Iowa Nice Guy Special Announcement

H/T  Kurt H.

A Message from The Greatest Generation (NSFW)

My President!

Bill Clinton Rocks

"In Tampa, the Republican argument against the President's re-election was pretty simple: we left him a total mess, he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in." 

 - Bill Clinton 

Watching Bill Clinton give a speech like this gives me goose bumps.  Well done, sir.

Mr. Obama - "That's the story of America" - It gets better.

Now please show us that this is not just campaign era rhetoric.

Elizabeth Warren on Debt Crisis, Fair Taxation

“I hear all this, you know, “Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.” —No!
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.
You built a factory out there—good for you! But I want to be clear.
You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.
You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.
You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea—God bless. Keep a big hunk of it.
But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on why the wealthy need to pay their fair share of taxes.

An "Old time Republican."

“Congressional Reform Act of 2010

This is How You Fix Congress

Makes sense to me.. “Congressional Reform Act of 2010.” It would contain eight provisions, all of which would probably be strongly endorsed by those who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I know many of you will say “this is impossible.” Let me remind you: Congress has the lowest approval rating of any entity in Government. Now is the time when Americans will join together to reform Congress – the entity that represents us.

We need to get a Senator to introduce this bill in the US Senate and a Representative to introduce a similar bill in the US House. These people will become American heroes.

CONGRESSIONAL REFORM ACT OF 2010

1. Term Limits.
12 years only, one of the possible options below:

A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.

Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.

The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

If you agree with the above, pass it on.

He said it better than I could

Over at Bark Bark Woof Woof I found this and I put it here for you to read as he is a much better writer than I am and (of course) I agree with it.

The Real Cost of The War

by Mustang Bobby

President Obama's speech last night on the end of the combat role in Iraq was appropriate in that it didn't declare "Mission Accomplished," he didn't stride across the deck of an aircraft carrier with a sock in his pants, and he paid homage to the men and women who did their job as they were ordered to do. He also did a nice job of honoring the dead and the wounded from all the countries and then turned our attention to what we can do now. In short, it was presidential without being too platitudinous and preachy.

That said, it still doesn't make up for the fact that we never should have fought that damn war in the first place. No one denies that Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who subjugated his people and committed crimes against them and others. In that way he was no different than the leaders of Libya, Syria, Iran, our ally Saudi Arabia, our trading partners China and Vietnam, and even the pariah nations of North Korea, Cuba, and Burma. So why Iraq? Why did we blow nearly a trillion dollars and the lives of so many people? There was no just cause, no righteous vengeance, no direct threat, and certainly no one outside of the Bush administration and a few chicken-hawk think tanks and columnists who live for the masturbatory fantasy of watching other people fight their battles on their idea of a real X-Box who saw it as anything but a disgrace at a terrible cost.

We were lied to, conned, fear-mongered and cowed into going there, and if there was any justice in the world, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, and the rest of the Bush administration neo-cons who took us there would be held accountable. Some folks would like them brought up on charges in the International Court in The Hague, but that's show business. Rather, I'd like to see them have to explain to every family of the more than 4,500 Americans who died or the more than 50,000 who were wounded with everything from debilitating physical injuries to PTSD or the more than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers and civilians and countless others lost as collateral damage, exactly why we waged war against a country that had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and, for all intents and purposes, was no different than any other sovereign country in the world that doesn't embrace Jeffersonian democracy and Wonder Bread.

It will never happen. President Obama didn't address that; he's not that kind of person, I guess. But the worst thing we can do -- worse than all the tragedies and loss -- is to forget how we got there, who led us there, and how much damage the war really caused. We can't turn the page on that.

Old, Fat, Naked Women For Peace.

stolen from Juanuchis' Way

Finally!

h/t Grant Haws

A McCain I liked

I just watched John McCain at the Al Smith Dinner in New York City. I don't know who wrote his speech but it was funny and for the first time I saw a man I could like. I will admit that I don't like his politics but I might like him better if he had shown this side of himself earlier. But I am not going to change my vote. Now Barak is going to speak.

Kurt found it so I stole it from him


And here is Barak Obama's Speech

I did my duty.

I found the following on Andrew's Blog. I love it. I wish the opposition could put up things like it instead of the negative ads they have been running.

Remind me again - NEVER piss David Letterman Off!

700 Billion Dollars Worth of Toxic Debt...

Found this on the Rev's Rumbles, Thanks Brother, j

Feeling Good

Shamelessly stolen from Zaius Nation