False Outrage

Let me start this one by saying I usually don’t use the names of people that I know in the things that I write. I don’t want them getting pissed at me for one and the other part is that I think it would just be wrong. I talk bad about Republicans in my writings but I almost always say that I am speaking in general. Some of my friends are Republicans. Some of them are middle of the road Republicans and a few are far right wing. I also have one closeted Republican friend and he knows who he is and I don't need to out him. A couple of my Republican friends take the things that I write to heart and I wish that they didn’t. I wish they could take it in stride the way I do when they talk about Democrats. It’s not personal. I always love getting feedback on what I write, either by comments at the bottom of the posting, or email, or phone calls, but not by text. There was one Republican friend I could always count on to respond by email to everything I wrote within about an hour. He never took any of it personal but he was also a middle of the road Republican.

His name was Bruce Scher and he passed away on 5 Dec 2012 at the age of 56. When I started to write this there was so much I was gonna say about Bruce but you know words, at least none that I know of, wouldn’t do him justice. So I’ll just say I miss him and I wish you all could have known him, R.I.P. dude.

 

Okay on with the post for today. There is so much going on right now in government that it is hard to start. I’m still upset about Republicans pretending to be outraged about the death of four Americans in Benghazi and demanding someone be held accountable. Saying an email was sent that should have been a cause for more attention and extra security. In hindsight I agree there should have been more security. The thing is if this was a terrorist attack like they are saying it was, then it would have been planned a long time ago. If they had beefed up security then the terrorist would have done the same or called off the attack. My point is that when we are in another country we will never be 100% safe. My problem with far right wing Republicans is that they stood by silent when more than 3000 Americans died in 9/11 when they were in charge. There was no outrage towards George W. Bush and that was a terrorist attack. There was a memo that the CIA sent to the White House saying Osama was determined to attack the U.S. and Bush ignored it. There was no outrage for those 3000 people in New York. Maybe American life has less value under Republican control and 3000 dead doesn’t mean as much. Now that a Democrat is in the White House and 4 Americans die in a terrorist attack in another country then there is OUTRAGE. It’s bullshit flowing out the mouth of every Republican that said nothing when Bush did worse.

Not only did Bush do worse but they then lied us into two wars and 1000s of soldiers lost their lives not to mention the tens of thousands injured. Starting us out in Afghanistan going after the people responsible for 9/11 then doing a head fake and poof, we are in Iraq because of WMDs. Knowing all along there was none and when they were called out on it they said, well he used to have some. The Bush administration should been charged with war crimes. If Obama had done the same thing they would have impeached him and he would be behind bars. Look at how they reacted to 4 Americans dying in another country and he started NO wars. They are OUTRAGED, OUTRAGED I tell you. No they are full of it.

It pisses me of because as a black man there are times that I feel that I am held to a different standard than white men. I try to tell myself that it has nothing to do with the color of my skin but then I keep seeing stuff that says otherwise. The stuff Obama is going through, a lot of it is because he is a Democrat (that’s what I tell myself), but most of it is because he is black (that’s what I believe). There is a group of white people in this country, let’s call them The Tea Party, that it hurts to their core to see a black man sitting in The Oval Office. The good part is that there is an even larger group of white people that doesn’t give a damn what color the President’s skin is. That gives me more hope than I could ever begin to share with you.

This is much longer than I had planned and because my mom reads it I cleaned it up, A LOT. I only ask one thing of you. If you go after someone, before you do, change the color of their skin and their party. If your passion is still the same then proceed and do as you will. That’s what I do.

Electoral Change

I thought about writing about this a couple of weeks ago when I first heard about it. Republicans are at it again. They see they can’t win by getting people to vote for them because they have the wrong message. They can’t suppress the minority vote, it just made more of us get out and vote. So now they are trying to change the Electoral Vote allocation in some of the swing states that are currently under Republican control. If you haven’t heard about it Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and I think Florida. All of these are states that President O’bama won but if they change the vote allocation to the way Republicans would want then Romney would have been President today even though President O’bama got almost 5 million more votes. They want to change from winner take all for the state, to winner of the congressional district. Republicans tried to slip this by the voters but a few people noticed and it finally got picked up by the main stream media. Virginia was all set for the Governor to sign it into law after sneaking it through while one of their members was at the President’s Inauguration. I believe he would have signed it into law if the media had not found out about it. Michigan is getting ready to do the same thing and if history is an indicator, they will pass it. Michigan doesn’t care what the people think. They ignored a court order to stop using the emergency order because they didn’t have the numbers but they continued. Michigan lawmakers don’t care what anyone says or thinks they just do it. I believe they may be the test case for the Republican Party. If Michigan passes this into law without too much coverage and fuss from the media then the other states will try to follow. Keep an eye out for Rep. Pete Lund in Michigan. He is the guy that says he will introduce the bill and try to get it passed. He says it will make the elections more reflective of what the people really want. Another way to say it is that the urban vote has too much say in the elections and this is the only way they can stop them.

The problem for the Republican Party is their base also known as The Tea Party. When the Tea party first came out in opposition to President O’bama they made a lot of noise and Fox (Not) News hitched their wagon to them. This was before they found out how toxic and batshit crazy they would be. Republicans are stuck with them now that they have been given a name and a voice. The Tea Party is the reason Republicans have had to move so far to the right during their Primary Elections. They have moved them so far to the right that they cannot move back to the center in time for the General Elections. The group they once had on their shoulders cheering them on is now choking the party to death.

Republicans today are saying the President is trying to kill the Republican Party. They should finish that statement with “we don’t need his help.” They are doing all they can to end it on their own. They are driving women and the elderly out. They got rid of black people a long time ago. Now it looks like they want most minorities out. I don’t think they can make it with just white dudes but it looks like they are gonna give it a try. I don’t want them to die off because I think we need more than one party but if they go someone else will come along and take their place. These guys are learning that you can’t keep screwing people and just saying “it’s not me” and think people will continue to believe you. Some of us will vote against you.

Now that Republicans are being seen as who they really are and they are unable to change their message, because of the Tea Party, they want to change the rules. If they are allowed to get away with this it will just be the beginning.