Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Seriously? The Tucson Weekly has a blog post about how hate radio host Jon Justice has his knickers in a twist and is clutching his pearls over a statement that Rep. Ron Barber made that the GOP is "essentially a bunch of white guys." Oh the horrors! Ron Barber Said Something Dumb … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
When Abraham Lincoln ran for president in 1860, he ran on a promise of preserving the Union. The Republican
platform in 1860 denounced threats of disunion as avowals of treason.
During the interegnum between Lincoln's election victory in November 1860 and his Inauguration in March 1861, seven southern states voted for acts of secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina, the first shots of the Civil War. Lincoln called for a volunteer army from each state to recapture Fort Sumter, and four more southern states voted for acts of secession and joined the Confederacy.
All of this occurred within the first two months of Lincoln's presidency. So was Lincoln a failure because he failed to preserve the Union as he had promised during his campaign in 1860?
That is how the modern-day Tea-Publican Party, no longer the "Party of Lincoln," would attack Lincoln today if he was running for reelection. It was all his fault that insurrectionists engaged in an act of sedition against the United States. "Lincoln didn't preserve the Union!"
This is the proper historical context in which to consider the latest right-wing noise machine media attack on President Obama. Obama promised to change the tone in Washington during his 2008 campaign. It is all his fault that Tea-Publican insurrectionists engaged in an act of sedition against the United States. "Obama didn't change the tone in Washington!"
On January 20, 2009 Republican Leaders in Congress literally conspired to
sabotage and undermine the U.S. Economy, already in a free-fall at the time, during President Obama's
Inauguration. You can read about it in Robert Draper's new book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives." Robert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of Inauguration – The Huffington Post. The Tea-Publican insurrectionists engaged in an act of sedition against the United States on Obama's day one.
So what has the right-wing noise machine all worked up today? A supposed Obama "gaffe" that he said at the Univision town hall: “The most important lesson I’ve learned is that you can’t change Washington from the inside.” Greg Sargent explains, Obama’s latest `gaffe’: Vowing to engage more Americans in the political process:
Republicans and conservatives are pouncing. Mitt Romney
slammed Obama over the remarks today, arguing that he has thrown in the
“white flag of surrender.” So it’s now a real story.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Their Obama Derangement Syndrome has reached such a fevered pitch that Tea-Publicans in the U.S. Senate, some of whom participated in drafting this bipartisan veterans jobs bill, voted against the very bill they helped to draft with a GOP filibuster. They are insane, and this is unforgiveable. Vet jobs bill knocked out in Senate:
Legislation to put veterans to work preserving and restoring national
parks and other federal, state and local lands was defeated Wednesday
afternoon when Senate Republicans successfully blocked the bill’s
advance with a budgetary point of order.
The largely party-line Senate vote of 58-40 fell two votes
short of the three-fifths majority needed to overcome the procedural
objection. Republicans said the Veterans Job Corps bill violated the
Budget Control Act by adding a new program that would increase the
deficit. [$1 billion price tag for the program over five years, i.e., $200 million per year — pocket change in Washington.]
[These are the same people who would readily add $5 trillion to the deficit over the next decade by making the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans permanent.]
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Democrats charged that Republican opposition stemmed from a refusal to support an initiative
that originated in the White House. The corps, loosely based on the
Civilian Conservation Corps created during the Great Depression, would
employ veterans in conservation, resource management and historic
preservation projects on public lands. The legislation would also
provide for hiring veterans as police officers and firefighters.
Senate
Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said the measure would have
“sailed” through the Senate in past years but had been derailed by
partisanship. “Blocking a veterans’ jobs bill is a new low,” he said in a
statement.
by David Safier Last March, the Librotraficante Caravan reached Tucson with boxes full of "wetbooks." It was the end of an information and awarness tour which started in Houston to spotlight the injustice of banning books used in TUSD's Mexican American Studies courses. (Yes, contrary to the spin by some Board members and TUSD PR … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Announcement from Sen. Paula Aboud (D-LD 28):