"Honey pray for sunny skies, so I can see the rainbows in your eyes"
Today's Breakfast with the Beatles lyric of the day
You know I wasn't sure whether I even wanted to do this posting because it was triggered by some rather assenine commentary on that KFI show that airs before six on Sunday morning. But then I thought 'You know, you can even learn life lessons from a jack-ass if God wills it" as evidenced by the story of Baalam and his ass - in the Bible, with or without the additional commentary in "Jude" later on. I'm not referring to the Mc Cartney song, but even there you can find useful amplification of the theme. "Get on with the fascenation - the underlying theme". So right now we're going to talk about Rush, the radio commentator, that is and a little "challenge" he issued to democrats last week. I'd like to take him up on it. Rush Limbaugh said last week "Someone just called me up doing the break and informed me that President Obama got failing grades at his time in Harvard - - and the media is covering it up". This is in response to Harry Reed's alligation that Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for some ten years during his time with Bain Capital and an investor of Bain Capital says so. So I'll make a deal with Rush. I will go around telling people that the President got failing grades at Harvard- - IF Rush will get on his fifty thousand watt blow torch and announce on his show that he was wrong about Romney and it is in fact True that Mitt Romney paid no taxes for some ten years in a row, and that if Mitt wants to put up an argument all he has to do is to release his taxes and remove all of this needless doubt. ABC has taken to worshipping the great god two-side by giving equal credence to Republicans and Democratic arguments, when any objective person can plainly see that there IS no equivelence. This commentator on KFI says that President Obama is the worse President since Millard Fillmore or Franklin Pierce, names nobody ever heard of, who were US Presidents. He says "Well - - back in the 1850's railroads only ran 45 mph and we have about sunk back to that speed now". What he omits in this argument is that if the President had his way- - high speed railroads would be built as a much higher rate if the Republican congress would only get off the dime and approve it. Also it's the republican congress that has blocked so many good bills, including many jobs bills, that would bring down the US unemployment rate at least another whole percentage point. President Obama was not wholly wrong in saying "The Private sector is doing fine" because the private sector is doing much better than the public sector, which is actually contributing negative jobs to the overall job creation numbers. Of course this idea of Romney that the fact that people aren't hiring is Romney's fault is silly because not even the President has the power to force people to hire and to spend- - if they don't want to, and the argue that any President DOES have this power is a fool's erand. The President had done everything he physically can to spur jobs growth but he is hemmed in on all sides. Some will argue that "What we need is investment" however - - Bain Capital "invested" in companies- - by creating artificial debt and then bankrupting them. Far from encourage economy- - like President Bush- - Bain Capitol deliberately created debt to bankrupt companies and drive people into the unemployment lines, just as the Bush economic policies did. We work under false "memes" such as the idea that "government spending kills jobs". No, government spending by its very nature almost ALWAYS increases employment because by its very nature it puts more money into circulation. Mitt Romney has no plan to reduce unemployment. By this way this line about "returning to traditional American values" - - by people like Newt - - does he mean bringing back slavery- - or state run Churches like we had at the time of the Colonies or Newt's notion that "education with out religious indoctrination is dangerous"? Do these people mean voting should be restricted to white, male, property owners? Ask yourself. So now let's just look at Messers Pierce and Fillmore- - and see if they were really as BAD as this KFI host claims. Did the economy undergo some major recession this period? No. Was there any major political scandal going on. No. Were we at war? No. Was there the major genocide of Indian tribes we witnessed later in the 'sixties and 'seventies during this period? No. Were slave conditions made worse during this period? No. Was the US importing a lot of slaves during this period? No. Was Dread Scott decided or was John Brown executed during the terms of either President? No. Was it Pierce of Fillmore that ignored southern states when they seceeded? No. So it seems that these two really were NOT the "worst presidents of all time". This KFI host says that the smart thing to do is NOT to vote for either candidate. But in NOT voting you play into the hands of the tea party, and you'll remember how well that worked for us in 2010 with electing the tea party congress. Do we really want to have another experiance like that again? No. Do we want Romney picking the next Supreme Court justices? No. Basically this guy on before six on Sunday mornings doesn't know what he's talking about- - on just about anything.
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