| By The Mad Woman - Oct 30th, 2008 at 7:15 am EDT |
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The McCain Campaign is out answering the internet blogosphere again.
A continuation of the policy of smoke and mirrors...
"SO, Mr. McCain, what about the Economy?"
"uh, uh, HEY! Look over here...Obama stubbed his toe and he didn't bleed - proves he's a vampire!!!
Afterall,we knew he had to be...He runs with alien terrorists from MARS!!!!!
The Washington Post has films of the landing and met with their leader.....
We are demanding right here and now....RELEASE THE FILM!!!!!"
YES McCAIN and his Campaign are LIKE BUSH in one major way...
They will SAY anything (LIE); They think WE are STUPID; And when all else fails, blame the Democrats!
Smoke and mirrors...don't tell the truth...and as the old worn saying goes....If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit
And the brilliant part of the Republican Party is not in politics. Colin Powell walked away...the last great hope wanted to get as far away as he could from the rancid waste that had consumed the GOP. This mess didn't start with Bush, just like the economic meltdown was not of his making but he certainly opened the flood gates.
It takes quite a bit to bring a huge, wealthy country to her knees....
Ronald REAGAN has been promoted as the GOD on HIGH for Republicans but those of us who knew him from his California days knew he was FAR from that. Ronnie, of the Bottle Red hair, was a McCarthy supporting, life ruining political hack, bought by the GOP to espouse the very same economic plan that led us to this economic mess. The "Piss on the Middle Class" plan, called the "Trickle Down Theory," stole from the poor and made the middle class poorer; destroyed the very things that brought us out of the GREAT DEPRESSION leading to the deregulation of the corporations and banks and allowing them to mate into Super-hybridized monsters of corruption.
He "de-institutionalized" and released us from "warehousing" those with emotional problems (his term for dumping fully institutionalized SEVERELY ILL people on the streets with no after care, no support and no on-going treatment, leading to a jump in the homeless population and an increase in crimes against those people). He cut funding to major health organizations from facilities for mental health to those treating severe retardation making it impossible to maintain the care and treatment levels necessary to do anything but basic maintenance and in many cases forced those institutions to release their professional staff and replace them with untrained and unqualified non-professionals since they could not afford anyone else. With that human horror came other great CONcepts like:
- 1 cutting food programs in schools (deciding that ketchup packets are a basic vegetable source and therefore meets standards for nutrition and could fulfill the vegetable requirement in any given meal);
- 2. fighting abortion with statements that 5 week old fetuses could survive away from the mother without life support therefore that aborting a 5 week old fetus is murder of a human being that could live on it's own outside the mother;
- 3. Calling on HIS war experience as a pilot to justify his policies on defense (though he seemed to forget that he never fought in any war and his entire experience was IN the US on a set making movies. His actions in the service were nothing more than war films and pimping for War bonds)
This has been the basis for the REPUBLICAN PARTY platform since the 80's - gradually getting more corrupt, less empathetic and more corporatist.
- 1. The Democrats only have a clear majority in the House and that has been for a total of 20 months.
- 2. The Republican block has filibustered and blocked any real legislation from getting through unless it was kissed by King Wanna Be Georgie Porgie;
- 3. Until August 2008, McCain was happy to promote that he voted 90% with GW but got scared when he saw the poll numbers and has tried anything to distance himself since (while STILL supporting BUSH on virtually everything); has supported deregulation of the banking and mortgage industry and used those deregulation hacks as his advisors for developing "his (Phil Gramm's and K Street's) economic and tax plan;
- 4. Will continue to....
SAY anything (LIE); Think WE are STUPID; And when all else fails, blame the Democrats!
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There is another group that gained ground in those dark days of post VietNam and to me, maybe because of the area in which I worked, seemed to hit the "Mental Health" field earlier than the general population, then exploded under that new "savior", Ronnie - As one who worked on the mental health side and could do nothing to stop the flood of release as the programs designed to heal were dropped in favor of those designed to drug'em up, drop 'em out and ship 'em off, I also watched the game of "privitization" take hold....Not private therapies and institutions that would fill the void but people claiming to be professionals that found the loopholes created for them....allowing them to become "therapists" who were without educational or professional backgrounds...no degrees, no association membership and no certification; or "treatment centers" run by churches that had no affiliation with any educated or professional organization, no oversight, and hired the "therapists" to "treat" the patients for exhorbitant costs. The therapies ranged from past life regressions to bastardized forms of TA and included demoralizing and dehumanizing treatment, religious training, prolonged "chapel", use of food as reward and punishment....
I caught "therapists" forcing teenagers to spend long hours in bible reading and many denied any human contact until they "broke" with the devil and "opened" to God....
Sounds like brainwashing? It was done in the name of "Mental Health"
Privitization became the new buzz which opened up a flood of faith-based institutions and released an avalanche of misguided and untrained staff as well as criminals, psychopaths and religious zealots on some of the most vulnerable.
There was lot that happened under Ronnie that we have YET to clear out.
One of the biggest was the unleashing of the ultra-religious right on America.
I knew they had a plan and had put their first real boy in power with Ronnie