We finally got some relief from the heat and the weekend went by way too fast. Now, it is time once again for AWMD’s Monday Musings. There are plenty of news items to choose from after the weekend. There are so many possible issues to discuss, it is hard to choose just a few, but I will choose just one tonight. I don’t know if anyone else will be interested in the issue that I have chosen, but if so I hope you enjoy it. If my “Musing” interests you, let me know what you think. Hell, even if they don’t interest you, let me know! I am interested in your opinion too….as long as you agree with me!
I wonder if there is anything that Republicans won’t say or do to get themselves elected or reelected? A great example of this is Rep. Steve King of Iowa who once again is on the stump calling President Obama a Marxist! “He’s at least a Marxist. And he surely understands the Muslim culture.” http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/16/king-obama-marxist/ This same Republican Congressman claimed that “He doesn’t have an American experience. He does not have an American experience.” Let me get this straight now. Obama is a Marxist and he did not have an American Experience. I guess growing up in Hawaii with a single mother and his grandparents is not an American experience according to the Republican Party. When are reasonable conservatives going to wake up and realize that their Republican Party has been taken over by a small number of right wing crazies? Senator Goldwater must be turning over in his grave by now!
When you hear the nonsense being pedaled by the Republicans that the sky will fall if the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy aren’t extended, I can only wonder why people with common sense and normal intelligence can’t see through this cloud of lies. The Republicans only want to appease their base. Their base seems to be taxpayers earning $200,000 or more. This Crooks and Liars link has a very good graph which shows the hypocrisy of the Republican plan to extend the free lunch for millionaires. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/maddow-gop-plan-extend-tax-cuts-rich A quick look at the graph shows that once a taxpayer gets to $200,000, the Republican plan starts to benefit the wealthy. If you go to the next level you will see huge give aways to the wealthy. “New data from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation show that households earning more than $1 million a year would reap nearly $31 billion in tax breaks under the GOP plan in 2011, for an average tax cut per household of about $100,000.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/11/AR2010081105864.html The Republicans want to add Billions to the deficit to assuage their biggest donors and we are supposed to be happy with that? The Republicans keep trying to claim that extending the tax cuts for the wealthy will help create jobs, but as of yet, have not produced a single shred of evidence to back up that ridiculous claim. All you have to do is look at what happened during the Bush years when these tax cuts were given to the wealthy and you know the Republican’s noses are getting longer again!
My final muse of the night concerns the Fat Man himself, Rush Limbaugh. It seems that his lies just keep on coming. His latest outrageous and incendiary piece of nonsense is that President Obama is “ “our first anti-American president.” http://tv.gawker.com/5614128/rush-limbaugh-barack-obama-is-our-first-anti+american-president Of course, Rush does not provide the listener any evidence of his claim, but that is just standard operating procedure for the Liar in Chief. He even puts his foot in his mouth again in that same rant. “Limbaugh sarcastically suggests that we build a Hindu Temple next to Pearl Harbor and a Mosque next to the Pentagon… without realizing that Shinto, not Hinduism, is the most common religion in Japan, and there is already a Mosque inside the Pentagon and a Shinto temple next to Pearl Harbor.” Not only is Rush a liar. He is also stupid!
What do you think about my latest musings? It is now time for you to let us know what you think! Don’t be shy. Get busy and give us your opinion! Take the first step and write down what you think. It won’t hurt! I promise!



