One more deplorable. ("Blood needed to redeem something"?)

I think we are going to need a larger "bucket" for trump's deplorable supporters, because there is one more we have to add to that sordid lot.

Field hands, I give you the governor of Kentucky, a man who personifies the modern day far right conservative.

He is an elected official who has some rather extreme views about where we are going as a country.

"Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has not forgotten the Jefferson quote. Speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington over the weekend, the Republican recalled it while suggesting that a Hillary Clinton victory in the presidential election could necessitate bloodshed:

I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it physically. But that may, in fact, be the case….

Somebody asked me yesterday, I did an interview, “Do you think it’s possible, if Hillary Clinton were to win the election, do you think it’s possible that we’ll be able to survive, that we’d ever be able to recover as a nation?” And while there are people who have stood on this stage and said we would not, I would beg to differ. I do think it would be possible, but at what price? At what price? The roots of the tree of liberty are watered by what? The blood of who? The tyrants, to be sure, but who else? The patriots.

Whose blood will be shed? It may be that of those in this room. It might be that of our children and grandchildren. I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away. Don’t let it happen.

As the Lexington Herald-Leader reports, those comments took many listeners aback. On Monday, Bevin said in a statement that his comments had been misconstrued and referred to those fighting in the military." [Source]

Nothing new here, the governor has only been echoing what the candidate and some of his surrogates have been saying all along: That if their guy doesn't win things could get violent.

For folks who hate people from the Third World as much as they do, they sure like to revert to Third World type politics. Trying to take out your opponent via bloodshed is how desperate people who depend on their political leaders for food and housing do things; It's not how we conduct our politics here in the United States.

Finally, I just saw on MSNBC that Newsweek magazine will be running a story tomorrow which might give us some clues as to why Mr trump won't release his taxes. I am looking forward to it.
Because, for the life of me, I can't understand why the press in this country will not demand that this man releases his tax returns.

I am going to close with something I asked Mr trump to do a few posts ago: Mr trump, if the IRS is in fact auditing you--- and this prevents you from releasing your tax returns--- please produce the letter from the IRS informing you of said audit.

With all due respect to your campaign manager, I am not going to call you a flat out liar, but given your history, I would just like to verify.  

*Pic from huffingtonpst.com

Still no taxes, and a wingnut tops the "birthers".

I would like to start this post by calling out Democratic Congresswoman, Lois Capps. If what is being reported is true, I say shame on Ms. Capps.

"From 2001 to 2005, Rep. Lois Capps rented a room in her home to a staffer, but failed to report the income to the IRS until this year, the Daily Caller first reported.

Jeremy Tittle, a "case worker" in the California Democrat's district office, took a room in Capps' Santa Barbara home, paying $41,480 during the time he was there.

Capps' staff says the matter has been adequately addressed.

"Capps' accountant filed all her amended returns from 1998-2011 this year, and she has paid them," Capps' campaign spokesman Jeffrey Millman wrote in an email to the website. "As soon as we became aware of this, Lois immediately filed an amended return and cleared it up right away. ... The amended returns are on her website and everybody can look at it."

Yes, but this is not good. Ms. Capps, as an elected official, you have an obligation -and a duty- to do due diligence when filing your taxes. Now folks are saying that this issue could cost you the next election.

"The error is likely to factor prominently in Capps' 24th District re-election race against Republican former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado.

"How do you not report income you're getting from a person on both your congressional and campaign payroll who lives in your house? #REALLY," Maldonado tweeted early Friday morning.

"Is it really viable to ask the people of this district to believe that Congresswoman Capps simply forgot to report income she was receiving every month from someone living in her house, who was on her congressional staff and was also being paid by her campaign--it doesn't pass the believability test," a Maldonado campaign spokesman said in a statement Friday, noting the hypocrisy they view.." [Source]

Yes, I can certainly understand that.

Which brings me to Mitt Stiff Romney. Mr. Romney called out Harry Reid and told him to "put up or shut up". He had to do this because Harry Reid claims that he heard from a good source that Stiff hasn't paid his taxes in ten years. Stiff, of course, denies this, and says that he has paid more than his fair share of taxes. Yet still, he refuses to release his returns prior to 2010.

Now everyone is focused on Harry Reid and his allegations, but Harry Reid is not running for president of these divided states of America; Stiff Romney is the candidate. And here is how he can make Harry Reid and the rest of the democrats clamoring for his tax returns look like fools and hit one out of the park with voters: release the returns. Hold a huge press conference--complete with blow up models of your returns-- and declare to America that you have nothing to hide. Yes, you are filthy rich, but you worked hard, and you are where every American wants to be. If elected, you will give them a better chance to make it happen.

Of course, given what we have been hearing -and reading- about his economic plan, Stiff might not want to talk taxes right about now. It was released by a non-partisan and independent organization, and it says that Stiff's plan would raise taxes on the middle class and cut taxes for folks in his tax bracket. (I wonder how he plans to make up $350 billion in federal revenue.) 

I hope Mr. Romney and his supporters understand that I am telling him all this out of love and respect. I do not want him to end up like Ms. Capps. Your taxes are not a private matter when you are running for the highest office in the land, and if, God forbid, it turns out that you have done something that is illegal or to circumvent our tax laws, I dare say that we all have a right to know.   

Finally, further proof that wingnuts are from another planet. (Dude is a republican from Byrdstown, Tennessee, so I am pretty sure that he is a wingnut.) So this elected state representative believes that O will fake an assassination attempt on his own life so that he can suspend the upcoming elections and hold on to power. I kid you not!

"A Tennessee state representative helped create Internet pandemonium Tuesday when he forwarded an e-mail claiming the Obama administration was going to stage an assassination attempt in order to delay the 2012 presidential election, The Tennessean reports.

Kelly Keisling, a Republican state congressman from Byrdstown, Tenn., forwarded the e-mail to his constituents, even though it had never been confirmed to be true.

The e-mail stated that President Barack Obama and members of his administration were going to create a fake assassination attempt “that would be blamed on ‘white supremacists’ and subsequently used to enrage black and Hispanic communities driving them to rioting all across the nation,” according to theory, penned by right-wing blogger Joe Angione." [Source]

Lord have mercy! Now I know why some of the folks commenting here anonymously say some of the things that they do.







        

Mitt talk, and old family matters.

Before I start this post I would like to join numerous republicans and others in calling on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns. I am sure that he has done nothing wrong, but I am just tired of this back and forth and I am sure that he could put an end to it tomorrow if he wanted to.

Anyway, I have to give to Mitt. If he doesn't become our next president, and a couple of years from now Jabari Parker -and not Mitt Romney- is the most famous Mormon in America, he will at least be responsible for adding a couple of new phrases to the American lexicon:"Retroactive retirement", and "self- deportation". You gotta love it. Republicans are good at that. Mitt and his people are just doing what all good republicans do: Find interesting ways to say things.

Now maybe we will all start thinking outside the speech box.

For instance, consider the following: Joint defeating. This could be when two teams stink up a game and we don’t want to declare a winner, or when two boxers go 15 rounds without really fighting each other.

Future felon: That one baby who sticks out for all the wrong reasons when we visit the nursery.

Retroactive sex: Yes, you are married now, but there is that one who got away, and now you have to “tap that ass” ...let me stop. But you get the idea; it's all about creative phrasing. I actually admire that about Mitt's people. It kind of makes you wonder why they didn't come up with a groundbreaking campaign slogan like O had back in 2008.  

Finally, now I know why a certain group of people came up with so much money online for a certain dude down in Florida.

Unfortunately, it seems that he allegedly has a thing for first cousins as well.  

  

   

Tax Day.

True confessions: I hate tax day. I will leave it at that. (I know the IRS monitors these blogs.) Having said that, I will never be mistaken for Wesley Snipes. I have no problem with paying my fair share of taxes. I love the roads that I drive on and all the other benefits I reap from the federal government while my tax dollars go to work. So there. All you teabagger protesters can kiss my ass. If you really want impress me and make a sacrifice for something you believe in, give up your social security checks when it's time to retire. And, when Father Time grabs you and you start getting sick, pay out of your own damn pockets for whatever medical care you will need.

And while we are on the teabaggers, let me take a little time to praise his O ness: Just a couple of years ago ago this country's economic foundation was on the verge of a collapse. The Dow was tanking, unemployment was rising, and the big D was on every one's lips. (Brother can you spare a mortgage payment?) Now let's be honest wingnuts, we are over a year into the age of Obama and things ain't looking so bad. The Dow is up over 11,000 points, unemployment is holding steady. (Didn't the wingnuts predict that unemployment would be at 12% by now?) And even though home values are way below what they were during the peak of the housing bubble, the bleeding seems to have stopped in the housing market.

On the international front I see O doing some good things as well: (His feud with my home country not withstanding.) He is trying his best to rein in the nukes ,and even though I am still not down with the war in Afghanistan, he seems to be doing a great job with the war on terror where Pakistan is concerned. There has been no major terrorist attack on A-merry-can soil (knock on wood), and he is reaching out to world leaders in a meaningful way to increase our -moral-standing in the world.

Do I have some issues with the guy? Sure I do. But if I am going to be totally honest, so far he has been better than the frat boy at playing leader of the free world. (Oh field, you are just saying that because he is black like you. If he was a white republican you would be all over him.) Nope, if he was a white republican they would be getting his bust ready for Mount Rushmore.

Why should we give that Negro our money? You know they like to just spend it.

I have to admit that like most A-murder-cans I don't like paying taxes, and as April 15th approaches I am reminded of just how much I dislike the entire process. I dislike it,but I understand that as a citizen I have an obligation to the country I live in to pay my fair share. (Which the last time I checked is a hell of a share, but who is complaining?)

I enjoy driving on the nice roads my tax dollars help to fund. I enjoy the security that my tax dollars help to provide for me. I enjoy the protections from poisons and other deadly products that could harm me. I enjoy the fact that veterans who serve my country can be taken care of. I like the fact that when I put my money in the bank it is insured. And I like the fact that most children who cannot afford it can get a free education. I could go on but you get the point: Taxes are painful for some of us, but they are necessary.

Which is why I don't understand this "Tea Party Protest" that the FAKE NEWS people and conservatives have been planning for a little over a month now. Yes folks, on tax day conservatives will be getting out their pitch forks and walking shoes, and if FAKE NEWS has their way they will be storming the White House. Ironically, the man who called for a "Tea Party" style revolt against the government and all their bailouts, is distancing himself from the very movement he seemed to have started. (Leave it to conservatives and FAKE NEWS to get an accidental idea and treat it like it's some kind of righteous cause.) But the clowns on the right are having none of it, the troops have been foaming at the mouth ever since his O ness took office and they need to vent.

I sense that history is repeating itself here. I mean back in the day the colonist didn't think it was fair to pay taxes to a government who they didn't believe represented them. They weren't being taxed by their government, they were being taxed by the British. These conservatives are no different, his O ness does not represent them, just look at the guy; he is the total opposite of everything they represent, so why pay taxes to his government? Funny, they didn't seem to mind paying their taxes to fund the two wars that the frat boy started. But hey, the frat boy didn't have a funny name and a.....well, tan.

So wingnut bloggers, reich wing talk radio and the FAKE NEWS people are organizing. They expect to have "Tax Day Tea Parties" in over 300 cities, and according to them the number is growing. Nothing like a little good old fashion revolution against the man to get that red state blood pumping.

I wish them luck, I really do. I hope they get a million people out there on April 15th to stick it to the man. I guess they will be flooding public parks and driving on public roads to get there. Not to mention all those public officials who will be out in force to protect them and make sure that everything goes as planned. I guess Rupert, Rush, Glen and Sean, are going to write checks to cover the costs of all that stuff. Oh wait, they can't do that, they are conservatives, they are supposed to keep their money. Whoops, looks like our tax dollars will be paying for that as well.

What a country.

This is not how we change the tone in Washington.

To steal some lines from Bill O-Lie-ly: Caution, you are about to enter the no bullshit zone.

Today was not a good day for his O ness. Here he was trying to get his stimulus package passed and trying to change the tone in Washington, and instead the news cycle was dominated by his administration messing up yet some more of their appointments. Who is doing the vetting for his O ness? He needs to fire them like yesterday. This is starting to be a problem.

So Tom Daschale had to withdraw his name from consideration because of a little tax problem. I take that back. Because of a big tax problem. I know that to a guy who made over five million dollars selling himself to the highest bidder; $128,203 is not much, but to most A-merry-cans that is serious dollars. And that's what bothers me about Daschale, not that he cheated on his taxes (hell we wll would like to do that), what bothers me about the guy is that he has basically been a high powered lobbyist for the past few years. His O ness better get real. That is not change we can believe in, this looks like more of the same old inside the beltway bullshit to me. And please don't tell me that he didn't know what Daschle did for a living. He knew, and so did everyone and their momma in Washington.

I know his O ness is like Superman to a lot of people, but he better be careful, there is a lot of kryptonite in Washington. The rethugs couldn't stop Tim Geither from getting confirmed, but they were going to be dammed if they went down without a fight with Daschle. There is too much at stake with this department, we are talking about health care here. This one was going to get really ugly, and that is the last thing his O ness wants. He is still busy trying to play nice and "change the tone in Washington". Funny, I don't think the rethugs and the press got the memo.

Of course I am being hard on his O ness because Daschle wasn't the only screw up today. Let's not forget about Nancy Killefer, who was to be our new government performance officer. Looks like Nancy wasn't performing too well when she got a $946 tax lien slapped on her property in the district. This is not the kind of incompetence we expect from his O ness and his crew, and I honestly don't think it will last. It could be just the out the gate jitters. But "no drama Obama" wasn't supposed to get jittery.

Still, to be fair to his O ness, Bubba had some problems as well when he came into office. Remember Zoe Baird and "nannygate"? But we expect so much more from his O ness. He has set such a high bar for himself, and A-merry-ca has set a high one for him. (Us black folks know that bar all too well)

"I screwed up...I take responsibility for this mistake."

Don't worry O man, it wasn't only you, it was a team effort. Now dust yourself off and get back to work. Just watch out for the kryptonite.