Thoughts on Big Mayoral Race

It seems such a no-brainer, and yet people still don't get it.

Stephen Bach - being funded by Kock Bros millionaires for attack ads on his opponent.  He has said with pride not long ago that he brings experience of being a developer, but gets upset when called that by an opponent. He stole his opponent's passion of open spaces and parks for his own (which he has no record of).  Colorado Springs Independent paper interviewed his ex-wife and thus exposed his wife-beating past.  Oh and he is against basic gay rights.  But he wants to attract more business to the area!  Those two don't mix.  Study after study after study has said this city must stop competing to be the most anti-gay if we want to attract talent and jobs.  CLUE.

Here is why voting for Bach is stupidity exemplified.  Look at what conservatism has gotten us thus far - named the "Hate State," can't attract new creative talent here because of competing over who can be more anti-gay - we can't attract anything but more Religious Right extremists, the police force has been cut, police helicopter that was a gift to fight the growing gang problem had to be sold, firemen have been cut, street lights turned out, snow removal cut way back...and those open spaces Bach loves - well park services cut to nil.

In his debates he talks in standard rhetoric with absolutely no real solutions.  He is the same old thing that will only flush Colorado Springs further down the toilet - but then if the majority vote for this idiot that is what you deserve.  But not me!  I am a native and sick and tired of Conservatives and Focus on the Family taking a wrecking ball to this town.

Women, wake up.  This man doesn't respect women.  I came from an abusive marriage and they don't miraculously stop being abusers.  It is a sickness. 

Take a lesson from the Republicans in the rest of the nation who want to decimate our schools, restrict access to even the morning-after-pill for rape victims (HR3 they conveniently redefined rape - without asking the nation's women!)  And there is even a Republican backed state bill (not Colo.) to make a woman prove she had a miscarriage and not a coat hanger incident.  Look it up if you don't believe me.  Steve Bach will be more of that ilk.

GLBT community - WAKE the hell up.  Bach wants your taxes but wants to deny your basic rights.  He doesn't want you marrying or getting domestic partner benefits.  He doesn't want to attract businesses here if it means more GLBT might want to live here. 

Independents - don't be fooled.  Bach isn't fiscally conservative.  He will do what all the Republicans are doing throughout the nation, give huge tax cuts to the wealthiest people and large corporations and then make the working class get less services for their tax money.  Jobs - please - he doesn't have any solid solutions!  He has the same load of crap the Republicans ran on in 2010 - how is that working for you?  They threaten to shut down the government if they didn't get their way to give more to the wealthy. That is no deal.  That is robbery and true elitism and entitlement.

If Bach wins it just proves all over again P.T. Barnum was right.  There is a sucker born every minute!

THIS HAS BEEN YOUR WAKE UP CALL!

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The Violence In Tuscon

"One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."       Martin Luther King Jr.

Ann Coulter being herself

Begin with Ann Coulter in 2006 joking that "We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," because of his "liberal leaning" plus her book calling all liberals godless and her stunning "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too." at her Jan 2002 address before the Conservative Political Action Conference or psychotic hatemonger Glen Beck's 2009 joking about putting poison in Nancy Pelosi's wine and O'Reilly on his high horse hammering the name "Tiller the baby-killer" spurring murder to the paragon of Christ-like gun-toting-virtue Sarah "Tea Bagger" Palin with her infamous targets on 20 key problems that included Gabriel Giffords district and her tweet "don't retreat, reload" to Byron Williams citing Glen Beck's rantings against the ACLU and Tides Foundation (at least 29 rantings against Tides) spurred his desire to start a revolution when he was stopped by police and began a shoot out.

Gabriel Gifford said it best in November 2010: "Sarah Palin's list has a gun sight over our district. They have to realize there are consequences to that."  

Now Gabriel (Arizona's first Jewish Congresswoman, married to a US Navy Captain and Astronaut and volunteer in Katrina relief ground efforts) is fighting to stay alive in a hospital after a bullet went through her brain.  Congratulations Sister Sarah, you got your wish - "problem" solved I guess.

Washington Post headline:

Tucson shooting reported globally as evidence of charged U.S. political climate

The commentators are, rightly so, calling out all these people with their Fox "news" programs or syndicated columns for their role in this incident and Dr. Tiller's murder.  The far right is already crying fowl for pointing to them.

But I am calling out every single individual who watches Fox "news", reads or listens to anything of Ann Coulter or equally vile Michelle Malkin, and for every single person who voted Republican or supports Tea Party "anger".  You are the one responsible for this shooting - the blood of 9 year old Christina Green is on your hands as well as the other five lives and 14 injured.

The violence has been just below the surface when you have signs claiming the solution to gay marriage with two nooses and you, the people weren't outraged.  

The violence was ready to spill over when Dr. Tiller was gunned down in his own church and my 60-something church going neighbor could only say "But he killed children" without any feeling for his family.  Without any empathy or sympathy whatsoever.

The violence was at the boiling point when guns were openly at Tea Party rallies and when Arizona pastor, Steven Anderson, reportedly gave a sermon in which he publicly asserted he was praying for President Barack Obama to die and go to hell.  And the logical result that Chris Broughton, after hearing pastor Anderson’s shocking prayers in his sermon, he showed up at the President Obama’s appearance the next day with an assault rifle and a hand gun.
 

But in all of this you, the American people haven't been shocked and appalled - no, you voted those "angry" tea party candidates as leaders, you voted in candidates who want to tear this country further apart.

No.  These deaths and injures and hate are ALL on your heads.

THIS IS YOUR WAKE UP CALL

Republican Myth (lie) #1

The Republicans are best at propaganda.

Making people believe complete lies as the truth. So perhaps the first myth is that they ever tell the truth, ever.  Of course the lie factory of Fox "news" contributes vastly to this elaborate world of lies.  But we must start somewhere.

Myth #1
Republicans care about the working class and have not sold their souls to the Wealthy.


This is a foundation that we must break down.  They want tax cuts for the to 2-3% but they have consistently ranted against Social Security.  Recently Republican leadership has

blatantly said our elderly are spoiled.  Yes those reports of our elderly grandparents resorting to dog food, well - they just have to tighten their belts don't you know.  But if they can use grandma to drum up shock and horror over "death panels pulling the plug on grandma" then somehow the elderly matter...for a short time.



Let's get this out in the open.

"What's amazing about the magic number of $250,000 is that, based on responses to a recent YouGov/Polimetrix poll, by and large, Americans have a very distorted view of how many people make that much money.

Any idea what proportion of American families make more than $250,000 a year? Or, to potentially make it easier, any idea what proportion of families in your state make more than $250,000 a year?

Don't feel bad if you don't know—most people don't. The actual number, nationwide is somewhere less than 3% of families earn more than $250,000 a year. What did the survey respondents say when asked this question? The average response was close to 17%!—meaning your typical survey respondent thinks that almost 1 in 5 families in America earn that kind of money, when the answer is closer to 1 in 50!"  Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future, Nov 23, 2010

Yep, only 1 in 50 FAMILIES make a quarter of a million per year.  And those higher taxes would only apply to the amount OVER $250,000.  Not the initial quarter million.

So, dumb shits, what is so hard to understand?  YOU ARE NOT PARIS HILTON and odds are against you ever being that well off. Those tax cuts did NOT stimulated the economy during the 8 years of W, so why do you think it will magically work now.  I believe it contributed to our economic woes.   Not one single job can be proven to be generated because of those tax breaks, but we can show how those tax breaks contributed to the economic disaster that W left for somebody else to clean up.


Small business owners are all scared that they will be sucked dry.  If you are making a quarter of a million a year IN CLEARED PROFITS, you are a well-to-do small business owner and guess what? You should pay your god damn fair share into the running of the country that you prosper under. 

For the record, what creates jobs is NOT tax cuts but everyday people who can afford to purchase items or services which causes the company to hire more people to meet that DEMAND.  The company will still go out of business even if they have 0 taxes if no person can afford to buy from them.  So either the Republicans are dumb as rocks about economics 101 (in which case they should not be in leadership at all) or they are blatant liars who will do anything for the wealthy who have bought and paid for them!

The number one most effective economic stimulus is PROVEN to be unemployment pay.  Hands down.  But Republicans despise that because the money goes to average people who they just flat don't give a damn about.  It is that simple.

The Republicans would rather see the age you can start drawing on your Social Security raised to help fund war and the poor elderly are just going to have to give till it hurts, but let's not stress those sensitive rich people with taxes.

"The middle-class continues to struggle under the weight of 12 years of Republican policies; policies that transferred wealth from ninety-eight percent (98%) of the American population -- hard-working Americans -- to the two percent (2%) wealthiest Americans.

In the last 30 years, incomes for the wealthiest one percent of Americans rose 281% while middle-class wages have remained flat. Yet Republicans argue that letting the tax breaks for wealthy Americans expire would dramatically slow the economy and prevent job creation.

What the argument should highlight is the dispassionate position of the American rich and their UnPatriotic silence."  Jim Worth, The Selfish Rich of the 21st Century, Huffington Post November 26, 2010.

DID YOU KNOW that a large contributing factor to that deficit the Republicans hyperventilate about all the time is the Bush tax cuts to the top 3% of our nation!!! Yeah. The Republicans want the deficit to grow for the sake of their rich friends.


DID YOU KNOW that because of those Bush tax cuts to the top 3% we have been borrowing from China to cover our costs and keep running!!!  Yeah


The Republicans would just as soon keep the working class as slaves, pulling more and more taxes from you than their goods corporate and Wall Street buddies.  Because they are the ones who can buy their elections now that the Conservative Supreme Court Justices have started redefining who this country as being "for the Corporation, of the Corporation, and by the Corporation" rather than the people.

Every single time a Republican says they are doing something for the working class person, you had better follow the money because they are getting a pay off somewhere!  The Republicans are the slimy used car salesmen of  politics.  Fact check every single thing that comes out of their mouths.  And don't leave them alone with your daughter.  If you vote for any Republican you are voting to give more money to a wealthy people in America and take it from yourself.  It really is that simple.


This has been your wake up call.

2010 Vote - The Vote Big Business Bought

I know that the Republicans would like everybody to believe that the country just handed control of the House to them because everybody is upset with Obama.  Wake up!  That is not what happened.

When Democrat Jenny Oropeza beat her opponent - even though she is DEAD then the election results are not an indictment against the Democratic administration.

The Republicans gaining control of the house is a loud testament to the impact of the Supreme Court decision allowing Corporations to buy elections.  Even the Republicans know they are in power because of Wall Street fat cats pouring MILLIONS into races to buy your vote.  And it worked.  The American public's vote can be bought in most instances.  So again I say WAKE UP AMERICA.


Here are a few headlines that nail it.
Spending blitz by outside groups helped secure big GOP wins

Hedge fund moguls helped bankroll groups' attack ads, sources tell NBC News

OR

Big Business Makes Wish List for GOP


or the NY Times articles claiming "a relatively small number of deep-pocketed donors exerted an outsize influence on Tuesday's results."

There were the news reports of McDonalds Corp and even Boeing trying to sway employees into voting Republican by threatening no raises or claiming health insurance out-of-pocket costs will go up because of Obama - the articles debunked that load of crap (health insurance costs) but employees still bought into the wholesale lies.

Congratulations America - you have shot yourselves in the foot, cut your nose off to spite your face and every other saying to denote YOU BLEW IT BIG TIME.

So the sheep (that would be anybody voting Republican) figured that the Repugs didn't dig us into a deep enough hole so they handed out new shovels to dig the hole we are in even deeper!

The corporate manipulated masses gave a new box of matches to the guys who burned the economic house down in the first place!

America, did you actually think for one microsecond that giving "The Party of NO" any headway was going to result in anything but a gridlocked Government?  Because you have now voted to have the next 2 years be a waste of all our time and tax-payer money.  I want an apology from all of you for wasting my time and money.

Angry Voters Choose Government Gridlock, Investigations and Shutdown

Then there are those people who just got so weary and tired of all the political bickering they didn't vote at all.  Apparently there are plenty of people who would rather give their personal power to a greedy corporation to decide how their lives should go.  MAN UP!

THIS HAS BEEN YOUR WAKE UP CALL.