PISSED OFF

I am SICK and TIRED of the lying bullshit.  I loathe the political posturing and arrogant behavior being exhibited by people who have been elected to act like intelligent adults.
I am more than fed up with it.
I have been an Independent since the day I could vote.  I have voted conscientiously in every election since then.  I try to research as much as I can about the people and issues before casting my vote.  I don't give a rat's ass which party people are from because I want them to do the best job possible.  I am utterly tolerant that others have different opinions - and respect that, assuming they are based on logical principles and they can put forth some kind of intelligent argument for their position.
I have come to believe that the 2-party system is broken in today's America.  I firmly believe that the entire monetary lobbying system and profession should be illegal.  I disagree, but respect, the Supreme Court's ruling that corporations are equivalent to people. They are not.   I believe that so-called "think tanks" are detrimental to the process - AND that they are nothing more than money & influence-grubbing entities of little value.
I further believe that the narcissistic environment of today has done nothing but hurt our country and society.
The 24-hour cable "news" networks are ALL jokes.  I understand that media has had a long history of partisan behavior.  I also know that once there was an integrity to mass-access media outlets that attempted to provide unbiased journalism, respecting the intelligence of the viewer/reader in that they tried to present THE FACTS and the history of a given subject, and let those people form their own decisions and conclusions from that.  They would also have a CLEARLY stated area or time-slot that was OPINION.
We even AWARDED these entities for their attempts at this kind of behavior.
No more. That is gone. What remains is bullshit.
To Congress, I call bullshit.
To CNN, MSNBC and FOX, I call bullshit.
Grover Norquist is not an elected official.  Any idiotic pledge he elicits should hold no water.  Congress reports to ME...to US.  He should be sent on his way as irrelevant.

It has gone way beyond looking to persuade and move forward through the encouragement of intelligent discourse.  There is no respect for anyone. 

I agree with this opinion piece below.... Yes, it is opinion.
But I also KNOW that the stated facts are true, and I have a problem with people and media flat out lying.
It's not fun, nor is it funny any more. 
And mocking through satire loses its effect when people are to ignorant to get it for what it is - a request ofr changed behavior. 

Change is needed.  I still believe that a large, large portion of this country is made up of what was once called the silent majority..... people who understood the reality of the middle, of the give and take necessary to move the country in the right direction.  People who were more aware and sentient than the extreme, outspoken edges.
It is time for action from THESE people.
Everyone else?  Shut up.  You have done harm to the country and the system....and to actual people.  We will not let you hijack our country, politics, systems, education or anything else any more.

It's beyond the point regarding this subject where we say "If anything untoward happens....there will be hell to pay."  It's already too late.  The bullshit has reached the top.  There already NEEDS to be hell to pay.

I want sacrifice where it's needed.  I want people to do right, sane, logical, proper thing.  I want civility.

And I want the bullshit to end.  NOW.
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Still True Today: Frequently Forgotten Facts of the Debt Debate


By Michael Grunwald Wednesday, July 27, 2011


If the debt-limit debate had anything to do with reality, every story about it would include a few basic facts. Starting with: President Obama inherited a $1.2 trillion budget deficit. And: Republican leaders supported the tax cuts and wars that (along with the recession, another pre-Obama phenomenon) created that deficit. Also: Republicans engineered this crisis by attaching unprecedented ideological demands to a routine measure allowing the U.S. to pay its bills. Finally, Obama and the Democrats keep meeting those demands—for spending cuts, then for more spending cuts, and even for nothing but spending cuts—but Republicans keep holding out for more.
These are verifiable facts, not opinions. But since they aren’t new facts, and re-reporting them would make “GOP claims” about the crisis look, um, non-factual, they’re rarely mentioned, except as “Democratic claims.” This is a real problem for journalism in an era where—now this is an opinion—one of the major parties has abandoned its grip on reality. I understand why objective reporters aren’t encouraged to contradict political lies with historical truths, but this hostage drama is one of the prices of our era of amnesia.
Look, staying in opinion-land, I think this particular hostage drama could conceivably drive budget policy in a good direction. I’d love to see big cuts in spending on agriculture, housing and the military. We do need to restrain long-term Medicare and Medicaid costs, although there are better and worse ways to do that. There’s still a chance to eliminate ludicrous tax breaks for ethanol producers, private jet owners and hedge fund managers, maybe paired with an economy-boosting payroll tax cut to help Republicans honor their no-new-taxes pledges.
In other words, it’s at least possible that this crisis the Republicans created could have a beneficial effect. It’s also possible that this crisis the Republicans created could cripple the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, plunge the economy back into recession, and increase borrowing costs for just about everyone. But whatever happens, Republicans created this crisis. They blew up the debt. They refused to raise the debt ceiling without conditions. And because of their internal divisions, they can’t even decide what those conditions should be. They initially demanded a breakdown of 85% spending cuts and 15% revenue increases, before deciding the deal had to be 100% spending cuts. Some initially praised the bipartisan Gang of Six plan—until Obama endorsed it. Now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a proposal for 100% spending cuts, all of which Republicans had already endorsed –until, of course, Reid proposed them.


I remember back when I was at The Washington Post, a guy named Matt Miller (unsuccessfully) pitched my boss about running a daily front-page feature called “Still True Today,” to inform readers about important facts that didn’t happen to be newsworthy that day. Miller’s plan wouldn’t really address the problem of a major political party creating its own fact-free reality. And I don’t know how many minds would be changed by constant reminders that President Clinton left behind a substantial surplus, that President Bush vaporized it into a gigantic deficit, that President Obama’s health care reforms will actually reduce the deficit.
But it does seem to be worth pointing out that those facts are still true today. Not that they seem to matter.