Yesterday I was just partisan.... It's much worse now

[JohnnyRingo]

When Bob Corker shoots down the auto bailout, complaining that we earn too much money, I think he's a prick.

When Jim DeMint says he doesn't want to take GM down, he just wants to break the union and cut our pay, I call him an asshole.

When Mitt Romney tells us the union has to go and wages need to come down, He's being a major dick.

When Richard Shelby calls for the demise of domestic auto manufacturers, I'd tell him to his face what a motherfucker he is.

When Mitch McConnell exits a meeting, giddy that he shut down the loan, saying "there will be riots if it passes", I call him a fearmongering fuckhead.

When Lindsey Graham tells us He won't grant a loan until the auto makers shed their union contracts altogether and make a profit, I say he's a heartless bastard. (He's pretty stupid too)

I use a lot of names to identify these jackasses, but these particular polititians have one name they all like. They proudly call themselves Republicans.

At election time these union busters morph into "someone you can have a beer with", or a "happy warrior". They shift from "shakin' things up", to shaking you down the minute the last vote is counted.

I'll remember the Republicans as the anti-worker party, and vow to work against them for the rest of my life. I'll be there for whatever office they choose to present themselves, to go door to door and make the phone calls and proactively keep them from their goal of dehumanizing that worker who gets up every morning and punches a time clock.

I promise to augment my vote with the work needed to make their heartless party a deserved relic of the 20th century, because you see .... I have seven grandchildren who will be looking for a job in tomorrow's world, and they deserve a living wage.

[spoony]

1. You said it

And wonderfully, too. Right there with you!

[CreekDog]

2. those assholes went to the mat to lower the wages of middle class Americans

in case anyone needed the issue simplified. :eyes:

[roguevalley]

49. they are a profoundly evil cartel. I wonder if they have payoffs to

do what they are doing. a boycott of Japanese cars is in the works. you have to know it will come.

[quaker bill]

75. They are THE evil cartel.

[Dragonfli]

3. Yesterday you were a partisan - Tomorrow you will a hero to those grandchildren

When they are old enough to understand all you plan to do for them, they will remember you with pride.

K&R

[Jack Sprat]

4. I hear ya Johnny

The sky is always the limit for the big pockets. Ordinary folks aren't supposed to make a good wage. I wish political office required a salary of the average American wage earner. Better yet, I think national political offices should have salaries adjusted to the average wage earner.

[lapfog_1]

5. I've said it before

I hate these bastards with a burning passion. I've disliked them since I was a teen, I've learned to hate them (and I don't hate easily) in the decades since then.

Right now, if we were to lose 20 million Americans in some sort of very selective disaster, it wouldn't bother me in the least, even knowing that some are personal friends... and a few are relatives. I know that sounds awful, but that's the way I feel.

Those 20 some odd millions enable the "tip of the spear" which I believe is a criminal cabal bent on the destruction of our country. The politicians, pundits, theocrats and the rich bastards that own them and us. When you have a cancer like that, it isn't enough to simply remove the worst of the tumor, you have to go for all the surrounding tissue as well. Republicans are a cancer on our society.

[Jane Austin]

6. Hear Hear!

I can't look at those Repuke Senators without revulsion.

They are disgusting.

[babylonsister]

7. Rec'd. They worked 'against' Americans' interests tonight, and it's not

just about cars or even unions. It's the world markets, and this isn't having a positive effect.

I have to go with the unions. And the world.

[depakid]

8. Start by going after their appropriations and funding

There are PLENTY of dubious projects that disproportionately benefit their districts and states- some of which give very little back to the country at large.

Remember that scalpel Obama was talking about?

Time to start honing it for use on those most richly deserving.

[Doremus]

9. I'm with you.

But we need more than words.

We need a fucking national strike. Every union, in solidarity.

Bring this country to a halt and show those fucking repukes who has the REAL power.

And show Pelosi and Reid just how it's done.


:thumbsup:

[Raschel]

10. We need to demand that their pensions and health care be taken away.

[Waiting For Everyman]

11. Wages need to be higher, not lower. $8 an hour doesn't cut it.

That's why too much of our consumer base can't participate in the economy.

Repubs are corporatist goons, just like in the old days. I'll never vote for one either. THEY are anti-American. The enemy. Stupid as all get-out, too.

For the first time this year, I contributed to Dems running in other states. That's what we have to do more of, to get rid of them.

[Wilber_Stool]

12. I'd call them "Enemies of the State"

It's our Patriot Act now.

[boomerbust]

13. It seems strange

After hurricane Katrina the outpouring of help that came from the Midwest, no questions asked that these chickenhawk cowards would do something like this. Go figure. This may sound strange but I think they are still fighting the civil war.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Someone on cable news tonight brought that up

The very word "union" brings out an adversarial fervor that is a birthright in some of these senators. I just think it's a weird notion, but they seem quite motivated.

I didn't start the war, but I plan to push back.

[defendandprotect]

55. The captalist enslavers are ...

[CreekDog]

15. Amen.

:rant:

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Well, if they think they can hit the pocket book of the consumer,

does it mean they want the rest of America to fail because no one is here to buy the products?

You know, could this be another form of terrorism? Destroying America from within?

[cascadiance]

17. It's a shame that this Rethuglican Party has gone so far away from Teddy Roosevelt's "living wage"!

Remember your roots Republicans, when some in your party actually thought about the people with their actions, like you are SUPPOSED to do in a Representative Democratic Republic. Our constitution reads "We the PEOPLE", NOT "We the CORPORATION proxies for the rich elites"! You've been able to manipulate power away from a dormant nation of people for many years of your power, but when the people get back that power, there WILL be a price to pay, and many of you will be looking out at the world through vertical metal bars! There are many of this who are dedicated to see that you will to pay for your CRIMES against us!

[kenny blankenship]

18. Reach out to Republicans...

and you'll end up dying of syphilis.

[marauding liberal]

19. They have no soul.

[pacalo]

20. They don't represent the people who voted for them; they proudly stand up there

before the cameras & proclaim that they're fighting against the workers!

Your OP is so perfect that I'm putting it in my favorites. Bravo.

[Greyhound]

21. These are the shitheads that Obama says he wants to work with? n/t

[xxqqqzme]

44. The same ones - doesn't it make you proud?

I am giving up hope that ANY democrat will ever figure out that you absolutely CANNOT give these asswipe criminals any concessions EVER!

[Greyhound]

92. I don't know man, it's pretty depressing. n/t

[Hydra]

22. I hate when people talk glowingly of Bipartisanship

These people need to be placed on a boat and exiled- they ran our economy into the ground, they robbed us blind, and they're still at it...and we're supposed to "play nice" and act like they have worthwhile ideas???

Wonderland gets stranger by the day.

[sandyd921]

62. You can thank the so-called "moderates" of our party...

all those DLCers and DINOs. They're the ones that have sold us out all along with their "triangulation". They're as much to blame as the GOP traitors. And right now it's looking like the Obama administration may be headed in the same direction.

[RiverStone]

23. You have just written a great commercial to play to all the red-staters in 2010

...minus the (bleep outs).

But of course, I fully agree ---- they are major assholes and fear mongering fuck heads!!!

K& R!

[rhett o rick]

24. But worse is that Sen Reid kowtows to them. We need to dump Reid as soon as possible. nm

[NBachers]

57. Dump Reid for someone who can fight back

[Sirveri]

25. We need to work harder to tell the rest of America how good Unions are.

Part of the problem is that people actually buy into the BS repukes push about Unions. Heck, I've known plenty of Union laborers who were ANTI UNION. I guess they don't realise how good they've got it until they don't anymore. What I wouldn't do for a decent living wage.

[deaniac21]

26. Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over

your grave.

[Uncle Joe]

27. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, JohnnyRingo.:thumbsup:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

28. They're traitors. nt

[JANdad]

29. Bravo!

K&R

[proud patriot]

30. Right On , well said

:yourock:

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. Careful, you'll be accused of bashing a region

:sarcasm:

And even have a thread locked

In my view it is high time for the south to leave. They hate people like you and me

[Fire1]

37. Bash their asses!

[unapatriciated]

59. be nice now...

we are working hard in Georgia to change the status quo.
I don't hate you because you are just like me.:hi:
But I do understand, I find myself doing a lot of this :banghead: when discussing progressive issues such as health care with the locals here.
They really don't understand the need for organized labor because they have not had a chance to see the benefits.
Right to Work States are the worst. This is no different than any other Repug plan, it does just the opposite of what the name suggest as in No Child Left Behind.

[liberation]

64. They haven't had a chance to see the benefits?

On any given WEEKEND let your friends know that they should thank those evil organized labor fellers... for the fact that they can be out and about fishing, and not working.

Seriously... it is not that hard to point out the benefits frought for and probided by organized labor: 8hr workday, 40hr workweek, vacations, workplace safety, retirement, workers comp, fair wages, banning of child labor, banning of sweatshops, and on, and on, and on...

[unapatriciated]

70. Those are the benefits that most take for granted....

and is not what I'm talking about, I know all of those, I come from a long family history of union members and organizers (spent over four months on a picket line a few years ago).
The pat answer I always receive is that the most of them are now law and the fight is over.
I never said these were my friends only been in GA two years.
I'm just pointing out that the Wal-mart culture and mindset will take time to change. Wal-mart is the most favored place for the middle class to shop in the south and one of their biggest employers.
Sadly the change may come about from necessity and absolute poverty of the middle class, before they remember their history lesson.
I probably should have said they haven't had a chance to experience the lack of benefits. It's a Right to Work State and like everything else repug it is the opposite of what it says.

[dixiegrrrrl]

69. Me? You want me to leave?

but...but...what about Selma?
what about the marches?
Not all those faces were black.
If the South left, Obama would have gotten NO votes, instead of 45% of them.

Maybe you meant you wanted southern repugs and Neo-cons to leave?
Us southern Democrats want that, too.

[BanTheGOP]

32. AGAIN...I REPEAT...BAN THE GOP!!

It's in my name, it's in my soul. But enough bickering already.

Let's sick our legal eagles on coming up with creative, legitimate methods for introducing the republican party to the RICO acts. If ANY organization deserves to be defunded and criminalized, the republican party is the POSTER child of such a group! The answer is as obvious to me as the sun rising every morning.

Perhaps some enterprising DU law students can fast track their career by undergoing such a challenge. Message me for the details.

[burythehatchet]

33. The Republick party is in its final throes, so to speak.

[Idealism]

34. The GOP can't be marginalized any faster than it is

But that will still take at least one more election, I hope the unions can last that long

[GrantDem]

35. Solidarity Forever...

Count me in Johnny.

[Fire1]

36. Republicans are UN-AMERICAN!

[Robbie88]

38. Excellent post.. The Republican Party has declared war on our nation's workers

and we must neither forget nor forgive this.

[vssmith]

39. Mitt Romney

When this creep was campaigning in Michigan against McCain in the primary he was promising the world to prop up this state and the auto industry. He has sure changed his tune. But, then again, he has done that about everything--and they called Kerry a flip-flopper.

[GreenTea]

40. Fucking republican ideology - Bust unions, destroy the New Deal, deregulation for corporations,

allow corporations to pollute and destroy more of our air, water & wildlife in the name of business interest & profits, privatize everything, use the military for corporate imperialism, use our tax dollars for corporations and the rich to get richer & bailouts when needed, the workers should receive nothing in the way of help from the government, (even if it's their tax dollars doing the funding)....Government is there only to help the wealthy and corporations.

Every republican alive believes in this ideology (or they wouldn't be republicans) this is what republican ideology is...no matter how much they try and hide it each election.

Every republican votes for this ideology.....as do many moderates and why we keep having these problems over & over...as people jump from one party to the next, whatever the media waves in their face....

These same people for who vote republican are voting republican ideology which every greedy, selfish lying hateful republican agrees with and lives by.

[LibDemAlways]

61. The greedy bastards you've described know that there

aren't enough people like themselves to win an election. So they pretend to be "pro life" and anti gay to attract simple-minded people who'll fall for their bogus "family values" shit. Then they play to the fears of racists and immigrant haters, so they can count on them too.

That's the face of the Repuke party - a bunch of "have mores," religious right wingers, and people who look like extras in "Deliverance."

Bottom line is that the slimeballs at the top have done an excellent job of selling their snake oil to the populice so that millions now routinely vote against their own self interest.

Just once I would like to hear a Democratic politician lay it out in simple to understand terms - vote for these bastards and you are cutting your own throat.

[GreenTea]

65. Well put.

[DutchLiberal]

90. It's not a "Republican" ideology. If you think that, corporate America has succeeded...

...into tricking you into the idea that you have a choice, and that there are major differences between the two parties. Both parties are being run andf paid for by the same corporations. The FDR's of this world are long gone...

[wroberts189]

41. repubs = ANTI-AMERICAN CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE n/t k&r

[RoccoR5955]

42. Count me in!

I'll gladly be part of that army!
We have to make sure that a Republican NEVER EVER gets elected again!
They are traitors to WE THE PEOPLE, and should be treated as such!

[debunkthelies]

43. K&R

I have felt this way since Ronald Regan was Gov. of California, and my mother lost her job in health care because of Reganonomics.

[Venceremos]

45. k&r

[MadMaddie]

46. JohnnyRingo you have said it.....

If they bust the largest Auto Union they will target the med and small ones. And at that point there will be two classes of American the secluded rich and then the rest of us....

I will fight with you!

K & R

[madmom]

47. A worthy endeavor!

[RainDog]

48. 12.00/hr is a living MINIMUM wage.

that doesn't include any pension. any health care. that's the minimum to survive, and not in any graceful manner.

so, these motherfuckers want to punish people who worked all their lives by turning them into wage slaves.
Frontline had an excellent show the other night about the ways in which the govt has conspired, yet, conspired with corporations to deny American citizens a decent standard of living. Because they're all greedy mother fucking scumbags.

American Airline went the way of bankruptcy and slashed their lifetime workers' pensions so that they couldn't afford to retire. They were allowed to punish employees for their own poor decision-making - long after someone had fucking retired!

other corps. used 401ks instead of paying for a decent pension plan - forcing people without the knowlege to make investment decisions - but with the knowledge that these same CEOs would NEVER entrust their pensions to the people they were then forcing to make investment decisions w/o proper training-- this point was made by one man who called the current system a total failure. 401ks were NEVER meant to be the source of pensions. they were a tax loophole that corporations took advantage of to fuck over their employees and save a couple of pennies on managing a pension fund while wasting MILLIONS on golden parachutes.

those in the govt. who voted against the people of the United States and in favor of their corporate pimps about this auto bailout are scum.

THEY ARE SCUM.

They are no better than street-walking whores - male or female, please, it's not a gender issue - it's about being low down pieces of shit. Low down, no good, shit on the bottom of my shoes - that's what they are.

things are going to get worse. I hope they pay with their jobs, too. it would only be fitting. let the nascar voters in their districts show them some love... or are the nascar voters as stupid as the fundies who believed Bush's fundie story? NONE OF THESE so-called fiscal conservatives and 'christians' care about anything but their own pocketbook.

They do not deserve to hold public office.

They do deserve to know how much they are loathed. However, since they will blow off anything people have to say, we should go to the newspapers in their districts and let their voting public know what the rest of the nation thinks about their skanky asses.

without all the profanity I included here, of course... :/

[Hotler]

50. When will they go after the NFL playerd union? The ..

Baseball players union? I dare them to go after the Teamsters. While we're going after unions lets go after all of them. When are you Repugs going to open your mouths againist the police unions????

[hay rick]

51. K & R

[DinahMoeHum]

52. REPUBLICANS SUCK LIKE A HOOVER

N/T

[HillWilliam]

53. How about this friggin' deal? Auto worker take a pay cut

AFTER Congress. Including their sweet little perks like healthcare for life.

See how those pugs like that taste.

Otherwise, Corker and the rest of them can kiss Detroit's sweaty arses. Then they can kiss our arses.

[defendandprotect]

54. When is Congress reducing its salary and cutting ther benefits ---???

Anyone here Sen. Chris Dodd on Ed Schultz/AAR show this afternoon --

Dodd's lived with these GOP pricks -- knew their agenda -- and he was shocked.

He was one of four in the room --

This is Congress enforcing enslaving conditions on workers--!!

Meanwhile ... also caught Governors at hearing -- C-span --

Everone should realize this makes "Homeland Security" money more attractive to them all.

The Nazi pathways have been laid --

[defendandprotect]

56. And where is the cry for Re-Regulation and Anti-Trust laws to be enforced ...

vs monopoly --

[quakerboy]

58. Yup.

I will never again in my life trust the public values of any candidate who would chose to self identify as a Republican. With times that change and the unpredictability of the future, I may not always vote for, or even be, a Democrat. But I will, for the rest of my political life, do my best to see the Republican party relegated to the dustbin of history.

[Gman2]

60. Shoot em now SHOOT EM' NOW!!!!

Why wait!

[liberation]

63. Hopefully this is the last straw that wakes up the sleeping giant

The American working class has taken way too much abuse for way too long.

Enough is enough.

Let's remind them, that there are more of US than them. And that they need US more than we need them.

[Norrin Radd]

66. kr

[Hubert Flottz]

67. Abe wanted to abolish slavery and they killed him.

JFK and his brother Bob wanted to clean up government and they killed them for that too.

They want to kill anything or anybody that gets in their way...the unions have been in their way since right after the Civil War.

[Bluenorthwest]

68. Speak it!

Yes they are scum. I do not trust, nor have I ever trusted, any Republican. To do so is always a mistake. They are the bad guys. Period. I have no desire to make nice with them. Not at all.

[susu369]

71. And Mrs. Mitch McConnell

Elaine Chao is the Secretary of Labor. You can't make this mess up.

We all know Mrs. McConnell has the interest of the working class as priority. :sarcasm:

[CitizenPatriot]

72. Trying not to hate them

Hate is not good for the soul. But...I will never forget this and I will work the rest of my life to see that they don't get power back.

What makes me sick is remembering how they conned the majority of minimum wage workers into voting for them!!! I remember when Michigan was "in play". Imagine if the unions had supported McCain. We've got to get these scum out of every office in the land. We need a new, viable second party. Being a criminal is NOT a political party.

And it's breaking my Grandfather's heart -- he was a part of the Auto Workers Unionizing efforts and supported them 100%. He's always been so proud of them. To see them attacked and taken down by the people he loathes the most (Republicans) might just be too much for him.

REPUBLICANS LIE. THEY DON'T CROSS THE AISLE. THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN SMALL GOVERNMENT. THEY ARE NOT FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE. THEY ARE THE SANCTIONED CRIMINALS OF THE US GOVERNMENT.

New Rules: when Congress gets rid of its health plan, so will the unions and the people. Leaders LEAD by example. Start at the top, babies.

[dixiegrrrrl]

73. The Southern state carmakers will be hurt by this too...

please see this story before you jump all over "the South".

from McClatchy:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/congress/story/57657.html

"The supply base is so tightly woven that you can't separate them at all. Failure would have a devastating impact on all regions but particularly the Midwest and South. Because of the tightly knit web of suppliers, a failure of a GM or Ford would take the supply base down for a considerable time and create an economic tsunami."

Yet McConnell and members of Congress from Southern states that are home to foreign automakers emerged as some of the staunchest opponents of the Democratic- and White House-backed plan, which was approved Wednesday night by the House of Representatives on a vote of 237 to 170, but defeated in the Senate Thursday on a procedural vote, 52 to 35.

The South is home to a network of suppliers spread across such towns as Danville and Georgetown, Ky., and throughout Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia.
In central Kentucky alone there have been eight major layoffs at suppliers, at least one filed for bankruptcy, and groups that assist laid-off employees have helped nearly 550 workers. Kentucky has two Ford plants in Louisville, a Toyota factory in Georgetown and a GM plant in Bowling Green. The state trails only Michigan and Ohio in the number of autos produced.

[quaker bill]

74. there is no elective office

in this country that is sufficiently unimportant to knowingly allow a republican to occupy it. There never has been.

[jetphixer]

76. Can't Stand The Jerks

It is plain to C these assholes are union busters!! With that in mind I purchased Some GM & FORD Stock Its cheep enough now And if we made Mr Obama POTUS by small contributions We can bolster GM&FORD by buying stock while its still affordabul to the avg person . Lets save OUR JOBS an get those traitors Coker an twisted face Shelby in the corner untill thye can get un-elected TURN AL&TN BLUE.. Lets fight. We can get the KY senate Seat in '10 Came close to outing Mitch Mc so this guy is vulnerable remember he may be a famous pitcher for the Det Tigers but the city told him to stay out of town they didn't want his sig. Also GM & Ford have plants there This is do-a-bul so lets roll up our sleeves an go 2 work. We are talking about AMERICAN JOBS Not the stuff the TRAITORS want to keep going..... I'm going over to KOS an see what i can post and get moveing it's not to soon to get these jerks out of office.

[BEZERKO]

77. Fuckin' A Bubba!

Damn straight!

[Kajsa]

78. They are the original "evil doers".

Perhaps even GW is starting to realize that.

They don't care one bit about the working class, who's taxes
support those jerks.

:(

[DutchLiberal]

79. I thought this was such a great line:

"At election time these union busters morph into "someone you can have a beer with", or a "happy warrior".

And THAT'S the major problem. A lot of the workers who are in a financial pickle right now, may very well have voted and will vote again for these anti-worker bastards, BECAUSE "you can have a beer with them". I will never stop wondering why so many people insist on voting against their economic interests. (If everybody voted FOR their best economic interests, Dennis Kucinich would be president right now.)

[exman]

81. AS a matter of fact.....

:toast: I actually really have had a beer.., With Bobby and Teddy Kennedy, Ella Grasso and other Dems at a picnic for staff in Conn. They truly are the kind of guys you can have a beer with. I know, because I have. I have never heard of Republicans enjoying an afternoon down at the lake, throwing a football around and having burgers and beers with their local staff. God bless the unions and the Democratic party!!

[PatSeg]

85. Welcome to DU!

[yardwork]

80. Yep. Course, I already felt this way about them.

[samplegirl]

82. Keep hope in your heart....

these pigs troughs will soon be empty. Your a Star Johnny...not only to D.U. but to me.

[antimatter98]

83. Congress has workers on the menu, the banks are at the table.

Question is, what do we do about it?

Congress has shown its divorced from the working class, and I mean
both parties, not just the Republicans.

If we can finally get it that our Congress has been waging war
against working people, then maybe real grass roots action can
result.

I sense that right now, today, we're thinking "Obama will save the day,"
but it's Congress that will continue the class war after Jan 20. And
so will the media.

Repeat: American workers are on the menu.
Repeat: Privatize the profits, socialize the risk.

[colsohlibgal]

84. Right Wing Zombie Tools

As I posted on another site, in response to an Obama staffer ripping we progressives for daring to complain about some of Barack's early moves, I'm not sure how comfortable I am even living in the same country with the 40 million or so brain dead people who voted for Bush not once but twice, let alone checking off on appeasing them. I feel the same about people who proudly support many of these despicable legislators.

It didn't use to be like this, it all began to change with the election of a washed up actor in 1980.

[PatSeg]

86. Watching them on TV, I've been absolutely stunned

They're acting like they are still in power and I guess in a sense they still are if they can openly drag the rest of the country down with them.

Somehow I thought they would realize the republicans era has passed and out of self preservation, they would get in line. They aren't known to stand on principle and tend to go wherever serves their best self-interest. Now I think they've just lost their minds!

[The Wizard]

91. We'll never know

how much was sent to Swiss slush funds by big business for legislative favors.
"Money doesn't talk it swears."
(Bob Dylan)
It's All right Ma, we're only bleeding.

[PatSeg]

93. They are so obvious and brazen

about what they're doing. They aren't even putting any real effort into faking it. If this was a movie, people would find it too far-fetched even for fiction.

[butterfly77]

87. KICK! and recommended!

[mwb970]

88. I am just so darn sick of Republicans.

Always, always wrong. Always wanting the worst for America. Always supporting horrible causes and blocking good ones. Year after year after year of Republicans attacking the things Americans value and tearing them down without a care. I wish they would just go away forever.

For me, Republican = Un-American Criminal. Period.

If we can send a man to the moon, why in hell can't we SEND ALL THE REPUBLICANS THERE?

[Jamastiene]

89. I'm too late to Recommend, but not too late to kick and agree!

:kick: