Boy, leave it to the media in this country. They are so wrapped up in a good story they care little about the very thing they are supposed to do. Tell the American people the truth. With the new right-wing media and the old supposedly "liberal" media that is close to right-wing, America gets a raw deal when it comes to getting the truth reported to them. Take the response to Obama's Iraq speech as an example. Who do the media look to to respond?? The liars who got us into a huge, costly, idiotic mistake to begin with.
Well Members of the T.E.A. Party, you have finally proven that you want a Holy Rollin' theocracy in the United States much like the government of the Islamic extremists in Iran. The false God of the T.E.A. Party, Glenn Beck has just endorsed John Hagee and Sara Palin. John Hagee is an arrogant premillennialist, who worships the middle east, and not God or the Kingdom of Heaven. What if one of these Holy Rollers get elected to the office of President, and then get one of their psychotic "anointings", wallow on the floor like a pig in slop, mumble jibberish, and decides to start World War III in the middle east? You ignorant, arrogant T.E.A. Party members need to think about what you have unleashed and what you will be voting for. I believe that the Arabs and Jews need to learn to live in peace and brotherhood, but I do not believe in helping Jews in Israel to kill Arabs or helping Arabs to kill Jews. I am not a Holy Roller and I detest the crap that the Holy Rollers preach. If you want to understand how the radical Muslims think, just look at the T.E.A. party in the United States.
I am one of those people who will actually watch those boring, boring, hearings on C-SPAN that most of us flip right on past while watching TV, and this past week I've been watching one of the longer events the channel broadcasts...but it's been far from boring.
The Coast Guard and what used to be the MMS were in Houston looking into what caused the Gulf oil spill and they're taking testimony from representatives of the involved parties...and let me tell you, this is more than just an accident inquiry-it's also a warm-up for the lawsuits that are surely going to follow.
When Lawrence O'Donnell started berating the woman who received the email from Alan Simpson with this BS (5:05), I was forced to leave the room until Rachel came on:
It is solvent until 2037.
Workers your age who are contributing to social security every day, we concurrently tell you when your time comes to collect, the money will not be there according to all projections we have today.
"According to all the projections we have today"? First, that is false. Its according to one projection we have today ~ among a range of projections that are made. And second, if Lawrence O'Donnell is going to shift from host to pundit, he is responsible when he uses figures in a misleading way.
Over the fold, how this is wrong, let me Countdown the Ways.
Barack Obama's Deficit Commission Members: Erskine Bowles, Alan Simpson, Ann Fudge, Alice Rivlin, John Spratt, Andy Stern, Dick Durbin, David M Cote, Paul Ryan, Jeb Hensarling, Dave Camp, Xavier Becerra, Jan Schakowsky, Judd Gregg, Tom Coburn, Mike Crapo, Max Baucus and Kent Conrad. My opinion, for what it's worth. They're a bunch of rich folks, most of them politicians, with Conflicts of Interest, for example: 1. David Cote, a multimillionaire who is CEO of defense contractor Honeywell, a former GE executive, a board member of JPMorganChase, and a member of the CEO group, the Business Roundtable. 2. Ann M. Fudge, who is CEO of Kraft and former CEO of Young & Rubicam Brands, and who sits on the board of Novartis, GE, and Unilever. 3. Only one economist: Alice Rivlin, former Director of the Office for Management and Budget, who co-authored a report advocating for $47 billion in cuts to programs like Social Security, raising the Social Security age, and reducing inflation adjustments. 4. 12 current members of Congress including Senator Tom Coburn, Rep. Paul Ryan, and Sen. Max Baucus. 5. There are only 2 members of the commission considered to be progressive: Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Rep. Xavier Becerra How can I take the Deficit Commission serious when the Deficit Commission co-chair, Alan Simpson, seems to be preoccupied with cows and tits?
With so many people rallying in Washington over the weekend led by charlatans and hypocrites Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, who have convinced themselves they are heirs to the civil rights movement the real rally that will bring real civil rights to our country must begin. While it will not be led by false prophets who care only for their own greed and seek to brainwash their audiences that they care about anyone but the greediest and least patriotic among us it will need to take the route of the civil rights movement they have sought to hijack. You see, in the south we see all that has been going wrong in this country. Exploitation of workers, low wages, few worker protections and low union representation and the disasterous effects of bad trade deals and uncaring, greedy "Conservative" representation.
Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence
It seems as if many people have been paying more attention to the Beckapalooza in DC ... and the whole furor had me initially confused, as originally I thought it was something to do with Beck the Mongolian Chop Squad ...
But last weekend, there was an election in Australia, and on the night it seemed like it could be the closest in Australian history. As the week went on, that proved to be the case. And I got to thinking, listening to the various independents that hold the balance of power, that there could well be an unlikely working partnership available, where trains could help delivered a progressive governing majority on the most improbable of foundations.
While this is focusing on the problem of overcoming rural/urban divide facing a different country, it may be that the very distance from the US makes it easier to put the general problem in perspective. And it is one that all progressives in the US should be facing forthrightly.
NB: the grassfire in a dry lake bed shot that I use on occasion is in fact from Australia, suffering what has been characterized as a long running drought, but what seems more likely to be a secular shift to a dryer climate.
Either Glenn Beck is completely delusional or he simply cannot read the Bible. You see, in all his egotistical fury he seems to think his rally tomorrow is going to be attended by God, and is sanctioned by Jesus. Uh, Glenn if you had actually read the Bible you so profess to believe in you would know one thing. Jesus does not like greed and he does not like hatred. He also does not like a liar who will turn anything around to further the causes of the most greedy and least compassionate among us.
The Republicans are not only the party of no, no ideas and no real vision if given power back this fall they will be the party of endless, needless and idiotic investigation just like during the Clinton years. It should come as no surprise. When you have nothing of substance to offer the American people you must keep them transfixed on the shiny object. In the case of the Republicans they are not concerned with the economy, jobs or anything else, just hatred for President Obama.
I am shocked about what is going on. People who claim to be religious are getting sucked in to the Tea Party movement. Some of these people are praying for the death of the President of the United States. Members of the Muslim faith are being attacked and we are watching our fellow citizens lose everything that they have while members of the United States Senate are helping to export our livelihood to Communist countries.
It is really not taking Rand Paul much time at all to be morphed like clay in the hands of Mitch McConnell. Yes, the further away from his primary win he gets, and the more time he spends with the Kentucky Republican taskmaster Rand Paul is being shaped into Mitch McConnell. One need only look at his now rescinded promise to balance the budget in a year to see that. You see, Mitchie-master got to little Ayn through the malted hops and bong resin and let him know that Kentucky Republicans don't balance the budget because that does not leave room for huge tax breaks for Corporations and the very wealthy during a time of "war".
When Lawrence O'Donnell 
