Latest Democrat Fundraising Scam: Obama Impeachment Looming

Bereft of ideas, loathed by many progressives as unable to continue to maintain the illusion that they are not eaten to the core by corruption the Democrats, facing an epic ass-kicking come November are fundraising off of the fear tactic that the so-called Tea Party contingent is going to impeach President Barack Obama. This is ridiculous and really, when it comes right down to it the bastard deserves to be impeached although not for any of the silly horseshit that John Boehner and Sarah Palin are accusing him of. Obama, like ALL US presidents are by definition war criminals and any case built to remove the man from office should be based upon his flagrant endangerment of the country with the reckless and stupid provocations of Russia, particularly in Ukraine where Obama’s regime is backing blatant neo-Nazi death squads who are at this minute conducting a kill crazy rampage of ethnic cleansing in East Ukraine.

Then there are the drone strikes and the killing of innocent women and children or as the scum who run this country call them – “collateral damage”.  Obama should not only be impeached for sanctioning these cowardly acts of long-distance murder but should be made to stand in the dock at the Hague. Unfortunately, thanks to former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay aka “the Hammer” US war criminals are effectively immunized from being brought to justice in a world court like the Nazis were because the “American Service Members Protection Act” calls for the use of military force upon any country in which one of our exceptionalist war criminals may face trial in. It is the ultimate trump card by a rogue empire hellbent on either bending the planet to its will or destroying it. Obama also should face impeachment for the criminal bailout of the banksters who wrecked the economy, the failure to hold any of them accountable under the law, NSA mass surveillance and data-mining and foisting off a corporate scam of a massive insurance industry payoff disguised as health care reform that is Obamacare. While the dumbasses like Sarah Palin and the third generation John Birch Society freaks in the Tea Party this is not some communist plot but rather a big government backed excuse for already rapacious corporations to toss dependents off of health care plans and stick it to employees in the hope that they will seek healthcare on their own. But what can be expected from Obama who is nothing more than a foot-stool to special interest groups and FIRE industry con jobs.

An email from Democratic Party money machine “Democracy For America” that was just sent out to list members (that I was forwarded a copy of) calls for donations while claiming that:

IMPEACHMENT? Are you f------ kidding me?

You may not want to believe what I'm about to tell you, but it's something you need to take very seriously:

If Republicans win control of the Senate this November, and the Tea Party increases its power in Congress, they will impeach President Obama.

The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart is sounding the alarm -- and I agree with him:

"I've said this before and I'll keep repeating it until the message sinks in for Democrats inclined to sit out the midterms: Obama is not on the ballot in November, but Obama is on the ballot in November. Democrats have it in their power to keep the Senate and save the Obama presidency from the all-but-certain asterisk of impeachment."

If there is even a 10% chance that Jonathan Capehart is right, we have to do everything in our power to stop the possibility that the GOP will impeach the president -- a media circus that would have disastrous policy consequences for the final two years of the Obama Administration. That's why DFA is mobilizing Democrats and progressives across America to win the key races that will save the Senate and thus stop impeachment.

We can stop the GOP -- but only if we save the Senate this fall. Will you donate $3 today to help us stop the impeachment of President Obama?

I wish this talk of impeachment was a joke. It's not. The Republicans are serious. Just listen to them in their own words.

In 2013 Senator Ted Cruz was asked why Republicans hadn't impeached the president. His answer was that they did not yet control the Senate. Senator Tom Coburn has said he is "watching whether the president was committing impeachable offenses," and Senator Lindsay Graham said impeachment was a possibility over the return of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

That's why Sarah Palin is piling on. On Tuesday she called for the president to be impeached over the humanitarian crisis at the border, arguing that "the many impeachable offenses of Barack Obama can no longer be ignored. If after all this he's not impeachable, then no one is."

Republicans are already laying the groundwork for impeachment. Just recently Speaker John Boehner announced he will sue the president, a move many have called a dress rehearsal for impeachment. Last December the House Judiciary Committee, which would initiate impeachment, held a hearing titled "The President's Constitutional Duty to Faithfully Execute the Laws."

We can stop them. All it takes is making sure we stop Republicans from winning control of the Senate. The stakes could not possibly be higher.

Will you donate $3 today to help us save the Senate and stop the impeachment of President Obama?

Thank you for standing up to yet another ridiculous impeachment of a Democratic president,

SO COUGH UP SOME COIN.. SUCKERS!! 

Considering the gullibility of liberals in not only electing but re-electing the man of hope and change – Mr. Transparency himself – only to see him shit on them repeatedly I am sure that the money will be sluicing into DFA’s coffers soon. What it will buy liberals is more droning of civilians, even more NSA surveillance, more money funneled into Wall Street gambling casinos at the expense of the busted out remnants of a middle class that was once the envy of the world and more fecklessness, lies and failure to take a stand for anything that remotely benefits them. That is unless you count the fuzzy-feeling crumbs thrown to those who revel in identity based politics and waging endless foreign military adventures to make the planet safe for gay marriage and put down the oppression of women and the abduction of Nigerian school girls.

What a bunch of chumps and if they ever get tired of being shit on by Obama they can just wait for Queen Hillary the Inevitable who will come and shit on them some more.

Democrats and Liberals Give Obama a Pass on Closing Gitmo

"I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that"

-President Barack Obama

Liberals disgust me. With 2014 being an election year and the looming announcement from Queen Hillary the Inevitable that she is running for president in 2016 liberals and their beloved Democratic Party are closing ranks and circling the wagons to protect Team Blue Jackass from heretics unwilling to line up and salute the party flag. Obama is now well into his second term and the American torture and concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay is still open for business, a pox upon our once great country and one that along with the abominable practices there – namely torture and the prevention from it officially becoming a “death camp” only because the US government is force feeding prisoners who are attempting hunger strikes – continue and will continue because after all, it is an election year and God forbid if the Democrats make it any easier for their more overtly fascist opponents to call them “chicken”. 

Obama ran on closing this monstrous facility and to this day, five and a half years into his second term it has yet to be done. Oh, but the Democrats and the liberals blame those bad, bad Republicans for their ongoing obstructionism and preventing Barry from carrying out his agenda - horseshit! Obama had two years when his party controlled the Congress and the only thing of substance that managed to get accomplished was bailing out the criminals on Wall Street whose bad gambling bets wrecked the economy. Obama could have - and could still close the goddamned wretched place any time that he chooses, after all the Bush-Cheney regime firmly established the American version of the  Führerprinzip or as it is known in The Homeland: the Unitary Executive. This renders moot any Democrat whining that Obama is powerless - he does manage to get a lot done when it comes to unleashing the NSA Stasi against the public and having his ruthless underboss Eric Holder to use the arcane 1917 Espionage Act as a bludgeon to suppress whistleblowers and those who report on them. He also manages to do one hell of a job of conducting extrajudicial assassinations against American citizens, covering up torture and other high crimes of his predecessor and instigating hostilities with a nuclear armed Russia because he was insulted by President Putin.

Obama is far from the helpless, besieged by racists and obstructionists and teabaggers historic leader that he is made out to be and the same liberals who shrieked for Bush and Cheney's heads on pikes for far less than the loathsome Obama regime has pulled are falling into line and shuffling towards the Kool Aid vat just as they always do. Obama gave his much hyped foreign policy speech at West Point where he gave the commencement address to the future corporate cannon fodder of illegal wars of aggression and vowed to close the facility again. The speech was more of the same teleprompter drivel in which Obama laid out the proverbial line of bullshit long enough to fertilize the Sahara with his interventionist rhetoric and defense of that most obscene of concepts that is American exceptionalism. I excerpt the following from the transcript:

Think about it. Our military has no peer. The odds of a direct threat against us by any nation are low, and do not come close to the dangers we faced during the Cold War. Meanwhile, our economy remains the most dynamic on Earth, our businesses the most innovative. Each year, we grow more energy independent. From Europe to Asia, we are the hub of alliances unrivaled in the history of nations.

America continues to attract striving immigrants. The values of our founding inspire leaders in parliaments and new movements in public squares around the globe. And when a typhoon hits the Philippines, or schoolgirls are kidnapped in Nigeria, or masked men occupy a building in Ukraine, it is America that the world looks to for help. (Applause.) So the United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has been true for the century past, and it will be true for the century to come.

 But the world is changing with accelerating speed. This presents opportunity, but also new dangers. We know all too well, after 9/11, just how technology and globalization has put power once reserved for states in the hands of individuals, raising the capacity of terrorists to do harm.

 Russia’s aggression towards former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe while China’s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors.

 AND

I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. But what makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law; it is our willingness to affirm them through our actions.

 And that’s why I will continue to push to close Gitmo, because American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders. (Applause.) That’s why we’re putting in place new restrictions on how America collects and uses intelligence -- because we will have fewer partners and be less effective if a perception takes hold that we’re conducting surveillance against ordinary citizens. (Applause.) America does not simply stand for stability or the absence of conflict, no matter what the cost; we stand for the more lasting peace that can only come through opportunity and freedom for people everywhere -- which brings me to the fourth and final element of American leadership: our willingness to act on behalf of human dignity.

America’s support for democracy and human rights goes beyond idealism; it is a matter of national security. Democracies are our closest friends and are far less likely to go to war. Economies based on free and open markets perform better and become markets for our goods. Respect for human rights is an antidote to instability and the grievances that fuel violence and terror.

At that point the commanders should have ordered the cadets to break ranks and get out the shovels. I mean for God's sake - can't we even manage to produce coherent bullshit in this country anymore? The neocons howled like dogs being castrated because it just wasn't Hitlerian enough for their tastes but the meat of the speech - on the continuation of US interventionism for vaguely defined humanitarian missions must have made the panties of both warmongering femme fatales Susan Rice and Samantha Powers get wet. Nothing quite sells like sending in the US special ops and hit teams to rescue a couple of hundred of hapless Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped by Islamists largely empowered by the US destabilization of Africa and the Democrats are at the end of the day as bloodthirsty as their criminal cohorts across the aisle. Hillary will be perfect for the coming wave of American whip ass that will be unleashed for "humanitarian" or "Responsibility to Protect (P2P)" Team America style incursions and nothing could be more pleasing to the party base, fucking hypocrites that they all are.

In my daily online travels I frequent a number of progressive sites where I often voice my opinion in the comments sections for articles and I have noticed an alarming amount of what appear to be long dormant Hillary Clinton sleeper cells being activated. You can always tell these because first off the person making comments is asinine and secondly, many of the accounts show a creation date of 2008 and 2009 with minimal comments over five years until a recent spike of activity. There are also many pieces and articles popping up like toadstools out of piles of cow shit after a morning rain calling for unity behind a “far from perfect” candidate because the Republicans would be much, much worse.

The unenlightened always play to the silly pack of low information types – or much information that is no more than DNC propaganda – with their fear of the GOP war on the rights of some besieged and helpless identity based group. The good thing now is that thanks to the horrific track record of Barack Obama that a lot more people than before do not buy into that two-party hogwash this time around and it is causing a huge problem not only for Democrats but for the entire sham system itself.

Former New York Times foreign correspondent and author Chris Hedges, himself more of a socialist – calm down libertarians, he did sue Obama over the National Defense Authorization Act – called out liberals for the hypocrites that they are shortly after the election of the man of hope and change. From his December 7, 2009 column entitled “Liberals are Useless”:

Liberals are a useless lot. They talk about peace and do nothing to challenge our permanent war economy. They claim to support the working class, and vote for candidates that glibly defend the North American Free Trade Agreement. They insist they believe in welfare, the right to organize, universal health care and a host of other socially progressive causes, and will not risk stepping out of the mainstream to fight for them. The only talent they seem to possess is the ability to write abject, cloying letters to Barack Obama—as if he reads them—asking the president to come back to his “true” self. This sterile moral posturing, which is not only useless but humiliating, has made America’s liberal class an object of public derision.

 I am not disappointed in Obama. I don’t feel betrayed. I don’t wonder when he is going to be Obama. I did not vote for the man. I vote socialist, which in my case meant Ralph Nader, but could have meant Cynthia McKinney. How can an organization with the oxymoronic title Progressives for Obama even exist? Liberal groups like these make political satire obsolete. Obama was and is a brand. He is a product of the Chicago political machine. He has been skillfully packaged as the new face of the corporate state. I don’t dislike Obama—I would much rather listen to him than his smug and venal predecessor—though I expected nothing but a continuation of the corporate rape of the country. And that is what he has delivered.

AND

 I learned to dislike liberals when I lived in Roxbury, the inner-city in Boston, as a seminary student at Harvard Divinity School. I commuted into Cambridge to hear professors and students talk about empowering people they never met. It was the time of the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Spending two weeks picking coffee in that country and then coming back and talking about it for the rest of the semester was the best way to “credentialize” yourself as a revolutionary. But few of these “revolutionaries” found the time to spend 20 minutes on the Green Line to see where human beings in their own city were being warehoused little better than animals. They liked the poor, but they did not like the smell of the poor. It was a lesson I never forgot.

I was also at the time a member of the Greater Boston YMCA boxing team. We fought on Saturday nights for $25 in arenas in working-class neighborhoods like Charlestown. My closest friends were construction workers and pot washers. They worked hard. They believed in unions. They wanted a better life, which few of them ever got. We used to run five miles after our nightly training, passing through the Mission Main and Mission Extension Housing Projects, and they would joke, “I hope we get mugged.” They knew precisely what to do with people who abused them. They may not have been liberal, they may not have finished high school, but they were far more grounded than most of those I studied with across the Charles River. They would have felt awkward, and would have been made to feel awkward, at the little gatherings of progressive and liberal intellectuals at Harvard, but you could trust and rely on them.

I went on to spend two decades as a war correspondent. The qualities inherent in good soldiers or Marines, like the qualities I found among those boxers, are qualities I admire—self-sacrifice, courage, the ability to make decisions under stress, the capacity to endure physical discomfort, and a fierce loyalty to those around you, even if it puts you in greater danger. If liberals had even a bit of their fortitude we could have avoided this mess. But they don’t. So here we are again, begging Obama to be Obama. He is Obama. Obama is not the problem. We are.

Hedges of course was vilified by the liberal elitists and the Democrats after he nailed them so precisely and now as the cheer-leading and activism begins for the newest great liberal hope Hillary so will any who dare to speak such blasphemy. I have long advocated for an alliance between thinking progressives, leftists, libertarians and principled conservatives against our true enemy - the entire corrupt two party US political system itself and thanks to Obama the choir that I preach to is growing by the day.

Obama Worshippers Only Enable the Collapse

Having just finished reading a column from Patrick J. Buchanan entitled "A Left-Right Convergence?" in which the longtime paleoconservative mused about a coming alliance between anti-fascist elements of the left and the right I must admit that I have been pushing this idea for years and it is nice to see someone like the old warhorse himself bring it up. It has long been the ONLY logical way to seriously challenge the corrupt bipartisan warfare state and the rigged system of spoils to benefit an American oligarchy grown fat, arrogant and rotten beyond mere words that is protected by an omnipresent all-seeing eye of a gargantuan surveillance machine and enforced by paramilitary police forces and a weaponized judicial system. While I do not agree with Pat Buchanan on everything - or for that matter most things - he is onto something here and in his column he pays tribute to Ralph Nader whose new book "Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State" is as sensible as it is heretical to the so-called left in this country, a morally bankrupt gaggle of squabbling identity based groups clinging to the putrescent criminal enterprise that is the Democratic party like little piggies sucking on their mother's teats.

Having formerly been aligned with much of the left before I came to my senses and began to identify more with the more rational progressives and principled conservatives and libertarians I can speak from experience that it is a fool's errand to break through the cult like reverence for Barack Obama and his already crowned successor Hillary Rodham-Clinton. The MSNBC marinated liberals who have drank the Kool Aid of false hope and chump change are as unreachable as their less refined counterparts who have been lobotomized by Fox News and will always be lured out to dutifully goose-step to the polls come election time to take revenge against whatever demon that happens to be conjured up for them by Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove and Roger Ailes. They are flip sides of the same coin which like the proverbial bad penny just keeps turning up and serving the establishment by allowing the two-party racket to continue to function as though there is a nickle's worth of difference between the two, primarily that one is just more overtly fascist than the other.

Until there is a mass awakening from the lie that is our so-called "democracy" to unify in opposition to that red, white and blue jackboot that will be stomping on a human face forever we can only continue to defy the odds, fight the good fight and prolong the imminent and inevitable collapse. But it is is not as though there are not those out there offering alternatives, Pat Buchanan shows that and I excerpt the following from his piece:

Last summer, in this capital of gridlock, a miracle occurred.

The American people rose as one and told the government of the United States not to drag us into another Middle East war in Syria.

Barack Obama was ready to launch air and missile strikes when a national uproar forced him to go to Congress for authorization. Congress seemed receptive until some Hill offices were swarmed by phone calls and emails coming in at a rate of 100-1 against war.

Middle America stopped the government from taking us into what even the president now concedes is “somebody else’s civil war.”

This triumphal coming together of left and right was a rarity in national politics. But Ralph Nader, in “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State,” believes that ad hoc alliances of left and right to achieve common goals can, should, and, indeed, shall be our political future.

To call this an optimistic book is serious understatement.

Certainly, left and right have come together before.

Two decades ago, Ross Perot and this writer joined Ralph and the head of the AFL-CIO to stop NAFTA, a trade deal backed by America’s corporate elite and its army of mercenaries on Capitol Hill.

Congress voted with corporate America — against the country.

This is why Ron Paul was so reviled by the establishment - he had crossover appeal and the stones to take a stand against the vicious forces of the neocon infested Bush administration back in the days when any deviation from the lockstep orgy of nationalistic patriotism and blood vengeance for 9/11 would have one smeared ruthlessly as a traitor or worse. It was during this period and Congressman Paul's courageous denouncing of the wanton crimes of the war machine while millions of Americans were learning to love torture and mass surveillance that I came to admire the man's message as did millions of non-conformists, non-party over country loyalist and people who were able to think for themselves did.

My real leftist friends get it but they are radicals, socialists and in a few cases avowed Marxists just as my libertarian non-interventionist, pro-Constitutional and in a few cases avowed anarchists do. The real enemy is a shared one that is targeting any and all dissent which will be crushed ruthlessly when the time comes. What in the hell does anyone think that all of these NSA programs exist for? Why is that massive data storage facility out in Utah there? It is all being done for the day when the US totalitarian state finally goes fully live and the machines start spitting out the pickup orders for troublemakers. More than a few of the sheep may be on those lists thanks to the miracle of the three-hop query but their blissful ignorance will only be shattered when they round the final bend in the steel chute to line up for their turn to experience the captive bolt pistol. I found the words of former NSA turned whistleblower William Binney to be as frank a warning as one could expect, I excerpt from the transcript of a podcast interview with Rob Kall of progressive website OpEd News:

R.K.: Anything that we haven't covered yet?  We have got to wrap this up.  Anything that we haven't covered that's really important that you would like the listeners to know about?

W.B.: Just that my major concern isn't with NSA having access to this data or having this data, it's the use of it and once they get it and store it, being used by law enforcement and our law enforcement is spreading that around the world to other law enforcement and so it's corrupting not just our democracy, we're becoming a police state because of this but it's also corrupting the countries around the world so it's really endangering the democratic process and the court systems that we have established.  That is really destroying our society.  We may not know it yet but eventually it'll get to all of us.

R.K.: Bad news.  So you told me that you're going to spend the rest of your life on this. 

W.B.: Yes.  Until my government basically starts to do the right thing, and that means become a constitutionally based operating government.

R.K.: Do you see any ideological or party differences in the way this is being handled?

W.B.: Actually no.  I think they're all basically the same.  They've been, I mean for example you know Bush would prefer to have acquired the terrorists, captured them, put them in to torture them to get information; whereas Obama would kill them with a drone.  So it's the same principle, I mean they're just doing whatever they want, there are no limits to what they want to do.  Especially the latest NDAA that talks about giving the president the power to declare anybody, any US Citizen even in this country a terrorist and have the military pick them up, take them off the street, incarcerate them indefinitely, and give them no due process. 

That to me is executing something very similar to what the Nazis did in 1933, Special Order 48, that did exactly the same thing.  And that's how they got rid of all of their opposition.  All the communists and anybody else that opposed them.  But I mean they sent them to the concentration camps.  So far we have not been sending them to the concentration camps but they'll do things like send the FBI after you or maybe attempt to put you in jail like they tried to do with a number of us. 

So they're not as radical yet but the problem is that when you give people that kind of power or they hold that kind of power, sooner or later, they're going to use it. One way or another.  

The seriousness of our dilemma when it comes to the liberal version of dancing with the dunces and their ongoing prostration for the Democratic party and the treacherous snake-oil salesman Barack Obama is evident in the way that investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald is treated. Per the blog Raw Story Greenwald's recent appearance on Democratic party propaganda machine MSNBC's "All in With Chris Hayes" highlights the the hostility of liberals to the truth, particularly on Obama's NSA Stasi as was written about by Greenwald in his just released book "No Place to Hide".  I excerpt the following from the Raw Story piece:

“There are lots of people who watch this show who hate you, frankly,” Hayes said.

“Really?” Greenwald joked. “Oh, my god, that’s so disturbing, I didn’t know that.”

“You have a way of making people very angry at you, and you have a way –– I think sometimes, if you don’t mind my saying –– of alienating possible allies,” Hayes continued.

Greenwald said that when he started writing about politics, he “didn’t have a big megaphone, I didn’t have a large corporation that gave me a camera or a newspaper that gave me a big platform.”

“I had to find a way to be heard,” he said. “You’ve got to be aggressive in terms of having your critique heard.”

“People feel like they have to choose between Barack Obama and Glenn Greenwald,” Hayes countered. “And there are millions of people in this country who are like, ‘If that is the choice, I choose Barack Obama. I like Barack Obama. Like, Barack Obama got a lot of people Medicaid.’”

Greenwald said that the same people who attack him now cheered for him when he was attacking the Bush administration.

I certainly can understand that, it makes me physically sick to see how many liberals now give Obama a free pass for things that they squealed for Bush's head on a pike for but that is the problem with party loyalists, particularly in a society where the two-party system is just a cover for criminality of whom the only real loyalty is against the very concept of a free and decent society. 

But all that is just my own personal opinion for what it's worth. Hell, after all I am a guy who is reviled by both sides and one who has been denounced on the Obama water carrying site Democratic Underground: "Donn Marten is just a blogger who hates Democrats" as well as by the filth over at the neocon racist sewer Front Page Magazine, a kind of Stormfront for anti-Muslim types: "For leftists like Martin, U.S.-EU policy is simply aimed at "making Ukraine safe for corporate vultures".  There is no greater badge of honor in being hated by both the Democrats and Republicans and their legions of losers, lackeys and lickspittles but that puts me in some pretty damned good company with Buchanan, Nader, Greenwald and Ron Paul.

Americans better wake up because an alliance that sets aside petty ideological differences to mount a unified and sustained defense against the fascist corporate warfare chance is the only chance that we have.

Democrat-Republican Warmongers Unite to Crush Antiwar Rand Paul

Perhaps the greatest hoax in the toxic sewage lagoon that is the political system of The Homeland circa 2014 is that there is no such thing as bipartisanship. Bullshit! While the ongoing con job that is staged for public consumption of the irreconcilable differences between Team Red Elephant and Team Blue Jackass is what passes for conventional wisdom in the state-corporate media and as such is eaten up by the rubes and low-information types that comprise the vast majority of the American electorate the truth is pretty clear to any who want to see. Both American political parties (any others are completely shut out of the phony democratic process) are nothing more than dueling factions of a criminal syndicate and there is ALWAYS agreement on certain issues. For example, the mass warrantless surveillance of millions of law abiding Americans, the ongoing redistribution of wealth to the top fractional one percent, the ongoing fleecing of the American taxpayer to continue to underwrite the criminal scams of the untouchable gamblers on Wall Street and the support of all wars both foreign and domestic. Oh, and there is the bipartisan effort to destroy prospective Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul that is now as the economic propaganda slogan goes "picking up steam".

With the neoconservative warmongers again ascendant, the incompetent Obama on his way out and either Hillary Rodham-Clinton or some Sheldon Adelson funded Nazi ready to take over the keys to the war machine Senator Paul's anti-interventionist stance, criticism of the NSA Stasi and other the post September 11, 2001 Constitutional wrecking machine and message which is resonating must be stopped at all costs. The neocons are the ultimate parasites and their origins as ideological worshippers of Leon Trotsky were at one time allied with the Democrats until the antiwar movement during the Vietnam era. They jumped to a new host on the rising Ronald Reagan-Bush dynasty GOP and are very close to making the round trip if the warmongering Mrs. Clinton wins the presidency in 2016. The Pauls being Rand and his father Ron - whose courageous stance against the neocons when any opposition to the Bushreich's wars of aggression was shouted down as treason made him a modern American hero - have become public enemy number one for the entrenched two-party gangsters that have seized control of both foreign and domestic policy.

Rand Paul represents exactly what the existing occupiers of the American political system fear the most which is a deviation from their ongoing game of 3 card Monte continually staged on Main Street of a star-spangled Potemkin Village and sold to the suckers as "democracy". God forbid that anyone ever emerge to create a debate on the "New Normal" of the wars and looting of those both foreign and domestic to enrich plutocrats, energy cartels, the global finance mafia and the whores who serve them.

The great libertarian writer Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com who never hesitates to call out bullshit in high places, hypocrisy and the scoundrels who are passed off as respectable by the corrupt media in their methodical polish a turd with a red, white and blue cheesecloth calls it like it is in his latest piece entitled "The Establishment's War on Rand Paul" from which I excerpt:

The war is on – no, not that war, this war: I’m talking about the GOP establishment’s war on Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, whose presidential campaign has taken wing and soared. And it isn’t just the Karl Roves and Peter Kings of this world who are up in arms over the prospect of an anti-interventionist libertarian in the White House: they’re getting plenty of tactical support from "liberals" like David Corn.

Why do they hate him?

The Rovians hate him because he challenges the whole Fox News-neocon right-wing paradigm that has kept the GOP a dwindling minority party ever since the Bush era ended with a whimper. The progressives hate him because he is the most likely candidate – at the moment – to be facing Hillary Clinton in 2016, and they know they’ll have a hard time selling a candidate who still refuses to second guess her 2003 vote for the Iraq war. So the two groups have a common enemy – which, in politics, is enough to cement a working alliance between two supposedly antithetical forces.

Of course they aren’t really antithetical: while Establishment Republicans and Establishment Democrats duke it out every election, it’s not an ideological fight so much as a battle for the spoils. And when it comes to foreign policy, "politics stops at the water’s edge," as that old reprobate Arthur Vandenberg used to say: left and right are united for the Empire.

AND

In the context of today’s politics, the demographics are different but the principle of "divide and rule" is the same. The "Paul Democrats" and "Paul Independents" are precisely the kind of younger urban voters both Rand and his father have done such a phenomenal job attracting. These are people Democrats have tended to take for granted – and Rand is the first Republican politician since Reagan to challenge them on this terrain. Which is why Democrats like Corn, and the other partisan hacks masquerading as "journalists" – Rachel Maddow comes to mind – have it in for Sen. Paul.

As for the Rovians and their neocon Deep Thinkers, their unappeasable hate for the Senator is due to his last name – and the knowledge that this isn’t really about Rand Paul or any particular person, it’s about a movement that threatens to overtake them. Once John McCain and Peter King stop being the face of the GOP, the Establishment that manipulates the leadership of both parties is in big trouble.

The last thing the Establishment of both parties wants is a 2016 presidential race pitting an anti-interventionist anti-surveillance Republican against the stridently interventionist Hillary, who long ago declared that the Internet needs "gatekeepers." I would argue that of all the potential candidates, it’s Rand Paul who has the best chance of stopping the Clinton Restoration. Jeb Bush as the candidate would make it a clash of dynasties, with the Clintons an easy winner in that kind of contest. Marco Rubio has limited appeal, and by the time the primaries get going will be polling in the vicinity of John Bolton. Chris Christie is over. David Petraeus, once a neocon favorite, is in disgrace: you only get to have that kind of fun after you’re safely elected. So who’s left?

Yes, the increasingly odious Ms. Maddow over at MSNBC the Obama apologist network. While I always have viewed Rachel Maddow with a somewhat jaundiced eye, particularly since she like Minnesota Senator Al Franken emerged not only unscathed from the wreckage of liberal radio network Air America. While serious critics of US policy and the entire corrupt system like Mike Malloy and Randi Rhodes were exiled Maddow and Franken saw their fortunes improve dramatically when the network collapsed. Their prominent positions today would seem to indicate at best a tendency to sell out a cause, go establishment or cash in or in layman's term become RATS.

I have followed the work of Maddow for a good while now and while talented, the pride of MSNBC is nothing more than a shill for the corrupt ruling political class. Her show is regularly devoted to nothing more than the promulgating of DNC talking points, playing the identity politics card (she is openly gay) to demonize the Republican party - largely through her cherry picking of the most racist, white-supremacist, ignorant religiously obsessed morons - to shill for corporate sellout Democrats. What a sad demise for a woman who actually has talent but now as is apparent zero principles beyond whoring herself out for her defense contractor employer and the Democratic party. Hell, she actually makes Roger Ailes look honorable in a perverse sort of way, after reading what has been pretty much called a hit-piece "The Loudest Voice in the Room" I can say that the man at least has some sort of values system - as largely repugnant as it often is which is something that Ms. Maddow and the rest of the war party winged monkeys that are now being scrambled for an attack on Rand Paul are lacking.

The Government Shutdown Dog and Pony Show

The distractions are mounting as Barry and the boys seek to divert public attention from their mounting heap of failed policies and he has plenty of company with both parties of a lousy, failed and corrupt congress pitching in .  The crisis of the week are the ludicrous threats to shut down the government over the standard elephants vs. jackasses pissing contest. This dance is an ongoing hoax that is intended to dupe clueless Americans into thinking that they actually have a two party political system - they don't. The sturm and drang emanating outside of  the D.C. sewers occupied by an insane, out of control government will end just as the last 'crisis did the last time that the  clicking time clocks of the budget wars, hysterically hyped by the state-corporate media did when the so-called “fiscal cliff” was averted back in January. Let’s get one thing straight - the U.S. government as it is currently configured only exists for two real reasons - 1) to wage war and make billions for the weapons industry and 2) to serve the interests of the plutocrats who have the dough to buy influence, this second group includes the high finance jackals and hedge fund hyenas. The parasitical looter class (#2) already got theirs last week when Chairman Ben decreed that the ongoing taxpayer supplied narcotic of free money would continue to be indefinitely delivered to the junkie banks. In true capitalism these recklessly run and cancerous institutions would have simply been allowed to go under as the failures that they are, the criminals in charge should have done the perp walk and gone to prison where they belong  and the banks placed into receivership, cleaned up and then turned back over to responsible private hands. But here in the 21st century banana republic that we live in they are deemed “too big to fail” and the rest of society continues to be shaken down to keep the financial crack heads on their permanent buzz and screw anyone else, they have absolutely no say in the matter.

Then there is the warfare state (#1) while  temporarily laying back in the weeds it continues to scheme and play the angles for the coming attack on Syria and with a bit of luck Iran as well.  There is no way that the government is going to be shut down given the dependency of these two abhorrent bloodsucking entities on the never ending flow of  state largess that they would be unable to function without.  All of the hand-wringing, caterwauling and weeping and gnashing of teeth of the presstitute media and the court jesting political elitists is admittedly a sardonically amusing show but at the end of the day there will inevitably be some sort of miraculous bi-partisan ‘deal’ struck in order to avoid disaster and keep the money spigots flowing into our national murder and gambling cartels.  The only thing that is definite is that when the armistice is struck that we being the average law-abiding Americans who are not connected and thereby given access to suckle the teats of the beast will once again be left holding a flaming bag of dogshit while the band strikes up hail to the chief.

The threatened shutdown (I just wish that they actually had the balls to do it) is but one of the puppet shows casting shadows upon the wall for the slaves. Obama is of course milking the latest mass shooting for political gain while the ghoulish Wayne LaPierre (an insult to any rational law-abiding gun owner) is given prime Sunday morning airtime to engage in histrionics on Press the Meat while continuing to dispense his hogwash about “not enough good guys with guns” about the shootings. The gun industry gets their pop whenever LaPierre is trotted out, a pimp’s pimp and a lobbyist with few peers but doesn’t it all seem just a bit ridiculous when the “not enough good guys with guns” argument is used about a Navy yard? I mean this isn’t a grade school where the most powerful weapon to combat an out of control armed menace is a squirt gun. But for all of LaPierre’s contortions you have to give it to Barry for the sheer chutzpah of invoking our fallen ‘heroes’ to fire up his base and to feed the fires of the type of gun owners who are so easily duped into thinking that he is going to take them all away. As for the invocation of ‘heroes’,  do you recall a day when every dead soldier, cop and first responder wasn’t a hero?  The term " hero" has no real meaning anymore so much has it been abused for political gain at every opportunity since September 11, 2001 by the political elite. Obama gave a speech on Sunday that was a textbook example of the audacity of shamelessness, invoking the names of victims of last week’s shooting as well as the Sandy Hook dead while calling for that most bipartisan of things - assigning more power to the rogue government to keep you safe, don’t ask questions, they will use the power wisely - just look at the NSA.

There are distractions aplenty, take crazy John McCain’s letter published in the Russian tabloid media calling out Putin who is riding high after making an ass of Obama and Kerry, or that diligent, always on the beat cop Darrell Issa on his silly choreographed trip to Libya trying to rekindle media attention for his ridiculous ongoing Benghazi farce. I have yet to hear the news that  Congressman Grand Theft Auto will be convening hearings on the crimes of the NSA Stasi but the slimy bastard knows well to not shit where he eats. There is the rank idiocy of the GOP’s crusade against Obamacare but that massive fraud also happens to benefit the insurance parasites and their Wall Street brethren, it isn’t going away - EVER. So it is no matter what the Texas Zamboni Ted Cruz may grandstand about to enthrall the low hanging fruit of his base nor Senator Lindsay Graham pandering to the conservative tea party voters in South Carolina who know he's full of crap by squealing that the ACA (aka Obamacare) bill "sucks" while on Fox News it is all a scam. Not to infer that the fair senator from the palmetto state isn't an authority on vacuum theory, I have long suspected that he could suck a golf ball through a fifty foot garden hose.  These people are the same immoral, perverted, cheating, on the take, psychopathic, lying gangsters who are along with the assclown in chief over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have us all on the brink of collapse thanks to their arrogance and hubris. It is all a bipartisan effort too because truthfully, the average American Joe or Jane are viewed by all of these weasels as schmucks, marks and rubes. We have only two species in America today and that is cattle and vampires. The vampires of course have the money with which to keep the cattle around for feeding purposes only.

But in the background, behind the rotting bunting draped across the center stage of the grand three ring circus the neocons and their propagandists and foreign allies are relentlessly repackaging their plot to attack Syria and start WW III. Now they are looking to influence an already in the bag United Nations to put into place an authorization for military action to jump start their war efforts after their silly poison gas stunt failed abysmally to gin up the public outrage. I would imagine some sort of new narrative emerging over the Kenyan shopping mall tragedy, that porcine terrorist supporter Peter King is already hyping the involvement of several "Americans" in the savage plot. With the holiday shopping season upon us there is nothing quite as persuasive as swarthy men in turbans stealthily invading malls in a town near you. The war freaks are going to get a good amount of mileage out of Al-Shabob's killing spree. Too bad that there weren't enough good guys with guns in that Nairobi shopping emporium.  The fanatical bigot Peter King's inevitable new round of anti-Muslim hearings in which every convenience store owner across the land of Middle Eastern descent could be dragged in by state goons is a perfect example of why this government should be shut down.

The one argument that I would have against it is that there is no way that it could ever be as entertaining as the oversexed adulterer Bubba Clinton chasing that chubby little thong clad trollop Monica Lewinski around the digs that we all pay for. Let's face it, Barry is just plain boring and video footage of a narcissist whiling away the time of a closed government eating taxpayer funded pizza and watching his 100 greatest teleprompter hits to while away the time just doesn't cut it.