To Angry American Tea Partiers:

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After the eight years of the Bush/Cheney disaster, NOW you choose to get mad?

• You didn't get mad when Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
• You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed energy company officials to dictate energy policy, and to push us to invade Iraq.
• You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
• You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
• You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
• You didn't get mad when we spent over 1 trillion dollars (and counting) on said illegal war.
• You didn't get mad when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined.
• You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars in cash just disappeared in Iraq.
• You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
• You didn't get mad when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country.
• You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
• You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.
• You didn't get mad when Bush rang up 10 trillion dollars in combined budget and current account deficits.
• You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
• You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
• You didn't get mad when we gave people who had more money than they could spend, the filthy rich, over a trillion dollars in tax breaks.
• You didn't get mad with the worst 8 years of job creations in several decades.
• You didn't get mad when over 200,000 US Citizens lost their lives because they had no health insurance.
• You didn't get mad when lack of oversight and regulations from the Bush Administration caused US Citizens to lose 12 trillion dollars in investments, retirement, and home values.

No, those things didn't get you angry. You finally got mad when a black man was elected President and decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, job losses by the millions, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, and the worst economic disaster since 1929 are all okay with you, but helping fellow Americans who are sick...Oh, Hell No!!

 

Conservatives Running Away from Conservative Conference Because Some Gays Might Show Up

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Uh oh! Looks like some of the heads of conservative movement's "values voters" wing has caught wind that some gay people are planning on attending their annual orgiastic patriot party.
Can't risk being associated with those types…

Some of the nation's most prominent social conservatives are sending a message to their economic brethren by dropping out of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in response to the decision to include GOProud, a gay conservative group, as a participating organization.
"The base-line reason is that homosexuality is not a conservative value," said Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association's director of issue analysis. "It's the conservative PAC, not the libertarian PAC."…
Other social-issues groups opting to avoid the conference include the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, the Center for Military Readiness, the American Family Association, the American Principles Project, the Liberty Counsel and the National Organization for Marriage.

I cannot even imagine the cognitive gymnastic ability needed to be an out gay-person and an avowed conservative these days. It must be like manning a gun turret in a fighter plane while fist swordfighting with all your fellow crewmen at the same time. Except with about a third of the other crewmen trying to grab your package when they think no one's looking. Just seems like a lot to deal with.

Via Indecision Forever

Country Overwhelmingly Progressive, Study Finds

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Scary, that picture, isn't it?

According to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released Monday, the country is overwhelmingly progressive. This "revelation", as if it should even be considered as such, comes just as the new Congress convenes. Newly elected House Republicans have promised to roll back all reforms that have been enacted since President Obama has taken office. Health Reform, Wall Street Reform, Student Loan Reform, all these things that we have worked tirelessly for, are being placed in the Republican's cross-hairs.

When asked what they thought should be done to balance the budget, Americans answered loudly, clearly, and unmistakably. 61% said that we should increase taxes on the rich. A close second? Cutting defense spending, at 20%.

Only 4% were interested in cutting Medicare, with only 3% wanting to cut Social Security. Washington will most assuredly dislike this news, they were just getting ready to cut social security. The president's Debt Commission, the entirety of the GOP, and even some members of the Democratic party are in favor of cutting social security. This all coming after them giving away $407 billion in tax cuts to the rich.

Obviously the American people are in conflict with Washington. This is fact. This isn't just another, "What the American people want" cliche. If Washington continues to deface the American people in this way, if the Democrats, Republicans and the president persist in trying to cut Social Security in the face of these numbers, then we will know that we have lost our democracy altogether. That the people in power couldn't give a damn what we want. That the take over of the American government by the corporations, the rich and the powerful is complete.

Every time you hear any politician or pundit say we have to cut Social Security or what they derisively call entitlement programs (you paid into them your whole life, that is why you are "entitled" to them), send them this poll. And ask them why they don't care at all about the will of the American people.