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Now that the major primaries have passed, now that the issues have been settled, we can all move on since the rest of the primaries are only to determine the actual people who will be running……..
Therefore, starting today, the stimulus spending bill has come under debate…
As well as it should… It was a big bill…. It was definitely voted on through a leap of faith. If successful, it completely wipes one major party off the face of the planet! If it fails, it offers the only justification for that pathetic party to have ever existed in the first place…
And so, … it should be debated…
Now with debates, anyone can say anything… If you can open your mouth, if you can form words with your tongue, if you know the rudimentary rules of the English language, you can say anything… There is no limit…
It is up to us, to determine whether what is being said, ..is fact… or fiction.. It is up to us to use our intellectual processes, our years of experiences, or natural born instincts, to analyze the sound waves emitting from a speaker’s mouth, and to make a judgment on whether what is being said… is fact, …. or …fiction.
Sometimes we need help…
So let us turn to Republicans to help us determine whether the stimulus package was a good thing after all…
As everyone knows, the passage of the Stimulus Package was essentially a Democratic undertaking. Every Republican member of the House and all but three Republican members of the Senate voted against it.
( Mike Castle is in the House; Mike Castle is a Republican )
Obviously they think the Stimulus Package is bad. They’re right…. It’s bad for Republicans… Every elected Republican’s job is in jeopardy, .. if the Stimulus Bill turns out to be successful…
As for the rest of us, …all the evidence out there now, shows it is helping.. All the evidence out there now, shows it has made a difference… All the evidence out there now, shows that America sorely needed the Stimulus Bill, and the American economy today, is alive only because this Bill got passed over the outrageous objections of all Republicans but three …
Three economic analyst firms, IHS Global Insight, Macroeconomic Advisers and Moody’s Economy.com. have estimated that between 1.6 million and 1.8 million jobs have been created so far. The White House offered a much broader range, between 1.5 and 2 million jobs.
Yes, as Rick Jensen pointed out on WDEL this afternoon, some jobs are not high priced or long term… The actual percentage of those he mentioned as having no merit, roughly a thousand out of the 2 million figure quoted by the White House, is exactly 0.0005 of one percent. So we can assume, thanks to Rick Jensen, that this bill, which Mike Castle voted against, has been 99.9995% successful at creating new jobs…
So what are these Republicans objecting too? $ 288 billion in tax cuts.
Mike Castle voted against $288 Billion in tax cuts… That is the same thing as raising your taxes… Do you know why the upcoming Christiana District Referendum is now necessary? It is because for 8 years, Mike Castle voted to streamline government. He voted for tax cuts, so his wealthy friends, who used to support our schools with their taxes, didn’t have to anymore. Keep your money he told them. We’ll cut jobs and expenses… Now, in a bad economy, every homeowner will have to cough up more to keep our schools open… All because Mike interfered with what was working beautifully, and screwed things up…
And now,… when we need jobs, Mike Castle votes against $288 billion in tax cuts? Is he nuts? or is he worried those tax cuts might be successful and he will lose his job come November 2010?
You don’t have to be a scientist to figure that one out..
But the Republicans biggest opposition to the Stimulus Package was that it created jobs….
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele laid down the party line on CNN: “Let’s get this notion out of our heads that the government create jobs. Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.”
Hoover Dam, TVA, WWII, every military contract ever signed, Kellogg & Root, every bulldozer operator on every Federal Highway, every Congressional staffer, every state employee, every public school teacher, etc., does not exist according to the republican party. They are simply not there… This is the doctrine Mike Castle subscribes to?
Contrary to Steele’s assertion, in the history of mankind, the government has in fact created many, many jobs (including the one he held for a few years: lieutenant governor of Maryland) (and they wonder why people have no confidence in Republicans.. Ha!)
Equally peculiar, was the rush by these same Republicans who said government never created any new jobs, to claim credit even though they voted against it, for the new jobs their Federal Government was bringing to their district….
Which leaves the third leg. Entitlements. Much of the spending in this area has been on Medicaid—an effort to help state governments, run by Democrats and Republicans alike, cope with the rising costs of residents left uninsured or under-insured by the economic downturn. It would be hard to find any Republican who would commit that we need to let seniors die a wretched and painful death, with no medical care because the Federal Government didn’t want to spend some extra dollars… But that is exactly what Mike Castle voted to do, when he voted against the Stimulus Bill… It’s a dammed good thing he was in the minority…
So Mike Castle voted here and here to kill the Stimulus Plan.
The question is simply put….. Was this the best decision for Delaware?
He voted against the creation of 1.6 to 1.8 million jobs.
He voted against $288 billion in tax cuts during an economic crises.
He voted against emergency money to keep seniors from dying painful and wretched deaths when state funding ran out…
Does he know he made a mistake?
You tell me.
Both are defeats for Republican philosophy currently held by the RNC and the Republican caucus in both the House and Senate.
Specter, now a Democrat, was voted out because the was one of “them”.. The opponent of Rand Paul in the Kentucky primary, was voted out, …. because he was one of “them”…
Whereas the current media spin is focused on the tea bag resurgence, as usual, they are going too far. Rand Paul is the son of Ron Paul, and holds many of his same values. Ron Paul, was innovative and single handedly, made the 2008 Republican debates worth watching. Ron Paul was not one of “them”. Neither is his son.
So his defeat over the candidate picked by Mitch McConnell, Kentucky’s Senior Senator, is due to the unraveling of the Republican party; not so much the popularity of “tea bagging”..
LIkewise, Specter, who often stood up against Republicans because their ideas were way too whacked for Pennsylvanians to stomach, was painted as a Republican this time and that killed him… Not even Obama could save him… I am saddened at this loss, because it takes great courage for a man to stand up and leave a dying party and join the one who has always been trying to unseat you… I personally wish that courage had been rewarded, so more republicans who still have a brain on their heads, might also try it… Seeing this, they won’t.
Republicans stink from the top down. As Rand Paul shows, good people need to run at the established party regulars and spank them…pull their pants down in public and spank them…
That hasn’t happened in Delaware… All we have is Castle, hiding behind the Dover High School Band, who like Specter and Mitch McConnell’s hand picked minion, were umbilically connected to the problem that ruined America.
No! Not all republicans are bad. Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, were all decent men. They were great leaders. They are a credit to America and this nation is better off that they won, instead of their opponents. They were not this stupid batch of losers we see everywhere today….
So don’t think that the Tea Party is the way to go… Rand Paul’s victory is not a ringing endorsement of their viewpoints… Instead, it is one more nail in the coffin of the RNC leadership. The RNC’s ideas failed… Their conservative values… stink…. They are nothing but stupid crap clogging up the toilets of time that need to be flushed.
Fortunately, Voters everywhere, pulling the handle … are ridding us of all our past sins……
The Republican Party is in disarray. Here is what they need to do to become a viable party. These should be in their platform this year. If not, it’s time to pull out the shovels and bury them…
a) Execute all women who get abortions; a life for a life.
b) Re-establish the draft, and attack Mexico.
c) Execute all men, women, and children who won’t read the Bible.
d) Remove all controls from managing 401 K plans.
e) Remove all Health Care Benefits.
f) Get rid of Medicare altogether.
g) Increase taxes on the poor who suck up goverment services. Remove taxes from the rich, who don’t need government at all.
h) Allow a man to shoot his wife, but execute a women who kills her husband.
i) Allow Wall Street to do whatever they want… After all it’s our money.
j) Pass legislation which makes it a crime for Republican office holders to act within the law..
k) Cut costs and ban the use of all soap in public schools.
l) Allow illegal narcotics at Republican functions only, and enforce mandatory sentencing on everyone else getting arrested for possession
m) Remove all environmental laws. Especially the ones keeping us alive.
n) Build the starship: Enterprise.
o) Give tax breaks to the wealthy, and fund it by doing away with benefits for the poor..
p) Design and mint more quarters.
q) Beat up and intimidate handicapped soldiers who show up at Republican rallies.
r) Say you support the troops; then strip all veterans of their benefits.
s) Allow unlimited development with no zoning restrictions. Pass legislation curbing homeowners rights to air grievences.
t) Spend lavishly, tax little and let our grandkids support us with their hard earned cash.
u) Pass legislation disallowing states Do Not Resuscitate laws, unless that person is a card carrying Republican.
v) Abolish all unions; both civil,…. and labor
w) Eliminate prevailing wage…
x) Return to deficit spending
y) Abolish the FDA, Bureau of Land Management, and Department of Agriculture. people can trust their food supply, no one needs to be looking over the shoulder of foreign importers….
z) Hire Phil Gramm as the party’s analyst of economic affairs.
A to Z… This is what republicans need to do in order to recapture some of their ancient glory……
See if you can figure out how……
Courtesy of Tommywonk
If all the planned East Coast wind farms were built, at peak capacity they would provide 2311 MW’s of electricity.
Yesterday, the peak for the PJM grid, was… 66,354 MWs. … And that was on a slightly warm day in May.
On such a day, if the wind were maxing out the entire East Coast at once, 3.5 % of the required energy, could come from offshore wind…
If we use the conservative estimate of 2 pounds of CO2 per kilowatt/hour, 2311 MWh’s of wind power off the East Coast could decrease 4,622,000 pounds of CO2 in Eastern air…. (Per hour)
The all time peak for demand in the PJM region, was set August 2, 2006 at 144,644 MwH. The peaks for 2009 and 2008 were 126,805 and 130,100 MwHs respectively.
None of these wind farms are in construction stage. All are still planned.
Looking at the scale of what is needed, BIG is the way off shore wind needs to go. The demand for off shore wind is obviously there….
The economy problem is simple. You need people working, people making money, and people spending money…
All three have to be in effect at the same time for it to work…
If you disrupt the balance, such as we did during the Republican economy where due to uncontrollable derivatives we had businesses betting tremendous amounts money, instead of putting it into manufacturing, you are setting yourself up for a correction..
When one balances the economic activity of any president, and rates his tenure as either good or bad, it is only fair that the correction, if any, that follows his tenure, be counted into that equation.. It does no good to say the first years of the Bush economic plan were real good, thereby proving the value of conservative Republican doctrine..
Because you see, Republican doctrine is what caused our financial mess today..
The idea, that you could export jobs, bankrupt the Treasury, and overextend 30% of America’s mortgages, and have all those negative effects compensated by making the top 1% so much more wealthy, is simply put.. “The Republican Economic Philosophy” .. Any fool can see such a philosophy could not work… but we elected people more stupid than fools. We elected Republicans…
We therefore made our bed; we have to lie in it..
But simply put,
You need people working, people making money, and people spending money…
Which means everyone needs to forget about corporate profits this year… There comes a time when mankind, who has been holding on mistruths for so long, comes to it’s senses, and accepts the obvious. Excessive corporate profits do little for the economy.
By forgetting about corporate profits, I’m not saying don’t have them.. I mean only that a shift in focus needs to occur. Instead of sending money away to the stockholders, investing in one’s business needs to happen now… Whether it is through weather proofing, energy efficiency, building windmills, or even just providing another open checkout line, once any business has cross the line into the black, it needs to stay as close to that line as possible…
It does not pay to cough up an 5 extra percent, if it means laying off one worker. That one worker, is a priceless treasure right now, precious fuel for a sputtering economic engine…
If the lack of investment is because of banks.. something needs to happen. If the lack of investment is because of taxes,.. something needs to happen. If the lack of investment is because of too little government money trickling through our economy, something needs to happen.
Democrats are about making this happen. Republicans are about stopping it from happen..
So really, who are the “patriots” here, and who are the “traitors”?
One might as well come right out and say it.. The Tea Party movement is based on race… There is no other explanation.
Lets assume, just for fun, that black is white… and white is black….
Imagine that thousands of black protesters, bussed in from Wilmington, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, and DC, were to descend upon Dover’s Green, next to our General Assembly, armed with AK-47s, M-1′s, and handguns stocked with live ammunition. And imagine that the television cameras happen to conveniently catch some of these protesters — all wearing hoodies — ranting over the need for violent political revolution and armed conflict, should laws they despised, ever be enforced by the government? Would you see them as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would shit in your pants and want them all “lined up and shot”? Don’t answer! You know how you’d see them.
We all know this happened… but black was white… and Republicans cheered and licked the butts of those shouting slogans.
Imagine John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and Michelle Bachman, while walking to work, got surrounded by thousands of angry black people, one of whom proceeded to spit so much in Michelle Bachman’s hair, it caused her to look like she had just exited a Penn State frat party. It was done for no reason, except that she had not voted the way that black demonstrator with a Muslim beard and saggy pants, had desired.
Would you see this as merely patriotic Americans voicing their opinions, or would it be apparent to you, that it was an angry, potentially violent, and even a subversive mob of really dumb ass people?
Again, we all know that this happened… but black was white… and Republicans cheered and licked the butts of those shouting the slogans.
Imagine the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, a rap artist, were to say, in reference to a white president: “He’s a piece of shit and I told him to suck on my machine gun.”
This happened… but black was white… and Republicans cheered and licked the butts of those shouting the slogans…
Now.
Imagine that a pill popping black radio host with the face of an ass, were to suggest that the only way to get promoted in the administration of any white president was to “hate black people,” or that a prominent white General had only endorsed a white presidential candidate cause they were both the same color, or blamed a white president because a fight occurred one of our nation’s school buses in which a black kid was jumped by two white kids, or if this ass faced radio host had said that he wouldn’t want to kill all conservatives, but rather, would like to leave just enough—“living fossils” as he called them—“so we will never forget what these people stood for.” After all, we all know these are things Rush Limbaugh has said….. and when he did, Republicans cheered and licked the butts of those shouting the slogans…
Imagine that a black pastor, formerly a member of the U.S. military, were to declare, as part of his opposition to a white president’s policies, that he was ready to “suit up, get my gun, go to Washington, and do what they trained me to do.”
Meanwhile the Republicans cheer and line up to lick the butts of those shouting the slogans…
Imagine a black radio talk show host gleefully predicting a revolution by people of color if the government continues to be dominated by the rich white men who have been “destroying” the country, or if said radio personality were to call Christians or Jews non-humans, or say that when it came to conservatives, the best solution would be to “hang ‘em high.”
And Republicans stand up to cheer and line up to lick the butts of those shouting the slogans…
Imagine a black political commentator, with very odd hands, suggesting that the only thing the guy who flew his plane into the Austin, Texas IRS building did wrong was not blowing up Fox News instead.
… and the Republicans cheered and licked the butts of those shouting the slogans…
Enough.
Even if one-third of the anger currently being hurled at President Obama, were being aimed by people of color at a white Republican president, how many whites would wax eloquent about every black person’s right to free speech, to own a gun, and praise all the glories of democracy?
On the other hand, how many of them would be instead calling for crackdowns on unlawful behavior, and investigations into the radical agendas of all those armed people of color?
Bottom line… Free speech, intimidation, and the right to insurrection, being championed everywhere across the Republican spectrum, … is only “right” if it’s “white”…
To each and every one of us who are color blind….. Intimidation is not right at all…
There are common laws of human decency, that boil down to the realization that ALL men do not share the same agenda. We are blessed that it was OUR founding fathers who realized that this could be a good thing… The open expression of ideas and the public rebuttal of the criticism of them, allows for cream of this country, to rise to the top…
Any group, white or black, that doesn’t abide by such common lows of human decency, … “deserves to be lined up and shot”.
If as a nation we go that far, just make sure we dump their carcasses in a salt dome… We wouldn’t want those tea bags, either white or dark, leaching into our aquifers…
Funny, … I don’t hear Republicans lining up to cheer….
Why? Because the Tea Party is all about being anti black; Anyone who has ever heard Martin Luther King Jr. speak to a crowd, … knows in his heart, there is no other explanation.
That includes Michael Steele, and David Anderson. At some point, like Senator Robert Byrd, they will come clean about their past…..
… and so ends Conservatism. exactly 30 years after it began.
April 28, 2004… an event took place that has spawned a new celebratory holiday… Many a party goer has long lamented that barren stretch between St. Patrick’s Day and Memorial Day.
And only the most demented would have the guts to party hardy on Mother’s Day…. the only holiday falling in that stretch of time.
But now, there is a new holiday, .. celebrating the moment we all got fucked. And what better name for it than: Holy Motherf*cker Day…
First a review of history….
On that bright spring afternoon, the five members of the Securities and Exchange Commission met in a basement hearing room to consider an urgent plea by the big investment banks.
The five investment banks led the charge, including Goldman Sachs, which was headed by Henry M. Paulson Jr. Two years later, he left to become Treasury secretary.
After 55 minutes of discussion, which can now be heard on the Web sites of the agency and The Times, the chairman, William H. Donaldson, a veteran Wall Street executive, called for a vote. It was unanimous. The decision, changing what was known as the net capital rule, was completed and published in The Federal Register a few months later.
With that, the five big independent investment firms were unleashed.
The commission’s decision effectively to outsource its oversight to the firms themselves fit squarely in the broader Washington culture of the last eight years under President Bush and Delaware’s Congressmen Mike Castle.
A similar closeness to industry and laissez-faire philosophy has driven a push for deregulation throughout the government, from the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency to worker safety and transportation agencies.
“It’s a fair criticism of the Bush administration that regulators have relied on many voluntary regulatory programs,” said Roderick M. Hills, a Republican who was chairman of the S.E.C. under President Gerald R. Ford. “The problem with such voluntary programs is that, as we’ve seen throughout history, they often don’t work.”
“We foolishly believed that the firms had a strong culture of self-preservation and responsibility and would have the discipline not to be excessively borrowing,” said Professor James D. Cox, an expert on securities law and accounting at Duke School of Law (and no relationship to Christopher Cox). “Letting the firms police themselves made sense to me because I didn’t think the S.E.C. had the staff and wherewithal to impose its own standards and I foolishly thought the market would impose its own self-discipline. We’ve all learned a terrible lesson,” he added.
What better excuse to get drunk… So you see, there is at least one solitary benefit to having Republicans royally screw up this country…
So raise your glass, and…. Happy Motherf*cker’s Day to you …. too…
If you want any news in this state, you have to go here first. Only here, can you find out what is happening and trust that the information you get was not hand fed to them to fool you with faux news….
Unfortunately, that confidence has been eroded with our one state paper..
So I see that Mike Castle was polled to win handsomely… I certainly can’t take that result with any credibility. It is probably a close approximation right now, … but is no indicator of where the line will fall on November 2nd. 2010…..
For you see, polls are taken of the general population. The general population is rather ignorant of politics until the 2nd week of October… A more accurate poll would be to determine how Mike Castle stands among those who consider themselves politically informed. Because this will be where the rest of the electorate stands on November 2nd, when they too, become informed…
Here’s how the polls can be so misleading…
Imagine your phone rings during dinner. Someone on the other end convinces you that your answer will have vital consequences for your state… so you go against your better judgment, and don’t hang up…
They ask you about Castle versus Coons… You say Castle because you can’t remember who Coons is, or was, or will be.. You do remember seeing Castle’s Blue & Green signs every two years since you were born… and you think that if he has been around so long, something he’s doing is right… And you do remember something about him being responsible for all the new quarters… and so you say Castle so you can hang up and go back to eating….
That is why Castle is at 55% and Coons at 32%….. For every three that got called and supported Coons, there were five for Castle…
But….. they don’t know… It’s not October yet…
They don’t know that Mike Castle is responsible for them losing their 401 K’s.
They don’t know that Mike Castle is responsible for Delmarva’s rates to increase by 60%..
They don’t know that Mike Castle is responsible for the financial collapse of Wall Street.
They don’t know that Mike Castle is responsible for their insurance co’pays going up…
They don’t know that Mike Castle is responsible for their local taxes to rise.
They don’t know that Mike Castle is responsible for government workers taking a 2% cut last year..
They don’t know that Mike Castle voted not to fund Medicare today, but instead, have our kids and grand kids pay for our medicine…
They don’t know that Mike Castle voted against the very stimulus packages whose oversize checks he is now handing out across this state..
They don’t know that Mike Castle supported someone who wanted to drill for oil offshore from his beach home…
They don’t know that Mike Castle supported the importation of chemicals without their normal duties being slapped down.
They don’t know that Mike Castle supports Wall Street over Main Street.
They don’t know than Mike Castle lets corporations take your money without you even knowing about it…
They don’t know …… the real Mike Castle….
Courtesy of Shock-Value
Drill, Baby, Drill….
How silly does it sound now?
As the oil slick begins slapping the Gulf Coast’s shoreline, one can imagine what such damage would to Delaware’s shoreline.
Good decisions require the mental capacity to think through all options and determine all outcomes and balance the reward with the risk…
There is no reward for any Delawarean to have their oil drilled off Rehoboth’s shores. There is risk to every Delawarean if such an event were to take place…
So anyone proposing something that is all risk, and no reward, is simply a fool trying to get in good graces with another fool running on a national ticket…
