GOP Congressional Freshmen Say They'll Limit Their Number of Terms: MY! Aren't We Full of Ourselves!

"I'm only going to serve six terms in the House." "I'm only staying for 12 years in the Senate." Those are the kinds of highly presumptive blasts coming out of the mouths of newly elected republicans in the U.S. House and Senate. As Politico.com reports today, about half of the more than 80 new GOP House members vow to self-impose term limits, while a number of new GOP Senate members are saying the same thing (all of them typically saying 6-12 years will be their limit) (link to full story at bottom).

Kind of putting the ol' cart before the horse, uh boys?! Have these clowns not paid an iota of attention to the 2006, 2008 and 2010 elections? Independents kicked the GOP to the curb in 06 and 08, and we thoroughly enjoyed doing the same thing to the leftist democrat party one week ago. The message: If you're an incumbent in the rotten cesspool that is Washington DC, then your seat is not safe under any circumstances. The last thing any of these slimeballs in either party should be doing is talking about how they will "only" be in DC for X number of years.

Now, all of that being said (and I was being somewhat facetious), Politico also observes that all this big talk from these GOP freshmen will likely breathe some new life into the rather dormant term limits movement. And that's nothing but a positive. In my opinion, the only bad term limit is no term limit. I've heard all the arguments to the contrary, but I'm still waiting to hear any truly compelling reason for why we shouldn't have legislative branch term limits when executive branch terms limits have long been a routine and accepted part of our American political culture.

And when I espouse congressional term limits, I like to think that I'm fairly liberal (in the literal, not political sense) on the whole issue. I'd be fine with terms limits of 12 years in both the House and Senate -- a full four years longer than the typical executive branch term limit of eight years. Hell, I'd even take something longer than 12 years just so that we could have some (any) term limit in place.

So maybe I shouldn't be so hard on this bragadocious hot air from the GOP freshmen. Because if it has the consequence of bringing the term limits issue back into the middle of American political discussion, that's only a good thing.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44930.html
http://www.termlimits.org/

"Independents Fueled GOP Wave" on Election Day 2010: Politico.com with a Firm Grasp of the Obvious.

That's precisely what I said on election night (although I believe I used the phrase, "boot in the ass"), and it's not like it was some sort of brilliant observation on my part. Independents -- who make up roughly 40% of the American population -- decide elections. I often say that. Know why? Because it's an undeniable fact. The democrat party and GOP know it, although they hate talking about it and hate being reminded of it. And on Election Day 2010 one week ago, Independents nationwide overwelmingly voted against the democrat party's iron grip on power in DC, which meant we had to vote for republican candidates at the national level. From today's Politico.com (link to full story at bottom):

"[Independents] overwhelmingly think the country is on the wrong track and largely disapprove of President Barack Obama’s performance, and a plurality said they were voting for Republicans mostly to offer a check on the president and the Democratic majority. 'This wave was driven by independents voting for Republicans,' said GOP pollster Whit Ayres of his party’s electoral gains. 'This was an angry, protest election where people voted against the Democrats and the Obama agenda,' added Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg . . . The results illuminate what may be the most worrisome trend for Obama and Democrats in the two years since their political triumph — the flight of independent voters to the GOP."

The specific polling numbers, as reported by Politico (and taken the day of and day after the election), further tell the story:
-79% of Independents think the country is going in the wrong direction.
-Only 35% of Independents approve of Obama's job performance (60% disapprove).
-"Independents have also swung to the right on issues, favoring the GOP on economic issues, which voters cited as their top priority."
-57% of Independents favor repealing the democrat party's 2010 health care monstrosity (with only 31% opposing repeal).

But the story also makes clear that last Tuesday was not some widespread adoption of the republican party by Independents. 43% of Independents (a plurality) who supported a republican congressional candidate "said they did so to institute a check on the president and his party," rather than being predominantly motivated to vote for a republican. Yep. I know that feeling.

"And Independents, when given the choice, indicated they wanted to see both parties move to the center," rather than aligning along the ideological totem poles inhabited by the far leftists and the right-wing conservatives. And that may be the most disconcerting thing, since all I see these days are two parties who continue to move farther towards their extremes.

But that's OK, because if they govern too far out there on those extremes (see democrat party, 2009-2010), we'll just kick another slew of incumbents to the curb in the next election. We Independents are starting to get pretty damn good at that.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44875.html

Perhaps the Most Completely Laughable Suggestion Yet from the American Far Left: Let's Have a Violent Left-Wing Revolution!

That was the sentiment (links at bottom) expressed this week by left-winger MSNBC talking head Dylan Ratigan (who, by the way, gives Dylans everywhere a very bad name). Here's what this goofwad had to say:

"Are things in our country so bad that it might actually be time for a revolution? The answer obviously is yes. The only question is how to do it."

This particular segment involved Ratigan's interview with ultra-radical leftist Ted Rall, who for good measure chimed in with these brilliant words of his own: "The people have an obligation to revolt . . . The American left has been very peaceful since the early '70s, and where has it gotten us?"

Beyond the completely moronic nature of this kind of rhetoric, here's additionally why it's so hilarious: The American far left inhabits less than 20% of the American population. And they're the ones who are going to fight a revolution?! Them and what army! What are they going to do, anyway -- try to shout and insult us to death?!

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/11/09/msnbc-host-dylan-ratigan-hints-violent-revolution
http://nation.foxnews.com/dylan-ratigan/2010/11/09/nbc-news-segment-calls-armed-left-wing-revolution

MSNBC Pundit Lawrence O'Donnell: "I Am a Socialist! I Live to the Extreme Left of Mere Liberals!" In All Seriousness: I Admire His Honesty & Courage.

Those statements by O'Donnell (pictured immediately above) came on Friday's "Morning Joe" program on far left-dominated broadcast news network MSNBC (link to full story at bottom). He was debating the future course of the democrat party with "progressive" blogger Glenn Greenwald, who vehemently questions whether there should be any meaningful place in the democrat party for so-called "moderate" "Blue Dogs." O'Donnell very much disagrees with Greenwald's sentiments, ranting as follows:

"Glenn, unlike you, I am not a progressive. I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive. Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist. I live to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals, okay? However, I know this about my country. Liberals are 20 percent of the electorate. Conservatives are 41 percent of the electorate, okay?...You can sit there and pretend that liberals should run more liberal in conservative districts. You love the loss of the Blue Dogs. The only way, the only way you have a chairman Barney Frank, there's only one way, that's by electing Blue Dogs. It's the only way. That's the only way you have a Speaker Pelosi."

O'Donnell's remarks have faced widespread criticism from the right-wingers today, but I have a completely different take that I have not read or heard anywhere else on the Net: Serious kudos to O'Donnell for being honest about who he is and having the courage to be honest about it.

One of my leading criticisms of the American far left is how its members incessantly try to hide whom they really are, hide what they really believe in, hide what they really want to accomplish, and hide the true objectives of the policies and legislation they espouse. In this regard, O'Donnell is a true breath of fresh air.

Put another way, let's get the truth out there and then debate it on its own merits! If you truly believe it would be the good and right thing for the United States to move as far down the road towards a socialist state as possible, then say that and we can debate whether that's the right course of action! If you think the ideal endgame is a single payer/government controlled health care system, then admit it and let's debate the merits!

I'm sick and tired in recent years of the American far left pussyfooting around their real beliefs and constantly trying to hide whom they really are. They will get much more respect from me and many Independents if they would just stop that foolishness (which fools no one) so that we can get down to debating whether, in fact, a far leftist America is truly the right direction for the country.

I disdain people who try to gain power disingenuously by acting like they are something they are not (see the Obama 2008 presidential campaign). Have the balls to stick up for whom you really are and what you really stand for, just once, American far left, and then we get around to debating that direction. Until then, you'll find that I and many Independents have little place for paying one ounce of attention to you.

One final thought: O'Donnell is also right on when he gets at the fact that the democrat party does itself absolutely no favors when it sacrifices and forces out its non-leftist so-called "moderates." The republican party similarly does itself no favors in such regard, but yet continues to do the very same thing.

These two parties for a number of years now have both been on a continuous track of destructively moving farther to their extremes and having little place within their ranks for anyone except loony left-wingers and deranged right-wingers. In short, these are not our fathers' or our grandfathers' democrat or GOP parties. The result is that at least 50% of the country, if not more, is not represented in any way, shape or form by either party.

This endless cycle of the further extremification (if that's a word) of the two parties can only continue for so long until a third party emerges to represent the unrepresented throngs and to replace one of the two current parties. But in what kind of sorry shape will the country be in by then? That's what I worry about on a daily basis. And I know this: More honestly by these partisans, like that exhibited by Lawrence O'Donnell on Friday, is only a good thing, and I will always welcome it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/06/lawrence-odonnell-calls-h_n_779909.html

In Stark Contrast to the Two Awful Presidents Discussed Yesterday: 50 Years Ago Today, JFK Was Elected the Nation's 35th President.

For this anniversary, Life Magazine has released a slew of previously unpublished JFK photos, including the one above, which shows JFK at a Country Fair grocery store in West Virginia as he campaigned in the Democratic Party (back then, it was worthy of being called the "Democratic Party") presidential primary in that state. (Link to more new photos at bottom).

JFK, whom I consider to be the last great American president, wouldn't know the far leftist-controlled democrat party of today. I frankly doubt he could stomach being a part of today's democrat party, and such party would likely not welcome him (since talking about things like promoting American exceptionalism, lowering income tax rates to grow revenues long term, and supporting a strong national defense would be sacrilege among the so-called "progressives" who run things in the democrat party these days).

Likewise, I doubt if JFK, who was certainly not a conservative, would have had any interest today in joining today's republican party, and indeed that party would have no place for him. I think JFK today would have to be an Independent and, given how difficult it is for third party candidates to make a dent in national elections, he would probably be relegated to serving as a U.S. Senator or Representative.

So I suppose it's just as well that he came along in the 1960's. I doubt if there are too many presidents in American history who -- like JFK -- could have successfully avoided the outbreak of World War III during the Cuban Missile Crisis without giving away the entire farm to the Soviet Union. The country needed him in the early 1960's, and thank God he was around. I just wish we had a few more (any) men of character and goodwill and real political leaders like JFK these days.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/11/us/gallery.large.jfk.life/?hpt=C2

I Guess Awful Presidents Have to Stick Together: George W. Bush Sings Obama’s Praises, Bashes John McCain, in His New Book.

Not that I’m some John McCain fan (I voted for neither McCain nor Obama in the 2008 election, instead voting third party), but I couldn’t help but become positively sick this weekend in reading Politico.com’s account (link to full story at bottom) of how Bush’s new book ("Decision Points") grinds his petty axe against fellow republican McCain pretty damn deep, while at the same time praising the alleged wonderful “presidential” attributes of one Barack Obama.

I for one wish Bush – whom, along with Obama, I consider to be one of the two absolute worst presidents of my lifetime (and I was alive for Jimmy Carter and part of Nixon) – would just slink back to his Dallas mansion or ranch or wherever the hell he calls home these days and just stay the hell there. I’m not really too interested in hearing his viewpoints about McCain or Obama or much of anything else. Instead, I’d prefer that he just shut the hell up and leave the American people the hell alone. He’s done enough damage.

Bush is an individual whom I’m convinced knowingly lied to us about the pretext to invade a sovereign country (Iraq) that posed little or no security threat to the United States. The cost of Bush dishonestly pursuing his great Neo-Con dream was monumental, and perhaps the country will never recover.

With the huge war price tag, Bush started us down the road of stifling national debt, which Obama has only ratcheted up like the blinded ideologue that he is. And of course, there were the human scars of the myriad dead and wounded American soldiers. They deserved a lot better, but instead they got Bush as their commander-in-chief.

I’ve been harshly criticized in the past by both fellow Independents and republican types for my view that Bush knew full well that there were no WMDs in Iraq. Do I know that with 100% certainty? No. But I do believe it very strongly.

And even if I’m wrong, the alternatives still make Bush an historically rotten president, because either (1) he had no real idea whether or not there were truly WMDs in Iraq but nonetheless used that as the excuse to invade OR (2) even if he actually believed there were WMDs in Iraq, he was still the most grossly negligent president in American history for invading a sovereign country based upon a “fact” that he had so completely and utterly WRONG.

Under any of these scenarios, Bush is one of the most incompetent and destructive presidents in American history. And to any of you far leftist loons who happen to agree with me here – you out-of-touch idiots can go **** yourselves too.

And so I say to W: You’ve done enough damage. Don’t go away writing books or making speeches or spouting your opinions about current politicians. Just go away. Really though. Do all of us Americans a huge favor, Slimeball.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44781.html

Vice President Joe Biden Seeks Anger Management Advice From Disgraced & Suspended MSNBC Pundit Keith Olbermann!

Wouldn't that be like Charlie Sheen consulting Mel Gibson on how to avoid drunken rampages and racial slurs? What advice is Olbermann going to give on that front, anyway? Perhaps: "Joe, if you find yourself enraged at some point, just give me a buzz -- I'll drop a few thousand in your campaign coffer to cheer you up!" Just another day in the life of the slimeballs.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/05/biden-sought-olbermanns-advice-on-anger/

"Bedtime for BOZO"?! Sarah Palin Takes a Dump on the Legacy of Ronald Reagan?Isn't That Sacrilege? And Where's the Right-Wing Outrage?

Good Grief! I'm no Reagan-worshipper (we all know that type), nor even a conservative or a republican, but even I know that the title of one of Ronald Reagan's old films is Bedtime for Bonzo (from 1951 and starring Reagan as a professor who tries to treat a chimpanzee like a human child) and that Reagan was in a whole slew of Hollywood pictures, not just Bonzo (ever heard of Knute Rockne, All American?). And so when I saw for the first time today some recent comments of Sarah Palin, I was rolling!

It seems that Palin was on Fox News last week trying to defend her celebrity-like status and her upcoming TLC reality series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska." Said Sarah:

"Wasn't Ronald Reagan an actor? Wasn't he in 'Bedtime for Bonzo,' Bozo, or something? Ronald Reagan was an actor."

I repeat my question from the top: "Bozo"?! What, was Palin mixing up the Reagan film with her own reality series (if the Bozo fits...)? And doesn't it sound like Palin was completely unaware that Reagan was ever in any other film?!

But here's the thing: Those flubs are not even the part of this that you would think would rile up conservatives. First, conservatives don't like it when people focus on the fact that Reagan was an actor. Moreover, Palin's flippant comments could be read as suggesting that Reagan brought little more to politics and to the White House than his acting skills.

And sure enough, that's precisely how right-leaning Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan took Palin's comments. In Noonan's linked column, she kind of tears Palin a new one, so to speak, but in Noonan's high-brow style rather through a full frontal assault -- although Noonan does send "nincompoop" and "ignorant" blasts Palin's way (which is pretty damn direct for Noonan).

Final question: Why -- if Palin made these comments last week -- have I not heard any conservative talking heads or writers talking about them until today (and I don't even think of Noonan as necessarily being a "conservative")? I'd think the conservatives would be outraged?

Are they just too afraid of incurring the wrath of Palin's rather small but extremely devoted fanbase, or do conservatives prefer to occupy their time attacking only non-conservatives (including fellow republicans) rather than fellow conservatives (even when they disagree)? I suspect both factors are strongly at play here.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703805704575594772776292394.html

Racial Insensitivity? Democrat Party Candidate and Tea Party Right-Winger Purport to"Bury the Hatchet" in Delaware.

The odd sight in the first picture above is the democrat party's Chris Coons and republican party tea partier Christine O'Donnell yuckin' it up as they claim to "bury to hatchet" following the Delaware U.S. Senate race (won by Coons). This is apparently some sort of weird Delaware political "tradition" (link to full story at bottom).

OK, so we already knew the tea party is supposed to be a bunch of racists, but the democrat party too? I mean, is this kind of ceremony really necessary or appropriate? There's nary a sports team in the country anymore (with limited exceptions) that is permitted by the Political Correctness Police to so much as have a Native American team name, but yet everyone just laughs it up at such a sight in Delaware?

I guess they felt they needed to truly "bury the hatchet" since Native Americans were violent savages who always went around hacking up people with hatchets all the time (which is obviously patently absurd and racist), and we don't want to see anything like that happen after a slimy political race? Posited another way, precisely what are they trying to express and prove here?

Or maybe it's just that it's OK to have such ceremonies in heavily democrat party states ("blue states") such as Delaware since everyone knows that true racism only exists in people who disagree with democrats? By the way, what do they do in Massachusetts following a political race -- smoke a peace pipe? How about over in Connecticut -- maybe a nice "retire the Indian giver" ceremony? Just pointing out the hypocrisy, folks, as always.

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1011/odonnell_coons_bury_hatchet.html

HORROR: Evil Clown Reportedly Goes Bonkers in the Big Apple, Tosses News Reporter Off Halloween Parade Float...

This bizarre story reminds me of the old-school shenanigans of one Doink the Evil Wrestling Clown (pictured above). The New York Daily News reports that local TV news reporter Arthur Chi'en (pictured on left) -- for no apparent good reason -- was accosted at the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade by a "marauding clown" (link to full story at bottom).

The "costumed culprit" allegedly "clambered aboard the float" on which Chi'en was riding and fired Chi'en down to the street face-first. The clown then scurried away into the night, while Chi'en suffered serious facial injuries. "It was a free-for-all," said Chi'en.

The deranged clown apparently made good on his getaway, as cops have yet to make any arrests in the demented caper. There are also reportedly calls for the city to start posting cops on parade floats to prevent another evil clown from ever doing something like this again.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/11/04/2010-11-04_hween_parade_nut_fractures_reporters_face.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE0CAFySImQ&feature=related

What Election? What Recession?Let's Party It Up in India, Baby!

I'm sure you've heard that just a few days after American voters kicked his party to the curb in historic numbers, Obama is off to India, taking what appears to be the largest presidential entourage in American history for a largely unnecessary and heavy-on-the-pleasure-and-society excursion.

The price tag is a reported $2 billion, amounting to $200 million a day. And the response from the White House and the far left? "It's not going to cost that much." What a compete joke. Check out of some of the figures for what basically amounts to Obama's latest, greatest vacation:

-3000 people will in the presidential entourage.
-800 hotel rooms and suites have been booked for said entourage.
-40 cars have been transported to India to haul said entourage around.
-34 warships are reportedly being sent along, including an aircraft carrier (again, the government has denied this, saying "not that many").
-40 aircraft and a slew of helicopters just for good measure.

If I didn't know better, I'd think King George II of England was heading up this royal waste of resources. And even if the $2 billion and $200 million/day figures are inflated, just how inflated can they be? The White House conveniently refuses to release a dollar figure. Suffice it to say that Obama is spending, at a minimum, hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars for a trip that need not be taken and which could obviously be taken for a much smaller pricetag.

The utter gall of this monarch (errrr, man) to take such a trip just a few days after the resounding losses that his party suffered on November 2 -- losses incurred in part due to the big spending policies pursued by this administration and its minions over the past two years.

But alas, this is just the latest example of a completely out-of-touch man who has no business being the president of the United States. Along with George W. Bush, he is the worst and most ill-qualified president of my lifetime.

I've recently reflected on this question: How could this far leftist, out-of-touch, arrogant, condescending, elitist, thin-skinned shell of an individual ever possibly get re-elected in 2012? Simple answer: If the republicans put up a shitty candidate. A certain deranged right-winger from Alaska comes to mind, for example.

Unfortunately, that's likely what we're in for in 2012: An endless argument between these two rotten parties about how "our candidate isn't as bad are yours!" We have so much to look forward to.

And yes, you might inquire whether I'm being a little hard on the ol' president. But after two long years of this bullshit, I think we've earned that right.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/obama-visit-critised-for-overthetop-spending/134409-2.html
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459

Amazingly, I Still Get to Use My Obama/Pelosi/Reid Pictures For the Face of the Democrat Party. Works for Me.

Slimeball Harry Reid somehow held on to his Nevada Senate seat yesterday (and thus will remain Senate Majority Leader), thanks in large part to the awful quality of his deranged right-winger opponent, Sharron Angle. Additionally, even though the republicans won control of the U.S. House, all indications are that Pelosi will continue as democrat party leader (now minority leader) in the House. So it looks like two more years of getting to use my Obama/Pelosi/Reid pictures. I had lamented that I might have to retire them.

On the GOP side, we'll now have John "Party Time" Boehner and his incessant sun tan as the new House speaker and therefore as one of the top faces of the republican party. I've not been much of a fan of Boehner, and I think he's a terrible face for the republican party -- although (1) probably not as bad as the three-headed monster face of Obama/Pelosi/Reid (can you believe a poll this week found only 8% of Independents view Pelosi favorably?!) and (2) Boehner being a bad face for his party is definitely not my problem.

In closing, I'd just like to say what a nice day today is. The sun seems a little brighter, and the air a little fresher. A measure of power balance between these two awful parties has been restored in Washington DC, which makes it a great day for the United States of America. And we Independents -- the people who decide elections -- played as much of a role in that as anyone yesterday.

Postscript: I have heard some rumblings today that Pelosi could retire. We'll have to see, but I'd think that would be highly awkward given that she just won re-election in her San Francisco district yesterday. Regardless, at a minimum I'll be able to use my pictures of the notorious threesome until the end of the year, as Obama & The Dems are sure to pull some real shenanigans in the lame duck session this month and next.

Take-It-Back Tuesday: The CRUNCH You Hear Is the Sound of the Independent Horde Puttin' a Boot in the Ass of the Democrat Party.

...and it couldn't happen to nicer bunch of leftists, whom CNN projects have lost the U.S. House tonight (and will be losing a number of U.S. Senate seats) a mere two years after winning a dominating majority in both chambers of Congress. But to the deranged right-wingers, tea partiers and republican party: Don't rest easy tonight, because your butts will be on the line too in 2012.

To both parties with which America is stuck: As always, we Independents will continue to decide your elections and we'll have a close eye on every damn thing you both do over the next two years -- that's a guaran-damn-tee. You both may despise us and not want to pay much attention to us, but you damn sure better respect the power we wield in your elections.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc&ob=av2e

Election Day 2010! Get Out and Vote...

...regardless of what your political persuasion might be. For the record, I (like most Independents today) voted against the democrat party in my U.S. House and Senate races, checking the box next to republicans Kevin Yoder (House) and Jerry Moran (Senate) here in Kansas. As I've discussed previously, I was not overly impressed with either Yoder or Moran, and in a different election cycle I would have voted third party. But this year, I had no choice.

In my statewide races (Governor, Secretary of State, etc.), I was thoroughly unimpressed with the democrat party and republican candidates and voted third party as a protest vote in every single race (which is what I have typically done for a number of years now).

We'll see how things shake out nationally. I think it's almost a certainly that republicans take over the U.S. House and likely do not capture the Senate. Frankly, I couldn't care less on either front. All I know is that there will be substantial republican gains in both the House and Senate, restoring a necessary balance of power to Congress and making it impossible, starting in January, for the democrat party to ram-rod any further far leftist legislation down the unwilling throats of the American people. That was a necessary outcome today, and we Independents are going to make it happen.

You Actually Thought We'd Forget, Didn't You?

From this blog on Sunday, March 21, 2010:

"SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY: Today and tonight, House dems -- with most of the media off on a Sunday and the nation focusing on the NCAA basketball tournament -- have ram-rodded through Obama & The Dems' massive and widely unpopular heath care legislation on a straight party line vote, with only use of the 'nuclear option' (reconciliation) remaining in the Senate next week before this legislative monstrosity heads to Obama for signature . . . Never before in American history has such a sweeping and significant piece of legislation and massive restructuring of the American economy occurred with so few people celebrating and so many people outraged and angered. Count me in the latter group, obviously. To Obama & The Dems: We Independents will see you in November. We're looking forward to it."

I recall what the leftists were saying in the week that followed. "No one's going to remember the health care bill in November," I uniformly saw them spouting. Well, you thought wrong, leftists. And indeed, you thought we'd forget about all of it, didn't ya?

You thought we'd forget about how you focused on that health care bill for almost a year while completely ignoring much more pressing problems, such as stifling unemployment levels and the continued immigration problem. You thought we'd forget how you jammed the equally massive and far-leftist Cap'n Trade bill through the House in mid-2009 without ever reading the bill and after tossing in 300 pages of amendments the very day you voted on the legislation.

You thought we'd forget the equally irresponsible stimulus bill, with all of its gigantic pork that wasn't designed for one second to stimulate the economy or to create jobs. You thought we'd forget your massive growing of the national debt and deficit -- levels of unprecedented debt and spending that actually make spendthrift George W. Bush look like a thrifty old tightwad.

You thought we'd forget the August of Discontent in 2009, when you leftists went around townhall meetings throughout the nation insulting anyone who disagreed with you (including many, many Independents) with such vile characterizations as "Nazis" and "racists." You thought we'd forget all of the Nixonian conduct of the leftist democrat president and your top congressional leaders, such as Pigsnout Waxman. And need I really go on (because I easily could all day long)?

The point is, in every single instance, you thought wrong, leftist democrat party. We Independents haven't forgotten anything. We're angry, and you're going to see just how much tomorrow. Just like on that dark Sunday back in March, we Independents continue to look forward to seeing you in November. As Peter Criss of the legendary rock band KISS might say -- just a few more hours.... See ya tomorrow, Obama & the democrat party.

http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2010/03/sunday-bloody-sunday.html

It's Halloween! Be Very Afraid...

…if you’re the ruling democrat party, leastways. “This Sucks!,” the Politico hilariously quoted a democrat party pollster as saying today (link below). Yes, it must. 48 hours and countin’ -- precious little time to "scare up" any more votes. Independents will see ya Tuesday, Obama & the democrat party.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44448.html

This Is Why He Fails...

It ain't rocket science, although it might as well be to the completely out-of-touch world of the far left-controlled democrat party. From an excellent column by Toby Harnden in today's Telegraph from Britain:

"Believing he would be a great president, Obama wanted to tackle what he saw as the grand issues, not the small-bore concerns of Americans struggling to make ends meet. Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, he calculated, so deal-making was not necessary. The problem was that his world view was that of a conventional liberal Democrat but he was president of a nation that was centre-right. His victory came from those who wanted him to change Washington, not America."

I couldn't have said it better myself. (And I love, BTW, the British spelling of "centre" -- Stop butcherin' the Queen's English, Britain!) We'll see ya Tuesday, Obama & The Dems.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8098632/US-midterm-elections-Barack-Obamas-world-turned-upside-down-as-Democrats-face-electoral-disaster.html

Democrat Party in Virginia Apparently Violates Federal Law By Offering People Free Beer, Appetizers & Happy Hour For a Vote.WAIT A DAMN MINUTE!

I say wait a damn minute (link to full story at bottom), because while I was planning to vote republican in my U.S. House and Senate races on Tuesday (previously having no other choice), maybe we can talk about this a little more, democrat party?

How much beer, what type of beer, and how can I get in on some of this action? And what's on that appetizer menu? And will there be any ladies at the Happy Hour? I may be a Ragin' Independent over here, but never let it be said that I don't have my price.

Shoot me an e-mail, democrat party, at TheIndependentRage@live.com (since I realize that you may be a little hesitant to answer my questions in the Comments Section below, for obvious reasons).

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1010/Beer_for_votes.html

Classic Liberalism: Democrat John Kerry Says We're a Bunch of "Know-Nothings" Who Have Been Fooled by Right-Wing Propaganda.

Democrat John Kerry thinks the American people are a bunch of dummies. A bunch of idiots. A bunch of imbeciles. Today he took a backhanded slap at all of us and our intelligence, saying that republican and right-wing radio rhetoric and propaganda have created a "period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in" (link to full story at bottom).

But the fact is, John Kerry is not alone. We've heard this kind of democrat party talking point over and over recently, and all the way up to the Illustrious One, Obama himself. And none of it's surprising. This is classic American liberalism: People are dumb and need the ultra-intelligent people running the democrat party to tell them what's good for them and to tell them how to think; further, when an American votes against a democrat, that stupid half-wit has clearly been hoodwinked by republican propaganda.

Tell me something, Senator Kerry: Have I been so hoodwinked? I'm on here blasting away at the damn right-wingers all the time. But I'm still gonna (like most Independents) vote to kick your party's ass to the curb on Tuesday. Nope, it's you, Senator Kerry, who's the blinded dimwit. Because only a dummy would fail to realize that what's going to occur on Tuesday has nothing to do with republican bullshit, but instead has everything to do with a completely out-of-touch democrat party that has veered way too far to the left and has tried to foist that leftist agenda upon an unwilling and unreceptive American populace for two long years now.

Or you can just think the voters are a bunch of nitwits. Whatever floats your leftist boat. See ya Tuesday.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/28/kerry_says_democrats_have_been_fixing_gop_problems/

Anything to Win: Democrat Party Dispatches Slimeball Bill Clinton to Florida to Try to Get African-American Dem Candidate to Drop Out of Senate Race!

I recently observed in this space the complete "anything to win" and "ends justify the means" mentality currently being exhibited by the democrat party nationwide, which has seemed to me to be much more than just typical democrat and republican politics-as-usual. And so it is tonight that we see Obama and his minions dispatching Bill Clinton to Florida to try to force African American democrat Kendrick Meek out of the Florida Senate race (link to full story at bottom).

So you may ask, why would the "party of the little man," the democrat party, ever want to force their own candidate out of the race, and an African American at that? "Anything to win," that's why. Meek is trailing in the polls to both deranged right-wing tea party candidate Marco Rubio and former republican-turned-turncoat fake "independent" Charlie Crist. The dems think Crist might be able to beat Rubio if Meek exits the race, and so the democrat party hatches a backroom deal with Crist as follows: We will try to force Meek out of the race, Charlie, if you will promise to join up, caucus and generally be our lap dog in the Senate should you win following Meek's departure.

This is slimeball politics of the highest order. And what makes it particularly ugly is the fact that the candidate that Obama & The Dems are trying to kick to the curb -- Kendrick Meek -- is (unlike turncoat Crist) a devoted dem and an African-American candidate ta' boot. But Alas!: Meek has reportedly told Clinton, Obama & The Dems to go f*ck themselves and, in his best "Old Dead Cow Face" (basketball coach) Roy Williams impersonation, says: "I'm Stayin'". So Obama & The Dems' nefarious little plan didn't work and has now completely blown up in their face since this baby is going to be getting play all over the Net and talk radio all day tomorrow! Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of conniving, manipulating, cheatin', "anything to win" leftists!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/28/clinton-tried-lure-democrat-meek-florida-senate-race/

Sarah Palin Lacks "Gravitas"? What's With These Deranged Right-Wingers and All of the Their Dong and Genital Blasts?

In the news today is slimeball GOP operative Karl Rove, who's taking shots at Sarah Palin and suggesting that she may lack the "gravitas" to be president and to even mount a presidential candidacy (first link at bottom).

Your first question might be, "what the hell is a gravita?" Well, the pedestrian definition of lacking "gravitas" means lacking in necessary substance or seriousness. But alas, "gravitas" is also slang for "balls," as confirmed by the Urban Dictionary (second link at bottom). In short, Rove's blast today is a very thinly veiled attempt to assert that Palin lacks the balls to be president and to endure a presidential run.

This is only confirmed by another of his quotes in which he questions whether Palin has what it takes to make it through a run for president: "It's going to be blood, it's going to be sweat and tears, and it's going to be hard effort." Translation: Palin doesn't have the balls (errrr, gravitas) to do it.

Of course, you could say that turnabout is fair play for Palin, who in early August dropped her own sack blast on Obama by accusing him of lacking the "cojones" to take on the illegal immigration issue (third link at bottom).

Which brings me back to my original question: What's with these right-wingers and all their teenage-style "you ain't got the junk" blasts? I'm starting to think GOP stands for "GrOw a Pair" rather than "Grand Old Party."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20021010-503544.html
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gravitas
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2010/08/cojones.html

Slimeball Voter Manipulation, Left-Wing & Right-Wing Extremist Style: Don't Fall For It.

Both parties and both extremes are and will be doing it over the next six days leading up to the November 2 midterm elections. I call it voter manipulation, and don't fall for this crap. The lead article in today's Politico.com (link at bottom) gives one example:

The democrat party nationwide (particularly in the U.S. House races) has embraced a strategy of pouring money into trying to drum up votes for fringe right-wing tea party candidates who (1) are not running as republicans because they lost the party primary and (2) have no chance of winning according to the polls. The purpose here is obvious: Manipulate voters into voting for someone with no shot of winning in order to take votes away from the republican candidate. Slimeball stuff.

And the right-wingers engage in the same sort of crap. One example is conservative demagogue Rush Slimebaugh, who is currently engaging in a little voter manipulation project of his own, which he calls "Operation Reverse Chaos." Slimebaugh is using his radio show (and its huge audience) to encourage democrats not to vote on Tuesday. So why would democrats possibly listen to Slimebaugh? Because Slimebaugh tries to convince them that the bigger the republican win on Tuesday, the better the chances of Hillary Clinton making a democrat party primary run at Obama in 2012. Obviously, Clinton has a ton of supporters out there who would love nothing better than for her to be president instead of Obama.

Here's the difference between Independents like me and the extremists that control the democrat party and republican party: They will actually try to defend all this crap using one of their typical, mindless third-grade-style "yeah but, the other side does it too" arguments: The ol' "two wrongs make a right" foolishness. Contrast that with me: I say bullshit is bullshit, no matter whose slimy ass it's spewing out of. When I get a whiff of it, I condemn it for what it is.

And to circle back to a point raised at the top: Realize this stuff is going on; recognize it for what it truly is; and do not let it impact you. If you're a democrat who actually believes the democrat party has done a good job in DC that last two years, then go vote for the democrat -- even if I do think you're clinically insane. And if you've decided to vote republican, then vote for the republican and don't be influenced by democrat party propaganda encouraging you to vote for some extremist third party "tea party" candidate who has no chance of winning. As always, think for yourselves, and never let the sleazebuckets on the far right and far left, nor either of these two parties, do your thinking for you.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44231.html

President Nixon Rears His Ugly Head Yet Again: "Obama Calls His Critics 'Enemies' "

That word was used by Obama in an interview taped Friday for a Los Angeles radio show that's popular with California Hispanics and hosted by Eddie "Piolin" Soltero. In the interview, Obama states as follows:

"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna’ reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s going to be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2."

From the quote, it's clear both that (1) Obama is encouraging Latinos to consider as "enemies" anyone who disagrees with the Obama Administration on immigration issues or the Arizona law and (2) Obama himself is of the mindset that anyone who disagrees with him is his "enemy."

I don't know how to put it any more plainly: This type of thinking and this type of rhetoric is purely Nixonian, destructive, dangerous, mindless and just plain ugly. It's way beneath a sitting American president, and it reflects as badly upon Obama as any of the many very concerning statements we've heard come out of his mouth over the past 18 months.

Put another way: It's one thing that the guy's a far-leftist, out of touch with the American mainstream. If he truly believes in that ideology, then he was elected president and he can go knock himself out with it while he's in office. But when he and his party start going down the road of calling anyone who disagrees with them an "enemy," a "racist" or some other vile pejorative, then that goes against everything this country stands for, including the principles of freedom of speech, the free open marketplace of ideas, and the freedom to dissent, question and criticize one's government. It can be even more succinctly summed up in one word: Un-American.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4993-obama-calls-his-critics-qenemiesq

True to Life: I Thought "The Hangover 2" Wasn't Out Until Next Summer, & I Didn't Realize Charlie Sheen Was the Star!?

I knew that the sequel to the 2009 movie blockbuster recently gave Mad Mel Gibson the axe, but I didn't realize that Sheen had been added to the cast as an apparent replacement! Reports from New York say that the sequel actually played out overnight in the Big Apple, where an innocent night on the town took a sharp and embarrassing turn for the worse for the "Two and a Half Men" star.

The New York City CBS affiliate and the New York Post both report today that Sheen (two months out of rehab) engaged in a wildass night of partying in Manhattan, which included -- as a nightcap -- him taking a hooker back to his Plaza Hotel suite on Fifth Avenue. And that's when all hell broke loose! Just call it the badass bender gone very bad:

Inside the hotel suite, it's reported that a "naked and drunk" Sheen had difficulty locating his wallet and cellphone (not uncommon occurrences when you're blitzed out of your mind), which sent him into a rage. The drunk and angered Sheen reportedly locked the naked hooker in a closet (kind of like the baby and the tiger in The Hangover) and then violently trashed the room, tossing about tables and chairs like he was in a hardcore wrestling match and -- just for good measure -- taking his rage out on an innocent chandelier. The price tag on this little rampage? 7000 smackers.

Apparently hearing this noisy ruckus, the naked hooker in the closet reportedly "feared for her life" and called the hotel's front desk from her cell phone and started screaming that her life was in danger. The hotel called the cops, who were welcomed at the suite by a passed out and "incoherent" Sheen who "started screaming slurs at the cops" (no word yet on the nature of the slurs -- I just hope Charlie didn't go Gibson on their ass, because that dude has been basically blackballed from Hollywood for some of his past drunken rants).

The cops reportedly gave Sheen a choice: The hospital or the hoosegow -- take your pick. Sheen wisely chose the former, just like the dude who got his tooth busted out in The Hangover. But here's the kicker: It seems Sheen was taken to the hospital by his ex-wife Denise Richards, who was also staying at the hotel (in a separate room) with Sheen's two daughters! That must have been quite the scene: "You two keep sleeping -- I just have to drive daddy down to the drunk tank -- Be back in a few."

Postscript: No word yet on whether Danny DeVito and Sly Stallone will also be appearing along with Sheen in The Hangover 2, or whether that poor naked hooker ever made it out the closet.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/police_called_to_charlie_sheen_room_zKbwIvShUm8vhbeDUEowRK
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/10/26/sources-sheen-hospitalized-after-trashing-plaza-hotel-room/