A Gentleman’s view.

A comedian makes a point, that being; When does it end? I suggest reading Willie Lynch.

Michael Richards was Kramer on the “Seinfeld” show, made race an issue during one of his routines as a standup comic. He caught some heat about some of his remarks.  I was fortunate enough to have them shared with me by what I supposed is a proud white man who is a co-worker of mine. I read them and thought a response was appropriate. The piece is called: “Proud to be White.

This was his defense speech in court after making racial comments in his comedy act. Some of his points and my counters below.

“There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans and Arab Americans etc.”

“Then there are just Americans. You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You call me ‘White boy.’ ‘Cracker,’ Honky,’ ‘Whitey,’ ‘Caveman,’… and that’s OK. But when I call you Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink,… You call me a racist.

I personally never agreed with the African American term as a way of identifying my ethnic identity. I was black a kid because that was what everyone told me I was. As a kid who grew up during the time of hearing James Brown sing the song ‘Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud,’ I never learned any reason to be anything but, again this is just about me. I believe with patience one could read into each and every one of those distinctions as they state everyone came from other places to become part of the American experience and what country they started from to get here. Most of the Europeans who migrated here, did so obviously the earliest and therefore been here the longest. Have the least of their homeland’s old rituals and traditions as daily standard practice. Therefore the rationale they become being the ‘just Americans’. Blacks didn’t come here voluntarily as did the other ‘various’ Americans who did so because they wanted to or were invited to make America their home. So slaves mostly,were cut off from Africa so far away held on to less of their traditions than did the Europeans. So because I am black, I will cover that first.

As for all the colorful names exchanged from just Americans and the other ethnic groups that make up this beautiful country of ours; first just the black point; ‘Nigger‘, started with slavery here and because of it, it was never meant to be anything but the most derogatory, and the most despicable of all possible slurs one human could verbally inflict upon another. We are talking about the consideration of ‘just Americans’ flat out declaration that all blacks were less than human to the point that of being beast or animals. Still to this very day that statement stands in the Constitution of these United States. 3/5 of a person, 1782 Slavery Compromise. Republicans today of the far right are seeking legal recourse to address this issue to remove our current President from the office.

As with the rest of the colorful terminology, just Americans usually refers to ‘White males,’ as such, they always intended to position themselves with complete control and authority at best, and racial superiority at the least. Priority one; the constant psychological putdown. The terminology coming back at them was usually from a position of self defense, (even if elemental i.e.; stupid, ugly) having very little impact on the lives or realities of the white males receiving those insults.

“You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you… so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?”

Well, I can say that whites males did commit a lot of crimes against women and people of color, and depending on the circumstances, especially when it comes to women, they still do. Unfortunately, black men are not an improvement. However, we as a people weren’t hanging men, our young males, we blacks weren’t doing that to ourselves. We who became the strange fruit that the South was known to grow as so many lynching’s took place down there. We weren’t burning down our churches, forcing white slave plantation owners to rape our women, break up our familys,  sell our kids during those over four hundred years of this glorious country’s history. We didn’t burn down a whole city  run by blacks and run out or kill every one of the citizens early in this country history. Our neighborhoods are the places of danger because of the despair of little funds,  resources and even less hope. We are where you have allowed us to be, as we have never been in control. If we attempted to move anywhere you didn’t want us, you, the just Americans, made it your business to let us know. You did this even when members of your own people took us in and presented us back to you as acceptable. We don’t control the jails that your laws make house almost half the male population and at least 40 percent of the female population that may be out there in competition with you ‘White males’ for resources. Today in our neighborhoods, we attack our own as we were taught; kill a black, go to jail for several years, kill a white, go to jail for life. As stated before, we still have less value than they do, here in America today.

‘You have the United Negro College Fund.’ You have Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, Cesar Chavez Day, Yom Hashanah. ‘You have Mauled Al-Nabi. You have the NAACP, Bet. If we had WET, (White Entertainment Television), we’d be racist. If we had a White Pride Day, we’d be racists. ‘If we had White History Month’, we’d be racist. If we had any organization to ‘advance’ OUR lives, we’d be racist.

Again, it comes down to ‘White males”. A day or a month, a television station, an ethnic group organization to advance their cause was what was allowed during those time. All of those groups still had to go to those ‘White Males’ to get anything they wanted as they were in complete control. Their history was all that existed, there was no Women’s history or Black or Hispanic history or anybody else’s history. No one else mattered to the White Males in control of all the various segments of society and its development even still to this very day. They had Charles Darwin, they had Willie Lynch, they had the Klu Klux Klan, and they had Jim Crow laws that publicly stated in many places; ‘Whites Only’. They, the White Males, were here the longest, had the most tenure so to speak, ran the show from a position of control, authority, using their race as a weapon over the others to project superiority in various ways depending on the part of the country there were in. Government, laws, regulations, threats and even violence was used when it came to getting us blacks to understand what our place was  in this country to those in power. Many of those organizations sprang up either in defense, or just survival against the relentless assaults by those in positions of authority. Native Americans didn’t have very many organized efforts in their fight for survival and look what happened to many of them as there were whole tribes that are no longer in existence in losing the battle with the “Just Americans” for these United States. I won’t debate the value Dr. Martin Luther King had on this country or any country that a human being of that character of a man would have given to any place he lived, even with his many flaws. I won’t attempt to understand anyone who doesn’t think he was a hero to this country.

We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce. and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for that? A White Woman could not be Miss Black America, but any person of color can be Miss America.

A Black lady of multi-racial heritage (a black mother and white father) could be very white in the complexion of her skin and her bona fides verified to the utmost, win Miss Black America, and go on to win Miss America, Miss World, and then Miss Universe, stranger things have been known to happen.

If we had college fund that only gave white students scholarships… You know we’d be racists. There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US. Yet if there were “White Colleges”

Duh! I believe is the most appropriate response to that last comment, ‘like Yeah Dude!’ He probably said that with a straight face, I would hazard a guess there are probably more of that scholarship thing going on in the more Progressive, Liberal-minded Northern sections of the country rather than the South. Either way that goes on among the elitist of every level of human endeavor. Your Ivy Leagues schools having the most and your City Universities having the least. If our privileged didn’t feel the responsibility to create opportunities for those less fortunate, to include our elitist also, yes we do have them, it would have been an even steeper climb up from slavery for the black people of America. That is amazing how that didn’t come up on his radar.

in the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights, if we marched for our race and our rights. you would call us racist.

I believe the Million Man March was an attempt once again by the Black race as a whole to call on the carpet all the brothers who have been irresponsible for the financial support and caring for of all those kids from many different woman they have been creating. You famous and not so famous ‘White Guys’ are guilty of the same, so don’t brag. Dirty Harry, seven kids!

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow, and orange, and you’re not afraid to announce it. But, when we announce our white pride, you call us racist.

I am always amazed on how much the oppressor is never aware of what it is like to be oppressed.

You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoot a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, your call him racist.

If one is committing larceny, then he risks, arrest. Statistic show this is mostly done among one’s own people, all tribes have rogue elements among them. We have to draw the line on our drug dealers who wind up shot in the back, several times or gun in the wrong hand with the residue test thingy. Not every Black man running is doing it from a crime scene or from the law, trust me on this one, I’m a marathoner and know a little about running.

I am proud… But you call me a racist. Why is it that only whites can be racists??

racist

1932 as a noun, 1938 as an adjective, from race (n.2); racism is first attested 1936 (from Fr. racist me, 1935), originally in the context of Nazi theories. But they replaced earlier words, racialism (1907) and racialist (1917), both often used at first in a British or South African context.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

— rac·ist \-sist also -shist\ noun or adjective

I threw all of the above in just to make what I feel is the point Michael Richards ask, and I think to some degree all of us Americans ask ourselves; when does this race thing end for us?

ENOUGH! This is posting in agreement with theory we have given them enough already in bailouts.

Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on the latest atrocity from the banks. The vast, engorged, gluttonous multi-national corporations. Whose sneezes can be fatal to our jobs. Whose mistakes can turn us into the homeless. Whose accounting errors can be so panoramic that they can make our economy tremble and force us to hand them billions after billions in a blackmail scheme that has come to be known as “bailout.”

Five weeks ago Vikram Pandit, the chief executive officer of Citigroup, went back to Congress, tail seemingly between his legs, and, with entreaty dripping from his voice, announced “I get the new reality and I’ll make sure Citi gets it as well.”

In point of fact, as Bloomberg News reports today, what Mr. Pandit “got” was a new $10 million executive suite for himself and his key associates.

This is the same Mr. Pandit who said he would show his leadership by accepting compensation of $1 a year. In fact, he then “accepted” a total compensation package for 2008 of $38 million.

Enough!

Mr. Pandit, you’re probably just a good actor and a damned liar and a con man. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume instead, that you just can’t tell the difference between $1 and 38 million of them. That would certainly explain the maelstrom into which you, and your colleagues at Citi and your counterparts elsewhere, have gotten us, including the vast majority of us who are innocent bystanders.

Your bank says your new $10 million office is part of a global strategy of space reduction that will ultimately save billions. It seems entirely appropriate to remind everyone, sir, that this promise could be fulfilled by Citi saving $2 a year for a billion years.

God knows you guys have pulled off every other accounting trick every dreamt up by immoral man. You, Sir, and the other corporate pirates like you — those who are saved from your obsessive spending and greed and self-aggrandizement by the taxpayer — who then pretend to atone — who then publicly promise good behavior — and who then revert immediately to the rapaciousness that is your only skill.

You, sir, all of you, need to be fired.

Enough!

And Mr. Pandit’s corporation should be cut up into little pieces. And when he and the other ultra-millionaires wonder what hit them, we should make sure they are easily reminded. Our representatives should entitle the legislation that ends their moral ponzi schemes, “The Punish Vikram Pandit Act of 2009.”

The far right in this country, without the slightest provocation, screams “socialism,” and the sheep who follow it, who do not know what the word means and do not know it is only being used because “communism” now rings laughably hollow. In this cry of fire in a crowded unemployment line, there is outrage.

But there is also license. They think this is socialism? There is a million miles of reform to go before we hit socialism but if they’re going to call us names whether they apply or not let’s give them real reform.

Break up the banks. Regulate the financial industries, to within an inch of their existences. Roll back corporate legal protections. Make liable the officers of corporations, for their debts, and for their deeds. Resurrect the rallying cry of a hundred years past: bust the trusts!

AIG gives “failure bonuses” to the cretins whose dalliances in derivatives brought the company and part of the nation to her knees? Spin off that division whose traders are owed the 165 million in bonuses, under fund it, and cause it to go bankrupt.

Enough!

Let those with bonuses owed, stand in line before a bankruptcy referee, and wind up — just as you and I would — with half a cent on the dollar. Northern Trust fires 450 employees in December. Then takes a billion six in bailout money. Sponsors a golf tournament. Flies hundreds of clients to Southern California for private Oscar Parties including the renting of an airplane hangar and the hiring of the group “Earth, Wind & Fire?”

Enough!

Fire the executives. And fire up the Justice Department to figure out just how much fraud was involved in asking for a billion-six in bailout money when Northern Trust said nothing as the checks were written, even though it knew in advance that millions could be saved by simply cutting the fluff and the trumpery.

Thirteen more companies that took bailouts, signed the mandatory documents that said they owed no back taxes lied turned out, per Congressman John Lewis of Ways and Means today lied — they owe, just among those thirteen firms, 220 million in back taxes?

Enough!

Have the IRS take these companies, immediately, to the tax courts to which the rest of us are liable. And strip those ancient, outdated laws of Corporation, so that the officers of the corporation are personally liable for their companies’ debts, just as you or I would be. And if the monopolies of radio or television rear up to support the corporate structure, to say a contract is a contract, even though that isn’t true for a union these days, only for an AIG Trader. Take the invisible, unused Sword of Damocles they still fatuously insist hangs over their heads, and make it real.

Enough!

Make sure both sides are heard. Re-regulate the radio and television industries to limit station ownership and demand diversity of management and product. Re-instate the old rules that denied one man all the voices in a public square. End all waivers of multiple ownership of television stations and networks and newspapers in the same market.

And, yes, if a voice of the privileged classes unfairly uses his cable platform to call our neighbors who are the victims of this, “losers” to insist he alone speaks for the real people.

Or if another, indicts without equal time for defense a particular elected official, and then offers himself as a candidate for that very official’s seat, in violation of all canons of good or even fair broadcasting then tell the cable industry that the free ride is over and it is time that it too be regulated by the FCC.

Enough!

To all of you in the Corporate boardrooms.

Stop viewing the public’s reaction to this naked, unhindered robbery of the public coffers, and your audacious, immeasurable sense of proprietorship and entitlement stop viewing our anger as some kind of brief impediment, some traffic delay that keeps you from your God-given corporate ballpark sponsorships, and perpetually remodeled offices, and the divine right of $38 million “compensation packages.”

You, gentlemen and ladies, and not the good and long-suffering average people of this country, you are fomenting rage in this nation. You are the losers in this equation, and the people are the generous ones; they have not assembled in the streets with pitch-forks and flaming torches. You are the ones perceived — understood in a visceral and even transcendent way — as the committers of what is becoming class economic rape.

And heed this one word before these people grow weary of forgiving you, and instead decide to bring the “good life” — which you have built on their backs — crashing down on top of your heads. When the next boardroom needs re-modeling, or the next bonus paid, or the next jet purchased, remember that one word:

Enough!

The level of disconnect of Wall Street with its responsibilities to overall market is amazing!

I didn’t have any idea what to expect when Jim Cramer of CNBC”s “Mad Money” showed up on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart. This had been billed to be the most biggest confrontation of this present crisis since the Chicago Trader Rick Santelli read President Obama the riot act about paying for losers with the bailout plans of his administration. There was even an clip from earlier in the day when Cramer showed up on Martha Stewart’s show and was beating some pizza dough on the pretense of it representing the comedians head. As this much anticipated exchange drew closer the rest of the political pundits and news correspondents were anxiously building it up the be the fight of the century. This turned out to be a snake oil salesman being schooled on the concept of ethical salesmanship by a comedian host of a fake news program.

I hadn’t watched Cramer’s “Mad Money” as I worked previously in various securities and money management companies in my lifetime and was turned off by what they do for a living. I know that short selling, hedge funds and marginal trading are but a few of the toxic derivatives being traded everyday across the globe 24/7. I left because I understood that these highly prized and cherished markets are no more than legal gambling indicators for the rich and famous. I came to understand presently that Cramer is a continuation of a theme that has been around since the Eighties of a raging run away stock and real estate markets with no end in sight to the highs that could be reached. But the main point of the comic Stewart was a simple one, this was a man who made a living in this industry of high finance, and as host of his show, pledges to give us insight into the markets we may not ordinarily have. His declared insight is why expect him to protect us from the Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns failures that not only could wipe out our nest eggs, but more importantly; and worse still, shut down our national economy.

It appeared to me that I could not think of an answer to the very solid points made by Stewart “CNBC should have been warning ordinary people about the threat of the secondary market where Wall Street gambles on the short term health of the market or various sectors, instead of encouraging day traders to jump in on the bandwagon with such market damaging trades. Stewart: ” We the hard working everyday people who paid into our pensions, 401k’s and retirement accounts in order not to be a burden to our families, keep our dignity and have some funds for major illnesses, we are capitalizing your adventures in trading”. For all the energy and excitement he generates telling folks go sell this stock or buy that one, or trade some country’s currency up or down, he had no response to Stewart expression of everyday mans anger and concern about only the rich and connected gaining at their expense.

The best he came up with was he was off a little here and there in the market. I thought Jon Stewart, a very good comedian, schooled a prominent but typical representative of the Wall Street market mentality that has brought this most beautiful country to its knees. Mostly by what securities the markets were allowed to sell to the public and to other banks as was done over the last eight years. The SEC was informed about Madoff by Harry Markopolos long before his arrest here recently, and they refused to investigate him further. We have AIG staggering, CitiGroup on life-support, many other big name banks reeling, lost Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, E. F. Hutton to name a few major players in our country’s financial history. I didn’t hear a warning from Standard and Poor’s, Moody’s, Schwab, the FDIC, SEC, SIPC, or any other agency put in place in this country to protect the regular people who depend on the system having checks and balances in place so times like this don’t happen. He didn’t get the fact that the point of them being there saying they can help us do alright with dealing with the market, that they can steer us into making decisions in a wise manner with long term thinking of the average investors paying into quality of their future. I don’t know how many people saw the politely issued, but well thought out intellectual ass whipping Stewart dropped on Cramer that night, but if I was him, I’d be looking for another day job real soon.

I was the American Gangster President, now dig how I got my swerve so cool:

This global crib, the world we run, the USA, we’re here to stay, believe what I say.

The “Crisis” is in progress for the red, white and blue so this way I still rule.

As America, we’re saying we know the way; we don’t care what any can say.

The change of politics that came to be meant nothing to me and not my job to facilitate,

You hit us, understand how there’s no price too high to pay so many will sign up to be sent your way.

My gang related occupation in Iraq enables my will to still dominate!

Opportunity to invade no class you say as we saw an opening could not let slip away,

For the war you see has depleted our fine countries once abundant treasury.

Set world standards we will because we are America and we have it our way.

thanks to the madness of the former V.P., once mean sob, master Dick Cheney.

Mission Accomplished can still be achieved and will stimulate,

Liberty and freedom never experienced in this part of the world to date.

Militias were told when established as a constant review,

Our democracy works when you do as we say and not as we do.

As the former leader of the free world I can still demonstrate,

Cut throat tactics, Cheney’s way, just how he’s inclined to operate

Chavez, Ahmadinejad, and even Kim Jong Il will relate, just wait.

We proved by the confessions worldwide plans to violate.

Our resolve has shown in early new tactics, the violence dissipates,

Can’t cut and run with the light shining down the tunnel to the gate.

So, on goes the war on terror, I won’t let not having a job decide my fate.

GW@B.ious, aka .iotw
George Walker@Bush.IOWNUS, aka . IOWNTHEWORLD

I am posting this letter to the Republican Party by one of their former cohorts as testament to the Party’s current state of dishonor.

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. You combined the failed ideologies of the Religious Right, so-called free market deregulation and the Neoconservative love of war to light a fire that has consumed America. Now you have the nerve to criticize the “architect” America just hired — President Obama — to rebuild from the ashes. You do nothing constructive, just try to hinder the one person willing and able to fix the mess you created.

I used to be one of you. As recently as 2000 I worked to get Senator McCain elected in that year’s primary. (McCain and Gen. Tommy Franks wrote glowing endorsements regarding my book about military service, AWOL.). I have a file of handwritten thank you notes from Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush I and II. In the 1970s and early 80s I hung out with Jack Kemp and bought into his “supply side” myth and even wrote a book he endorsed pushing his ideas.) There’s more, but take it from me; my parents (evangelical leaders Francis and Edith Schaeffer) and I were about as tight with — and useful to — the Republican Party as anyone. We played a big part creating the Religious Right.

In the mid 1980s I left the Religious Right, after I realized just how very anti-American they are, (the theme I explore in my book Crazy For God). They wanted America to fail in order to prove they were right about America’s “moral decline.” Soon after McCain lost in 2000 I re-registered as an independent in disgust with W. Bush. But I still respected many Republicans. Not today.

How can anyone who loves our country support the Republicans now? Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan defined the modern conservatism that used to be what the Republican Party I belonged to was about. Today no actual conservative can be a Republican. Reagan would despise today’s wholly negative Republican Party. And can you picture the gentlemanly and always polite Ronald Reagan, endorsing a radio hate-jock slob who crudely mocked a man with Parkinson’s and who now says he wants an American president to fail?!

With people like Limbaugh as the loudmouth image of the Republican Party — you need no enemies. But something far more serious has happened than an image problem: the Republican Party has become the party of obstruction at just the time when all Americans should be pulling together for the good of our country. Instead, Republicans are today’s fifth column sabotaging American renewal.

President Obama has been in office barely 45 days and the Republican Party has the nerve to blame him for the economic and military cataclysm he inherited. I say economic and military cataclysm because without the needless war in Iraq you all backed we would not be in the economic mess we’re in today. If that money had been spent here at home on renovating our infrastructure, taking us toward a green economy, putting our health-care system in order we’d be a very different situation.

As the father of a Marine who served in George W. Bush’s misbegotten wars let me say this: if President Obama’s strategy to repair our economy, infrastructure and healthcare fails that will put our troops at far greater risk because the world will become a far more dangerous place. So for all you flag-waving Republicans who are trying to undermine the President at home — if you succeed more of our troops will be killed abroad.

When your new leader Rush Limbaugh calls for President Obama to fail he’s calling for more flag-draped coffins. Limbaugh is the new “Hanoi Jane.”

For the party that created our crises of misbegotten war, mismanaged economy, the lack of regulation of our banking industry, handing our country to rich crooks… to obstruct the one person who is trying to repair the damage is obscene.

Just imagine where America would be today if the 14 to 20 million voters — “the rube base” who slavishly follow the likes of Limbaugh — had not voted as a block year after year thus empowering the Republican fiasco. We would have a regulated banking industry and would have avoided our current financial crisis; some 4000 of our killed military men and women would be alive; over to 35,000 wounded Americans would be whole; we would have been leaders in the environmental movement; we would be in the middle of a green technology boom fueling a huge expansion of our economy and stopping our dependence on foreign oil, and our health-care system would be reformed.

After Obama was elected, you Republican leaders had a unique last chance to send a patriotic message of unity to the world — and to all Americans. You could have backed our president’s economic recovery plan. Since we all know that half of our problem is one of lost confidence and perception, nothing would have done more to calm the markets and project resolve and confidence than if you had been big enough to take Obama’s offered hand and had work with him — even if you disagreed ideologically. You had the chance to put our country first. You utterly failed to rise to the occasion.

The worsening economic situation is your fault and your fault alone. The Republicans created this mess through 8 years of backing the worst president in our history and now, because you put partisan ideology ahead of the good of our country, you have blown your last chance to redeem yourselves. You deserve the banishment to the political wilderness that awaits all traitors.

Frank Schaeffer is the author of CRAZY FOR GOD-How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back Now in paperback.

Minority Leader Limbaugh, the only Republican man of “Steel”.

It seems that the party of mean, tough, don’t take none of nothing from any one son of a woman of ill repute, ever! We know how to rip a man’s reputation to shreds and have fun doing it all along. If one going against us in the process of challenging for an office, be them forewarned, this as a party is how we roll. We will take either the strongest element the opposition has or the weakest link in our resume and use it in any and all means to destroy the good name of our opponents always. This has been developed as the Republican Party standard operating procedure and we demand it of all of our members, and only the best rise under these rules for the competition is fierce! The competition has been raggedy for the Grand ‘Ole Party this time around as the stars of the minor leagues; the attractive Governor Palin, the intellectual Bobby Jindal and the dapper Party Chair Michael Steele fell on their collective faces.

The new rising but non-traditional faces put forth by the Republican Party, but seemingly not ready for prime time players along with the likes of “Joe the plumber”. Palin was her own worst enemy who knew not what the Party was using her for or what role she wanted to play in it. As an Executive of a State in America, she came off more like the small town community organizer she put down so often during the campaign than did Barack Obama. Governor Bobby Jindal was not an improvement when his moment to shine was thrust upon him as a rebuttal to what was probably the best speech by this President to date. He gives a speech making a weak claim for the power of his party’s allowing him to be their “Barack Obama”, in that he is a son of a immigrant and not had this party accuse him of being a citizen of another foreign country and therefore no right to hold office in the country at all, that along with the traditional Republican mantra. The man of “Steele”, the first black to be the head of any position of respect and/or so called authority as a highly visible representative of the party, shows not all mean men know how to stand up to a mean man. I was under the impression that for a black man to even be in the running for this position, he would have to be one unusual individual at the very least worthy of further investigation like I expect Jackie Robinson was. Alas, this man of no steel made here in America, could do no more that the average white male could when it comes to the true leader to America’s Republican Party; the infamous Rush Limbaugh.

Republicans who’ve dared to criticize Rush only to beg for his forgiveness:

Michael Steele RNC Chairman Michael Steele:

Rush is not the head of the Republican Party. He’s an “entertainer” whose show is “incendiary” and “ugly.”

I’m Sorry, Rush
“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh…”

“I was maybe a little bit inarticulate… There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”

“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking…”

Congressman Phil Gingrey, Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-GA):

“I mean, it’s easy if you’re Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks. You don’t have to try to do what’s best for your people and your party. “

I’m Sorry, Rush
“I clearly ended up putting my foot in my mouth on some of those comments and I just wanted to tell you, Rush, [...] that I regret those stupid comments.”

Gov. Mark Sanford Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC):

“Anybody who wants [President Obama] to fail is an idiot, because it means we’re all in trouble…”

I’m Sorry, Rush
Sanford’s Communications Director, said that “the governor was not referring to anyone” in particular.

At the end of the former dictatorship we just slid out from under with the all Powerful President Bush and his side kick: number one; the V. P. Dick Cheney, Bush finally gets his back up and refuses to grant Scooter Libby a pardon to the point of having his intermediaries cutting him, Cheney off at the pass. But, now we see one after another, each one of the most powerful members from both legislative branches offering apologies to the man behind the mike, the voice of the quiet ones still listening for that tree, or trying to find the forest it fell in. He, who represents the small minded thinking, the narrow, non-inclusive mind set who just wants the rest of us to go on back home, wherever that is. He has the support of all the major players: Haley Barbour, Eric Cantor, and John Boehner as those who have yet to anger this media mogul of sorts. And have had Steele, Governor Mark Stanford, and Congressman Gingrey run back to publicly beg for the Mighty One’s forgiveness.

The party’s approach to cleaning up the trash their President left in the Oval Office for Barack Obama is to be the party of “NO”. Their point of political attack is that all the stimulus being called for will just be a waste of taxpayer dollars, and having not voted to approve any of it, they should be able to wrest back either the House or the Senate come 2010, definitely 2012 at the latest. But see, what had happened was the lack of either a legitimate voice or a plan to clean up the mess we are in. This while at  the same time not use the usually mean tactic of making so many of us Americans suffer as known to be the way Republicans operate. What the “Party” is left with is good “Ole Rush baby, coming to the rescue, much to the chagrin of the rest of the party. He is picking up the weakest point of any of the party’s most popular themes, the liberals are attacking our capitalist way of life. Making this theme the rallying cry for the very people suffering from this damage the Republican party inflicted on its most loyal supporters; the middle class. His is the only voice with strength of conviction, as all of the prior mentioned players lack such. He has the audacity to think he can sit down with the President of the United States of America and debate the state of affairs in this country, be it on his show. This is something no other elected member of his party is willing to do to get something done about the mess we are in. Man is this Grand ‘Old Party hurting in a major way or what?