Hellllllllllllllllllloooooo out there. Are you listening to the news reports? Are you reading the data from the polls?
Apparently not.
According to a recent New York Times/CBS poll, 72% of Americans favor a government run health care program.
Now I know you conservative folks have a problem with the New York Times because it is supposedly "liberal."
God forbid. I guess the New York Times made up the numbers. Indeed, this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, conservative anchor Joe Scarborough insisted the poll is skewed because many of those polled are Obama supporters.
I have news for Mr. Scarborough and the rest of his conservative colleagues and soul mates including the sell-out "Democrats" on the right. President Barack Obama won the election hands down with a vast majority of the vote. Of course many of those polled are Obama supporters. Whether you Republican folks like it or not, the majority of the American people support President Barack Obama. We like him. We respect him. We trust him.
You dazed and confused conservatives might want to do some personal head examining before you take to the airwaves with your relentless efforts to attack the accomplishments and popularity of Barack Obama.
As you gun for him, bloggers like me are gunning for you conservative whore mongers on the right. Eight years of your unctuous sucking up and cowardly cheer leading for the worst President in recent history pretty much told progressives exactly who you folks support and what you stand for.
As we all know, this week is the last of the G.W. Bush Administration. Given a national Democratic landslide election and George W. Bush's recent approval rating, there is little doubt that there is more than a tad of dancing taking place in a plethora of streets throughout the U.S. and the world.
For much of their eight year term in office, President Bush and Vice President Cheney have remained tightly entrenched behind iron gates. They avoided the press and media as much as possible. They steered clear of the public and chose to helicopter in and out of their homes and offices whenever feasible. And yet for the past two weeks both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have been parading around on the Sunday morning talk and political news circuits. In their final days in office both men desperately tried their darnedest to re-write history. I imagine at this time, after Bush's farewell address, both men are securely ensconced back in their delusional bubbles in undisclosed locations.
With regard to Presidential exit interviews, former Press Secretary Scott McClellan is one of many who offered commentary on Bush's farewell address.
"It's hard to talk about moral clarity when you have tarnished our government's moral standing in the world," McClellan said. "If you look at the speech it was really a feel-good farewell speech. It was designed one final chance to burnish his legacy by highlighting his humanity, showing his humanity, his compassion, his inner decency and good intentions."
But "there are really two problems they don't seem to get," Bush's ex-press secretary remarked. "First of all, the public trust. The president long ago sadly lost the public trust. They are no longer listening to what he has to say or buying what he is selling. Unless he is willing to come out and talk candidly about his own mistakes, his own policy mistakes, and address those issues openly with the American people they are not tuning in."
I felt it was high time for me to pay a call to our esteemed U.S. Senators to inquire about the recent financial melt down on Wall St. Since as a taxpayer I will be expected to step up and bail out a bunch of corrupted greed mongers I believe I deserve an explanation from those who got us into this unbelievable mess in the first place.
Dear Senator,
In the past two weeks I feel as if I have been hit by two devastating hurricanes. Many residents in the Houston and Galveston areas are still without power and most continue to struggle with Ike's aftermath. The nation's fourth largest city and its surrounding areas have taken a tremendous beating.
Just when we were beginning to think we could see the light at the end of Ike's tunnel we now find ourselves suddenly blindsided by another hurricane. This one did not sweep in from the Gulf. This unexpected monster came hurdling down from Wall St. and its aftermath could prove far more cataclysmic than Ike.
What is this business about a financial bailout using the taxpayer's money? It seems to me that a group of greedy and corrupted fat cats on Wall St., with the blessings of their supporters and cheerleaders in Congress, raped and pillaged the United States and now taxpayers are being asked to pay for the carnage. And we're supposed to turn over nearly $1 trillion and say "we trust you to clean up after yourselves."
Please.
See what Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine has to say about the Wall Street debacle.
