Degan writes: "You can almost feel the panic reverberating from both sides of the aisle in Congress this week. They're trying to convince themselves that this is a passing fluke, that we're not yet at the point of no return. If these corrupt nitwits know a damned thing about history (and sometimes I wonder if these knuckleheads know anything) they must realize that - if this isn't the end of the right wing's 30-year-long orgy - it is most definitely the beginning of the end."

Republicans John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy on Capitol Hill, 10/04/11. (photo: Getty Images)

GOP Panic Sets In

By Tom Degan, LA Progressive

15 October 11

f you read the newspapers today, I, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country. And believe it or not, some in this town, have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans." - Eric Cantor

Damn! I nearly spit out my coffee when I read that one. At that exact same moment, the pot that I had brewed the coffee in called the kettle "black". Aren't these the most interesting of times? They are, you know. They really are!

Here is a question that I am hard-pressed to avoid: Is there a bigger worm slithering though the halls of Congress than Eric Cantor? If there is I'd sure as hell would like to know about it. It has always amused me to watch him on the tube trying to defend the morally indefensible. He always has this weird look of cherubic contentment on his clueless face. It really is something to behold. To the credit of Mitch "The Plutocracy's Bitch" McConnell, he at least has the decency to look somewhat ill at ease when having to vomit forth their nonsensical talking points . Cantor, on the other hand, is right at home with their delightfully twisted agenda. Too weird!

Consider Eric Cantor's burden. if you will. The little freak wants us to swallow his definition of the people down on Wall Street who now hold up a mirror to the plutocracy's face. Eric defines them as a "mob". He actually made a very good point - although I am certain that it was accidental on his part. This IS the pitting of "Americans against Americans. It's the ninety nine percent against the one percent. Cantor and his people are calling this "class warfare". Guess what. It is class warfare! And they've been waging it against us since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

For the first century, it was a covert war. On January 20, 1981 (Guess what happened on that day? Hint: "Ronnie") it became completely and unabashedly overt. On 17 September 2011, the sleeping giant of the American Left was awakened from a long and troubled slumber. Cantor and his gang shouldn't even dream about putting an end to what is now happening. This revolution is unstoppable. The line it is drawn; the curse it is cast. The good folks whom at this very hour are occupying Wall Street are bearing witness for all the world to behold, what 30 years of deregulation - and the resulting economic plunder - have done to the working people of this once-great nation. The American people have had it up to here and they're taking long-overdue action. The old world is rapidly fading. Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand.

Comments

+294 # MainStreetMentor 2011-10-15 15:18

I quite agree with the thrust of this article. While Cantor’s IQ might be compared to that of a grape (I’d vote for the grape’s being higher!), it’s really a moot point. Cantor’s continual banter is not of his origin, it’s handed to his sycophant-self by his corporate handlers, (you know, the ones who fund the majority of the T-Party’s ultra-right) – and, like any good bootlicker, what’s handed to him is never questioned, only regurgitated (but ONLY if there is media present to re-regurgitate it). Mitchell “We-Will-Not-Pass-a-Jobs-Bill” McConnell is exactly the same, (well, I’ve heard some say his IQ is higher … maybe by two grape seeds). Boehner, on the other hand is just … lost.

+297 # Ken Maddox 2011-10-15 15:43

I keep waiting for the GOP to implode under the enormous weight of their dogma, but somehow they continue to exist.
I do not understand how, when a person for all intents and purposes, has sworn to destroy the nation as we know it can continue to be accepted in a position of leadership and power.
Eric Canter is one of the worst of what I refer to as the Regressive Republican-Tea Party Party members.
Thankfully there is a Democrat running against him in the next election.

+189 # Erdajean 2011-10-15 20:34

A vital point -- as if by a miracle, Cantor will have a DEMOCRAT opponent. Hope against hope, this current grand performance of "Sleepers Awake" may encourage real candidates from the decent and human boundaries of U.S. politics. We are where we have come to be in part because thoughtful and bright people have made themselves scarce on the ballot. Too few have had the stomach for the lies, insults and lurid fictions the vandal hordes are certain to spew, and the half-wits among the electorate are all too willing to soak up and spread like the dung it is.
Now that courage is in bloom, may the best among us come forth, and stand.

+37 # SharonToji 2011-10-16 09:53

The problem, as I see it, is that the NY founders of the US movement state strongly that they will not be "co-opted" by the Democrats. Right now, unless they very quickly start their own party, become qualified in almost every state, and get signatures of candidates who want to run for president, congress and senate, where people are up for election, they have no real clout in November UNLESS they make the incumbents quake in their boots! If they do quake, it will be because of viable opposition or the fear that congress and the senate will have a majority of "OWS" candidates. Will Democrats offer to serve their needs if they continue to insult Democrats as if they are monolithic and all march to the tune of the DNC? Right now, there are a very few brave (but in my opinion sadly misguided people on the right, and a few more on the left -- mostly the progressive caucus -- that will break ranks. The right leaning ones will never vote with OWS. They vote against them every time! (and that was before they existed). The left leaning ones have, on the whole, always voted with them! Their numbers need to swell mightily, until others are brought along by fear.

In the end, in this country, it's the ballot box that really matters, and lots of oversight to make sure that everyone is allowed to vote, and that it isn't electronically "stuffed."

+37 # cy31b 2011-10-16 12:22

You're absolutely right, Sharon, and the GOP is takking action as we speak to resolve that problem. They are making it much more difficult for people without ID to vote, and you know who that is. The GOP fgures that if they can shave 5 miilion voters off the voting that will give them a fighting chance to defeat Progressives next November. Make sure you and your friends and relatives have a valid photo ID. In some cases you might need a birth certificate and a marriage license or passport, so be on guard. The GOP is putting in THE FIX.

+35 # J.Lindsley 2011-10-16 01:49

Quoting

I keep waiting for the GOP to implode under the enormous weight of their dogma, but somehow they continue to exist.
I do not understand how, when a person for all intents and purposes, has sworn to destroy the nation as we know it can continue to be accepted in a position of leadership and power.
Eric Canter is one of the worst of what I refer to as the Regressive Republican-Tea Party Party members.
Thankfully there is a Democrat running against him in the next election.

these "people" are Robots!. They only speak whatv they arevprogrammed to speak...that is the only answer to their unchanging "dialogue".

To expect more is to expect reason out of these non-functionary misprints from RUR
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+12 # Timetrvlr 2011-10-16 02:00

Who is it and where do I contribute?

+44 # Timetrvlr 2011-10-16 02:03

Flooding the dems with all the indies that issue voted because of the propaganda will help turn the tide back to the REAL PEOPLE and start us on the road to recovery.
The dems are our best and fastest hope. I cannot wait another decade. They go by too quickly.

+39 # doneasley 2011-10-16 15:21

Ken, the GOP right-wingers won't implode until The mainstream media takes a stand and stops covering these "patriotic, Christian" Neanderthals as if their dogma is legitimate. How is it that they're all on the same page with identical talking points every day? The latest being "Class Warfare". Some of you may be too young to remember when their God, Ronald Reagan, initiated the GOP Class Warfare campaign in Philadelphia, MS, with an "I'm with you" speech to an all-white crowd of 10,000 racists, some of whom were responsible for the vicious murders of 3 Freedom Riders in that very town in 1964. Reagan - whose mantra was,"Government is not the solution to our problem, Government IS the problem" - went on to begin dismantling our people-infrastructure by firing members of the air traffic controllers union, and implementing his "Trickle Down" Economics that said if you give it to the rich it will trickle down to the masses. Of course, 30 years later, we know better after watching the worst president in my lifetime, George Bush, use that misguided theory to bring our economy to its knees. But instead of looking at the facts and changing their course, these dunderheads are doubling down on Trickle Down and destroying every social program in their path.

I don't know who's worse - Cantor or McConnell. At any rate, what they're doing is depraved!

+20 # chick 2011-10-16 20:42

The reason they continue to exist is "Money" And some stupid poor and middle class (and I know a few) who continue to consider themselves Republicans (and do not have a pot to p--s in. They cut off their noses to spite their face.

But I think finally they are starting to "get it".

I hope in the next election even with all their money they are not able to buy the election by making it harder for seniors, blacks and students to vote.

+72 # katela 2011-10-15 19:53

Knuckleheads is right. I always think of Eric Cantor as the GOP's Pinky Lee. On second thought, that might be insulting to Mr. Lee.

+41 # katela 2011-10-15 19:56

Knuckleheads is right. Eric Cantor is the GOP Pinky Lee.

+271 # Mermaid19 2011-10-15 20:05

How sad they see us as a "mob" when we are Americans asking for what is right i.e. Ending these wars, medical coverage for all our citizens, fix our roads, educate our children, stop being racists, start dealing with global warming, alternative energy, jobs so we can have dignity and pay our bills. What is wrong with these individuals who fight against having that. Where are your values, who are you, how do you sleep at night. I feel so sorry for you because you forgot what it was to be human, what it is to be a spiritual person, a fair person, a loving person. It is easy to get back on the track of love and compassion, change your thinking, we are not enemies out here, we are human beings just like you and we want a life just like you do, a life that takes care of us and not abuses us.

+63 # redjelly39 2011-10-15 22:17

Here Here Mermaid - You so eloquently stated what is in my heart & mind. I have waited so long for us to drop the Democrat/Republican division lines and act as "Americans" and that time has now come. If we 99% stick together - just think of the country we can build together.
All politicians should be shaking in their shoes because they will all be held accountable and their ties to the banks/corps will now be a liability. They better start joining us in the streets or start looking for another job as well :)

+35 # tswhiskers 2011-10-16 07:02

Unfortunately, those who uphold the status quo, nearly always fail or refuse to understand those who support its change. "I don't understand. What's the problem?" is always the cry of those in power. That is why revolutions are sometimes necessary. Those who are comfortable usually need to be hit over the head with the proverbial two-by-four to force them to see the situation before them as it really is. Republicans still either don't see it or refuse to admit to seeing it.

+17 # Lolanne 2011-10-16 11:05

//Republicans still either don't see it or refuse to admit to seeing it.//

I think it's the latter, tswhiskers. If they just didn't see it they'd have to be deaf, dumb, blind and stupid, and while I do enjoy calling them those things, I can't really believe it. I think they just refuse to admit what they see/hear/know. Though I do agree that those who are "comfortable" do need a strong wake-up call to really become aware of what's going on around them. It's all too easy to wear blinders when you have everything you want. And Mermaid 19, while I agree with you that it's sad (tragic, really), I can't feel sorry for them. I think it was sheer, unadulterated greed that led them down the path they chose, and if any of them have the decency left to be unable to sleep at night, I have to admit I'm glad.

+3 # Capn Canard 2011-10-17 07:15

Mermaid19, DAMNIT, you are making sense and sociopaths don't like it when you make sense! All the obvious things need to be stated, WELL DONE... thanks

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/Thinking.pdf

+2 # doneasley 2011-10-19 16:13

Mermaid19, it is sad that the Tea Party crowd sees us as a "mob" and only choose to adhere to the Articles of the Constitution that they agree with. They believe in the phrase in the Preamble that states, "provide for the common defence", but they completely ignore the very next phrase that says, "promote the general Welfare". When their predecessors came home from WWII, they received the benefits of the GI bill, which gave them a college education, medical care, housing and a solid foundation that soon vaulted them into the middle class. I'm willing to bet you that every one of them is in the position that they currently hold because of the advantages received from their parents or grandparents. And now they would deny these advantages to the rest of us. This is the Reagan philosophy couched in the phrase, "Government IS the problem". It utterly boggles my mind that these Wingnuts - not knowing what the future will bring - sign the Grover Norquist pledge not to raise taxes. And after witnessing the damage that Bush and Cheney did to America, they blindly cling to this same philosophy, leading us further into the ditch. In order to accomplish their goals, they have to endlessly repeat lies conjured up by people like Norquist. But the saddest thing of all is watching people support policies that are AGAINST THEIR OWN BEST INTERESTS.

+209 # DaveM 2011-10-15 20:16

When Tea Party members were marching the streets in large numbers, did anyone refer to them as "mobs"? Even when they behaved in the manner of a mob?

+64 # NOMINAE 2011-10-15 23:38

Quoting

When Tea Party members were marching the streets in large numbers, did anyone refer to them as "mobs"? Even when they behaved in the manner of a mob?

@ Dave M Most certainly no one did, Dave. Tea Party clowns were a mob coming into "Town Hall meetings" strapped with assault rifles. And they have the cojones to denigrate these truly brave demonstrators ? There is no sense to it. We waste valuable energy in attempting to find the "sense: in it. It is simply a sick, sad insane game played by the plutocrats against all odds and against all members of the 99%.

+19 # KittatinyHawk 2011-10-16 11:03

They still are. This week the GOP is having a Senior day telling us it is okay to privatize liquor stores and destroy another 125,000 jobs. Cause more kids to have access to alcohol therefore more dead kids on road and more drunk driving.
then they have more news on how fracking is good for us even though there are no laws in place in Pa to protect Communities no less families. Life in Pa Nazis are at it again.
They also just let a Senator off who was brandishing a gun while driving on Rte 22. The Senator had been one who made a law that you can shoot if you think someone sneezed against you. Another mental case, I am sure the Judge is another GOP. NOt all the bad States are in South or out west, Pa is a prime example of, as well as, Jersey. Jersey swings so much I believe their clocks do not need to move anymore, Pendulums are that off balance.

+53 # KarenWebb 2011-10-16 02:07

Quoting

When Tea Party members were marching the streets in large numbers, did anyone refer to them as "mobs"? Even when they behaved in the manner of a mob?

As I recall many in the Tea Party were armed and demanding the right to carry more arms. I went to a lot of protest during the Bush years, including large ones at the ranch, and the only guns or weapons I saw were on the police officers.

+57 # futhark 2011-10-16 02:08

A "mob" is a group of irate people with whom one disagrees who is venting its frustrations in public.

The United States of America was founded by a "mob" in the 1770s by rioters in Boston and a bunch of notoriously intractable malcontents like Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. In July of 1776 they set aside their lesser differences to unite for the common interest of freeing the country from the dominant self-interested British government and business coalition.

Occupy Wall Street is the 21st Century heir to the fine old original Tea Party movement of 1773.

+24 # Cassandra2012 2011-10-16 09:36

Quoting

When Tea Party members were marching the streets in large numbers, did anyone refer to them as "mobs"? Even when they behaved in the manner of a mob?

When some of their redneck fringe wackos pulled the hair of an anti-TP protestor and kicked her in the face the Teabaggers demonstrated they WERE a mob.

+16 # jerryball 2011-10-16 14:35

Quoting

Quoting
When Tea Party members were marching the streets in large numbers, did anyone refer to them as "mobs"? Even when they behaved in the manner of a mob?

When some of their redneck fringe wackos pulled the hair of an anti-TP protestor and kicked her in the face the Teabaggers demonstrated they WERE a mob.

Much less when they were spitting on our Black Congressmen. And they claim they are NOT BIGOTED. Gimme a break. If it acts like a bigot, spits like a bigot, it IS A BIGOT!

+7 # chick 2011-10-16 20:51

and don't forget their guns in the holsters and carrying rifles. Anyone disagreeing with them would be afraid to utter a sound. That was a mob.

+53 # Grouchy 2011-10-15 20:28

This stuff is get'n funner and funner! I just hope the trend is only starting.

+159 # Eman Resu 2011-10-15 20:35

Occupy Everywhere needs to grow a hell of a lot more than it is right now before the "thrust of this article" becomes truth.
It is no where near the proportions it needs to be to paralyze the beast that feeds the little rats like Cantor, Boehner and McConnell, Lets not forget Hatch , Sessions , Graham and the rest of the Apple Dumblin gang.
I hope Occupy does grow to the point that it will actually accomplish something but a few thousand people does not make a Tahrir Square.
This is gonna take millions or it is all a footnote in our Apathetic and Divided States of America, Hitory.
It is to the point where it is encouraging though , I'll give it that !

+3 # KittatinyHawk 2011-10-16 11:05

ARe you there yet

+7 # chick 2011-10-16 20:56

Are you kidding do you know how many states have it now. I have lost count and on top of that even Canada and Europe is doing the same thing.

+79 # jimyoung 2011-10-15 20:45

Cantor gets the headlines but I'd pick Darrell Issa as one who needs to have a little average citizen review of what looks like undo influence (intimidation) against regulators. See http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/18/298485/exclusive-goldman-sachs-vp-changed-his-name-now-advances-goldman-lobbying-interests-as-a-top-staffer-to-darrell-issa/ for something I don't think requires massive regulations, just more sensible margin requirements on financial entities that like to gamble. If the rest of the world can live with such sensible regulations and higher taxes, why can't we?

+49 # X Dane 2011-10-15 23:17

jimmyyoung, right Cantor is a disgusting jerk, but Darrel Issa is WORSE. He has done a number of things that should have landed in jail. (car theft among them)
He made so much money that he thought he could STEAL the Califonia governorship.
He was the one, who started the recall of Grey Davis, but Ahhhnold swooped in and snatched it away.

Right now Issa is busy doing what he can to paint the democrats as corrupt. Of course he is especially zeroing in on Obama.

+3 # Capn Canard 2011-10-17 07:09

X Dane, absolutely. Darrel Issa is a sociopath.

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/Thinking.pdf

+24 # uglysexy 2011-10-15 20:50

I wish I thought you were right....the right and the vapors of the spirit of the confederacy are alive and well. I don't see them running on fumes any time soon

+6 # chick 2011-10-16 21:00

I guess you didn't see the headlines of Cantor saying "I think the wealthy have more than the middle class"

He is finally admitting it. He is trying to save face and fool people into thinking maybe he ain't so bad a guy.
Hypocrite, Hypocrite. He doesn't fool anyone.

+114 # patriot451 2011-10-15 20:55

Let's be careful not to rely totally on wishful thinking. It makes us lazy and easily defeated. Cantor is my congressman; it's unlikely we can ever defeat him because of gerrymandering. WE think he's stupid, but his followers do not. They love his tenaciousness.

Let's not fool ourselves. With their money, their ruthlessness, their media control, and their money (it bears repeating), "panic" is wa-a-a-a-ay overstated.

I'm involved in local politics. If much of the nation is like Virginia, you can count on an untenacious American Left to protest for a while, then go home and be easily fooled by words and token actions.

+16 # geohunt1 2011-10-16 05:46

I thought the people at Occupy Wall Street were adamant that they were nonpartisan; not the "American Left". I visited Occupy Philly yesterday and only one tent had a political sign on it. It was a Ron Paul for president sign. American Left?

+6 # chick 2011-10-16 21:06

Don't think for a minuet the Koch money is not scattered around ows to try and push their agenda.
Who do you think is paying the white shirt police to be so brutal at times.

+31 # pbbrodie 2011-10-16 05:51

You are so unfortunately so right. We all thought the GOP was dead, after the 2006 and 2008 wipeout elections but look what happened in 2010, they unbelievably came storming back and even won the House! Who would have believed it possible in 2008, when we are flush with victory.
Do not ever underestimate the power of propaganda, especially when combined with virtually complete control of the news media and soon our only avenue of speaking truth, the Internet.
Everyone needs to be aware that the Internet is our last bastion of freely disseminating the truth and the oligarchy is working as hard as they can to take control of it. This what is behind the Resolution of Disapproval currently going on in the Senate. If successful, it will completely reverse the Net Neutrality rules put in place by the FCC and turn over control of the Internet to AT&T, Verizon, and the other major providers of Internet services.

+9 # Lolanne 2011-10-16 13:45

//We all thought the GOP was dead, after the 2006 and 2008 wipeout elections but look what happened in 2010, they unbelievably came storming back and even won the House!//

I don't believe the GOP has actually WON anything. They STEAL elections, they don't win them. The SC gave the 2000 election to bush (I refuse to capitalize his name) and his friends in Ohio "delivered" the state to him in 2004. Perhaps Obama and other Dems won in '08 because there was such an overwhelming vote for them (and AGAINST the Repugs) it wasn't possible to change it without getting caught. There were lots of election "irregularities" again in 2010, but did anybody really investigate them and do anything about them? NO! We've got to get rid of those oh so easy to hack into electronic voting machines and go back to ways of counting them that are not so easily manipulated before we can really rely on our votes meaning anything.

+5 # chick 2011-10-16 21:08

I hear you lowd and clear and I hope everyone else listens. When you see a petition for the free internet, sign it please.

+4 # kyzipster 2011-10-16 17:32

The protestors will have to go home, it will be below freezing soon enough. I applaud them for this effort, it's been dramatic and it's shaking things up in a very positive way. I don't blame the left or the protestors for the sorry state of this country, at least they're making an effort. If they were so easily fooled, they wouldn't be out there right now as we're posting on the internet.

+3 # chick 2011-10-16 21:03

Not this time Baby. Pandoras box has been open and nothing can put the "stuff" back in.
It sounds like you might vote for him again. No matter he will be defeated this time no matter how much money they throw at him.

+20 # DPM 2011-10-15 21:11

Eman Resu! Come march with us.

+48 # lourdmar 2011-10-15 21:14

the GOP's little game is about to be over...
boo hoo - this is your cue to weep Mr. Boehner.

+2 # Capn Canard 2011-10-17 07:06

if the GOP's little game is about to be over then we all must put extreme pressure on the Dems or they will be as much of a problem as the GOP. Personally I can't see the Dems being the answer. I hope I am wrong, but I doubt it...

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/Thinking.pdf

+31 # acohen8919 2011-10-15 21:21

Eric Kantor is sounding an awful lot like the politicians who spoke about those of us who marched and were arrested protesting the Vietnam war. We too were called "anti-american" and worse. He seems to be failing to take many lessons from history - the history of 1937 and beyond.

+1 # Jonathan Back 2011-10-15 21:32

There is that 'ole adage -- "Absolute Power Corrupts but has a built-in resolution - these corrupt power seekers in the end devour each other".

If the Progressive Democrats don't come out from under the skirts of lobbyists to whom they owe their allegiance - Mr. Boehner, Mr. McConnell and Mr. Cantor will escape the guillotine of Huntsville, Texas, which is where they belong for treasonable offences against the United States of America. Yes mobs are known to lynch the very corrupt. Amen.

We have 70,000,000 plus (that is 70 million plus) persons who identify themselves as white, born again Christians, disciples of the extreme far right who fear Negroes, Hispanic and are terrified of brilliant outstanding Asians who now form the majority of the people of the Unites States. I said this to my very dear white college classmate, “John, if I was white like you and not up to par in educational achievement with the Asians and I saw the Negroes, Hispanics and Asians gaining the upper hand in US economics I would suffer from endless diarrhea.”

The Threes Stooges of the Ultra Far Right that is Messrs. Boehner, McConnell and Cantor are nothing but Pubpols (public face of Finpols (finpols are hidden rich and super rich) who actually set the agenda.

+53 # giraffe 2011-10-15 21:56

I have called Cantor's office about once/week to tell his employee the "message of the day" It usually goes "Please tell Mr. Cantor that he .... and to take that smirk off his face .... and to see a shrink ASAP." (I'm fast but not this nice)

First things first: Have to get the Supremes' to remove their 2010 decision because there is nothing in the Constitution that allows foreigners to buy our government. RESIGN SCALIA/THOMAS/ALIOTA -- you are all crooks.

Please sign the petition:

http://www.getmoneyout.com

And help all minorities, old, etc to get their IDS (our elections are free and if a state requires an ID to vote -- the ID is free)

Help these people to get registered with absentee ballots (we've been warned about vote suppression etc)

The most important election we've ever had is 2012 -- Please don't stay home and get a repeat of 2010 -- or we've doomed. NEVER EVER EVER vote for a GOP/TP.
Thank you.

+10 # CaM 2011-10-15 22:09

The title suggested I would be reading about the panic the GOP is feeling now. I did not get a feel for this panic reading what then followed however.

Could you give some specifics, some examples to support this. I would like to believe this to be so but could not find this assurance sought.

+20 # wwway 2011-10-15 23:21

Some sage advise. 1) Never take the side of the powerful over the powerless (yourself if you are poor and middle class) 2) Be wary of the rich man with his hand out 3) Remember that business is NOT DEMOCRATIC but democracy ensures that the people get the government they deserve. This means that if "the People" are going to stay in power they better stop buying the crap from the right!

-37 # antineocon 2011-10-15 23:34

NO ONE MENTIONED THE SETTING ASIDE OF FOREIGN AID FOR ISRAEL. CUT OFF AID TO ALL BUT NOT ISRAEL, THE MOTHER LAND.

+19 # Beth 2011-10-16 07:37

what does this suppose to mean? the "mother land" is Africa...check your science please.

+13 # reiverpacific 2011-10-16 07:55

Please explain "Mother land" and in what context. I really want to know.

+9 # Okieangels 2011-10-16 11:31

Possibly sarcasm about Kantor's support for Israel, even over and above his loyalty to the USA?

+1 # boudreaux 2011-10-17 05:55

Quoting

NO ONE MENTIONED THE SETTING ASIDE OF FOREIGN AID FOR ISRAEL. CUT OFF AID TO ALL BUT NOT ISRAEL, THE MOTHER LAND.

They walk among us.

+2 # Capn Canard 2011-10-17 07:02

If this is sarcasm it is very poorly written.

-13 # NOMINAE 2011-10-15 23:55

Dear Author Tom Degan ...... or is that Tom Dylan ?

Are you counting on the likelihood that most of your readership will be too young to recognize the fact that you have brazenly plagiarized part of your article directly from Bob Dylan's song "The Times They Are A-Changin' "?

The lines "The line it is drawn the curse it is cast", the line "The old world is rapidly fading" and the line "Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand" should all have been in quotes and attributed to their original author. These lines are not yet "public domain" the author is still living.

Write on your own merits or learn how to properly attribute your "lifted" material.

I'm sure that stealing work from better authors lends "punch" to your articles, but then ...... they're not really *your* articles at that point are they ?

+10 # planetwaves 2011-10-16 15:30

Every writer borrows and steals from other writers. In fact Dylan is one of the modern masters. Dylan borrows from TS Eliot and others. Eliot borrows from Shakespeare and others. Nobody uses quite marks. Anyone who does not recognize the lines, "the line it is drawn/the curse it is cast" has their head buried so deep in the sand there is no hope. These are not obscure lines of literature, or lyrics. It's an obvious reference to Dylan.

+4 # lindyb 2011-10-17 06:31

Really?? This is your comment about Tom Degan's inspiring article?? I'm sure that Bob Dylan has no problem with his words being used as a rallying cry for change again. It's exactly why he wrote them.

Quoting

Dear Author Tom Degan ...... or is that Tom Dylan ?

Are you counting on the likelihood that most of your readership will be too young to recognize the fact that you have brazenly plagiarized part of your article directly from Bob Dylan's song "The Times They Are A-Changin' "?

The lines "The line it is drawn the curse it is cast", the line "The old world is rapidly fading" and the line "Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand" should all have been in quotes and attributed to their original author. These lines are not yet "public domain" the author is still living.

Write on your own merits or learn how to properly attribute your "lifted" material.

I'm sure that stealing work from better authors lends "punch" to your articles, but then ...... they're not really *your* articles at that point are they ?

+1 # Capn Canard 2011-10-17 07:01

NOMINAE, dare I say it: but IMO Bob Dylan may be a bit overrated... I think that Neil Young is as good or better and Bruce Springsteen does great work as well. At some point trying to control the propriety is a never ending battle, as far as creative works I believe it all becomes the cultural commons at some point, unless you wanna defend the right of corporations to make endless profits off the Beattles? or Woody Guthrie? Joe Strummer? BTW I want the creators to be rewarded but beyond that it gets ridiculous to claim words and phrases or THOUGHTS as "property". Somewhere, something's gotta give. Where does it stop? Do we sell and buy water? How about selling the genetic code for food? YES, OF COURSE! and soon we will see someone marketing the very air you breathe! Money is the problem...

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/Thinking.pdf

+1 # reiverpacific 2011-10-17 08:09

Quoting

NOMINAE, that is weak... dare I say it: but Bob Dylan is a bit overrated. IMO Neil Young was as good or better and Bruce Springsteen does a great work as well. At some point it is never ending and I will not DEFEND PROPRIETY even in the creative works, I believe it all becomes the cultural commons unless you wanna defend the right of corporations to make endless profits off dead black blues artists and Jazz musicians? or Mozart? or Woody Guthrie? Joe Strummer? BTW I want the creators to be rewarded but beyond that it gets ridiculous to claim words and phrases or THOUGHTS as "property". Somewhere, something's gotta give. Money is the problem...

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/Thinking.pdf

Give me a bloody break!
Bob Dylan was and still is America's greatest poet in terms of wordcraft, word-vision and deceptively simple musical accompaniment (I do both in my 'umble way).
Neil Young was a footing amateur as was Bruce Springstein by comparison (there is none) both verbally prosaic or deliberately unclear (Niel Young) and musically predicable.
My opinion of course but Dylan's power in words and music cannot be over rated.
Some of his acknowledged influences attribute to my national bard Robert Burns. Just check out the incredible verbal imagery in "The Gates of Eden".

+15 # overanddone 2011-10-16 01:39

Is there a bigger worm slithering though the halls of Congress than Eric Cantor?

No! Tom there is not, however Mitt "the
sh t Romney could give him a run for his title in a year or so.

+7 # bong_jamesbong2001 2011-10-16 01:40

It's not JUST about the Republicans. There's lots of Democrat shame to hand out. Pelosi, "Madame Torture"; Obama; the whole Congressional crew who passed out trillions to the bankers and let the crimes of G.W. Bush go unpunished--I mean, why allow one set of idiots to be replaced by another. It's the same mob of pukes.

+19 # bong_jamesbong2001 2011-10-16 01:41

Do us, your readers, a favor. Disconnect from facebook. We don't need to be tracked by the CIA and FBI all over the Internet. Thanks.

+13 # Beth 2011-10-16 08:01

hey bong - I am confused? who are you referring to?, and BTW, we are totally being tracked all over the internet, our cell phones, our land lines, etc. - not just paranoid - my father had a krypto (very high level security clearance) in the 60ies - they were tracking us then...trust me, if you can even imagine it - they have been doing it for decades...certainly post 911 - just a fact of life dude

+9 # KittatinyHawk 2011-10-16 10:57

I am more disgusted that people do not care that Facebook and like sell your information to anyone. When I first went on to keep in touch with an ill friend, FB said it had privacy clauses, that was 6 years ago..nothing about FB is private anymore. You all let these slobs sell your info and you do not care. Foolish, a class action could have stopped it but you said Who Cares.

I care. I do not like having FB or anyone sell my info, if that spoiled Republican Brat didnot make enough money by now, and GOP/TP never have enough money why should I allow them to contact me and make money everytime they send me a you have notification pending...too bad anyone wants to contact me, let them.

Yes Big Brother has been watching us since the McCarthy and Hoover days, if you do not have anything to hide, who cares. Lots of losers who should be having a life, sit around getting paid to see if everyone in the USA is a bad guy. They should spend more time tapping their own wires, they got the info, the addresses and whereabouts of anyone who is bad....I do not have the time to worry about Big Brother because he has his own problems to deal with.

+6 # angelfish 2011-10-16 11:43

I agree whole heartedly with you, Kittatiny Hawk, I was suckered by Facebook but quickly saw that all it was about, was Game Playing, Gossip and Palming off your info onto other Net sites, and I got out! I would NOT go back to Facebook if it were the only interactive tool on the Net!

+5 # cy31b 2011-10-16 12:28

Nice try, getting out, but it's too late. Once in your data is in forever, even when you drop your membership.

0 # boudreaux 2011-10-17 05:59

Smoking that good stuff I guess..

+21 # Holyone 2011-10-16 03:22

It's about time WE decided to do something about this mess, WE are the People and WE should not be ruled by the dictates of the 1%.

This power hiearchy is being turned up side down... 99% on the top not the bottom.

This is the precious beauty and rendering of our constitution.

The Conservatives on the Supreme Court might do well to examine this document, the USA Constitution, rather than operate out of the "Brain Cloud" they use as a functioning cerebal organ.

+11 # Beth 2011-10-16 07:53

Dear Holyone, Perhaps I am a bit defensive about your comment "It's about time WE decided to do something about this mess" - I have worked for peace and social justice - there are many of us who have been trying very very hard to do something about this mess...we have NEVER been heard regardless of our approach - let us all hope this will FINALLY be heard - "the people united will never be defeated", truly, there are many more of us than there are of them (regardless of the amount of money they have and the elections they buy) and they are our employees!!!! - in solidarity

+29 # Barbara K 2011-10-16 04:11

So the Greedy Old Pigs are starting to panic? Well, it's about time. They've been destroying our country, our people, our economy for far too long and feeding the beasts that run Wall St. and the Koch Bastards and Rove, and a few others. It is time to run them out of our government and they can take their wealthy friends with them and start up on an Island far, far away.

NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!

-26 # MidwestTom 2011-10-16 04:38

So far the only true non-establishment candidates are on the GOP side in Ron paul and Herman Gain. Why are there no Democratic challengers to Obama? Is the party 'protecting' him?

+6 # reiverpacific 2011-10-16 16:05

Quoting

So far the only true non-establishment candidates are on the GOP side in Ron paul and Herman Gain. Why are there no Democratic challengers to Obama? Is the party 'protecting' him?

Well, we ARE trying to get Bernie Sanders/Kucinich to run but not much hope. It might wake Ob' up if he had true lefties in ascendency. Oh, and Alan Grayson is actually running again (but not for president yet awhile,) as is Eliz' Warren and ditto. They are out there but are, predictably, being ignored by the owner media.

+7 # genierae 2011-10-17 11:11

MidwestTom: Didn't you read the article about Herman Cain being backed by those wonderful "non-establishment" boys, the Koch brothers? He is their product, bought and paid for, so you need to take him off your list.

+34 # Sandy G 2011-10-16 04:52

Cantor's big problem is that his mommie and daddy shoved the silver spoon up the wrong hole.

+32 # walt 2011-10-16 05:14

The Republicans and Tea Party are slaves of the corporatocracy and have given our country away to the money powers. Some would call them whores.
Eric Cantor is perfectly described by Tom Degan as a "worm slithering through the halls of Congress." He is every bit that and then some. "Little freak" fits very well too! And he has good company in Boehner, Ryan, McConnell and a others whose views of the country are shamefully ignorant and definitely filled with bigotry. McConnell stated that his main goal is to "make President Obama a one term president." Wonder why? Don't rule out race! And never forget too the Tea Party events where the fools were told to bring their guns.
Yes, the "Occupy Wall Street" actions seen at hundreds of locations around the nation and world yesterday are long overdue and reflect the total rejection of the Republican mentality (or lack thereof) about government and the economy. These folks are standing against the very “Reaganomics” that has nearly destroyed the nation.
Let's insure that all of these "freaks" and "worms" are made unemployed in 2012 and sent out to get jobs in the economy they have worked so hard to destroy. Or better yet, let them line up to collect unemployment money!

+24 # mrgrtmorris 2011-10-16 06:17

Go after the funders of the bad guys. Murdoch, the Koch's, the evil members of the 1%, boycott their products, their interests, picket their palaces if possible, make their lives as miserable as they have the poorest of us. Follow the money and punish the sources. Then they'll be concerned.

They take money seriously.

Cantor, Boehner, yes, even the Dems.--these are essentially sock puppets.

Thousands of people in the streets in every city will not faze them, at least not for long. Protests make us feel good. Then we go home and live in a world they are literally destroying with their policies.

+22 # Califa 2011-10-16 07:39

Yes, go after the bad guys. If you really want to occupy Wall Street do your holiday shopping at local merchants.

+11 # KittatinyHawk 2011-10-16 10:50

Buy American, I do, it makes a difference.
Demand your local stores buy American and bring jobs back.

I make crafts, silk arrangements. I stopped as the silks are crap. We always had foreign to chose from. One time Asian or American used to wrap the silks, they lasted, you could wipe them off, clean them up. I remember the farms that used to grow dried flowers for Fall Arrangements. Lucky if you can find any, when you do they are shabby from shipping, not wrapped nicely so cheap looking, costly.
I laugh when I see people buying foreign made wreath the store paid a couple of bucks for. $60 bucks they get 6 flowers and a bow perhaps ugly raffia. $10 dollars a flower. I could have a bouquet of flowers a week for two months. Then gets thrown out, I think that would have bought 10 meals for homeless, you selfish slobs.
I find them, I recycle them and sell for a song. I am going back into making my own wreaths because they are one of a kind, and American Made. I will put a dollar a wreath or hat in a jar so I can feed the homeless every Holiday.

If you really want to do something, have family make something together to give to your friends and family. It says a lot more about you than something off the shelf or a card with money. It says we had fun making this just for you.

+9 # Gibbous 2011-10-16 11:31

Quoting

Yes, go after the bad guys. If you really want to occupy Wall Street do your holiday shopping at local merchants.

Yes, Vote with your Dollar. They can hear that.

+16 # Linda 2011-10-16 06:22

I think what is needed is a changing of the guard . This two party rule is what has brought this country down. We need a third party ,a Peoples Party to keep the rest of them honest and get rid of those who are corrupt which is about 95%! There are Dems as well as Republican's who are in the corporations pocket.
We really don't have a Liberal Democratic Party any more, with a few exceptions most are leaning right of center and some really should change their party affiliation sense they vote with the Republican's anyway .We can't keep voting for the same two parties and expect different results its insane to think they will change . It is only empowering them when we continue to vote for them .
Its too late this election cycle to jump ship ,we are not ready but I think we need to spend the next four years preparing the way for a third party candidate !

+9 # Sandy G 2011-10-16 06:49

pretty dour-looking group in the photo.

+9 # satx 2011-10-16 06:50

All of this talk about unstoppable and revolution is and will remain self-congratulating pablum unless candidates come forward (there won't be enough) and actually get elected (there won't be enough) against the $Bs that United Corporations of America, the financial sector will give to their candidates to "conserve" the status quo of the 1%.

As LBJ said, paraphrase, "If you have enough votes, you can do anything", but who can assure me that the "mob" and its sympathizers will even be presented with candidates and will elect enough of those candidates to "do anything"?

And after any candidate gets elected, he will be besieged/corrupted by lobbyists offering contributions, favors for the legislator, or threatening to contribute against his re-election.

iow, Human-Americans have been and will be disenfranchised by Corporate-Americans. And the extreme right-wing and fairly young SCOTUS block ain't gonna overturn Citizens United for decades, if ever.

eg, 70% of the Repugs want the EPA left untouched, while the @ssholes they put in office are relentlessly trying to kill the EPA, doing the bidding of Corporate-Amercans, not Repug Human-Americans.

+5 # KittatinyHawk 2011-10-16 10:35

You only have to start by changing enough, then you can find better and continue the pace.
What we must find is good men and women, who will run in different parties so we can get some chaos out of the way. We need to feel secure so we sucked into a two party system and do not realize how Fascist that is.
Perseverance not nay saying is how we move forward. If you do not feel good about moving forward than lag behind, but the rest of us are starting a momentum and we are not going bring nets this time. Row or do not climb on.

+16 # Maryelizmc 2011-10-16 07:25

Pitting Americans against Americans is exactly what Cantor and Co are doing by disregarding the need for jobs while endorsing the withholding of medical care from pregnant women with any money connection to the Feds and prohibiting purchase of personal comp insurance. Sounds to me they want the medical industry to stand by and let women die without medical help. Sounds to me they want to legalize the murder of a special group of Americans. When animals are in trouble health wise, it is OK to euthanize to ease death. Not this for pregnant with unborn child. Let them suffer in the dying process. No hospice, nothing!! Outrageous is the MOB in the HOUSE.

+9 # mjc 2011-10-16 07:33

Eric Cantor spews out his obviously scripted anti-democratic swill somewhat like that of a robot, with perhaps less discriminating intelligence. Mitch McConnell always has that tight-lipped expression when he passes out the official Republican script and I've never seen him report any opinions without that expression. It's as though there were more terrible things to come from his mouth but what does come is heard as a very matter-of-fact tone that makes you question what he just said. How could a grown man, supposed leader, be so totally narrow-minded...like he's viewing a pancake with only one side...via Dr. Phil and a HuffPo poster. There seems to be so much brittleness in the GOP's position that I really wonder why they haven't fallen apart sooner. If the American electorate can actually stomach these stick figures for their leadership in the White House and Congress, then it must be something that the opposition isn't doing to show this country why they are such a disaster. Probably the main reason the Occupy Wall St, Boston, Denver, etcetera, has some resonance with our youth.

+12 # Charlie W 2011-10-16 08:13

Tom Degan hit the nail right on the head. Congressman Cantor and Senator McConnell are riding in a leaky ship bound to sink. Cantor hasn't got the message so it's full speed ahead while McConnell is getting sea sick, afraid he and his party are about to go over the side and our Occupy Wall Street hero's are about to give him and Cantor a push in that direction

+10 # pernsey 2011-10-16 08:46

I certainly hope it is the beginning of the end for the GOP. It still boggles my mind how they dupe poor people into voting for them. They play the religious card, they believe in God as much as they believe in the toothfairy its all for greed and profit.

+6 # KittatinyHawk 2011-10-16 10:31

People on the whole do not want to think for themselves, make decisions. Everyone wants to think they are important. I see people take on jobs than complain everyday about it.
People are followers and since the beginning, those who took their weakness for granted, used that against them. Religion, Bible shows that, History proves it.

Ignorance is Bliss. Go talk to strangers ... 8 out of ten will tell you how they cannot do anything about anything ...from tying their shoes to Marching to signing a petition. Look at crime in a neighborhood, no one knows anything that happened to that child. A Year later, the family pulls together and helps clean up the neighborhood and listen to the story change.
We live in Fear....mostly of ourselves. Shadows are very large until you make them smaller by looking at who is in control of the shadow,

+9 # reiverpacific 2011-10-16 09:12

As I've often said and as has been demonstrated by history, these types of critters usually end up devouring each other and their dubious "causes", doing much damage and little else in the process.
Cantor is the classic "my way or the highway" right wing reactionary (you can perceive it in the occasional conservative post to RSN if you read 'em carefully) none of whom really have productive ideas, just a strategy of "wreck and roll over", which is why OWS is an open expression of "give us something to believe in other than greed!"
Chinless - wonder O'Connel is a "follow my leader" shill for the KY royalty including the environment-wrecking coal monopolies and their national equivalent-you have to have have lived in that state to understand how he could have gained such an ascendancy.
And well, shed a tear for Boehner (as he no doubt will); he is the classic "finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing". This wind of resistance and desire for change must REALLY be givin' him something to cry about!
Not an idea from one of them -just exist to destroy.

+16 # angelfish 2011-10-16 09:45

The Worms are ALL over Congress! Darryl Issa is a Major one! As well as Eric Cantor, Mitch "Aunt Blabby" McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Jim DeMint, Louis Gohmert, and the female Boob from North Carolina, Foxx! These people are TOXIC to any and ALL American Values and should be removed from office in November 2012! OWS is a movement that is gaining momentum EVERY Day and the People, at LONG last, will NOT be denied! Justice is coming and we SHALL overcome!

+2 # Capn Canard 2011-10-17 06:47

angelfish, nice, I have read that many in positions of power do have some serious mental instability issues as per sociopathic/psychopathic tendencies. We need an anarchistic or people's movement like OWS.

How about this: http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/Thinking.pdf

+7 # KittatinyHawk 2011-10-16 10:25

I remember the Cantors when I was a kid, sitting there gloomy, wanting revenge on everyone else because his life was pitiful.
Then he gets a taste of Power and decides yes this is it I can make everyone pay for my miserable life. Only now there are so many Cantors look at Boner.
So many so used to getting their way by bullying, revenge, they are the models of any Psychiatric Profile of a Murderer, Pedophile and whatever other vile thing mankind can do to another.
None of them look like they actually know anything? They know what they want to get themselves what they want. They care little about others even their own, they have no space in that void for it.
Religious, not on your life...no one teaches Religion anymore just get as much as you can to pay everyone off even God.

The Movement must continue growing for America's sake, for our own self esteem. I hope those in other Countries that need to Say No continue. You must challenge Authority.

Remember Cops and anyone else who is sent here to scavenge, you are just a number and they will lay you off in a minute. They have laid you off. White Collars, we all know what you are...You are bought an paid for and will be spit out once they do not need you. Enjoy the look in the Mirror..it is what is left of You. Change it, join us.

+6 # wcandler1 2011-10-16 10:48

"For the first century, it was a covert war. On January 20, 1981 (Guess what happened on that day? Hint: "Ronnie") it became completely and unabashedly overt." No! No! No! It was November 1966 when Ronnie became Governor of California.

+5 # Gibbous 2011-10-16 11:13

It will get worse before it gets better.

If history serves, the Labor Riots of 1877 are a good example of when the people rose up against the capitalist barons. (They only had the telegraph to get the word out.) The people were quelled, but not without destruction and fatalities. The barons remained in place, but a lesson was learned and reforms were implemented.

These days that lesson to the barons is lost.

+3 # David Starr 2011-10-16 11:47

Degan's statement about class warfare is precisely true: "And they've been waging it against us since the dawn of the industrial revolution." Combine this w/ comments by a poster named Linda: "I think what we need is a changing of the guard"; "There are Dems as well as Republicans who are in the corporations pockets" & the need for a "Peoples' Party." Both parties, sharing the same ideology, i.e., capitalist rule (like 2 tendencies of 1 party), will no doubt attempt to maintain this ideological business as usual. Inevitably, this must be directly addressed evidenced by the very consequences that have occurred under this rule, e.g., class warfare-in the U.S. but especially worldwide. Now, OWS, e.g., probably won't do this, instead focusing on the symptoms but the not disease itself. But OWS is contributing to paving the way for future movements/protests/actions to directly address this. For now, because of the power both parties have w/in the status quo, we are in a vicious circle, & thus, & I hate to say it, the tactic of "voting for the lesser of two evils" continues. But it's not the end of history.

0 # Capn Canard 2011-10-17 06:42

David Starr, give this a read:

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/Thinking.pdf

+8 # bvinson 2011-10-16 12:06

"This once great nation." God, that is sad. What a horror story in itself when you see who's on the T-party and Repug ballots. They're insane--literally insane. The only thing scarier is the rabble out there willing to vote them in.

+11 # lin96 2011-10-16 12:32

There's a reason that Boehner, Kantor and McConnell are comfortable blurting out nonsense. They are backed by the real people running this country and they really don't believe they have anything to fear in re-election because people like the Koch Brothers etc. will take care of them. Look at how they're already trying to manipulate the vote for 2012. That's the one thing they do fear. EVERYONE getting out there to vote.
Apparently, Kantor has a question mark in his teeny little head and he's wondering how the millions of people out there protesting can really be controlled??? Maybe he's fearing personal retalliation?
Even if we can get people like Kantor out of office, we know they will quickly transition themselves to corporations like the Koch Bros., Insurance, pharmecutical, oil, etc. and work hard as a lobbyist for them to put the squeeze on those who are in the Congress. We've seen Bob & Elizabeth Doyle, Daschele, and so many more former government leaders do just that.
There is silence from former government leaders, the left wing of the Democratic party, and even Biden and Obama. It's like they're all waiting for this to blow over. If they're not behind the protestors....they have something at stake here and their silence is deafening.

+1 # chick 2011-10-16 21:31

I don't know about you but I have heard, Clinton, Carter, Biden, Obama talk about this. Just recently Clinton on the Lederman show.

+4 # Capn Canard 2011-10-17 06:40

lin96, I sense a fear amongst them. They seem confident in re-election but they smell the anger of the masses. They've got their rigged electronic voting machines but they don't got the people on their side. This could get ugly, but IMO they will allow the Dems to win and placate the masses with meaningless policy adjustments. Like Obama doing a privatized healthcare without a public option. (Hence you will pay for it and without that large buyer of healthcare the price is unlikely to stabilize.)

Here is link to read:

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/Thinking.pdf

+5 # spindoc 2011-10-16 18:25

Cantor and his cronies are worried about the guillotine. The party's over, guys!

+2 # Capn Canard 2011-10-17 06:34

I feel like I am a day late and a dollar short, but here is a link with ideas worth exploring:

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/Thinking.pdf

+6 # racp 2011-10-17 07:16

Cantor, if this is a mob: VIVE LA MOB!

+3 # Vardoz 2011-10-17 17:22

As Barney Frank just pointed out on MSNBC of the Rachael Maddow show. These protests need to translate into grass roots action, like they are doing right now in Wisconsin to recall Walker and voting out those who are against us and voting in Progressive Independents or people who have values like Elizabeth Warren - We need to pack the house and senate with reps with Progressive values. Protesting alone will not do it.

Where are our Progressive brothers and sisters when we need them? Let them know you want them to run candidatesd for the PEOPLE! http://www.startguide.org/orgs/orgs00.html

+1 # Paul Scott 2011-10-17 22:08

Politicians don't have to get scared they know they have good paying jobs waiting for them, if they lose their seat. That's the real payday if you have high prospects of landing head of a government department your in line for one hell of a salary junp between the government jobs. Hell Wall Street didn't get all that money, by themselves, politicians make sure their dreams come true. And the newbe politicians knows how the system works the only thing left to do is show and tell and the newcomers start hearing Wall Streets song "welcome to my world".

+2 # fredboy 2011-10-18 05:26

The GOP is anti-jobs and vehemently against American workers. And, in so many ways, against America.

They have spent the last four years, along with their Blue Dog "Democrats" (aka cloaked Republicans) stifling the workplace and destroying the income and future of tens of millions of us. It's time they paid a price for this.

+1 # ndkbookrighter 2011-10-18 23:23

I sure love the grim look on all their faces! How do Cantor, Boehner and McConnell live with themselves? How can you lie to yourself and everyone else every day of your life and not end up hating yourself for the toxicity you are spewing out? Cantor MUST BE PSYCHO because he is a Jewish person. He is spewing out the same type of hatred and vitriol that Hitler did. Hitler stirred up the masses to hate the Jews, blaming them for the economic despair that Germany was experiencing. DON'T PEOPLE REMEMBER HISTORY? HAS CANTOR FORGOTTEN HIS VERY ROOTS? DOES HE NOT THINK THAT THIS COULD TURN ON HIM?

A man recently stepped into my place of employment and told me and the owner:
"Astrological predictions indicate a bloody revolution is going to take place next year." Then he turned and started to walk back out the door. I said, "Wait--who are you and where are you getting this information from?" Turns out he is a patron of this business and the owner knows him, but he was very serious.

Re: Democrats: I WAS an active member of my county's group, but they are so milk toast I can't stand to be around them anymore! They have no fire and they really do not "get it"! Obama's hands are tied--by the powers that be. They tell him which way to march and he does it, or he won't be president anymore. EOS.

+1 # giraffe 2011-10-19 11:31

Many good opinions on this "blog" = hurrah that so many see the truth. VOTE DEM VOTE OBAMA - voting 3rd party is giving the GOP/TP (Koch princasses) success.

HELP all those in your community who are targets of the GOP/TP voter suppression "registered with mail-in ballots" - we need their vote. To date there are more Repugnuts registered than Democrats --- we need ALL Dems registered -- while we still have free elections.

Thank you all for your assessment of our corrupt bought (thanks to Supremes) government

VOTE DEM VOTE OBAMA -- Talk to all your GOP relatives (they may not like it) but give them one picture: If we go down, so do they.

Finally -- CALL YOUR REPS/SENATORS -- tell them to support Obama -- their silence is too loud.

+1 # mortsa1171 2011-10-20 21:07

When the Republicans with narcissistic
personality disorder are voted OUT, will
they be eligible to collect retirement
money from those of us whom they tried
to screw over while they were in office ?

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