More of the same with Sen John Complain
Why would any American believe Sen John Complain can effect 'change' after 26 years in Washington, DC? Consider this Republican records and ask yourself if America can afford more of the same with John Complain:
• Perpetual War with Death, Chaos, and Destruction
• Mismanaging Federal Treasury Funds
• Fear Mongering at Home
• Increased Governmental $pending while cutting Taxes to the Wealthy
• $11 Trillion Dollar National Debt
• Privatizing Profits while Socializing the Bailouts of failed Corporations
• Unfair Taxation of the Middle Class
• High prices for GASOLINE, Electricity, and Everything Else!
• High Medical Costs and Prescription Drugs
• Bank Failures and Record Home Forclusures
• Pollution
• Invasion of Privacy and disregard for our Constitution
• Corruption, Corruption, Corruption!
• Religious Hypocrisy
• Politicalization of the Justice Department
• Degradation of our Infrastructure
• Continued overseas export of American Jobs
• Slave Labor
• Decline in US stature and respect among the World Community
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Presidential campaign takes on a new low
As America approached the seventh anniversary of 9/11, the presidential campaign took on a new low of irrelevance with Republicans taking a comment by Democratic nominee Barack Obama totally out of context. As it turns out, John McCain used the same line about lipstick on pigs earlier in the year in remarks specifically directed at Hillary Clinton while Obama made no comparable reference to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
With concrete differences between Obama and McCain on a host of issues, the national media dutifully wasted days on this nonsense. This is the genius of the Republican propaganda outlet, Fox News, because its role in subverting the attention of the voters actually turns real news organizations into weapons of mass distraction consequent to their 'follow the leader' mentality.
The meaningless flap was mentioned in at least 2,684 articles from newspapers, television, radio and other media. Instead of dealing with news, America's news organizations are talking about Palin who -- despite being unqualified, hypocritical, a religious extremist on par with anyone in al Qaeda and an ultra-right wing nut -- is the most widely discussed distraction in the campaign. John McCain used his years of Washington experience instead of putting country first by choosing as his vice presidential running mate an oddity who will enable the media to keep voters from thinking about any of the dozens -- maybe hundreds -- of reasons why a third presidential term for Republicans should be unthinkable.
A third presidential term for Republicans should be unthinkable.
The government wasted millions of dollars on no-bid contracts handed out for Hurricane Katrina work, including paying $20 million for a camp for evacuees that was never inspected and proved to be unusable, investigators say. New Orleans residents remain scattered and robbed of their property: homes, hospitals, schools and neighborhoods.
American troops remain bogged down in Iraq, while Afghanistan grows more turbulent and our military is dangerously unable to respond to other global threats or domestic emergencies.
The challenge of defeating crazed religious extremists is growing more complex and more dangerous, as one of them has been selected as the Republican vice presidential nominee. Al Qaeda, strengthened by years of Arab antipathy toward America due to the Iraq War, has begun a new campaign of terrorist bombings at US embassies.
McCain has spent most of his quarter-century in Congress advocating deregulation, the kind of lawlessness that allowed money market funds, insurance companies, banks and other traditionally conservative institutional investors to gamble in securities linked to subprime mortgages and other risky debt.
U.S. stocks tumbled as bank lending seized up in the wake of the government's takeover of American International Group Inc., raising concern that more of the nation's biggest financial companies will fail. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, the two independent Wall Street securities firms remaining after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed and Merrill Lynch & Co. was taken over, plunged the most ever. Wachovia and Washington Mutual, the nation's largest savings and loan association, are being watched for signs of an impending death.
General Electric Co., the world's third-biggest company, fell 8.7 percent and U.S. Steel Corp. slid 11 percent. Yields on three-month Treasury bills sank to a 54-year low as investors sought the relative safety of government debt, and a measure of corporate borrowing costs surged to the highest since the crash of 1987. Global banks racked up $516 billion in credit losses and asset writedowns stemming from the first nationwide decline in home prices since the 1930s.
Americans have over $3.5 trillion deposited in money market funds and, if that money cannot be withdrawn, we could be looking at a depositor panic such as that of 1933, when thousands were pounding on bank doors to retrieve their lost life savings.
As the Bush administration takes over trillion-dollar AIG, there is a growing tide of anger as layoffs, long-term unemployment, home foreclosures, students struggling with college loans, and retirement savings evaporating become problems encountered by more and more people.
Republicans seem able to find sums seemingly too large to calculate being spent to bailout billionaires in the wake of reports of larcenous CEOs departing shipwrecks of their own making with untold millions while at least $10 billion a month is wasted bringing death and destruction to Iraq. The fact that our tax dollars are killing children has yet to emerge in the American consciousness, but 46 percent of the violent deaths involving coalition forces in Iraq were children younger than 15.
From the standpoint of your average American, the Republicans have done everything wrong.
The Republicans tried to 'privatize' Social Security and gamble your retirement on the stock market, which then crashed as a result of deregulation, another Republican initiative that created an atmosphere of lawlessness among investment banks, securities brokers as well as traditional thrift and insurance companies.
The Republicans shipped American jobs overseas plus sold off the companies that once paid taxes and employed US workers. They allowed unfair foreign trade competition to destroy America businesses and then permitted unsafe products from other countries to invade our markets.
The Republicans imposed racist barriers that prevented many people from legitimately pursuing the American Dream, but failed to control the borders so the number of undocumented immigrants doubled to 12 million after 9/11.
The Republicans decided it is okay to hold captives without charges indefinitely, deny such prisoners access to lawyers or courts, and even subject them to torture. The Republicans disgraced the meaning of our Constitution. They engaged in illegal spying on American citizens and retroactively forgave the telecom companies that aided in that crime.
The Republicans killed hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq without any cause because George W. Bush wanted to be remembered in history as a 'war president.' The Republicans lied to get approval to invade Iraq, they botched the job after our brave soldiers, sailors and marines executed their orders, and they created more sympathy for our terrorist adversaries. In doing so, they squandered they unanimous worldwide sympathy and support for America that followed the 9/11 attacks (which occurred while the Republicans were asleep at the switch) and instead they repeatedly exploited those horrors purely for political gain.
The Republicans have still failed to capture Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda is reported to be twice as large as it was seven years ago. Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers or the Pentagon.
The Republicans have for many years consistently made bad decisions in favor of big corporate special interests instead of America's working families.
The Republicans think they can fool Americans, and the sad part is that they did it successfully in 2004 and, at least according to polls, they have a chance to do it again this year.
Voting for Republicans is not patriotic, it's idiotic.
As America approached the seventh anniversary of 9/11, the presidential campaign took on a new low of irrelevance with Republicans taking a comment by Democratic nominee Barack Obama totally out of context. As it turns out, John McCain used the same line about lipstick on pigs earlier in the year in remarks specifically directed at Hillary Clinton while Obama made no comparable reference to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
With concrete differences between Obama and McCain on a host of issues, the national media dutifully wasted days on this nonsense. This is the genius of the Republican propaganda outlet, Fox News, because its role in subverting the attention of the voters actually turns real news organizations into weapons of mass distraction consequent to their 'follow the leader' mentality.
The meaningless flap was mentioned in at least 2,684 articles from newspapers, television, radio and other media. Instead of dealing with news, America's news organizations are talking about Palin who -- despite being unqualified, hypocritical, a religious extremist on par with anyone in al Qaeda and an ultra-right wing nut -- is the most widely discussed distraction in the campaign. John McCain used his years of Washington experience instead of putting country first by choosing as his vice presidential running mate an oddity who will enable the media to keep voters from thinking about any of the dozens -- maybe hundreds -- of reasons why a third presidential term for Republicans should be unthinkable.
A third presidential term for Republicans should be unthinkable.
The government wasted millions of dollars on no-bid contracts handed out for Hurricane Katrina work, including paying $20 million for a camp for evacuees that was never inspected and proved to be unusable, investigators say. New Orleans residents remain scattered and robbed of their property: homes, hospitals, schools and neighborhoods.
American troops remain bogged down in Iraq, while Afghanistan grows more turbulent and our military is dangerously unable to respond to other global threats or domestic emergencies.
The challenge of defeating crazed religious extremists is growing more complex and more dangerous, as one of them has been selected as the Republican vice presidential nominee. Al Qaeda, strengthened by years of Arab antipathy toward America due to the Iraq War, has begun a new campaign of terrorist bombings at US embassies.
McCain has spent most of his quarter-century in Congress advocating deregulation, the kind of lawlessness that allowed money market funds, insurance companies, banks and other traditionally conservative institutional investors to gamble in securities linked to subprime mortgages and other risky debt.
U.S. stocks tumbled as bank lending seized up in the wake of the government's takeover of American International Group Inc., raising concern that more of the nation's biggest financial companies will fail. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, the two independent Wall Street securities firms remaining after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed and Merrill Lynch & Co. was taken over, plunged the most ever. Wachovia and Washington Mutual, the nation's largest savings and loan association, are being watched for signs of an impending death.
General Electric Co., the world's third-biggest company, fell 8.7 percent and U.S. Steel Corp. slid 11 percent. Yields on three-month Treasury bills sank to a 54-year low as investors sought the relative safety of government debt, and a measure of corporate borrowing costs surged to the highest since the crash of 1987. Global banks racked up $516 billion in credit losses and asset writedowns stemming from the first nationwide decline in home prices since the 1930s.
Americans have over $3.5 trillion deposited in money market funds and, if that money cannot be withdrawn, we could be looking at a depositor panic such as that of 1933, when thousands were pounding on bank doors to retrieve their lost life savings.
As the Bush administration takes over trillion-dollar AIG, there is a growing tide of anger as layoffs, long-term unemployment, home foreclosures, students struggling with college loans, and retirement savings evaporating become problems encountered by more and more people.
Republicans seem able to find sums seemingly too large to calculate being spent to bailout billionaires in the wake of reports of larcenous CEOs departing shipwrecks of their own making with untold millions while at least $10 billion a month is wasted bringing death and destruction to Iraq. The fact that our tax dollars are killing children has yet to emerge in the American consciousness, but 46 percent of the violent deaths involving coalition forces in Iraq were children younger than 15.
From the standpoint of your average American, the Republicans have done everything wrong.
The Republicans tried to 'privatize' Social Security and gamble your retirement on the stock market, which then crashed as a result of deregulation, another Republican initiative that created an atmosphere of lawlessness among investment banks, securities brokers as well as traditional thrift and insurance companies.
The Republicans shipped American jobs overseas plus sold off the companies that once paid taxes and employed US workers. They allowed unfair foreign trade competition to destroy America businesses and then permitted unsafe products from other countries to invade our markets.
The Republicans imposed racist barriers that prevented many people from legitimately pursuing the American Dream, but failed to control the borders so the number of undocumented immigrants doubled to 12 million after 9/11.
The Republicans decided it is okay to hold captives without charges indefinitely, deny such prisoners access to lawyers or courts, and even subject them to torture. The Republicans disgraced the meaning of our Constitution. They engaged in illegal spying on American citizens and retroactively forgave the telecom companies that aided in that crime.
The Republicans killed hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq without any cause because George W. Bush wanted to be remembered in history as a 'war president.' The Republicans lied to get approval to invade Iraq, they botched the job after our brave soldiers, sailors and marines executed their orders, and they created more sympathy for our terrorist adversaries. In doing so, they squandered they unanimous worldwide sympathy and support for America that followed the 9/11 attacks (which occurred while the Republicans were asleep at the switch) and instead they repeatedly exploited those horrors purely for political gain.
The Republicans have still failed to capture Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda is reported to be twice as large as it was seven years ago. Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers or the Pentagon.
The Republicans have for many years consistently made bad decisions in favor of big corporate special interests instead of America's working families.
The Republicans think they can fool Americans, and the sad part is that they did it successfully in 2004 and, at least according to polls, they have a chance to do it again this year.
Voting for Republicans is not patriotic, it's idiotic.
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