Democrats Hanging On By a Whisker

The Republicans are a whisker away from controlling everything in America.  Reaganomics has already reigned supreme for almost 35 years now.  The conservative tide has been pretty much unabaited all this time.  Clinton and Obama have had ¾ of their administrations rules by Republicans in congress.  Flipping one more Supreme Court justice republican will mean virtually every decision will be a Citizen’s United decision.  And some say for feminists not to worry but one more justice on the right will bring back the days of illegal abortions.  The Republicans already have most governorships and state legislatures and also lower level court judges.  The pathetic state democrats are in is highlighted by what I heard today that they have no hope in taking back the House but maybe they can win back the Senate.  So we’ll be in the exact same place we were from 2010 to 2014, which we thought was really bad, that is, until it got worse.  Scott Walker is still the most dangerous candidate.  And it pretty much doesn’t matter how bad Hillary is as a candidate or how many “mistakes” her campaign makes - -she knows she can’t be defeated at this point by any rival democrat.  So we’re left with no choice but to hold our noses and vote for her and have more of this uneasy status quo.

I had that Marco Rubio interview on, with this white haired southern gentleman who is pretty hawkish himself.  Marco Rubio just went nuts wanting to start wars all around the world and probably quadruple both our defense budget and the overall atmosphere of paranoia.  I just read in Washington’s blog that the Secretary of State can revoke the passport of any American without any kind of trial or evidence gathering or legal proceedings at all.  From what it says, it can be a purely arbitrary decision like they do with people in other countries.  Mario Rubio will never be president, thank God.  We’d be a really messed up society if he were.

Thom Hartman says “Any anti abortionist who hasn’t adopted a child is a hypocrite”.  Well then I guess I’m a hypocrite because I haven’t adopted a child.  Sometimes these pro abortionists can get a little ponthical and self righteous in their own way.  I kept looking for sites I hadn’t seen yet which are links on Free Speech.  “Ring of Fire” hasn’t put up a lot of shows they’ve obviously had.   It's too bad there isn't a Christian liberal party.  That is a party that generally believes in progressive causes but doesn't like the idea of gays taking over everything like on Days of Our Lives.  A party that frowns both on abortion and also on physician assisted suicide.  These positions are just as consistently Christian as being for the ecology and wanting an economy with a strong "base" of well paid workers, and a party that doesn't believe in going to war at the drop of a hat, as well as a party concerned about race relations and gun regulations.

I didn’t think Serpico was merely drummed out of the Police force, I thought he ended up getting killed.  At any rate it was a movie ahead of its time.  Now two cops have been fingered for lying and covering up for that officer who shot the driver trying to escape.  They too said, “Yes that officer feared for his life being dragged along by the car”.   I can’t get the mechanics of this down.  So did the top reach in with his left hand to open the door?  Why not just use the handle on the outside of the car.  So is he being dragged along with his arm somehow hooked inside the window and he can’t let go?  It makes no sense.  And then somehow with his free hand while he’s being dragged he reaches for his gun and shoots the driver in the head and this is somehow a way to get the car to stop?   But those two other officers would have carried the day and were it not for that video, this entire case for murder case would never have happened.

this guest on Thom Hartman’s show who wrote a book called “The Hidden side of Watergate”.  It was just more of this Nixon and the Mafia connection.  Nixon was involved with a land deal in the late fifties that never came to light with the mafia.  Eisenhower put Nixon in charge of Cuba so Nixon came up with the plan to assassinate Fidel Castro using the CIA and the Mafia.  After Nixon lost the election he got the United States to break diplomatic relations with Cuba on January 2rd 1961 before Kennedy had assumed office.  When Jimmy Hoffa was murdered, Nixon came out of seclusion and was publicly playing gold with two members of the Mafia.  Today is the fortieth anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa’s death last seen in a restaurant in Detroit.  Sam Giancana was murdered just as he was about to testify before the Church committee in 1975.  Johnny Roselli wasn’t killed till a year later in the summer of 1976.