It’s hard to imagine how a town like Leitchfield (population: 6,139) in central Kentucky could survive without government. Sitting between Nolin and Rough River Lakes, it’s on the way to nowhere in particular, so no private interest would build a road to it. In surrounding Grayson County more than one in five people and one in three children is on food stamps, so no one would feed it. It does not produce enough wealth to sustain itself. Unemployment, long in double figures, stands at 16 percent. One in five lives below the poverty line; the median income is $35,011. Were it not for the redistributive effects of taxation, its residents would literally go nowhere and many would be incredibly hungry when they got there. [ READ MORE ]

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin has told the Tea Partiers they have to pick a party – either Republican or Democrat. Speaking to Republicans in Arkansas, Palin started by praising the Tea Party, calling it a “grand movement” that she loves because it’s “all about the people,” ….ER,..Really! — HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS — in speaking fees?

   Columnist – John Sammon
The Republican Party, the party of obstruction, the party of “NO,” the party of the status quo, big oil, big insurance, big numbers of uninsured, big wars against small poor countries, has got Obama where they want him.

Obama is no Lyndon Johnson, and this isn’t 1964. He might have to be satisfied in the end with being more like baseball player Jackie Robinson.

That might be enough.

The measure of any presidential administration is its accomplishments. The Republicans have just enough clout in the Congress to vote down anything Obama is trying to do. Thus, health care reform appears headed for the dumpster, or to be watered down to please Republicans to the point it isn’t reform at all. The Republicans say they have a plan. Their plan is as usual no plan, to do nothing. That’s their plan.

In recent weeks Obama has been applying the carrot-and-stick approach, alternately scolding the Republicans on one hand for their refusal to cooperate, and then pleading with them (the carrot) to be reasonable. He wants to hold a summit meeting with Republicans to try and iron out the differences. Good luck.

Reasonable? The Republicans?

Back in the old days when the Republican Party had human beings in it like Nelson Rockefeller, they might have at least listened. But today the party is led by Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. They must love this. They can sit back and do what they do best, whine and complain and criticize, and savor Obama’s losing attempts to pass health care reform.

Time goes by and the American people come to blame Obama for not fixing problems the Republicans helped mightily to create.

In 1964, LBJ had enough support in Congress to push through Civil Rights legislation. If the Republican Party had been then as they are now, we could conceivably still have segregated schools. LBJ was also a bulldog, not adverse to calling people “assholes” over the phone if they didn’t vote the way he wanted, his manner at times that of a borderline thug. You thought he might lift you by your ears like he did his beagle dogs if you didn’t see it his way.

Obama on the other hand is a highly intelligent, cultured and gentile man who tries to appeal to reason and the best in people, as Lincoln once put it, “the better angels of our nature.”

You can’t reason with a gang of zealots like the Republicans.

Obama is in a catch-22. If he chastises the Republicans, they love it. If he pleads with them for help, they laugh and say he’s a worm. Obama needs to hold tight to his pride and not give in to them.

In the end, I believe that Obama will be a one-term president without major accomplishments because of this obstructionism. He’ll have to be another Jackie Robinson.

Jackie Robinson was not the greatest baseball player, but he did something far more important than merely swinging a piece of wood at a ball and running over bags in a circle. He was the first black Big League ballplayer and had to stand up to the most vile racist taunts and disgusting perverted abuse from white hecklers, which showed for all to see the real America. The America of the Republicans.

A lone man, with the pressures on him to play ball well so the bad guys wouldn’t triumph and be able to say, “see I told ya’ niggers don’t belong here.” No other player had to endure this, catcalls and taunts from the stands about himself, his wife and mother. He took it without screaming back or falling apart. That he did so with courage and dignity showed how much bigger, how much greater a man he was than his detractors.

It still hurt. I have no doubt that this harrowing experience helped to shorten his life.

If Obama ends up accomplishing very little because the heckling teabag Republican idiots want to sit in the figurative bleachers and jeer, he still did something far more valuable for the country. He was the first African American president, and showed millions of others of his color they have a chance to be something more than a second-class citizen.

Like Jackie Robinson, Obama showed the way.

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Media Matters is definitely getting into the heads of the ReTHUGliLOONS at Fox News. So much so that, Fox dispatched their miserable late-night talk-show, RED-EYE, which is presented by an annoying, pest of a little-man, known as Greg Gutfeld. This little “puky-punk” also edits the blog: DailyGut.com.

The supposedly “comedic” performances by Gutfeld and the rest of the RED-EYE cast is always awful and pathetic — more like a pack of spotted hyena’s laughing — with bone fragments sticking out of their stinking scavenger mouths.

Every day, Media Matters comprehensively monitors, analyzes, and corrects conservative misinformation, points out Republican lies, racism and bigotry in the U.S. media….and boy..what an incredible job they do! This blog is littered with priceless video clips by Media Matters, which will stand for ever as testimony against the RACIST ‘GESTAPO’ CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT in America, and their tools of choice — Fox News and the Republican party.

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Beck responds to Media Matters MLK criticism by continuing to ignore own history of racially charged rhetoric

[ The "Beck phone" line is open -- Media Matters For America Challenges Glenn Beck ]

UPDATE:

Osama Bin O’Reilly celebrates Gutfeld’s “very, very creative” “satire of Media Matters“

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Dick FAT Morris blogs: Dorgan and Dodd quit sinking ship!, Congenital liar, GESTAPO Sean KLANnity at Fox News screamed: Obama “quadrupled the deficit,” …the Dems are in trouble!!

In addition to the six Senate Republican incumbents who have decided not to seek re-election (compared to the two Democratic incumbents) there are 14 GOP incumbents in the House who have decided not to seek re-election (compared to the ten 10 Democratic incumbents have made the same decision.)

“[Republicans] are having some really bloodletting primaries in virtually all of their states. Particularly in open-seats, they are having these huge primaries,” said Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). “Whether it is the tea party people or the birthers or others, the reality is that the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, they keep pushing their candidates further and further to the right… So, the bottom line is, they are going to be out of sync of where the mainstream electorate is in the midterm election.” [ READ MORE ]

Birthers: The Racist Tea-Bagging Republicans

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Keep in mind: The Republicans are right now the minority party in both houses of Congress, therefore they have a deep hole to climb out of.

Expert Opinions

Craig Charney: The withdrawal of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) is good news for the Democrats. He has been around a long time and was somewhat tainted by his ties to the banking industry. (In particular, he was tarnished by his quixotic vanity run for the White House in 2008, largely funded by financial industry donations.) He’s been polling poorly for some time and hasn’t shown signs of improvement. Attorney General Dick Blumenthal has been waiting in the wings for a Senate vacancy for years now. He is exceptionally popular (a 78% approval rating) and should win the seat handily. This one just moved from the tossup to the lean-Dem column in my books. [ READ MORE ]

Bob Shrum: Democrats are inseparably tied to 0bama. And it’s more than possible that they will regard that as an advantage– for sure by 2012 and even by 2010. That may be a lonely view, especially with regard to this year. But I believe we should now be reading the business pages rather than the instant political analysis of a moment or a day. ( Said with apologies to POLITICO, which with regularity seems to predict a falling sky for the President and the Democrats.) The economic reporting increasingly points not only to a recovery, but to real and substantial job creation. If that’s the story of the next few months, by August we will be standing on a very different political landscape. [ READ MORE ]

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What have the Republicans done for America lately? Or in the past couple
decades?

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LIAR — Hannity falsely claimed Obama “quadrupled the deficit“

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Radicalizing the GOP: Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has urged the Republican Party to “embrace the Tea Party movement with full arms,” and to boycott the upcoming census. That proposal might come back to bite the Minnesota NUT-bag in the ass, because the state could loss of one congressional seat after the March census. [ Read Report ].

Meanwhile Uncle Michael Steele, the TOKEN BLACK in the “masters” house — has misgivings about a GOP comeback in 2010. Said the UNCLE-TOM: “I can’t give a number [of seats the GOP will win] yet, because like I said, we’re just now beginning to look at the races,” Steele said. Asked if Republicans will take back the House, he confessed: “Not this year.” “I don’t know all the candidates yet,” Steele added. “We still have some vacancies that need to get filled, but then the question we need to ask ourselves is: ‘If we do that, are we ready?‘”

Asked by FOX’S LYING BABOON, Sean Hannity, if he believes the Republican Party needs to moderate to win national elections, Steele answered: “No, no… No, no! But that’s what’s gotten us into trouble, when we walked away from principle. Our platform is one of the best political documents that’s been written in the last 25 years. Honest Injun on that.” [ Injun: A racially offensive epithet used towards Native Americans ]

Terrorizing The Populace

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GOP Encourages Racial Profiling

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Uncle Steele Has Some Reservations About 2010

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The Future of The Republican Party

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Limbaugh Continues To Protest Healthcare Reform

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History No Obstacle To Rove’s Smears

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