The Real Difference Between Obama Democrats and Republicans

I met with a couple of friends the other nite for dinner. We talked about the tax cut deal, and the conversation was very heated. Lot of shouting and yelling over dinner. I started the whole fight, but I don’t care. I was livid, and they deserved to hear my rage. They were both liberals, and both supported Obama’s tax plan sellout all the way as some sort of imperfect but acceptable compromise. I let em have it. At some point partway through the conversation, one of them pointed out that Obama and Dems were getting ready to do some good things. What good things? I was laughing. Well, for starters, there was Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal, which failed. Then there was the Dream Act, which will hopefully also fail. I snorted derisively at both of these bills. “They’re not important!” I huffed. They’re not. I’m an Economic Man. Economics (capital E) and Politics (capital P) are everything. Both are intertwined, one leads into the other and vice versa. They’re actually part of each other. Most of the rest is theater and sideshows. DODT and the Dream Act are Identity Politics BS, sexual orientation and race sideshows. I could care less about either of them, pretty much. They’re both pretty far down on my list of priorities. Later on, something crystallized. We have two neoliberal parties, two parties pursuing trickle-down, neoclassical, beggar the state, smash the workers, eviscerate the middle class, gorge the rich political economics. One pursues a milder version than the other. The milder ones are called Democrats. But the truth is that both parties are pursuing Republican economics, either light or hardcore. And Republican economics is heaping steaming toxic waste stew served to hundreds of millions. It’s as appealing to me as swallowing arsenic – it’s poison. Since both parties are shoving poison down my throat, what’s the difference? The difference was crystallized above. The Democrats offer the groovy race, gender and sexual orientation sideshows. For instance, this week, the Dems offered Republican economics, 190 proof this time instead of the usual near beer. But they did offer faggots and wetbacks for me to munch on while I waited for the arsenic main course. Dream Act is wetbacks, illegal aliens. I don’t think much of illegal aliens. A side dish of Deep Fat Fried Illegal Alien Sopapillas is one of the benefits of dining at Democrat Cafe. Yum! DODT is faggots. Faggots or queers, take your pick. I like fags even less than I like illegals, and I don’t like illegals at all. At Democrat Cafe, you finish your meal of Republican economics with a gigantic helping of Faggot Cheesecake. Delicious! So the Democrats are just Republican economics, plus faggots and illegal aliens. Republicans are Republican economics minus fags and wetbacks. Give me one reason I shouldn’t just vote Republican?

Robert Reich, "Obama's Tax Plan Is an Abomination"

Excellent! The public opposes it. 7 The deal costs an insane $900 billion over the next 2 years. It makes a mockery of deficit reduction. The deal eviscerates the estate tax, moving the exemption up to an insane $5 million and lowering the tax to a ridiculous 3 The economic stimulus will be about zero. Worse, according to Michael Hudson, it will worsen the economy, but apparently that’s the purpose of the bill! It loses Obama even more of his base, which is probably essential to him getting re-elected, as these are the folks who give money and put boots on the ground. A recent poll of Obama campaign donors found that 5 It makes Obama look weak. Weakness is all about appearances. If you look weak, you are weak. The Republicans got everything they wanted. That’s why they are sitting there with shit-eating grins on their faces. Every single “concession” that Obama claimed he got from the bill was actually proposed by the Republicans! In short, this bill is a flat out clusterfuck nightmare. The House Democratic Caucus took a vote on the bill and voted to not even hold a vote on it.Then Nancy Pelosi suddenly “went on vacation” to Europe. No vote can be held until she comes back. When is she coming back? Who knows. She ought to stay in Paris til Christmas!

Look at how sad Clinton looks. He looks like he's presiding over a funeral. He is. It's the funeral of the Democratic Party. The party was recently murdered by a man named Barack Obama.
The White House ramped up the pressure, pitifully calling in Bill Clinton to whore for Obama. This if anything exemplified the depths of the pitiful hole Obama has dug for himself. Watching the video, you got the feeling that Clinton’s heart wasn’t even in this sorry-ass performance, one of the lowest points of his political career. If nothing else, Clinton looked sad. Appropriately so. This is one sorry-ass bill. It needs to be buried in the graveyard at midnight with a stake through its heart so it can’t rise to haunt us again.

Update on Obama's Support on the Left

I said earlier that Obama was losing support on the Left like a sinking anchor. On reflection, that is not necessarily true. A recent poll found that Obama’s popularity was at 4 Obama’s still beats most comers in a 2012 election, except that for the first time, he loses to Mitt Romney by 2 points. I’m at a loss why Romney would be worse, as in more rightwing, than Obama. Can someone clue me in? Obama still has ~8 However, Obama’s insane triangulation crap has just begun. The rebellions against him are beginning among the hardcore liberal base of the party, the workers, paid and volunteer, who work for the party, for candidates, for politicians or for Democratic linked or allied organizations. I noted earlier that he has 2 Truth is that Kosniks are sort of like an early warning system. As political junkies, they are way ahead of the rest of society. How far ahead? Maybe nine months ahead. As Kos goes, so will go the rest of liberals, but the rest will be slow to bring up the end of the line. Even on Kos, his drop-off has been slow. But only in the past week or so, Obama has lost the support of some of his top diarists who have been promoting him for 2 years. There are still some pro-Obama posters on Kos. Here is an example of one of them. Their diaries are getting dog-piled with ferociously hostile comments. Here is one. 1,300 comments, probably almost all spitting with contempt. One wonders where Markos himself is in all of this. Markos after all runs Daily Kos. He also works for a centrist DNC like organization that split off from the DNC, so he’s not exactly a firebreathing liberal. Looking over Markos’ diaries for the last two weeks, it appears that he’s had it with Obama and is throwing in the towel. He’s not nearly as contemptous as most on the site towards the President, but his disgust is clear. Among pundits, we are seeing the same slow drop-off. Paul Krugman has been rooting for Obama for 2 years, seeing him as some liberal in hiding who is too phobic to come out and play with the other boys. In recent days, his tone has changed to puzzlement and even hints of hostility. Robert Reich threw his hands up a while ago. Dean Baker is giving up and walking away from the table. James K. Galbraith, his father’s son in more ways than one, is calling it a day on Obama. In the coming days, weeks and months, Obama will apparently continue to move towards the Right. As such, his support among liberals will continue to slowly drop off. I would be overjoyed to read a poll where Obama’s popularity was ~2 I’m dubious it will gain him much among independents either. There’s a myth about independents, that they are somehow in the middle between Republicans and Democrats. Really they are disenchanted former members of one or the other parties. In quite a few cases, they are to the Left of the Democratic Party. That’s why they are independent. The Dems are too rightwing for them. The truth is that there is a hard Right and a hard Left in the US, made up of hard liberals and hard conservatives. In between, instead of spit the difference types, is the mushy middle. They are more likely to have a finger to wind and sway with the tides back and forth. They are all about momentum. In 2008, liberals had momentum, so indies went for Obama. In 2010, conservatives had momentum, so indies went Tea Party. For the most part, these are low information voters who are not deep political thinkers. If Obama’s hard base sits on its hands and closes its wallets, Obama loses momentum, and may then lose the independents.

It's Official: Americans are Fascists

Polls don’t lie. 5

I’ve been feeling this way for 30 years or so, that Americans are fascists. I’m wondering if it’s always been this way though? Was there ever a time when polls have showed that a majority of Americans were not fascists?

For instance, Barack Obama’s fascist Administration is trying to prosecute Assange under a fascist US law called the Espionage Act, passed during the First Capitalist World War in 1917. It’s one of the worst laws ever passed in this country, and it was used to criminalize dissent during WW1. It was used again during WW2 to criminalize dissent again.

The court rulings during the war said that the act could be used to restrict any political expression that the government considered a “clear and present danger.” Apparently this is only operative during wartime, or at least during world wars. But subsequent rulings found that the Vietnam War did not meet the test of clear and present danger.

The fascist Nixon Administration tried to prosecute Daniel Ellsberg using this fascist law. The courts ruled that Ellsberg was a journalist, and he had whistle-blower’s rights to release the Pentagon Papers. There have been repeated attempts at prosecution using this Act since then, but all have failed in the courts. At this point, the courts have slapped down Espionage Act prosecutions so many times that the very constitutionality of the Act itself is in question.

I am curious what the polls at the time showed? Did they show support for Ellsberg (the anti-fascist position) or did they support the state (the fascist position)?

It’s a poignant question. Have Americans always been fascists? How sad that I should even have to ask that.

Did Michael Bloomberg Just Show Up on My Site?

I just received this comment on my site, signed by Micheal Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, with a link to his website and his purported email. Is this really him? Would a professional politician really use such language where he could be quoted on it? It’s either him or someone pretending to be him.

Mr. Lindsay, My name is Michael Bloomberg, BloomBERG you fucktard. My friends call me Mike, but it is Mr. Bloomberg to you, piece of shit commie. Further, with my hard earned $18 Billion, I could buy you into slavery and sell you to the gypsies you worthless prick. So next time you call out America’s 4th most generous philanthropist on your pitiful site, try to get my name right.

The Idiocy of Tax Cuts and Tax Credits in the Middle of a Debt Crisis

From here:

In the tax-phobic United States, the Congressional Budget Office estimates the debt-to-GDP ratio, currently at 62 per cent, will rise to 87 per cent by 2020. Five years later, it will stand at 109 per cent. And by 2035 it will be 185 per cent.

Are these estimates actually any good? If so, they are rather frightening, are they not? At the Left Business Observer, Doug Henwood did his own calculations and said that the budget deficit would hit 10 If the estimates are fact, then we will indeed be facing a debt crisis in 15 years. Not in 10 years. In 15 years. But at the same time, if those estimates are true, it shows what complete, total and utter shit both political parties, the Republicans and Democrats, and the vast majority of Americans actually are. That’s right. Americans are shit. You heard me right. I’ve felt this way for 30 years now, and I feel more and more this way all the time. The reason I say this is because Americans and their politicians are insane scum. Why? Because if we are facing a budget crisis, then we need austerity. This is what 10 1. Cut spending 2. Raise taxes. The response of American insane scum to our deficit is to cut taxes! All through the Reagan Administration, it was cut, cut, cut, cut taxes. Clinton came in, and every month there was a new tax cut or credit for this or that. The tax cut madness went truly insane during the Bush Administration, and Obama has kept it up. It seems like every other day, Obama is calling for some new tax cut or tax credit. The shit media practically had multiple orgasms every time they heard  happened. But I kept wondering when it was all going to come due. After all, all this looney tax cuts and tax credits do is starve the state of funds. As a Big Government socialist, of course I think starving the state is a terrible idea. Sooner or later, you will have to cut programs to deal with the shortfall, or barring that, you will end up with a terrible deficit crisis. So here we are, with the possibility of a terrible budget crisis. The spending cuts are on the table. New ones seem to come down the pike every damn day. I don’t like it, but at least it’s sane if you’re doing the austerity thing. On the other hand, instead of raising taxes as we must under an austerity regime, the psychotic tax cutting and tax credits have continued or even accelerated. That’s going to wipe out all of your spending cuts, and the deficit crisis will either stay the same or worsen. It’s psychotic behavior; it makes no sense at all. I’m not aware of a single other nation that has been stupid enough to do this. The truth is that the tax cutting is actually based on an insane ideology. The ideology is supply side economics. This junk economics school, which has captured the entire media, both parties and the overwhelming majority of US economists for 30 years now, says this: Tax cuts do not starve the state. On the contrary, the more you cut taxes, the more the economy goes, so the more state revenues rise. The more you cut taxes, the better funded the state is. This appears counterintuitive to anyone with a working brain, but it’s has enough “common sense” logic to fool tens of millions of American morons. We now have 30 years of evidence that supply side economics have failed. The massive Bush tax cuts have not created one single job. On the contrary, they resulted in the loss of 9 million jobs! Believing in supply side economics is as rational as believing that the CIA has planted electrodes in your brain and Martians are monitoring your every movement. We properly call folks who believe in such things psychotic and we try to give them medication to treat their mental illness. But what do you do when an entire news media, 9

Islamist Bombers Attack Sweden

1 dead, 2 wounded in blasts attacking Christmas shoppers in Stockholm. The dead man was apparently a bomber on foot. He was carrying a bag of pipe bombs and they seem to have exploded, either accidentally or on purpose is not known. The press was calling it a suicide bombing, but police are not sure. Video of the blast here. A while earlier, a car bomb had gone off in a shopping center. There was no one in the car. Before the blasts, the Swedish press had received threats from Islamists threatening attacks against Sweden for their presence in Afghanistan and the recent cartoons of Mohammad by a Swedish cartoonist. The 2 wounded people suffered minor injuries. The blasts seem to have been carried out by an Al Qaeda type group, because AQ groups are the ones who threaten to bomb Europe over Mohammad cartoons and troops in Afghanistan.

Great News!

Now at least we don’t have to prosecute the scumbag. The only reason his Dad went to prison at all is because Bernie Boy stole from the rich, and rich Jews at that. You might be able to steal from rich people in the US, but the Hell you can steal from rich Jews. We know who runs this country. Bernie messed up by not stealing from the poor like all other rich Americans do. If he would have stolen from the poor instead of the rich, Madoff could have had a Cabinet position now if he wanted it.

Blacks Are Calling Obama a "Punk"

Some Blacks are now turning on Obama, as I noted earlier. In the Black Agenda Report article (by the way, excellent site!), some of them were calling Obama a “punk.” The contempt and hate was positively dripping off their comments as they wrote this. On Daily Kos, I saw more people calling him a “punk.” Since Whites don’t generally use that word, I assume it’s mostly Blacks calling him that, probably mostly Black males. Alpha tells me that in the Black community, “punk” means an extremely passive and weak male. Originally it meant the passive partner in male homosexual sex, or a “bottom” if you will. Black culture is extremely homophobic, so “punk” is a bad word because extremely weak and passive males, homosexual or not, are held in extreme contempt in particularly male Black culture. I suppose this is the same as “punk-ass bitch.” Sometimes the local Hispanic kids call each other that. Them’s fighting words. Whites will call another White a “bitch,” and those are fighting words too. All these terms probably have the same meaning.

Last Pro-Obama Diarist Left on Daily Kos

I guess there might be a few more left. This idiot, a “fiscal conservative” (rightwing scumbag) praises Obama for a great week (LOL). She gets mercilessly reamed and pounded in the comments. She also can’t write worth a crap, and her diary doesn’t even make sense. The tax cuts for the rich are going to stimulate the economy? WTF? I call bullshit on that. We’ve had 30 years of this insane, endless tax-cutting supply side crap. Does anyone feel better off? Isn’t quite clear that the deficit crisis is a result of 30 results of tax-cutting mania? Duh. Supply side economics didn’t work in 1980, and it isn’t working now. Worse, it’s destroyed the economy. So Obama’s solution is to keep doing more of it. I guess there are a few more of these idiots left, but this is the only one I could find today. Check out this rhetoric. Decent Democrats are “the traitorous Left.” Straight out of Barack’s teleprompter.

Daily Kos Is In Open Rebellion Against Obama

Daily Kos is one of the largest sites on the Internet. In a word, this is the base of the Democratic Party. It’s also the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. It’s not correct to call this the left wing of the Democratic Party because Kosniks are not Leftists. These are not crazies or fanatics or nuts, not Communists or socialists or any of that. Instead, they are simply liberal Democrats. But the base of the Democratic Party are liberals just as the base of the Republican Party are conservatives. It’s run by a guy named Markos who is in deep with the Democratic Party itself. Posters to Daily Kos are political junkies and dedicated Democratic Party supporters. Many of them are financial contributors to the Democratic Party. Many others have paid positions working for the party, for Democratic politicians, for Democratic-linked organizations, etc. Even more are Democratic Party volunteers. A good way to describe the site is that it is the grassroots base of the Democratic Party. Markos has been supporting Obama all along, as have most of the posters. But in recent days, ever since the November election, something shocking has occurred. Almost the entire Daily Kos site is now in open rebellion against Barack Obama. Kos polls shows that 2 What’s even worse is if you go to the comments sections. About 9 Pro-Obama types are meek and quiet and are reduced to making lame arguments about this or that latest rightwing capitulation. Obama had to, he had no choice, Fox News forced him, liberals forced him by not voting, mean Republicans threatened him, Republicans would be worse, this was the best deal he could get, Obama’s actually playing an 11th dimension chess game that no one but he understands, liberals didn’t clap loud enough, on and on and on. What’s amazing is not that there are so few Obama supporters, but that their arguments are so pitiful, weak and laughable. Obama’s own base is armed with pitchforks and torches, marching against him on the outskirts of town. His campaign volunteers are resigning en masse. His big money contributors are throwing in the towel. Legions who voted for him are going cold turkey and vowing never to drink Obama 190 Proof again. This is actually a breathtaking spectacle.

Another Catastrophic Sellout from Obama

This time on the environment. Obama’s getting tired of throwing people under the bus, so this time, he’s throwing the planet under the bus. Obama: Change we can believe in. Air we can’t breathe in. I don’t know much about Obama and the environment. Has he done anything good on the environment at all? Can someone clue me in? All I can think of are bad things he has done on the environment. I guess that figures if he’s been a rightwing Democrat all along. Obama caves in on new environmental regulations for polluting industries.

The Obama administration is retreating on long-delayed environmental regulations — new rules governing smog and toxic emissions from industrial boilers. The move to delay the rules, announced this week by the Environmental Protection Agency, will leave in place policies set by President George W. Bush. President Obama ran for office promising tougher standards, and the new rules were set to take effect over the next several weeks.

In other words, Obama = George Bush, right? I always hated it when people said that, but increasingly, it seems to be true. Obama. You traitorous bastard. You piece of shit. From the tone of the article, the New York Times seems very happy with these changes. The EPA says it “needs more time to make its decision.” But they said that 3 months ago.

But in a striking turnabout, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute — which have been anything but friendly to Mr. Obama — are praising his administration.

Isn’t that wonderful? Obama’s new best friends are Fox News, the NAM, the Republican Party and the Wall Street Journal. Hey, you never have too many friends, right, Obama?

“We also hope EPA will now reconsider other costly and unworkable proposals,” such as a planned rule to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, said Howard Feldman, API’s director of regulatory and scientific affairs.

The American Petroleum Institute wants to “friend” you too, Obama. Just click yes on your Facebook page to be friends with the API! What’s he doing? Trying to get votes? There are no votes in opposing the environment. It’s a solid vote-getter. I don’t get it, unless Obama’s been anti-environment from the very start, like Clinton. That’s the only thing that makes sense.

Obama Sells Out on Israel

After the party was beaten in November, Obama and his idiot buddies took home exactly the wrong message. One of them was that the Dems got creamed because Obama was too liberal. One way he was too liberal, I assume, was in his extremely principled opposition to continuing settlement building in the West Bank. This noble line was pursued for two years. This was one of the hardest US lines against Israel in a very long time, possibly in 30-40 years. Now, after November, Obama announced a new line. The Administration will abandon its opposition to continued Israeli settlement building. Reason: Such opposition was making a peace settlement difficult, and the Administration wants to concentrate on a peace settlement. LOL! The Jewish Lobby, including JStreet, the leftwing of the Jewish Lobby, was beside itself. JStreet confidently told me that the US insistence on Israeli halting settlement building was “getting in the way of a negotiated settlement.” LOL, what is that, some kind of a joke? Another rightwing move by Obama. The tax cut deal will not be a lone compromise. Obama is just getting started. For the next two years, nearly every new day will see a new rightwing outrage by Obama. Brace yourselves.

Black Agenda Report on Obama

This actually makes a lot of sense. Obama’s never been for the people, he’s never been one of us. He’s militaristic, imperialistic, pro-corporate hack from Day One. When he appointed Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles to head the Cat Food Commission, Obama made it clear he was determined to destroy the entire New Deal. I am convinced that Barack Obama is determined to shred every last bit of our safety net in the name of deficit reduction. That’s his agenda. That’s why he’s in power. With Obama, America is headed for an utterly terrifying and unmitigated disaster from a pro-people POV. With Obama, I guess the nightmare might be somewhat delayed a bit. With Republicans, the catastrophe may well be accelerated. This is the choice we voters have. Why did Obama engage in the biggest transfer of wealth in human history, $13 billion, to Wall Street? Because Barack is a rightwing, corporatist hack. Wall Street campaign contributions put him in office. His real name is Wall Street Barack Obama. Why did Obama go on the military offensive around the world? Because he’s the head of the US empire, and a militarist and imperialist to the very core of his being. Why did Obama blow off his very own people, Black and Brown communities across America deliberately targeted for foreclosure destruction by bankster criminals in the FIRE sector? Because bankster crooks are Barack’s buddies, and because Barack doesn’t give two flying shits about the realities of Black and Brown America. He doesn’t live in that world. Barack is a multimillionaire. He lives in the world of plutocrats and he represents his class very well. The Black Agenda Report supports the Black community as much as any entity out there. Glen Ford is the best. His site shows you can be a proud Black who loves his community and still have contempt for the first Black President. The comments at the end are excellent. Almost all readers of BAR are liberal to leftwing Blacks. One after the other, Black men and women in those pound the living crap out of Obama! Good! Smash him!

Neville Obama Goes to Munich, Obtains Peace in Our Time

Barack Obama as Neville Chamberlain. Indeed.
Barack as Neville Chamberlain. Or better yet, Barack as George McFly in Back to the Future.
Barack McFly in Whiteface, being tormented by a bully.
Or perhaps the Neville Chamberlain analogy is best after all.
Barack Chamberlain in another lifetime.
The truth is actually much worse. Barack is not a sellout at all. He really is a Blue Dog Democrat, a rightwing Democrat. He told the horrible New York Times reporter Matt Bai privately that he sees himself as a Blue Dog Democrat, a fiscal conservative Democrat. These are the rightwing Democrats that are going extinct. So it’s actually not true that Obama won’t fight. This is the line that liberal Obama supporters like Paul Krugman have held out for. Obama ran as a progressive, when all this time, he’s been a Blue Dog, rightwing Democrat. Obama will fight, but he only fights the liberal wing of his party! He fought them tooth and nail during the health care debate, so viciously that he frankly stomped their asses into the dirt. Look at the determination on his face and the rage, contempt and sheer hatred in Barack’s voice in recent days. You hear that hate in his voice when he talks about his base. When he talks about Republicans, he sounds clinical, like he’s reading a dictionary. He’s fighting like a madman. Who? The liberals in his own base, of course! Obama doesn’t compromise with Blue Dog Democraps and reactionary Republicans – those are his pals. He makes peace to them, makes love to them. Obama essentially agrees with reactionary Republicans! That’s why he goes along with them right away and seems to be folding. He isn’t folding at all; he agreed with the Republicans all along! I don’t understand why Blacks continue to support this fraud. They may as well support rightwing Blacks like Thomas Sowell, Colin Powell, Pastor Manning or Condoleeza Rice. Barack’s an Uncle Tom. He only looks Black. Barack Obama is just another lousy rightwing White politician pushing White, rightwing politics. He’s ought to be the sworn enemy of 9 In fairness, it’s going to be hard for most Blacks to swallow the reality of Barack Obama as a sellout, Uncle Tom friendly Black face for the White man. The dream of the first Black president was a glorious one, and it will be hard for Blacks to accept the pain of his total and abject failure. Most will probably support him in a very lackadaisical, lazy and unmotivated way until the bitter end. If J.C. Watts was President, would Blacks line up behind him?

You Could Always Support the Maoists

Patrick asks: The “communists” in America attack real socialist countries like Cuba and attack countries striving to make real socialist reforms like Venezuela. American “communists” attack the real reds while simultaneously they make excuses for the Democratic Party appeasing their capitalist masters. American “communists” have just become another ideological appendage of the capitalist worldview. QUESTION: What can a American who is a real red support if even the “communist” party in America is infiltrated by capitalist rhetoric.

First of all, I would like to say that these two sentences have a lot of truth to them: American “communists” attack the real reds while simultaneously they make excuses for the Democratic Party appeasing their capitalist masters. American “communists” have just become another ideological appendage of the capitalist worldview. Indeed, indeed. I suppose one could always go Maoist. There’s the Revolutionary Communist Party, but they don’t say much of anything about Obama. Most of the party is Black, and they mostly talk about police brutality, prisoner’s rights and whatnot. At this point, it’s nothing more than a gigantic cult revolving around their leader, Bob Avakian. He has essentially formed a personality cult around himself. There has been a big debate about this in Maoist circles lately, with a lot of good work coming out of India. Bottom line is that Commie personality cults have got to go. They criticize worship of sky-Gods, yet demand that we worship a mere mortal man. Screw that. The Kasama Project are some Maoists who are doing a lot of interesting thinking. They are mostly exiles from the RCP and Avakian’s idiot cult. An article from yesterday blasts Obama. I’m not about to join a US Maoist party. Way too radical for my tastes. I’m more of a Castroite, sorry.

CPUSA "Neutral" on Republican Obama's Tax Cut Sellout

Here. That does it. I am leaving this party! The CPUSA (Communist Party USA) has pursued a policy since the Clinton Administration of supporting the Democratic Party through thick and thin as the lesser of two evils, the major evil being the Republicans. When the whole rest of the Democratic Party base has thrown in the towel on this Presidential disaster, the CPUSA will be the last folks on the left still waving the Obama flag. It all boils down to the one year of unemployment extensions. Everything is worth it for these idiot Commies to get another measly year of unemployment extensions. I guess if we have to kill 6 million Jews in a ” best deal we can get compromise” to get another year of unemployment extensions, it’s worth it. The comments are sickening. “This is not the time to start attacking Obama.” “We must support the President.” “The Republicans are the real enemy here.” “I support Obama!” I think what’s going on here is that the CPUSA is now basically a Black and increasingly Hispanic political party. There are not that many Whites in the party, and it seems like most of the Whites are Jews. So the blind support for the Republican Obama is part and parcel of Blacks’ continuing strong loyalty to him, based mostly on race apparently and the idea that he is some Black liberal savior. The real problem with Obama is that it is becoming rapidly clear that Barack Obama’s Presidency is a catastrophe. So the first Black man to become President of the US was a disastrous failure as President. That’s bad. It makes people not want to elect another Black as President because he will only be a clusterfuck like Obama. Obama is poisoning the well for future Black political prospects.

Smash Obama Now!

This is an excellent petition that is making the go-rounds. Obama is lashing out at his own base. His top aide, ultra-scumbag Republican Rahm Emmanuel, recently called Obama’s base “fucking retards“. Barack’s Republican press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said the base “needs drug testing.” We’ve had it with this piece of crap Obama. This letter lays out pretty well, but in sketchy detail that was probably necessary due to the format, Humanity’s case against the Republican Traitor Barack Obama. I added my own name to the list since I’m just as great and ought to be as famous as most of those listed.

An Open Letter to the Left Establishment

A call to Michael Moore, Norman Solomon, Katrina van den Heuvel, Michael Eric Dyson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Thomas Frank, Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jesse Jackson Jr., and other high profile progressive supporters of the Obama electoral campaign to actively support protests against the Obama administration. With the Obama administration beginning its third year, it is by now painfully obvious that the predictions of even the most sober Obama supporters were overly optimistic. Rather than an ally, the administration has shown itself to be an implacable enemy of reform. It has advanced repeated assaults on the New Deal safety net (including the previously sacrosanct Social Security trust fund), jettisoned any hope for substantive health care reform, attacked civil rights and environmental protections, and expanded a massive bailout further enriching an already bloated financial services and insurance industry. It has continued the occupation of Iraq and expanded covert and overt wars in South Asia and across the globe. Along the way, the Obama administration, which referred to us on the left as “f***ing retarded” individuals who required “drug testing,” stepped up the prosecution of federal war crime whistleblowers, and unleashed the FBI on those protesting the escalation of an insane war. Obama’s recent announcement of a federal worker pay freeze is cynical, mean-spirited “deficit-reduction theater”. Slashing Bush’s plutocratic tax cuts would have made a much more significant contribution to deficit reduction but all signs are that the “progressive” president will cave to Republican demands for the preservation of George W. Bush’s tax breaks for the wealthy Few. Instead Obama’s tax cut plan would raise taxes for the poorest people in our country. The election of Obama has not galvanized protest movements. To the contrary, it has depressed and undermined them, with the White House playing an active role in the discouragement and suppression of dissent – with disastrous consequences. The almost complete absence of protest from the left has emboldened the most right-wing elements inside and outside of the Obama administration to pursue and act on an ever more extreme agenda. We are writing to you because, as well-known writers, bloggers and filmmakers with access to a range of old and new media, you have in your power the capacity to help reignite the movement which brought millions onto the streets in February of 2003 but which has withered ever since. There are many thousands of progressives who follow your work closely and are waiting for a cue from you and others to act. We are asking you to commit yourself to actively supporting the protests of Obama administration policies which are now beginning to materialize. In this connection we would like to mention a specific protest: the civil disobedience action being planned by Veterans for Peace involving Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Joel Kovel, Medea Benjamin, Ray McGovern, several armed service veterans and others to take place in front of the White House on Dec. 16th. Should you commit yourselves to backing this action and others sure to materialize in weeks and months ahead, what would otherwise be regarded as an emotional outburst of the “fringe left” will have a better chance of being seen as expressing the will of a substantial majority not only of the left, but of the American public at large. We believe that your support will help create the climate for larger and increasingly disruptive expressions of dissent – a development that is sorely needed and long overdue. We hope that we can count on you to exercise the leadership that is required of all of us in these desperate times. Best Regards, Sen. James Abourezk Rocky Anderson Jared Ball Russel Banks Thomas Bias Cheryl Biren Noam Chomsky Bruce Dixon Frank Dorrel Gidon Eshel Jamilla El-Shafei Okla Elliott Justin Fielding (aka “Vast Left”) Norman Finkelstein Glen Ford Joshua Frank Margaret Flowers M.D. John Gerassi Henry Giroux Matt Gonzalez Kevin Alexander Gray Judd Greenstein DeeDee Halleck John Halle Chris Hedges Doug Henwood Edward S. Herman Dahr Jamail Rob Kall Louis Kampf Allison Kilkenny Jamie Kilstein Joel Kovel Mark Kurlansky Peter Linebaugh Scott McClarty Cynthia McKinney Dede Miller Russell Mokhiber Bobby Muller Christian Parenti Michael Perelman Peter Phillips Louis Proyect Ted Rall Michael Ratner Robert Lindsay Cindy Sheehan Paul Street Sunil Sharma Lambert Strether Jeffrey St. Clair Len Weinglass Cornel West Sherry Wolf Michael Yates Mickey Z Kevin Zeese Sign the petition here.

Ultra-Traitor, Republican Bill Clinton Lines Up With Barack OHoover

The shame is here. In 2012, we will have a choice: You can vote Republican, possibly Tea Party, for terrifying reactionary party that is to the right of Genghis Khan. You can vote for a liberal Republican named Barack Obama. You vote for a zillionaire named Mike Bloomberg, mayor of New York city, who is double the corporatist outrage that Barack OTraitor is. Bloomberg has been gleefully slashing away like mad any people program he can find in the City. He’s bought and paid for by Wall Street. We ought to just call him Wall Street Mayor Bloomberg.

At Obama’s side, Clinton backs tax deal WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance at President Barack Obama’s side on Friday to back the tax cut compromise Obama negotiated with Republicans. “I don’t believe there is a better deal out there,” Clinton told reporters in the White House briefing room who’d been summoned at a moment’s notice to see the former chief executive back the current one. Clinton and Obama had just finished a private meeting in the Oval Office. Obama said it was a “terrific meeting” and then turned the podium over to Clinton. The voluble former president took it away, and Obama left part-way through his remarks, saying he had holiday parties to attend. “Both sides are going to have to eat some things they don’t like,” Clinton told reporters. “We don’t want to slip back into a recession. We’ve got to keep this thing going and accelerate its pace. I think this is the best available option.”

Implicitly ruling out a return to the tax policy that he enacted in 1993, President Clinton argued that delaying a deal to extend Bush tax cuts would only strengthen the Republican position. And what exactly was the problem with the tax system in 1993? Absolutely nothing whatsoever. What’s the sense of all of these insane tax cuts in the midst of a so-called deficit crisis? It makes no sense at all. You don’t cut taxes in the middle of a deficit crisis. I don’t believe that any of these scumbags on either side of the aisle care about the deficit, either that, or they care about it to the extent that they are trying to making it worse.

Obama's Donors Say They Will Cut Him Off

Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes! A number of Obama’s largest donors have said that they will stop giving him money if he allows this tax cut outrage to go through. That’s hitting the traitorous bastard where it hurts! This is the only thing that counts in today’s politics – money. Nothing else matters. Money is the only thing that OHoover will listen to.

The Social Security Time Bomb in the Tax Cut Deal

Some little-reported aspects of the deal: The Bottom line is that no one will probably want to raise the payroll tax to its old rate, so the new rate will stay. This will deprive Social Security of its needed funding and will mean that Social Security will go into crisis twice as fast as otherwise. Social Security was put in by FDR deliberately as a pay as you go system. You pay in, you get it back. When you stop paying in as this plan does, the system goes bankrupt. Republicans have always tried to make SS a welfare program like all the rest, limiting it to the poorest of poor. That’s a nice way to kill off a program. Programs only for the poor make poor programs because the middle classes are taxed for a program that they don’t benefit from. It also plays into racism as Whites objected to “hard-working White tax dollars going to lazy, worthless criminal niggers.” So it was correct to make SS universal. Universal programs have the best chance of surviving. Means-testing a program is a good way to kill it off. As Social Security gets progressively deprived of funding, the deficit crisis will explosively worsen. But that’s the purpose of this Republican Trojan Horse – to deliberately create a budget crisis. The pressure will grow and soon become overwhelming to make major cuts in SS, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. I believe that this Republican Trojan Horse is actually setting up SS to privatize it and allow it to be destroyed by Wall Street vulture banksters. Obama will probably go along with the destruction of SS as this seems to have been his goal since he got into office. Obama seems like a Great White Shark following the blood trial of Social Security. He’s determined to follow that trail through the political sea until he finds his prey, tens of millions of bleeding seniors, widows and disabled, whom he will smugly tear to shreds. Social Security does not need to be cut, much less gutted.

Go Bernie Go!

From Bernie Sanders, Senator from Vermont. Sanders is filibustering the tax cut outrage in the Senate right now as I write this! I just called my Senator and told them to support his filibuster. Watch Sanders’ filibuster live here! He’s been filibustering for 6 years now. Go Bernie go!

President Obama is right about one thing — Republicans in Congress are holding the middle class hostage. We have a $13.8 trillion national debt, a collapsing middle class and the most unequal distribution of wealth of any major country. With all this in mind, Republicans in Congress say they will block tax cuts to the middle class and block unemployment benefits to more than two million families unless the President gives huge tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. Their behavior is morally bankrupt. It is reprehensible. But instead of challenging the Republicans for their absurd demands and their outrageous tactics, the President gave them virtually everything they wanted. I cannot and will not support this deal. I will do everything I can to uphold the promise made to the American people to end the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Join me and my friends at Democracy for America today and sign our pledge calling on Congress to reject this deal. One of the most underreported parts of this deal is a cut to the Social Security payroll tax. In just one year, over $120 billion of revenue will be cut from Social Security under the President’s compromise plan, weakening the program and virtually guaranteeing benefit cuts in the future. Make no mistake about it. Social Security has not added one dime to the national debt and this cut will only embolden Republican attempts to privatize the program and increase the age of retirement. Social Security is a vital safety net for all Americans and a cornerstone of our commitment to protect the middle class. We are not alone in standing against this compromise. Republicans are holding the middle class hostage and the American people know it. I come from a small state and yesterday my office received more than 1,000 calls on this issue, with over 9 Last night, thousands of DFA members joined me on DFA Live where we had a lively discussion on this issue. One thing was clear to me during that call — DFA members nationwide want Democrats to stop this deal and fight for the middle class, working people, senior citizens and the unemployed while making sure that millionaires and billionaires are not given massive tax breaks.

How Stalin's Collectivization Drive Defeated Hitler

John UK points out some of the lies about Stalin’s admittedly brutal collectivization drive:

The same can be said of Stalin and the pre WW2 Soviet era which thankfully despite the archives being edited to fit an anti-Stalin tone since the times of Khrushchev onwards despite his 5 year plan and collectivization program being a success which stopped sporadic famine outbreaks since the civil war which ended in 33 and if he had taken no action millions would have died anyway.

The truth is that Stalin’s collectivization efforts, brutal and bloody as they were, allowed us to defeat Hitler. Without Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture, we may have lost the war against Hitler. Keep in mind that 8 Collectivization of ag was necessary in order to feed the huge population of workers that Stalin needed to do his massive industrialization efforts. It is true that during the 1930’s in the USSR it has been said that never had a nation accomplished so much in so little time. Then recall that somehow the Soviets were able to move all of their industry east of the Urals in order to deal with the Nazi invasion. The pre-collectivization situation was no good at all. Your average peasant had a small plot, often rectangular, that he plowed in a primitive fashion with a hand-held plow. He grew barely enough to feed himself and often not even that. He lived in misery on the edge of starvation, disease and death and had been mercilessly exploited by kulaks forever. This was clearly extremely inefficient agriculture. The kulak rebellion was bloody, and you can say that Stalin dealt with it in a genocidal fashion. 390,000 Ukrainians died in the anti-kulak campaign. A good part of the harvest collapse of 1932 that killed so many people was caused by the kulaks, who in rebellion had destroyed 5 Clearly, the kulaks had to be stopped. Sure, people died in a famine, but the kulaks were trying to starve the whole country!

Mao Zedong: Greatest Humanitarian That Ever Lived

John UK asks:

It is said more people died in India than in China during Mao’s rule is this true?

Yes, between 1949-1979, there were 100 million excess deaths in India over and above the deaths in China. That is, 100 million deaths occurred in India due to not following the Chinese model. The excess deaths are continuing at a rate of 4 million/year and by now they should be about 170 million. So capitalism in India has killed 170 million over and above the deaths in China, by not following the Chinese model. We know this because China and India were at the same level in 1949 and now China has vastly surpassed India. All this Mao was the biggest murderer of all time crap are nothing but lies. Indian capitalism killed many times more than Mao did. Instead of being the greatest murderer ever, Mao was the greatest humanitarian that ever lived. He doubled life expectancy from 32 in 1949 to 65 in 1980, setting a world record. Mao saved more lives than any human being that’s ever lived. In only one year did the death rate exceed that of prerevolutionary China, in 1959 in the middle of Great Leap famine. Even most of the years of the Great Leap and during all of the Cultural Revolution, the death rate was below, typically far below, the rate of 1949. Since China has headed to capitalism, schools and medical clinics have closed all over the land. Lack of health care is killing millions of Chinese people. Health care is now only available for pay, and most people can’t afford health care or medications, so when they get sick, they hope they get better, and if not, they just die. The entire US media and both political parties have never stopped cheering for this miserable state of affairs.

A Possible Explanation for Obama's Politics

Wade offers an explanation for Obama’s puzzling behavior, which makes no sense at all if you see him as a liberal Democrat, because he’s clearly not one. That Republicans call him a socialist or a Communist is some kind of a sick joke.

RL: The movement towards a European style social democracy with the rich scum finally constrained and the working man finally able to get a fair slice of pie was too much for Barack. Wade: The problem here is that the colored bourgeois is just as hostile to the lower classes as the white bourgeois. The want to harness minority anger and resentment and channel it into support for them which they’ll use to get more minority programs that they can position themselves in as the main beneficiaries. They don’t want to overturn the system, they just want to be cut in.

You’re right. Barack Obama is a Black member of the plutocracy. He’s pro-plutocrat because he’s a plutocrat himself. He wages war on the lower classes because that’s what Barack’s ultra-wealthy top

Barack "Traitor" Obama: "Ronald Reagan is the Politican I Most Admire."

It’s amazing we didn’t pick up on this crap back in the primaries. Barack isn’t a socialist, a Communist, a liberal, or even a moderate. In fact, he’s not even a Democrat! He’s a Reaganite. In short, Barack Obama is a Reagan Democrat. Here is Obama from the primaries, heaping praise on the Republican Party and especially on Ronald Reagan, Barack’s hero. Here, here, here and here. He later clarified what he meant. Things had gotten out of control in the 1960’s and 1970’s, he said. Apparently, the feminist and civil rights movements and in general, the movement towards a European style social democracy with the rich scum finally constrained and the working man finally able to get a fair slice of pie was too much for Barack. Reagan put those uppity wage-slaves, little people, bitches and niggers back in the place, didn’t he, Barack? Oh yes! Barack also clarified that government had “grown and grown” in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Actually, this is a lie. The US government exploded after World War 2 and it’s been shrinking ever since. What did grow was US government responsiveness to the people in terms of a commitment to a more democratic society. Apparently this is what elitist Barack Obama, multimillionaire, is so pissed about. The little people for finally getting a place at the table, and plutocratic servant Obama says we can’t have that. Barack? Reagan is your hero? You bastard!

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