From the following video I discover from former congressman Dennis Kucinich that he was redistricted out of the US Congress by Democrats in the Ohio state legislature–his fellow party members! Guess a politician asking ‘too many’ questions and expecting truthful answers becomes inconvenient after all these years…
Holding Bush accountable, our Orwellian State, and other pertinent topics
Once upon a time there was a popular song that asserted, "War! Huh!…What is it good for? Absolutely nuthin’! Say it again…" (insert blaring horns; I totally dislike blaring horns. And war.)Nowadays people realize that war is ‘good for’ many things such as plundering other people’s resources and establishing imperialist power bases on behalf of a ‘new world order’ of global domination, aka, a
As the debt ceiling-budget stand-off continues in Washington DC with Republicans drooling over their big chance to roll back FDR’s New Deal programs and slash the tires on LBJ’s Great Society jalopy, some words from Franklin Roosevelt’s Inaugural speech of Jan 20, 1937 seem appropriate for the short-sighted on Capitol Hill. Actually, I believe theses Utopians are very long-sighted since the plan
Here’s the video I mentioned earlier today of Rep. Dennis Kucinich speaking on the House floor this morning and calling the US misadventure in Libya "surreal," among other things.Well, you know Mr. Kucinich is correct, don’t you? And he doesn’t mind calling a situation ‘Orwellian’ that really is Orwellian.Wonder what happened to Mr. Kucinich’s plan in 2008 to investigate those mysteriously
Have congress members found their backbones or are they worried about their fund-raising for the next election? Well, on C-SPAN I watched much of this morning’s ‘debate’ on the House floor over action in Libya so this news nugget is of little surprise. I hope the US drops this ill-timed, unaffordable, and immoral mission and that you too caught Dennis Kucinich’s impassioned speeches this morning
Here in northeast Georgia we’re digging out of about one inch of one the fluffiest snowfalls I’ve seen in years (scintillatingly beautiful!) and this video of Rachel Maddow reporting on the trickle down-supply side Riganomics of Ronald Reagan and its ultimate effects may fill the bill for those who still wonder what happened to America’s middle class.Reagan’s TV speech shown here in "July 1981"