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.
After all the long years. After all the lives wasted, combatants and civilian alike. After all the money wasted, and all the WMDs not found, all the death, destruction and rebuilding of the country of Iraq due to the failed vision of a failed leader and administration we get this zinger today. Folks guess what, it is now "official". We may lose in Iraq.
As the long fruitless wars that were a failed vision from a failed leader drag on, the General appointed by that failed leader is now scoffing at the timeline that would bring troops home from Afghanistan. Despite the loss of life, the draining of our treasury and the long years without progress and without the capture of Osama bin Laden the sad part is that President Obama seems determined to follow the failures of George W. Bush into oblivion.
One of the worst things happening all over the right-wing media right now is a continual blaming of President Obama for things that President Bush did while being enabled by a Republican Congress for six years. Yes, all over the country Republicans are going to extremes to paint Obama as the cause for a clearly Republican crash and several of the bailouts that followed. They even go as far as trying to say Obama has been in office for three years. However, as always with Republicans the facts just never bear out the crap they try to feed the American people.
Disclaimer: Here at Hillbilly Report, we do not condone the use of the Hillbilly Heroin. It makes you into Rush Limbaugh.
Well, the Oxymoron is at it again. Yes, the fattest, ugliest, and most drug-addicted cheerleader to ever don a mini-skirt for the greediest and least patriotic among us must be high on the Hillbilly Heroin once again. He just cannot seem to get his facts straight in his stoned-out stupor. I have been trying to show some real facts on this site lately about the real cause of America's debt and our deficits but of course after popping a few Oxys like M&Ms, Limbaugh loses all his memory.
A lot of the Republican politicians and talking heads say it is time that we quit "blaming Bush" for the problems besetting this country. They constantly maintain how Democrats have driven the deficit to new highs. However, as always with these hypocritical Republicans the truth is far from their own twisted sense of reality. You see, far away from tea-bag wonderland here in the real world many of the problems we face were caused by the very people that rail so hard against them.
Remember the fine folks in the banking industry whose policies of greed and excessive executive compensation crashed our economy into a ditch?? Remember the last dying gasp of the failed Bush Administration in using your money to bail out those very bankers?? Remember how the rest of the country suffered mightily at the hands of these folks yet as they took our money, froze lending and pocketed it?? Yes, our beloved banking industry has done so much, and changed so much for this country but now they seem unwilling in participating in the very change they spurned.
In a continual reminder of what happens when Corporate America is allowed to run roughshod over rules and regulations set by the government the tragedy in the Gulf just continues unabated. All attempts to stem the flow of oil has failed, and now the newest attempt might cause the oil to flow faster before it is stopped. Estimates are now saying it may be until August before the flow of oil is stemmed. This means a very long summer for those on the Gulf Coast who have already suffered, and sadly it also means generational damage for the area, its industries and ecology.
I wrote this diary the other day about the uproar caused by President Obama calling out the idiotic rhetoric coming from folks like Rush Limbaugh and ultimate stooge Glenn Beck. Yes, the President committed the ultimate sin of saying that being called a Nazi, a communist and the executioner of everyone's grandmother is "troublesome". Now, big mouth Oxycontin addict Rush Limbaugh has taken offense and fired off an email to Politico about the President and his agenda as it compares to what Limbaugh preaches.
As many of you probably already know, the other day President Obama was asked about some of the antics of the idiots on the far right. Led by Oxymoron Rush Limbaugh, and just plain idiotic lunatic Glenn Beck these folks have been firing up every greedy, weak-minded soul in America. Yes, the President committed a terrible sin when he said he found these folks, "troublesome".
Ah Karl Rove. A liar so disgusting even his own friends dubbed him "Turd Blossom". Now, realizing he was the "architect" of one of the most dishonest, disgusting and corrupt Administrations in history he is seeking to rewrite history and diffuse he and his former boss's sorry spot in it. However, his writings on the Bush years are full of even more lies, and an assault on all of those who exposed the Bush agenda for what it really was.
Many of us here were opposed to the Iraq War from the start. I simply did not ever understand why being attacked by a group and leader of that group supposedly centered in Afghanistan meant that we needed to go into Iraq. Despite many long years and thousands upon thousands of lives lost, not to mention the hundreds upon hundreds of billion dollars wasted we are still mired in that country. Now, the Vice-President is admitting how much of a huge mistake it was to go into that country. However he, and the administration should take it one step further.
At a time when Americans are suffering and jobs are scarce we are being told that we will have an across the board cut in domestic programs. At the same time we are being told that we can still afford to blow up and rebuild other countries in a continuation of the failed policies of the last Administration. Yes, when it comes to fiscal responsibility it seems that everything and everyone but war will be asked to sacrifice.
The hypocrisy of the Republicans on the recent failed terrorist attack in Detroit is mind-boggling, even by their own super-high hypocrisy standards. When the Bush Administration allowed the deadliest attack ever on American soil due to rank incompetence, they were mum. Then when, just a few days later a terrorist was allowed on board a plane and was thwarted by passengers Republicans were too full of god-king worship to utter a single protest. However, when an almost identical attack to the "shoe-bomber" occurs without the incompetence and death of an event like 9-11 preceding it, they are all up in arms about "keeping our country safe".
Man, Dick Cheney is like Herpes. No matter what you do he just keeps coming back. It seems after leaving Washington D.C. in utter disgrace after allowing the worst attack in American history on her soil, failing to capture Osama bin-Laden, dropping the ball in Afghanistan, lying about Iraq to get us into a failed war there which cost trillions of dollars off the books as well as tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of lives, and allowing his greedy, fat-cat buddies to pick our economy clean crashing it, ole "Shotgun" would be wanting to hide under a rock. Of course when you have no conscience or sense of morals, why hide??
As soon as we learned there was a failed terror act I am sure many of us suspected that pretty soon the Republicans would be trying to score cheap political points off what had happened. Instead of being happy that the plot did indeed fail and lives were not loss, they must try and find ways to frame it to their advantage in the all too eager media. Now, I have been as disgusted as anyone with some of President Obama's leadership on Afghanistan and healthcare but I honestly believe the attacks that are coming are being made by hypocrites who have nothing else to offer.
Many of us for a long time have believed that Osama bin-Laden was given a free pass to get away and never be caught by American forces. This was not only because of the business relationship of the Bush family with the bin-Ladens, but with Osama bin-Laden caught and brought to justice we would have had no War in Iraq, or "War on Terror" for Conservatives to steal away generations of Constitutional protections and allow their Corporate pals to fleece the American taxpayer with hundreds of billions of dollars in no-bid contracts.
Man, the Republican Party. If you want to get a good insight as to how hypocritical these folks are all you must do is look at the folks they worship. Dick Cheney can lie about wars that kill thousands and cost a trillion dollars of American treasure, as well as treasonably out a CIA agent but he is a Republican hero. Carrie Prejean can pose nude in pictures and masturbate in front of a camera for a man she is not married to but it is OK because she "loved" him and she hates gay people. Oh, but one of the best examples of Republican idiocy and hypocrisy is none other than newfound cultlike celebrity Sarah Palin.
Newt Gingrich seems to be suffering from a mass ailment among Repubicans, Tea-baggers, and Conservatives. It is called Mass Selective Amnesia, or MSA. Yes, with all their bluster and BS they have concurred a very bad case of MSA. It is usually caused by talking about the problems that have beset our country, including the economy and the huge unemployment numbers, but also occurs when talking about debt and deficits.
