MONDAY MORNING DEMOCRATS

Last November Obama took a trouncing.

Obama, some Democrats are denouncing.

What game are these Democrats are playing.

A game that keeps the Republicans rejoicing.

Support Obama, you're setting a bad precedent.

Stand behind the Democratic Party's only President.

Where were the Democrats for last November's election?

Concentrate on getting out the vote, not sowing more dissension.

THE TRAITOR by Marcus Tullius Cicero:

“A nation can survive its fools,

and even the ambitious.

But it cannot survive treason from within.

An enemy at the gates is less formidable,

for he is known and carries his banner openly.

But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely,

his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,

heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor;

he speaks in accents familiar to his victims,

and he wears their face and their arguments,

he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation,

he works secretly and unknown in the night

to undermine the pillars of the city,

he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

A murderer is less to fear.

The traitor is the plague.”

The Professional Right and the Professional Left

Critics to the right, critics to the left.

President Obama gets short shrift.

Put the President in a box.

Give him some hard knocks.

The professional left and the professional right,

spread discord and confusion to the Republican's delight.

A house divided cannot stand.

It's just show business for this merry band.

THE TRAITOR by Marcus Tullius Cicero:

“A nation can survive its fools,

and even the ambitious.

But it cannot survive treason from within.

An enemy at the gates is less formidable,

for he is known and carries his banner openly.

But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely,

his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,

heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor;

he speaks in accents familiar to his victims,

and he wears their face and their arguments,

he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation,

he works secretly and unknown in the night

to undermine the pillars of the city,

he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

A murderer is less to fear.

The traitor is the plague.”

Thomas Jefferson: "The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. …

"The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. … ... But [the people's] virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 1799. ME 10:123

WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE GOVERNMENT !!!

There are many excuses for the intellectually lazy.

Their thought processes are lethargic and hazy.

The Democrats should do this, and Obama should do that.

We all only need vote to take our government back.

There are so few of them and so many of us.

So get out and vote instead of making a fuss.

Cowards don't vote for our rights and avoid the fight.

Low voter turnout is this country's corrosive plight.

HUBRIS: describes Wisconsin republicons and the PARTY OF NO

Hubris From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hubris ( /ˈhjuːbrɪs/),

extreme haughtiness, pride or arrogance.

Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality

and an overestimation of one's own competence or capabilities,

especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power.

Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,"

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.

(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

Vote and You're a Soldier in Our Democratic Fight.

It is through voting our country stays free.

The right to vote retains our freedom and liberty.

Since 1776 many have died to defend this right.

Vote and you're a soldier in our democratic fight.