Larry Elder Obsessed with Voting Latinos

There is this demographic tide coming and the right wing tea party types know their time is finite, in terms of having the backing of the American people at large.  But what has struck me from both Rush Limbaugh and Larry Elder is this fixation on Latino voting.  As you know just by historic context, this whole real estate crisis started the previous decade when President Bush wanted to make it easier, primarily for Latinos to own a nice home, so they would vote for him over John Kerry in the 2004 election.  In fact President Bush was pushing for immigration reform, but his own party in congress kept blocking efforts in this direction.  Rush Limbaugh had characterized now - ten years later, President Obama's policy on Latino illegals as "Catch - - Release - -Vote".   The fact that the whole process of becoming a citizen under the Presidents plan will take about fifteen years, long after this President has left office, is one of the many Facts the right wing routinely ignores.  Rush Limbaugh has also said, I don't know whether jokingly or not, "Sure these illegals can come into this country with the one provision that they not be allowed to vote for twenty-five years.  One glaring thing I overlooked yesterday in my mentioning of Larry Elder, who is of course Black (I assumed everybody knew that) that Larry Elder too introduced this element of Latino voting into his murky putpuree mix of topics thrown together in the first part of yesterday's broadcast.  He said "Would these democrats be a fraction as eager to admit all these illegal children of Latinos if they knew most of them would be voting Republican?"  I don't know.  Why don't we ask President Bush.  After all that was HIS idea ten years ago.  My own reaction is that you have to be really "tone deaf" or "daft" or whatever word- - to even bring that topic up.  I regard voting as both a sacred and a private right for every American to make in the solitude of the Voting Booth and I thought everyone else thought the same way.  So in answer to Larry Elder's question posed yesterday of how Latinos would vote I'd say "To me it would not make a cintila of difference whether all of them voted Democratic or all of them voted Republican.  It's their decision to make.  But Larry is toeing the tea party line on this issue, ans as you know the tea party's whole thing is "keep as many of the minorities and the poor and the students and elderly from voting".   Really all the Republicans have going for them these days is married White people over about age 35, and among that group the Tea Party is more popular with men than women.  The tea party is dead in the water with ANY minority including Asian, as well as anyone under 35 or anyone almost with a college education- - and obviously with minorities and unmarried women.  You know there is this old Christian adage about the Devil, Satan- - that "He's more active and frantic now because he knows his time on this earth is limited.  Even in that "Diary of Satan" I read last summer, the theme kept recurring that even when Satan would have a big success- - a feeling of Dread would sweep over him and he'd be more anxious and uncertain than ever about his own Fate.  It's kind of like- - well we know the laws in California heavily favor apartment tennant's rights.  It's as though some roudy, dead beat tennants have gone through the whole court process and are now given an official and legal eviction notice, but now they are going to trash the whole place knowing they have to be out by the end of the month anyhow.  It's kind of like these industrial polluters who trash this planet knowing they are old and will die soon or "something' anyhow, and screw the children and future generations.

Nevada Senator Harry Reid is right.  This Bundy guy in Nevada who refuses to pay his grazing fees which every other rancher pays- - this guy is a terrorist.  Clearly if he aims his guns at federal employees there to do their job- - this is a threat.  So he's a "combatant" at the least.  But he's more than that because according to Reid, he planned to put women and children on the front lines so that they would be the first to be killed if there were to be any Waco type stand-off.  This makes him a terrorist because he'd only be staging an event like this for the Media - - notably FOX news.  As such he's also a terrorist in that this tactic worked and the government gave him back his cattle.  So Obama backed down the same way he backed down before Putin and before Assad.  Now he's backing down before a two bit domestic terrorist.  In case it escaped anyone's notice- - when you are in violation of Federal law- - the Feds can be sometimes "not nice" about how they see to it that the law is enforced.  How is it that if you have no money and take part in "Occupy Wall Street" you deserved to have pepper spray sprayed in your eyes inches away.  But if you bring a Gun to the protest - - and that is what the right wingers call it- - you carry a Gun - - and you are "One of Us" so "It's OK".  You aren't threatening anyone's life you're just engaged in "Free Speech" or something, with the Feds.  No, these guys are terrorists.  One called to the Ed Schultz show said "It doesn't help to call them inflamatory names".  May I suggest pointing a gun at law enforcement is little different than for instance- - driving around a crowded street in Jewish neighborhood with bombs strapped all over your car ready to be set off.

It seems Stephanie Miller just had a revelation about a certain reality that many of us, and many of you reading this- are in need of.  First of all thank God for rewind in Free Speech TV because she said this while I was at breakfast.  One of the "talking points" of liberalism now (if you insist on using that word) is the Charles or David Koch brother (I forget which) that ran for Libertarian candidate for President or something in 1980 because he thought Ronald Reagan had sold out to the party moderates.  Stephanie reminds us that most of the things in that platform such as abolishing the minimum wage, and abolishing medicare, and elimination of capital accumulation (or interest account) tax - - as well as the massive rollback of industrial pollution regulations, and relying only on "Consumption taxes" paid largely by the poor as taxes on their lottery winnings ("ha!") and their liquor and their cigarettes - - and what other bare necessities the poor can afford.  These are OK to tax.   I'm not sure whether the elimination of credit card interest deductions was a Koch brother idea but this is a "Consumption tax" and apparently the ONLY kind of tax the Koch Brothers like.  It should be noted that as of yesterday David and Charles Koch were said EACH to have a net worth of a hundred Billion with a B.  Obviously they are among the richest men in the world.  As Nicole Sandler pointed out today it seems that "Those with the least to complain about - complain the most" since by one source the Koch Brothers net worth had gone up almost by a factor of ten - - in the six years President Obama has been in office.  The idle rich have never had it so good!  But still they want more - - always more!  Rather than "sede the field to the minorities" as the righties claim to fear about the future - - rather - what was once the province of the fringe one percent where you wouldn't buy media coverage of your views- - now has become common place- and prevented as such on a major TV network.  Stephanie realized that most all of these things are in the Paul Ryan budget and as such have become "main stream" being generally accepted in today's republican party.  Stephanie also realized the extent- - and I didn't realize this ten years ago- - the extent to which a few of the most Idle ultra Rich call the tune with their money of American Politics.  If you'd asked me ten years ago I'd have been a whole less worried about money corrupting Campaigns than I am now.  It's not a realm of Ideas in open competetion any more but just massive volumes of money and as Stephanie says 'As much as the Koch Brothers have given in the past, they could afford to give a whole lot more and still not put a dent in their Capital.   Things like challenging the whole Premise of a Minimum Wage- - were considered fringe ideas 35 years ago, but not today.  As someone said yesterday "The rich already OWN everything else and they've run out of things to acquire so they want the very reins of government and control Human Minds.  It's not that they OPPOSE government.  They LOVE government as long as they ARE the Orwellian government of the future.  (Selah)   So in conclusion to this little paragraph- - the Best things progressives can do is show these old clips from the Libertarian party of 1980 and just show these guys in action and how they were received in those days as nut fringe cases- and ask yourself "what has changed?"

OK A COUPLE OF BEATLE ALBUMS THE WAY THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN RELEASED.  INDEED THE SGT PEPPER ALBUM HAD EVEN PROPOSED A DIFFERENT SONG ORDER, AND I WOULD NOW LIKE TO CONTINUE IN THAT SAME WHOLE VEIN.

SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND

Title Sgt Pepper Song   (in mono)
With a Little Help from My Friends  (in mono)
Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite (Stereo)
Fixing a Hole (Stereo) but re EQ this song to highlight the harpsichord and lead guitar
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (mono radio version)
Getting Better (no preference)
She's Leaving Home (original mono version)

Good Morning  (change the ending see * footnote)
When I'm 64  (Stereo)
Lovely Rita (Stereo)
Within You and Without You (no prefernce)
Sgt Peppers Represe (orig Mono version)
A Day in the Life (Blue CD dead start version)
Inner sleve blurbs (just one reiteration)

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR

Magical Mystery Tour (Mono Radio version)
Fool on the Hill (Stereo)
Flying (Stereo)
Blue Jay Way (Mono Radio version)
Your Mother Should Know (Stereo)
I Am The Walrus (Radio Mono version)

Hello, Goodbye
Only a Northern Song  (standard overdubbing)
All Together Now
Strawberry Fields Forever - "version seven" (from Anthology CD
It's All Too Much  (standard fade-out)

*spacial case with Good Morning.  You know how on the record the rest of the song kind of fades out and the animals take over like with the fox hunt.  Well I'd do a switcheroo.  I'd fade out the fox hunt and keep up the music- - along the lines of the Anthology version of "Good Morning' where you hear the guitars and Ringo's fabulous drumming.  So I'd have the Anthology except for when somebody says "Good morning' right at the end.  I'd leave that out.   And also with "Strawberry Fields" I think it would be better if you started "Too Much" with a second or two of fade out left to go- - as kind of a jarring interruption in your "peaceful fade-out".