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Move over Jon Stewart, there’s another show which should soon come to Comedy Central and it is titled “Democrats Folly”.   It’s a story about Progressive, Liberal and Moderate Democrats who travel the country addressing the same problems that’s been plaguing the African-American, Hispanic, Middle Class, seniors and Veteran Communities for years. This story begins in 2009, where all hopes were laid at the feet of one man and each time this one man did not perform as many wanted him to, these democrats would gather together and rant about his inability to fix their problems.   Some will demand that he become as stubborn as his opposition and fight, fight, fight.   They will insist that he stand his ground and never compromise because that’s what they would do.   Of course none of them are under the same intense pressure that this one man is nor are they privy to all of the information and head winds he face each day from several different directions at the same time, ...

It’s time that we all begin to take responsibility for our actions or in the case of the progressive left, inaction.   We are the reason that this is happening because when it was time for us to step up to the plate and keep these freshmen Republicans out of office, we choose to sit back and watch this world implode.   We wanted to send Washington a message to not take us for granted but what we ended up doing was dooming America to this dive off a cliff. Hide behind your reasoning all you want but in your heart of hearts, you know that we did not step up and protect this nation from enemies foreign and domestic as we should.   We did not put our own selfish wants and needs behind the need of the nation as a whole.   We complain about the Tea Party taking us to the cliff’s edge but truth be told, they only had the power to do this because we gave it to them.   Unlike the voters of Wisconsin is calling back representatives who lied and mislead them, they are abl...

The has been much conversation about what happened in the debt talks between President Barack Obama and the Republican’s number two man, Eric Cantor.   Everybody has their own interpretations about what that exchange meant and like everyone else, I have mine.   Mine say that the Republican Party may have received a blessing in disguise and President’s Obama frustration may just be their salvation.   Mine says that this events signals the end of Tea Party rule and the re-emergence of the real Party of Lincoln Here is my evidence and much of it comes from an article by Olivier Knox for AFP titled “ Global warnings raise stakes in US debt standoff” .   It all started when “The US hit the ceiling on May 16 and has used spending and accounting adjustments, as well as higher-than-expected tax receipts, to continue operating without impact on government obligations.”   That was when “The president began pressing for a comprehensive deal to last through his 2012 reelec...