The President's job performance is proof that he was the better candidate than any of the republicans who sought their party's nomination during the last two Presidential elections. And at the present time Obama is still better than any republican on the scene that has Presidential aspirations.
The President's weakness has been his inability and lack of desire to battle the republicans in congress who have been traitors to their own party, the country, the people and what responsibility is all about. Their vow to not work with the President has been badly answered by Obama and he should have studied how President Truman handled the same problem with the republicans during his term in office.
Truman was not shy about challenging the republicans. He called them the do nothing republicans in congress and said they were a bunch of damn liars. President Obama needs to be more combative with the republicans and point out that 50 plus years after Truman they are still a bunch of liars. He should be challanging the U.S. House every day to pass his jobs bill they have been sitting on for over a year and return to his 2012 reelection theme.
The President needs to start slapping the faces of the little bullies in the republican party. One can not negotiate with a bully, it takes strength and a desire to engage them and beat them at their own game. A bully is a coward who tries to intimidate because he can not compete with truth or facts. Obama can not be a Trumam but he can learn from Truman's actions to deal with the republicans and their destructive behavior.
This commentary written by John Lucia
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Political Journalists Just Do Not Get It
It matters not if journalists are on radio, television or the print media, they have yet to understand why republicans in congress and their Presidential candidates act like they do towards democrats. This writer has pointed out many times over in commentary here in "politidose" the reasons why. From A to Z the republican party has failed the country and its people on all the important issues they themselves talk about; balanced budgets, deficit spending, cutting federal spending, job creation, a lasting economy, keeping America safe, low unemployment, fair taxation and the list goes on and on. It is the democratic party that has the better record of handling all of those issues.
When you have no positive record to run on or debate you engage in personal attacks and name calling and vow not to lift a finger to help your country and its people. You also have to use wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, immigration, slurs and a multitude of other non issues and of course out right lies.
A good example was the last Presidential campaign of 2012. The republicans called President Obama all kinds of names, accused him of being a Muslim and a slew of other non factual statements, lied about his record and failed to address the real issues the people wanted to hear about. They could not call on former President Bush's name nor his record to articulate what their party stood for because that would remind the people of those 8 terrible years. Not one person of high standing in the Bush administration even spoke at their convention. And they were not about to talk of the war in Iraq over WMD that never existed or the tragic results of 911 and their failure to pursue Bin Liden and bring him to justice.
On the other hand, President Obama did address the issues the people were interested in and had no fear of having former President Clinton speak at the convention and along the stump. President Obama and the democratic party was able to compete and debate the issues. It is hell when you do not have a positive record to run on and debate and you have to rely on personal attacks and lies. It becomes worse when you have to practice an ideology that is unAmerican in nature and vow not to help your country and its people.
Yes, democratic administrations do have a better record of dealing with all the major issues and that goes back many, many years. Republicans do know that and that is why they act like they do. It is really easy to understand but journalists are more concerned in filling up time with republican talking points and are ignorant of the facts on many issues. The republican M.O. is understandable to any one with an open mind that follows the facts.
This commentary written by John Lucia
When you have no positive record to run on or debate you engage in personal attacks and name calling and vow not to lift a finger to help your country and its people. You also have to use wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, immigration, slurs and a multitude of other non issues and of course out right lies.
A good example was the last Presidential campaign of 2012. The republicans called President Obama all kinds of names, accused him of being a Muslim and a slew of other non factual statements, lied about his record and failed to address the real issues the people wanted to hear about. They could not call on former President Bush's name nor his record to articulate what their party stood for because that would remind the people of those 8 terrible years. Not one person of high standing in the Bush administration even spoke at their convention. And they were not about to talk of the war in Iraq over WMD that never existed or the tragic results of 911 and their failure to pursue Bin Liden and bring him to justice.
On the other hand, President Obama did address the issues the people were interested in and had no fear of having former President Clinton speak at the convention and along the stump. President Obama and the democratic party was able to compete and debate the issues. It is hell when you do not have a positive record to run on and debate and you have to rely on personal attacks and lies. It becomes worse when you have to practice an ideology that is unAmerican in nature and vow not to help your country and its people.
Yes, democratic administrations do have a better record of dealing with all the major issues and that goes back many, many years. Republicans do know that and that is why they act like they do. It is really easy to understand but journalists are more concerned in filling up time with republican talking points and are ignorant of the facts on many issues. The republican M.O. is understandable to any one with an open mind that follows the facts.
This commentary written by John Lucia
Thursday, June 20, 2013
The Tea Party Republicans: Not Ready For Prime Time
This writer pointed out in previous commentary that there was no difference between the Tea Party republicans and the republican party in general except that they were more extreme and preach a more unAmerican conservative ideology. I believe their actions in congress the last couple of years justify that opinion. They have failed to initiate and pass any legislation dealing with the economy that has been signed into law.
They recently joined with other republicans in the House to kill the "Affortable Health Care Act" for the 37th time that will go no where. That coupled with their desire to see the President and the country fail is their M.O. On budget matters they can't even walk the talk. Like Mitch McConnell and John Boehner who were silent while Bush 43 was President and the republicans controlled both houses of congress, they were silent on the sidelines while Bush returned the country to deficit spending and debt.
Like their party in general, the Tea Party has nothing to offer the country or its people to advance the economic well being of our nation. They have no record of balancing the federal budget, no record of job creation, no record of debating the issues that face the country which is why they are always in a personal attack mode on their opponets.
And now their latest attempt to destroy the President is to try to create a scandal out of Benghazi, the IRS matter and the NSA revelations. The Tea Party has no character, courage and lack the civility that is needed for leadership. They also would like to destroy the government they took an oath to serve.
The nation and its people are Americans first and foremost. The Tea Party and the republican party represented by the conservative unAmerican ideology of today's leaders have failed the individual and national test of America first. And that really says it all.
This commentary written by John Lucia
They recently joined with other republicans in the House to kill the "Affortable Health Care Act" for the 37th time that will go no where. That coupled with their desire to see the President and the country fail is their M.O. On budget matters they can't even walk the talk. Like Mitch McConnell and John Boehner who were silent while Bush 43 was President and the republicans controlled both houses of congress, they were silent on the sidelines while Bush returned the country to deficit spending and debt.
Like their party in general, the Tea Party has nothing to offer the country or its people to advance the economic well being of our nation. They have no record of balancing the federal budget, no record of job creation, no record of debating the issues that face the country which is why they are always in a personal attack mode on their opponets.
And now their latest attempt to destroy the President is to try to create a scandal out of Benghazi, the IRS matter and the NSA revelations. The Tea Party has no character, courage and lack the civility that is needed for leadership. They also would like to destroy the government they took an oath to serve.
The nation and its people are Americans first and foremost. The Tea Party and the republican party represented by the conservative unAmerican ideology of today's leaders have failed the individual and national test of America first. And that really says it all.
This commentary written by John Lucia
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The National Security Agency (NSA) Been There and Done That Before in Intelligence
Understanding the past is still the key to the future. I have used that theme on several occasions here in "politidose" during commentary in the past few years. Those who fail to understand and learn from the past will reap a future that looks like the past. The NSA picture that is in the news today is a good example and represents the future (present time) and is a repeat of the past. Let us examine the past.
The NSA is only one arm of the United States's intelligence community and what is being exposed today, but the news story is really not new. In a book titled "Body of Secrets" written by James Bramford almost 20 years ago detailed NSA's signal capabilities of intercepting phone conversations and etc. and processing such information with a super computer. The book detailes the many questionable acts NSA was involved with. It also detailed a little known fact of Israel's involvement in an attack of a U.S. naval ship that killed 34 Americans. The book exposed many of NSA's secrets.
NSA is also doing now what they did in the past under the Bush administration. At that time they were even by passing the FISA court. That was later corrected by actions of Congress. So the NSA revelation is nothing new, it has its roots in the past. Elected officials have failed to regulate and use their oversight to correct the mistakes of the past and therefore the future is like the past. The intelligence community has a past history of violating the law. That has been documented in the "Church Report" that dates back to the 70's, Watergate, The Kennedy Killing, Iran-Contra and former CIA director Alan Dulles even told the Warren Commission that employees of the CIA would even lie under oath in a court of law. President Truman who created the CIA was established to gather intelligence so that the President could make sound judgements.
Truman withheld from the CIA operation authority and was appalled when he learned that Presidents who followed him gave that out to the intelligence community. He wrote several articles concerning that. Our elected officials have learned nothing from the past about oversight and holding the intelligence community responsible for their actions. Therefore the future that is now being played out in the news media is a repeat of the past. Until elected officials learn that understanding the past is the key to the future nothing will change, and the future will continue to be like the past. And that does not only apply to intelligence matters.
This post written by John Lucia
The NSA is only one arm of the United States's intelligence community and what is being exposed today, but the news story is really not new. In a book titled "Body of Secrets" written by James Bramford almost 20 years ago detailed NSA's signal capabilities of intercepting phone conversations and etc. and processing such information with a super computer. The book detailes the many questionable acts NSA was involved with. It also detailed a little known fact of Israel's involvement in an attack of a U.S. naval ship that killed 34 Americans. The book exposed many of NSA's secrets.
NSA is also doing now what they did in the past under the Bush administration. At that time they were even by passing the FISA court. That was later corrected by actions of Congress. So the NSA revelation is nothing new, it has its roots in the past. Elected officials have failed to regulate and use their oversight to correct the mistakes of the past and therefore the future is like the past. The intelligence community has a past history of violating the law. That has been documented in the "Church Report" that dates back to the 70's, Watergate, The Kennedy Killing, Iran-Contra and former CIA director Alan Dulles even told the Warren Commission that employees of the CIA would even lie under oath in a court of law. President Truman who created the CIA was established to gather intelligence so that the President could make sound judgements.
Truman withheld from the CIA operation authority and was appalled when he learned that Presidents who followed him gave that out to the intelligence community. He wrote several articles concerning that. Our elected officials have learned nothing from the past about oversight and holding the intelligence community responsible for their actions. Therefore the future that is now being played out in the news media is a repeat of the past. Until elected officials learn that understanding the past is the key to the future nothing will change, and the future will continue to be like the past. And that does not only apply to intelligence matters.
This post written by John Lucia
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Yes, The Federal Budget Deficit Is Shrinking
The Congressional Budget Office announced recently that the federal budget deficit for fiscal year ending 9/30/13 will be approximately $640 billion. That is much less than the $900 billion that was projected earlier. Increased federal revenues and pay back to the U.S. Treasury for the TARP program was responsible for the decline in the projected budget deficit according to the CBO.
Once again it is a democratic administration who's policies are working that is bringing back some sanity to the government's fiscal house that the Bush administration and the republican controlled congress destroyed during their control. Today's republicans in the U.S. House and Senate hate to see a democratic administration doing well and continue to block the Presidents call to do more to keep the economy going strong.
The republicans unAmerican ideology of cutting federal spending to balance the federal budget is a two part fairy tale. The very first fairy tale is that no republican President has cut year to year federal spending in over 50 years even when they had the opportunity to do so. The second republican fairy tale of cutting taxes for corporate America and the wealthy to create jobs just does not happen.
The most important action congress can do to move the economy forward and create more jobs there by keeping the economy moving is to pass the President's job program that the U.S. House has been sitting on for well over a year. That would not only reduce the unemployment numbers dramatically, it would also increase federal revenue with more people employed and would also reduce the federal deficit more and move towards a balanced budget. The republicans know that and that is why they are sitting on their cans. The President needs to start kicking those cans.
This commentary written by John Lucia.
Once again it is a democratic administration who's policies are working that is bringing back some sanity to the government's fiscal house that the Bush administration and the republican controlled congress destroyed during their control. Today's republicans in the U.S. House and Senate hate to see a democratic administration doing well and continue to block the Presidents call to do more to keep the economy going strong.
The republicans unAmerican ideology of cutting federal spending to balance the federal budget is a two part fairy tale. The very first fairy tale is that no republican President has cut year to year federal spending in over 50 years even when they had the opportunity to do so. The second republican fairy tale of cutting taxes for corporate America and the wealthy to create jobs just does not happen.
The most important action congress can do to move the economy forward and create more jobs there by keeping the economy moving is to pass the President's job program that the U.S. House has been sitting on for well over a year. That would not only reduce the unemployment numbers dramatically, it would also increase federal revenue with more people employed and would also reduce the federal deficit more and move towards a balanced budget. The republicans know that and that is why they are sitting on their cans. The President needs to start kicking those cans.
This commentary written by John Lucia.
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