UNMITIGATED GALL

As an Independent, it behooves me - actually I'm required - to listen to speeches and read articles from all sides of issues.  So I do what I must, even when some of the rhetoric makes me sick.

The convention speech by Paul Ryan which had the opportunity to lay out some positive plan for a way to improve our nation's economy, instead was used to hammer home the lies with more intensity.  The very idea that the young man who has done nothing to help the masses with realistic fiscal guidelines is able to take the stage and shout deprecating comments about what the current administration is doing to take money out of Medicare, is pure rot.  Unmitigated gall!

In whatever projected plan the Republican team (not yet cohesive in the individual attacks) has shown us, there is a very similar amount slated to be pulled out of Medicare, but their hope is that this amount won't filter back to help the larger body politic but will work on fixing the deficit and all the while cutting more taxes for the wealthy.  The young man should be slapped silly.  He has nothing to offer to the masses of struggling people in this country.

Worst of all is the nerve this upstart has shown by saying that leadership is lacking in the administration because there should have been more attention paid to the need for jobs.  And who placed on the table over the last two years something called a "jobs bill" that was a profound, intelligent and straight-forward effort to do exactly what was needed to build our country's infrastructure, hence provide millions of jobs?  The current President who does have the masses in mind when he proposes this kind of solid plan.  But where was the young, energetic, "brave" Mr. Ryan during the voting on this opportunity to provide jobs?  Sitting with his cronies who had taken a vow to never pass anything in Congress that could aid in the President's success.  The whole pile of worthless Republican "legislators," including Ryan and his fearless leader, the inept and bumbling Boehner, should be voted out of office entirely. 

The simple agenda of the Republican members of Congress has been devoted to escorting Mr. Obama out of office.  They have acted in lock-step to reject any progressive move that we so desperately needed to get our nation back on its feet.  They obeyed the commands of the power brokers, the Kochs, and several others, one of whom is named Grover Norquist.  Who the hell is this guy?  He should not be someone who has any influence on my personal life; neither should the Koch brothers, Adelson or any other wealthy SOB.  But when the bridge or highway in my area that is not repaired causes me or my family or friends to be injured or to die unnecessarily, my life is affected.  Did Norquist demand obedience (as he did with a pledge to not raise taxes, a pledge signed, allegedly, by all the Republican law makers) from all that group of obstructionists that they do everything possible to unseat Mr. Obama?  I do not know. 

Is Grover Norquist a rank racist who talks with other Anglos in back rooms about kicking that damned n______ out of the Whitehouse because it belongs to "us?"  I do not know.  Is Boehner a rank racist?  Is McConnell?  Is Romney?  Or Ryan?  I don't know.  Are YOU?  I do not know because I don't know who you are, now reading this.  There are millions who would not categorize themselves as "rank racists," but if you think like them, if you have a prejudice toward anyone of a racial background different from your own, that's pretty rank.  I hope you can think this over with honesty.  And if you have some actual reasonable objection to keeping this dedicated president in office; if you would sooner entrust the governing of our damaged nation to the lying, cheating, ruled-by-money pretenders to the presidency and vice presidency, then please enlighten me.  I am still independent enough to listen if I hear logic.

Back to the convention that is now hyping those pitiful excuses for candidates.  To add insult to injury, Ms. Rice, who has kept a low profile since leaving her office in the previous devastating Republican administration, made her pitch for new leadership.  Her cute comment that "you cannot lead from behind" was neither cute nor constructive under the circumstances.  If this duo she supports, the two puppets who crave the top offices in the country, were actually able to attain their goal and at the same time find themselves surrounded by the self-seeking loons who pass for legislators, then the completely devoted-to-the-rich leaders will have their chance to lead.  Where they would lead us is the real threat.  If the whole direction of our nation is forced to do an about-face and march away from liberty and justice for all, then these two are prepared to lead us in that horrific new direction.

As far as I can see today, the Republican Party has nothing whatsoever to offer a suffering nation of millions of suffering people.  But with enough dedicated lies and enough shouting to force those lies into the minds of the populace, these shills for Adelson and Koch might gain their seats at the top of our government.  If it happens, the mess we found ourselves in at the end of the Bush-whacked years will very likely be overshadowed by the worst economic and social disasters this country has ever known.

Then there is the "bright" side.  The business moguls of our land might just turn us into a very prosperous and productive mass of slaves to their whims.  No, it won't be the U.S. of A. any longer, but it will be a bright new day and a beautiful bed of roses for the overlords!