Republicans working hard to get Obama re-elected

All the hard work by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to sabotage the Obama administration — as well as the American public, American business and the American economy — may be undone by the buffoons running for president.

Amen to that.

For their part, congressional Republicans may be helping out by overplaying their hand. It remains to be seen how boneheaded Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner will be about deficit cutting as the super-committee deadline approaches. Whether they realize it or not, Obama has made a successful end run on the tax issue, and the Republicans can only lose ground with their insistence that there will be no new taxes. A new poll by Politico shows that Americans — we, the voters — support increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations 66% to 31%, with a majority, 52%, strongly supporting increases. That same poll shows that Americans — yes, the people for whom this government is supposed to be working — oppose cuts to Medicare 76% to 19%, again with 52% strongly opposing such cuts. If the congressional Republicans persist with their blinkered ideology, then the Democrats truly will have a chance to win back many of the House seats they lost in 2010 and retain control of the Senate. 

Maybe, maybe not. One can only hope.

Occupy Wall Street ?

Watching them every moment.

Does government do any good?

Over the High-Tech Rainbow
In this piece, Sue Halpern writes: Siri [embedded in Apple’s iPhone 4S] “was incubated at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), alongsidfe predator drones and driverless combat vehicles, and where the seeds of Apple’s original Macintosh computer were sowed.”

Perhaps government does do some good, no?

Killing Our Citizens Without Trial

In a New York Review of Books article, David Cole writes: Whatever one thinks about the merits of presidents ordering that citizens or noncitizens be killed by remote-controlled missiles, surely there is something fundamentally wrong with a democracy that allows its leader to do so in “secret,” without even demanding that he defend his actions in public.
 
    And he’s quite right. We abdicate our rights, and the obligations of our leaders, so we can debate whether Kim Kadashian should keep the ring, or not.