumbing down of America" is complete.


TPMDC
Poll: Republicans Think Obama Is A Socialist, And Palin More Qualified To Be President
Eric Kleefeld | February 1, 2010, 3:58PM

A new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, conducted among 2,000 self-identified Republican respondents nationwide, gives an interesting peek into the psyche of the minority party's base.

Kos has not yet released the full numbers, but here's some early info on the poll that he has posted on his Twitter account:

• 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached.

• 63% think Obama is a socialist.

• Only 42% believe Obama was born in the United States.

• 21% think ACORN stole the 2008 election -- that is, that Obama didn't actually win it, and isn't legitimately the president, with 55% saying they are "not sure." This number is actually significantly lower than it was in a similar question from Public Policy Polling (D) back in November, which said that 52% of Republicans thought ACORN stole it. So does this mean Obama is gaining ground among Republicans? As it is, only just over 20% of Republicans will say that Obama actually won the election.

• 53% think Sarah Palin is more qualified than Obama to be president.

• 23% want to secede from the United States.

• 73% think gay people should not be allowed to teach in public schools. This position puts the GOP base well to the right of none other than Ronald Reagan, who helped defeat the Briggs Initiative, a 1978 referendum in California that would have forbidden gays or people who advocated gay rights from teaching in public schools.

• 31% want contraception to be outlawed.



The right wingers have totally outclassed (??) us on this one. I cannot believe it is even possible to agree with this stuff. Don't people check facts at all? Has the average Tea Bag Party member become the symbol of the United States today? It's bad enough that the corporations (some with multinational owners) have been given the the go-ahead by our Supreme Court recently to spend all the money they can scrounge to run the political system in this country. But these are the people that will be benefitting. Raise your hand if you're scared.