A crazy world going mad

There's turmoil in the Middle East, protesters in Madison Wisconsin, Victorians blaming the high price of gasoline on president Obama (that's BO for those that don't think he's legitimate) then there is Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Glenn beck, and Michelle Bachman fighting to be the first to say the most outrageous things.

Neonservatives are salivating thinking they can persuade the president to intervene in the Middle East by calling him weak. The president's first duty is to provide a safe evacuation plan for Americans in Libya before making a speech threatening a dictator, who just might take out his revenge on Americans. We all know that Omar Qadhafi's elevator doesn’t quite go to the top floor; any man crazy enough to kill his own people with fighter jets is not capable of listening to reason.

Wisconsin's governor Walker laid out his plans for ending collective bargaining; his supporters are still trying to make it sound like the teachers, nurses, and janitors are responsible for the budget deficit. This is priceless because even the most partisan republican has to admit the recorded conversation is damaging.... Ian Murphy of Buffalo Beast (the site appears to be called up Gov. Scott Walker, posing as wealthy industrialist and campaign donor David Koch. They had a 20-minute chat. Here’s an excerpt:
Koch: We’ll back you any way we can. What we were thinking about the crowd was, uh, was planting some troublemakers.
Walker: You know, well, the only problem with that —because we thought about that. The problem—the, my only gut reaction to that is right now the lawmakers I’ve talked to have just completely had it with them, the public is not really fond of this […]
Walker: [...] I went on “Morning Joe” this morning. I like it because I just like being combative with those guys, but, uh You know they’re off the deep end.
Koch: Joe—Joe’s a good guy. He’s one of us.
Walker: Yeah, he’s all right. He was fair to me…[bashes NY Senator Chuck Schumer, who was also on the program.]
Koch: Beautiful; beautiful. You gotta love that Mika Brzezinski; she’s a real piece of ass.
Walker: Oh yeah.


http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/02/23/walker-punked-by-fake-koch-brothers-call/

The governor can lay off workers, threaten the AWOL democratic senators, and say it's about balancing the budget until he is blue in the face, but he thought he was talking to one of the Koch brothers when he admitted his real plans.

I guess I've heard every president from Clinton to Obama being blamed for the high price of gasoline, as if they had the switch on their desk controlling the price. If President Carter didn't do anything else; he warned us about the problems of depending on fossil fuels as the major source of energy. Democrats and republicans alike have all made speeches about switching to alternative fuels but they all continuing  kicking the can down a road. The problem is us; we like cheap oil and dirty coal because we don't want to face the initial costs of switching. Gasoline prices have to remain high before any innovator will think it's worth their time and money to come up with the next alternative source of energy; in the meantime, the " drill baby drill" crowd think we have an enormous supply here in the United States to suit our needs forever. They don't know that whatever, we drill goes on a world market pot to satisfy supply and demand.

The serious problems are dominating the news coverage, so that's making it harder for Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin and right wing talk radio to be heard. Rush Limbaugh is going after Michelle Obama's weigh and the fact that she ate some ribs the other day. A sitting congresswoman that has enormous resources such as her own colleagues who have degrees in economics', access to CBO numbers, and her own budget chairman Paul Ryan, thinks we ought to enlist Glenn Beck and his chalkboard to solve our economic problems. A former Sarah Palin aide, Frank Bailey has written a tell- all book by his former employer called “Blind Allegiance."Mr. Bailey reveals a woman (Sarah Palin) who wrote fake letters to the editor praising her accomplishments in office, doesn’t talk much with her husband, and neglects her children. He also said she hated being governor of Alaska, especially after enjoying the limelight of a presidential campaign. Then there's the number one crazy man, Glenn Beck, who now is tying in the protesters in Wisconsin to a vast conspiracy of Obama, in  uniting all the unions, for the final nail of the coffin,to America as we know it.

How did we manage before the Internet and 24/7 cable television?

Is it too soon to be seeing civility?

I had to take a big sip of my coffee this morning because I couldn't believe what I saw.  There sat Bill Kristol as the guest of MSNBC's “Morning Joe.” There  were joking of him being in the Lions' den, but as he is on Jon Stewart and other shows, I've seen him on, Bill Kristol sounded pretty reasonable.  It wasn't until the group started talking about Rumsfeld’s new book when Mr. Kristol  started getting a little defensive about the Iraq war.  It was learned that Donald Rumsfeld wanted plans to attack Iraq just four hours after 911.  There is a conflict between President Bush's book and Donald Rumsfeld’s book.  They are some similarities.  Neither one of them take blame or aplogize for the fiasco, we call the invasion of Iraq. 

On “Morning Joe” Tuesday, the Weekly Standard editor appeared to promote “The Neoconservative Persuasion,” a collection of essays written by his father, Irving Kristol. During that appearance, New York magazine’s John Heilemann asked Kristol why Republicans were reluctant to challenge Fox News host Glenn Beck, a regular target of MSNBC’s personalities, as Kristol did in a column for the Feb. 14 issue of the Weekly Standard for his claim Islamists and liberal forces were collaborating to orchestrate a caliphate.

http://tinyurl.com/4cqml8b

I think the new owners of NBC took the first step by releasing Keith Olbermann and making Ed Schultz drop his “psycho talk”  segment.  Since then I've seen more prominent republicans as a guest.  Rachel Maddow had Michael Steele as a guest the other night.  Michael Steele admitted the RNC would not allow him to go on liberal shows as the chairman of the Republican Party.  He has made up for it since, with appearances on Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, and Rachel Maddow.  The give and take was quite informative.  It's too early to tell, but I hope MSNBC doesn't take a route of CNN, who bends over backwards, so not to appear partisan.  That just means, CNN, is just a sounding board for the left and right to deliver their talking points. 

Sarah Palin is not slowing down a bit but she is getting more incoherent.  The other day she told the Christian Broadcasting Network(CBN) that the Egyptian crisis was Obama’s 3:00 AM call  but it went straight to the answering machine. She when onto say “ the White House was not doing enough to inform  the American people about what is happening in Egypt.”  She didn’t leave it at that, she said “should not stand" for an Egypt led by the Muslim Brotherhood. “ Duh .  As usual  she never said what she would do.  That’s because she doesn't have the slightest idea of where Egypt is or the delicate situation that we are in by trying to come out with the very best solution for in United States, Egypt, the Middle East and Israel.

It's only a matter time before the Republican Party will have to put a lid on Glenn Beck and his conspiracy theories because he is taking some pages from the John Birch Society by not only attacking liberals, now he is saying both Bush's and were leading the charge for orchestrating a caliphate.  He said president's Obama, Bush, I and II put out  strict orders not to bomb Ancient Babylon. Why? Because the Bible tells us that is the seat, right here (aims pointer at map like a college professor) of power of a global evil empire...everybody on this side wants ancient Babylon for their caliphate. (The New Islamic Caliphate) ..I guess they  could wait for the guys with the white coats come for him.

http://tinyurl.com/4gl98a4

The local blogs got a right wing slant this weekend. One was written by itisi called “liberalism” where the author never quoted a reference but instead chose to give a one-sided view point; his. The other blog was written by holly1.  The name and his blog was” It's our way or the highway and other myths of politics.” Both blogs received a lot of traffic, but it quickly became like one of my many political blogs.  They became the dumping ground  for the usual " and you’re another one” back and forth postings  We have a lot of work to do in ridding ourselves of the myths we might have required over a long period of time.  I think it's gonna take a new set of posters to completely overturn the combative dialogue, we call debates.  No one wants to go first and be made a fool of.