How ironic is it that the working class received their tax and unemployment benefits victory on National Underdog Day!

THANK YOU !!!

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This is OUR COUNTRY, Senator Bunning !

     Finally, the Senate came together for the benefit of the people it represents and voted to extend help for the jobless and keep federal highway dollars flowing. .  How one very old Republican could believe that cutting off what little life sustaining money, millions of individuals were receiving was the right thing to do, I'll never understand.  Here is a Senator, who by his very own background as a player in Major League Baseball, should understand how to work as a team to achieve what's best for all concerned, made it clear Friday in his own words "that he didn't give a shit" about anything but his own agenda.  What a pathetic excuse of a man he is.  Was it any wonder his phones never stopped ringing, and worse yet, there were bomb threats.  Personally, I believe he relented and voted for the stopgap legislation solely due to mounting pressure and assaults by Democrats and Republicans alike, and not from having a change of heart for the people of this country. 

      He, like a few others in the Senate are so out of touch with everyday Americans and the seriousness of the struggles they face daily in this economy, trying to house and feed themselves and their families.  Until the Jim Bunnings of the world actually experience being broke, homeless, and hungry, wondering the streets exhausted,  because the shelters are full beyond capacity, they'll never feel compassion for those that are out there now, or are one unemployment check away.  

       It is a shame that we, the people of the United States of America, who employ you to represent our best interests, have to suffer your incompetence until someone else is elected to your seat to replace you.  Were you acting like a buffoon and making these decisions as a member of the private sector, you would have been fired and out on your ass immediately.  Maybe its time to end this type of grandstanding within "our" House and Senate through procedural or rule changes, or maybe better yet, we as citizens, just need to elect a higher caliber of individuals to the offices that affect our lives so directly.  Senator Bunning we will be keeping a watchful eye on you, and counting down the minutes until leave office.  I would call it retirement, but we all know the only reason you won't be back for another term, stems from the inability to attain funding for a re-election campaign from within your own party.  Like a dinosaur, you and your kind are facing extinction within politics.  The American people can't and won't tolerate your holding their lives hostage.    

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The new movement - The Tea Party

                 February, 2010 Convention in Tennessee

Are they really just the disgruntled, extreme right-wing of the GOP?......If not, why choose Sarah Palin as a keynote speaker. A radical within Republican rank, becoming increasingly known for her ability to misrepresent and misappropriate, while in elected office. Convention action included activists helping to counsel people on how to register new GOP voters in their communities.

Maybe they're just people who feel neither party has their best interest in mind..... Some of the attendees to the convention say Former President George W. Bush is responsible for the fiscal policies that caused the economy to collapse and that President Obama, with his bail-out and stimulus package, is making the situation worse. Others who came for the weekend, criticize the Republican Party as fiercely as they do the Democratic Party. The Founder of the Evergreen-Conifer Tea Party in Colorado, Lori Christenson, wants politicians to act like their power comes from the people, not from their celebrity. Acknowledging her group refuses to get involved with conservative social issues, which she calls "very, very divisive."

Or as some are whispering loudly; are they the Klan reincarnated?.......The New York Daily News reported that Tancredo said President Barack Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote.”He went on to say,“People who could not even spell the word ‘vote’ or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House”. To know that only 600 mostly white, middle-aged people would sit and listen while Tancredo spewed this racist, un-American garbage proves how little steam this political train has. Though the fact one person, let alone 600 would show no disdain towards rhetoric of this nature makes me wonder aloud if just possibility the Klan has returned, only now they call themselves the Tea Party, and they are not bothering to hide themselves under robes and hoods.

                                                          July 2009, again Tennessee !!!

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