102 REASONS TO BECOME A PROGRESSIVE

The GOP accepts Ayn Rand's promotion of greed.

Republican Party renounces democracy’s creed.

GOP Politicians and judges enable voter suppression.

We the People cheated out of our representation.

Congress orders the Post Office to go bankrupt.

USPS made a plum for Congress’ friends to pick up.

Corporations globalized to maximize tax evasion.

Shipping jobs overseas caused USA desolation.

Corporate welfare drains the treasury’s coffers.

The well-heeled few provided with welfare sources.

Social Security and Medicare slowly dissipated.

The middle class standard of living emaciated.

Weaken Social Security until it’s ripe for privatizing.

Plans to drain Social Security by slick trick profitizing.

Privatize Medicare in order to save it.

Make Medicare another source of profit.

Privatize schools to control what students learn.

Make education a source of profits for the few to earn.

Government forced probes of vaginas.

Misogynists target women with vendettas.

Pro-birth anti-abortionists neglect poorly fed children.

Poorly educated children an egregious American sin.

Revolving door enriches the few.

Congress can find nothing constructive to do.

Plutocratic ideologues dictate government policy.

Congressmen swear to support disproven ideology.

Availability of guns cause the slaughter of the innocents.

NRA  proposes more guns in schools to provide protections.

Banks that are too big to fail are too big to exist.

To uphold justice by trial financial regulators resist.

Planet destroying tar sands strip mine in Alberta, Canada.

Fossil fuel profits for the few screw the people of North America.

Corporations are not people, and money is not speech.

Democracy is silenced when corporate money speaks.

We the People are ignored and sorely neglected.

To the rich few the GOP Congress has defected.

  

GOP Congress Of No (GOP-CON) policies are crazy.

GOP-CON leaders prey on the intellectually lazy.

The Republican Party is taking our democracy away.

We must insure democracy in America is here to stay.

The cup of the rich few is filled to overflowing.

Their greed driven largess is steadily growing

The Peoples’ half-filled cup steadily drains.

The rich few are usurping America’s dreams.

Fiscal Cliff Medicare $500 Million Heist revealed.

Medicare $500 million given to the “well–heeled”.

Wise old senators bilk $500 million from Medicare.

Of Senators McConnell, Hatch and Baucus beware.

Three or Four SCOTUS Judges ripe for impeachment.

Progressive Congress may consider SCOTUS indictments.

Polling rates U.S. Congress as 85% unfavorable.

Corporations buying Congress is very affordable.

Regulatory capture only one of Government Dysfunctions.

Revolving Door Regulators fail to enforce regulations.

GOP Congress Of No (GOP-CON) can do nothing constructive.

Toward the middle class GOP-CON policies are destructive.

It’s not surprising Congress is less popular than Cockroaches.

The GOP tries to obfuscate their messages as 2014 approaches.

Republicans and some Democrats leave America to rot.

Bamboozled Americans keep voting for more of what they got.

The election of 2012 increased the Progressives in Congress.

GOP Congress Of No (GOP-CON) holds up Progress.

Enormously profitable corporations pay no taxes and get rebates. 

Enormously wealthy citizens pay taxes at the lowest rates.

GOP-CON balances the budget on the backs of the poor.

USA has a revenue problem our GOP-CON friends ignore.

Tar sands oil could destroy forestland the size of Illinois.

XL pipeline, GOP-CON world killing profits for the rich boys.

Republican thinking is faulty they can't think clearly.

Republicans betray the democracy for which so many paid dearly.

Billionaires donate $120m to discredit climate change science.

Special interests want USA to maintain fossil fuel reliance.

The GOP-CON leaves USA infrastructure to rot.

The GOP-CON insures our children will have naught.

GOP-CON can’t find a tax loophole they dislike.

Politicians find war after war for our boys to fight.

Our country’s energy policy is a national disgrace.

U.S. Power from nukes, wind and solar can easily replace.

Hedge funds drive up prices with tax cut dollars.

Increasing prices insure the poor and middle class suffers.

Bubble after bubble the hedge funds create.

The bubbles burst and our wealth they take.

Fossil fuels are polluting the air, land and sea.

GOP-CON refuses the USA a Global Warming remedy.

A do nothing GOP-CON in circles they are racing.

The GOP-CON in 2014 needs complete replacing.

Our country is racing toward perilous shoals.

Republicans and some Democrats sold their souls.

30 years of tax cuts for the rich led to our present plight.

Vote progressive to preserve our’s and our children’s rights.

In 2007 the Republicans drove our country into a ditch.

GOP-CON wants to take from the poor to give to the rich.

Drill baby drill will bring more pollution.

More nuclear is a problem, not a solution.

Our states are not real estate for the rich few to take.

The future of the USA is “We the People’s” to make.

Marching off to another war we may be going.

To the military our tax dollars are kept flowing.

About obsolete nuclear plants we should worry.

Spend tax money here, before off the war we hurry.

Our country’s infrastructure is rotting to the core.

We should care about USA’s future a whole lot more.

MORE REASONS FOR YOU TO VOTE PROGRESSIVE

Regulatory capture is only one of Government Dysfunctions.

Revolving Door Regulators fail to enforce regulations.

The “Congress Of No” (CON) can do nothing constructive.

Toward the middle class GOP-CON policies are destructive.

It’s not surprising Congress is less popular than Cockroaches.

The GOP tries to obfuscate their messages as 2014 approaches.

Republicans and some Democrats leave America to rot.

Bamboozled, they keep voting for more of what they got.

The election of 2012 increased the Progressives in Congress.

“The Congress Of No” (CON) continues to hold up Progress.

Enormously profitable corporations pay no taxes then get rebates. 

Enormously wealthy citizens pay taxes at the lowest rates.

They balance the budget on the backs of the poor.

USA has a revenue problem our GOP-CON friends ignore.

Tar sands oil could destroy forestland the size of Illinois.

Give  world killing profit center for the GOP rich boys.

Republican thinking is faulty they can't think clearly.
They betray the democracy for which so many paid dearly.

Billionaires donate $120m to discredit climate change science.

Special interests want USA to maintain fossil fuel reliance.

The “Congress Of No” (CON) leaves USA infrastructure to rot.

Fire the CON or our children and grandchildren will have naught.

REASONS FOR YOU TO VOTE PROGRESSIVE

Corporations are not people, and money is not speech.

Democracy is silenced when corporate money speaks.

We the People are ignored and sorely neglected.

To the rich few the GOP Congress has defected.

  

All Republican wing-nuts are not completely crazy.

They are the leaders that prey on the intellectually lazy.

The Republican Party is taking our democracy away.

We must insure democracy in America is here to stay.

The cup of the rich few is filled to overflowing.

Their greed driven largess is steadily growing

The Peoples’ half-filled cup steadily drains.

The rich few are usurping America’s dreams.

Fiscal Cliff Medicare $500 million Heist revealed.

Taken from Medicare and given to the “well -heeled’

$500 million robbed from senior citizens’ Medicare.

Of Senators McConnell, Hatch and Baucus beware.

Three or Four SCOTUS Judges ripe for impeachment.

114th Progressive Congress can consider indictment.

Polling rates U.S. Congress as 85% unfavorable.

Corporations owning Congress is quite affordable.

The Fine Art of Bamboozle Detection by Carl Sagan

One of the saddest lessons of history is this:

If we've been bamboozled long enough,

we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.

We're no longer interested in finding out the truth.

The bamboozle has captured us.

It is simply too painful to acknowledge

-- even to ourselves --

that we've been so credulous.[gullible]

(So the old bamboozles tend to persist

as the new bamboozles rise.)

-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash 

in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle

requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage.

But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought,

we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us

-- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers,

up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987

At the heart of science is an essential tension

between two seemingly contradictory attitudes

-- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counter intuitive they may be,

and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.

This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

Of course, scientists make mistakes

in trying to understand the world,

but there is a built-in error-correcting mechanism:

The collective enterprise of creative thinking

and skeptical thinking together keeps the field on track.

-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987

BAMBOOZLE HAS REPUBLICANS IN ITS GRASP

Middle class Republicans are out in the cold.

The art of bamboozle has them in its hold.

The Republican middle class is not capable of thinking.

They refuse to believe that their middle class is shrinking.

Their thinking is faulty they can't think clearly.

They betray democracy which so many paid for dearly.

Middle class Republicans are the nation's greatest suckers.

Confused and dispossessed they ignore Democratic benefactors.

All republican right-wing-nuts are not completely crazy.

They are the leaders that prey on the intellectually lazy.

Some people can be fooled all of the time.

The art of bamboozle keeps the uninformed in line.

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this:

If we've been bamboozled long enough,

we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.

We're no longer interested in finding out the truth.

The bamboozle has captured us.

It is simply too painful to acknowledge

-- even to ourselves --

that we've been so credulous [gullible]. 

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash

in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle

requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage.

But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought,

we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us

-- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers,

up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. (emphasis added)

-- CARL SAGAN, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987

IN 2014 “THE PARTY OF NO” NEEDS COMPLETE REPLACING

The Republican “Party of No” in 2014 must be rejected.

Progressive Senators and Representatives must be elected.

In the Senate remove the “Party of No” obstructionist batch.

Democratic "Blue Dog" turncoats are not very hard to catch.

It's jobs and more jobs that America needs.

Reject cutting jobs while America bleeds.

FDR knew what to do.

The “Party of No” hasn't a clue.

We the People are  sorely neglected.

To the rich few the GOP has defected.

Social safety nets are under attack.

Lower taxes for the few are on the fast track.

In November 2014 voting only for the Progressive best.

We can clean out the Congress corrupted nest.

We know who they are, and won't forget what they've done.

With strong turnout, voting wisely; a new government is won.

VOTE IN 2014 FOR PROGRESSIVE REPRESENTATION

Reject Congressional enablers of greed and corruption.

We the People must vote in 2014 for our representation.

We know who they are, we know how they voted.
Their  war on the middle class is fullly noted.

The Republican Party is working to take democracy away.

Vote in 2014 to insure democracy in America is here to stay.
American democracy of our fathers must again be won.
Vote Progressive in 2014 or democracy soon will be gone.

MORE REASONS TO BECOME A PROGRESSIVE

Government forced probes of vaginas.

Misogynists target women with vendettas.

Pro-birth anti-abortionists neglect poorly fed children.

Poorly educated children are an egregious American sin.

Revolving door enriches the few.

Congress can find nothing to do.

Plutocratic ideologues dictate government policy.

Congressmen swear to support disproven ideology.

Availability of guns caused the slaughter of the innocents.

NRA  proposes more guns in schools to provide protections.

Banks that are too big to fail are too big to exist.

To uphold justice by trial financial regulators desist.

Planet destroying tar sands strip mine in Alberta, Canada.

Profits for the few screwing the people of North America.

WHY I BECAME A PROGRESSIVE

The Ayn Rand's accepted promotion of greed.

Effectively denounces democracy’s creed.

Politicians and judges enable voter suppression.

We the People cheated out of representation.

Congress orders the Post Office to go bankrupt.

It’s now a plum for Congress’ friends to pick up.

Corporations globalized to maximize tax evasion.

Shipping jobs overseas caused USA desolation.

Corporate welfare drains the treasury’s coffers.

The well-heeled few provided with profit sources.

Social Security and Medicare slowly dissipated.

The middle class standard of living emaciated.

Weaken Social Security until it’s ripe for privatizing

Then drain the fund by slick trick profitizing.

Privatize Medicare in order to save it.

Provide the few with a source of profit.

Privatize schools to control what students learn.

Education is another source of profits to earn.

            

The Heist of the USA

The cup of the few filled to overflowing.

Greed driven largess, steadily growing.

The Peoples’ cup loses steady streams.

The few snatch democracy’s dreams.

PRESTIGE OF THE SENATE TAKES ANOTHER BLOW

Confidence in Congress at an all-time low.

Prestige of the Senate takes another blow.

Fiscal Cliff Medicare $500 million Heist revealed.

Taken from Medicare and given to the “well -heeled’

A Fiscal Cliff “negotiated provision buried deep.

Hidden where the American public could not see.

Whodunit? No one knows, or they dare not say.

That we never find out they hope and pray.

GOTO: U.S. Rep. Peter Welch on Amgen’s Sweet Senate Deal | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com 
http://billmoyers.com/segment/u-s-rep-peter-welch-on-amgen%E2%80%99s-sweet-senate-deal/ 


GOTO: Fiscal Footnote: Big Senate Gift to Drug Maker http://nyti.ms/T24INK

"Amgen has deep financial and political ties to lawmakers like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, and Senators Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, and Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, who hold heavy sway over Medicare payment policy as the leaders of the Finance Committee."

THE MEDICARE/FISCAL CLIFF $500 MILLION DOLLAR ROBBERY

Once called a gift to emphasize the recipient.

In reality a covert robbery, bold and efficient.

$500 million robbed from senior citizens’ Medicare.

Of Senators McConnell, Hatch and Baucus we must beware.

These three U.S. Senators must be held accountable.

Of all the Senate’s tricks they are knowledgeable.

With 94 combined years of Senate experience,

Can these three Senators pretend ignorance?

Three U.S. Senators at the pinnacle of their careers,

What did they know and when did they know it.?

Investigations needed to quell senior citizens' fears.

A mystery to be resolved, in the U.S. Senate whodunit.

GOTO: U.S. Rep. Peter Welch on Amgen’s Sweet Senate Deal | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com 
http://billmoyers.com/segment/u-s-rep-peter-welch-on-amgen%E2%80%99s-sweet-senate-deal/


GOTO: Fiscal Footnote: Big Senate Gift to Drug Maker http://nyti.ms/T24INK

"Amgen has deep financial and political ties to lawmakers like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, and Senators Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, and Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, who hold heavy sway over Medicare payment policy as the leaders of the Finance Committee."

A COMBINED 94 YEARS OF SENATE EXPERIENCE

Of Hatch, McConnell AND Baucus beware.

They know all the Senate’s tricks.

$500 million bilked from Medicare.

A provision buried deep was a gift.

IMPEACH RIGHT WING ACTIVIST SCOTUS JUDGES

Deep anxiety activist SCOTUS Judges  bring.

The SCOTUS should be expanded to fifteen.

Three or Four SCOTUS Judges ripe for impeachment.

114th Progressive Congress can consider indictment.

Democracy is Silenced When Money Speaks.

Polling rates U.S. Congress as 85% unfavorable.

Corporations are people, and money is speech.

Corporations owning Congress is quite affordable.

Democracy is silenced when money speaks.

Balancing The Budget on the Backs of the Poor

While they balance the budget on the backs of the poor.

We have a revenue problem our Republican friends ignore.

Enormously profitable corporations pay no taxes then get rebates.

Enormously wealthy citizens pay taxes at the lowest rates.

I'll vote for Republicans Nevermore.

Republicans drove America into a ditch.
Republicans exist to benefit the rich.
Republicans give to the rich & take from the poor.
I'll vote for Republicans nevermore, nevermore.