He Got Tired of Herding Cats...

 

 

Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has announced his resignation as both Speaker and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.  To be clear, he did not retired.  He quit.

 

It appears that those Republicans who still have a moderate bone in their bodies and an ounce of grey matter in their skull will understand that Boehner simply got tired of "herding cats."

 

There is a horde of Ultra-Conservative Cats in the U.S. House that are cheering wildly since the announcement; caring less about the United States Congress as a whole and more about their own narrow, selfish views of how their pointy-headed little world should be.

 

When another Speaker is elected - most likely a moderate like Boehner - the Ultra-Conservative Cats will continue their obnoxious and ruinous march on sanity.  Their noise and disruption will continue and their actions will be the caustic vitriol that could ultimately bring down the entire Republican Party - which seems devoid of any concern by the horde.

 

Speaker Boehner has been known for wearing his emotions on his sleeve, and at least to most, that is a welcoming characteristic for any politician. That type of politician, unfortunately, is as hard to find as hen's teeth. 

 

Comparatively, these Ultra-Conservative Cats wear knives up their sleeves and blood in their eyes.  And, in the U.S. House, they are much easier to find.

 

What God (and most of the voters)  joined together,

let no horde put asunder.

 

 

 

   

Carly, the Corporate Capitalist...

 

 

Carly Fiorina is a Republican Candidate for the Office of President of the United States. 

 

She has spent most of her adult life in the corporate world, much of it as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, where she cut more than 20,000 jobs and, reportedly,  was eventually fired for poor performance.

 

Fiorina's vision is hazy beyond the Profit and Loss Statements of a company.  She appears to be only slightly aware of the working peasants outside the corporate gates and but a fleeting memory of  them standing on the dock as she sails away in the corporate yacht.  She finds issues such as minimum wage and labor unions rather boring and unnecessary.

As a presidential candidate, however, she can grit her teeth,  hold her nose, and speak of the Middle Class almost as if they are real members of the human race and not simply grunt workers necessary to produce company profits.  (In all honesty, this noticeable discomfort was seen on the faces of nearly all of the candidates on the debate stage.)

The word "hypocrite" comes to mind in so many answers that Ms. Fiorina and her debate cronies projected to the cameras. The words "liar" and "disingenuous" were abundantly clear to describe Fiorina and several other candidates on stage.  Such key words were often uttered to tug at the hearts - and votes - of Republicans, such as:  Evangelical, Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Gay Marriages, Obamacare, Iran Deal, and Hillary's email and Benghazi scandals.  Extra credit was given to any candidate who could use all of those words in one sentence. 

I'm sorry, but I would have to pass on this candidate as a presidential nominee.  She gives the appearance of being rather caustic to anyone who may disagree with her, and is too defensive about being the "woman in the room."  It is a character flaw which would give her trouble when dealing with congressional and world leaders.

Finally, I see Fiorina as a capitalist who can tell you all about the "art of the deal," but can't tell you diddly squat about how badly the Middle Class Americans are hurting...or what to do about it.





 

Enough is Enough...

 

 

There is no way on God's green earth that this man will ever become our president!

 

Have you honestly sat down with the American political scene clearly in front of you and tried to understand what's going on, not from your partisan perspective, but from the nation's perspective? 

 

If you have, you are a rare bird, indeed.  Most of us only see what we chose to see through our own ideological eyes.

 

There is no one (except maybe the candidate himself) who thinks Donald Trump has the presidential posture, stance, image, behavior, or acumen to hold the most powerful office on earth.  Can you see Trump in high-level discussions with a world leader and they suddenly disagree with him?  Can you understand the fear of his management style - not just from foreign countries - but from THIS country?  

 

The followers of Donald Trump are "mad as Hell" and they are jumping on "The Donald's" band wagon to show us all just how mad they are.  Trump is obviously leading in the polls, but only because of he and his follower's insane mockery of our political system, our government, our immigration laws, our health care laws, our minority rights laws, our social programs, and on and on.

 

Trump is the leader of the new-and-viciously-altered Tea Party nitwits.  He is riding on the coattails of anyone who has a beef with our country - and our president of color.  It has become a popular sport for these folks to stomp on our country's greatness and try to replace it with their own selfish wants and demands.    

 

So, why is America's television media giving him the run of their programming schedule?  It's almost embarrassing how the other GOP Presidential Candidates have to scream bloody murder in order to get a five-second sound bite on the evening news. 

 

And a final question:  When are the American People going to tell Trump and the media that enough is enough.

 

That's not asking too much, is it?

 

 

 

   

Jeb "Me Too!" Bush

 

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) is the odds-on favorite to be the GOP Nominee for President of the United States.  (source:  George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, George W. Bush, Laura Bush, and various other family members.)

 

Jeb doesn't seem a fitting name for an American President, so I have decided to change his first name to "Me Too!".  It will give him stature.  It will give him a proper standing in his lineage regarding the Bush Dynasty.  The Texas Clan of Bush must survive and prosper...and rule.

And, a proper dynasty needs a proper sequence.

We have weathered the George H.W. Bush presidency (one term only), the George W. Bush (two terms, unfortunately; one elected by the Conservative Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one by the mistakes of the confused, frightened and war-weary voters.) 

Unlike getting hand-me-downs as a child, Me Too! is hoping for voters that will see him as new and different.  Perhaps no one will remember his brother's Iraq Prevarication and the Greatly Premature Mission Accomplished snafu.  Yeah, maybe they won't remember.

It's hard to live down the skeletons in the family closet when the media and the other presidential candidates keep opening the closet door.  He surely knew all of that was going to come tumbling out as soon as he threw his Stetson into the ring.  (Maybe these candidates are on to something.  Maybe they really do think we are as dumb as we show ourselves to be.)

Me Too! has an uphill challenge and a downhill approach to the Oval Office.  He should have entered the race with a more forceful and honest answer to the Iraq War conundrum that is on everyone's mind.  However, when first asked, he said he would have done the same as brother Dubya.  Five days later, he reversed and said the war was a mistake.  A few days later, Me Too! shook the old fortune teller's ball again and came up with a new recipe for an answer.

Me Too! is a confused and conflicted Bush clansman.

Maybe it's time to call the dynasty a day and move on.


 



Bernie the Bold

 

 

Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) is running for President of the United States.  Since he announced, he has been saying things that virtually every American wants to hear - with the exception of the big money, anti-government, war hawks.

Bernie calls a spade a gosh-darn shovel!

He believes - and boldly states - that this country's Middle and Lower Class is disintegrating because the political leaders of America are funneling all advantages to the rich at the expense of everyone else.

The wealthy want your retail buying dollars, your taxes, your votes, your workers to go home while they send their jobs overseas,  and your sons and daughters armed and ready when they concoct the next war to fund their pals in the military contracting business.   They have given the term 'war hawks' a whole new definition.  The Iraq 'War' proved that they can always find a reason to invade someone...even if they have to tell a few lies.

The New Hampshire  polls today show he has overtaken Hillary Clinton.  While most Democrats would be happy as little clams if either one became the Party's Nominee, Clinton has been labeled 'heir apparent' by the Party Leaders.  In national polls, either one could handily defeat any of the Republican Candidates.

Clinton does have some baggage involving big-time business leaders who have donated heavily to her campaign.  This flies in the face of what Sanders touts as his basic brand, but don't expect to hear much about that from him.  He has been running a pretty straight-forward campaign that is about Bernie and not about Hillary.

Sanders accepts donations only from 'the people' and depends on no PAC or other big money outlets.  It adds to his claim that as president he will not find himself beholding to anyone.   Adding to his mystique, crowd attendance at his gatherings is becoming huge. 

Maybe Clinton is not yet afraid...but I think Bernie woke her up and she has the coffee on now.




 

Call it the "Schumer Shuffle"...

 

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the heir-apparent to Sen. Harry Reid's post as Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate, has possibly traded good sense for his re-election money pit by stating he will vote against the Iran Deal.  His reasoning is vague and unimpressive:  "We don't have enough facts yet."  Meaning: "I've read it and my Israeli friends don't like it."

What?  You are surprised one of our senators would trade his vote for some easy cash that could guarantee keeping him in office?  Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu, the citizens of Israel,  and the Jewish contingency in New York have all made their wishes well known:  This deal must not pass!  We all remember the "GOP arranged trip" Netanyahu made to our U.S. House to convince our mugwumps not to allow this deal of the president to pass. It was as if Israel had become a voting member of our Legislature.  Israel is certainly one of our most admired allies, but when has America not defended them to the fullest?  When have we not sent billions of dollars to their aid and comfort? 

It's sad, but true.  No political party holds a patent on voting against the will of the people and for his or her own needs.  The Iran Deal may be one of the most important decisions our current congressional mugwumps will face.  Bluntly, some will tell us that it's simply a matter of peace or war.  

But, alas...I guess it's not as important as filling up Senator Schumer's coffer with donations for his next election. 

Sorry, folks, there is nothing more important than that! 

Not even war, evidently.



 

I love money and firing workers...Sound familiar?

 

 

Carly Fiorina is a Republican Candidate for President of the United States.

She has never been elected to an office, but has decided that she's ready and might as well start with a small office - like the Oval one.

Fiorina is sixty years old and Republican from Austin, Texas.  (yeah, I know...another one of those.)  Her greatest triumph was achieving the office of CEO of Hewlett-Packard and lopping off about 20,000 jobs.  She was ultimately fired as CEO in a contentious fight with the HP Board.  Up until that point, she had all the makings of another Mitt Romney.  Greed and a penchant for getting rid of the riffraff became her calling card. 

Republicans around the country are looking at Fiorina and saying "my kind of hatchet lady."  She will do our bidding with gusto!

A businesswoman through and through, tough, gritty, not afraid to eliminate American jobs - aside from laying off 20,000 HP jobs, she sent many more overseas - she is just what makes the big money fat cats in the GOP drool on their lobster bibs.

The question for today is:  Are we going to continue down this road of  bending toward the fat cats and away from the rest of us, or are we going to start bending toward the Middle and Lower Class and get this country back on the right path?

Not once during the Republican Debate last week did we hear anything about help for the working class, shoring up Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, helping young people get an affordable college education, more regulations of our banking, cleaner air and water, better health care needs for women, and bringing jobs back to America!

Fiorina will be just more of the same old, same old Republican Brand.

I think we have enough rich old white guys laying around.  We don't need a rich old white gal in the Oval Office continuing their gluttony of greed!

Keep paying attention, voters.