Poll: Does the Citizens United decision mean the end of democracy in America?
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Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:43 PM EDT
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Since GOP did not hear us loud & clear in 2008. We will make it clearer in 2012. We the people are the leaders of this country & they must hear us loud & clear & honor our wishes & stop all these GOP self-inflicted wars showcasing their hatred of anyone who disagrees with them. We will change congress in November. We must get things done. We will no longer pay them to say no, no, no like a 2yrs old child. It's a major waste of money. We will replace those entire obstructionists in every election.
The ability to hate is no match for genuine likeness or love. Therefore, we will defect their hatred again in November. There is no comparison between love & hate. Hate should not rule this country, love should. This election may get as ugly as their birther rhetoric. Remember, they cannot keep me from liking who I like, same way they cannot keep my gay friends from loving who they love. You cannot pray away the gay, GOP. You used fear mongering & it failed. GOP, you've had many yrs to vet our President & you still can't come up with anything. This makes us like him more not less.
List of GOP wars & prove
GOP war on the country & its people (prove: treating shutdown the government often, record high filibusters, vows to repel the healthcare law helping millions including the Senator's children, vows to roll back on yrs of progress made with entitlements, change Medicare, obstruction job bills, extreme refusal to compromise to benefit the country, obstruction/ limiting voting rights, etc…also listen to clips of their own words)
GOP war on The President elected to office with record numbers (prove: same as above, treating shutdown the government often, refusing to compromise, obstruction job bills, record high filibusters, etc…also listen to clips of their own words vowing to bring him down, record number of personal attack never seen before, i.e. birtherism, secret meetings on strategy not for the country, but on how to bring the President down, GOP engagement with foreign investor fundraisers & traitor conversations). There is enough documented prove/video to change them for treason but the President doesn't want to go there. Joining with catholic to sue the President on healthcare, so that they can deny millions of people their rights.
GOP war on women (prove: read about republican controlled states how they are using social issues to force women to become 2nd class citizens & endangering women's health. Defund planned parenthood in Arizona with Republican Governor & Romney vows to do it on a Federal level. Republican controlled states enacted record high number of laws to limit the rights of women to make informed decision. Bills giving power to doctors to control & lie to their female patients, bills allowing people to put ultrasound probe in your vagina, bills forcing you to tell your employer what you do in your bedroom about birth control pills, etc). Under the rape law there is no distinction between rape & somebody sticking ultrasound probe in your vagina. The only distinction before was consent but republican governors took that away from women. Now, women do not need to consent. If you are a rapist, you can go to these particular states, set up a clinic & rape as many women as you want with ultrasound probe without consent & make your probe as big as you want it. Government can rape you; just close your eye as one republican governor stated to the press. Laws never seen before in this country. If these sound like fiction, then you need to read more because it is actually happening.
GOP war on Hispanic & other minorities (prove: just read about the laws republican control states are enacting, i.e. Arizona giving people to ask you for citizenship papers based on your looks. And we thought slavery was resolved. Republicans forget that there are immigrants here from all parts of the world, from all shades of colors. Hispanics are not the only immigrants in this country. Only a fool will think that immigrants with no papers can be identified based on their looks. Why do we vote for people with this kind of thinking? Also GOP continues to obstruct the dream act. We need a Democratic house to get things done & we will get it in November.
GOP war on civil rights (prove: limiting rights for gays, women, minorities, students, etc., just read about the laws republican control states are enacting. All people must have equal rights under the law for this country to continue to thrive. But GOP laws are actively limiting those rights for some people. They are indirectly advocating civil war like Rush Limbaugh & Glenn Beck. Advocating for violence & guns is a dangerous combination & we will never go down that road. We still have not recovered from the last civil war. Such wars are not necessary in a civilized nation. I am among those who believe that all wars can be eliminated. Obviously, not in my life time but it will happen. As humans on this earth get more civilized, more evolved, they are finding more non-violent ways to deal with their differences, including the understanding that our differences are not always negative. Where it is a positive, we will enjoy it & where it is a negative, we will find common solution through "compromise." GOP is brainwashing the public to think compromise is wrong. It is their strategy to get the civil war they crave. Ask them why they want to arm all republicans with as many guns as possible?
GOP war on "separation of church & state"(prove: House GOP gives right wing evangelic groups access to the capital building to host events & preach their hate. Why are such things allowed in the capital building since Boehner took over the house? Regardless of what you thing about the government, the separation of church & state must be honored & protected. It is one of those unified solutions that allow us to function as a union. If they keep messing with it, the state of our union maybe in trouble. I will never want to go backwards to fight all the issues that this 'civilized nation' has already fought & resolve with a common solution agreed upon by all. They tell us they want to protect the constitution. I am not a fool. I have eyes & ears & the ability to read. I see exactly what they are doing. I see the ways in which they are forcing this nation backwards to keep-on fighting for issues that has already been resolved, wasting our time & our money in congress. They can come & visit like anybody else, but granting them access to any of the people's buildings is crossing the line. GOP is using same strategy they used to get power & get more vote by re-districting. It started yrs ago, very subtle but it's working. Now they are gradually blurring the line between the separation of church & state. It is like a nightmare coming to live.
GOP war on infrastructure {rebuilding America} (prove: continuously blocking infrastructure bill to obstruct jobs, companies are less likely to bring jobs home in a scrambling infrastructure, fixing our scrambling infrastructure will create jobs, & read what the republican control states are doing)
GOP war on gays/lesbians (prove: just read about the laws republican control states are enacting).
I am tired of typing details. We just have to keep reading more & be well informed. These wars are not fiction, like they want you to believe, these things are actually happening. I wish it was made-up, and then I will not feel like I'm having a nightmare that refuses to end. The two most important are our right to vote & separation of church & state. Ask yourself, if you loss these two, what do you have left? Why do you think that they are coming after it; they understand the value? They can have the rest of the constitution but I will lay down my life to protect these two for generations to come.
GOP war on science, truth & facts (prove: study show that their believe science & facts has decreased over 40% since 1980s while that of Dems has increased. So when we say, they live in a bubble, it is not a joke)
I forgot GOP war on taxes with Grover Norquist.
Please, read t same as 'the'… GOP are using a dead agent & a grieving family for political football just as they did with Iraq, where thousands of our men & women were killed under this same GOP group. All this is to block Holders investigation about the death not the other way around.
An agent died, Holder (AG) found out about the program & t death & started an investigation like any good boss will do. So, a better question becomes, why is Issa impeding Holder's investigate & wasting his time with side shows? Why are GOP blocking Holder's investigation & distracting people from t facts. Could it be that this was a setup gone wrong. They were trying to set Holder up but got a different result and now they don't want him to investigate. Next, they will ask for independent investigator that they can manipulate with $million. Why are Reps always throwing money at the problem? This is not t way a country should function. Issa, you are wasting our time with side shows. Allow Holder to finish his investigation or is there something you don't want him to find? I smell a setup. Remember, these GOP have been funding these programs with Bush since 2006. Holder didn't even know. It makes me wonder what he will find out. GOP don't like Obama because he believes in governing in t light of day. Whenever, Reps start panicking something bigger is going on. Were there deaths under Bush/Cheney which were covered up? Will they finally answer for something they did, instead of dragging others through mud to pay for Bush/Cheney. How many Americans did Bush/Cheney kill both home & abroad & got away? Look at what GOP did to Clinton & his AG, & look at what they are doing to Obama & Holder. If any Dem did 1/3 (not even all, just 1/3) of what Bush/Cheney & his AG did, they will not survive. Tell t truth, you know am not wrong. Issa should just tell the truth that GOP don't want the program stopped because drugs & guns benefit the NRA. It's rep job. Reps promote these curtails, they were not trying to stop it. Maybe, that's what they don't want us to find out.
Arizona & GOP always use border issues & guns to get their way. NRA, a small organization which was started to protected local hunters, is now a $billion giant protecting white supremist groups, arming all Reps with guns, & intimidating/threatening Americans to vote t way NRA want you to. Fact, NRA sent a letter to congress to threaten congress & make sure they vote to hold Holder in contempt for doing his job. Look at what happened in Arizona shooting. How long shall we allow these domestic terrorism to continue? Why does most Rep ad have gun in it or talks about guns. Look carefully. There political ads are now gun ads. When did gun take over our flag?
I agree with Reps that gun is a symbol. However, gun symbol is understood around the world to symbolize hate, crime, war, murder, trouble, never a good thing. One must wonder, why are Reps using it in this country so carelessly in everyday politics. They are not dumb, they are sending same message they know that gun represent. Why vote for candidates spreading hate & murder as their only message for t country? Also, since when is planning actively & publicly for your President to fail (& threatening others to join) & publicly humiliating your AG become a fashionable thing to do? And we wonder why t world hate us. Look how we treat our brave men, our own President elected by mass majority. Same President who is uniting the world everywhere he goes. T world is watching. I am saddened about Rep hate & about what we are showing to t world. At t very least, respect t office & mass majority who put him there. Don't call us idiots/ignorant fools & lie that we did not know what we wanted. Who t hell is the GOP to tell me what I want? We will make it clearer in Nov.
Watch t videos to see t difference when GOP question Holder versus when they question others. Secret service leader wasn't asked to resign for behavior of his men. When GSA executive officials spent 800k of Tax Payer Money in Vegas on useless things. These are executives themselves misbehaving, not their workers. When questioned by congress, they did not even border to answer t question. $2 Billion JP Morgan lost, is now turning into $6 Billions & watch how GOP did not even border to question James Dimon when he was called to congress. They only saluted him, sucking up to him. JP Morgan is one of their biggest campaign donors. I can go on & on with many examples but these are most resent. Why didn't GOP drag Bush/Cheney for exposing a CIA agent & all t lies they told that killed thousands of Americans in the war. Why don't they question GOP member who leaked their secret briefing information to Karl Rove for political reasons? GOP pretend to be outraged for t leak they committed. Their strategy was to leak area of Obama's strength so it will look believable when they blame Obama Administration for t leak.
Ignorance is not a disease, its laziness. You can find the answer you seek very easily. This is 2012. You don't have to believe everything you read. Use critical thinking & little research to get to t truth. T non-undercover agents are willing to talk. By law, they can't say too much. But, at least they will give you t basics.
Reps lying to the nation is an insult to us. They are calling us fools. By lying, they are telling the country that we are not intelligent enough to understand anything.
Romney lies every time his lips are moving. This is the first. We've never had a presidential candidate lie so frequently & so carelessly. Romney, what are you telling us about Mormons? I don't understand why the media lets him get away with it. Boehner lies also, but I wish the President will run against the Rep house of congress instead of against Romney. Running against Romney elevates Romney's status from an empty vessel to a human. He has no moral. We've had many wealthy Presidents but it will be an insult to compare any of them to Romney. He lacks integrity, not a man of principle. We wants us to take him at his word; he doesn't care about the poor; he likes to fire people, etc. Who knows Romney better than Romney, nobody. He doesn't care about anyone or anything but himself. The man already vetted himself, what more do we want from him, nothing. To know him, is to dislike him. I have had enough of him. Although Grover Norquist did not realize it, he actually had the best description I have heard about Romney when he said, GOP seek for a candidate who has enough digit fingers to sign whatever GOP put in front of him. Last time we elected such a fool, we were bombed/attacked. Do you think having a strong president keeps enemies at a distance? I do. It is common since. I don't want to be smarter than my President.
Reps are forcing the nation to accept Romney, same way they forced Bush on us with voter suppression & redistricting. You teach others how to treat you. By lying worse than my 5yrs old, Romney is telling us that we should treat him like an immature child. Dems should ignore him, have the media deal with his lies & focus on Boehner & his tea party house. Dems should focus on taking the house back. The only way to stop this power mongering Reps is to keep them out of power for at least 20yrs or more. It will give them a chance to clean up their party & keep their radicals contained at a distance. Reps should not reward their crazy radicals by sending them to congress or keeping them at the forefront of the party. I heard that those Rep moderate leaders who left the party due to this radical invasion (alien invasion of the party) are praying for the nation to hold Rep party accountable. We, the people, will do exactly as they wish.
Meanwhile, the left need not be silent. We need to rise up & get a leftist party because some Dems have followed Reps to the nut house & we reject it. The entire country has been pushed too far to the right & it terrifies me. Look at our supreme court & the money in our politic today. With all this money in politics today, how can we call ourselves a democracy? We must change it this year by allowing President Obama the majority he needs in congress to change it. 33 Billionaire cynics have already bought Romney's hand in political marriage, google it. Let's not make it worse by attending his wedding. What you encourage, you promote. If we encourage it, then we are promoting this 'big money in politics' culture. When we reject something, our massage must be with a wide margin, wide & simple enough even for the cynics among us to understand. Let there be NO doubt that this must not allowed to stand.
If Dems loose this election, the big money in politics for Reps will remain & dems won't win elections again. This country will no longer be the same. Dems have had only 8 presidents since 1861 and Reps tried to destroy each of them. Two were killed in office during their term & the other 6 were never the same after their service to the nation because of Rep hate machine they battled up close & personal. Look at what they are doing to our President & our AG. Dems must stand together & speak in one voice & learn more strategies on how to win elections.
I blame the media. Why are they not holding Romney accountable for his lying. As usual, he has mastered how to use the media as a puppet, telling you to wait that the answers are coming. He is a pathological liar. He has no plans to repeat his answers again. Repeating them will cost him votes. He already answered all your questions during the primary. Why is the media not reporting all those answers. The media has all the answers they seek from Romney on tape but they are the ones choosing to be silent. Media, it may not be the answers you want or you may call it yesterday's news but it doesn't change the fact that he already gave you all his answered on tape & his answers will not change even after Nov. Yet! you accuse him of being evasive. If you are in his position, won't you rather not answer those questions again, if it will cost you votes. You have all the answers you seek but you are not reporting it, why? He has nothing new to say to you, so report what you have. Just play it over & over. You owe it to millions of people who did not watch the primary election. If Romney doesn't like it; then he will speak. Playing his answers to the people is the only way you will ever get him to talk. Otherwise, he feels that he doesn't have to answer any more questions or tell us his plan for the country or say anything till Nov. It's his tactic. He is silent now for a good reason. Why should he repeat his answers? He already said it once too many. Most people did not watch the primary, so they are waiting for Romney's answers on the issues and you owe it to then to play his answer. Hold him accountable for once.
I know the President can take care of himself but somebody has to protect our President from these hate monsters. He has been abused & humiliated enough by his own people. They may be Reps but they are still US citizens, which is what the world sees. No wonder why the world hate us. We can't even love thy-selves. So how can we love thy-neighbor? No wonder why we don't care about others.
….And Obama is too busy fighting for us, so he is not even fighting back the personal attacks. Is like, he is use to it. The media should do something about those among them who use media avenue for hate. This is not a freedom of speech argument. GOP are using a strategic plan to get the media to disassociate themselves from the President. We voted for this man. We wanted him in that office. & this is the treatment he is getting. We sit back & do nothing for fear of being accuse of partisan. Reps never worry about being accused of partisan. Dems should learn to stick together.
Obama has accomplished many things he promised, more than any other President before him. He knows there is more to be done & he is working on it. He is working hard for the middle class/the poor & we are still not happy.
Mitt knows damn good and well where the jobs are.
His "Bain" business has helped ship them offshore for years now.
Ronald Reagan would be pround if you can still recall one part of a speech he made while pres.
"Americans are going to have to learn to lower their living standards."
Well the jobs are gone, it takes time to set up any new ones that pay a living wage.
Maenwhile we will have to start living like they do in third world countries.
Several families living in the same house, yes that American drean is a thing of the past.
Thank you publicans.
Mitt bring your money back to the states where you earned it aiding in shipping our jobs off shore. You make me sick.
Murrah