Same Republican greed and cynicism, different President

Crisis? We don't need no stinkin crisis! So should say the Republicans under John Boehner's "leadership." Because what they are about in linking together a historically procedural lifting of the debt ceiling with their hoped for imbalanced mangling of the federal government's budget is nothing more than another round of greed and cynicism posing as love of free markets and country.
Mr. Boehner is just one of several Republicans who found their way to the Capital in time to raise the debt ceiling 7 times for W but now have manufactured a crisis, blamed it on President Obama and rewritten history to insure their own re-elections while they deepen their cynicism and project the same intent on the President.
Indeed these are nearly the same Republicans who not only gave W EVERY new debt ceiling he needed but many are the same Republicans who worked WITH President Clinton to package for W the healthiest budget position since WW2. That gift was immediately

squandered and disappeared the first year George W. Bush was in office, even before the 9/11 attacks happened, in no small part because Bush began slashing taxes for the wealthy upon taking office. And then he and his Republican allies running the Congress proceeded to ring up the deficit to unheard-of heights, thanks largely to a needless invasion of another nation under false pretenses.
Where were all these Republicans in the years 2001-2006, when they were setting new records for federal deficits and destroying the economy along the way? (Thanks Crooks and Liars. Read more http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/just-how-it-republicans-get-lecture- or Read more http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1022-26.htm)

They were sitting on huge campaign budgets and going on junkets yet to be blamed on Abramson type lobbyists. Now their greed has them sucking the teats of Nordquist, Koch and friends. Just as bad as the greed and cynicism, characteristics which have unique expressions from the Republican side of the aisle so please no excuses based on "Democrats do it, too" is the out right fiction that counts as "hard truth," "straight talk," or "what the American people are saying."
During his remarks following the President's address Monday night, Speaker Boehner said, "the American people will not accept an increase in the debt limit without significant spending cuts and reforms." He was lying when he purportedly said this to the President in January and lying to all of us when he said it last night. According to the most recent Gallup poll

when asked how Congress should reduce the federal deficit, 30 percent said 'mostly with spending cuts' and 32 percent chose 'equally with spending cuts and tax increases.' Just 20 percent said the deal should be exclusively spending cuts and 11 percent wanted a deal mostly or only with tax increases." (Thanks My Fox News Orlando for this info. Read more: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpps/news/polls-show-voters-favor-tax-hikes-in-debt-deal-dpgonc-20110714-ch_14128419#ixzz1TFVEYif9

Boehner and his co-dependents do not need a crisis. Their greed, cynicism and lies have been doing enough damage as it is.

Robert Reich's Perfect Storm is Looming

Find me a Tea Partier who has admitted concern over any of the issues Reich raises. (Remember Robert Reich helped President Clinton work with a Republican congress and leave the country and government on the strongest financial footing EVER.) Heck, find me an elected Republican from Georgia, (Saxby? Johnny? Paul?) who has done anything to help make -- even their own -- election funding more transparent. For those of my friends who want a tougher challenge than finding a Reich-reading Tea Partier just look for one not standing on "astroturf."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-perfect-storm_1_b_767387.html

Deal and Barnes on Taxes: Errors or Greed?

Did you know? According to the Associated Press: In 2006: Nathan Deal paid 2.95 percent — or $5,575 in federal taxes — on $188,904 in adjusted gross income. In 2007: Deal paid 1 percent — or $2,068 — on $205,433 in income. Based on the Obama tax plan he'll GET a tax break.

Did you know? According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution: In 2008: Roy Barnes claimed as depreciated property, a house and lot that was no longer his. He did the same thing in 2009. The property had been gifted to his children. BUT in 2009: Roy Barnes' tax return erroneously included income he did not earn such that he paid nearly $30,000 MORE than he actually owed in taxes. He has filed an amended return so as to pay the taxes owed. As it stands Roy Barnes will have paid more than 2 million dollars in taxes by the election in November. Nathan Deal, not so much.

Roy Barnes has made public more than 1500 pages of tax records. Nathan Deal, not so much.

Want to read more? http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/roy-barnes-amends-tax-682746.html

A Thought Experiment Regarding Scapegoats

Attempts to purge away difference in a quest for unity almost always end up creating classes and victims other than those initially used as scapegoats. Who do you think of when I say "demand for a scapegoat forces a ranking of goats best-to-least suited for the role of symbolic sacrifice and the "safe" disposal of sin. Wild goats need not apply. Goats that will render sweet milk and soft wool are herded to safety. Best not to waste resources, so those with scapegoat potential are only afforded the nurture that will continue each toward that result. Being without beauty or utility to avoid the distinction means a life of deceit, denial, or closeting, especially when the world the scapegoat will leave believes its resources scarce."

Who fills these roles in your view of the Anglican Communion as it sends away TEC to make itself pure?

More alike everyday!

Judge Rules Against Breakaway Church | Georgia Public Broadcasting

Judge Rules Against Breakaway Church | Georgia Public Broadcasting

This just may be the end of litigation for the those who pretend to be Christ Chuch, Savannah and those who are the Episcopal Diocese of Savannah. This judgement matches in force and authority the summary made in the case Diocese of Atlanta v. St. Andrew's, Peachtree City. Appealing this would require Marcus Robertson and the Ugandans to find some constitutional issue as yet unaddressed in all previous court action. Which means they would have had to have left something out of their presentations up to now. It appears that they were not confident enough nor shrewd enough to have done that. There really is nothing left for them to do short of returning the keys and making sure to leave things as they found them the day they changed the locks.

Our prayers can match at this point, Godspeed to us both.

They no/know not what they do.

The Conservative Bible Project is hubris driven by fear and spite. Frank Shaeffer was right when he told Rachel Maddow, "You don’t work to move them off this position. You move past them. Look, a village cannot reorganize village life to suit the village idiot. It’s as simple as that, and we have to understand: we have a village idiot in this country. It’s called fundamentalist Christianity." So check out the "guidelines" for this project. I'm calling it the gospel according to the village idiot. I'm praying for these people like I pray for all heretics.

1. Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias
2. Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, "gender inclusive" language, and other modern emasculation of Christianity
3. Not Dumbed Down: not dumbing down the reading level, or diluting the intellectual force and logic of Christianity; the NIV is written at only the 7th grade level
4. Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms: using powerful new conservative terms as they develop;defective translations use the word "comrade" three times as often as "volunteer"; similarly, updating words which have a change in meaning, such as "word", "peace", and "miracle".
5. Combat Harmful Addiction: combating addiction by using modern terms for it, such as "gamble" rather than "cast lots"; using modern political terms, such as "register" rather than "enroll" for the census
6. Accept the Logic of Hell: applying logic with its full force and effect, as in not denying or downplaying the very real existence of Hell or the Devil.
7. Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaningExclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story
8. Credit Open-Mindedness of Disciples: crediting open-mindedness, often found in youngsters like the eyewitnesses Mark and John, the authors of two of the Gospels
9. Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio; avoid compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities; prefer concise, consistent use of the word "Lord" rather than "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" or "Lord God.