Hussein, Noreiga and now Mubarak, Our Dictators

Now the conservative right wing is protecting our latest dictator.  The excuses are numerous, my favorite excuse is the one elegantly explained on the savage Weiner program tonight, Obana is a secret Muslim Brotherhood member and this is all part of some great plan from his Regime.  I always laugh when I hear Weiner talk about the Regime.  Another conservative belief for protecting the Mubarak government is any change in government will surely end up in an attack on Isreal.  Another conspiracy theory is the intervention by Saudi Arabia because they know the Muslim radicals will ignite the region.  Remember as long as the Mubarak government stays in power,everything in the region will stay as peaceful as it always was.

Mubarak is just another in a long line of dictators we have supported before cutting them loose when they weren't useful to us.  Who remembers Sadam when he was our man in the region or how about Noreiga when we were interested in the canal.  When will the conservatives realize they should be on the side of the protesters, people who arre interested in free elections, freedom of speech, rights afforded to them by God, yea all these people worship the same God, imagine that.

Muslim Brotherhood Attacks

If you listen to Sean Hannity you would think that the Muslim Brotherhood were marching in the streets in Cairo, ready to attack the US embassy.  He has his listeners convinced the spineless Obama is secreting meeting with them because one it is all part of his master plan to install sharia law in this country or two because he is so afraid  of these guy that it is better to welcome this band of revolutionaries.  The Muslim Brotherhood is not a viable contender in this revolution.  Egyptians want what our American right-wing wants, a freely elected democratic country.  Unfortunately for them, hawkish right wingers only want that for this country, unless you are the third largest oil source in the world and then your dictator must go.  Yes, I do mean Sadam.  Constantly, you hear Sean and the gang, comparing Egypt to Iran for some unknown reason.  It might be a guess but I am thinking Sean never been to Egypt.  If he did go, he would see that Egypt has more in common with Italy than Iran.  Wait, Egypt is Muslim, Iran is Muslim, Egypt is the same as Iran.  Turkey has a freely elected government, and I think women still roam he streets freely.  Right, these are Mediterranean countries and not Persian gulf countries.

The motto of the Muslim Brotherhood is;
 "Allah is our objective. The prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. And dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu Akbar." Do you think Egyptians believe in that nonsense?  Egyptians want what we have, they see on the Internet, TV and hear it on the radio.  To try to compare them to Persians is insulting to them and to try to compare them to the illiterate Afghans is even more foolish.

The Entertainer

Had the privilege to listen to Glen Beck yesterday.  He was stating how he really believed in Michele Bachman, "she get it" as he says.  Of course a man like Glen Beck will seeMichele Bachman as someone who gets it, she is like him.  Say anything to get yourself headlines and make some cash.  Like Madonna, Howard Stern, Sarah Palin, and Dr. Savage Weiner, being outrageous pays.  Michele has that mantra down - I am a average Joe like you -, you can trust me.  Blaming things on the Socialist these days is money in the bank.

Glen had some good points for his gullible callers.  The one caller was speaking about how Michele Bachman was distorting the Constitution and our forefathers were not accepting of women and African Americans or at the time slaves.  Glen pointed out that the writers of the Constitution needed to do this otherwise the South would have a greater proportion of voters and perhaps slavery might never be eliminated.  Sounds good but hard for people to understand and true it took another 100 years for any significant change in the Southern states.  Once he managed to get the caller to hang up in disgust, it became the typical Glen Beck Obnoxious Hour.  Beck and his two other buddies spent another twenty minutes berating the guy and yes linking him to all liberal people and of course the Socialists.

The Blame Game

So the rhetoric just will not stop.  First some kid decides that it is time to make a statement and bring a Glock automatic gun to a public meeting and attempt to kill Congresswoman, Gabrille Giffords.  In his insanity ended up killing nine other people and wounding many others.  Next, some journalists and the sheriff on the scene start blaming conservative talk show people for creating a world of hatred for everything not conservative and the show begins.  Here is where we come, Conservative talk radio goes on the offensive.  Within two days everyone is declaring that the liberal media is on the attack and they are no way to blame.  Of course they are not to blame, their first amendment rights allow them to say what ever they want whenever they want and the consequences are other peoples problem.

Sean Hannity even started telling people that this kid has a copy of Mien Kanf and the communist manifesto, covering all his bases so no one will be able to link this kid to being a conservative of any kind.  He did aim for one of Sarah Palin's cross hair congressional districts and not some conservative district.  The number of conservative districts far out number the number of democratic districts so if the shooting was completely random the chances of a conservative being targeted would be higher but statistics usually are useless in these matters when we are dealing with crazy people.

My only point is the hateful conservative rhetoric has been around since Bill Clinton's time, it is the conservative radio way.  Their message is clear, if you are not conservative, you are not allowed a voice in this country, it is only logical, conservative means intolerant.  Sean Hannity always talks about how liberals are just the same with their hate speech but I only remember liberals making fun of President Bush's C average.

Repeal the Emergency Medical Act

The Obamacare health reform has met its first Constitutional legal challenge.  Judge Henry Hudson clearly defined that the health care law exceeds the powers in the Commerce Clause Act.  The law that says the government cannot force you to buy something.  I can not agree more, no Constitutional card carrying member of this country should be forced to buy health care.

But there is a big but when someone is not forced to buy health care.  When they get into a car accident, I do not want to see their badly damaged butt in the emergency room unless they have cash on hand to pay.  In fact, along with their Constitutional card should be a record on how much money they have in the bank, or estate so then the EMTs could just go into the pockets of their semi-conscious body and retrieve their ability-to-pay-record.  Otherwise, these "I don't need no stinkin health-care" citizens will be costing you and me real money because remember some liberal put into law the Emergency Medical Act which states "hospitals and ambulance services need to provide care to anyone needing emergency health care treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions."

The talk radio waves are now humming with the Judge Hudson ruling which got the ball rolling on repealing health care but someone needs to speak up for the people who are going to have to pay for this decision.  Sure, people are entitled to not get health care, but it better not infringe on my Constitutional Rights.  The Constitutional Right of mine to not have to pay for their mistakes in life.  People like rich talk show hosts have no problem adding another three hundred dollars a year onto their insurance bills but when you add this extra cash onto our bill because some card carrier believes in "freedom", I get annoyed.

What is President Obama Thinking

The president's latest try to walk the middle ground has the talk shows beaming.  Not only did the conservatives score big by not paying another dime in taxes, the president gave then a solid two weeks of fodder by allowing more spending on those wretched unemployed people.  I did not catch his name, he was on after Hannity but he was convinced there is this whole population of Obama supporters who just sit around drinking and cheering the Obama-man.  I grew up believing that if you are short on money you should increase your income and reduce spending or least some sort of combination of these.  What the president did was just the opposite, increase spending and not increase income.  I would have thought that letting the tax rates return to pre-Clinton levels while reducing spending would help us get out of debt, this is not believed to be correct.  The economic theory is that by extending unemployment benefits, we get $1.50 in commerce for every $1.0 spent.  Where I cannot argue this fact, I am one to believe that Americans have lived way beyond their means for the past twenty years and the Visa bill is due, it is time to suck it up.

Oh yea, those small business people who were so worried about their taxes increasing and in turn be unable to hire new people, your fears are over.  Start hiring, my brother is looking for work.

Cut the Beef

So much has happen since I was last able to listen to Hannity and the gang.  A bag of Somali puke pus, as described by Dr. Savage Weiner, tried to blow up Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony and he, Herr Weiner, successfully blamed the whole thing on liberals on the west coast.  The logic was flawless and of course. I hate liberals more than ever.  Why do liberals support radical Somali Muslims?  But really, the real issue keeping the airways jumping is the talk of letting the current tax rate rise up to the same level under Clinton, aka the Bush tax cuts.

How can anybody disagree with Hannity when he asks the caller "Do you want the government to raise your taxes", everyone says no.  The new direction of Sean's show should be where does the country go next or how I think it should be called Cut the Beef.  He is no different than every other conservative guy or gal; they all have the same play book, please do not raise the taxes of small business people, they are our job creators.  I am not sure what happens to the economy if the government does extend the tax cuts, will small business people start creating jobs, jobs that they haven't created in the last twelve months.  I have read that the population of those people making over 250,000 dollars a year and are small business owners is anywhere from 3 percent to 50 percent, most likely somewhere closer to the former.  Hannity tends to glorify these people but none of us know of any teachers, fireman or policeman who make over 250,000 dollars a year.

So, no new tax hikes happen, therefore we are in the same boat we are currently in, we have the same income generation, OK, something must be cut.  We could start cutting teachers, education is a large part of federal and state budgets.  We could cut the military but during a time of war?  Social Security? bloated buracracies like the Center for Disease Control,  What do we cut?  I wish the conservative think tanks would start supplying the radio hosts with these ideas and they could dedicate the next month to less liberal wining and Obama Overthrow and start talking about some real issues.

Forbes magazine had an article on the top five CEOs  with the worst performance over the last six years but were paid ridiculous sums of money.  The winner was the CEO of Capital One with an annual salary of 66 million dollars a year and an average profit loss of 6 percent per year over the past six years.  For some reason I did not feel bad about seeing this guy's taxes go up but as Sean says, I am a socialist liberal who wants to see a redistribution of wealth.