Month: January 2012

The most egregious behavior of Right-wing Republicans concerns their total disrespect not only for the first African American President, but also for the Office of the Presidency, has reared its ugly head again.  Jan Brewer, the Governor of Arizona, is one of the most recent Obama “hate mongers” to come forth, followed by RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, and Allen West, a Tea Party Congressional Republican from Florida.  Each of these “government officials” represents the worst of right-wing hatred that continues to escalate to the highest pinnacle of fanaticism.  It astonishes me how any member of the Republican Party who calls themselves an American can embrace such disrespect yet Congressman West received a standing ovation from his constituency for his vicious remarks about the President of the United States.

I believe that Governor Brewer’s blatant disrespect for our President is a disgrace to her office.  She met President Obama on the tarmac as he got off Air Force One for a recent visit to Arizona.  Brewer apparently became uptight when President Obama expressed his disapproval of her characterization of a meeting he had with her in 2010.  So Brewer provided the ultimate disrespect to the President by pointing her finger in his face in a most hostile way.  Although President Obama down-played Brewer’s public display of disrespect, she issued a letter explaining how she came to point her finger at the President during their encounter on the landing strip.

According to Brewer, when she met President Obama on the tarmac on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, she gave him a handwritten letter inviting him to lunch and to survey the border.  Instead, he dressed her down about parts of her book, Scorpions for Breakfast, in which she described a previous encounter with the President in the Oval Office in which he was, in her words, “condescending, professorial, and patronizing.” Brewer added:  “I felt a little bit threatened, if you will, in the attitude that he had, because I was there to welcome him,” she said.

Why on earth did Brewer feel threatened by the President?  Was it because of the presence of the Secret Service agents as she stuck her finger in the president’s face, or was it because he is an African American and served as an unpleasant reminder of a stereotype that has plagued black men for ages: that no matter how gifted or composed they are, black men are “intimidating?”  Brewer’s blatant disrespect for the President highlights the fact that she is a poor excuse for a sitting governor.

Reprehensible Republican behavior continued when RNC Chairman Reince Priebus compared President Obama to the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that ran aground off the coast of Tuscany earlier this month that resulted in the deaths of at least 17 people.  On CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, January 29, 2012, Priebus said:  “In the end, in a few months, this is all going to be ancient history and we’re going to talk about our own little Captain Schettino, which is President Obama who is abandoning the ship here in the United States,” Priebus said. “He’s more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president.”  In the weeks since the accident, Francesco Schettino has been disgraced for his behavior both leading up to and during the crash, and has been charged with multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship in Italy.  So in another example of a disrespect for the President, the Chairman of the Republican Party has the unmitigated gall to compare the President to that of a person with multiple manslaughter charges!  Priebus was selected for the RNC Chairman position to replace Michael Steele because of Steele’s propensity to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, yet even Steele has criticized Priebus’ disgusting comments.

Congressman Allen West is a real “piece of work.”  Over the weekend of January 28, 2012, West said at a Lincoln Day Dinner for the Palm Beach County GOP, “We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain’t on the table.” He added, “Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.”  After a round of applause, West added, “Yeah I said ‘hell.”

Bob Beckel on Fox News’ “The Five” said Monday, January 31, 2012, “In my 30 years of politics, I have never heard anything more disgraceful in my life. I think Allen West owes an apology to a lot of people.” West responded today on “Fox and Friends” by saying he thought Beckel owed him an apology.  The good news for many is that West could face a difficult re-election in 2012, as his district becomes more Democratic under a redistricting plan approved by a state House panel.

Although the behavior of Brewer, Priebus and West is appalling, there is an unanticipated benefit being realized – these recent examples of blatant disrespect for President Obama has completely energized the minority community especially African Americans.  Many in the African American community soften their support of President Obama because they believed he had not done enough to highlight issues of concern to African Americans.  In fact, Cornel West and Tavis Smiley conducted a bus tour of America last year to point out the condition of Black America that were mostly critical of President Obama’s handling of the economy and on social issues including housing and homelessness in America.  Although their attacks on the President drew some critics, many in the Black community applauded West and Smiley.

But this week when photographs of Governor Brewer’s pointed finger in the face of President Obama as well as the Priebus and West’s disgraceful comments began to circulate around the internet, the African American community was galvanized.  Entertainers, church and political leaders are calling for an end to the disrespect shown to the first African American President of the United States.  In addition to the infighting within the Republican Party, their extreme right-wing radical component continues to support the Democratic Party in achieving unprecedented success in November 2012 including a second-term for President Obama.

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Republicans call “ObamaCare,” was signed into law on March 23, 2010.  This law passed the Senate on December 24, 2009, by a vote of 60-39 with all Democrats and two Independents voting for, and all Republicans voting against.  It passed the House on March 21, 2010, by a vote of 219-212, with 34 Democrats and all 178 Republicans voting against the bill.  ObamaCare is health care reform that focuses on health care funding, increasing coverage to over 33 million Americans, reducing cost, and removing the social burden that health care has become.  Republicans, especially candidates for President, continue to preach that ObamaCare adds to the deficit and bleeds jobs, and they pledge to “repeal” it once elected to the presidency.  However, among the 100,000 private sector jobs added to the economy in September 2011, the health care industry added 44,000 jobs with 13,000 being in hospitals and 26,000 in ambulatory services.

Republican presidential candidate Willard Mitt Romney continues to repeat a claim he has made in past debates — repealing the Obama health care law would save money — that has been refuted by nonpartisan fact checkers and analyses like those of the Congressional Budget Office.  Willard says that repealing the law would save $95 billion a year; however, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has projected that the health care law would actually reduce deficits by $210 billion in the first decade from fiscal year 2012 through 2021, given taxes, fees and health cost reductions mandated by the law.  That office also reported that legislation passed last year by House Republicans to repeal the law would increase deficits by the same amount.  Romney, of course, implemented similar health care legislation while Governor of Massachusetts.  He now believes that a government run health care system is good for his state but not good for the rest of the country.  Republican candidates should know that presidents cannot repeal legislation; only the Congress can do that.  So in the unlikely event that Willard becomes President, as long as the Senate or House is under democratic control, there will be no repeal of ObamaCare.

While the Congressional Budget Office has declined to put an exact figure on projected savings of the health care law beyond the first decade given the uncertainty of such long-range projections, it concluded that the savings would be in the range of half a percentage point of the nation’s gross domestic product, a substantial amount.  The Obama administration has projected that the savings in the second decade will exceed $1 trillion.  The law accomplishes what it was designed to do yet Republicans want to abolish it.

Right-wing radio talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, has been one of the most vociferous opponents of the health care law warning that “human beings will die earlier than normal” under the “freedom killing” and “life threatening” plan, and calling for it to be “aborted.”  During his radio program on March 9, 2010, Limbaugh said that “if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica.”  We’ll see in 2015 if Limbaugh really moves to Costa Rica.

It seems hypocritical that Republicans are against government run health care yet every Republican in Congress is benefiting from a government run health care system and to my knowledge, none have forfeited their right to receive such coverage.  If a government run health care system is good enough for all congressional representatives, why isn’t it good enough for middle-class America?  It may be more about replacing Obama as President than repealing ObamaCare, but that’s just my take.

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Without any facts to sustain his position, during his first radio commentaries of 2012, Rush Limbaugh continued his series of racial assaults on President Obama.  During the week of January 9, 2012, Limbaugh claimed that the Obama family think they are “owed” a lavish lifestyle “because of what’s been done” to them and their “ancestors,” that President Obama’s “plan” is “payback” against the “white Europeans” who “illegitimately founded” the United States, and Limbaugh claimed that President Obama believes the United States was “immoral in its founding” in part due to slavery.  Naturally, Limbaugh ended his 2011 show with the following racially tinged comment:

From the Rush Limbaugh Show, December 9, 2011

LIMBAUGH: “Snerdley, what do you think the odds are that Obama got confused Hanukkah and Kwanzaa?  When was Kwanzaa invented? No, ’66.  I looked it up.  Kwanzaa was invented 1966. Close enough. It was invented by a guy named Ron Karenga. Yeah. Yeah. His name was Ron Karenga but he had an alias, Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga.  So he was a doctor. And he invented Kwanzaa, which is a seven-day feast, runs December 26 to January 1. In 1966 he branded it a black alternative to Christmas. The idea was to celebrate the end of what Ron Karenga considered the Christmas season exploitation of African Americans. Now, what was that? What was the Christmas season exploitation of African Americans? Was it all the black Santa Clauses that were out there in the department stores? What was it then? What was the exploitation of African Americans at Christmastime? According to the official Kwanzaa website, as opposed to the Hallmark Cards Kwanzaa site, the celebration was designed to foster conditions that would enhance the revolutionary social change for the — anyway it also has a candelabra. It was seven days, seven candles instead of eight for Hanukkah, and you light ’em all at once. So Obama had a menorah there and he lit ’em all. I’m sure he thought it was Kwanzaa while talking about loyalty to Israel.”

From the Rush Limbaugh Show, January 9, 2012

LIMBAUGH: “Now, I believe that in addition to whatever drives Obama and his party ideologically, also near the top of the list is the pursuit of money without having to work for it. Being able to pass it out to their friends and set their friends up to be wealthy for the rest of their lives. I think there’s all kinds of that going on, too. And I think if you look at the way the Obamas live, with Michelle and her separate vacations and not being concerned about how much it costs to take separate airplanes — there’s no question in my mind that they view this as — whatever else they view it as, as an opportunity to live high on the hog without having it cost them a dime. And they justify it by thinking, “Well, we deserve this, or we’re owed this because of what’s been done to us and our ancestors all these” — who knows? I think that’s — I think that’s part of it.

From the Rush Limbaugh Show, January 11, 2012

LIMBAUGH:  “Obama has a plan. Obama’s plan is based on his inherent belief that this country was immorally and illegitimately founded by a very small minority of white Europeans who screwed everybody else since the founding to get all the money and all the goodies, and it’s about time that the scales were made even. And that’s what’s going on here. And that’s why the president is lawless, and that’s why there is no prosecution of the Black Panthers for voter intimidation, because it’s not possible for a minority to intimidate the white majority. It’s not possible. It’s always been the other way around. This is just payback. This is “how does it feel” time. That’s how he seems himself, pure and simple. He doesn’t see himself as a capitalist reformer saving a stupid automobile company. He sees this is his opportunity to take it away from the people who founded it and give it to the people he thinks have a moral right to it because somehow they have been taken advantage of, used, exploited, paid unfairly, what have you. Yeah, it’s socialist. “

From the Rush Limbaugh Show, January 12, 2012

LIMBAUGH: “I think Obama — and Giuliani’s right: [Obama’s] an Alinskyite. He has been taught, he’s been raised, educated, whatever. He’s got a deep resentment for this country. You know me. I have told you. I’m willfully naïve, I guess. I can’t get my arms around the fact that there are people born in this country who hate it. I know they do, they can explain to me the differences in ideology and so forth, I just — I’m never going to intellectually or emotionally understand it, even though I can explain it, it still makes no sense to me. Yet I know those people exist and I know that they are the people that taught Obama. They are among those who educated him, both in his family and at the institutions of higher learning and academe that he attended. I know that he thinks this is an unjust country that it was immoral in its founding for reasons including but greater than slavery. He thinks it was economically unjust and immoral. He thinks a bunch of rich white guys — this one percent versus 99 percent stuff, that’s how he thinks the country was founded and that the one percent has maintained themselves in total control of all the wealth since the days of the founding and that they take purposeful steps to keep everybody out of that club. He believes it. He thinks the only remedy for it is to take everything the one percent has and give it away to everybody else. Now the ulterior motives to that are entrenching his own power. I don’t think there’s benevolence in this. I don’t think Obama runs around every day feeling genuinely sorry for the 99 percent. I don’t think he’s motivated by altruism. I think he’s motivated by anger. He’s got a chip on his shoulder, a number of them.”

Although protected by the First Amendment, it continues to astonish me why Limbaugh is still on the air after spewing years of racially provoked commentary based on stuff he just makes up.  If a minority American engaged in such despicable behavior, I believe that some in the white community would “pull out all of the stops” to get that person taken off the air.  I fully expect Limbaugh to provide more race-baiting rhetoric against President Obama during 2012, but that’s just my take.

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