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Let them eat cake: The GOP Mantra is billions in giveaways for big oil but go f*ck yourselves on that wetlands problem you have….

Folks you can typically tell at a business conference who the hard-core GOPers are by spotting the guys on their knees licking the wingtip shoes of the big business representatives in attendance. I’m sad to say it appears most in the modern-day GOP share this affliction of favoring the corporate folks that stuff big money in their pockets over the local folks that elect them but it is what it is. So I guess none of us should be surprised at the new normal where the GOP controlled House of Representatives has no problem extending billions in taxpayer subsidies to big oil companies while literally chopping off local Corp of Engineers wetland projects at the knees barring new construction starts even on projects with funding in the pipeline. 

The Louisiana GOP delegation is MIA on this of course while their party craps all over the local populace but we witnessed Mississippi’s own Steven Palazzo cutting big money from a defense project being constructed in his own district endangering the jobs of thousands of folks in the process so none of this is new. Unfortunately none of these sellouts shared any of those specifics when they were campaigning to “fire” Nancy Pelosi last year while gorging on Wall Street funded campaign cash.

The country is heading into the crapper faster now than ever with the draining of our treasury by special interests leading the way. They won’t stop until there is nothing left folks.

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Welcome to the party George. Did you make sure Phil Bryant got a copy of your letter?

For some time now, devious undercurrents of hate and anger have been festering in our country.

In recent months, as rhetoric grew red-hot over healthcare reform and immigration, the wounded Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords had been the target of numerous death threats. Her local office in Tucson had been vandalized and the corner across the street had become a central location for protests. Most recently, a Sarah Palin graphic depicted her district in the crosshairs of a gun.

Politicians in Arizona used the immigration debate to spread falsehoods about mass killings in the desert near the border, sparking hysteria in the streets, portraying a state under siege by immigrants.

The discourse quickly turned venomous. The dangerous rumors were being perpetuated on Internet blogs and by the noisy back-and-forth bickering on cable news networks that covered the congressional campaigns.

As we see now, this practice of feeding on fear and spreading hate is dangerously irresponsible and potentially deadly, and yet, in today’s America it seems there is no escaping it.

To the extent politicians, generally in the GOP these days,  fan the flames of hate to further their own personal goals, it seems to me the political class has brought this upon themselves. While I applaud Mayor Schloegel for penning this letter, I’d also be remiss if I did not remind him Continue reading “Welcome to the party George. Did you make sure Phil Bryant got a copy of your letter?”