Isn’t That Just Un-American?

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) recently said that, “I refuse to help Barack Obama get reelected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy.”  "It didn't work in 1995. What will happen is the administration will send out notices to 80 million Social Security recipients and to military families and they will all start attacking members of Congress. That is not a useful place to take us. And the president will have the bully pulpit to blame Republicans for all this disruption."

Therefore he proposes that the current president be the sole power to raise the debt ceiling.

Let’s forget that this is a stupid trap (that will backfire) for the President.  Let’s also forget that this makes McConnell sound and act like a certified coward.  Let’s forget that he doesn’t really want to do his job.  Let’s forget the fact that McConnell wants this president to fail in everything.

However, let’s remember one of the most important his he has said.  And I quote (emphasis mine):

"If we go into default he will say Republicans are making the economy worse," he concluded. "And all of a sudden we have co-ownership of a bad economy. That is a very bad position going into an election. My first choice was to do something important for the country. But my second obligation is to my party and my conference to prevent them from being sucked into a horrible position politically that would allow the president, probably, to get reelected because we didn't handle this difficult situation correctly."

And there you have it.  He has chosen his party over the country.  And he has admitted too it.

Isn’t That Just Un-American?

As for President Obama, he is once again playing an amazing game of chess while others are playing pocket pool.  We will see where this goes.

The Slavery Vow

“Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American president”

If you didn’t know this was in the preamble to the Marriage Vow statement signed by a couple of the republican candidates for the presidency of these fine United States of America.  I said was because the social conservative Iowa group, Family Leader, has since retracted it from the opening of the pledge.

I don’t really know what to say.  I am sure someone could look up the statistics and find out whether this is true or not.  I don’t think I care to though.  This is perhaps one of the nastiest, disgusting and naive things to come out of the camp of crazy in about a week.

The suggestion that black children born into slavery were better off in terms of family life than today’s black children is at best stupid.  Apparent the authors of this don’t consider the rapes, the murders, the starvation, the forced separation from your family very important.  Nor do they consider the century old adverse effects it has on a culture and the nation itself worth noting.  It was more than “disastrous” it was pretty much close to genocide.

Even worse the statement tries to tie the “USA’s first African-American president” to the plight in that community.  It’s as if it is President Obama’s fault somehow.  Even worse than that Next Gingrinch didn't sign it making him almost look like a decent human.

I'm sure that had something to do with the word marriage though.

If You Are Failing At Least You Are Doing Something

It had been reported that many politicians want President Obama to fail.  As such they seem to want the economy to crash.  They want the unemployment rate to be as high as possible.  They want to blame the President for high gas prices.  In fact, if it makes the President look bad to the general public, then they would be all for it.

Man, if they could catch his smoking a cigarette then they would be happier then ever.

This whole dept ceiling thing has me scratching my head.  Should it happen?  Why should it happen?  What are we really trying to do?

Recent history tells us that, we have raised the debt ceiling before.  I believe it was seven times during the Bush administration in June 2002, May 2003, November 2004, March 2006 and September 2007.  While many of the same people claim to hate it now were in office, none of them seems to have complained about it then.  In fact, Boehner, Cantor McConnell all voted “yes” to it.

Remember Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget bill?  It was supported by 235 House Republicans and 40 GOP Senators.  Well that little gem added $6 trillion to the US national dept over ten years.

In other words they supported it until it fell into the hands of President Obama.  Nice.

Now I do have to agree that we need to rein in our spending.  However, when I say we I mean all of us.  Every politician should be at the table with some decent and sincere spending cuts.  I think we should end our unpaid wars.  Why get rid of Medicare when we are fighting two wars.  I think they all should be a little more truthful and stop blaming this mess on the middle class and poor people.  Should we tweak the entitlement programs?  Perhaps we should.  Call me cynical, but I don’t think it would do anything for the economy.

Truthfully, I think this whole dog and pony show is so that certain people can make the President look like a failure they claim he is.  A “deal” will be made before the August 2 deadline, simply because there has to be one.

"That would be a financial disaster, not only for our country but for the worldwide economy. Remember, the American people on Election Day said, 'we want to cut spending and we want to create jobs.' And you can't create jobs if you default on the federal debt."

That little gem was by Speaker John Boehner in January.

Today, he's hoping that the President fails.