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The result of the mid-term general election 2010 is a great example of the genius of the founders. Their concept of checks and balances and of three co-equal branches of government is simple and elegant. A split congress---in this case the house of representatives with a GOPer majority and the senate a DEM majority. This slows things down and forces conversation and some form of working together to get anything done. It is also an opportunity for anyone who cares to observe that it really doesn’t matter who is in power---it’s all about the status quo.
Only proportional representation would be better than a true legislative branch split along partisan lines. Some may call if “gridlock” I think of it as what the founders intended, checks and balances. Left to their own devices Mitch McConnell and John Boehner would do whatever the trillion dollar insurance agency asked of them. They did that on the way to what compassionate conservative religiosities are calling “Obama-care.” Boehner, McConnell and the GOPers did so in an especially acrimonious and maybe racist manner. Boehner is the guy who was the bag man for the lobbyists on K Street. There’s news video out there of Boehner handing out checks to other congressmen on the floor of congress. How’s that for “independence?”
Most people regardless of sexual orientation, religion, race, ethnicity and such are puddy in the hands of the oligarchs. Allowed any semblance of power and they go to hell in a handbasket. “Power corrupts…” The men in congress are little more than rockstar wannabe, bootlicking lapdogs of the oligarchs. I make no secret of the disdain I have for almost all of the members of our congress---house and senate. Why do I feel so much passion about this? For anyone to whom it isn’t already obvious I’ll cover that in another blog.
That condition (rockstar wannabe, bootlicking lapdogs of the oligarchs) would be greatly curbed by Proportional Representation, as practiced in most corners of the civilized world. It is, however, unlikely to be seen in my lifetime given that Texas Red types are predominant in this country. The fact that the nation is comprised of disproportionately Texas Red types is the reason for so many of our backward, racist, homophobic, sexist and bigoted Third World-like public policies.
Add to that that people who know nothing about our financial, economic,education and political systems vote. Those fear, bias,Wholly Trinity-inculcated votes bring people to power whose only reason for being is to serve the oligarchs to whom they are beholden. This makes for the unmendable misfortune which is the present state of our republic. Sadly, these voters are victims of not just their mean-spirited tunnel vision but of the state run apartheid public education system which does nothing to educate, enlighten or inform.
Add to that that people who know nothing about our financial, economic,education and political systems vote. Those fear, bias,Wholly Trinity-inculcated votes bring people to power whose only reason for being is to serve the oligarchs to whom they are beholden. This makes for the unmendable misfortune which is the present state of our republic. Sadly, these voters are victims of not just their mean-spirited tunnel vision but of the state run apartheid public education system which does nothing to educate, enlighten or inform.
The form of religiosity that creates the fact that Americans are largely compassionate conservative religiosities has nothing to do with either love or god as the results of the general election show.
Consider this, under Rick Perry:
Texas is running on an $18 billion dollar deficit. That is we owe. That means we’re outside the budget. Our governor is spending in excess of the budget. This is particularly interesting given that the state doesn’t pay a living wage, doesn’t provide healthcare and spends next to nothing to make life better for its citizens.
Yet compassionate conservative religiosities and “fiscal conservatives” rail against liberal democrats for their free spending ways? Spare me.
Perry and the GOPer legislature aren’t spending on the folk unless it is to kill them.
Under Rick Perry there was at least one innocent man among the almost 220 put to death and efforts to review the process that made that possible have been successfully thwarted by Perry. That’s called obstruction of justice for which any one of us would be serving time.
Under the “governance” of Rick Perry more young men go to prison than go to college.
Only New Mexico, another GOPer state has less healthcare for its citizens than Texas Red. New Mexico ranks 50 out of 50 and Texas Red 49 out of 50. Six of the 10 counties providing the very worst healthcare in the nation are located right here in Texas Red.
Perry has done exactly nothing for the state, everything for his buddies, the oligarchs and himself (and not necessarily in that order) and yet the state’s majority has elected the man to a third term? Why is that so especially if the majority is of a compassionate conservative Christian mindset as they profess to be? Doesn’t sound very Christ-like to me---unless of course the concept is put through the tortured, twisred and tormented reality of the Wholly Trinity.
So how about those results of the mid-term general election? Were they as the GOPers and Tea Partiers tell us, “a mandate to see to it Obama is a one-term president, to un-do Obama-care; a transformational election or just a Yosemite Sam Tea Party moment? We’ll talk about it---of course….
From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…
Hasta Siempre,
Hasta Siempre,
More:
Live from Katz's: CNBC Toasts Texas Economy—and Leaves a Few Things Out
CNBC Names Us Best State For Business, Doesn't Consider $18 Billion Deficit
http://www.texasobserver.org/hotonthetrail/cnbc-names-us-best-state-for-business-doesnt-consider-$18-billion-deficit
On February 17, 2004, Texas executed an innocent man. His name was Cameron Todd Willingham.
Texas, the Death Penalty, the prison-industrial complex and compassionate conservative Christians
Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way
(part two)
Why is Texas #1 in Executions?
by ned walpin
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/execution/readings/texas.html
The making of policy in America: Juveniles and the criminal “justice” system
Texas leads the nation in the number of people it imprisons and that the collective puts to death. Texas also has a typical southern state apartheid-style public education system. (See Institutionalized racism at the center of public education’s problems part 3). That is no coincidence.
http://www.examiner.com/public-policy-in-san-antonio/the-making-of-policy-america-juveniles-and-the-criminal-justice-system
200 executed on Perry’s Watch: (as of October 2009)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6673053.html
See: Early voting ends tomorrow
Institutionalized racism at the center of public education’s problems
Bexar County and (Texas Red) Primary Election Results
Profiles in Courage
13 Bankers
Winner take all Politics
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field- keywords=winner+take+all+politics
Slavery by Another Name
See: Voter registration deadline today
Edwards, Ortiz Ousted From Congress
http://www.ksat.com/politics/25619905/detail.html
And 2010's Biggest Winner Is…
Dark money, shadowy groups, and secret millionaires.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/2010-midterms-campaign-finance-secret-spending
The Baseline Scenario
The White House Needs Elizabeth Warren, Now More Than Ever
http://baselinescenario.com/2010/11/03/the-white-house-needs-elizabeth-warren-now-more-than-ever/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BaselineScenario+%28The+Baseline+Scenario%29&utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I say WHOA - I MEAN WHOA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBhlQgvHmQ0
Yosemite Sam Speech (think Tea Party and GOPers)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpzpdEZGZXk
Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way
The U.S. Apartheid public education system
The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990
Illusions of Justice
The Conscience of a Liberal
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
13 Bankers
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
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