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It is great to see some political activism in this country. The last time there was any of concern to the Washington politicians was during the Vietnam War. Right now, this so-called grass roots organization seems to be controlled by the evangelical right wing Christians.
If the “tea Party” stays on this path and promotes this agenda, it is doomed to failure. This country repudiated this type of government last year with the election of Barak Obama. What the vast majority of the population desires is a more moderate government, if that can be accomplished.
Since the overwhelming defeat of George Bush and his concept of conservatism, this country has become more polarized than ever before, outside of the Revolutionary War.There has developed a pure hatred between the Democrats and the Republicans, with violence erupting between the two at times. These flames of hatred for each other are being fanned by the right wing and by the left wing talk show hosts, journalists and Networks.
Right now, as I write this, both houses of Congress are gridlocked over the future of the country and no one is willing to budge from their positions.You have good moderate Senators and Representatives from both parties refusing to run for re-election because of the grid lock. Seems to me that the gridlock must be pretty bad for these politicians to give up all the perks and extravagance that comes with the office.
However, these Tea Party people think they can control who will get elected in the fall. They might be able to influence a small percentage of voters, however, I don’t perceive them being as big a voice as they think they might be. It will take a tremendous amount of time and energy…plus a few million dollars in order to get their train moving. Then what?
In my opinion, in order to change the mindset of this country, they should start at the bottom and work their way up. You don’t climb a mountain by starting at the top. Former President King George tried to do that..and look what happened.
Our celebration of the declaration of Independence just passed. I stop and think about how this country is now as compared to just a couple of generations past. A few generations ago, this country welcomed immigrants to our shores, however, they came legally. Now they come illegally by boat or walk into the country and they come from all over the world. Once here, they wave and display the flags of the countries they came from and march in parades and then demand that our government, which means you and I, take care of them. They use and abuse our welfare system, fill up our emergency rooms and bring with them diseases from their countries. Congress has become so impotent over the years that it chooses not to or isn’t able to kick them out.
The Constitution guarentees the freedom of speech and our courts used to really come down hard on the enforcement of that right. But in today’s America, people are afraid to express and write about their true beliefs, lest they be branded a hate-monger, a bigot, or a racist.
There are individuals losing their jobs by the millions because company’s and industries cannot survive under the demands of unions, impractical environmentalists and the mass of work rules imposed by government agencies that are contradictory. Other governments work with their industries that employ their country’s people, and thus, contribute taxes to maintain their infrastructure and services such as law enforcement. The main export of our country is now our military machine and the sale of military weapons from A to Z to countries around the world. America has undergone a social, moral and political change and mostly in a negative way.
Three generations back, children of all ages, rich or poor, black, white, or brown, could play outside until it was time to go to bed without parents worrying about neighborhood bullies, drug pushers, sexual molesters, or mindless gun-toting gangs. Now people can’t be safe in their own homes.
The American dream is to win the lottery – to get something for nothing, the mentality of entitlement gone wild. We tolerate lifestyle changes that have perverted our morals as a nation and destroyed traditional family values. We reward motherhood through promiscuous sex that creates millions of one parent families.
All of these problems are growing and they are not getting any better.
Good news, bad news or newsworthy? The Princess of the G.O.P. has hit all three of them. The good news is the citizens of Alaska will now have a competent governor instead of a glorified member of the PTA as their “leader”. Yes, I’m aware that the Princess was duly elected, however it was those who voted against the incumbent,Republican Frank Murkowski in the primary (must be pretty bad when a sitting governor loses to a PTA parent in a primary) and then refused to elect a former two-term Democrat Governor in the General Election. It was just being in the right place at the right time. Evidently, Goofy could have been elected if he could have run.
In all actuality, just what did she bring to the table? She basically run the governor’s office from her home in Wasilla, using an abundance of state funds to do so. Then used her position in a personal vendetta against a retired Marine who was the Chief of Alaska Law Enforcement. She preached family values, however the message evidently get through to her minor daughter, who proceeded to become pregnant! She didn’t know anything about world affairs, not even the difference between Iraq and Iran.
The only reason, and I mean the ONLY reason that Sen. John McCain selected her as a running mate was that she was a woman. When Hillary lost to Obama, McCain was trying to capitalize on all the disappointed women who were loyal to her. Well, as history has noted, that political move ended the GOP threat to Obama. Then, the infamous Katy Couric interview by the Princess Pretender put the final nail in the coffin.
So, what does this woman bring to the table that would qualify her to be President of the United States and Commander-In-Chief of all the armed forces? Tell me just ONE thing. Right now, her popularity as a Governor is sinking faster than King George’s did…AND she had two more years to go to complete the job that Alaskans elected her to do! And She walks away from it, claiming the “attacks” on her family as the main reason. Boo Hoo. Then, using one of her children again, claims that her 14-month-old son who has Down’s Syndrome, “had been mocked and ridiculed by some mean spirited adults”. Yet, when questioned about her statement, she refused to say anything.
That is the way Republicans do things…throw out a red herring and hope people go for it. The Princess Pretender should have paid closer attention to King George and Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney instead of listening to McCain. Those two were masters of the red herring toss!
Bottom line is, the woman was in way over her head in the world of politics and her lack of experience was fast catching up with her in Alaska. Quit while I’m still a little ahead…don’t waste or risk all of my political capitol in the next two years. That was her reason, and nothing else…that is, unless there is some gross mismanagement issues that have not been publicized yet, which wouldn’t surprise me. Could it be yet ANOTHER illicit love affair by yet another BIG Republican?
Finally, after eight years, we are finally going after Osama bin Laden! Remember who he was? For thos of you with short memories, he was the single individual, in fact a Saudi Arabian who was behind the attacks of 9/11. He is now holed up in a cave along the Afghanistan and Pakistani border.
While King George was busy going after the boogyman in Iraq, the Taliban, which had all but been defeated in 2001 in Afgahanistan were quietly rebuilding. In case you don’t know, Afghanistan is the worlds leader in growing opium and the Taliban reaps huge profits from it…I mean huge!
Now, flash back to Iraq. In 2003, King George tells the nation that Saddam & Osama are in cahoots. Osama sits in a cave and, upon hearing this revelation by King George, scratches his head and a little light bulb comes on. He thinks, “Why devise plans to kill Americans in the U.S, when King George is directing them to play in our backyard? I’ll just send our boys across the Iraqi border (which Saddam wouldn’t allow before) and create havoc with them in Iraq! Which he did, and was able to recruit Iraqi’s to his cause.
Flash back to Afghanistan: What U.S. troops remain, are sent to Iraq to back up King George’s invasion. Afghanistan is a country in size of 250,000 square miles and the troops that are left behind are minimal…basically, 1 for every 250 sq. miles. The Taliban, which had once been close to absolute defeat, now sit and grin at each other. They quietly buy nice new rifles, mortars, bombs, missle launchers, and everything in between…and they recruit. King George brushes off the alarm that the Taliban are rearming and are planning to re-assert themselves.
Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld (Never trust a guy named Donald), figured that, if anything really got out of control in Afghanistan, he would just call up a boatload of Mississippi National Guardmen. However, he don’t even do that, instead further reduces the troop level because, well, things just aren’t turning out so good in Iraq.
Things are going pretty good for Osama…he has his guys blowing up U.S. Troops, stirring up sectarian violence between the Sunnis and the Shi’ites in Iraq and working with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Most of his forces join the Taliban (Like a Catholic joining the Boy Scouts…you CAN be both at the same time) . Now the Taliban are coming out of their valleys and caves and causing problems for the puppet Afghan goverment. Now the U.S. is forced, get that FORCED to go in again and eradicate the Taliban, which now have a bunch of new and improved weapons. If theKing would have followed through and wiped them out in 2001, there would be no need for the U.S. to lose more of our young fighting men and women. King George bailed out of Afghanistan before the job was finished, just as his dad did in Kuwait, by not going into Iraq and getting Saddam THEN! which cost us how many lives?
Now, there will be an untold amount of innocents killed…more troops killed and more billions spent to correct the situations caused by the King and his dad, George the 1st…
I am who you think I am, however I am not who you perceive me to be.
I’ve never allowed myself to be talked into going way out on the right-wing branch, nor allowed myself to be sucked into extreme left-wing propaganda. I stay and remain in the middle…balanced. Far too many individuals get way off the balanced middle. They lose track of history and reasoning. My goal is to inform, sometimes with sarcasm. If this country is only guided by those of a closed mind, no matter what their political leanings, then we will enter into an abyss that will only lead to the destruction of this country.
In conclusion, If you have a comment, pro or con on anything, let me know and I will respond. I will write on a wide range of diversified subjects, from A to Z. So stop by every now and then and get a taste of “Wolfe Soup”.
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