"Americans, You've Gotten Too Expensive", Your Corporate Overlords

That's the message Americans are hearing at the Republican townhall meetings and it's just beginning to dawn on a few people. The Koch Brothers must be howling in laughter about naming their creation after a gay sex practice and now seeing these people express astonishment that their teabagger congressmen have voted to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid.

Remember Jack Germond, the veteran political writer. He reappeared in the Daily Beast with an article titled "Is Paul Ryan delusional?" Germond recounts the diasterous days of Newt Gingrich when he thought he could pull off a revolution. What astonishes Germond is the sense that the House Republicans, controlling just one small square of our political system, actually believe no one will notice their destructive behavior and that Americans will simply accept Paul Ryan's fantasy world.

Well, apparently, even with new Koch funded ads praising freshmen Republicans for voting for Ryan's plan,those citizens coming out to the town hall meetings feel they got suckered. Ryan himself had to escape through the back with a police escort and make a getaway in a different car than his own because his constituents were furious with his ideas.

In New Hampshire, ethically challenged Frank Guinta who rode the teabagger faux outrage to victory confronted real outrage at his town hall meeting. A 73-year old asked him whether he was in his right mind when he voted for the Ryan Plan. Guinta, trying to do the new GOP shuffle about how it won't affect seniors, said that these changes would be phased in. Whereupon, one Joe Platte, an eight grader, piped up and asked,"I'm 14, what am I supposed to do?

In North Dakota, a freshman congressman tried to explain to his constituents that everyone over 55 will be covered and protected. He said that the GOP was reforming Medicare to save it. People weren't buying it. A younger constituent said that if the GOP plan was so terrific why doesn't it affect seniors now. This got great applause.

I am absolutely delighted to see that Americans are demanding answers to my question,
"Who is going to insure the elderly under this plan?" So far no Republican has been able to answer this question. But Col. West come up with a uniquely American solution,arrest the constituent asking the question. A liberal blogger happened to ask him this very question, was hauled off, taken to jail and maced.

Paul Krugman in his "Conscience of a Liberal" blog keeps coming back to the Ryan Budget like a mongoose to the cobra. Krugman notes that the question is not that the Ryan Plan reduces the deficit in the right way--on the backs of all Americans except the wealthy--but whether it reduces the deficit at all. Good point. It is simply an ideological exercise to prepare the American people for being absolutely and finally ripped off.

Glenn Kessler writing in today's Washington Post does a fact check on the GOP's talking point that Americans will now have the same health care as members of Congress. Actually, this would be true if the GOP would fund the health exchanges President Obama supports. But in the Ryan Plan, Kessler notes that the government subsidizes the congressional health plans and under the Ryan Plan the whole point was to jettison health costs from government expenses. Kessler, not the first to point this out,notes that the Ryan plan shifts trillions of expenses on the elderly who can least afford it.

In Michigan , "El Duce" Rick Snyder unveiled his educational program. Here he dramatically cuts educational spending in the state, thus weakening the state's educational districts to the point where he will be able to appoint his platoon of emergency managers. The idea is to make the educational system profitable--that is to sell it off like an asset. This remarkable plan has been the brainchild of the De Vos family of Amway fame and the Princes of Blackwater fame, two Christianist families. A similar plan has just been adopted in Florida where we will have a "voucher" educational system, which will defund public education, for one run by profit-making corporations and religious organizations.

Pennsylvania's new Governor Tom Corbett has gutted that state's excellent college system,which was seen by state residents as a magnificent resource. He has told colleges that if they have natural gas under their campuses that they should exploit it to make up for the differences.

Alan Simpson appearing on panels around the country has become quite cranky as people are demanding increased taxes on the wealthy. He rightfully points out that we can confiscate all the wealth of the top 1% and not eliminate our debt. True, but, Alan, we can at least try.

The one who is really enjoying the spectacle of these popular reactions to the Ryan Plan is leftwing radio broadcaster Mike Malloy. Mike, who can be very dyspeptic about the state of the nation, has been enjoying watching all the white-haired teabaggers finally waking up to the fact that ,while they were protesting the Kenyan Muslim President, their corporate handlers have made them commit economic suicide.

And that is what the teabagger phenomenon is --a Ghost Dance to national economic suicide.

Mike Malloy raised a question that should be asked of Mike Huckabee when he declares for the presidency. Malloy pointed out correctly that the religious Right or American evangelicals almost all vote for Republicans, who favor the rich and act against the poor. Now this is against the teachings of the Messiah of these people. So does that mean that everytime the religious Right votes Republican, they are voting themselves into Hell. A theologically good point. This should be asked of former Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee.

What the outrage over the Ryan Plan shows is that some Americans are beginning to under the Republican Party and their corporate overlords believe they are just too expensive. They don't really bother to blame the blacks and the "welfare queens" anymore or the poor or undocumented workers as the cause of our economic woes. It's the American Middle Class. Now get used to it.

Make sure you get your "vouchers" at the door. Think they'll give you one for a time-share?

In Emergency Vote,GOP KILLS ELMO and Supports the Plague

You really can't make up what the House is doing even if you ingested massive amounts of drugs. Prompted by the James O'Keefe video punking of NPR fund-raisers,the House called an emergency vote and suspended the rules to vote to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS.

Anthony Weiner from New York claimed on the House floor that Republicans really knew what disturbed Americans--Click and Clack. He went on to say that these two characters, when talking about fixing cars, were actually sending messages to the enemy. Weiner didn't have the decency to mourn the death of Elmo.

Democrats tried their own feeble attempt to submit a law that would prohibit any government funds from being used to advertise on Fox News. They, of course, failed. Instead,Elmo and the Cookie Monster got the ax.

But why do you need Sesame Street if all American children are going to die of disease? Just to make sure they were not sending a mixed message, the House also decided to eliminate funding for the Center for Disease Control. Read that over again--really, eliminate the Center for Disease Control, a government agency designed to alert Americans of health threats and the outbreak of deadly diseases. But maybe Jesus will heal us all.

In light of the Japanese nuclear crisis, the House should also vote to eliminate funding for the Nuclear Regulatory Agency because it "regulates" and that kills jobs.

Christianist Steve King of Iowa said about the previous vote to defund tsunami monitoring that the vote was water under the bridge and they shouldn't reconsider it. The timing of the Japanese tragedy was just coincidence and the media is paying too much attention to the House vote.

Maybe the GOP really does have a secret jobs agenda. If you exterminate enough Americans,the unemployment rate might go down.

Is the slogan,"Ignorance in making laws is no excuse"? Something like that.

There seems to be an unbroken continuity between the teabaggers and the Republican state governments.

Government Scott Walker's "budget repair" bill cut $500 million from health programs that benefit over 1.2 million people. But the generous thing is that Walker increased the funds for funeral and cemetary costs.

Our man Randy Hopper is now running ads attacking the Wisconsin demonstrators and defending himself. Well, the Randy Man seems to have opened up another can of worms. Remember his mistress' bio and photo were scrubbed from the lobby group she worked for. The local press wondered where the lucky woman is. She got a job with the state government. Coincidence? We report, you decide.

The Randy Man seems a bit alarmed about being recalled. A state senator in a Midwestern state. Who do you call? He hires a big-shot in Chris Chrissie's New Jersey campaign to assist him. Business must be good,heh?

The Wisconsin Republican Senators flew in last night for a thank-you fund-raiser at Haley Barbour's Lobby Shop, now run by his son. In olden days before the internet, you could do such a thing. But the Senators were greeted by a demonstration that reached 1,000. It got so crowded, the D.C. police closed off the street. With the crowd increasing, the group just formed a parade and marched down the street to the Chamber of Commerce to protest. A fun time was had by all.

The Mayor of Lansing, Michigan has joined the demonstrators in that state. The demonstrators have found out that they can recall Rick Snyder and his behavior modfication team in July.

Meanwhile in Ohio, John Kasich is touring the state trumpeting his plans to eliminate state pensions. His 800-page budget is getting less than rave reviews from the Republicans who see their electoral fortunes going down the drain.

Oberlin College students cut a video saying they have sex and that's why they need Planned Parenthood. Nice idea but the plague is coming.

Sarah Palin is going to visit Israel because that's where Jesus lives. That really is connected to all of the above. In more ways then you can know.

PPP found out that Charlie Sheen would defeat Sarah Palin for President. Now that's a group that is smoking too much ganja or has too much time on their hands.

My favorite Jack Nicklaus golf course bill was defeated. Jack won't be building the golf courses in the Everglades. And I'm not so sure many people would like to play on them anyway.

I've wanted to do a Florida post since the insanity began building there in earnest but I've been waiting for Carl Hiassen to comment on this with his unique genius and language in capturing the gonzo aspects of the state. Where are you, Carl, Jesus Loves You More Than You Will Know.