Saturday, May 21, 2005

Problems for Today, not Solutions for Tomorrow's Potential Problems

Just where is our president's head? The man is truly concerned about things of little consequence. Perhaps he has watched one to many episodes of Lucas' (or not enough) Star Wars.

What about homelessness - poverty - hunger - schools falling down around the children - things we can fix today, and tomorrow, going forward into the future?

Why does he continually use issues that may or may not be (can you predict the future?) to obfuscate about truly troubling situations such as Iraq, Afghanistan, hooded prisoners naked and tortured?

These are all things that he has the power to fix, today, if not tomorrow. How about stepping in to stop the congressional irresponsible behavior wasting taxpayer dollars arguing about filibusters when they should be working on fixing the growing deficits and other more troubling issues like the gradual erosion of personal liberty across the board?

Why doesn't he simply replace some of the more contentious judicial nomanies in favor of others that wouldn't require such steadfast resistance? Afterall, these folks were blocked last term. Isn't that a hint that perhaps he needs to choose other folks. That would get congress moving forward as opposed to being in stalled mode.

What about rising gasoline prices and the dependence on foreign oil sources? Why doesn't he pitch a new initiave to mitigate our dependence on fosil fuels in favor of clean and green energy? This could be something to get behind now, today, and it would create new jobs in a whole new class of occupations. Our Nation could lead again - instead we are getting beat to the punch by Japan and other countries more invested in invention of solar technologies. Like JFK starting the Peace Corps on the steps of the University of Michigan Union building, Bush could make his mark in a positive way by starting the race to clean and grean energy solitions - rather than a race to Mars or the Moon - this would have real, dramatic and lasting postive affects on a whole range of environmental issues.

This list gets longer as I type and think. No doubt bloggers out there have other problems that need addressing and have concrete suggestions on how we could begin fixing them. Place them in the comments below and we shall see what creative solutions appear.

I say yuck. Time to trade up - let's vote the bastards out...all of them. This could be a find and replace - that is - regardless of party affiliation, let's dump the whole lot of spoiled politicians (the rich-political-"elite") and swap them out for people who actually get some work done as demonstrated by their work and results records.

Rather than real problem solving, and tangible results to real troubling situations, we get more of the same with W, Rove and Co and their ilk:
"I'm very concerned about cloning. I worry about a world in which cloning becomes acceptable." PRESIDENT BUSH

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

The question is where is your head, probably in a toilet sucking up it’s contents.

Homelessness, of course, only occurs during Republican administrations and the figures are always exaggerated and never reported for example during “Clinton’s” debauched administration.

If Americans are so hungry, why is obesity suddenly the biggest problem in American history. What about honesty. Schools are falling down because people with your “intellectual” skills want to focus on putting condoms on bananas as the primary educational function and you get apopletic over allowing “choice” in schools, but demand “choice” in murdering unborn children.

Yes, it would have been better to leave Afghanistan under Taliban control. We could have had car bombs on the streets of America and women could have continued their serene life of burques and daily beatings at the hands of those tolerant tribes of haters. And certainly, there was no torture at the hands of Saddam and his sick sons whose main pleasures were raping teenaged girls, feeding people through plastic shredders feeding live humans to animals and filling mass graves and gassing mothers and babies. But that wasn’t torture because a dictator did it. Heaven forbid that someone is embarrassed or naked. That’s certainly is infinitely worse than cutting out tongues out, cutting off arms, fingers, penises and testicles or raping girls and women in front of their fathers and husbands. Embarrassment is certainly much worse than those tolerant acts.

Oh Yea, don’t worry about filibusters which are unconstitutional. They aren’t important, you only want to follow the constitution when it fits your biases. And the growing deficits are a direct result of those of your ilk demanding more and more government programs to allow more and more to suck at the teats of Democrat pigs who demand more and more control of every aspect of our lives. And sure, don’t allow an honest up or down vote. That certainly wouldn’t be fair even though the constitution defines that is the way it should be. To hell with the freedom to allow the senators to vote their conscience when it comes to judges. Do you read anything? The judges weren’t blocked, they were threatened with the filibuster, and the Republican’s are finally getting some backbone and forcing dipstick Democrats to follow constitutional law. Senate rules do not trump the constitution!!! It really is that simple and you just don’t have the capacity to understand it.

Why doesn’t someone simply replace “contentious nominees.” It’s called an election. Bush won, don’t you accept that. It is the president’s privilege under the constitution to make the nominations. Then the senate should vote up or down by majority. But Democrats are hiding behind senate rules and for the first time in history filibustering judicial nominees. Don’t you read you ignorant “----.“
Try reading the constitution, at least once.

EROSION OF PERSONAL LIBERTY....what a terminal joke coming from a liberal. You have just about eliminated free speech with your demand for political correctness, college control of every word spoken, confiscation of personal and private property, demands that we kiss the rings of the anointed kings of control like the Clintons.

You’re right! Eliminate oil as a source of power. We can simultaneously destroy our economy. Wouldn't that be a great idea to eliminate the need for oil. Our dependence of fossil fuels are the result of your limited thinking. Try reading my blog “Why we shouldn’t drill in ANWR” so you can see the positive effects of destroying the economic base of America. Wind power, solar power, “sea” power are simply not capable of creating the energy needed to do was we need. Oh, and not nukes, even though they don’t cause greenhouse gasses. Ooooops! I made a mistake they do cause greenhouse gases...steam, or didn’t you know water vapor was a greenhouse gas?

You’re also right about racing to the “Moon” John Kennedy was a terminal idiot. He wasted billions on that joke. Nothing ever came out of it, except a few million new inventions that we currently take for granted in our everyday lives. Might as well eliminate all space exploration and looking to the stars and focus right here on earth and keep our noses in the dirt smelling crap you’re spewing out.

Go ahead, present your solutions to the problems our world faces. Sad thing is that the “solutions” you present in this blog are nothing more than Democrat talking points that are meaningless in the real world but sound good to mind-numbed robots such as yourself.

Your problem is going to be, to present any real solutions to do solve problems. You certainly haven't presented any yet and you’re too stupid to think of anything that can convince voters to vote for your candidates....all you could come up with last time was John Kerry....what a joke.

And again I agree...lets dump the “rich-political-elite” such as John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, John Corzine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Fienstein, Michael Moore, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Barbra Streisand, George Soros, Peter B. Lewis...Never mind. You and your liberal friends haven’t had an original idea since FDR died and he was nothing more than a socialist stooge.

But I rest peacefully because you don’t have any new ideas. All you have is hate speech which you and your currently leader Harry Reid so eloquently use daily. You, to quote Reid, are a “loser.” You lost the election, and your losing the hearts and minds of we Americans, and you haven’t figured out how to change that, thankfully.

Unknown said...

Dear Random,

You sound angry. What's up? Do you feel threatened? At what point in my post did you find "hate" speach and "political correctness?"

..."dirt smelling crap?" Fine if you think that, but I would have to disagree with much of your commentary. It sounds like you are pretty much disgruntled with the "liberal" postion and are projecting a large amount of hate and lacing your argument with points that weren't even mentioned in my post. Did I mention John Kerry? Did I suggest we eliminate oil as a source of power? Who's rings did I suggest we kiss?

Why are there no solutions resident in your commentary?

Oh, thanks for pointing out that you "have no new ideas." QED by your own hand typing at your keyboard.

By the way, I don't claim Harry Reid as my leader. I speak for myself and take full responsiblity for the dangerous ideas presented herein.

Like em if you do, present alternatives if you don't, but spitting vitriol out of your keyboard doesn't get us (and the Great Republic, that is the USA) anywhere now does it?

Jet said...

If these many important items were on this adminstrations agenda, they would be pushed. Sadly, this is not the case. This admin is all about stacking the deck so that can retain power and control. The populace be damned; once the pesky barriers erected by democracy are undermined, it's no longer necessary to answer to the voters.

SheaNC said...
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SheaNC said...

edited for clarity

Windspike, you're so prolific, it's hard to keep up! All great material, though... I'll get around to some commenting this weekend :)

I too have noticed a strange emphasis of this government on issues that seem unimportant. Gay marriage - big-government intrusion into peoples' lives, contrary to republican rhetoric. Exploration of Mars - cool, but not critical. On the other hand, as you point out, Bush could be addressing really imporant issues that effect people's lives, such as government waste and pork-barrel spending. That's a bipartisan issue that has been overdue for a review for a hundred years or more. As much as I would like to colonize Mars, I would rather see a president spend that energy correcting the corruptions that exists in government. But Bush can't do that - because he is among the most corrupt of all. Also, two weeks' worth of full news coverage of gay marriage distracts viewers from the quiet but aggressive redistribution of wealth from the working class to the inheritance class.

That said, I see that you and I seem to be attracting a similar type of commenter, such as "Random." You know what I really notice? I mean, a difference that really stands out between bloggers such as ourselves and those typified by "Random"?

We (you and I and left-bloggers in general) criticize the Neocon ideology, government leaders, their statements, and their specific policies. We do not attack the "general public" as such, as we frequntly tend to maintain a liberal tolerance of opposing viewpoints.

These right-wing commenters, however, make sweeping condemnations of everyone who disagrees with them. It's "liberals this, and liberals that," and we're all lumped in with Stalin and Mao.

I think this is a symptom of the bombardment my right-wing media that "liberal" means evil. So many have been subjected to it and influenced by it. It's reliance on generalization is their downfall in debate, but their strength when the time comes to form an angry mob.

SheaNC said...

A timeline: I posted a comment, then decided to delete and revise it to add more, and when I reposted it, atRandom's reponse to mine was already there. I just wanted to throw that in because it might sound confusing now that the two are reversed in order.

Having said that, atRandom's second comment strongly reinforces my postition. He makes baseless and totally inaccurate accusations, and relies on erroneous information, along with selective avoidance of the truth, to concoct his ridiculous claims. "Walter Cronkite, the ultimate anti-Americanist"? George Bush's "plethora of energy ideas"? Ha ha ha ha ha! AtRandom, you old usenet trolls are all alike.

Unknown said...

Dear Random,

Thank you for your kind and thoughtful,insightful commentary. I'll think about it and get back to you. Illumination is a great when it comes for free.

Anonymous said...

You're welcome. You need it so desperately. Your failure to respond is so typical of you anti-democracy types. You so want to dictate your opinions but when somebody object you cut and run at the first hint of disagreement and don't have intestinal fortitude to defend you position. You just want to pontificate. Better for us. Keep cutting and running.

SheaNC said...

atRandom, is commenting in blogs part of your habilitation program? The more you write, the evident it is that you are crying for help. You don't have to be ashamed of your condition. Your special.