Gazillionaire Mitt Romney enjoys Income of...$60,000...PER DAY!!!!!! Jeeesh!
QUOTE OF DAY: "Obama is so Weak...he makes Carter look...Strong"! - Newty
Comment: I only comment on this one...because Gingrich is SUCH A LOSER! If you have
not read about Newt's LIFETIME OF FAILURE....do it! Now! He's a Really Sick Puppy. Gingrich has FAILED at literally EVERY THING HE HAS TOUCHED. Trust Me.
Talkin' The Win In 2012:
State of the Union: Better!
Friday, Jan 27. President Barack Obama gave yet another marvelous Speech.
Of course you would never know that from the...(Ugh!)...GOPster Reaction!
Oh...to be sure...no Surprise there. The Utterly Hateful GOP...won't give
Obama the Time Of Day. But, when I Googled around the Morning After....
I almost BARFED! Huh? What are all those Headline Grabbin' Lefty Pundits doing...disparaging the Welcome and Balanced....SUTU Speech? Huh? 
You saw him: Obama cruised down the Aisle...clearly a man comfortable in his own skin.
He is REMARKABLY unfazed by the Stone Wall of (Hatred?) that he faces from the..."Opposition"...on literally EVERY SINGLE VITAL ISSUE AMERICA FACES TODAY!
Obama...in his clear, relaxed voice...very calmly addressed the Key Concerns
of 85% of Americans. Huh? 85%? Why not "99%"?
That's a Stupid and Meaningless Number. It was dragged out because of the Mindboggling Income IN-equality America is experiencing today...where 1% really and truly DO Have It All....and 99% trail on downward from there.
But the REAL Economy looks something like this:
About 20% live in the Toilet...in PERPETUAL Poverty...etc.
Another 30% live Paycheck to Paycheck....literally ...where any Layoffs,
Hourly Work reductions, Accident or Illness...can tumble those people into
The Financial Abyss.
Then there is some 30% who are more or less doing OK...depending on Local Conditions or the Industry they are in...etc., etc. I mean...what GOOD is a
Spiffy Degree in High Tech...if you are Expendable after Age 40????
Then there's the old Upper Middle Class....some 15%...who are "Doing Fine". Maybe they aren't actually Rich...but they have homes and cars and can think about things like College for the Kids, etc., even if THAT part of the American Dream is now almost Prohibitively Expensive.
Leaving us with the Upper 5%...which of course includes those UberRich 1%ers.
This is the very group that has Grabbed All The Money.
And now I realize that I've been wrong about this Inexorable Trend...
for DECADES...thinking that the key Depredations of the Rich began to be felt in the 1970s.
I now realize that this is simply...Wrong!
In Post World War II America...the Rich began their Grab for More....literally the moment the RepUglyCons snatched back the House & Senate...in 1948!
Oh, my...how QUICKLY it all began to change!
In FAVOR of the.....Very Rich.
And it has never stopped.....but under Reagan
and
Bush I and Bush II...it has literally SNOWBALLED.
So...Mr. Obama asks why Millionaires pay a
Lower
Tax Rate than their Secretaries?
The Bush Tax Cuts
are a KEY Reason why we experienced The Crash!
So...Let the Rich Pay Their Fair Share. Period. And STOP THE LOBBYING.
So...how does the Public React to this? An astonishing 91% Agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then, Obama goes on to demand that we Close Those Absolutely Damnable
Rich Man Tax Loopholes!!! Period.
He really stuck it to the GOPsters by reminding them that his New Guy...
Richard Cordray will now be On Their Case: Financial Fraud...Tricks & Traps Mortgages...PayDay Lender Abuses...The list is Very Long...and Very Evil!
Obama wants to change the Unemployment System into a Re-Deployment System...that will actually help put people back to Work!
And (unlike Newt...who actually wants to Force Children to Clean Toilets in their Schools...for Free!)...Obama wants States to require (poor) kids to stay
in school until they Graduate...or turn 18.
(Always remember that House Leader Nancy Pelosi was able to pass some
200 "Progressive" Bills...only to have them stalled and Killed in the Senate!
Tx, Joe Liebermann, Ben Nelson...et al.)
One thing about those all those Lies GOPsters always push...like "Government should not"Tax our Money Twice"! This is just one of those Sleazy Lies the GOPsters rely on to Dupe the American Public.
They suggest that your SALARY is Taxed. If you are part of the Favored Upper Income 1%...you Save some Money and...Invest it. In Good Years...you make a Profit on your Investments! Great! Super!
But THEN...your UNearned Income...Stocks & Bonds...is taxed a HALF THE RATE of Earned Income! Progressives simply say: "ALL Income...Earned or Unearned...should be Taxed Alike!" There IS no..."Double Taxation" involved.
Amen.
I cannot let the Bizarre "Finger Up His Nose" Gesture of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (she's surely the single UGLIEST Politician in America)...stood there
on the tarmac screaming at Obama and jabbing her finger into his face! Huh?
Uh, Jan...Obama...is not exactly some Shiftless, Shoeless No 'Count Nigger....
he just happens to be the President of the United States!
Obama is among the Most Gifted Speachifiers in the History of this Nation.
If I were ever invited to the Presidential White House...I'd do nothing but
Fawn All Over Barack and Michele.
President Obama Wants to Hear From You!
This Link takes you straight to
The White House: www.whitehouse.gov
Itsez Who? As far as I know...I am the only Living 
American who was an
actual
eye-witness to both Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, as well
as the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
When I was a kid...everyone I knew respected and admired FDR. Sure...there were a few "Republicans"
who sniffed at The New Deal, but we forgave them for their Silly Old Ideas. Who would have ever guessed that, led by the Hateful Ronnie Reagan in 1980, those "honorable" Republicans would morph into today's MoneyMadRepUglyCons???
One of my key tasks with Itsez is to point out the Sheer Stupidity and Core Mean Spiritedness of what used to be...the Grand Old Party.
What we're seeing right now...is an unparalleled display of Corporate Greed
...while THEY are fighting Tooth & Nail.....to resist Anything Obama.
GOP Audiences CHEER at the mention of Waterboarding!!! These are...AMERICANS?
QUOTE OF DAY: "Let Detroit DIE!" - So Said...Mitt Romney
Comment: This from a Candidate for President of All The People of the United States of America? Trash our World Leader Car Company? With all those THOUSANDS of Jobs? Detroit helped us Win WWII. And Romney would TRASH the Industry. Go To Hell!!!
Talkin' The Win In 2012:
Stormy Weather Ahead!
Monday, Jan 23. Everyone knows that Bank of America is headed the wrong way.
Saturday, I joined a group of "Regulars"...Protesters who drag their butts out REGULARLY to Protest the likes of B of A. This Bank happens to be WAY UP THERE on the List of Abhorent Bankster Corporate Powers. We The People, please recall...actually BAILED OUT BofA...to the tune of Several Billion Dollars. What did B of A promptly do Thank You Very Much? Oh, they doled out some $500
MILLION Dollars in bonuses to their Top Bankster Execs!
(This is an Actual Photo of the Bank of America Building in Palm Springs!
That Wrong Turn Sign is right there...my caption is...Extra!)
It is nothing less than...Obscene! Of course there is also the little matter of Defrauding HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of American Homebuyers! Etc.
If you don't remember...B of A was forced to Back Down on threatened Up Charges to their Customers. (This is hardly a Sin Unique to Banksters....and I
watch like a Hawk to spot other Corporate Abuses perpetrated on Hapless 99%er Americans by the Corporate Power Structure!)
The photo above was taken at 11 a.m., on what appeared to be a bright, sunny day in California. We arrived. Displayed our signs and banners....and were greeted with MANY, MANY, MANY Car Honks...in this case...meaning
"We Are With You, Guys!" (It really IS fun to do this work!)
But...We The People are Serious; we're giving Barack Obama a....
New Backbone! We're reminding him that we are....FURIOUS over
the likes of
B of A. That Wrong Turn Sign in the Photo tells the entire story.
But today's Itsez...which started out on Saturday Morning as a "Yes, We Can" Column, found itself blown away.....just a couple of hours later!
The Sky was Blue. High clouds...but Blue Skies. Then...a Breeze started up. Around Noon. It got stronger. It got....MUCH stronger. It got to be Gale Force Winds! Huh?
What was THIS? There was absolutely NO Warning.
I was watching from my 2nd floor window...listening to the SCREECHING GALE!
I went to get a snack. I flipped on the light switch....Nothing! I thought "Huh?"
I tried another light. Also nothing. I tried a 3rd switch. Still nothing.
Oh, oh...Power Outage!!! I tried the Telephone. Dead. Now it was clear...the
Big Winds had knocked out the Power in my part of town.
So...now what? I immediately slipped into my swim trunks and trotted over to the Hot Tub...our outdoor Spa here. I reasoned: "The Power may be off...but I am certain the Water is still....HOT!" Sure enough....it was. I got my Hot Tub refresher...and headed back upstairs. (Knowing full well it will be several DAYS before I can actually use that Hot Tub again....right now the pool and spa are filled with Tree Branches and such!)
I started thinking: "What's the middle of Town like?" I jumped into my Trusty Oldsmobile...and sped to town to find out. Oh, my. Disaster. There was an Art Fair on Saturday. But by the time I rolled up at 1 p.m., half the tents were in ruins... artwork was flying around, ceramics were toppled and broken.
Also...some HUGE trees had been toppled....and THAT ain't anything to get in the way of. I tried to move on large tree limb; good Luck, Moron. It weighed MUCH more than I guessed...and was IMPOSSIBLE TO MOVE. If something like THAT LANDED ON YOU....you would be Toast!
I got back home...and started calculating what the Evening would be like.
Keep the fridge doors shut. Do NOT try to Cook In The Dark.
Get ready for a really Good Night's sleep.
I pulled out my flashlight...and settled down to do some writing. Pen on Paper; no TV, no Radio, no Telephone, no DVD playing. Just me and my notepad.
It got darker. I had a light meal of Leftovers. Then I began to muse:
"Too bad I don't have a....Candle". Not being a Quitter...I roamed around ...nosing into Drawers...and...Bingo! I came up with a Candle!
I improvised a Candle Holder...and (using the Gas Stove)...lit 'er up!
Then....something Amazing happened: I realized that my single Candle was enough to provide
more than enough light to illuminate my writing pad.
I spent the next couple
of hours in Quiet Relaxation....writing, jotting down ideas...even doing some Math Problems.
Guess What? I channeled Abe Lincoln in that
Li'l Old Log Cabin! And the soft Light from the Candle was....enchanting! Oh, for the Joys of Times Past!
I realized how NICE it was...not to have some
Jabbering Pundit Opining Away;
I merely had Myself
and my Very Own Thoughts. Undisturbed Bliss!
I blew out the Candle...and sllpped into a nice, comfy sleep. Then, at about Midnight, I heard "Ka-chunk...Grind...!" A piece of electronic gear kicked in ...and then it was the fridge trying to get going. Then....silence again.
"Aha, they gave it a shot to Test the Connection!"
I got up and made sure all the Computer Gear was UNPLUGGED.
(No Power Surge Problems here, if you please.)
Then, at just about 1 a.m., the Power came back on! Back to Normal.
OK...2 very different Storms. My little Power Outage came. And went.
Not so, for the Utterly Revolting B of A. Stay Tuned on THAT Score.
Conclusion: Obama in a Walk in 2012. Period.
Rick Perry said: "We fought the Revolutionary War in the....16th Century." Huh? Moron!
QUOTE OF DAY: "Capitalism hurts some people." (Just not us!) - Mitt Romney
Comment: This is what the 1% believe. They think they are SMARTER than the Markets!
When you are a Vulture Capitalist...like Bain/Romney...and have Unlimited Funds...
it's True.
For the 99%ers...the people hurt...are...US!!! Wake Up...America!!!
Talkin' The Win In 2012:
We are on a Roll!
Friday, Jan 20. Chalk up 4 Big Ones for We The People...and, by extension,
for President Obama. Let's line 'em up and....Count 'em!:
1. The XL Pipeline...we stopped it cold.
2. BBL Bank is forced to back off on the King Church foreclosure...by US.
3. Scott Walker...one MILLION Signatures...to Throw The Bum Out!
4. SOPA...Obama is now saying "Not So Fast!" WE did THAT, too!
Now, to be sure...there are some Nasty Details to be found in all of these Wins, but...We are facing down the Bad Guys...and there is Plenty More to come.
These Wins are 100% because We...Obama's Base...forced the Changes!
Let's start at the Top: XL. WE were the ones who screamed and yelled and Occupied...and...Presto! Suddenly...the XL Pipeline...which was coasting to a Rubber Stamp OK...is put ON HOLD!
If XL had happened...it would be a HUGE step toward Global Climate Calamity!
(This is HUGE. It is CRITICALLY IMPORTANT that we finally get serious
about Big Oil and Coal RUINING OUR PLANET!)
Now let's move on to Scott Walker...backed by $ Gazillions of Corporate Funding...he tried to DESTROY THE UNIONS IN WISCONSIN. And?
And...We The People Rose Up and said: "Absolutely NOT"!
Scott Walker is going down as one of the Biggest Disasters in Modern Conservative Government History. This fella was out to DESTROY the Unions...but...again...We The People Rose Up....and said: "No Way!"
Finally...there is the Obscene Foreclosure attempt by BBL... (one of America's 10 Largest Banks!!!!)...which was absolutely poised to FORECLOSE on the Church that was an important part of Martin Luther King's Legacy!!!
Why was this Church in difficulty? Oh, they got whacked by a Tornado a couple of years ago! Catastrophic Damage. They spent a lot of money to repair the building, and paying the mortgage was...difficult. So, they tried to renogotiate the Mortgage ...but the Absolute Monster Banksters...said "No."
But...when the Church was able to get THOUSANDS
of Americans to support Mortgage Negotiations...
with a literal EXPLOSION of Public Anger...BBT backed
down and agreed to Negotiate a New Mortgage!! Fabulous!
And last (for right now)....the Stop Online Piracy Act appeared to be UNSTOPPABLE. Yeah. Until WE stepped in. Now Congress is backing down
and Obama is saying "Not So Fast." Online Piracy is a Serious Problem....
but SOPA is not the right answer. So...How're We Doin'? Terrific.
What is the Common Thread here? You. Me. Us. WE did all this!
WE are giving Barack Obama a New Spine!
Oh, the Pundits and all those Deep Thinkers, what do THEY have to say?
They Totally Missed the Boat on the Power of the Occupy Movement!
They TOTALLY Missed the Power of the Internet.
What about 2010? I blame it squarely on....Barack Obama. The whole "Shellacking" Disaster was because Obama was "not ready" to listen to his Progressive Base.
He chose his own Team...and they cautioned him to be...Very Cautious! So...he turned his back on his Base.. (That would be...You, Me, Us...We The People).
Which is why...I became TOTALLY DISILLUSIONED with Barack Obama.
That is why I did not hesitate to call on him to simply RESIGN...and why I pushed for
a Primary...to find a Democrat Worthy of the Name.
As opposed to those Infernal ObamaBots....(Obama No Matter What!)...
I am and always will be...and Independent Thinker. To me...Obama was guilty
of Punting...Over and Over and Over again....and....well....you get the point.
Frankly...we have NO IDEA who this Cat actually is. Truly.
Is he a WimpCentrist? Is he a Progressive...who got Triangulated into Mushy Compromise Time after Time? Is he a...Calm, Cool, Rational Thinker...who will NOT be panicked into Hip Shooting Decisions...without Knowing the Facts?
Right now...NONE OF THIS MATTERS. The ABYSMAL GOPster Field is
SO GHASTLY INCOMPETENT - WRONGHEADED...that WHATEVER
Obama is...he far surpses ANYTHING they can throw at us!!!
RepUglies award 80% of America's Wealth....to the Top 20% How do you like THAT?
QUOTE OF DAY: "60% of Economists are...NeoLiberals!!!!" - Itsez
Comment: What's a...NeoLiberal? Oh..just think Global Economy, Privatization, NAFTA, ...etc., and you pretty well have it. Not Pretty...huh? It's as if a Tidal Wave of Brainwashing has engulfed the ENTIRE Dismal Science! Trouble is...YOU are paying for it!
Talkin' The Win In 2012:
Villainizing the American Dream?
Monday, Jan 16. Give me a Break! These are the Exact Words from one Leon Cooperman...a Hedge Fund Manager who's worth some $2 Billion and counting ....only now he's attacking Obama for "Villainizing Success!" Oh, Please. 
According to Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin...when Obama went on National TV and mentioned that "Millionaires and Billionaires" are actually balking at paying "just a li'l bit more in Taxes....this has apparently stock in the craw of many of the....Elite. (That would be your 1/10th of 1%ers... aka America's Really Really...even Obscenely...Rich.
Well...La De Da! And.....So What?????
Leon wants Obama to stop using Frank Luntz-type language to characterize
our Krazed, Greedy, Out-of-Control and...Still Off the Leash...Bankster Elite!
Hey, Leon: Take It and Stuff It!
Leon, it turns out...actually voted for Al Gore and has written Big Checks to various Democrats in the past. Now he's LIVID. And he claims that he has
99% support from his Wall Street Cronies!!!
How JUICY! This means there really WILL be a true Klash of Kultures, and
oh, boy how we NEED THAT!
Now puzzle through this: If the Banksters hate Obama so much...(and make
no mistake...they DESPISE Our Guy)....why do they continue to pour money into Obama 2012???
Simple: They KNOW they can't Freeze Out the Democrats; they KNOW they have to keep some/many/most of them at least PARTLY BEHOLDEN TO WALL STREET CASH...in order to get their Lobbyists through the Front Door any time it's Crunch Time....in D.C.!!!!
Now...try this on: A few $ Mill tossed to a DIMocrat...is Chump Change to
these Very Wealthy Banksters. But Oh, What a Difference it makes...when it comes time to Vote on Legislation!!!!
Leon above...casually mentions in passing....the Amazin' Factoid...that
“I spend more than 25 times on Charity what I spend on myself.”
And then he moves on. WE won't..."Move On". WE will stop and analyze that seemingly GENEROUS Outpouring to Charity.
Uh...let's say Leon makes...oh...some $100,000,000 per year.
That's really NOT so much these days...for the Greediest Banksters.
Then let's say Leon adds up ALL HIS EXPENSES.
The 1st House. The Beach House. The House on the French Riviera.
Both Yachts; the one in Palm Beach and the one in the Med.
Then you chip in for the 3rd Mercedes...steaks every night...the Finest Wine...etc., etc., etc. GUESS WHAT?
It's really HARD spend all that Money!
So...HE actually MAY be spending 25 times more on Charity than on himself!
So what? You are BUYING Public Approval from the Hostesses who stage
those Big Lavish Parties...from Greenwich to Florida, etc. Plus an Opera and Ballet and Museum or two!
Then...our Little Leon...published a List of what Obama SHOULD do.
1. End Both Wars.
Uh...duh....he's Ended One and is Winding Down the second.
2. Give every G.I. a free 4-year College or Trade School Ed.
Fine. Yeah....Bring back the old G.I.Bill!
3. Create a Dynamic Domestic Energy Program...to create Jobs and End our Dependence on Foreign Oil.
If he means that to be Green....Wind/Solar, etc., fine.
If he means XL Pipeline ....NO WAY, JOSE!
4. Keep Government Spending 1% below of GDP.
Eventually...atta Way, Leon. But NOT right now.
5. Freeze Social Security & Medicare.
Up Yours...Leon. You don't need it or rely on it...
...but many, many Millions of Americans do.
Push SS up to Age 70. Again...Screw You!
6. Add a 10% Surcharge on Taxes...for incomes above $500,000.
Leon is trying to head off REAL Progressive Taxation here.
Again....Screw You, Rich Guy!
7. Impose a 5% VAT Tax.....to attack the Underground Economy.
This really targets the Very Small Fry...trying to make a Dollar out of Yard Sales...etc. Nah.
8. Seriously Attack our Out Of Control Healthcare Costs.
Fine. But much more on THAT....later.
9. Then Leon actually AGREES with Progressives:
Reinstate the UpTick Rule
on Short Sales...and Ban/Curtail High Frequency Trading.
OK. We - finally - Agree.
Finally...Leon also admits that High Frequency Trading is enraging the Public
(well....the ones who understand what it actually IS)...so this is a Long
Overdue Defense Measure to BRING BACK SOME SANITY!)
Wall Street Banksters. They NEVER learn...they need to be...Taught!
Official IRS: No more than 50% of your Income can be Tax Sheltered. You BELIEVE that?
QUOTE OF DAY: "Obama has RUINED America!" - John Sununu
Comment: Sununu was FROTHING at the Mouth...over his Absurd Claim that "Obama is Ruining America"! Sununu Was and Is...a Pig. Period. This is CLASSIC GOPster Crap. Outrageous Claims...Lies...Calumny. Total Garbage. And...Absurd. Vote GOPster? Please.
Talkin' The Win In 2012:
California Millionaires. Huh?
Friday, Jan 13. Ho hum de dum...along our merry way we go....when...PLOP!
Up pops the story that California Millionaires have suddenly JUMPED....from 10,000 to 12,000! (These are your Real, Genuine, Gold Plated 1 Percenters!)
Why has this story stopped
me today and Perked Up my Ears?
Itsez (based in Sunny, Golden California) often comments on such themes as:
"Recession? WHAT Recession?" Why would I write such Headlines...when America is still Deep In The Bush Recession of 2008? Because...driving around SoCal...(depending on where you drive, of course)....there is hardly even a Hint that we're going through Economic Hell. It just ain't apparent...that's all. 
But all those Old Stories are about how the Affluent "Coast Along"...waiting
for the UpTick. This New Headline is about something Far, Far Different!
It's about nothing less than the UberRich Getting Even Richer...DESPITE the... Current and Undeniable Economic Troubles.
This startling and sudden Jump in Wealth for the Have-it-alls....is surprising only because we keep hearing how "The World is Teetering on the Edge of
Yet Another Downturn". If True...how come the UberRich are...Flourishing!
Well then....where did all those New Millionaires come from?
We know that Foreclosures are churning right along...untouched by Human (Regulatory) Hands!!!
We know that there are (still) No Bank Loans to Small Businesses...despite
the GINORMOUS Bailouts spent on those Too Big To Fail Banks.
And we know that Unemployment is still HUGE....with Countless Millions
in Hopeless Poverty...blah, blah, blah.
But...WHAT DOES ALL THAT HAVE TO DO WITH OUR RICHY RICHEST?
Nothing. Not a Thing. If ANYTHING....we see that they are getting even Richer. (Labor is even LESS when 500 people line up for Every New Crap Job at Walmart! And...who do you think is buying up those unfortunate Reposessed/
Underwater/ Foreclosed Properties???)
Billionaire Tiger Woods' Ex has just torn down her Multi-Million Dollar Mansion in Florida; she wants something "More Contemporary." Cha-Ching!
Each of the Romney Kids...all of them....are sitting on top of $20,000,000
Trust Funds...(each); you think THEY are worried about whether they can afford to
buy their Latest Toy....aka...a New Rolls Royce?
(Oh, Rolls has just had the Biggest Sales Year in its entire HISTORY!)
If a Romney Kid (ever) has a Bright Idea...he can just reach into his Trust Fund and yank out a $ Mill or so...and he's In Business! Naturally...in the Real World...he wouldn't actually USE his own Funds....he'd "arrange for Deal Financing"...blah, blah...and spend Other Peoples' Money to get Launched.
Peter Poor Boy has no such Options. And...most likely no Family or Friends that do, either. So...Pete is Toast.
Meanwhile...down in Haiti...(hit by that most Recent Earthquake, etc.)...the Many $ Billions of Aid Money that "we" Donated to Help the Poor People of Haiti....has gone straight into the pockets of the infamous Insider NGO Crowd. Insiders...have stuffed their pockets with all that CASH. (Pure BushEnomics.)
Sorry to bring up Old Business....but none other than William Jefferson
Clinton is the Head of Haiti Relief. He has "so far"...declined to Comment
on "Reported Irregularities." Which makes me want to Puke.
What does Obama do about THAT? Obama is gearing up for Election Day 2012. About the LAST THING Obama needs is to Pick a Fight with Slick over...
"What the HELL is going ON down there....Bill?"
Remember...there was a nasty rumor not so long ago...that "Clinton's Fingerprints are ALL OVER the Newest Scandal about the Hurricane Katrina Trailers"...with that Sickening Mould contaminating them....that were simply Crated Up and REPURPOSED DOWN TO HAITI!
But, absolutely NOTHING was done to Clean Them Up first!!!!
Which brings us back to California's Fat Cat Millionaires.
Oh, they Fight Viciously to Keep Their Tax Breaks. They loudly threaten to Move to Texas if Challenged Too Hard.
Which brings us straight back to...Klass Warfare. Well...it's here.
You can't see it, but a very new Mindset is setting in...with America's Kids.
They are finally able to Rub Their Eyes and see that ya gotta be
Born Rich
...or VERY Lucky to get out of the Poor Klass.
But what they are slowly waking up to a Vicious,
Disastrous Financial Trend:
The RomneyRich have SYSTEMATICALLY been breaking down the Pay Scales
...the actual Wages Paid to Working People.
When you are Young...you keep thinking that things will somehow...Get Better. But THAT IS NO LONGER TRUE IN OUR AMERICA! So....these Kids will work for their Entire Lives...for Crap Wages. And? And what does THAT mean when they hit 65?
Oh...just that their Social security Payments will be PissPoor!!!!
So for HALF OR MORE of all these Workers...they will NOT be able to enjoy their Golden Years...because they'll be living in Poverty 'til The Day They Die!!!
So? WhaDoWeDo About This?
News: In the UK (and I'M NO FAN of their Conservative Leadership)....there's HUGE Pressure to RAISE TAXES ON THE UBERRICH TO....(GASP!)...$50%!!!
How about THEM Apples?!
Every RepUgly running for President has signed Norquist's No-Tax Pledge!
QUOTE OF DAY: "Gitmo is filled with low-level foot soldiers!" - Rumsfeld
Comment: Rummy knew. The whole GITMO Catastrophe was a Waste Of Time.
Rummy knew that. Then...Cheney (or whoever) Rang His Chimes. THEN...Rummy OK'd all that Horrible Torture Stuff. Which BLACKENED AMERICA'S NAME - Worldwide. Tx, Rummy.
Talkin' The Win In 2012:
Obama Is Taking Off!!
Monday, Jan 9. Barack Obama has already made History. He did that when he became America's the very first Black President. Just 143 years after the Civil War...and Emancipation.
OK...we know all this. So? Democrats...especially Progressives...were Thrilled.
And...then? Well...Barack Obama somehow morphed into something none of us anticipated: He became...A Wimp.
Sorry, about that, Barack. Every Progressive in America just cringed when Obama tried to
"Make Nice" with the GOPsters; WE knew from Day One that all they wanted was to Destroy His Presidency. Why didn't HE get it?
Many of us are CONVINCED that...with the help of those Slimy Blue Dog DIMocrats and the 99.9% Refusal of RepUglyCons...much more could have
been done. And we continue to believe that the "Shellacking" of 2010 was a DIRECT RESULT of....Wimpiness. But STOP RIGHT THERE!!!
This is January, 2012. We are only 11 months away from Election that will Decide the Fate of America. This Is No Time To Waffle!
And? And...just in the Nick of Time...Obama has got himself back on Track!!!
Now it's looking not like Obama just Wins in 2012...but that he Wins HUGE!
How can things be turning so Dramatically in his (and our) FAVOR?
Well...while we were wondering Why The Wimpiness???...it was also true that Obama's No Drama Style...DID result in Win after Win after Win!!!
The list keeps growing...just to remind you...it includes ObamaCare...Ending Bush's Iraq War...the Credit Card Bill of Rights...VA Funding...Saving Detroit... and then INSISTING that they RAISE Auto Fuel Efficiencies...helping Students with College Loans...and a whole lot more.
PLUS...Don't Ask Don't Tell actually went...Bye, Bye!
But the HUGE new moves that REALLY tell me Obama is Ready To Charge, includes his using the PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE Recess to appoint Richard Cordray as head of the HUGELY IMPORTANT Consumer Protection Bureau ...and maybe the most Breathtaking of All Changes...his decision actually to
trim back that HUGE/VAST/ENORMOUS PENTAGON Budget!!!
OK...so here we are...with Our Leader back in a Charge Mode.
And where do we want to GO from Here?
We do NOT want to spend the 2012 - 2016 Years
"arm wrestling" with those Supremely Evil...GOPsters.
It's high time we Called Them Out
- for their Lies,
Distortions and Stupidities!
The Bush Men gave us Iraq/Afghanistan...Homeland
"Security"...with
2-year
old babies having to hop out of
their shoes in airports...and
80-year old Grannies getting GROPED!!!...OMG!
Remember: It was Condi Rice who was DIRECTLY responsible for 9/11...
(she IGNORED all those Hair On Fire Warnings...and so we got the Bin Laden Attack...where he spent some $300,000 and has cost us...$$$ Trillions!)
GOPsters have GREATELY INTENSIFIED the Enormous Damage America's
No Tax Policy for the SuperRich...with their ENDLESS Tax Giveaways.
And Grover Norquist threatens to CRUCIFY any RepUglyCon who EVER
agrees to Tax Them To Their EYEBALLS!
In upcoming Itsez Columns...we will take a Trip Into the Future...out to the Year 2050. Just think about what the World was like in....1900.
Then Fast Forward to....1950. Then...2000.
The Changes that WILL HAPPEN are going to be....Dramatic. Also...Scary. (Particularly...if the No Nuthin' GOPsters...with their ADAMANT REFUSAL
TO AGREE THAT PLANET EARTH CAN BE DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR ...continue to get their way...and we let the Oil & Coal Monsters Literally
Burn Up Our World!!!
Barack Obama will have 4 Crucial Years to Rebalance America's Very Out
Of Whack Economy...get us synched up with Environmental Awareness...
and to
Rein In the Bankster Butchers Blatant and Criminal Excesses.
It is not TOO Far Fetched to ask whether Kapitalism itself can survive!!!
The Current Fiscal Trainwreck...(Ireland...Spain...Greece...Iceland...and quite possibly even the entire EuroStructure)....says it all.
Obama...we are 100% on board. Now...DO YOUR STUFF!
Guess What? Only 5% of Iowa Voters actually showed up for that GOP Laff In!
QUOTE OF DAY: "Those PayDay Lenders are finally gonna get Whacked!" - Itsez
Comment: PayDay Loans are MONSTROUS. Bush? He didn't Give A Hoot. Now, Obama
will, in the Person of Richard Cordray...finally DO SOMETHING about these CREEPS!
America...Obama is turning out to be a...Savior. I mean that in a Very Good Way.
Talkin' The Win In 2012:
Welcome Back, Barack!!!
Friday, Jan 6. I am PINCHING myself! Wow! Suddenly...and not that many months after the "We took a Shellacking" Fiasco...Barack Obama has come Charging Back To The Battle...and all of a sudden we have some MASSIVE WINS! First...he took the HUGE Leap and appointed Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Protection Agency!!!! Wow!!! (I will comment on the Absurd NEED for this Agency...in the United States of America, Circa 2012!)
And then...amazingly...he has just gone ahead with SIGNIFICANT CUTS in the Bloated Military Budget. (I can say that; of course he can't.) OMG...now we are (finally) getting some REAL Changes...that, yes, We Can Believe In! 
Readers will notice a HUGE Change in Itsez: Gone are the Doubts. Totally.
I am Back On Board...with NO Reservations...because it appears to this Observer that Barack Obama has...Seen The Light! He's Heard the Music!
He's Gotten The Message!
Obama gritted his teeth....and made Cordray Official! Despite the GOPsters!
(Oh, My Gee.....now those Banksters had better Batten Down the Hatches!)
Then...in what seemed a Most Improbable (but HIGHLY necessary) Step...
he has actually said to the "untouchable" Pentagon: "Time For A Haircut".
Not a
Marine Corp Recruit Buzz Cut......but a Major Budget Cut!
Obama...the DEMOCRAT, mind you...actually tracked down Osama and
Did The Deed...(as opposed to those NASCAR Generals who milled around
for YEARS...and somehow just couldn't seem to Get The Job Done!).
Now...add these Two to his AMAZING LIST OF WINS:
1. Reform Healthcare. Like it or not....OBAMA DID IT. (HillaryCare? Nada)
2. Making College More Affordable.
3. Ending the War in Iraq.
4. Putting America on the path to Energy Independence.
5. Credit Card bill of Rights
6. Fully funded the Veterans Administration
7. Dramatically raised Auto Fuel Economy
8. Bailed out major Detroit Auto Companies
9. Reversed .. stem cell research
10. Afghansitan finally drawing down.
Uh...there is also the little matter of Don't Ask Don't Tell. He did THAT, too.
Bill Clinton...the Super Centrist...just Kicked The Can Down The Road with DADT, but Obama actually GOT IT DROPPED! Wow!
OK, OK...sure...there are those other Hangin' Chads...
whooops...sorry...the
Unfinished Business...like Gitmo.
And absolute Top Priority...Taxing the Rich.
I'll discuss How and When we can expect to get back to
THAT Crucial Fix in America's Economic Picture.
Right now the Blogosphere has 2 count 'em...2 Scenarios:
1. Obama WINS....in a Landslide.
2. Obama LOSES....in a Landslide.
As I went through Massive Doubts about Obama's Guts and Style and his apparent Lack of being In Touch with his Base...it seemed as if Obama was Missing In Action. Trying eternally to COMPROMISE!
I nonetheless have been saying for MONTHS that November 6, 2012...
will be a Big Win for Obama. And for America.
That is....OBAMA will be ReElected. Whether we can ALSO Save the Senate
and Retake the House....that's just too soon to call.
But I WILL say this: If We The People will just jump in here...and Occupy, etc., ...we can MAKE ALL THOSE GOOD THINGS HAPPEN.
Remember: Two Things have caused Barack Obama to Wake Up and
Smell The Coffee: The PsychoTalk Krazy GOPsters. And...We The People,
who have roused ourselves with the Occupy Actions. WE did it.
Never forget that. And there's Plenty More To Do!
Does it matter that the IRS Tax Code is 70,000 pages long? Oh, Yeah, it sure does!
QUOTE OF DAY: "We Need A Financial Crisis....to Recover America!" - Conservative Theme
Comment: Progressives keep thinking that Looney Tunes Conservatives will evenutally
Self Destruct. After all...THEY Created Today's Financial Mess. So? So when will They
Ever Learn? How about....Never! Progressives...Wise Up and FIGHT BACK.
Talkin' Tough:
Take That, Verizon!
Monday, Jan 2. We have just experienced something...absolutely ASTONISHING in Our America! We The People have just caused Giant Verizon to back down from their threatened Surcharge on Online Bill Payments. This was to apply
to any (customer) who has the temerity to decide to make an online payment! Huh? Shocked? Don't be. This is nothing less than a Textbook Example of how our Major Corporations are SYSTEMATICALLY trying to Wring Every Last Cent out of Every Last One Of Us!
These Corporate Ghouls stay up nights figuring out how to Screw Us...Every Time!
(OK...actually "They" don't Stay Up Nights...they are slurping up Prime Steaks and chugging Vintage Wines (like...$500 per bottle....for example?). What they actually do is assign the task of Screwing Their Customers to Lower Level Staffers...who (from personal observation)....can spend HOURS parsing out how to Increase Fees, etc.
The Public? Don't Make Me Laff! The Great Unwashed "Public" is simply the Great Milch Cow to the "Upper" Klasses. When will we finally earn this???
Now stop and think about this: "We" stopped Verizon dead in its tracks!
We did it the New Fashioned Way: We MOBILIZED. We...in our...(Millions) ...participated in the New Mass Media...the Internet Enabled Progressive Network. We INSTANTLY agreed that Verizon was being....DESPICABLE.
So...we Acted. We didn't Mass March on the Verizon's H.Q., (although that Option is always available and sometimes DESIREABLE.) Including, I might add Itsez. (Heh, heh.) But the ProgNet is SO MUCH FASTER and...so easy.
All we have to do is....DO IT!
So...we flooded the BlogoSphere with Outraged Comments...and...it even
stirred the Corporate Main Stream Media to pick up on it.
Finally...all the Fuss caused Verizon's CEO/President
Dan Mead to IMMEDIATELY Pull The Plug on that
Monstrous new User Charge!
You DO realize that we've done the same thing
with none other than the Grotesquely Oversized
"Too Big To Fail"...Bank of America.
We got them to yank THEIR disgusting attempt to nail their customers
with a Surcharge on Debit Card Charges!!!
So...what next? How about the Koch Brothers and their Nefarious Operations?
Or...how about those egregious Gulf Polluters....BP?
(You DO know that suddenly...after April 2010...the International Oil Giant
that disastrously Polluted The Gulf of Mexico... is now - finally - facing some sort of actual Criminal Charges! No, BP...you CANNOT just Kill People and threaten the living creatures in the entire Gulf of Mexico!!!
Why not heat things up for BP? Go ahead...Get On Their Case? Whoops!
What am I saying? I am supposed to take a hit to my Pocketbook...because I despise Corporate Greed? Guess what? I just happen to buy gas for my car ...at...ARCO!
Yikes.
My Gas Charge at ARCO is $3.45. At Shell, etc., the price is around $3.69.
For my Beliefs...I have to cough up an added .20¢ a gallon? Whoops!
Hey...ALREADY boycott the Valero stations...they also selling Cheaper Gas ...because I absolutely WILL NOT give Money to the (ugh!) Koch Brothers.
Valero. Which offers Discount Gas Prices. As soon as I found out they were Kock Stations....I stopped buy here.
Idealism meets up with...My Pocketbook! So? WhatamIgonnado?
Do you Agree President Obama should LEAD FROM THE FRONT!
This Link takes you straight to
The White House: www.whitehouse.gov
Itsez Who? As far as I know...I am the only Living American who was an
actual
eye-witness to both Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, as well
as the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
When I was a kid...everyone I knew respected and admired FDR. Sure...there were a few "Republicans"
who sniffed at The New Deal, but we forgave them for their Silly Old Ideas. Who would have ever guessed that, led by Ronnie Reagan in 1980, those "honorable" Republicans would morph into today's MoneyMadRepUglyCons???
One of my key tasks with Itsez is to point out the Sheer Stupidity and Core Mean Spiritedness of what used to be...the Grand Old Party.
What we're seeing right now...is an unparalleled display of Corporate Greed
...while THEY are fighting Tooth & Nail.....to resist Anything Obama.
Talkin' Tough:
The Pic That Sez It All:
The Baby Boomers at Bain Kapital...Whoopin' It Up...Awash in....Cash! Hooray!!!
O(b)ama vs O(s)ama!
Obama got his man. Just like he said he would, way back in 
2008, as he was battling John McCain for the Presidency. Today
I get to show
an Original Calderhead Cartoon...a Political Poster for the 2008 Election that just happened to be way, way ahead of History.
From the Itsez Election Chronicle...Circa 2008
The Nightmare Finally Ended.
January 16, 2009: As the SuperFab Theatrics of Barack Obama's Inspirational Inauguration Roll Forward, Number 43 was last seen slinking out of town…
and into a History that is surely going to be most unkind to him.
Tomorrow will be All Obama…but today Itsez wants to put one more Nail in the Coffin of
George W. Bush.
This is CRUCIALLY important;
History absolutely MUST properly label Bush for what he actually Was and Is:
Clown? Dunce? Moron?
His 8 Terrible Years call for Far, Far, Far more damaging terms.
History must be crystal clear about his Gross Incompetence and his willful Destruction of America's Leadership Role on this troubled Planet.
There IS no "Other Power."
There's not another Nation on Earth that can take our place.
You can thank the Founding Fathers and the American People for that.
We are an Amazing Nation. And the Election of Barack Obama proved it.
Some of us...thinking of New President Obama...were reminded of the
Big Song from "The Man from La Mancha":
"To Dream the Impossible Dream
To Fight the Unbeatable Foe
To Defeat the Rich - Cream de la Cream
To Win…and feel that Welcome Glow...
To Right the Unrightable Wrongs
The Whole World will applaud our Wins
It will be the Stuff of E'erlasting Songs
As Obama ousts Bush…For All of His Sins"
