state of my ire

This post is what happens though when I listen to too much NPR and dip just a toe back into the political blogosphere.

Republicians:
Until you accept responsibility for taking a budget surplus and creating a budget deficit from it, I’m not listening to a single word you say about fiscal responsibility

My fiancee has no health care not because she thinks she’s invincible, but because she can’t afford it. The problem doesn’t lie with how much she makes, but with how expensive health care costs are (like the $75 we were charged for a doctor to look at the results of a $300+ test, not to talk to her about it just to look at the paper sent back to him from a lab). Do something about that.

Back to the deficit for a minute, a big part of where it came from (since your memories don’t seem to go past last January) was the Medicare prescription drug plan you enacted and didn’t pay for. Sure Obama’s spending freeze will only affect a small percent of the deficit, that’s because the biggest part of it is health care related.

Right now, I’m still assuming you do want to do what’s right for the people, but based on all I’ve seen and heard from you, you don’t want the Democrats and specifically Obama to get any credit so you’re doing everything you can to drag your feet and ensure they fail so you can be back in power and then you’ll actually do something. No. We need you to act now.

Obama and the Democrats:
You weren’t elected to work with Republicans. You were elected because we didn’t like what they were doing and wanted to give you a chance. So do something already. Even if you lost eight more Senate seats you would still have a majority. Make them filibuster.

See what I said above about health care.

One one hand we hear Clinton proclaiming internet access a human right and on the other we have Music and Movie Industry Lawyers the Justice Department saying that even an accusation of online copyright infringement should result in being banned from the internet.

Repeal all the laws enacted over the past eight years giving the executive branch the power to violate our rights.

Nice job on the State of the Union, Obama.

Tea Partiers and Fox “News”:
Where were your protests when Bush and the Republicans created the deficit? Oh that’s right, back then questioning the president was un-American. Sure Obama has added to it, but part of that addition gave me (and most Tea Party attendees and probably none of the Fox “News” hosts) a tax cut. Yes, Obama’s evil stimulus package put more money in your pocket. Go back and check your pay stubs.

The census? Really? That’s how the government is going to gather information on you so they can round you up? Thanks to Bush and the Republicans, Obama has the authority to listen in on all of your phone calls and read everything you post online. He doesn’t need the census. If he hadn’t nixed it, he’d also have the power to declare you an unlawful enemy combatant, lock you up, and throw away the key and you’d have no recourse to challenge that decision. Fight that fight, not the census.

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I could go on and on, but I have better things to do (like write up my thoughts on the iPad).