Rick Perry: Darling of the Tea Party

Well, it's settled. Rick Perry will be the GOP candidate for President. Orly Taitz, Queen of the Birthers, has endorsed him. We'll go ahead and have the Primaries though, ok?

I can't really comment on the two Republican debates, so far,  since I didn't watch either of them. However, I have seen clips of some of the more outrageous comments made by the flavor of the month, Gov. Rick Perry.  Calling Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" hasn't increased his popularity with seniors, even those in the Tea Party, I'll wager. But, that was just one of those silly comments politicians love to make to get the media stirred up and talking about, endlessly, so they won't be paying attention to the other really mean things the candidates say.

In my opinion, nothing says more about the blood-thirsty, mean-spirited characters of the Tea Partiers and Republicans in general than the loud applause when Perry stated he hadn't given a second thought to sign the death warrants of a couple of hundred prisoners in Texas. Now, I see what they mean when they say, between G.W. Bush and Perry, Bush is the smart one. The surprise is that his attitude didn't cause much of a stir with the media. But, if you watched the faces of the other candidates, even they seemed surprised by the outburst.

The media gave it a mention or two in passing, but quickly got back to subject of Social Security.  Brain dead Gloria Borcherd peered myopically into the camera and asked, "Is Social Security unconstitutional?" as if it were a new concept.  Note to Gloria: That question was asked and answered in the years following its enactment. Guess what the answer was.

The same question is being asked and answered in the affirmative about the Health Care bill in all the Federal Courts but one, so far. It has been a tremendous wast of time and money by the Attorneys General of various red states.

But, I digress.  The question is, "who will be the next Republican candidate to drop out of the race? My guess would be Rick Santorum. We can expect Newt Gingrich to stay in as long as it is monetarily worth his while and the increasingly un-lovely Michele Bachmann will probably hang on a while longer. Mitt Romney will be there 'til the last dog dies, and Huntsman has some staying power. As for the rest, it'll be a race to the bottom of the pile. I predict that, unless it is discovered that he has a harem,  the candidate will be Mitt Romney.

Remember, you heard it here.

Stay tuned.

America Under Seige

It's been a long, hot summer in more ways than one, and it's not over, yet.  Mother Nature has delivered quite a beat-down this year and our elected officials are delivering another.  We might have insurance against the ravages of Mother Nature, but where do we go for relief from our own government?

What probably started out as the usual posturing and threats of a meltdown over the debt limit has apparently backfired on Congress as the Republicans realize their very own tea party is deadly serious about allowing the collapse. It would be funny if it weren't so serious. If John Boehner  had been an effective Speaker of the House, he would not have allowed a minority in his own party to take over and dictate his every move.

Things are bad enough in this country, what with the failing economy and the unemployment situation without all this drama over something as simple as raising the debt ceiling.  Why do we even have a debt ceiling, anyway? Is it some ridiculous effort to balance the budget?  No other country has one.  It's silly to compare today's debt with past debt and deficit. Everything costs more and more every year, and we need to raise some "revenues"  in order to pay our bills.

While everyone in Washington is focusing on the debt ceiling stand-off, they are completely ignoring the one thing that would go a long way toward solving the revenue problem.  JOBS.  In the case of Social Security and Medicare, putting more people to work, and thereby collecting more revenues in the form or Social Security taxes on paychecks would certainly help.

Speaking of Social Security, if our Congress is so terribly concerned about the debt, maybe they should consider the debt the government owes to Social Security.  They might start paying back all the funds they have "borrowed" from that program over the past decades.

If neither party can do anything at all, perhaps they should all resign and let us elect someone who will.

Stay tuned. I'll probably get madder.