Some Things You Can't Put A Pricetag On

 

 

 Fireworks display for victory night- $25,000

Internet staff for president elect website- $900,000

Running for President - 1.5 billion dollars 

Having a leaked video of your opponent showing his true self- effing priceless

 

 

Coddle Conservatives?

After a historic night, President Obama has won his reelection and the American people have spoken.

Social Media helped play a part in his victory and I certainly enjoyed the Facebook posts of both Republicans and Democrats;  Mostly I enjoyed the camaraderie.

Today I am overjoyed.

I'm overjoyed because I know what I just bought - what Americans just bought.

I know that the union is preserved, the world still respects us, and our economy WILL bounce back.

I know I have a president I can trust with the 3am phone call.

A man who came from humble means and lived the American Dream.

A common man, who's compassion is true, and who's logic is even truer.

A proven commander-in-chief and an advocate for our military.

A decider, not a hem hawer.

Liberals?

They're such pantywaists, aren't they?

Some say I shouldn't gloat, that I shouldn't be so hard on the Right among us --some of them dear family and friends-- that I should just rise above it.

Yeah, not gonna happen...

You see, I have this great gift, God gave me the memory --ironically-- of an elephant.

I remember the last 4 years.

I remember the lies, hate, bigotry, fear, and distortion.

I see an obstructionist Congress still in place.

I see that if the Republican party doesn't disassociate themselves from the extreme haters, religious fanatics, and the rich, that they're doomed as a party.

Don't get me wrong, I like to see them fall out of touch with Latinos, women, youth, gays and this year, the common man.

Because that's what they do. All you have to do is listen to one of them.

Texas called it for Romney and in the process sent a moron to join the other moron it already has in the US senate.

It's like living in the old south but without the balls and courtesy.

No GOP.

I don't think I'll be nice to you today.

YOU have held the people hostage, the system of government, the education, the health, the rights of the American people. All for what?

To promote your only agenda; To ensure Obama fails. The party of No.

All the while, not stepping back from extremist factions in your party, but rather embracing them somehow, as if the rest of us wouldn't notice.


I hope this hurts.

I hope it hurts bad.

I hope it hurts like a caning.

I hope you take all that anger and focus it on being a little nicer and a little less skeptical of government and the good it can do when managed effectively.

Reagan is dead, and his ideas damn sure are.
Change them.

Trickle down is the opposite of what it was supposed to be.
Change it.

Change your ways, Republicans.

Otherwise, you won't be a formidable adversary for me to poke fun at anymore.

There Will Be Lawyers

Do you think a spoiled, over-privileged, little shit like Mitt Romney is going to go quietly in the night?

Methinks not.

As the 4 year, Tea Party campaign against our president draws to a close, we mustn't forget the obstructionism.

This election is more about "Black" and "White" than anything else.

Don't believe me?

Take a look at the southern states and tell me racism is dead in America?

Are we seeing the possible end to the Modern Republican Party?

If the GOP loses tonight, don't you have to wonder if they're ever going to restructure?

Don't you think that they would realize that their plan to deny the president any success, to turn away, to point their finger in his face, to hold the credit rating of the USA hostage, to hold the country's citizens hostage, wouldn't you assume that a Romney loss would force them to take another tact next time?

Guess again, Buster!

To quote their last illiterate leader:

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."            

--George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 

No, tonight I see lawyers, guns and money.

I see Daniel Day Lewis in "There Will Be Blood".

So America, it's up to you.

I'm not stupid, I'm just from Texas.

Texans will be woefully inept when their vote for Romney parlays into an uneducated vote for Ted Cruz.

This lack of knowledge will hurt and continue to embarrass Texans nationally.

I have to say, my family NEEDS OBAMA TO WIN!

Plain and simple.

We need it.

UPDATE:  Don't believe in "Voter Suppression" just because it's never happened to you?

It might behoove you to know that this election will not be decided by a handful of states.

It will be decided by a handful of counties.

This makes "Voter Suppression" easy to play.

Still don't believe me?

Click Here.

Did I mention Mitt Romney's wife and son own many of the voting machines in Ohio?

Just a little trivia.

These toons close at 7 p.m. this evening

The Weekly Wrangle

The Texas Progressive Alliance marks the end of another long election season with a reminder to cast your ballot tomorrow -- or to call your neighbor and remind them to do so -- as it brings you this week's roundup of the best of the left of Texas from last week.

Off the Kuff asks whether Texas Latinos are like Latinos elsewhere ... or not.

Harris County is a swing county based on the numbers from the experts, and whomever can get those who haven't voted early to the polls on Tuesday will likely eke out a very close win... if PDiddie at Brains and Eggs (and the two experts) can be believed.  

BossKitty at TruthHugger could not resist the significance of eye-opening events reinforcing climate change discussions along the east coast of the United States: URGENT: Impending Health Crisis After Sandy. And maybe the Tea-Publican mantra about "entitlements" can be redefined now: “Evil” Entitlements Soar As Hurricane Sandy Redraws America’s Map.  

WCNews at Eye on Williamson says the problem with education is not how we finance it, it's poverty, in Poverty and Public Education.

CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why it is that when mail-in ballots are so heavy, voters must be reassured that they will be delivered regardless of postage.

Neil at Texas Liberal wrote that Texas House District 134 Republican incumbent Sarah Davis is a Tea Party extremist. Neil sure hopes that Ms. Davis will lose this Tuesday to Democrat Ann Johnson.

Closing Argument Funnies

 

Hurricane Horseshit

"It's times like these when we see the best of America, when we see Americans come together to help one another in times of need, regardless of party." - President Obama, comments on 'Hurricane Sandy', 10-30-12

Horseshit.

If people really gave a fuck, then Americans, both parties, would do more to affect CLIMATE CHANGE and GLOBAL WARMING, but they don't.

In fact, no one has done anything on either side. We've made zero progress in this area and events like 'Sandy' are bound to only get worse.

Wanna know what's going to cost you money this week? Hurricane Sandy.

Wanna know what the upside to Hurricane Sandy is? Nothing.

"Hurricane Sandy is God's 'divine intervention' into US politics. God has sent Sandy to stump the Muslim and the Mormon and punish the Northeast Liberals and their conspiracies." -Pat Robertson, 10-30-12

Is Hurricane Sandy part of a divine plan, and therefor we should just accept it?

Horseshit.

Were Hitler, Aids, the American Auto Industry and so forth part of a divine plan, and therefor should have been left alone?

We just can't think that way, but for some reason when it comes to our environment, we don't give a shit. None of us.

“[When] they have time they’re gonna try to massage it and figure out a way they can make it look good for Obama. Which is juvenile, infantile, sad and disappointing because this storm is going to affect everybody,” Limbaugh said on his radio program, according to a show transcript. “And there isn’t anything political about it until people try to make it political.” - Rush Limbaugh, 10-30-12

In an effort to say the media will make 'Sandy' a political talking point, spin it in the president's favor, and that this would be 'juvenile' and 'infantile', Limbaugh makes 'Sandy' a political issue on HIS show.

Do you think Limbaugh is qualified to speak about the affects of a hurricane on real people, when he's arguably the reason for the hurricane himself? His party has fought the hardest to discredit science and deregulate polluters.

More horseshit.

Then there's Romney, embracing a radical anti-government ideology from the most extreme elements of the Tea Party, Romney said that the victims in the Northeast, and other communities hit by the hurricane and flooding should not receive governmental assistance. He argued it is “simply immoral” for there to be deficit spending that could harm future generations: 

"Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better. [...] We cannot-- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all." -Mitt Romney, on where he wants to take the country.

From its founding, the federal government has served the Constitutional goals of domestic tranquility and general welfare of the American people by aiding the victims of climate disasters. Romney’s extremist stance in favor of corporate “disaster vultures” would leave the United States in ruin, with only rich and well-connected people like the Romney's assured of getting food, water, shelter, and protection when disaster strikes.

 

If Romney actually cared about the welfare of future generations, he would take action to arrest global warming pollution instead of supporting the oil company agenda, and would cut subsidies for billionaires instead of balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and vulnerable.


 Me personally,  I can't wait for New Jersey Governor, 'Fat Fatty' to beg President Obama for federal funds because his state is NOT equipped for this disaster. No state is. That's why we have a federal government. This 'hurricane' debunks Romney's entire platform in living color.

Later,  Paul Ryan was seen in a New York subway station emptying and refilling sandbags in front of photographers.

This week you'll hear a lot of talk about America and values and resolve.

You'll hear little to nothing of "Climate Change," and that's what we ALL should be talking about.