Posts Tagged ‘disagree’
Any Republicans left out there? Or only Rushicans?
We asked all the Republican officials here in Washington. There are hundreds of them, for just one of them to step forward and say that he or she disagrees with Rush on anything. Anything.
We got this idea when a U.S. congressman from Georgia had to tip-toe backward on something he’d said. He’d actually dared to defend the Republican leadership against Rush’s charges. But not for long. After a few hours of withering nervousness, the Congressman decided that it was the better part of valor to tell Rush that he was sorry for what he’d done.
How can this happen in a democracy?
But listen up. It continued like this.
I thought for sure it might stop, this kow-towing to the radio man down in Florida, when Rush went so far as to back BP in the oil mess. He went out there and took “BP’s” side, attacking the President for being so unpleasant with the big oil company by getting it to set aside $20 billion for the people whose lives have been sunk by the oil spill.
Well, not even that got not a single congressperson to step up and say, “this is where I get off, where I cut Limbaugh loose.”
When we had the congressman from Louisiana on, not even “he” would side with his party’s leadership and take on Rush. While saying Rush didn’t speak for him, that he spoke for himself, he still would not complete the thought and say, darn it, Rush is wrong, couldn’t do it.
Perhaps he “can’t” do it. Maybe no Republican can do it, the way things are today.
We continue to look for that lonely Republican to stand up against big, bad BP and win one for the folks who are really getting messed with, the folks the chairman of BP calls the “small people.”
I happened to see this segment – usually unlikely because Matthews reminds me of nothing more than the traditional four-flusher big city pol he worked for, Tip O’Neil.
He made an interesting point as an aside. The Congressional Republicans, the RNC big dogs control the pursestrings; but, they have no clout with the teabaggers, NRA-types and the bible-thumping malcontents who seem to be all that’s left of rank-and-file membership in the Republican Party.
The declassé brigade fear RINOs as much as they do Black People, Hispanics, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. They don’t even know the names of Republicans in Congress from more than two states away. They do listen to Glen Beck and Rush, O’Reilly and the rest of the 19th Century leeches sucking an income out of the airwaves of America. That really is who they obey.
The Republican Party is just another radio church, after all.
Don’t tell the TSA to piss off! There’s a Federal database for that.
Get in line! Keep your hands where I can see ‘em! No talking!
Daylife/Reuters Pictures used by permission
Airline passengers who get frustrated and kick a wall, throw a suitcase or make a pithy comment to a screener could find themselves in a little-known Homeland Security database.
The Transportation Security Administration says it is keeping records of people who make its screeners feel threatened as part of an effort to prevent workplace violence.
Privacy advocates fear the database could feed government watch lists and subject innocent people to extra airport screening…
A TSA report says the database can include names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, home addresses and phone numbers of people involved in airport incidents, including aggressors, victims and witnesses.
Incidents in the database include threats, bullying or verbal abuse, remarks about death or violence, brandishing a real or fake weapon, intentionally scaring workers or excessive displays of anger such as punching a wall or kicking equipment, the report says…
A TSA document published in February says database information can be given to government agencies and to airports, airlines and rail and bus systems in cases involving their workers or job applicants. “They may be contacted by the TSA if an incident involves their employee,” Lee said.
Uncle Sugar continues to expand the Big Brother act. It begins to feel as if every new agency formed to protect us really focuses on keeping an eye on us.
Though I suppose pissed-off Americans who don’t have anything to do with terrorism are easier to track. Probably should revise the TSA mission statement to identify folks who are disagreeable – or cranky?
