Clipgate — If Barack Obama really believed in his jobs bill, he should have presented it in a leather-bound volume with gold filigree and illuminated initials. So says Fox, so to speak.
The Fox goon machine went on a comical goose-stampede berating Obama’s clipped-Up bill. See videos below.
Judging a Book By Its Cover: Fox Goons Attack ‘Unbinded,’ Clipped-Up Obama Jobs Bill
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Doug Lamborn, Republican Colorado Congressman, Refers To Obama Dealings As Being Stuck To A ‘Tar Baby,’ a racial epithet:
Doug Lamborn, was recently on the 630 KHOW Capils and Silverman radio show discussing President Obama, the President’s economic policies, and the debt ceiling deals being debated. Lamborn describe working with the President:
Even if some people say, ‘Well the Republicans should have done this or they should have done that,’ they will hold the President responsible. Now, I don’t even want to have to be associated with him. It’s like touching a tar baby and you get it, you’re stuck, and you’re a part of the problem now and you can’t get away. I don’t want that to happen to us, but if it does or not, he’ll still get, properly so, the blame because his policies for four years will have failed the American people.
In 2010, the National Journal ranked Doug Lamborn the “most conservative” a.k.A [ THE MOST RACIST ] member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Lamborn has voted to the right of 96 percent of his colleagues on economic issues, 93 percent on social issues, and 76 percent on foreign policy issues, according to The Huffington Post.
I’ve been called a lot of things over the years while serving in public office, but to be called the most conservative member of Congress is a distinct honor.
— Doug Lamborn
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The U.S. government is headed for a crisis if the debt ceiling isn’t raised by August 2.
What’s the debt ceiling, and why is everyone in Washington talking about it?
It is the legal limit on borrowing by the federal government. Before 1917, Congress had to approve borrowing each time it came up. In order to allow for more flexibility as the nation entered World War I, lawmakers agreed to give the federal government blanket approval for most types of borrowing — as long as the total was less than an established limit. [ MORE DETAILS (1) ] [ MORE DETAILS (2) ]
Instead of negotiating in good faith as has always been the case (debt ceiling was raised seven times under Bush) — Republicans predictably have opted to hold a gun to the president’s head.
The president is between a rock and a hard place — Republican yokels who hate the idea of a black man in the White House on one side and the filthy rich (The Real Owners of America) who will not share their ill-gotten wealth with anybody else, on the other.
In between are Republican politicians — who are mere “Yo-Yos” — owned by wall street, lock, stock and barrel — but are answerable to the illiterate, racist yokels in the extreme right-wing of the ReTHUGliLOON party.
“The ‘NIGGER‘ must be defeated in 2012″ — is the GOP’s war cry!
Political satirist Jon Stewart sums the Republican situation best:
“It’s not, ‘Let’s all chip in a buy a keg for the party,’ it’s ‘Buy me a keg or I’ll burn your fucking house down.’” “The Republican insistence on making the debt ceiling their give as opposed to increased tax revenues is like a doctor who believes strictly in magic consulting with a patient.”
By: Jack Blackshear When conservative thinking comes into contact with humans seeking an egalitarian society, particularly when those humans are not of the same race, religion or creed as the conservative, physical harm will come to those humans and over time there will be nothing but blood.
The current battle over the Bush tax cuts is a good example. If conservatives serve their clients well, the nation will be forced to assume a huge debt that will adversely affect the nation’s economy for years.
Since economists say that providing this borrowed money to the wealthiest Americans is not an efficient way to create jobs, doing so will prolong the recession and have a cascading effect on people in countless ways.
A deal that allows this to happen is tantamount to conceding the physical well being of millions to the greed of the few.
The framework agreed with Republicans was not made with this in mind. And the debate among Democrats in Congress focuses on equity, not the ultimate consequences for individuals.
The President should change his mind, offer a new deal and appeal directly to the American people. This hypothetical speech is one way to do this:
“I have decided to propose a new framework for extending the Bush tax cuts. My original framework was based on the need to reach agreement before the end of the year when rates are set to go up. After much reflection and discussion with Democrats in Congress, I have decided that negotiations can extend beyond the end of the year.
The new framework provides for keeping all of the tax cuts for the middle class contained in the first framework but will not extend the cuts for the wealthiest three percent.
While the original framework would have benefited the middle class, it would have done so at the cost of borrowing 700 billion dollars. Economists say that using this money to extend the cuts to the wealthiest three percent of our people would be unlikely to create a significant number of jobs. However, the tax cuts I secured will have a positive effect on job growth.
So far the debate has been about money; but there is more to the story.
What we decide will impact the way many Americans live their lives. Even though everyone will be affected in some way, many will feel the effects more than others.
Borrowing 700 billion dollars in the midst of a recession; especially when it could be avoided, is not justifiable. Doing so will mean that some additional number of Americans will lose their homes, their education, or their health. Inevitably, some will lose their lives.
With the well being of millions of Americans at stake, I cannot agree to any deal that would mean the borrowing of billions of dollars when we can avoid doing so at small cost – even to the wealthiest three percent of our people.
Americans of all political persuasions should agree on this point. We can argue about money but not about the well being of our people.
I hope that agreement can be reached before the end of the year; but, if it isn’t, I will not extend the Bush tax cuts until it is. I believe that solutions will be found in the near term but even it this is not possible before the end of the year, negotiations will continue and the final agreement will be made retroactive to January first. This will mean that no one earning less than $250,000 a year will ultimately pay more in taxes than they are paying now.”
Obviously, the President will face a more conservative Congress next year, so it is understandable that he wanted to make a deal before that happened. Nevertheless, the new conservatives will face a difficult decision:
Will they hold out for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the other 97 percent? Will they force a huge increase in the national debt when their whole reason for coming to Congress is to reduce debt and spending? The President may be in a better negotiating position than he thinks.
Compromising with evil is itself evil and if the President persists in doing so, there will be nothing but blood.
By: Jack Blackshear What a day it was back in Waco, Texas on May 5th 1916! A beautiful spring day and folks were anxious to be outside –a good day to lynch some N-word.
Let’s say you were looking through a trunk in the attic and came across this photo. How would you know what held the attention of the crowd that day? It could be anything — politician making a speech, circus in town, who knows.
The heinous torture and murder of a man would not naturally spring to mind. But that is exactly what these well dressed citizens of Waco were watching that day, and, by their presence, empowering.
I wonder if the mother of the victim managed to get a view the gallows from some hiding place out of sight of the mob. If she did, what went through her mind as she watched the rope tighten and saw the look of horror on her son’s face the second before his neck snapped? Did she think of the baby she suckled, remember the little boy she read to — we will never know.
With only a wardrobe change and the addition of a hundred or so hateful signs this crowd could be transformed into a Tea Party rally. Of course their victim is not hanging from a rope. But the only metaphor for their actions is a modern day lynching. Both crowds, old and new, are conservative, church going people and sure of their superiority.
This is an early photo of Sarah Palin’s Real Americans. Little has changed in the last century except that the N-word on the gallows is now the President of the United States. It is tempting for white Americans to show pride at how far African Americans have come. “Only in America”, you might say. But for a large minority of Americans, it is always a good day to lynch a N-word.
Some 3,446 African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1933 by mobs made up of people looking very much like those you see in the photo. This is not the final tally. There were certainly many more carried out under cover of darkness in secluded places and down dirt roads now lost from memory.
When the Civil Rights Movement came along, the lynch mobs made a comeback.
African Americans marched for their rights and endured threatening crowds of racists who showered them with bricks, drenched them with fire hoses and attacked them with dogs. But they persevered and the angry mobs once more faded into history.
Now, with the election of Barack Obama, the horrors of the past are coming back. The culprits are ultra-conservative organizations backed by corporate wealth and a compliant news media. They have been so successful in creating a purpose built organization in the Tea Party that rallies all over the country are now common place. All of them are attended by angry mobs whose sole goal is to demonize President Obama. The participants carry signs, not rope, but their aim is still the same — to do the maximum damage they can get away with.
For many Americans, the fear of blacks in positions of power is normally tucked away in a corner of their minds seldom visited. But when Barack Obama came along as a candidate for President, that fear began to stir. At first it just lay there with its eyes open; then, when Obama was elected, it stood up and became a part of their everyday lives.
Right wing leaders like Dick Armey were crouching in the shadows, waiting to turn this fear into hatred and meld it into the Tea Party.
Just consider their luck. The country was in a historically bad recession and people were looking for someone to blame. The first African American had just been elected president presenting opportunities to exploit racism. Right wing ideologues like the Koch brothers were worried about their profits and willing to bankroll any plan to stop Obama’s agenda. Front organizations like Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity stepped in with organizational skills and turned the mob loose in the summer of 2009. Town hall meetings were broken up and speakers intimidated, reminiscent of the bully boy tactics of the Nazis before the Second World War.
Tea Party warriors were heady with victory and wanted more, but none of it would have been possible without help from Limbaugh, Beck and O’Reilly. In 1871 the Ku Klux Klan delivered hatred in person, today Fox and Rush do it over the airwaves.
• ”Who is the “Tea Party”? It’s today’s incarnation of the Perpetual American Lynch Mob.
• In one generation the Perpetual American Lynch Mob is burning Pequot Indian women and children alive.
• In another time and place the Perpetual American Lynch Mob string up black men.
• A few decades pass and they can be found calling President Roosevelt a communist, Jew and the anti-Christ and/or marching on Washington in support of Germany.
• At another time and place the Perpetual American Lynch Mob call themselves a “Tea Party” and gather to hurl insults and lies at our first black President.”
The harshest rhetoric comes from Rush Limbaugh. A dedicated race baiter, he will tell any lie and distort any issue to his detriment. This extends even to the President’s family. A few of his worst rants:
“Obama wants to get the US out of Iraq so he can transfer troops to the blacks in Darfur and South Africa. His reason is to appeal to the black vote at home that he needs to get elected. Standing behind Nelson Mandela, who was bankrolled by communists, is another idea of his. Then he will move on to Ethiopia and do the same thing there.”
Attacks on the President’s wife and children are common. Mocking her program to fight obesity saying, “White House monitors will report citizens’ food choices to the First Lady.”
“The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons.”
Even his run of the mill racism is vile in the extreme: “New York Governor, Patterson, is a ‘Massa’” — “Obama is uppity” – “Obama is more African in his roots than he is American and is behaving like an African colonial despot; Obama is an angry Black guy.” – “Obama is a Halfrican American.” – “We need segregated buses — this is Obama’s America.” – He responded to a call to his radio show by an African American woman; “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” – “The NAACP should have riot rehearsals. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
Almost psychotic in nature, Glenn Beck twists news into a fantasy world of lies and fake conspiracy theories. His escapade at the Lincoln Memorial taunted African Americans by demeaning Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beck attacked Michelle Obama on his radio show by discussing her breasts in what he called her shimmery, sapphire colored gown at the state dinner for Mexican President Calderon. “She looks positively like she’s trying to be some Greek statue. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the First Lady with her, excuse the expression, but with her breasts all smooshed up.”
He attacked Michelle Obama’s program to draw attention to obesity with this taunt, “Will lead to a food nanny state”; and, at an appearance of the Right Nation he taunted her again; “Get away from my French fries, Mrs. Obama. First politician that comes up to me with a carrot stick, I’ve got a place for it. And it’s not in my tummy.” (The remark drew loud applause.)
An attack on the President’s daughter: “Obama remarked yesterday during his press conference that Malia asked him about the Gulf oil spill: “Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?” then affected Malia’s voice: “asking Daddy why he hates black people so much” and demeaning the intelligence of his children: “That’s the level of their education – that they’re coming to Daddy and saying ‘Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?”
Tea Party types swan every time Sarah Palin opens her mouth. As with the rumors, they could care less if any of it makes sense.
Since the 2008 election, Sarah Palin has traveled the country attacking the President. Just as in the election, she is so vague and nonsensical that it is hard to know exactly what she is talking about.
“Death Panels”, is a Sarah Palin original. Whether or not she is actually telling a lie or believes what she is saying is unclear — anyway, with her it really does not matter.
“Don’t tread on me”, is the Tea Party’s standard. It was a worthy flag in the American Revolution when the “me” in the flag was America itself. Now, the flag bears are the ones doing the treading — and the President is their victim.
“We have entered what columnist Kathleen Parker calls “a political era of uninhibited belligerence,” that is finding expression in sermons, at town hall meetings, on radio talk shows, even on the floor of Congress. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times told it like it is in her op-ed column Sunday, when she said that the real meaning of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst during President Obama’s health care speech was not “you lie” but “you lie–boy. Many Americans spent a good deal of time last November patting themselves on the back for having elected an African-American president. What we are seeing now is the bitterness of an un-reconciled minority that will never accept the legitimacy of that election.”
Signs carried by this un-reconciled minority prove Ms. Jacoby’s point:
The zoo has an Africa lion and the White House has a lyin’ African – Impeach the Muslim Marxist – Obama Bin Laden — No, No to Anti-Capitalist Congress = Slave Owner Tax Payer = N-Word – Hey Big Brother, show us your real birth certificate – Obama’s Plan, White Slavery – President pictured as a witch doctor – Obama, Monkey See, Monkey Spend – Cap Congress and Trade Obama back to Kenya – The anti-Christ is living in the white house – Gimme Yo Change (Obama pictured as a Rapper) - Obama is a destructive unpatriotic black Muslim – Barack Obama, the new face of Hitler – Obama is the Anti-Christ, Oust Obama
Images of Right-Wing Terrorism in America: [ VIDEO ] [ PICTURES ]
Conservative warriors frustrated by their inability to thwart social progress and backed by the Religious Right saw the election of Barack Obama as a call to battle.
His election was the catalyst that molded these forces into the phalanx of opposition the President faces today. Terrified at the specter of a black President being carried to Washington on the shoulders of a majority of adoring Americans was just too much for them to bear.
Their reaction was visceral. Enraged enough to rally in the streets and follow anyone they thought could lead them out of their perceived danger. Reason was abandoned and there was little they would not do or believe to get rid of Obama: unbelievably silly rumors — “no problem”; nonsensical rants by Sarah Palin — “no problem”; gutting most of the social progress of the twentieth century — “no problem”; letting their racist colors show through — “no problem”; lynch the President of the United States “hell yes”.
Having gotten away with racism, the Tea Party has evolved into an ideologically radical political platform. Right wing radicals use it to launch attacks on all the social progress made during the last century.
Jim DeMint: “Conservatives might have to ‘take to the streets’ to stop America’s slide into socialism.”
Sharron Angle: denounced “domestic enemies” in Congress and called for the use of “Second Amendment remedies” if not elected.
Rand Paul: Should owners of privately owned business be able to segregate? Rand Paul’s answer is yes.
Joe Miller: on social security — “But longer term there is no question there has to be a transition”.
Prior to the Civil War, “States Rights”, was used by the slave owning states to justify their position and has reappeared in American politics every time the Federal Government enacts legislation expanding social programs. The better off whites see this as a give-away to undeserving minorities — money that will be taken from them in higher taxes.
The mob will use this argument to not only repeal and radically dilute social programs, but to limit the Federal Government’s right to make such laws in the first place. Once again, the ruse of states rights is being called on to advance a racist agenda.
Only two years after taking control of the executive and legislative branches of government, Progressives find themselves on the defensive and struggling to hang on. Why?
The short answer is the economy. A longer answer would include the disproportionate impact on the electorate of the Tea Party and the new funding landscape created by the Citizens United case. But, as important as all of these issues are, they do not fully answer the question.
Would the Democrats be in the shape they are in now, if, for example, Joe Biden had been elected president? He would still have had the economy to contend with, but the outrage factor would be much less — in my opinion. I also doubt that the Tea Party would exist in its present form — again, in my opinion.
Although the classic confrontation of conservative vs. progressive continues, the election of Barack Obama has heightened the awareness of race and class in America and, in particular, the entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.
In the midst of a deep recession and the public concern that there may be a permanent restructuring of the economy, especially with regard to employment, many Americans are beginning to question the sanctity of these programs. And not just conservatives, Independents too are having second thoughts. As baby boomers retire, this concern may deepen.
In the near future, Progressives may have to fight just to hold on to the social progress achieved over the last century, much less expand that progress. This will likely not be a gentlemanly fight and Barack Obama will not be the last person the mob will lynch in America.
•Fanning Fears of Muslims Has Never Made Better — Or More Cynical — Political Sense. — Until the advent of the Obama presidency, Republicans had no reason to scapegoat Muslimsor demonize Islam — and indeed, they could not have inflamed those prejudices without damaging their own leaders, especially George W. Bush. The political and cultural messaging that Republicans and conservatives accepted quietly from Bush is today considered tantamount to treason when promoted by Obama.
•The Great ‘Tea-Party’ Fear: Pollution of The White ‘Stock’ — The Strange Sexual Obsessions Driving the Tea Party Movement:The great white fear of interracial “pollution” has found its most acute expression with Obama as president. He is the offspring of not simply an interracial relationship, but an international coupling as well. He is the child of 21st century globalization, the symbolic representation of a hope for a world without borders, without race prejudice, without white privilege. — [ READ MORE ]
When conservative thinking comes into contact with humans seeking an egalitarian society, particularly when those humans are not of the same race, religion or creed as the conservative, physical harm will come to those humans and over time there will be nothing but blood.
Let’s say you were looking through a trunk in the attic and came across this photo. How would you know what held the attention of the crowd that day? It could be anything — politician making a speech, circus in town, who knows. 
Tea Party warriors were heady with victory and wanted more, but none of it would have been possible without help from Limbaugh, Beck and O’Reilly. In 1871 the Ku Klux Klan delivered hatred in person, today Fox and Rush do it over the airwaves. 
“Don’t tread on me”, is the Tea Party’s standard. It was a worthy flag in the American Revolution when the “me” in the flag was America itself. Now, the flag bears are the ones doing the treading — and the President is their victim. 
