The Stupid: it burns….just burns…

Chris Christie should know better
Christie is upset that a gay marriage law might end up on his desk; he threatened to veto it. He thinks that gay rights ought to be decided by popular referendum? (uh, we have a liberal democracy, not a “majority rule” but never mind). But he said something that was incredibly stupid:

The fact of the matter is, I think people would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South.”

Uh, he really thinks that southern whites of that time period would have “granted” rights to the blacks? What planet is this clueless idiot person living on? Ok, Mr. Christie isn’t an idiot but he sure screwed up when he said that and he isn’t known for admitting to making mistakes.

As far as those who aren’t in politics
Our newspaper decided to publish this letter to the editor as “in the spotlight”; they said that this woman (Gina Zindt) is an “administrator in higher education”; in fact she is a human resource director for Knox College (NOT an academic).

She doesn’t like President Obama (nothing wrong with that) but she goes on to blame HIM for gridlock in Congress???

The absence of effective leadership from Obama has directly caused the immeasurable dysfunction of Congress. First, Obama doesn’t know his sport. He has no meaningful leadership knowledge or experience. He refuses to visualize outcomes from both Democratic and Republican perspectives. Rather, he continually fuels the division between them by blaming Republicans. Congress has never been more polarized: They are deadlocked on almost every issue because of his inability to inspire or motivate. It’s no wonder that Congress has its lowest approval rating ever.

Like Congress, we the people are more polarized than ever before. From the Tea Party to the Occupy movement – and all the passions in between – voters are beyond disappointed. We are disgusted and angry. But we can’t get lost in the seemingly endless infighting that will go on during all the campaigning this year. We simply must stay focused on the goal: removing Obama from our White House.

Uh, well, thought I don’t like John Boehner, even HE can’t keep his own caucus in line. From David Frum

At some point, Speaker John Boehner was going to have to show the most conservative members of his caucus that he would get work done in the House without them.

Yesterday revealed that day has not yet come. The ramifications of the failure to pass the Continuing Resolution (CR) for FY12 in the House will be far-reaching. It’s true that Democrats took advantage of the Tea Party defections from the GOP leadership and aided in killing the CR. But this was the second embarrassment on a critical vote for the House Republican leadership this year.

Rep. Eric Cantor had predicted that the votes were there to pass the CR. “All is well.” It wasn’t.

In blunt terms, the Speaker asked his caucus to endorse a deal that the House of Representatives had made with the Administration. The CR conformed to the Budget Control Act that was passed to increase the debt ceiling. The House and its Speaker had made a deal. The CR was the natural legislative result of that deal.

This was not perfidy on the part of the President, or some RINO conspiracy. This was the word of the House of Representatives, given and vouched for by the Speaker to the President. For members of his own caucus to publicly fail to help the Speaker keep his commitment shows that Republicans in the House (and in the country) are divided. They are in danger of becoming the equivalent of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo after the Third Balkan War.

If the United States had a parliamentary system, the Speaker would have to step down. His leadership of his own party has been repudiated by the right of the right.

My goodness; to think that people like this live among us.
In this woman’s “mind” (or what passes for a mind), President Obama is some uncompromising liberal. WRONG.

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