They simply will not be satisfied until they have stolen every last bastard cent. Obama won’t do a god-damned thing to stop it and Romney will do everything he can to enable it.

Mitt claimed a strong friendship with Bibi back during the primaries but Netanyahu denied it saying that they didn’t work in the same area and that, while he knew Mitt, they never socialized together.

Of course, that could just be the PM trying to not rile up voters against Mitt who are in opposition to the more right wing elements of Israel’s political spectrum.

Let’s not congratulate ourselves too much just yet. The kazillions pulled together by Rove and the Kochs have barely begun to hit the airways. We all know there is a sizeable portion of the electorate who will believe any big lie if it’s repeated loudly and often enough.

Read anything by William Black. He successfully prosecuted 1000 banksters after the S&L fraud-based collapse and has written extensively about the various fraudulent actions by today’s Wall Street con artists.

The march needs to happen BEFORE the election otherwise the results will stand and the protests, no matter how well justified, will be dismissed by the victors as more sour grapes.

Republicans have done the calculus correctly and determined that their base is so ethnically, religiously, and age narrow and their proposals so odious to most Americans that they simply can’t win on the merits. Cheating is their only option.

Obama’s saying what he has calculated that he needs to say to win and will then govern as the same corporatist, center right, civil rights demolishing guy that he was in his first term.

As Whoopi once observed about Democrats:

“Not a pair of balls among ‘em.”

As Bo’s buddy, Rahm, put it:

The whining liberals have no place else to go.

They believed from the beginning that we were a captive audience and would give him our vote no matter how badly he treated us. I’d have thought that 2010, when millions of liberals stayed home, would have been a wake up call but I’d have thought wrong. Now it’s two years later and they’re at real risk of losing – a risk that wouldn’t have existed if they hadn’t spent four years throwing away liberal support every chance they had.

It’s nihilistic thinking, but maybe the poster upstream was right. Let the R’s bring it all down. Then the sooner we can get to the job of building it up again.

Write-in or third party. That’s what an honorable progressive has been reduced to.

Medicare’s funding needs have increased because of rapacious insurance companies and out of control increases in health care costs. Obama threw away the chance to control these increases and to control insurance companies in the ACA so has no leverage he can build on to control Medicare.

The out of control increases to health care is also what dooms Ryan’s voucher program. The value of the vouchers is set to only increase at the rate of inflation which means they will be worth less every year in real health purchasing value. Which means seniors will be out of pocket more every year to close the gap between the real value of the voucher and the actual cost of the medical care they need.

What was utterly maddening was to watch him claim his hands were tied when he was given a majority in both houses. This fool has thrown away more chances than most people get.

I live in Texas so have the same luxury. I refuse to give a popular vote advantage to Obama after he has betrayed every progressive ideal I hold. I’ve been called multiple times by his campaign asking for donations and have explained that I sent all my political support budget to OWS last year.

Perhaps the only good thing to come out of that embarrassment of a speech is that it finally seems to have crossed some invisible line of brazenness. Mainstream media is finally calling Ryan out as the liar he is. The following link goes to a post in DailyKos listing some two dozen plus articles shredding Ryan’s speech. These included most of the major media outlets including overseas and including an absolutely damning article that appeared in FOX. It has been facebook shared 87,000 times and tweeted 21,000 times so far and is their top trending article.

Here’s the DailyKos link:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/30/1125935/-LYIN-RYAN-ALL-THE-MEDIA-PUSHBACK

And here’s a direct link to the FOX article:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/paul-ryans-speech-in-three-words/?intcmp=trending

“He’s basically throwing the Democratic Party and its base under the bus to secure his own reelection.”

I’m at an absolute loss to imagine what path to victory Obama sees that doesn’t include the Democratic Base.

On the bright side, at least he’s honestly stating up front that he’ll screw every progressive ideal he can find rather than making us wait until he’s elected like last time.