Grandpa, Mitt.

I did not want this post to be about Mitt Romney's [adopted]black grandson and how some folks over at MSNBC were making all kinds of jokes about him  being in the family picture.

I like Melissa Harris-Perry, but it is never cool to make such jokes about politics--- or anything else for that matter--- when it involves children. We should leave that type of behavior to the right wingnuts.

And speaking of wingnuts, as is to be expected they all pounced on the behavior of the panel on Harris-Perry's show to demonstrate that it's liberals who are the reeeaaallll racists.  "At least we adopt one of them as our own. " Hey, the Duck Dynasty dude has one (a bi-racial grandchild) as well.
Maybe that's why A&E decided to bring back his show.

Anyway, I think it's time that we just left the Romney clan alone. The elections are over, and he is back to making money and taking very large family photos.

“Everybody loves a baby picture,” Harris-Perry said, “and this was one that really, a lot of people had emotions about this baby picture this year. This is the Romney family. And, of course, there on Governor Romney’s knee is his adopted grandson, who is an African-American, adopted African-American child, Kieran Romney.”

As Harris-Perry made the introduction, panelist Pia Glenn sang “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn’t the same,” a tune whose original lyrics read “one of these things doesn’t belong.”

“And that little baby, front and center, would be the one,” she added.
“And isn’t he the most gorgeous?” Harris-Perry said. “My goal is that in 2040, the biggest thing of the year will be the wedding between Kieran Romney and North West. Can you imagine Mitt Romney and Kanye West as in-laws?”

Little Kieran should have an interesting life.

BTW, his name means black in Gaelic. No, really, it does. This has to make it so much easier to know the black Romney from all the others. *biting tongue*

Finally, if you are one of the over one million Americans who lost their unemployment benefits on Saturday I would like to say I am sorry.

Republicans just weren't willing to extend that hand out just a little longer to unemployed people.

It doesn't make moral or economic sense, but hey, it's their show in congress these days.
Apparently they think that they (the unemployed) will get too complacent and will not try hard enough to find work when that whopping $300 weekly gift from Uncle Sam just keeps pouring in.




  

They can't even eat cake.

Rand Paul and the GOP's answer to people suffering through joblessness and struggling with their bills is to cut off the last life line that they have from their government.

In the world of Rand and his ilk, cutting off the unemployment benefits to millions of Americans is the only way to help them find work. I know, I know, the logic escapes me, too. Crazy talk. But hey, we are talking wingnuts here.

"Sen. Rand Paul thinks the long-term unemployed have had too much cake. That what they really need is a swift kick in the you-know-what. And, in his compassion, he wants to give it to them.

It's about the incentives, Paul said yesterday on Fox News. If you pay people not to work, they won't. And if you want them to work, you should stop paying them not to. So extended unemployment benefits "do a disservice to workers, causing them to become part of this perpetually unemployed group." (Emphasis added). In other words, we just have to stop coddling the jobless, and they'll find jobs ... even though there are three of them for every opening." [Source]

This "let them eat cake" philosophy when it comes to governing might seem like a winner for some in the GOP and their friends, but this is not a time in our country's history to play Marie Antoinette. The wealth gap is widening, and pretty soon the natives will be getting restless. Being jobless poor and hungry and can have a crazy effect on seemingly "normal" people.

The Pope understands it, and he has taken it upon himself to talk about it.

But the Pope isn't running for any political office, and he doesn't influence people voting in red states.

Now, like the Socialist in charge, he is considered a pariah by those on the right.
In their minds the Pope has one major flaw: he cares about poor people.

"Like Obama, Francis is unable to see the problems that are really endangering his people. Like Obama he mistakes the faithful for the enemy, the enemy for his friend, condescension for respect, socialism for justice and capitalism for tyranny. [FoxNews.com, 12/5/13]"

When the people finally wake up, I believe that Pope Francis and Obama will keep their heads.