It will, once again, be women that save America

I’m not going to sit here and say I love Liz Cheney with all my heart— but it’s absolutely bullshit that she’s out there for the most part standing alone because men like Mitt Romney and George Bush don’t have the courage to stand up for the constitution.

— Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ (@0liviajulianna) October 28, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Strange times make for strange bedfellows

If you had told me four years ago that Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Chris Christie and Adam Kinzinger wouldn’t be supporting the Republican nominee for President I would’ve never believed you.

— Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) March 15, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

And how much money did you make on Trump's tax cuts, you pathetic twerp?

Sad to see what’s being done to bribe the voters. Biden's student loan forgiveness plan may win Democrats some votes, but it fuels inflation, foots taxpayers with other people’s financial obligations, is unfair to those who paid their own way & creates irresponsible expectations.

— Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) August 24, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Tulsi Gabbard has been traitorous for a long time

I mean he’s right https://t.co/wqYNGwC7DB

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 14, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Mitt Romney's utter stupidity is mind boggling

Artists for Romney™ announces spike in fundraising https://t.co/bBBYVXBqro

— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) October 26, 2021

The Republican Party Is Now a Fascist Cult Just Like Nazi Germany

Peace,

emaycee

 

Look in the mirror, mother fucker

You don't have to be Einstein to figure this one out, Mitt

In the wake of the El Paso shootings, Utah republican Senator Mitt Romney tweeted out the trite thoughts and prayers, and at the end of his tweet asked "From what dark and repugnant corner of the mind comes such senseless and vile brutality?"

Um, how about the corner occupied by your fucking President?

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Idiot wind

Why?  Why?

Rick Santorum made news of a sort this week when he proclaimed that the Parkland students should be studying CPR rather than fighting for stronger gun control laws in the U.S.  While it showed all the class and empathy that one should expect from those on the religious right (which is to say, absolutely none of either), it begs the question...Why does anyone give a fuck what Rick Santorum thinks about fucking anything?

Near as I can tell he had two terms as a Senator from Pennsylvania during which time he accomplished nothing, and ran twice for President, getting his ass handed to him in 2012 by Mitt Romney, one of the worst Presidential candidates in recent memory, and bowing out rather quickly in 2016 after getting stomped by the orange shit gibbon, Donald Trump.  He's written no world changing books and has no interesting ideas about life in America other than those that are adapted pretty much from Catholic bullshit, which most Americans have no desire to adhere to (thankfully).  Frankly, there are plenty of former Senators and losing Presidential candidates who are a) a lot smarter, and b) considerably more relevant to America, circa 2018.

My guess is it's affirmative action for the religious right--who in their right mind would hire such idiots without it?

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Polls, schpolls

At the risk of sounding like a republican--and in sharp contrast to many of my fellow Democrats who are wringing their hands this very moment at the continued tightening of the Presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Oompa Loompa Trump--I'm not putting a lot of stock into any polls I see these days.  Frankly, from Huff Post to 538 to Daily Kos to NBC, they all have a vested interest in the race appearing to be as close as possible--no one's going to watch or click on a site if the race is already over.

 I've seen nothing that leads me to believe, other than Iowa, that Donald Trump is capable of winning any state that Barack Obama won in 2012, and there are signs that Secy. Clinton could quite possibly win North Carolina from Willard Romney's loser's share of states in the same election.

Any way you slice it, that's another can of whoop ass opened on republicans in the Electoral College, and four more years of them having to suck on such a drubbing.

Peace,
emaycee

With friends like these

In its infinite wisdom, the republican establishment, now that Marco Rubio is its only viable candidate, is announcing that Bob Dole and Mitt Romney are endorsing Rubio in his bid for the republican nomination.  Because nothing--I mean absolutely nothing--fires up the republican base quite like the endorsements of two moderate republicans who lost imminently winnable elections to candidates (Clinton in '96 and Obama in '12) that the base absolutely despised.

Who, outside of the clueless national media, do they think these men are going to influence?  Because it's really hard to see supporters of either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz suddenly changing their votes based on the words of two men they think are twits that lost to the womanizer and the black guy.

Jeez, I should have been a republican adviser--if only I'd known when I was young that they were more than happy to pay fortunes for bad advice.  

I could have given them plenty of that.

Peace,

emaycee

Willard 2.0

Jeb Bush announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for the Presidency in 2016 today--and it was about as surprising as the news that water is wet and the sky is blue.  People who understand republican bullshit much better than I (or at least tolerate it) claim he gave a good speech.  Still, I couldn't help but feel that I'd seen this movie before and I have:  Mitt Romney in 2012.

Like Romney four years ago, Bush is not quite as crazy as his fellow contenders, is probably the best candidate they have, is prone to gaffes, is a former Governor (with a spotty record), was born into serious money, can relate to your average American about as well as your average CEO relates to your average homeless person, and, in all reality, has very little chance to defeat the Democratic nominee thanks to republican ignorance concerning the electoral college map.

Though I wouldn't be completely stunned if Marco Rubio or, to a much lesser extent, Scott Walker won their party's nomination, I've felt all along that Jeb Bush is going to be the republican nominee (if nothing else, also like Romney, he'll keep the election closer and probably save a few republican congressional seats).  And you know who else does?  Hillary Clinton.

Anyone other than me think it's merely coincidence that Hillary Clinton today reminded Americans in her press conference that both her husband and President Obama inherited the economic problems that we faced from republican Presidents, namely Bush the First and Bush the Lesser?

Let the games begin!

Peace,
emaycee

Another one hops on the Bozo Bus

Yes, indeed--Rick Santorum has decided that he, too, has a shot at being the next President and today announced his candidacy for the 2016 republican nomination.  Considering that Santorum a) got crushed in his U.S. Senate re-election bid in 2006 by current U. S. Senator Bob Casey, b)  finished second to Willard Romney in the 2012 republican primaries for the Presidency and Willard proceeded to get drubbed by President Obama, and c) puts the looney in Looney Tunes, one has to wonder if Santorum has taken one too many swigs from the happy juice jug.

Either that or there must be a shitload of money to be personally gained by running for the U. S. Presidency.

Regardless, Rick Santorum joins a long list of previously announced candidates who are both fucking nuts and  have a poorer chance than I do of being the next President of the United States and I'm not even running (yet...).

Peace,
emaycee

Night of the living dead, or the return of Willard (not!)

There's been a couple of stories this week about the comeback of one Willard Romney, now seen by some as a viable candidate for the republican party's nomination for President in 2016.  Also, a poll in New Hampshire (which primary Romney won in 2012, and was soundly beaten by Obama in the general) shows Romney with a sizable lead in the republican primary for 2016.

Get real--I'm a Liberal Democrat who isn't even running for President and I have the exact same chance as Romney of winning the republican party's nomination for 2016:  zero.

I love that the republican party is flailing on a Presidential level right now, but there are real republican zombies out there trying to undo the country and Mitt Romney won't be one of them in 2016.

Peace,
emaycee

The downside of insulting the help

Scott Prouty, the man who caught Mitt Romney's famous 47% speech on video--and put some serious hurt on the Romney campaign--says he was inspired to film Romney because after Prouty, working as a bartender at a fundraiser some time ago, had served Romney a Coke with lemon (Willard's preference), Willard didn't acknowledge Prouty or thank him.

If the rudeness of a privileged asshole is enough to make a man secretly film his actions to show the world what a wealthy prick is really like, anyone want to guess what people will be capable of when they're children are starving?

It will make a video destroying a man's political ambitions look like a day fishin' at the ol' fishin' hole.

Peace,
emaycee

Quick questions

I know it's Fox News, but what on earth possessed them to interview failed republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney (airing this Sunday--I'm on pins and fucking needles) considering he will go down in history as one of the worst Presidential candidates ever, blew an imminently winnable Presidential election, and in doing so, absolutely got his ass handed to him?  I understand John McCain getting his airtime--he's a sitting U.S. Senator.  But Willard?  He doesn't hold any elected office (and never will again), and isn't even one of the party's good old boys.  Do they really think anyone cares what an irrelevant political poser thinks, especially one who was so soundly rejected by American voters?  Are they really that hard up for people who can slam the President?

Inquiring mind wants to know....

Peace,
emaycee

Bitter much?

As if we needed another reason to be glad that Willard didn't even come close to winning the Presidential election, comes his comments today that President Obama won because he gave lots of governmental gifts to Latinos, Blacks, and young people.

Guess those 47% comments weren't so far off the mark after all....

Anyhoo, don't suppose it had anything to do with the fact that a) Romney is an asshole, b) People still remember which party got us into our current economic mess, c) He ran a horrid campaign, and d) That people don't much care for republican policies?

It doesn't take a political scientist to realize that racism, homophobia, and misogyny aren't winning issues, unless of course, you're a republican, in which case the alternate universe you live in is from here to fucking Pluto removed from reality.

Peace,
emaycee

Twenty-five reasons to vote for Obama: #1--...

In the end, I wish I had a really heart tugging number one.  I wish I had an intellectual reason that would blow away anyone who still cares that might be reading this.

Nope.  I've heard tell that revenge is a dish best served cold, and tomorrow I'm going to find me a big old ice cream dish, a big old spoon, and eat me a hearty helping.

Because after the last four years, after Rush Limbaugh's hoping that the President failed, after Mitch McConnell's assertions that the number one priority of Senate republicans was to make Barack Obama a one term President (and how sweet is it going to be, despite all the odds, of us holding onto the Senate majority tomorrow as well), after Ann Coulter's calling the President a retard, after all the bumper stickers calling Obama a moron, after the birthers, the truthers, the Obama's a Muslim, the Obama's a Socialist, after the Obummers, Keep the Change, One Big Ass Mistake America,, after the comments of he'll be gone in five months, four months, three months...the best reason to vote for Obama is going to be...

...the look on their fucking faces tomorrow night when they realize that Barack Obama is going to be President for four more years.

And even sweeter than that--especially considering the magnificent jobs he's done in the past four years despite republicans doing their damndest to destroy his Presidency--will be eight to ten years after he's left office when Americans look  at the President and Mrs. Obama like we currently look at Bill and Hillary Clinton:  with huge approval ratings and a sense that his Presidency was good for America and done the way it should be.

Peace,
emaycee

Twenty-five reasons to vote for Obama: #2--The Democratic Party

These programs, enacted since the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration over the course of the last eighty some odd years, have one thing in common:

Social Security.  The G. I. Bill.  Medicare.  Medicaid.  The Food Stamp Act.  The Voting Rights Act.  The Affordable Care Act.  The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

The following also have one thing in common:

The successful management of World War II.  The racial integration of the U. S. military.  The space program which took us to the moon.  The ending of "Don't Ask Don't Tell."  The first sitting President to come out in support of full marriage equality.  The end of the Iraq War.  The killing of Osama bin Laden.  The end of the War in Afghanistan.

In case you have a case of Romnesia, all of these programs and actions occurred under Democratic administrations (in fairness, we reached the moon while Nixon was President but nobody other than some lameass republican would feel the moon voyage was his aspiration--it was JFK's).

You would be hard pressed--fucking hard pressed--to come up with the actions of republican administrations that have had such a positive impact on America.  Eisenhower's interstate highway projects.  Nixon started the EPA (which is a dagger in the heart of current day republicans, who would love nothing more than to completely dismantle it).  The Nixon administration was in office when the Vietnam War ended, but their role was such a fiasco as to make it a bit dubious.  Nixon opened the door to China (double-edged sword as now many of our products are made there by people earning less than a dollar an hour while we have many talented people out of work).  Some people credit Reagan for the fall of the Soviet Union (I don't).

In the end, Democratic administrations haven't made people more dependent on government, they've made government more responsible to its people.  I would hate to imagine where we'd be as a nation without the dreams of those who have lead, and continue to lead, the Democratic Party and our nation. 

Peace,
emaycee

Twenty-five reasons to vote for Obama: #3--The Last Line of Defense

There are those who believe--and they may be proven right eventually--that President Obama is willing to trade his legacy or his need to appear bipartisan for some sort of "grand bargain" on Social Security and Medicare, leaving two of our nation's greatest legacies with greatly reduced benefits.

But we don't know that.

We do know, though, that republicans have been hell bent on ending both since T. Rex had to dodge dinosaur shit while stalking his prey.

We don't know what's going to happen in the election of 2014, but we do know that the Antoinettes are as radical a group as has been in this country in generations.  They have no vision for going forward--they want to move us backward to the Gilded Age.

We don't know what four more years of Presidenbt Obama will bring but we do know that it won't bring an end to abortion, a decline in the gains we've made for LGBT issues, more bad justices on SCOTUS, further erosion of union influence, or a dismantling of the EPA.

And for all its faults, Obamacare will begin its most important provisions in 2014.

What another term for the President means is that we will have another four years where we have the last line of defense, knowing that no matter what batshit insane proposals get through our dysfunctional Congress that we have the President to veto them, that no matter what goofy fucking ideas gain public traction that we'll still have the President's bully pulpit to argue against them, that we will have an administration that is at least willing to acknowledge and listen to our ideals and not wave us away with the back of a hand that we'll spend four years daydreaming of severing.

It gives us four more years to elect more Elizabeth Warrens and more Tammy Baldwins, and that would go a long way toward insuring a  more progressive agenda.

Peace,
emaycee

Twenty-five reasons to vote for Obama: #4--The Continuing Class War

A recent Gallup poll showed that nearly one in five Americans have been short of money for food in the last year.  Think about that--this means that if you went to your child's school to see a play, and thirty parents showed up to watch their little munchkins, six of them have been short of money for food in the last year, in the wealthiest nation in the history of mankind.
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There's something a little bit fucked up about that.

And yet, Willard Romney and his minions would have you believe that if we just keep those Bush tax cuts, or better yet, reduce them even more, all will be well.  Or that if we just reduce regulations on the bastards of Wall Street--even though people going hungry is a direct result of their incompetence--that prosperity will fall upon us all.  And this is all done in such a way as to insinuate that the poor and the middle class just don't know any better and we just need to let our moral superiors take care of it.  As if the mother fuckers aren't already catered to enough.

Ever since President Bonzo fired over 11,000 air traffic controllers in 1981, in effect breaking the union, it has been all downhill for the poor and the middle class. From losses in pay, to losses in jobs, to losses in benfits (with the exception of the Clinton economy of the mid to late nineties), to losses in basic human services.  And yet any time some guy like me points this out, republicans scream "class warfare!"

Ya fucking think? 

They started the war.  We need to finish it, or else it won't be "tax the rich", it will be "kill the rich."

Peace,
emaycee

Twenty-five reasons to vote for Obama: #5--Income Inequality

Income inequality in America is the worst since 1774.  A large part of last year's Occupy Movement was to make income inequality a part of the discussion about America's future. A recent piece by Chrystia Freeland in The New York Times stresses that contrary to what the 1% believe, their unlimited wealth is itself under siege because they are killing the golden goose--history has shown that the more people that beneifit from the economy, the wealthier those at the top become, and that the reverse is true (she cites 14th century Venice as a prime example, and I'll, uh, just take her word for it).

I don't believe that if President Obama wins re-election he is going to step behind the curtain, pull a few levers, and the 99% of us who aren't fabulously wealthy are suddenly going to become so.  I do know that the President is at least talking about letting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy end.  I know that as the Occupy Movement was in full swing the President was willing to acknowledge that income inequality is a threat to the future of our nation.

Compare and contrast that to republicans, who instead of trying to argue on the merits threw out lame ass sixties rhetoric about dirty hippies and made totally unsubstantiated claims about women being raped by Movement participants and defecating wherever they please.  Compare and contrast that to republicans like Mitt Romney who just wave their hand at income inequality as if it is a non-starter, that those wealthy fuckers at the top are creating job after job (all evidence to the contrary) and we need to just leave them alone and let them be.  Besides, America is a dog eat dog country, and those that don't make it...well, it's nobody's fault but their own.

Not my America.  It's about a hand up, not about a handout.  It's about when more succeed, we all succeed.  It's about looking after the least of our brothers and sisters.  It's about understanding that the more egalitarian our wealth distribution is the more it benefits us all in healthier Americans, better educated Americans, and ultimately, happier Americans.

President Obama by far and away gives us the better chance for the best outcome.

Peace,
emaycee