Writer and social commentator/activist Tim Wise has written a piece titled “Imagine If The Tea Party Was Black” that has probably gone viral by now, (If not, it should, I’ve included it in this post) and yet after one begins to read it, paragraph after paragraph streams by as if it is like witnessing an editorial train wreck in progress. No it’s not because the kilobytes it takes up on the internet are not worth a dang, it’s because ya just can’t stop reading it until the sinking feeling it gives makes you feel as if you’re on a caboose watching train cars ahead of you roll off the track one by one and it’s only a moment before it’s your time. Your time to come to grips with the fact that there is something terribly wrong in America when it comes to race and privilege. Of course, if you’re a person of color and you point this out you’re a whiner and if you point it out and you happen to be white, as Tim Wise is, you’re the worst kind of liberal that walks the earth, you are engulfed by white guilt. Read more...(1661 words, 2 images, estimated 6:39 mins reading time)
Well… If it’s getting more difficult to see Sarah Palin as a Presidential candidate for 2012 or “2000-ever”, it’s possible that SNL has once again utilized its comedic political crystal ball and brought a little clarity to her future.
It was called the Grand Old Party. That’s what G-O-P used to stand for. Some may say it still does, but for all intents and purposes one can honestly say, there is nothing grand about the current edition of the Republican Party and it has disappeared when it’s most needed. No, I don’t mean to save the country from a liberal President or even a Democratic House and Senate. It is as simple as Ying and Yang. The honest to goodness push back of the left not by simply saying “No” but with legitimate alternative ideas to bring to the table. The left needs you, not to substitute your ideas for theirs but more so to test their ideas against yours. But where are the legitimate new ideas, ideas that were not woefully followed during the Bush Administration?
Michael Steele has become the poster child for the party’s idiosyncrasies. It is no secret that as qualified as he may be for the position, he was and clearly is a GOP push back to Obama’s candidacy and Presidency. The GOP played a not so subtle race card the same way McCain played with gender when he selected Sarah Palin for his running mate in the 2008 Presidential Election. Subsequently, both Steele and Palin made for great photo ops and the appearance that the GOP had a progressive bone in its body politic, however, at the end of the day they became thin veils inadequately masking the GOP’s internal and philosophical dysfunction. Read more...(1167 words, 2 images, estimated 4:40 mins reading time)
Senate Republicans succeeded early Thursday morning in finding two flaws in the House-passed health care reconciliation package. Neither is of any substance, but the Senate parliamentarian informed Democratic leaders that both are in violation of the Byrd Rule.
Though at first blush this may appear to be a victory for the GOP, it may just back fire on the “Party of No”. Their move to send the legislation back over small issues and amendments also gives Democrats an opportunity to add amendments of their own on a much grander scale and only needing fifty votes in the Senate to achieve passage; namely, the Public Option. Read More Here.
