GOP Exposed

Debate: Are Democrats and Obama Liberal Enough?

2012-01-18T19:07:59Z

In the left corner, weighing in at 150 pounds -- the Logical Nexus From Texas, it's NICK! Also in the left corner, weighing in at -- OMFG, that's impossible, The Hammer With The Stammer -- It's Jeff!"

Nick didn't agree with me about last week's podcast when I said that Democrats don't feel safe to be liberals because they see the nation moving to the right. I explain myself and he challenges that if Democrats would just be more liberal, the base would be activated.

Dem Circular Firing Squad/GOP Southern Strategy

2012-01-11T20:13:36Z

Here, I ramble on about misguided Democrats who think they can make things better by not voting for the Democrat. I also discuss the Republican tendency to demonize the poor and minorities. You can read about the Southern Strategy at Salon.

WTF? Iraq Should PAY US BACK?

2011-10-25T19:24:18Z

Michelle Bachman claims that we should be paid back for invading Iraq and killing over 100,000 people. That's like a burglar leaving a bill.

I also touch on race quite a bit because of this post on Facebook about MLK Jr. It caused a right winger to call me a demagogue.

I talk about abortion and Herman Cain. Maybe a little religion in there too. So we have race, religion and politics. Shouldn't raise anyone's BP.

Enjoy.

GOP: Debt? What Debt? We Only Care About NEW Bills.

2011-10-11T00:47:08Z

I've been having a conversation on Facebook that spurred this podcast.

Here is an excerpt from one of my posts:

Deficit reduction as a solution to our problem is a fairy tale. Congress needs to talk about DEBT reduction.

We would have to cut all -- ALL -- deficit spending PLUS $400 billion to match our interest on the debt just to BREAK EVEN and carry that 14 trillion debt FOREVER. If we cut our spending by a whopping 1.5 trillion every year PLUS another $400 billion for good measure, We'd NEVER pay down the debt.

Cutting a billion here and there is nothing but posturing. Republicans aren't even HINTING about cutting a TENTH of that. YOU HAVE TO RAISE TAXES.

I think that instead of TALKING about paying down the debt, we SHOULD pay down the damned debt. It takes MONEY. The last time in your life that we paid down the debt was after Clinton raised the taxes AND we lowered spending. It's a 1-2 punch.

I want to send the government LESS money. You have money to burn AFTER you pay your bills. AFTER you work overtime. AFTER pain. Republicans aren't talking about paying the bills on the kitchen table. They are talking about spending a tiny bit less next week on paper towels. Spending $3 less next week on McDonald's doesn't get you out of your $20,000 debt from the past ten years EVER. The debt grows faster than you spending $3 less per week.

The interest on our debt is $400 billion per year, probably $500 billion soon. No matter how much we cut, unless we cut all ALL deficit spending PLUS $400 billion, our debt grows. PLUS probably at least another good $500 billion surplus, payment, We will NEVER pay down the debt.

We can cut our taxes in half AFTER we get rid of the debt. It's not good to have bills, but it IS good to spend money and GET RID of debt, which Clinton's tax rate would have done by 2009. You DON'T get rid of debt by spending less. You get rid of debt by PAYING it. You don't do that without money.

Obama/GOP Lying about Taxes. Filibuster Their Plan!

2010-12-09T01:10:00Z

We don't need no stinking tax cuts! The rich certainly don't. In this episode, I point out the folly of arguing over the rich paying 3% more for their income tax when the bulk of their income is from capital gains, taxed at 15%, far less than the middle class pay. Obama has in the past, called for an even deeper capital gains tax rate, just like Ronald Reagan. I think this is the lowest point of Obama's administration.

I also go through a few responses to blog posts.

Republicans LIED. That's why they won. And Who's more Violent? Liberals or Conservatives?

2010-11-05T08:10:00Z

I give a short analysis of the midterm elections. I will give more next week. Who's more Violent? Liberals or Conservatives? Conservatives of course, and I will prove it.

Hell yes, The GOP will ruin government!

2010-11-01T23:27:01Z

This is my last rant before the election. Warning. I'm not in a good mood.

Magic Words - A brief History of Conservative Persuasion

2010-10-06T01:37:00Z

This video satire explains the motivations of tea partiers and the success of the Conservative movement. They use simple messages to sway the simple-minded. Through repetition, the false becomes true, the good becomes evil, the oppressed become the oppressors, war = peace and personal responsibility becomes the fault of foreigners and emigrants.

Some magic words left our were Mexicans and emigrants.

The music is from Predator by Alan Sylvestri and Kimo Kimo by Webster Lewis. BTW, Kimo Kimo is one of the first rap hits ever. The photos are gathered from the web from too many sources to name.

Done with Serif Movie Plus X3

Can You Read My Mind?

2010-09-22T23:07:00Z

I'm becoming more and more angry as I hear about Democratic anger and apathy. I ask, why should elected Demcrats stand up for us when we won't stand up for them. We listened to GOP lies in 1994 and threw Democrats out for 12 years for "over-reaching."

This year it's the same thing. Some of us say Democrats have overreached. The other half are saying you're not doing enough. Either way, the elected Democrats can't please the people who voted them in.

Oil, Distracted Media, Not all heroes

2010-06-24T08:05:00Z

This is a quick and dirty podcast, my first in a long time done in a single sitting. In this podcast, I spend most of my time debunking Bill Frist as he lied on Bill Maher's overtime show. I also talk about the notion of "Hero." Was Timothy McVeigh a hero? Some would say he was, just for wearing the uniform.

Liberals Aren't Helping With the BP disaster

2010-05-27T12:51:24Z

Of the liberal shows I've listened to, only Rachel Maddow is covering the oil spill with any kind of objectivity and deference to science and not emotion. By contrast, Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz and Bill Press and Bill Maher and blaming Obama for not stopping the spill NOW. No one knows how to do it NOW and believe it or not, torpedoes won't make it better. Oddly enough, the GOP noise machine seems to have been

I have come to the conclusion that anxious liberals are more of a threat to Obama's popularity than lying conservatives. WIth 6 months left until the midterm elections, Liberals are screaming at the top of their lungs for Obama to RIGHT NOW do things that are not in his power to do.

The music used was Danny gets it from Predator 2 and Percy Faith's A summer Place.

Comments are now moderated

2010-05-10T07:26:00Z

This should have been made live on the tenth but I see it was in draft status until the 26th. There has been a steady stream of spam on this site. Many of you haven't seen it because I have been deleting it as soon as it arrives.

Well I'm tired of it. Your comments are still welcomed, but I will have to moderate them, weeding out the crap. I won't delete any political post. I will delete the obvious "Interesting and well informing article, thank you" with a link to a Viagra ad.

Miranda Protects Cops, not Citizens!

2010-05-06T02:32:00Z

Today, I take on Miranda. Right wingers seem to think that by reading these words to a prisoner, rights are "given" to them. No! Nothing changes once you've read those words. Miranda protects COPS, protects the data gathered during interrogation, not prisoners! Why do Republican idiots continue to push for cops to make sloppy arrests and torture people? I have to admit that the first words you hear are actually the last ones recorded, but I thought I had to address it at the last moment.

I also reply to Nick and Joe about how to handle the Democrats in the fall and rant about a lot of other things.

Razing Arizona

2010-04-29T07:15:00Z

This Podcast covers three topics.

Democratic turnout in 2010
Arizona
And lies about Obama of course

The Tea Bomber and Democratic Unity

2010-01-07T08:08:00Z

I have a shorty this week. Can't figure why Obama takes the blame for the Tea bomber, who got on a plane in Nigeria, and I also make a plea to Democrats to quit acting out like a kid in Wal-Mart who really wants a public option.

Al Franken on GOP Lies / The Black Actress Labor Holocaust

2009-12-24T07:00:00Z

This week I actually recorded a 4 hour conversation with Joe-6-pack of joe-6-pack.com, but I'll share a portion of that with you next week. This week I will talk primarily about race, particularly black women in media and how hard it is for them to grace the screen. If the topic of race discomforts you, you should stop the recording after we speak of healthcare and insurance.

But first, I show how Al Franken mercilessly takes apart a GOP liar. I like it when a lie is called a lie, but Al Franken stops just short of using words like lie and dishonest. He does ask to have an honest debate.

I also poke my nose into the notion of how much we are controlled by insurance companies. Not just the health insurance companies.

It's Time to Throw Republican Lawmakers into Jail

2009-12-10T01:25:00Z

Lying to Congress is a crime. Shouldn't lying in Congress be a crime?

Republicans can be wrong and lie on FOX Noise, but can't lie in an official capacity. They should be fined and go to jail for misrepresenting pending legislation. But when a Congressman clearly lies and says for months in publicly funded town halls or on the floor of congress, that A is B and Y is Z, shouldn't that be a crime? We know there are exceptions for slander and libel for Congressmen on the floor of Congress, but what about a law maker misrepresenting pending federal legislation in an official capacity? Isn't it illegal for a public official to use public funds to rent a town hall and then lie about federal legislation?

I also analyze An Coulter. I then throw up afterwards.

There will be no talk of black/asian golfers in this podcast.

I introduce a new song my wife and I did a couple of days ago.

GOPussies! They are Afraid of Captured Terrorists

2009-11-19T06:35:00Z

What pussies! There's fear mongering and then there is OCDmongering. And then there's lying. The Republican robo-leaders aren't afraid of anything except fair elections.

I also talk about Carrie Prejean, Sarah Palin and Fort Hood.

I also break down spending over ten years. There has been much talk of how much we'll spend on health care, but the number is always raised an order of magnitude, multiplied by ten when we look at expenditures over the next ten years. Looking at numbers over the next ten years can be misleading. For instance, we all probably spend $100 per month on electricity. In one year, that's $1200, and in 10 years, that's $12,000. You wouldn't just say you're spending $12,000 on electricity, would you?

I'm more interested in next year. 849 billion dollars in ten years divides into 84 billion in one year. Still 849 billion is more than the stimulus package, a number that Republicans, feigning utter stupidity, say they can not fathom. So much money that if you spent a million dollars per day since Jesus was born, well, you get the picture. Let's look at the rest of our federal budget if we looked at it over ten years.

These numbers are all from George Bush's 2009 Budget. Obama's first budget is not until the year 2010.

Our total outlays would be around $30 trillion in ten years.

Of that, in Mandatory spending, we would spend $18.9 trillion.

Discretionary spending: $12.1 trillion.

$1.452 trillion for the Global War on Terror.
$5.154 trillion for the United States Department of Defense.
$6.606 trillion when you combine the two.
$6.44 trillion in outlays for Social Security.
$4.08 trillion for Medicare.
$2.24 trillion for Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
$3.60 trillion for Unemployment, Welfare, and Other mandatory spending. For those hawking over welfare, that's 10% of outlays over ten years and it's combined with other programs.
$2.60 trillion for Interest on National Debt.

All of these numbers exceed the amount we say we'll spend on health care. and again, some of the aforementioned dollars will be co-opted into health care.

Taking a look at the rest of our budget, in order of the amount spent, in ten years, we'll spend:

$704 billion for the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
$454 billion for the United States Department of Education.
$448 billion for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
$385 billion for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
$383 billion for State and Other International Programs.
$376 billion for the United States Department of Homeland Security.
$390 billion for Other Off-budget Discretionary Spending.
$250 billion for the United States Department of Energy.
$208 billion for the United States Department of Agriculture.
$203 billion for the United States Department of Justice.
$176 billion for NASA.
$125 billion for the United States Department of the Treasury.
$115 billion for the United States Department of Transportation.
$106 billion for the United States Department of the Interior.
$105 billion for the United States Department of Labor.
Mind you, all these numbers are over ten years.
$84 billion for the Social Security Administration.
$72 billion for Other agencies.
$71 billion for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
$69 billion for the National Science Foundation.
$63 billion for the Judicial branch (United States federal courts).
$47 billion for the Legislative branch (United States Congress).
$47 billion for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
$7 billion for the Small Business Administration.
$4 billion for the Executive Office of the President.

So there you have it. In the next ten years, compared to universal health care, we'll spend

nearly twice as much on the Global War on Terror, more than 6 times as much on the United States Department of Defense, Six times as much on social security, five times as much on Medicare, twice as much for Medicaid and Children's health insurance, though that number might be co-opted. Three times as much on unemployment and nearly three times as much on interest on the national debt. This is all based on 2009 numbers.

Finally, there is a Song at the end. Here are the Lyrics:

PRE-EXISTING CONDITION

It's a pre-existing condition

I was born in war

Gonna die in pain

It's the bombing countries I mention

Fearing the third world

policy's insane

Like Keystone Cops on a Mission

We're afraid of gangs

As if they could

Bomb us into submission

They already have

On 911

(Chorus)

Bomb and bomb and bomb complete

Invasion for democracy

War and war and war means peace

Conflict is the the god we seek

Gotta make weapons nah nah nah

People starving, wah wah wah

Used to be bad guys started wars

Good guys just don't end them now

It's a pre-existing condition

Democrat and fool

Both of them are tools

Two overthrows of two nations

2001

2003

Their blood is not worth a mention

Anyone who dies

Must have been spy

It's a pre existing condition

Stupidity

war on the streets

Mindless war and aggression

We can't kill enough

There's always more

A Trillion bucks of seduction

War can make more ends

Than insurance

We've got Weapons of Mass destruction

Stacked up to the sky

no one here knows why

(Chorus)

Bomb and bomb and bomb complete

Invasion for democracy

War and war and war means peace

Conflict is the the god we seek

Gotta make weapons nah nah nah

People starving, wah wah wah

Used to be bad guys started wars

Good guys just don't end them now

(Bridge)

Born in war

Gonna die in pain

Born in war

Gonna die in pain

Who can make the prediction?

Who we'll be at war

With in ten years?

And every war that they mention

It will be the sum

Of all our fears

It's an existential concoction

We can't be destroyed

by men with toys

So why do we spend the trillions?

Why waste all the blood?

For all the oil?

We spend an arm and a leg on

Every tank we pump

what is the sum?

When you tag on the ammunition

And the arms and legs

Soldiers have left?

What bad karma to leave all our children?

What kind of legacy

From you and me?

All the blood that we have our hands on

It will be on theirs

Why don't we care?

It's a pre-existing condition

Stupidity

We can't see

It's a pre-existing condition

We don't care

The Empire Spreads Anew, Plus Timothy McVeigh Was a Devout Jew

2009-11-12T04:28:00Z

No, Timothy McVeigh isn't Jewish. He was an agnostic, but it should be just as important to know that he's not an Irish Catholic Christian terrorist as it is to know that he was not a Jewish terrorist. If I had posted as a title that he was a Christian terrorist, most would think it was true and no one would care that it's not true. The right would care, and actually run with it. The left should too. We should stop using him as an example of a Christian terrorist. Use Eric Rudolph.

I got depressed this week because after the Fort Hood Massacre, I had to drive a thousand miles in one day. I played my own music on the way to Mississippi, but on the way back, I allowed myself to listen to right wing media, and I couldn't believe they are still calling Obama a Muslim and that he had an Islamic upbringing in a Madrasah, which only means school. According to Wikipedia, Madrasah aamah translates as "public school". Madrasah khāṣah translates as "private school". Madrasah dīniyyah translates as "religious school". Madrasah Islamiyyah translates as "Islamic school". Madrasah Jami'ah translates as "university". But who needs facts like that in the GOP.

I won't go too deeply into the Fort Hood, but it brought out the stupid in the GOP. I can't even begin to to discuss all the blatant bigotry and stupidity I've heard since the incident. It's like they are looking for any excuse to behave in an unamerican way.

Pardon my microphone stand and my creaky chair. Lotta noise. And I don't know when my foot or whatever it was was touching my mic stand, but it sure did it a lot.

FOX News NOT News and The Mainstream Media is Afraid to Admit It

2009-10-21T08:46:00Z

I open up interrupted by my telephone, the moment my mouth opens to begin recording. Then I talk about Iran and how there's yet hope for Obama's warmongering.

I discuss the difference between our detainees and the “hostages” when any country we don't like arrests even admitted enemy spies and soldiers.

I discuss The Nobel Prize. I discuss FOX News and The Whitehouse. The mainstream media is all saying the same thing – that the Whitehouse should never call a spade a spade. I Right wingers think their taxes are higher under Obama and are ready to throw a tax revolt when their taxes were actually reduced. A person watching FOX will never know that.

I talk about my disdain for Mary Landrieu and Joe Lieberman. I declare that the market is not magical and there is no god of the market that makes everything it does work out great.

Lieberman is threatening to filibuster the public option. This is amazing for a man who ran with Al Gore.

I discuss Bill Maher and how he's crazy over religion and vaccinations.

There's much more so enjoy!

Iran,Obama,warmongering,detainees,hostage,spies,soldiers,Nobel peace Prize,FOX News,Whitehouse,mainstream media,tax revolt,FOX,Mary Landrieu,Joe Lieberman. I declare that the market is not magical and there is no god of the market that makes everything it does work out great.

Lieberman is threatening to filibuster the public option. This is amazing for a man who ran with Al Gore