Republicans Stand by Their Man: Fat Cat The Banker

by: Libby Shaw

Mon Jan 18, 2010 at 06:10 PM CST

Who would have thought?  In its true and hypocritical form The Party of No and Obstruction opposes President Obama's proposed fees on banks.

Dick Cheney must be hard at work at that printing press in his undisclosed basement.  

Prominent Republicans are coming out in opposition to President Barack Obama's proposal for a $90-billion fee on large banks that took bailout money, a move that political observers say could force the GOP to choose between their traditional anti-tax position and populist anger over the bailout.

On Thursday, GOP Chairman Michael Steele declared that the bank fee -- which would be levied only on banks that took bailout money and have more than $50 billion in assets -- is "another tax on the American public."

The GOP is standing by fat cat the banker in yet another effort to oppose President Obama.  Republicans demonstrate time and time again that they are willing to put politics ahead of working on solutions to solve the daunting challenges that we face on local, state and national levels.  

Why Moderates Are Being Run out of the GOP

by: Libby Shaw

Mon Nov 02, 2009 at 08:09 PM CST

Only a Republican could turn a respectful and well-meaning Presidential act into an inappropriate or self-serving one.

How low can they go?  Apparently the pit is bottomless, as readers will see later in the post.  

Nor should we forget how former CEO Cheney has personally profited enormously from Halliburton's no bid contracts in our federal government's military/industrial war complex.

Veterans over at Daily Kos have much to say about Liz Cheney and her father.  

Majority of Birthers are Southern Republicans

by: Libby Shaw

Mon Aug 03, 2009 at 04:26 PM CDT

The poll's findings are a monumental embarrassment for Texas and the South.    It should also be extraordinarily humiliating for the Republican Party to know that it has become a regional rump Party of the South comprised largely of old folks and and a majority of the racially intolerant and xenophobes.  

Jackasses of the Week Awards

by: Libby Shaw

Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 07:06 PM CDT

Tonight I am introducing my first

Jackasses of the Week Awards

Please pour yourselves a little glass of your preferred beverage of relaxation, get out the popcorn, if you like, sit back and enjoy the show.  

First, the ground rules: Jackass awards are not exclusive to the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh or propagandists for right wing and conservative thought.  A jackass is viewed as one who is either arrogant or stupid enough to believe he/she can get away with fooling, lying to and/or willfully misleading others.  In other words, any person who holds a position of influence whether one is a politician, elected official, community, or business leader, and this includes all media pundits, anchors and spokespersons for all of the above, who arrogantly or stupidly insults the intelligence of those they do, or hope to influence, is a jackass.  

A jackass is also one who refuses to accept or lies about certain realities such as:

The simplest explanation for why America's reality got so distorted is the economic imbalance that Barack Obama now wants to remedy with policies that his critics deride as "socialist" ("fascist" can't be far behind): the obscene widening of income inequality between the very rich and everyone else since the 1970s. "There is something wrong when we allow the playing field to be tilted so far in the favor of so few," the president said in his budget message. He was calling for fundamental fairness, not class warfare. America hasn't seen such gaping inequality since the Gilded Age and 1920s boom that preceded the Great Depression.

This inequity was compounded by Bush tax policy and by lawmakers and regulators of both parties who enabled and protected the banking scam artists who fled with their bonuses and left us holding the toxic remains. The fantasy of easy money at the top of the economic pyramid trickled down to the masses, who piled up debt by leveraging their homes much as their '20s predecessors once floated stock purchases "on margin." Our culture, meanwhile, painted halos over celebrity C.E.O.'s, turning the fundamentalist gospel of the market into a national religion that further accelerated the country's wholesale flight from reality.

Finally, a jackass is also one who wants to revert to the same old failed and stupid policies that got us into this economic meltdown in the first place.