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January 19, 2012 | 
Author Been awhile since I had time to check in here at the Bobo…
Yes CMBlake…I saw you post and was utterly awash with guilt for not keeping my promise to keep the home fires lit here at the BoBo (um believe that one and I got some good beach front land in AZ for ya too.)…..but hey, life’s busy these days what can I say?
So I guess I will ramble a little about the debacle called the GOP primary ..Here we are for the most part about 9months out from the General Election, with 2 RINO’s and a “cranky old man” (McCain Ver. 2.0) and not a true conservative GOP candidate to be found…*sigh*
These candidates the GOP sent to forced down our throat are I guess, what we’re supposed to think of as the “best of the best”, the “Statesmen” we’re going to hand the keys to and tell them to run a nation with the largest economy in the world and of 300+ million souls. *Gak* (Sorry I choked on my beer there trying to get the word “statesmen” past my bullshit filter).
BTW ? How’s come I’m still seeing Perry Signs in SC where I am currently at..news flash SC..Perry is no longer running…Jus’ saying…I digress.
I find myself pretty much wincing at any of the three remaining candidates, I don’t know why the F-ing blankety blank the GOP can’t get it’s act together, I swear it’s always this “lesser of too evils game with them.
Far as I’m concerned…..None of them are particularly “electable”, at least that’s the view from up here in the nosebleed seats.
I’m am going to laugh tho if Cranky Ol’ Ron Paul pulls off an upset, and a part of me leans toward voting for cranky old Paul … what the hell, why not? It CAN’T get any worse than what we have now…can it? Maybe Paul will be the force of “Change” in the swamps of the Beltway…yeaahriiiight.
In all honesty He’s the MOST right on the issues that matter to me personally, just not so sure I trust this whole “Libertarian” movement thingy yet or not
. I can’t say why I don’t trust them specifically, it’s a gut feeling. Something about the “Libertarian” view / stance makes my brain itch, and since that seems to be where most of his support is, well there’s misgivings there. His stances on foreign policy are tough to swallow. I’m not saying he’s wrong in his thoughts per say, it’d actually be okay with me, it’s just that it’s no longer realistic in the least to say we’re going to pick up our toys from around the globe and just go the hell home.
Gingrich? Mmmmno, if a man can’t keep his pecker in his pant’s after being married, he ain’t getting the football…nope sorry.
We’ll not mention also his flip flops on AGW, and 2nd Amendment treachery either..I didn’t forget Newt, I don’t think a lot of voters who cherish the right to keep and bear arms did either pal…Am I being a one issue voter? You betcha.
Romney..Not in this life time Mr Architect of Masscare which was purportedly the model for the abortion of a Federal bill now dubbed” Obamacare…and oh BTW? I know people from MA, & they hated you for your sell outs on 2nd Amendment issues too..Now you want to sell out the REST of the country’s 2nd Ammendment rights….I donthinkso Lucy……Strike Two Mitt…you’re done.
Who was it that ever said I’m a one issue voter? Mheh.
**** UPDATE ****
Sorry folks, I realized this morning that I totally forgot about Rick Santorum …apologizes in advance for any confusion…..I’ll write about Rick later …I’m off to the salt mines…
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Curious..
…because despite the non stop assault on the 2nd amendment from groups like the Brady Campaign and other anti gun movements like …… Mayor Michael Bloomberg (asshat NY) the Obama administration has been cursorily strangely…. even eerily quiet on the issue…why?
Why is it that even the Clinton administration which by all accounts and according to popular theory was a “centrist” administration (Uh…no they weren’t but thanks for playing) pushed and help passed much more binding and strict laws against gun ownership and the 2nd Amendment??
Don’t get me wrong here..I think the Clinton’s and Bloomberg’s of the world can go F themselves, the horse they rode in. and frankly….they can have me guns when they pry them from my cold dead fingers…I’ll give them my 20 plus guns..but it comes bullets first…you get the idea…..
I’m just very curious why the O admin has been so quiet about us “bible and gun clinging” people…could it be they know perhaps that is one briar patch they don’t wish to enter…I think maybe they do..
Maybe even a Liberal like Obama and his people know..don’t poke sticks at a rattlesnake…..discuss…
Haven’t had a lot of time to post ..sorry Bobo, life’s kind of crazy these days.
But this caught my eye as I gulped a cup of coffee on my way out the door for another day of insanity in the salt mines.
On the recent NY Special Election to replace the Roasted Weiner the Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz…
“It’s a very difficult district for Democrats,”
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH……*gasp* I.Cant.Stop.Laughing.
Really Debbie? Uh fact check on aisle three please …the last time this district was in GOP Hands?
1923….. No that is not a typo…The year of our lord NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE
That was 88 years ago …
I have to admit, I was really not in a very good mood as my day started, but man the howls of laughter I experienced when I read that little Gem from the DNC Chair, just kept me chuckling all damn day…really can you spin it a little harder Mrs Schultz??
Really…I think maybe if you did maybe someone would actually fall for your babbling… if they drank a lot that is.
Every heard a person ask that question?
Did you feel sad for them, reaching into your pocket and pulling out a handful of change or a crumpled up few dollars to help one less fortunate than you?
Did you ever stop to wonder how it must feel to be in such an awful situation?
I have, many a time.
But when it is the Federal Government asking that question, via borrowing money from China, Japan, across the world, I can’t feel much sorrow or empathy for it.
The nation is going bankrupt thanks in part to the myriad of entitlement programs we have created. Medicaid, Medicare, Health Care, AFDC, Defense, and Pork Barrel projects of every stripe imaginable from cowboy poetry to bridges to nowhere. In essence we’ve done it to ourselves, by voting for the person that always promises us the most from the Federal Coffers.
And yet the spending, and the debt continues to rise.
S&P Just downgraded the US credit rating from AAA+ TO AA+ With a negative outlook. Moody’s could follow suit in a few months if they don’t see serious efforts to rein in that debt and pay it down.
Predictably the markets reacted to this first ever in the history of the nation debacle, dropping by almost 2,000 points in a little over a week.
Just as predictably the politicians rushed to the podiums pointing fingers at one another, the Dems at the Tea Party in specific. But is it the TEA party that should be blamed?
Not according to the NRO article here.
In essence the TEA party has held the line on no new taxes. They demanded real cuts and not gimmicks from our elected officials to rein in spending, and to get the debt under control. For this they are branded “terrorists”, “hostage takers” and “extremists”. But to those that hurl these sorts of rhetorical bombs out (despite the “new civility”), I have to ask. Who’s Money is it anyhow?
Not to pick on one political party, the GOP isn’t much better, they’ve capitulated to the Federal Debt monster at almost every turn, calling it “compromise”.
Let’s be perfectly clear here ….It’s not compromise, the new so called debt limit bill does not cut spending one dime, it only slows the rate of growth in some areas of the Feds budgets. It does absolutely nothing to address the current debt that the US Government is racking up. That is the driving force behind the S&P downgrade.
When did the idea gain traction in D.C. that a man is a vassal of the state, to be forced at gun point to give up the lion’s share of the fruits of his individual labor to the black hole that is the Federal Governments Budget? When did feudalism become the new vogue? As that is what we seem to be heading to. The all powerful Federal Government deciding what you can keep, what you eat, what you can drive, right down to the type of light bulb you are allowed to use, what you can do on a huge assortment of issues.
Blame the TEA party? For what, I ask.
For pointing out TRILLION ton debt elephant in the room? This debt exists despite the enormous intake of taxes that the Federal Government has? Trillions of dollars a year are sucked up into the black hole of the Federal Government via taxes. Yet they still cannot balance the books.
For demanding an accountability of our tax dollars?
For telling the Government no you cannot tax us into serfdom?Income tax, Fuel Tax, Sin Tax, FCC Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Interest Income Tax, Taxes on airline tickets, I could continue but you get the gist.
For calling for cuts to spending on just about every issue the Federal government touches, including the Defense Budget? Seems there are no Chickenhawks in the TEA Party.
If the entrenched political class has so many brilliant ideas and the TEA party is just a bunch of racists redneck yokels…then tell me why there has not been a Federal budget brought to the Congress in over 800 days? You claim to know the best way forward, yet you cannot even put a budget in front of the American People? Why? What are you trying to hide?
Blaming the TEA party is like blaming the Fireman that tried to put the blaze out because the fire you started smoking in bed even happened.
During the 2008 Election Michelle Obama quipped “For the first time I am proud of my country”. She was lambasted and grilled over that statement.Rightly so.
So now, I have to ask, Michelle are you still proud of your country? The worlds best hope for a free man is now reduced to asking “Brother, can you spare a dime?” Does that make you proud?
I’m always going to be proud to be an American, my love for my country doesn’t waver on political winds. But I will say this last disaster brought on by the political class on this great nation makes me cringe, In fact I’m rather embarrassed by it all. I’m saddened and disgusted with the entire situation. Outraged that our elected officals can’t get their repsective acts together on both side of the aisle to do, just once, the right thing for the country, getting re-elected be damned.
Tags: Man what a target rich environment !! So many issues, so many thoughts, so many …Well wait. Let’s pause and reflect a little 1st, shall we?
“Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision, it might be well if you would ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago?”
That was Ronald Regan on the eve of the 1980 Election for President.
So ask yourself in 2011 after 8 years of so called ” conservatism” and another almost 3 of hard core “liberalism” under Obama, Are you better off now a days ? That’s an 11 year span. I’m certain a lot of people if they set the time frame of 11 years are going to say with conviction “Hell No I’m not better off!”
Simple question, not such a simple answer I would think.
From my viewpoint, most people don’t seem to really think back and reflect on the past much these days. Life’s busy, jobs, bills, kids, spouses, trying to keep up with information overload, it’s hectic. But maybe we need to stop, maybe we need to look around and ask that question again. Maybe it’s time for a pause.
I always thought Regan’s quip was a little narrow, I understand it in it’s context, he made it about Carter, and the dismal economy at the time. But 4 year’s isn’t a lot of time in the grand scheme of things, and even maybe a 11 year span is too short of a metric …so run it out 30 years, if your in your mid 40′s like me, what about compared to what your parents and their generation achieved in their lives at the same age?
We seem to always fall into that trap of only looking back a few years and measuring our productivity, our accomplishments over a short span of time. I think we need to look back further.
I think if you do…most of us probably will find out that we have a nagging feeling of no matter what your accomplishment thus far ..No we’re not better off. Not compared to past generations. We’ve got technology other generations could only dream of, conveniences that would amaze people of just a century ago, yet that nagging feeling persists. Why?
Maybe we have some of the same things, have achieved some of the same things of past generations, but at the end of the day people have to start thinking that the cost of doing so, both in human terms and monetary terms, is getting to the point that it is simply staggering.
More hours at work, More stress, More College debt, Credit Card Debt, Housing, Taxes upon more taxes, but the Federal and State government’s are flat lined…broke with trillions in red ink…..Society gets coarser, it never seem to end.
To be honest, this particular post isn’t about assigning blame to one political party or the other, not yet, I have my views on that and will work those in over the course of time and other posts. As far as I am concerned the past years, back as far as maybe the 1930′s or longer of Governence can all share the blame because that’s the simple truth of the matter. I’m simply wool gathering, sharping up some rusted writing skills…
It’s just a question ….Are you better off now?
Howdy,
Some of you might remember me, most will not, I was a guest author here a few times.
I’m an old time supporter of the Bobo, we cut our teeth on blogging almost at the same time and our blogs while vastly different in tone and content these days have been supporting one another for awhile.
Bobo’s taken a vacation, and truthfully I had as well for various reasons, and had left the blogging community. But after some discussion on other blogs I found that I missed it, and decided to return to it.
I’m here to help Bobo, light the home fires once more and try to air the place out some while he’s on hiatus.
In a bit, we’ll get the blog carnivel rekindled as well so look for that too soon.
Until then, hope everyone is well and we’ll be able to start some great discussions here at the Bobo.
TNM
