Tell big lies

The biggest lie of them all the past week was when M.Romney said we all wanted Obama to succeed.   His VP attending a meeting on Obama's first day as president as part of a group that cared more about their party that the middle class, the economy of the US, pain of housing market or college cost.

Fri Apr 27, 2012 at 09:26 AM PDT

Darrell Issa: Hold Hearings To "Expel" Ryan, Cantor & Other GOP Who Plotted To Undermine U.S Economy

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    It's no secret now that GOP in Congress literally plotted to undermine U.S. economy during President Obama's Inauguration.
     In Robert Draper's book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives" Draper wrote that during a four hour, "invitation only" meeting with GOP Minister of Propaganda, Frank Luntz, Senior GOP Congressmen plotted to undermine and destroy America's Economy.

The Guest List:
Frank Luntz - GOP Minister of Propaganda
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA),
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX),
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA),
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC-R),
Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ-R),
Sen. Tom Coburn (OK-R),
Sen. John Ensign (NV-R) and
Sen. Bob Corker (TN-R). Non-lawmakers present Newt Gingrich

    During the four hour meeting, the senior GOP members plotted to bring Congress to a standstill regardless how much it would hurt the American Economy by pledging to obstruct and block President Obama on all legislation.

   These members of Congress were not simply airing their complaints regarding the other party's political platform for four long hours.  No, these men were literally plotting to undermine and destroy the U.S. Economy.
        On that date, January 20, 2009, America had been losing over 750,000 jobs per month because of policies these Congressional Leaders had enacted and their goal, their goal that night, was to plot ways to undermine any and all legislation that would pull American families up and out of the economic calamity they had helped create.
       Everyone of these members of Congress supported the very Bush/Cheney policies that caused America to teeter on the brink of the 2nd Great Depression and caused the 2007 US Economic Meltdown.
      These guys can't say they were sitting at dinner for four hours discussing any objection to Stimulus Legislation and raising the Debt Ceiling because of political ideology as each one of them voted yes on Bush/Cheney Stimulus Bills and yes every time Bush/Cheney wanted to raise the Debt Ceiling.

Here's how they all voted:
-- "Yes" to Bush/Cheney January 2008 Stimulus
-- "Yes" to Bush/Cheney bailing out Bear Stern
-- "Yes" to Bush/Cheney bailing out AIG
-- "Yes" to Bush/Cheney TARP (sept 2008)
-- "Yes" to Bush/Cheney TARP (oct 2008)     And these same members of Congress:
-- Supported Bush/Cheney keeping cost of two wars out of the Budget
-- Supported Bush/Cheney spending $4Trillion on Top 1% Tax Cuts while trying to pay down Debt on Two Wars

    Ahhh ... but at their dinner they plotted to suddenly stop supporting any stimulus legislation:

"Show united and unyielding opposition to the president’s economic policies." Rep Kevin McCarthy said,
"We've gotta challenge them on every single bill."

     Not only did these Senior members of Congress plot to destroy the American Economy more than it already was destroyed? They actually carried out their mission:  

- Every one of these Senior members of Congress have threatened Government Shutdown over things like:
not funding planned parenthood, not raising the Debt Ceiling which, in-and-of-itself, would cause US Economic turmoil. ... oh, and stay current, these same House GOP members of Congress are still, today, threatening a Government Shutdown.

- Senators: Jim DeMint, Jon Kyl, Tom Coburn, John Ensign, and Bob Corker have
- Filibustered more Bills than any Congress combined in US History.
- Voted NO on every single piece of Legislation brought to the Floor including: NO on Al Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment, NO on Lilly Ledbetter, NO on Fair Pay Act.

- Representatives: Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Pete Sessions, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra and Dan Lungren
- Voted NO on every single piece of Legislation; including NO on increasing FEMA during natural disasters.
- Have been on tv constantly chanting the lie that they were guilty of ... the lie that "President Obama's policies undermine the US Economy."

     Yes, these Republican Congressional leaders used Karl Rove's playbook and falsely accused the President of what they were guilty of: Intentionally Undermining the US Economy.  And, again, in keeping with Karl Rove propaganda, they chant the same lie over and over and over again.
    America had been at war since 2001.  The Constitution says a person can only be guilty of "Treason" while America is engaged in war -- we are at war.  The Constitution says "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.  I believe that plotting to undermine the President of the United States by destroying and weakening the US Economy directly aids the enemy. Treason?
    As for impeachment, only one Senator has ever been impeached.
    These members of Congress, are paid to do The People's work.  They are not paid to plot ways to undermine American families by destroying the US Economy.
    Their acts that night are disgusting, repulsive, unbecoming of a member of Congress and they should be expelled from Congress for their covert plot to destroy and weaken America's Economy and for obstructing The People's work from getting done.
     I urge everyone to contact Darrell Issa and tell him to:

Hold Hearings to Expel the following people from Congress for plotting to undermine the President by destroy to the US Economy:
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA),
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX),
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA),
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC-R),
Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ-R),
Sen. Tom Coburn (OK-R),
Sen. John Ensign (NV-R) and
Sen. Bob Corker (TN-R).

    I don't know if they committed Treason, but I do know they are Traitors and Traitors have no business writing or voting on US Laws.
     Oh, the next time you hear the GOP say "Obama wants to destroy the economy" or "Government Shutdown" ... remember ... as Newt Gingrich said after their four hour dinner on January 20, 2009 "You’ll remember this as the day the seeds of 2012 were sown."  

   To Translate GINGRICH:
 "You'll remember this day as they day we became Traitors to the United States."

Originally posted to cc on Fri Apr 27, 2012 at 09:26 AM PDT.

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Mitt and Money

It is thought by all experts understanding how the brain works--- we are hard wired by our early 20's to be a conservative or a liberal thinking person.  All the characteristics are in place and very few change after that.   That said, this is an article by one of the few people currently in this country, that is acknowledge by all, to do investigative reporting. Life may offer challenges but at less, let' s operate with some common facts.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829

 

Peachy story

 It is the season of fruit.  It is the week of fruit.  Friends give me a box of plums that I have cooked up and must freeze.  My daughter and granddaughters have picked over 12 pounds of blackberries.  The little ones consider picking berries a field trip and would probably do it daily this month if their mother would take the time and my freezer was large enough to freeze the bounty.  To top off the week, the peach trees is producing as it has never in eight years.  I have been calling that my shade trees but after this year I have to stop that habit.  Oh, what method of preserving am I going to use for the peaches?

I still have the apple, the raspberries, pears to go.  The blueberries and the figs we have been eating along the way.  I am a wealthy woman, I have to say.

Thomas Merton

I have been mentally revisiting earlier period of my life because of the social upheaval  of the U.S.  in the past year.  So much of the current social landscape reminds me of the sixties. At age 69, it has the same feel of violence, discord from the people in power to the public at large, the marginalize groups of people that are left without much hope and lastly, the facts that media forgets to ask the questions or act with a standard of integrity.

I saw a film version of the life of Thomas Merton, a writer of those times.  It was from Netflix and I found it open up my curiosity again about this man's writings.  Our great library system has very little of his material but the two books that they do have I have been reading.  Thomas Merton is a perfect man to read during these days of confusion and difficulty because of his clearly written thoughts during the sixties about the government and the church. 

A biography by Monica Furlong published in 1980 does justice to the struggle of Merton during his years as a monk.  It explores his writings, his thinking about world peace and civil rights,  the changes of Vatican II, his health issues, his need to live alone in a hermitage, his search for spiritual growth in other beliefs and finial his personal emotional struggles. 

What I find so remarkable is his search for truth.  Merton links truth with courage often in his writings.  He firmly believed institutions and establishments are more interested in survival that in these principles.  During a period of the Vietnam War he was told by the Abbot to stop writing on the subject because the government was labelling him a communism.  He was silenced.  Merton wrote of the changes needed for the church and the unrest that was coming.  His voice was not considered welcomed on the issues.  Yet, he continued to correspond with writers around the world and he realized that, in time, all of his thoughts would be published in books or articles for all to read.  Merton suggests that search for the truth with courage is often not successful but that it is the only thing we are to do if we are search for the God with in us.  More than being a monk, he was a writer.  More than being depressed about the state of the world, he was joyful.

His words are so thoughtful and beautifully crafted that it is a pleasure to read.  I have only heard a few lines of his poems but I will search in the next year in used books stores for them to own and enjoy them.