Intro

It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Absolutely shameless ...

Obama and the Democrats have reached a new low. 

They are hyping that Republicans are planning to impeach Obama. 

They’re sending the message that all you Democrats and independents better come out and vote in November to keep your Democrat Senators and Representatives or the mean old Republicans will impeach your President. After all those great things he's done for the common man – and as the first black U.S. President – are you going to sit back and let those woman-hating, teacher hating, gay hating religious gun-toting fanatic redneck racists destroy his legacy? 

And did we mention that he’s black? All you black people out there – remember that. They’re getting ready to lynch your man Obama. Don’t you be sitting on your ass when it’s time to vote. Vote early, vote often, because if you don’t vote a lot, well, Democrats could lose this election. Then, as Joe Biden said, those Republicans will be coming “to put y’all back in chains.” 

Young people – wake up!  Get pissed off again. If Obama goes, so does your hope of a fatter paycheck from your minimum wage job. You’ll have to pay for your own birth control. Abortions will be illegal and women will die. Pot won’t be legalized. Plus, you’ll get no relief from the $100 grand you blew on college loans while mastering your mellow and perfecting your tan. You’ll actually have to pay that loan back.  Maybe live in your parents' basement forever. No way, José!

Speaking of José, you Latinos, our brown brothers and sisters – especially those of you here “without documentation” living in the shadows – just think what will happen if Republicans impeach President Obama.  Police and the national guard will go house to house to round you up and send you back to whatever Hell-hole you came from. They’ll track down your grandparents and parents who smuggled you here and send them back, too. Everybody will have to get a national identity card, but of course you can’t because you don’t have any documents. Everybody will have to speak English. So you’re screwed. You won’t be able to get a driver’s license. You won’t be able to work.  You won’t get any benefits.  You won’t be able to vote anymore.  You need Obama to protect you and your relatives trying to get here!  Madre de Dios!

Yep, this is what Obama and the Democrats are saying will happen if the Republicans retake control of the Senate:  the Republicans will impeach President Obama and roll-back all of his accomplishments. 

This is helping the DNC fire up the base and raise millions in new campaign money. 

Democrats and Obama should be ashamed of themselves. They know there’s absolutely no Republican plan to impeach Obama. No Republican leaders in either the House or Senate have said anything about impeaching Obama, except to point out that the rumor started and has been pushed by Democrats for purely political and fundraising reasons.  

So why are Democrats and Obama pushing this false narrative? Why are they saying there’s a real threat of impeachment when there is none?

The simple reason is that they’re scared.  And they have good reason to be.

The majority of voters don’t think Obama’s done a good job; they also think he’s incapable of handling the job, in fact. Those are two different things, neither good. Add to that his apparent and highly public disdain for doing his job, and his lack of leadership on important issues here and abroad, and it gets worse.  

He’s obviously a lame duck milking the perks of the office while ignoring its responsibilities.

Even his pals in the media are getting tired of his relentless self-indulgence. They’re starting to ask serious questions of his spokespuppets, about where he is, what he’s doing, and why he doesn’t seem to be addressing serious problems like the debacle at our southern border. 

That’s not good for him, or the Democrats in general.

Then there are the scandals. The mainstream media may not be covering them so much, but the public is still getting the news that a lot of bad stuff is going on with the IRS, the VA, and ObamaCare – all of which have come to a head on his watch. And he’s done nothing. No heads have rolled.  

So Obama and the Democrats are ripping a page out of the old Clinton-era playbook. Back then, Republicans got sucked into a stupid and ham-handed effort to impeach Bill Clinton, in spite of overwhelming public opinion against impeachment. 

We all know what happened. Bill Clinton got impeached. And Republicans got hammered in the next election cycle. Democrats won control because Republicans went too far.

Obama and Democrats are hoping to use the same dynamics to save their bacon this time. Except Republicans aren’t calling for impeachment; if anything they are dismissing it completely.

Talk about “phony scandals” … Obama and Democrats have made this one up from whole cloth. They're daring, actually hoping, Republicans take the bait.  

There's even talk among Democrats of Obama issuing an Executive Order intentionally designed to provoke Republicans into calling for his impeachment; maybe granting blanket amnesty to all illegal immigrants, past and present. I wouldn't put it past the Democrats to try something like that. It wouldn't be the first time.  

It’s all clearly an act of desperation. Republicans – if they are smart, and sometimes that’s open to question – should continue to ridicule the idea of impeaching Obama. 

Until after the mid-term elections. Then, if they do get control of the House and Senate, and public opinion supports it, then – and only then – they can decide whether to pursue impeachment. 

Chances are, even if Republicans win control, they won’t move to impeach.

Not that Obama shouldn’t be impeached, but because it’s not worth it. 

His time's almost up, anyway.  


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