Jun 13, 11 11:26 am — From time to time I get a phone call from the Florida G O P. I am not sure why they call me, I must be on a list of potential voters or something.
I don't like it when a live person calls to ask me which candidate or issue I favor, because if I tell them the truth, that I am not really interested, they usually say "Well, have a Blessed Day" as if it was the Church of Serene Politics that was calling and not a hard-nosed, hardball, dirty tricks political party on the phone. The worst is that the caller manages to say "Have a Blessed Day' in that condescending, pissed off voice usually reserved for snooty clerks in higher end retail stores for people who shouldn't be shopping there.
You know, like the SNL skits where the clerk tells the customer that we don't have anything in YOUR size, honey.
I received such a call this weekend, automated thankfully this time, asking me to pick among several options as to what I thought was the most important issue for Florida Republicans going into next year's presidential race.
Here are the issues I had to choose from; Abortion, Second Amendment gun rights, lower taxes, repeal of "Obamacare".
I had every intention of selecting an issue I thought was important, but with the economy still on the ropes, millions unemployed, even more millions without health care, with our infrastructure falling apart in some places, and all the other really serious problems facing our nation, I couldn't really take any of their options seriously. Just a thought, if the G O P is planning to run on abortion and gun rights while companies are making record profits but not hiring anyone, well it is going to be a long year for the G O P in 2012.
No, it is Mr Steamed who is correct. Fuck the unemployed and the foreclosed. After all, the government rightly bailed out the corporations and the banks while just as rightly, left the homeowners and employees all on their own.
The government exists to parlay out tax money as corporate welfare and there is nothing left for the middle class suckers who don't contribute megabucks to political campaigns like the Kock brothers do.
So they make out their business plans with overseas and illegal labor and if they fail, Uncle Sugar will be there to bail them out.
What is really important in this country is finding out who is naughty and who is nice with regard to abortion. We have to know who got pregnant, when they got that way, and whether or not they plan to take that pregnancy to term. We all agree in this country that life is sacred, so sacred that those who commit abortion should be killed, or worse.
And of course, guns. As Keanu Reeves said in the first Matrix movie, "Guns, lots of guns." Guns are the solution to all of our social problems so lock n load all you right thinking citizens.
At a very desperate time in my life I took a temp job calling registered republicans to remind them to "get out and vote republican". Graham Nash answered one of my calls and very politely said he was aware of the election and planned on getting out to vote as he saw fit, then made a little small talk nice as could be. Was never able to ascertain if it was really the Graham Nash. Nonetheless, that one call and the excellent pay made those 2 weeks completely worthwhile.
steamed
Mr. Gramps is right. When a businessperson is planning the paper model of his or her business, and is filling out the new, government approved, business plan for his or her business, the first question on the plan is, "How many people are you going to hire, and what will the diversity factor be." That is rightly the one and only question on the plan. The old fashioned plans where the business person had to project, costs, overhead and profits are out. Hiring is in, as that is the one and only reason to start a business, We progressives rightly think from an emotional point of view; we think of the people. Repugs think from a financial point of view, dollars and cents, can it make a profit? -- they don't care about the people they hire, only if the business can sustain itself and will generate the money to cover the payroll.