I've had a lurking suspicion about those Re-thugs governors. They are all using the same union-busting, benefit-slashing, dictatorial approaches. They are all funded from the same source. They are happy to act in an in-your-face way to the people, knowing and enjoying the hatred they invoke. This is high-profile agitating, with intention of scoring a high-profile game-changing win.

My guess? They WANT their anti-union measure to reach the SCOTUS. I believe it is well understood by the govs and RNC that their tactics will be rubber-stamped by the Fascist 4 at the minimum, with Kagan recusing. This is why Scalia and Thomas meets with Conversative groups behind closed doors, that is why Citizen's United was put in place and one of many reasons Ginni Thomas can work as bag-woman collecting the vig for her husband's future rulings.

I know this is cynical - but I usually trust my sense of smell.

Is Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama More Brutal than Bush?

...The American voters asked for change. Instead, we got a different branch of the exact same Wall Street/military-industrial complex/Big Energy (BP, GE)/Big Pharma party.

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/

Ambush propagandist gets spanked: Lawyer For Ex-ACORN Employee To James O'Keefe: You're No Ashton Kutcher

They pander only to get elected.. For the most part I believe they do the bidding of major corporations (because thats where their money comes from)..

RE: No! The Republicans will come to their senses and stop pandering to the far right wing and the war of workers

I agree; I think the only way is a general strike--country wide. I am more than willing. I make $1400 a month teaching college with no benefits, so what do I have to lose? Not a damn thing in a right-to-be-exploited state.

Who is benefiting from the Tea Party?

Did most Americans benefit from extending the tax cuts for people making more than $250,000 a year? No

Do most Americans benefit from continuing cooperate Welfare to the Oil Companies to the tune of $4,000,000,000 a year - No

Maintaining tax loopholes so GE, Bank of America - Don't pay taxes - No

Do many Americans ( especially vulnerable Americans) who can't give millions to astroturf organizations like Bankruptamerica.org ( thank you Carl Rove) From Woman, Infants and Children - Yes, Food Stamps- Yes ( 45 million that is one in five Americans), grants to city, counties, and towns - yes ( these grants pay for new fire trucks)

So why isn't the media asking the Tea Party Representatives how they can sleep at night when they are increasing the hardship that most Americans face and only helping less than 1% of the population?

I would call HR 1 - extreme, unbalance and basically attacks most Americans.

I believe the blogger is referring to Ohio's republican representatives (of which only one voted against the bill) not all republicans in America.

I seem to remember something about Clinton sending troops into Somalia under ]special executive order which allowed him a set timeframe, something like 39 days, in order to accomplish a specific goal. If memory serves this was when the Blackhawk helicopter was brought down which was jumped on by Hollywood of course as well as the Right wing who thought the loss of those military members and how their remains were trwated was the worst thing ever to have happened, odd how few of them spoke up about the hundreds dying in Iraq since.

Obama seems to be using the same tactics to wage a very limited defensive maneuver in order to accomplish a specific goal and be finished within that timeframe.

I disagree with arming the rebels, if they had no chance of winning without help, they should not have stood so highly and shouted so loudly, expecting the world to step in and do your bidding just because it happened elsewhere is a bad war strategy. Removing credible threats to the populace is usually accepted but prosecuting the battle into bases that are not engaged in war efforts may be seen as an act of agression and allow the opposition to claim this as a reason for their actions. Arming a population to remove a leader you do not like is simply war by proxy and that is how Iran ended up with a Shah and I do not think we want such happening in Libya.

How many knew that the IRA were reported to have gotten most of their weapons, American made Armalites and C-4, through Libya in the bad old days? Ghadaffi was happy to send weapons over to kill English soldiers and politicians while the US was happy to make money on the sales which were used to murder their so-called closest allies. Most Europeans expected a Noriega moment for Ghaddafi quite some years ago.

If Obama is going to support and arm the rebels in Libya and possibly Yemen and elsewhere, I hope the next group of down trodden people he arms and helps to rise up against oppressors are the people in Saudi Arabia who rose up not long ago and were bought off by the royal family with a massive cash injection, stimulus, for am agreement not to cause trouble again. Of course, this will lead to some demanding an arming of the down trodden in Palestine and such places which will not occur. Some would say the voters in the US rose up 2 years ago and got change to occur and Obama has not done much to support those either but that would be a talking point lie, still does not stop it being touted.

It is always better to win friends than to buy allies

If these Republican Stooges succeed in the creation of a post-feudal system, their wealthy Lords better all have the following, gated communities that resemble castles of Edward I with the Varangian Guard at the gates. The French Revolution will have seemed like a meek protest in contrast to what will come.

Sure they will, because everyone is talking instead of doing. It's comparable to the military allowing their enemy to confiscate their weapons right before their eyes without any hinderance. After the enemy has stolen all of their weapons, they look at one another, debate on what they should do and then run head long into an open field where they get blown to shreds. It is absolutely sickening to listen to all of this BS. It's like an army of 10 thousand adults running from a 3 year old with a squirt gun. How much more sickening can it actually get?

Frankly, unfortunately I do think it is lost. They own the media (except a few voices out there), they have the most money for advertising and for some reason they seem to think like a collective block and are in such lock step with the visionaries in their party that there is no dissention. The only HOPE we have is that the American public will actually wake up and realize that they have been voting against their own best interests for years. I don't think the Democrats have the answer however. I wish all the registered Democrats would go to the Socialist party, we need a true left in this country. The Democrats have moved to fill the void in the right that the Republicans made when they shifted to the radical right. Look at Obamas picks for various appointments and my point is made for me. A few years ago I read Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and what she described is going on here in the US, England and it is downright scary. If you haven't read it, get it and read it and tell everyone you know. My idea for a bumper sticker is this: If you get a paycheck you have no business being a Republican.

I am seeing that goal, of, by and for millionaires and billionaires, as having been accomplished long ago. The question for me is what the endpoint is as they pursue the last drop of blood in the veins of the public. Whoever "they" are (the Koch brothers obligingly have volunteered their mugs for the posters) they apparently still see some meat on the bones of the American Carcass. Or another way of putting it is, "Is there a limit to depravity?"