Some advice to disappointed left

Many on the left are disappointed in President Obama.  He hasn’t embraced the OWS movement, he hasn’t moved on Card Check, he isn’t pushing for immigration reform, he is prosecuting an illegal war in Pakistan, Guantanamo Bay remains open, no Wall Street executives have been charged, he hasn’t abolished fracking, Keystone pipeline still isn’t dead, he compromises too much, we don’t have a public option, we don’t have the Dream Act, the stimulus was too small, his chief of staff isn’t Liberal, he isn’t Hillary, he smokes, he golfs, he hasn’t fired Geithner, etc.  Celebrities like Cheadle, Damon, and Winfrey are disappointed and may not support him like they did in 2008.  Arianna Huffington has even said she could consider supporting Jon Huntsman.  Well, here is my advice to the acutely disappointed:
Go run into your bedroom, slam the door, say you’re not coming out, and hold your breath pouting.  Then grow the hell up and think about who you are helping and who you are harming.
Tonight’s Quiz Question, courtesy of the underrated Kevin Smith film Chasing Amy.  There is a pot of gold in the middle of an intersection; standing on each corner, equidistant from the pot of gold, are: Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, a compassionate conservative, and a Leprechaun.  Who reaches the prize first and gets the gold?
No one, because none them f—king exist.
Some final closing bullets:
Whoever has Pat Buchanan, can we send you Joe Scarborough and Michael Steele?
Everyone is up in arms about the planned Defense cuts announced by President Obama and Secretary Panetta.  The cuts come to $50 billion/yr.  According to the National Priorities Project of the Office of Management and Budget, between 2001 and 2010 U.S. military spending increased by 71 percent, from $423 billion to $723 billion, in inflation-adjusted 2010 dollars. Military spending is 58 percent of “discretionary” spending.  So cutting $50 billion per year on something that has increased by $300 billion over 10 years does not seem so excessive to me.
Scott Brown (R-MA) backed President Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray as head of the new CFPB.  Change of heart?  Heck no.  Self-preservation as he trails Elizabeth Warren in the race to keep his Senate Seat.
Since 1980, the winner of the South Carolina GOP Primary has gone on to win the nomination.  With Romney the anointed one, trailing in South Carolina, the trend could be in jeopardy.
The Boston Globe endorsed former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman instead of Mitt Romney.  No one should be shocked.  The paper endorsed John McCain in 2008.
America doesn’t need a Businessman-In-Chief.  It needs a leader.  Just say no to Mitt.
Want to know why Iran is doing all this sabre rattling about the Straits of Hormuz?  The U.S. sanctions under President Obama are working.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Secular American Jew and a Love for Israel

As many of you know, I have dedicated many postings to the State of Israel on a range of topics including: it’s history, the present day government, the Jewish-Palestinian question, and the region in general.   Growing up in a liberal conservative Jewish household (the oxymoron is quite common as American Jews were almost exclusively political liberals and the conservative branch of Judaism the most common) and attending Hebrew school as a kid you obviously build an affinity for the State of Israel.   I do not remember the Six-Day War of 1967, but I have vivid memories of celebrating Israel’s 25 th anniversary in 1973 and the Yom Kippur War later that year.   As a ten year old attending Yom Kippur services I saw the worried looks on my parents and the other adults at the shul as members of the congregation would periodically step outside to get news reports from car radios and transistor radios (We still drove and used electrical appliances during the high holidays, though several fam
Read more

September 10, 2001 was a Monday

Where were you on September 10, 2001?   What were you worried about?   What occupied your thoughts, worries, hopes, and dreams?   What were you excited about?   What were you interested in? September 10, 2001 was a Monday. Cindy and I were still laughing about the recent visit from the Three Amigas: Leah, Roseanne, and Valerie, and the adventures of Sedona, a certain screen door, a forgotten carrot cake, and breakfast for champions.   We were also dealing with a 1995 Chevy Blazer that seemed to be on its last legs, surviving our first Arizona summer, thinking about what to remodel in the house, dealing with the concept of a Home Owners Association, thinking that my best shot at a World Series game maybe with the fledgling Arizona Diamondbacks, and looking forward to a visit from Scott, Lori, and the boys. But what about America?   We knew nothing about a tiny town in Pennsylvania called Shanksville; Guantanamo Bay was the setting for A Few Good Men, and we still taped shows and listene
Read more

Sunni and Shia: So who are the bad guys again?

Baby faces vs. heals?   Cowboys vs Indians?   Good guy always where the white hat.   “Dig is he a good guy or bad guy?”   Bad guys always, looked, well, bad. You’re either with us or you’re against us.   Iraq, Iran, and North Korea are the axis of evil. Americans, for the most part, have a pretty simple outlook on conflict: just tell us who the bad guys are and we’ll know who to root against.   We tend to lump similar races and peoples into larger buckets, mostly due to the media’s inclination to treat us like potential Jeff Foxworthy competitors.   But the world is anything but simple and as I have written previously, the Middle East is as confusing and confounding place as you can find.   During the Iran and Iraq war of the 1980’s most Americans took the position that “…as long as they kill each other, I’m good.”   When civil war ravaged Afghanistan, we joined the side of the Mujahedeen because they were fighting the Soviets and the Soviets were our archenemy, a position they occupie
Read more