REPUBLICAN TOM COLE STRIKES OUT

It was disgustingly simple—all black and white. Federal Representative #Tom Cole from the 4^th District Oklahoma was a guest on #Morning Joe (MSNBC). He was asked to enumerate the issues Republicans were going to run on in the upcoming midterm elections. He immediately ticked off several including: The #Ryan budget, #National Security, and #Healthcare.

He was radiant, and even a little excited, when he explained that the Ryan budget attacks spending. What that budget says is that congress will lower taxes on the rich; therefore, government income will go down and this will justify cuts in social entitlements. You do not have to be an economist to know this will make income disparity worse; everyone in the country knows that our biggest problem in the country now is income disparity. It only makes sense to you if you are an Ayn Rand follower, which Ryan is. Ayn Rand is a failed political philosopher blinded by hate for communist Russia based on her family’s bad experiences, the same background that weighs down Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio except the country was Cuba and not Russia. Everyone knows income disparity is an unworkable extreme just as they know that communism is an unworkable extreme. Why would Republicans want to exacerbate the problem and hurt people in the process? In my mind, it is a strike against them.

Rep. Tom Cole feels that national security is suffering under the remarkable effective leadership of #President Obama. The United States has moved away from a belligerent and arrogant nation to one promoting business fairness and equality among nations around the world. This great president has the foresight and intelligence to give real meaning to self-governance of nations. There is no better example than Egypt; the elected a president who turned against the people who elected him so they deposed him, and are ready to elect another president; one that will represent the wishes of the people and not some made up God. Republicans want to move in take over the government, elect a puppet government, and demand all business favoring the United States: thus favoring multinational corporations, that is the huge and growing “business titan” developing in the world. We used to call it imperialism but now Republicans just call it good business. Republicans hate moving away from being a nation feared to being a respected nation—perhaps beyond their comprehension. However, it is a strike against Republicans that they do not realize that a nation ready to bomb, bomb, is no more that  a tough looking guy wearing a trench coat and carrying an AK-47 with pockets full of ammunition standing in front of a theater or in a high school hallway is feared but certainly not respected.

Republicans should know that it is not cool to want people to life on the economic edge because they do not have health care.  It is not OK that you can afford health care and others cannot. Everyone knows that the free enterprise system is good in business but not good in a number of other things. The free enterprise system failed in health care; everyone in every corner of the world knows that that. Republicans deny that they want to take health care away from people but that is what they want; Republicans hate having people accuse them of not being compassionate but how else can you describe them. They want to take away social programs, they want to take away health care insurance, the want to destroy public education, they want to privatize prisons and fill them with teenagers who have been found to have a little marijuana on them when they were stopped while driving or walking “while black”.  Their hate for government involvement in health care is just anther strike against Republicans.

I don’t know if you have been counting but according to my count that has been three strikes. So are the American people going to vote every last one of them out of congress?

It was interesting to hear how thankful Republican Rep. Tom Cole was to be an American. He was talking about aid the State of Oklahoma received from the FEMA, a government agency, after tornadoes devastated “his” state. Did I mention that he voted against Sandy hurricane aide on the east coast—I think that is still America? While he is counting his blessing, I should mention he lives in a country that is respected? Maybe I should have mentioned that 9.5 million American people now have health insurance. Should I rub it in by mentioning that because of social security has almost eliminated old age poverty—in America? Still, some dim witted working people out there will vote Republican’s like Cole out of the batters box, apparently because they cannot help themselves. How else can you explain it?

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