Congress is the big 'speed bump' in the road.

All America wants to do is work at a reasonable job, own a home, educate it’s children, maintain good health, and help others. However, standing in the way of America’s beneficent is a recalcitrant congress. A dysfunctional Congress bought and paid for by ill intended corporate lobbyist with deep pockets filled with reelection money.

And we are talking about Corporations ably aided by congress purposefully filtering all available money away from middle America. Money diverted into private corporation bank accounts. Then generously distributed to all participating congressmen and women. A reward for congress changing laws that unfairly advantage the rich and take away from the working class and poor.

All the while congress is blaming the federal government for wisely taxing the rich and distributing benefit to preschool children, to the elderly, the disabled, and working class poor. Certainly a Biblical concept. RememberWWJD?

So why do we Americans allow this? Why do we keep on reelecting the same old congress whose only interest is to enable the rich and oppress the poor? Why do grass root Americans vote against their own interests? Often voting for a nebulous mysterious ideology and not voting for an American belief. Beliefs as in “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

America! Wake up! Smell the coffee and go do your job. Your job is to know your district congressman or woman. Let them know you are not interested in subsidizing the rich but advantaging the middle class. Helping the middle class take care of its poor, homeless, sick, and cleaning up the environment. Congress! Get out of the way!

You guys are no longer qualified to run.

What do former Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush have in common? All were Republican? All were born in the United States? All were World War II five star Generals? All were movie stars? All were former vice presidents? Well. So far some of this is right.

Answer:
Here is what these respected Republican gentlemen have in common. Today in the severe conservative atmosphere, None of these Republican icons would ever be nominated for president by their own Party. Using the severe conservative criteria, not one of these former presidents would qualify as a Republican presidential candidate. At least not with today’s far right orthodoxy.

Here’s why. All have raised taxes. Two were Pro choice. None reduced the size of government. All had big spending programs. President Eisenhower had created the national Interstate Highway system. Spending billions of dollars building a vast Interstate highway network from border to border and coast to coast. All the while, putting to work tens of thousands of Americans to work on the huge road project. And guess what? Done with taxes.

Ronald Reagan raised taxes and gave amnesty to many undocumented foreign workers. Plus also offered forgiveness to Viet Nam draft dodgers who fled to Canada.

President G H W Bush, raised taxes after promising to not raise taxes. Remember, “Read my lips?”

All would fail to pass today’s conservative litmus test. Not enough lockstep with the party. They would be severely accused of being too Moderate. Maybe being accused of being too left leaning. Certainly not conscientiously following the party strident dogma. Consequently, all could never be considered for nomination representing the Republican Party in the November presidential election.

I wish the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls would stop evoking the names of these former respected presidents. Especially since today’s Republican Party is completely far right of the former presidents. It just adds to the candidates hypocrisy and their disregard for the afore mentioned statesmen and their individual conservatism. Why do the Republicans do this to themselves? They just paint themselves into a corner with a pit bull.
God forgive us all and God bless America.

I knew Ronald reagan and quite frankly you are not Ronald Reagan.

If Ronald Reagan were to reincarnate himself and return to the office of the President, all the TEA partiers, libertarians, far right fundamentalist, and all extremists to the right would be horrified of Reagan’s moderate and compromising politics. They totally ignore Reagan’s tax increases he signed in the 1980s. The far right has ignored his compromises with congress.

My point here is I wish the Rightist would stop invoking the name of Reagan and stop using his name in vain. The far right fundamentalist Republicans has obviously not read Reagan’s history and politics. So, just stop-it! Your invocations of Reaganism as being parallel to your own are obscene and completely false. Just stop your vain comparison!

Making sense of it all.

Each time I listen to or hear about another Republican debate, I scratch my head and wonder. I keep asking myself will sensibility ever return to the campaign and voting process in America.  Will truly qualified candidates ever come back to the table and enter the debate?  Well, the prospect looks dim.  Hope is fading fast.

Of course, this time the whole process has been tossed on it’s ear.  Shifting the debate and focus on Rick Perry’s entrance into the Republican scrimmage.  Shifting far right ideology further to the right and drawing all the other candidates along with him.  Sort of like a Texas tornado gathering debris and tossing it over the landscape.  Mostly moving more towards civil war and creating a confederacy.

Nonetheless, I am most concerned because I use to be a Republican.  But in later years since Ronald Reagan, my party abandoned me.  Leaving me in the middle.  Consequently leaving me in the hands of Independent mongers.  People of extreme logic and rationality. 

So I roam through the wilderness searching for who or what to identify with.  Certainly not the right.  And, certainly not the left.  Thus leaving me to decide for myself and Making my own decisions.  Forcing me to study the real issues independently and away from partisan spin and hyperbole.  Well you know ladies and gentlemen, it seems to be working out okay this way.  You should try it.

I would rather vote for Millard Fillmore than for Rick Perry

I think I would vote for Richard M Nixon before I would vote for the current crop of Republican presidential contenders.  I would most certainly vote for Dwight D Eisenhower instead of the current Republican field.  I think I would almost vote for David Letterman or Jay Leno before voting for the nare do well selection of right-wingers and tea baggers.  What an American embarrassment.

Isn’t there a committee or board of adjusters that should certify the candidates before they decide to run for President?  It almost appears if a person is wacky enough he or she can run for President.  How shameful and ridiculous. 

However, on the other end of the spectrum, I would rather vote for Franklin D Roosevelt before voting for Barock Obama.  I also most likely vote for Bill Clinton before voting for President Obama.  We need someone with vision and guts to stand up against the bonehead’s candidates of the Republican Party.

There are just not enough awful words to describe the buffoonery and stupidity found in the current field of Republican candidates.  All the adjectives and expletives barely describe the knuckleheads on the right.  Bottom feeding jerks all of them.  All sounding like barking seals at feeding time.  Flopping about and acting like six-year-old boys with Attention Hyper Distraction Disorder.  “Mom mom!  Look at me.”

How did all this happen?  How did we spiral down to an elementary school level of food fighting politics?  Republican Candidate who all would qualify for “Dumming Down” poster children.”  None of them even qualified for high school class secretary.  I’m not even sure if they would qualified for “Ball Monitor.”  I wouldn’t trust them.  God save us from this mess.  Forgive us for taking our eye off the political ball.  God bless America.