Meeting of the minds

Today the president of America became the president of America for the Republican Party. Should we just say, 'well, better late than never', or:

Is that the same Republican Party that claims to be the flag bearer of Us Americans?

Let it be said, you are the minority and you LIE!  

Ok, that's all  I am going to say about it.

Then he stepped up to the podium and said:

Fellow Americans, we wasted a lot of time (psst, while you were not watching the majority of us passed Health Care reform) - (applause) - Fellow Citizens, we all know now that we have more problems to solve. This is what we'll do. We'll change immigration laws, we agree about how to divide the spoils of government --- who will get subsidies, what it takes to be our friend and what to be our enemy, what our long range goal is. We'll start with the goal.  


We believe that people should be free to choose democracy as one of the ways to be governed.  
We believe that people have the right to a fair trial, et cetera, et cetera, 
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

Come together. It's time to act. It's late.

Election 2012

This editorial opinion in today's New York Times lays out what the next election is going to be about. Republicans propose to dismantle the social contract and Democrats are playing defense. It is a battle where Democrats look like conservatives and Republicans dress up as progressives. Besides the irony of it all, this is not what either party wants. The outcome is clear, Democrats will win to govern four more years, but the damage will have been done if Democrats simply play defense. They need to describe a future where all are equal for the law, where opportunities are open to all who want to pursue them, where people believe they have a fair chance to be a winner.

The New Republican Landscape - NYTimes.com

Ronald Reagan Centennial

There will be a lot of talk today about how president Ronald Reagan won the cold war.

I am not debating whether he played a major role or not, but let's not forget that back home he only had to fight the crazies in his political corner.

Sane people were already of the belief so humorously expressed by Bob Dylan many years ago in Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues.

If you have not heard this song for awhile, what are you waiting for?

In case you missed it, The John Birch Society is becoming quite fashionable again in the eyes of right wing conservatives.


Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues

Well, I was feelin’ sad and feelin’ blue
I didn’t know what in the world I wus gonna do
Them Communists they wus comin’ around
They wus in the air
They wus on the ground
They wouldn’t gimme no peace . . .

So I run down most hurriedly
And joined up with the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
And started off a-walkin’ down the road
Yee-hoo, I’m a real John Bircher now!
Look out you Commies!

Now we all agree with Hitler’s views
Although he killed six million Jews
It don’t matter too much that he was a Fascist
At least you can’t say he was a Communist!
That’s to say like if you got a cold you take a shot of malaria

Well, I wus lookin’ everywhere for them gol-darned Reds
I got up in the mornin’ ’n’ looked under my bed
Looked in the sink, behind the door
Looked in the glove compartment of my car
Couldn’t find ’em . . .

I wus lookin’ high an’ low for them Reds everywhere
I wus lookin’ in the sink an’ underneath the chair
I looked way up my chimney hole
I even looked deep down inside my toilet bowl
They got away . . .

Well, I wus sittin’ home alone an’ started to sweat
Figured they wus in my T.V. set
Peeked behind the picture frame
Got a shock from my feet, hittin’ right up in the brain
Them Reds caused it!
I know they did . . . them hard-core ones

Well, I quit my job so I could work all alone
Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they wus red stripes on the American flag!
That ol’ Betsy Ross . . .

Well, I investigated all the books in the library
Ninety percent of ’em gotta be burned away
I investigated all the people that I knowed
Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go
The other two percent are fellow Birchers . . . just like me

Now Eisenhower, he’s a Russian spy
Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy
To my knowledge there’s just one man
That’s really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell
I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus

Well, I fin’ly started thinkin’ straight
When I run outa things to investigate
Couldn’t imagine doin’ anything else
So now I’m sittin’ home investigatin’ myself!
Hope I don’t find out anything . . . hmm, great God!

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