Jan Brewer - New Voice of Reason in the Republican Party - Egad, I Can't Believe I Just Wrote That

Haley Barbour's Civil War Reenactment campaign has folded before it began. His Dixiecrat strategy failed. He also may have realized defending Mississippi's highest infant mortality rate in the country might not square with his defense of health care availability for his state's poorest citizens. Let 'em go to the Emergency Ward seems to be his state's health plan.

Donald Trump continues his mud throwing at President Obama with birther claims and now questioning President Obama's Ivy League college admittance without actually using the words "affirmative action." Mr. Trump is now claiming religion in his third marriage, changing his positions on a tax increase for the wealthy, he was for it before he was against it, gay marriage - he was for it before he was against it, etc. And for all his China bashing, I saw a report that his Donald Trump line of clothing is manufactured in, guess where, China!

The Birther stuff has gotten so far out of hand that Jan Brewer, Tea Party favorite way conservative Governor of Arizona, vetoed a birth certificate bill in Arizona, which also called for "circumcision records" as a substitute.....and called on Republicans to stop with the Birther nonsense. When Jan Brewer is the voice of reason in the Republican Party, something is desperately wrong.....

Republican plans to kill Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps, The New Deal, The New Frontier, and The Great Society in order to give more tax cuts to the wealthy is meeting resistance in Republican town hall meetings - how fun is that after all of last year's Tea Party yelling at Democratic town hall meetings on health insurance reform? If Democrats can't pounce on this to their political advantage, they are as inept as inept gets.

Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid may even force Republicans to vote on their Republican plan in the US Senate.......talk about dirty politics. Republicans are not happy at the prospect.

House Republican Leader John Boehner calls for an end to $4 Billion in oil company subsidies, but backs away when President Obama voices his approval. That was strange. Mitt Romney comments about large deficits in "peacetime" cause backlash among US Veteran groups; to be expected when the US military has been engaged in wars for a decade now , two of which George W. Bush started, and failed to pay for. In the meantime, Republican state governors continue their assault on worker rights, child labor laws, environmental protections, all the while laying off thousands and thousands of teachers, firefighters, police officers, public infrastructure workers, nurses, social workers, etc., etc.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann have been mysteriously silent this last week. Or at least perhaps the lamestream has started giving them the attention they deserve -- none.

As Republicans prepare to brink the world's economy to the brink of disaster once again with its threatened refusal to raise the debt limit cap, Wall Street is getting nervous, and Democrats are devising ways to capitulate. Republicans determined early on in the Obama adminsitration that they would need to do everything possible to sabotage the US economy in order to have a chance to win the 2012 elections and have actively fought, undermined, dampened, cut every effort by Democrats to bring the US out of the deep recession of the Bush Administration.

And maybe I'm wrong, but the Republican plan to lay off a million teachers, police officers, firefighters, public utility workers, highway maintenance workers, public hospital nurses, etc., etc., etc., take hundreds of billions if not trillions of $$$ out of the economy, end unemployment insurance, end social security, end medicare, cut children off medicaid, break all the remaining unions, eliminate collective bargaining rights, lower peoples' wages everywhere, increase taxes on the poor and middle-class, throw people off their health insurance plans, all the while protecting tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and tax-payer subsidized corporations making record profits while paying no taxes and out-sourcing work to China or India, and let rich people and coporations own and run everything, doesn't seem like a good plan to me. I'm just sayin..........

An analysis of the Republican plan shows $4.3 trillion cuts to programs that help the working poor and the middle class, sick chilcren, the unemployed, end Medicare, etc., etc., etc., while then giving $4.2 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthiest of the wealthy and big corporations. This would be the largest "redistribution" of wealth in our nation's history......upward.

A Gang of Six has their sights on ending Social Security as we know it and giving that money to Wall Street financial wizards who nearly threw the world into a Great Depression a couple of years ago.

Yikes.



Regards, Bud C


ps. Just after I posted this, President Obama released his "long form" birth certificate. The national nightmare is over. The stock market should soar given the national sigh of relief that is occurring. The cloud is lifted. Donald Trump is proud. The nation can get back to its business. All that Republican birther energy can now be focused on jobs, jobs, jobs at last, like they campaigned on.