As Republicans dig in to protect that 2% of Americans who make over $250,000 a year (that is after deductions and paid only on the amount above $250k which is always lost in this discussion) they are not only denying the extension of unemployment benefits – as even more Americans lose their jobs and will be put on Medicare, food stamps and filling our shelters – but in state after state they have budget panels slashing Medicaid causing the actual death of those who cannot afford the $100,000s it takes for transplant surgery. Arizona ‘death panel’? State Medicaid cuts poised to let some poor patients die
Republicans will give no ground protecting the wealthy from any tax increases IN A TIME OF WAR (which was once considered treason) but enjoy smearing crap all over everyone else. And they are applauded and elected for it! Wjhat have we become?
We deserve Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent or Gomer Pyle in the White House. We deserve the GOP running Congress. We deserve a justice system dependent upon what four Right-wing nutjobs on the Supreme Court have to say. All because we – without a rational thought in our heads- buy into not only the fantasy league of football, but of the league of interactive sky creatures and false American dreams.
I heard today that the Republicans have a mandate to make the extension of the tax breaks for the wealthy permanent even though only 26% of Americans agree with them. I wonder what the fck 60% of Americans thought they were voting for last November 2nd? Sure a boner in the house is funny, but as this is real life it makes us even dumber than Beavis and Butthead.
We don’t understand that all that matters to Republicans is that they and their wealthy supporters GET THEIRS FIRST while the rest of us must -without umbrellas- just stand in their tinkle down yellow rain hoping for some bark and bones to gnaw on? Are most of us really that stupid?
Or is this really about those things no politician or media outlet can address? Our history and culture of racism, our intolerant religious fervor, and our propensity to national and international violence?
Or perhaps it is just that racism, intolerance and violence are what stupid people do?
Palin/Nugent 2012
They are America