The Crowd from Hell Calls Tune In Rep Debate

Like I say last night’s debate was enough to make one ill if one weren’t already ill. Today the crowd from hell demonstrated their hostility by interrupting a CNBC reporter asking about integrity and honor being consistent with sexual pecadillos. Before the words were out of his mouth there was a loud chorus of boo’s. And just for the record they were booing the person and not the issue. Later Cain lashed out at his accusers and got a loud round of applause. Mitt Romney bent over backward to accommodate the tea party- - or in keeping with the Rush Limbaugh spirit- - Mit Romney bent over Forward to accommodate the tea baggers. Everything out of Romney’s mouth was hard right and unlike the clashes of previous debates, this one was a mutual ass kissing fest. Among the lucidris statements that were made was that the real estate crisis was caused by “too much meddling in the markets”. And there was more of the “get the pain all over with at once” talk. So if you have a patient in an oxygen tent with pneumonia just tell him to take a few walks around the block on a snowy day and don’t worry, “It’ll all be over soon”. Yeah, the patient will be dead. Again the take over of General Motors was criticized. If Randy Rhodes is right Romney started out pro intervention, then anti, then pro, and now he’s anti intervention again. There was talk about eliminating Dodd Frank. I couldn’t watch the thing after a while and dialed away a little after six. Rick Perry wants to eliminate three cabinet departments. These are education, and Commerce, and he couldn’t remember the third one but Romney suggested the E P A. It turns out the third department was energy. They say that Gingrich is rising in the polls. Of course the most laughable thing they want to do is to raise interest rates. They claim they are doing it for the retired people. There are more immediate concerns of retired people such as rigging the inflation index so it doesn’t count the things old people actually buy. Just to remind you- - inflation is a tax. I’m surprised how in love these people suddenly are with high interest rates. Of course if that old person earned seven percent and inflation was five percent, the person would net a two percent annual prophet but guess what? He’d be taxed on the entire seven percent. Also high interest rates make paying back the deficits a lot harder. Under Reagan interest rates had to be- what? – eleven or twelve percent? Or was it higher? The remarks about Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae were absurd, and courtesy Randy Rhodes, I explained this to you in one posting. Call her program. They will attack that Penn State head coach for looking the other way- - and yet everybody on stage has some major skeleton in their closet that everybody else on stage is agreeing not to look at. One hand washes the other.

Bear Lusconi or Bertrin Lusconi- - whoever that President of Italy was driven from office, not because of his many sexual scandals but because the Italian economy is tanking, as is the Greek economy. And the head of Greece has also been driven from office. The republicans have pledged not to give Europe one dime for its financial woes. Of course those bankers have mismanaged their money and the people are suffering, but in the case of Europe more obvious “austerity measures” have been taken. Nixon said that getting rid of the Viet Nam war won’t solve the “spiritual hunger” we all face. And ABC news did a thing on brain freeze. It’s caused by stress and anxiety shutting down the frontal cortex and so the information is even harder to access.

There is considerable good political news this Wednesday. In that all important referendum election in Ohio on that anti Union law, the Union people won and the law will not be enacted. The tea party over-reached. I was not at all confident on this one and am happy to see that I was wrong. In Mississippi the voters decided that a fetus or a zygote is not a person with rights. Randy Rhodes was wondering whether health officials would visit her while she was drunk having sex and question her as to the name of her newly conceived egg. And then you have the problem as to how to get the egg’s footprints on the birth certificate. Of course with British Royalty you aren’t a citizen until you are born, otherwise that newly conceived embryo in Kate would be under the jurisdiction of the old laws on gender and royalty. In Kentucky they elected a democratic governor as well as many other democrats state officials, apparently. And in Maine they decided to continue to allow same day voter registration like they’ve always had in Maine. The question remains why a state dominated by republicans would want to change their voter registration laws anyhow. Apparently there is also good news for democrats in Iowa. And in New Jersey it seems that the state legislature only stayed democratic, but is now even more democratic than it had been before.

The Republicans will be holding a debate tonight for the first time in a number of weeks and a lot has happened. One wonders how these woman republicans can possibly defend Herman Cain. Now in one breath Cain is saying that at no time in his life has he ever behaved inappropriately tword a woman. I can’t even say that. On the other hand he and the Christian right now have this new meme of “Well, no single woman should ever have dinner alone with a married man and be asking for a job”. Of course Rush Limbaugh made fun of woman number four’s name yesterday pronouncing it “Buy-a-lick”. Only he would think that way. And now there is a fifth woman who apparently Cain made inappropriate remarks to at a tea party convention. I guess some say that sexual harassment sightings are like cockroaches- - there are ten that you don’t see for every one you see. Randy says that Republicans know they can’t win next year anyhow so people like Jeb Bush and Chris Christie or Mario Rubio are not even running So what you are seeing this year is like the football teams you see on Wild Card weekend, where the four best teams are sitting it out. Now we are on page six. CNBC was the one debate outlet I’ve had a little problem locating before, because it is not the usual site address..

. Joe Paterno of Penn State has been summarily fired. Apparently resignation at the end of the season isn’t good enough for the school. It would have been good enough for me. But now they are saying point blank that Paterno knew that Sandusky had a problem with the little boys and he did nothing. Actually he was told by a third party of a show incident involving the rape of a ten year old boy. Paterno reported the incident but did not call the cops. Of course the students and team have been conducting noisy demonstrations in favor of coach Paterno, and I can’t blame them. Football is an important. Joe Paterno is only asking to be retained for the final four Football games and already had agreed to resign after that. But I would have you contrast how Penn State handled this incident as opposed to how the Catholic Church handels similar incidents where there is a quiet transfer and the offending Priest is free to molest elsewhere. I’m not happy about U S C’s football team suffering sanctions that seemingly are without end. I hope the sexual incident doesn’t reflect ill on Penn State.