Fall and Winter have just landed … dodging the various puddles and or rain swells as well as some power outages but definitely not like other parts of the country …sigh***

President Obama is back in campaign mode after just one day of rest….

***Reports are that Mitch McConnell says his number one objective is to defeat Barack Obama …saying he is a one term President. Is this what independents want because if they stay home or vote for Republicans it will definitely end our move toward the 21^st Century that we have been avoiding. The fact is Republicans created this deficit and  more Republicans in Congress means no compromising or cooperating with President Obama after the November midterm elections. It is safe to say knowing Republicans have no plans no solutions to offer Americans except keeping the house of Bush tax giveaways and investing more money in military defense means this report sounds like the truth though definitely un-American if you ask me.

It is important to remind folks that the mid-term elections have become a national event so be angry be critical be pro-active and make your democratic member of Congress hear you but do not vote against your best interest just because you are pissed and while the emphasis has been “the change we can believe in.” It is also important to know that this is the year of redistricting and this will affect all of our lives so vote for the Democratic Party knowing change is hard but consider the alternative if Republicans take over.

The media noise, the various levels of the truth and or overt lack of information given by talking heads to those trying to make up their minds to vote at all let alone which side of the aisle they prefer, you get the impression that folks out there are confused. I get being angry about the lack of cooperation from Republicans or the lack of movement to get the country back to work. When I hear folks on various media platforms say, they are mad that the stimulus did nothing i get pissed. It is obvious some folks have not been listening or are too gullible if they believe the BS coming out of limbaugh, steele, palin, cantor, mcconnell and others from the right. It is obvious these folks are hoping you either have no idea what is going on, have forgotten, or are so partisan you will go along with the program no matter what because you believe the change is going to threaten your lifestyle, which is just nonsensical.

In other News, The President, contrary to what Herald Ford said on meet the press tried bipartisanship though Republicans played games the entire time so his comments that this president has to hit the reset button of reconciliation if i understood  him correctly was a surprising if not silly comment. It begs more questioning about where he was for the last 20 months because the President often leaned to the right while democrats were screaming that Republicans have no intention of cooperating. The decisive moment came when McConnell, Cantor, and others got on camera promising not only the President but also the American public they would read, offer alternatives, listen, and consider the HCR bill while telling their colleagues all along to just say no to HCR. The action was despicable, offensive and undermined what most of us grew up thinking how democracy worked.

If talking heads are correct about the lack of democrats participating in the mid-term elections and Republicans take over and rule the House, the gridlock everyone thought was bad will become a nightmare if the crazy tea party members of the Republican party are able to push their family values platform regime on us. Is it so hard to understand that the financial crisis did not just appear out of the blue or the fact that President Obama did not create it. The house of Bush and his crew knew the economic collapse was coming far ahead of it’s inception decided to wait to announce it until the last minute but so many out there have forgotten the particulars maybe some of the information was left out. I remember McCain babble about how our economy is fundamentally sound while Obama was stating we have to look at it from all angles and if anyone had concrete ideas or solutions that seemed better than his, he would listen and Congress needed to work together at this time of crisis. The financial crisis was and still is a non-partisan reality and though the recession was deemed over, it just does not feel like it. It is still a reality to most of the middle class and has been used, abused, and manipulated by Republicans who blocked, stalled, and scale down true efforts to bring us out of the financial ditch, improve our status but in their effort to take back their county Republicans have done whatever is necessary to hold the middle class hostage.

I would like to know if Republicans will incite more wars, give more tax cuts to the rich, sit on their money, trade with other companies or send it overseas. The Bush tax giveaways to the rich did not save jobs or create new jobs contrary to what folks on the right would have us all believe. Wall Street has proved they cannot be trusted; the banks and the AIG types have jumped on the i will say one thing to the President and the American public but continue business as per usual which still has jobs being outsourced to Mexico and China. If you watch the Kudlow show you will see one CEO after another seemingly boasting how they are getting over on the American people because they are not just outsourcing for cheaper wage earners they think the US will eventually beat down the unions and wages will have to be lowered especially if Republicans manage to repeal the minimum wage… hey, Google your Republican member of Congress and find out exactly  where and what they stand for… you might have a rude awakening because Republicans don’t seem to want to help their fellow American on any level which is just more of the house of Bush days.  We all need to remind Independents that Bush did not seem interested in fixing any domestic problems but waging two wars and giving out two huge tax giveaways to the rich seemed important to him and his party will continue to neglect the middle and lower class putting profits over people.

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