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Posted: September 28, 2011 3:29 P.M. HCJ

IS ABU MAZEN SMARTER THAN AMERICAN JEWS?

Obama's bungling of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, specifically his heavy-handedness towards Israel has made for a weak president in the Jewish community and has left the Palestinian's Abu Mazen smelling blood and taking advantage of the weakened American President evidenced in Abu Mazen's bid for Palestinian statehood before the UN.

Pro-Israel American Jews are not as smart as Abu Mazen. They could, if they were so inclined, hold the pathetically weak president hostage right up to election day to get the president to support their policies in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Alas, there are always those stupid Jews like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Robert Wexler, more interested in power than in the fate of the Jewish homeland. Thus, they are shilling for the pro-Palestinian Obama, pleading with Jewish supporters to back the misguided president in his re-election bid.

And dumb Democratic Jews, who out of their own stupidity, unlike the smarter Abu Mazen, do not realize that by withholding their campaign contributions and their promised support they can control the fate of Israel.

Particularly galling in the DNC'S talking points is the dangling of the possibility that Obama will visit Israel, something he should have done a long time ago, but instead thought it was more important to visit Arab strongholds.

Quite frankly, no one in Israel is too keen on an Obama visit. The carrot being dangled to Jewish American contributors is appealing to their egos as they like to envision themselves flying on Air Force One to the homeland with the American president, they the power brokers.

Well, forget that, you fools. You can do what Abu Mazen is doing and truly wield your power by, as I said above, withholding your contributions and your promised vote to free Israel of Obama's misguided hand.

Get smart or you're in bed with the enemy.

Posted: September 20, 2011 7:29 P.M. HCJ

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Posted: September 20, 2011 12:03 P.M. HCJ

JEWISH MONEY WILL TALK

The mess President Obama has created in the middle east will go down in history as one of the worst foreign policy plunders in the history of the U.S. From his refusal to take on Iran and its pursuit of nuclear weapons directly, to his supporting the overthrow of Egypt's Mubarak and leaving a vacuum in place for the radical Islamists to fill, one can only wonder what Obama is doing in the job as commander in chief.

But Obama's worst foreign policy debacle is the one that he has created in his bungling of his handling of the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

This week all eyes will be on the UN where the people who call themselves Palestinians will go to the UN to request UN recognition for a Palestinian state. It is assumed that the U.S. will veto the move.

But the fact that the Palestinians feel free to make such a move even as the U.S. asks that they don't is reflective of Obama's mishandling of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and of the lack of respect the Palestinian-Arab leadership feel for Barack Obama.

Will a last minute deal that doesn't force the Israeli's to bend even further than Obama has already forced them to do stop the Palestinian move? We'll see.

One thing is certain. After the trouncing Obama and the Dems took in the NY Congressional race to replace Anthony Weiner, where that district went Republican for the first time since 1923 largely in protest of Obama's selling out of Israel, Obama can't afford to do anything other than stand FIRMLY with Israel. His reelection should he do otherwise stands in the balance. Not only do the polls show that Obama has taken a beating with Jewish voters in terms of support, but his campaign pocketbook is a lot thinner thanks to the funds being withheld by traditional Jewish campaign contributors.

Should the Palestinians proceed with their bid and win recognition, I hesitate to think what the repercussions will be. First for the entire Middle East region, second for the people who call themselves Palestinians -- mere pawns in their leaderships game -- the standing of the U.S. in the region, the future of Obama's political life...but most importantly, Israel's security, which thanks to Obama's policies hangs in the balance more precariously than ever before in its brief life.

Posted: September 19, 2011 12:14 P.M. HCJ

THE OBAMA FIGHT SONG - NONE!

When tired old political operatives like James Carville come out fighting with more gusto than the president, you know the Democratic Party's insiders are FREAKED, and they're so mad, they're not going to take it anymore.

There are many who have been warning the president that his presidency hangs in the balance, but I can't remember a president who is more tone-deaf, more arrogant than this one.

So in order to make sure he hears what he doesn't want to listen to, Carville came out screaming on CNN as to what the president needs to do.

As I have long-advocating here, Carville concurred that it's time Obama started knocking off heads in his ineffectual office.

Obama is know for his loyalty, a nice trait to have in your personal life, but not necessarily a positive trait for a president.

So, I'm shouting to Obama, and James Carville's voice is hollerin' right alongside my own. Off with their heads: Bill Daley should go, but first Tim Geithner.

Or next will be Obama himself.

Posted: September 15, 2011 3:37 P.M. HCJ

THE DUMB NY TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD

I wanted to say something about this yesterday, but I've been swamped with other things. I wanted to make mention of the most absurd editorial ever in the Times. Ok, maybe not the most absurd, but another dumb one. Is the NY Times editorial board watching the same movie that I'm watching?

As I said, in perhaps one of the dumbest editorials in their history, and that's saying something, they accuse Israel of stalling on peace talks, naming Prime Minister Netanyahu as the culprit in the failed negotiations.

Failed? You can't fail at something that never starts, and Mr. I-will-do-or-say-anything-to-delay-talking-to-the-Jews - Abu Mazen - is the master of avoiding negotiations.

In the last few years under Obama's watch, PM Netanyahu has made nearly every concession asked and still the Palestinians avoided sitting down at the table. Instead they are now seeking recognition at the U.N. Yet, for all their intransigence, the Times and the left continue to pummel Israel as if it's all Israel's fault. It's not, not remotely.

That the Palestinians think they can go to the UN is a measure of just how horribly the Obama Administration has dealt with the Israel-Palestinian issue, and just how little respect the Abu Mazen has for the president.

Now Obama is in a mad scramble to stop the Palestinians from going to the UN and getting the vote to unilaterally declare statehood. If they do, all hell could break lose in the Middle East and Israel would be the victim.

Certainly, we want to know what the Obama administration is doing to stop this from happening But it is certainly a relevant question to ask: How did we get here?

Obama got us here, Obama and the left-wing Israel haters who fail to understand that the Palestinians are never to be trusted.

A lesson it maybe too late to learn.

Posted: September 13, 2011 6:24 P.M. HCJ

THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH

Spunky it was, but whether it was practical or yet another kowtow to the Republicans we'll only find out when we get the details.

Some random thoughts include the dreadfully lackluster introduction of the president by Speaker Boehner, the palpable disdain of the president by the Republicans, the typically silly camera swings to Steve Case, John McCain and the first Lady. On the other hand, the cut to Majority Leader Cantor caught Cantor with a quivering lip, no doubt reflecting his inner hate of Obama.

Of course the Republicans barely applauded even when the president was tossing them a bone. And they didn't stand up and applaud but once or twice. But there were definitely inappropriate snickers coming from the Republican caucus.

It seemed quite clear that the president was speaking as much to the American people as to those in the chamber. He didn't use Washington speak, but rather spoke to what Americans can understand. He spoke of rebuilding America's roads and transportation system, but did not use, for instance, the word "infrastructure."

Prediction: There will be posturing by the Republicans, but at the end of the day, much of what the president called for he will get. This morning Eric Cantor put on a softer face when he admitted that his party had been working on speeding cuts and not jobs, but he indicated they knew it was time to work on jobs...proof that the R's are reading the polls, which have been even more critical of the R's obstructionism as the president.

Posted: September 8, 2011 8:31 P.M. HCJ

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY

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Palestinians went right to the source for their ad in support of their bid for a "Palestinian State:" Barack Obama. Oy vey.

Posted: September 8, 2011 12:23 P.M. HCJ

MY TWO SENSE ON THE REPUBLICAN DEBATE

What a bizarre set of candidates. From the tired old traditional mode of the GOP Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman... to the sleaze that is Newt Gingrich...to that empty-headed Veronica, Michelle Bachmann... to the he-looks-like-he-died-and-emerged-from-the- grave, the grave Ron Paul...to Rick Santorum, the-goody-goody kid you wanted to beat up on the school playground...and oh, yeah, what's his name, ah, Herman something or other. And last and should be least, but in these crazy times isn't, Rick Perry. Only one word comes to mind when I think of Rick Perry: Neanderthal. For now, that's all I have to say.

Posted: September 8, 2011 12:12 P.M. HCJ

CRAZY DAY

Sorry I wasn't around today. I've got a ton of irons in the fire and yikes! I'll be gone tomorrow in the a.m., but I should be able to post later. Rest-assured I'll have a few words to say about the debate.

Posted: September 7, 2011 7:51 P.M. HCJ

THE WASHINGTON COLISEUM - AHEM

Who was it who said that politics is not for the faint of heart?

It is no surprise to anyone who follows the day-to-day machinations of our politicians that American politics has become a blood-sport.

Not that the game of politics has ever been a stroll in the park; it hasn’t. But something sinister has invaded our political discourse of late, and that something is tearing our country apart.

What is that something?

Negativity.

In fact, negativity has viralled into all aspects of American life.

America has become a nation obsessed with what’s wrong with our country rather than what’s right. As a country we see the glass as half-empty rather than as half-full. We find the worst trends in a poll that might actually have small indications of better days ahead and we glom onto them. We rub our hands together with glee when the opposition is one-upped.

We’ve become like the uncivilized in the stands of the Roman Coliseum, watching the gladiators fight to the death, shouting “Kill, kill, kill.”

Transfixed by the Boob Tube we find joy in the on-air barkers, also known as political pundits, as they tear the opposition to shreds with clever but mean-spirited and highly-negative silver tongues.

In most ways, we can blame this pessimistic ailment on our contemptuous leaders. But we must also blame ourselves for allowing our politicians to lead us down this path of unrighteousness.

Yes, there are those who are angry with the ugliness that has become the norm on Capitol Hill. The Tea Party movement formed in response to current Washington ways. But like the old guard on Capitol Hill, this new group quickly became part of the establishment, screaming about what is wrong with Washington rather than what is right.

We just celebrated Labor Day, officially the start of the 2012 campaign. Congress comes back into session later this week. If you thought things were negative before, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Despite this country’s huge economic woes, we are about to watch our politicians descend into the depths of political darkness. Such a descent could prove catastrophic to a country already in its darkest days since The Great Depression.

On Thursday night President Obama will present his plan to solve the job crisis to a joint session of Congress. Is there doubt in anyone’s mind that the following day the Republican opposition will be hitting the airwaves and the editorial pages of our major newspapers spewing their negativity on the president’s ideas in an effort to destroy his presidency?

Which makes me wonder what the opposition could accomplish if the Republicans took all their negative energy focused on thwarting President Obama’s efforts at every turn, and turned it to the positive.

What a novel idea for a party and a politician: Winning an election or a political argument by putting forth a positive agenda! Of course, in fact, they’d most probably lose if they did. Politicians reflect the people. These days the people would rather watch a gladiator combat than a beauty contest, which for a time was the criterion for electing our leaders and a part of what got this nation into the negative place that is.

Oy, another negative thought. But, forgive me for being just one more of those cynical political pundits.

Posted: September 6, 2011 12:09 P.M. HCJ

THE DANGER OF THE TIRED, OLD GOP

If a country doesn't innovate, it is doomed to die. Thus, when the GOP's top candidate writes an Op Ed of what he plans to do in attacking America's economic woes, in particular job creation, and it is nothing but the same old, same old, the future of a nation under the GOP becomes suspect.

Thus Mitt Romney's formula for bringing jobs back to America is a yawn. But more importantly, the former Gov. of Massachusetts may not have the creds to be the one talking about job creation. He has, to say the least, a lackluster jobs record as Massachusetts's Gov.

By the same token, President Obama better come up with something innovative in his speech before the joint session of Congress, Thursday, but don't bet on it.

If Washington is missing anything, it is innovative minds. I'm just sayin'.

Posted: September 6, 2011 11:58 A.M. HCJ

BRAGGING RIGHTS

I was simply astonished by the lovely note I received from R. Jeffreys the wonderful author, poet, Editor-in-Chief at Dancing With Bear Publishing, and host of the renowned radio show The Write Step. Apparently, Jeff posted this on his Facebook page, a popular watering hole for authors.

"I've just read one of the most, exceptional short stories, I ever had the pleasure to read! Halli Casser-Jayne submitted her short story for my holiday anthology, Stories from a Holiday Heart; and it's as if Harper Lee wrote this story, just for me. I cannot wait to share the published book with you all when it's released this November! Halli, you are a cherished friend and a phenomenal writer. Thank you!"

Thanks, Jeff!

Posted: September 3, 2011 12:50 P.M. HCJ

OBAMA'S BIG SPEECH

The renowned "kerfuffle" between the President of the United States and the Speaker of the House is now history, but not the damage done to the presidency (never has a president been treated with such abject disrespect). Speaker Boehner broke a code with the office of the presidency: the code of respect for the office if not the office holder. Can we go any lower?

Of course, Obama asked for it. Surely he knew that there was a Republican debate set for the night his office proposed for the speech. My guess is that he and his staff never figured that Congress would turn down a president's request to speak before a joint session of Congress.

Or they didn't heed a lesson taught by Speaker Boehner during the debt debate: Boehner then stabbed the president in the back, as he did now, making a he said/he said argument, exactly as he did the other day slyly declaring that he had never agreed to the original date as Obama's Chief-of-staff insists that Boehner did.

Once again the Republicans, who care little of the optics, played the political hand and now Obama has been set up.

Next week's speech on jobs better be the speech of Obama's life. It better be chock-filled with ideas. It had better have some huge surprise.

Without that Obama is going to be pummeled by the media who are as disgusted with this political rookie and his mistakes as is the Right and Obama's own left.

I don't envy the president's position. For what can he actually suggest? A new New Deal? Big Deal!

His only option is to pull some fabulous political move, opting for a big plan that would keep the House from having to vote on the president's package.

This would get everyone up in arms, give the media something to jabber about other than yet another tired old jobs plan. Yes, Obama, you need to create a kerfuffle or you're screwed.

Diversions, Obama. It's your only way out, except, of course, to fire your Chief-of-staff, Bill Daley, who has turned you into the Wimp-in-chief since he arrived in Washington.

Posted: September 2, 2011 11:29 A.M. HCJ

IMPORTANT STORY

I'm posting this link and encourage you to read this story in full.

Posted: September 1, 2011 9:03 A.M. HCJ

MORE ON THE WIMP FACTOR: IMAGE IS ALL

This morning, following yesterday's debacle over President Obama's request to appear before a Joint Session of Congress in which, in my opinion, neither side looked good, there are few members of the press who aren't calling Obama a wimp.

At every turn this president has capitulated to the Republicans who have been having one heck of a time having fun with Obama at Obama's expense.

They are playing him like a fine-tuned Stradivarius, at this point making their easy assaults on the president positively painful to watch.

Now the mainstream media has ganged up on the wimp-in-chief, I imagine, because they can't stand bearing witness to a president of the United States being constantly pummeled by his opposition, or for that matter any man.

Obama is proving to be the least feared president of our time.

More than the recession and the persistent high unemployment rate plaguing Obama's chance for re-election, his being labeled a wimp might prove to be his undoing.

President Obama has made himself an easy target for all, just like the egghead on a grammar school playground would do.

The question that remains to be answered is: Is it too late for Obama to reconstruct his image?

The jury remains out on that one. But we all know that a leopard can't change its spots.

Posted: September 1, 2011 8:47 A.M. HCJ

OH THOSE DEMS

Leave it to a Dem to fold before the fight has ever begun. If this report is true, here the Dems go again. The party of the wimps, led by Barack Obama, The Wimp-in-Chief appears to have folded on the issue of tax increases for the wealthy before the real discussion even started.

Steny Hoyer, one of the Dems appointed to the newest debt committee appears to be floating a trial balloon.

Now the question becomes, will the left launch a strong push-back or will they, too, wimp out?

Obama and company have proven themselves wimps. But the left hasn't exactly been a virile opposition to the wimp.

As I said, the Democratic Party: The Party of the Wimps.

Posted: August 31, 2011 9:47 A.M. HCJ

HEALTH CARE REFORM WAS ONCE AN R IDEA

Ah, Rick Perry. I guarantee that he and Mitt Romney aren't the only two Republicans with health care reform in their background. Romney we knew. But Rick Perry?He's got some 'xplainin' to do.

Posted: August 30, 2011 6:51 P.M. HCJ

SHAKE, RATTLE AND WE'RE BEING ROLLED

Yikes, what a week on the East Coast of the United States!

First, a 5.9 earthquake shake, rattled, and rolled unsuspecting citizens from Atlanta to New Hampshire. And then came Hurricane Irene bringing anything but gentle rains to the very same populace.

What next, locusts and plagues?

Mother Nature was heaving a hissy-fit, a punishing blow.

“I said shake, rattle, and roll tra la la.”

Looking at a map of the East Coast, is it merely coincidence that at the center of the storm sits Washington, D.C.?

Even as Mother Nature cut her swath of devastation across the region, in Washington, D.C. the tide took nary a turn. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of the deeply shaken and flooded Virginia Commonwealth continued his political rant: “No Federal aid for disaster,” Cantor stormed, “without spending cuts.”

Does this partisan ever miss an opportunity to further his political agenda?

“You look so warm but your heart is cold as ice tra la la.”

But Majority Leader Cantor was not alone. As Hurricane Irene barreled along the U.S. East Coast, Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said the nation would be much better off without the Federal Emergency Management Agency popularly known as FEMA.

I live on the Gulf Coast. We put up with hurricanes all the time,” the GOP candidate told CNN after a New Hampshire campaign event Friday. “There’s no magic about FEMA,” he rattled on. “More and more people are starting to recognize that.”

Would someone please shake, rattle and roll some sense into this man’s callous heart?

Even the Republican National Network aka Fox News posted an opinion piece titled: “Do We Really Need the National Weather Service?”

Do we really need Fox News?

About this Republican onslaught against the Federal government, treating it as some evil doer, which is their campaign slogan for 2012. No doubt about it, their “The Federal Government is Evil” catch phrase has gotten traction and no fight back from the Democratic Party. Instead, the Obama administration has been on the defensive almost apologizing for its efforts to bailout Wall Street and the Auto industry in the wake of the Republican-led storm that was a gale-force destructive wind that blew down our fiscal house in 2008.

Would someone please shake, rattle and roll the Democratic Party?

You’re being sandbagged! If you don’t fight back, you’re about to be shake, rattled and rolled right out of the White House.

What a perfect campaign theme from the opposition party: Reduce the size of government, and, by the way, reduce President Barack Obama while you’re at it. Never mind that the very people who are campaigning on this theme earn their living from…you guessed it…the evil government.

The Founding Fathers understood that there is a fine line between too big a government and one that is ineffectual. But of course the Founding Fathers were patriots first and partisans second, unlike the destructive force of right-wingers leading this earthquake of a political campaign.

No FEMA, no National Weather Service, The Federal Government is Evil. Tell that to the millions on the East Coast who suffered damage at the fury of Mother Nature last week.

As to the Republicans: Locusts and plagues.

Posted: August 30, 2011 3:04 P.M. HCJ

WISE-ASS PUNDITS VS SMART PUNDITS

First you have to read Jonathan Alter's column.

Second, you have to read Peter Wehner's smartass column.

Third, you have to think hurricane. A fierce storm rolls in, it wreaks havoc, but the real damage comes from the swirl of energy begun at the storm's core and thrust out in the bands.

Consider the damage of George Bush, a whirling storm whose outer bands of damage are still reverberating across America's fiscal climate.

Can a hurricane be stopped?

No, the best that you can hope is that Mother Nature effects some de-escalation of the storm. Obama tried. Who knows what would have happened if he hadn't.

Beware the tornado of the Republican Party desperately at work trying rewrite recent history.

Posted: August 29, 2011 10:16 A.M. HCJ

FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE CJPR CAFE

Batten down the hatches. If you live on the east coast as I do, you're in for a wet, wild ride. Good luck to all.

For your listening pleasure, here's a preview of crazy Tom Mabe our guest on Sunday's The Halli and MoJoe Show on BlogTalkRadio.

So listen in Sunday. And if Mother Nature makes that impossible, remember that you can always catch the show in a podcast at BlogTalkRadio, or via iTunes or through your mobile phone app.

Thanks for a super week, and what a week it was: first an earthquake and now a hurricane. Yikes!

Posted: August 26, 2011 4:02 P.M. HCJ

GOOD READIN'

It must be the hurricane energy swirling. But for a Friday morning in August when most political pundits should be sleeping in late and taking a long weekend, they've come out swinging. I'm posting some of the more interesting columns for your reading pleasure.

Bernanke Saves Wall St. and Destroys Main St.

Dr. King Weeps from His Grave

Obama's Team is Blowing It (I said this two weeks ago.)

Bill Keller: Just Asking Questions

Anyone Out There Interested in Reason?

Glenn Beck's Revealing Visit

Third Party Candidate Would Help Who?

Posted: August 26, 2011 9:38 A.M. HCJ

THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL

Kinky Freidman Backs Perry

Cantor: No earthquake relief for Virginia

Perry on top of new Gallup Poll

Posted: August 25, 2011 3:18 P.M. HCJ

HEADS UP

Heads up friends. Mark September 18th 5 pm Eastern for The Halli and MoJoe Show that you won't want to miss. Halli will be interviewing activist and best selling author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, Gloria Feldt. A teen mom, Gloria became not only an activist and author but a successful CEO, an acclaimed expert on women, power, and authentic leadership and so much more. Gloria is a truly inspirational woman with a most compelling story!

Posted: August 24, 2011 4:53 P.M. HCJ

PURPLELETTER.ORG

Have I told you guys about PurpleLetter.org? If not, the best thing I can do is send you to the spectacular website and let it speak for itself. For all my political junkies, this website is for you.

I am so enamored with its creator, Paige Maurer Wheeler, that I have made Paige a part of The Halli and MoJoe Radio Show family, where she contributes to our political discussion by sharing some of the letters that have been posted on her website.

Apparently, Paige and I have a mutual admiration society going, for here is what Paige wrote on her blog about me.

Do visit Paige's website and contribute. You will be putting your political oice where your mouth is.

"HALLLI DOESN'T NEED PURPLELETTER.ORG:

I would first like to reach out to my established blog following and apologize for the redundancy in this blog post’s title. Last week I stated in my title that Warren Buffett did not need PurpleLetter. This week it is Halli Casser-Jayne who does not need PurpleLetter. This is due to the fact that the number of people listening to Halli is growing each day. Maybe not to the extent of Buffett, but growing indeed.

I stumbled upon Halli via Facebook. She quickly grasped the idea of the revolutionary communication tool and sensed my personal integrity that is woven deep into the PurpleLetter project. Kudos to Halli for THAT and for welcoming the shade of Purple in her art in which she claims to be……”Seeing red, white ‘n true”. What I’m not particularly sure of is if she means true is blue, or blue is true? Or neither? Either way, we are all entitled to our own opinions. I find that especially true nowadays where entitlements are easier to get than lice. I’m not speaking from experience as I haven’t had a run-in with either.

Anyhow, Halli’s quick wit and years of thorough assessment of life shine through on her website www.thecjpoliticalreport.com, in her books, including A Year in My Pajamas with President Obama & her forthcoming Scout Finch’s Diary, and on her radio show The Halli and MoJoe Show.

I haven’t had the luxury of a personal meeting with Halli, but look forward to continuing our banter as she has invited me to be a regular contributor to her radio show. Case in Point, Halli has her opinion, but is not willing to put it above the truthful and unique voice of the individual which is found within a PurpleLetter. Halli wants to better understand what it is “the People” want, so she can give them her own three cents. Yeah, I said three and not two.

We hope you take a moment to enjoy all of her work. Sassy? Yes. Classy? Yes. Smart? Über smart. We are thrilled that she is happily embracing Purple. Check out her work."

Thanks Paige!

Posted: August 23, 2011 8:46 P.M. HCJ

PRETTY IN RED

Mitt’s got it. Michelle’s got it, and Rick’s got it, too. What do the three Republican Party candidates vying for their party’s nod for presidential candidate have?

Pulchritude.

Pulchritude you ask? Yes pulchritude...beauty.

Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry are short on a lot of political assets. On the other hand, they may be three of the prettiest people in American politics today. They are the bevy of beauties vying for the Republican nomination to be their party’s candidate for president of the United States in what is turning out to be one odd political contest filled with pageantry, predictability, and prettiness, but clearly little else.

The Grand Old Party has become the Gorgeous Old Party, home to telegenic candidates. Yes, Barbie and Ken the three talking dolls be. Pull the string on the back of their bodies and hear them repeat their tape-recorded phrases: No new taxes, fiscal discipline, no new taxes. I think the tape is broken.

Mitt, a doll’s name to be sure -- hear me Mattel? -- is handsome as the day is long, but reminds me of one of the male models on the pages of a Sears Catalogue. He looks like a mannequin frozen in time, wooden, permanently posed in that awkward position models affect on the back spread of cheap Sunday newspaper supplements, arm crooked, face bland but attractive, hair polished to perfection … knock, knock, anybody home blah, blah, blah?

Bachmann is a Veronica, out of the pages of an Archie comic book. Etched to comic book perfection, all dolled-up, Bachmann is more a Miss America pageant candidate-type in looks, what with her 1950’s bouffant hair-do, her Max Factor 1950’s Pan make-up drawn to perfection, and her wide-eyed glare. Yes, Tina Brown, you were right to put that frightening photo of Michelle on the cover of Newsweek. It wasn’t sexist; it was Michelle Bachmann, a woman too pretty to be the girl next door, but also lacking the sensuality that would have primed her more for a Hollywood career than the congressional one she opted for and her I.Q was not meant for. “Here she comes, Miss Minnesota,” tra la la…

Now about Rick Perry . . . Rick is a cool name for a cool dude. And a dude Perry is, replete with a face burnished with the manly-etchings of the bristling Texas sun, hair perfectly-coiffed as if he’d never been out on the range, his dress flamboyant, his swagger unrelenting. Rick is a rhinestone cowboy, not quite a Roy Rogers with a drawl that rolls off the tongue just a little bit sweeter than it need, making the dumb things he says such as Texas should secede from the Union, the Fed Chairman is committing treason, we should repeal the 16th and 17th amendments, ending direct election of U.S. Senators and the federal income tax sound all the more sweet. Happy trails to you Rick, tra la la.

Dolls, all three, frightening reminders of the words of the great theologian and prosaist Baltasar Gracian, “Beauty and folly are generally companions,” Sarah Palin, the original GOP doll.

Posted: August 22, 2011 1:38 P.M. HCJ

PARSING ERIC CANTOR

Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is offensive. Not because of his take no prisoners approach to communication, but rather because of his air of superiority speaking to the plebes as if they are fools.

In today's editorial in the Washington Post, "Removing the Obstacles to Economic Growth," Cantor serves up the usual Republican talking points. But the following quote from the editorial punctuates just how dumb Cantor apparently thinks Americans are:

"Why does the president insist on higher taxes? Behind the rhetoric lies a desire to permanently increase the size of government — a philosophy that most Americans, who already think the government is trying to do too much — do not agree with."

Is Cantor kidding? Does Cantor honestly believe that everything that the president does is to deliberately increase the size of government? While there is no doubt that there are some on the right who are dumb enough to believe Cantor's assertion that the president is trying to increase the size of government to fulfill some sort of philosophical goal, most American's ought to cringe at Cantor's deliberate attempt to paint a falsehood into reality.

While to some my making hay out of Cantor's statement might seem to be making a whole lot of something out of nothing and Cantor's statement nothing but typical political gamesmanship, you would be wrong in both cases.

Letting these kind of statements stand has made them acceptable. Equally, this brand of political gamesmanship that is now typical will only remain so if not questioned.

In fact, Cantor and the Republicans have become masters at creating sound-bytes, repeating them ad nauseum, therefore making them a truth when they are not the reality. The left has never been successful at staying on a message as well as the Republicans. And the press has been remiss in disavowing false truths.

Therefore, I urge all to question even the most seemingly innocuous statements made by pols. Politicians are a clever bunch. You, the citizens, therefore, need to be all the more aware.

UPDATE: Eric Cantor: President Obama Inciting Class Warfare

Posted: August 22, 2011 10:38 A.M. HCJ

DID YOU MISS SUNDAY'S HALLI & MOEJOE SHOW?

As promised, Sunday's Halli and MoJoe Show was a wild Sunday ride, including a drive-by visit by the inimitable comedian Tom Mabe. Have a listen and start your new week with a couple of chuckles, some political insight and spirited conversation on The Halli and MoJoe Show available in the archives on BlogTalkRadio dot com or just click on the "radio" in the right column here.

Posted: August 22, 2011 8:05 A.M. HCJ

THE AWARD FOR THE DUMBEST JEW GOES TO...

MJ Rosenberg. Who said there are no dumb Jews?

Posted: August 20, 2011 2:05 P.M. HCJ

MAKING THE POINT

Right-wing zealot turned pundit, Michelle Malkin, is nobody's fool. She has built an empire around her zealot-wielding right-wing wretched mouth. The woman has an ugly way with words and appears to feed off of the frenzy of ferocious epithets she lobs at any and all who oppose her right-wing brand of politics. She lobs a doozy today at left-wing actress/activist Janeane Garofalo that is well-worth the read titled "Smacking Down Progressives of Palor." Malkin, a woman of color, let's us all know how she really feels about "paleskins."

As I wrote below, I find it difficult to understand why women, and that includes women of any color, can align themselves with the women-bashing Republican Party. Malkin has given us a clue in her whipping piece...perhaps it's comparable to sleeping with the enemy.

In Malkin's case, aligning with those who might have dashed her rise to stardom for her gender and her color, has given her as their right-wing darling of color and womanhood...a mascot...a quick ride to the top of the Republican Party and a seat, if not a throne next to their coterie of mostly pale-faced pundits.

Posted: August 20, 2011 8:37 P.M. HCJ

FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE CJPR CAFE

They sure don't write them like they used to! Written in 1934 by the inestimable Cole Porter for the musical of the same name, Anything Goes seems to fit today's times, proving that nothing changes and everything stays the same.

Anyway, that's Cole Porter and history from which MoJoe and I borrow the title of Porter's great work to frame our Sunday 5 pm est The Halli and MoJoe Show on BlogTalkRadio. "Anything Goes" promises to be a madcap radio adventure so both MoJoe and I hope that you will join in for some fun talk and madcap adventure. The phone lines will be open this week, so we're looking forward to talking with each and every one of you. Cheers until then.

Posted: August 19, 2011 4:16 P.M. HCJ

SUNDAY ON THE HALLI & MOJOE SHOW...

Posted: August 18, 2011 11:53 A.M. HCJ

HILLARY'S MESSAGE

OK, Dems. Hillary warned you in 2008, and you ignored her. Are you going to ignore her again? Republicans, not TPartyers, are you listening, too?

Posted: August 18, 2011 2:20 P.M. HCJ

THE UTTER HYPOCRISY OF CONSERVATIVE WOMEN

I'm short on time this morning, but I had to post this because it is so utterly unbelievable. As many of you know, I've never understand how women in today's times could back conservatism, a movement that touts freedom in so many ways except when it comes to women's rights. The linked article is so clearly filled with the lunacy of a women backing conservatism, that it's content should be an anthem to the abject stupidity of conservative women. The author unwillingly points out the fallacy of her own misguided beliefs. You'll want to follow the link to the story that spawned the article which I link, which is a rubberstamp for why youth is wasted on the young.

Posted: August 18, 2011 10:48 A.M. HCJ

MORNING HA HA: DNC HAS FUN WITH ROMNEY

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"Some of my best friends are corporations."

Posted: August 17, 2011 10:02 A.M. HCJ

DUMB VS SMART

Is the mainstream media as dumb as they appear to be? Are they part of the reason that this country is on the wrong track? I say that they are, particularly the political pundits who fail to ask the politicians who they cover the right questions.

There is a meme generated by the Republicans that government is a bad thing. All those senators and congressmen and women of the GOP united in their singular talking point: Government is the bogeyman.

This by the very same people who earn their living off of the government. EXCUSE ME!?!

As I posted on my Facebook page recently, here are the benefits these same clowns who denigrate the government get for saying that government is the bad guy.

Salary of House/Senate...$174,000 for life
Salary of Speaker of the House...$223,500 for life
Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders...$193,400 for life...

Get my drift! And not a word from the Fourth Estate that questions the very hypocrisy of the right-wing talking machine.

Then yesterday, from the smartest politician alive today, former President Bill Clinton comes his "coaching" interview...leading the press down the path they need to go, specifically talking about Gov. Rick Perry, the newest candidate in the race...

“And he’s saying ‘Oh, I’m going to Washington to make sure that the federal government stays as far away from you as possible –while I ride on Air Force One and that Marine One helicopter and go to Camp David and travel around the world and have a good time.’ I mean, this is crazy.”

But the take away line the press ran with was Clinton's comment on Perry's good looks, "Perry is a good-looking rascal..."

Yes, dumb when this country oh so badly needs smart.

UPDATE: Steve Rattner

Posted: August 16, 2011 9:44 A.M. HCJ

CORNY IN AUGUST

I have never been to Iowa. I’ve barreled through Iowa on a fast-moving train on my way west, but that was a longtime ago. What remains of that train ride is a faded black and white memory of miles of cornfields and quaint train stations. It is a picture of an America much like those first few black and white minutes of the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz, stark, bleak, aged, a cruel contrast to the vivid colors of that over the rainbow Munchkin Land Dorothy crashed on impelled by the power of a whirling cyclone.

Ironically, the reality of Iowa is the vivid colors of the over the rainbow Munchkin Land Dorothy discovered on her way to Oz. Iowa is in fact a red, white, and blue state, the Currier and Ives heart of Americana whose landscape is painted green with cornstalks and golden with wheat fields.

There in this kaleidoscope of color, as happens whenever there’s a contest for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, impelled not by cyclones but by politics, politicians and the media land in this heart of the corn belt for some…well…corniness.

Yes folks, welcome to The Iowa Straw Poll, that relic of Americana where country music is the backdrop, corndogs and apple pie the promise, the show: the Republican hopefuls for the office of the American presidency starring in a colorful display of theatrics much like the one created by the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz.

While really not as ancient as it sounds, The Iowa Straw Poll, officially The Ames Straw Poll, was first held in 1979. It is non-binding and has no official consequence on the presidential primaries. Its organizers would like everyone to think that it tests the candidate’s organizational skills and it can aid the candidates nationally by helping to build momentum for their campaigns. Not to be overlooked is the reality that The Iowa Straw Poll is also a major boost to the local economy and for the Iowa Republican Party, a highly-lucrative fundraising event.

Since its founding, the winner of the Iowa Straw Poll has gone on to win the Republican presidential nomination two out of five times. Three out of five winners have gone on to win that other throwback to simpler times, the Iowa Caucuses. Only one winner of the straw poll has gone on to win the presidency. George W. Bush won the straw poll in 1999, followed up by winning the Iowa caucus, the GOP nomination and the presidency. Let’s all sing…”and there’s a note with a lump in my throat when I speak of that wonderful guy…” Oy!

So, yeah, the Iowa Straw Poll is corny. No it’s not the great predictor of who will win the Republican nomination. It’s a slice of Americana that barely exists today except in America’s heartland, surely not in Washington, D.C. It’s a colorful display of politics as we wish it would be, and rarely is anymore. It lets us pretend even for a moment in picnics and Mr. Deeds, in politicians who really do care about America and her future.

About those black and white moments at the beginning of the Wizard of Oz. They weren’t filmed in black in white rather on Sepia Tone film, the black and white a grand, old optical illusion alas, like The Iowa Straw Poll and Americana.

Posted: August 15, 2011 10:15 A.M. HCJ

OBAMA VS PERRY

Texas Gov. Rick Perry throws his hat for the Republican nomination into the ring today. Gd help us all. A right-wing Christian zealot, a contest between Perry and Barack Obama would likely result in a renewal of the culture wars, something this country doesn't need right now.

One can only hope that the financial mess the U.S. is suffering from will keep this election and the issues of the day front and center in the discussion America is about to engage in.

A Romney candidacy would keep the presidential contest focused on the real issues, not the one too many Republican candidates like to focus upon, the cultural argument the one they are more likely to win.

Perry is a scrappy campaigner, as moderate Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison learned in her losing contest against Perry in her recent run for the Texas Governorship.

Posted: August 13, 2011 8:19 A.M. HCJ

FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE CJPR CAFE

It's Friday night. Time to kick back and relax after a tough week on the job. For your relaxing pleasure here's a little something to help start your weekend off right and get you in the mood for this week's The Halli and MoJoe Show on BlogTalkRadio dot com. Stop by Sunday at 5 pm est for our live show featuring our very special guest John Schlimm, author of the fun and fabulous novel TWANG! a rhinestone and Stetson look into the country music industry. We'll be taking calls and yours might be one of them. I'm looking forward to talking with each and every one of you. Cheers! Halli

Posted: August 12, 2011 4:53 P.M. HCJ

THE HALLI & MoJoe SHOW

Make sure that you don't miss The Halli and MoJoe Show this Sunday, August 14, 2011 5 pm/est when our guest will be the outrageous John Schlimm, author of the deliciously fun new e-novel TWANG, a campy and addictive fictional romp that takes a behind the stage curtains, Stetsons, and rhinestones look at the billion dollar Country Music Industry. This is jaw-dropping and scandalous writing in the tradition of Jackie Collins that famed Page Six gave a nod because, they, as you, will want to know the true identity of the book’s characters. John is a former country music publicist, and, by the way, also worked in Vice President Al Gores’ Communications Office during the Clinton Administration.

As always, we will be discussing the week's political news, and Halli will be offering her often sassy and spot on commentary.

We're looking forward to hearing you on the radio! Join us.

Posted: August 12, 2011 11:11 A.M. HCJ

THERE'S A PATTERN HERE...

First this...Romney Pitched Taxes to S & P

Then this...Palin Also raised Taxes

Now this...McConnell Called for Rich to Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes

I say this: Hypocrites All!

Posted: August 11, 2011 1:46 P.M. HCJ

FOX NEWS POLL AND THE MEDIA

A new Fox News poll shows moderate Mitt Romney remains at the top of the Republican pack despite the alleged strength of the Tea Party movement. Here are the numbers:

Romney 21
Perry 13
Palin 8
Bachmann 7
Giuliani 7
Paul 6
Gingrich 6
Cain 5
Pawlenty 2
Santorum 2
Huntsman 2

Read more: http://thepage.time.com/#ixzz1UiqRm8xh

Romney is followed by Perry, the Texas Governor of the Christian wing of the Republican Party. Still, Perry is a mainstream candidate like Romney.

The GOP 1.800.GOP.Babes candidates follow with Palin showing 1 point above Bachmann. But look at the point spread between Romney, Palin and Bachmann = huge. Whackadoodle Ron Paul is below even them. Except for Jon Huntsman, who is way too moderate for the times and can't get his campaign together, the rest will soon be gone.

So my point is this...given these numbers how is it that the Babes and the whackadoodles are controlling the politics not only of the GOP but of the entire nation?

Has the media given them unwarranted attention?

Polls show that the mainstream of America is disgusted with the Tea Party and the GOP. (See: Below)

Which begs the question: What the hell is going on here? There is clearly a disconnect. A doesn't equal B doesn't equal C.

Has America been played? Have the voices of the few whackadoodles been given too much credence?

All the world's a stage and the politicians in it merely players. The directors...an irresponsible media?

Posted: August 11, 2011 8:53 A.M. HCJ

STRANGE DAZE

Strange daze for the Republican Party whose leadership is acting like Bonnie and Clyde, its gang leaders Mitch McConnell and Eric Cantor defined by now the Tea Party renegades. Bank robbers all, hell-bent on stripping America of its good name while protecting their rich donors, rat-a-tat-tat let's gun down dem Dems and their poor, when polls show that the majority of Americans don't agree with their tactics or their ideology.

Strange daze for the Dems who have the polls in their favor and are acting like they are not, particularly our dazed president who continues to have that deer in the headlights look in his eyes and acts like he's been clobbered over the head instead of picking up his own gun and firing back. After all he has the right to bears arms according to the Second Amendment that he refuses to challenge.

Strange daze for the media who this morning interpreted last night's Wisconsin recall vote in which the Dems actually recalled two Republicans -- no small feat -- as a conclusive win for Governor Rick Walker and his reckless policies. Are they kidding?

Why am I not surprised. It is after all The Dog Daze of August and it appears as if the world is in one giant happy? daze.

Posted: August 10, 2011 11:35 A.M. HCJ

SHOULD OBAMA BRING CONGRESS BACK?

Hmm. Lotsa talk around DC suggesting that in the wake of the Standards & Poor's downgrade and the stock market dive, Obama should bring Congress back and at least act like he's in control of the situation.

I disagree. Why should he bring them back? So that the fighting can continue and further test the markets?

No, I think a little furlough is a good idea to give each side some time to calm down. Maybe when the clowns return to their districts and speak to their constituents reality will set in and they'll realize how absurd they all look.

One can only hope, right?

Posted: August 9, 2011 1:35 P.M. HCJ

DUMBEST HEADLINE OF THE DAY...

Like everything else in this country, The New York Times has declined as a source of news. More out of habit, and usually to read a columnist or two, and grab a quick peek at the headlines, I travel to their website.

This morning I read this eye-opening headline that just made me grimace for its inanity: "Op-Ed: The Downgrade...Is there a loss of confidence in the political system?" WTF? "IS THERE A LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM?" What genius wrote maybe the dumbest question evah on the venerable no more NY Times website?

Lately, wherever I turn I am reminded of the abject disintegration of America as we once knew it. Not only in our politics but in every aspect of what we once knew as our great nation: our culture, our economics, our communities, our morals, our newspapers...we are America in decline, America in decay, and YES, THERE IS A LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM!

Thank you, The New York Times for breaking the news to us in such a timely manner. Whatever would we do without you?

Speaking of whatever would we do without you and banality...and please understand the spirit in which I say this (I mean no disrespect for our fallen soldiers) but consider...

Yesterday, when the stock market tanked 640 points, and the world was all atwitter on the heels of America's first downgrade by a credit agency, our President made a speech from the White House meant to calm all.

The speech was originally scheduled for 1:00 P.M. The president didn't make it to the podium for another 50 minutes. And then he gave a banal speech which caused the market to tank some more and offered little in the balm the American people could use, nor that the world market wanted.

So this morning at least liberal websites were all aflutter when came the news that the president had canceled all public events for the day and the WH had even cancelled press secretary Jay Carney's daily briefing.

The hope was that the president and his advisors were going to hunker down and come up with a real plan to save America's economic day, and perhaps the Democratic Party's chances to retain the White House in 2012.

Now comes word not sourced to The New York Times but rather the National Journal that the president will be traveling to Dover Air Force Base to view the returning bodies of our service members killed Saturday by the Taliban.

Don't get me wrong. This is a wonderful thing. This was an especially horrible moment in the long, agonizing war in Afghanistan.

Nevertheless, as word filtered through Washington of the president's plans, you could feel a collective shrug of defeat that the president wasn't going to do what some thought he was going to do with the earlier announcement, sit down and figure out a roadmap for America's fiscal future.

Cynics might be thinking that the president, who doesn't normally attend such events is taking advantage of a situation to make himself look caring and presidential.

Pundits and citizens such as myself are feeling at once, sad, disappointed, disgusted, disgruntled, and cynical perhaps a more apt headline and story for the declining New York Times.

Posted: August 9, 2011 11:35 A.M. HCJ

STUPID FOOLS CONTROL THE GOV'T

In the wake of the trouncing put upon us by S & P, who effectively blamed the ineffectiveness of our fiscal woes on our incapable leaders -- and they are right -- the stalemate continues, the party's' have dug in their heels, and if anything, the situation is worse.

Check out the position of the right and the talk from the left. Nowhere do I read word one about our leaders sitting down and rectifying this deplorable situation, which if not corrected will only get worse.

Have folks learned nothing here?

Apparently not, therefore this country is screwed!

Posted: August 8, 2011 4:22 P.M. HCJ

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Posted: August 8, 2011 12:41 P.M. HCJ

THE PRESIDENT'S PRESSER

Blather...blather...blather. Cliché! Cliché! Cliché! A total lack of imagination from our commander in chief. If this guy doesn't come out swinging against his detractors soon, he's toast. Mild-mannered Clark Kent ain't what the American electorate is clamoring for. If Obama was to "shout" he would go a long way to reduce the tension simmering in American's souls. Obama makes me want to scream. Yeeeeeow!

Posted: August 8, 2011 2:24 P.M. HCJ

NO JOKE

This is no joke: America is a joke. She’s become a three ring circus. It’s not a pretty picture. The U.S. for the first time in its long history has become the laughing stock of the world. All who have hated us are having a field day at our expense. Those who have loved us are shaking their heads in disbelief.

How did the once great nation get where we are today?

If you ask an economist to answer that question you’ll probably get a long, convoluted explanation and depending upon the economist’s beliefs, you’ll get answers that vary.

Ask a politician what happened and rest-assured you’ll get a long-winded answer replete with aspersions, lies, innuendos, and most-definitely denials that America’s fall from grace has anything to do with them.

Ask Americans how we got where we are today and 82% of them will have a few things to say, all with disgust, leaving one to wonder how even 14% of Americans are still not reeling from the reality that our country is a punch-line to our friends and what’s worse the great despots of the world.

Ever hear the old joke, “I never kick a man when he’s down, I just stamp on his head, it’s easier?” Yes, it’s easy to kick a man when he’s down, and a country, as Standard & Poor the ratings agency did – what they probably wouldn’t have dared do just months ago – before America laid herself bare to her detractors.

On Friday night, Standard & Poor’s removed the United States government from its list of risk-free borrowers with strong reference to the antics of the Republican Party run by the Mad Hatters aka the tea party, talk about a joke.

“We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.”

The ratings agency had threatened to downgrade America’s rating if the government did not act to reduce the federal debt by at least $4 trillion over the next decade. Earlier last week, Congress instead passed a plan to reduce the debt by only $2.1 trillion.

While warned, the tea party Mad Hatters, heads stamped by their intransigent foolishness acted as if there was no need to heed S&P’s warning. You might call it “Through the Looking Glass Politics,” a reversal of fortune, their bad joke on America.

It’s been a long, difficult, non-amusing time for our nation. Since 9/11 we’ve suffered one blow after another. While one was the result of an invading force, al Qaeda, most of our wounds have been self-inflicted.

W got us into an expensive war or two that we didn’t need to get into. He cut taxes for the wealthy, which he never should have done, turning our house into a fiscal not so fun house. While it is true that President Obama inherited the Republican induced financial mess, he also lacked the courage to do exactly what was necessary to stem the tide of default Standard & Poor sees on the horizon.

Yes, the GOP is a joke, but our president is also a coward and a buffoon. As are the irresponsible clowns in Congress, Bozos all, Claribels, Emmet Kelly’s, Bubbles…America’s great jokesters.

So, tell me, why am I not laughing?

Posted: August 8, 2011 11:31 A.M. HCJ

GRASPING AT STRAWS

When everyone gets excited because July's job numbers came in a few thousand over the paltry projected numbers, you get a clear picture of what the heck is happening in our country. Hope and optimism can cause blindness.

This morning on MSNBC, in answer to the question as to the cause of America's devastating economic problems, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) started screeching the Republican talking points with aplomb: It's Obamacare's fault, it's regulation. Of course, Obamacare hasn't even been instituted. And regulation hasn't itself increased since the Bush years.

The Republican's have a message and an agenda. The Dems do not.

The United States is in freefall both economic and political.

While I don't blame all of this on the Republicans, I do blame them for their utter intransigence and moreover their clinging stubbornly to their suspect ideology. In light of the stock market's response to the Republican win in the Deficit Debate, it is pathetic that the Republican's have dug in their heels.

But as I said, this bottleneck is not merely the fault of the Republicans. Following the worse day on Wall Street since 2008, what have the Dems come up with? A high school campaign slogan: "Jobs, jobs, jobs." Their debate talking points? "We're making progress on the economy."

Yeoooooooow!

Bill Clinton has been oddly quiet through all of this. Maybe it's time for him to step off of his ego-comforting perch and flap his wings of power over his failing fledgling Obama. Obama's team clearly hasn't a clue as to what it's doing and needs help...immediately.

The Dems are sinking to a low from which they may not be able to recover. C'mon Bill, it's time for you to start exercising those wings.

Chirp...chirp!

Posted: August 5, 2011 9:36 A.M. HCJ

THIS SAYS IT ALL...

Cartoonist Jim Morin is so RIGHT on!

Posted: August 4, 2011 10:23 A.M. HCJ

OBAMA BEING CASTIGATED BY ALL SIDES

Obama is in serious trouble. There is no one on his side these days. From the right they're lobbing one volley after the other. From his left he's been given the birdie. The center isn't happy with him either. "A loser"..."in over his head"..."he's a Republican in Democratic clothing"... For Obama's sake, it may be that the hate-mongering is being delivered early and the disgust with the president is peaking early, so that he can rebuild his base and quiet disquieted minds in times for 2012.

But Obama has a huge problem and in my opinion that is his chief-of-staff, Bill Daly. Daly, a fellow Chicagoan, has a history of wimping out. He's counseled his president to do the same. His counsel has not served Obama wisely. In these times, a wimp is not what America wants in the White House.

It's time for Daly to go. Too bad Rahm Emmanuel has another job. Any Tea Partier looking to serve in the White House? That intransigence, however unpleasant in the House of Representatives, is just what this White House needs.

Posted: August 3, 2011 5:51 P.M. HCJ

ANNOUNCEMENT

You asked for it, you got it! I'm excited to announce that starting with this Sunday's show, The Halli and MoJoe Show will be going to a full hour. Joe and I want to thank all of you who have made this possible with your participation and encouragement.

Up this week:

WHERE DOES AMERICA GO FROM HERE? Halli comes from the left, Zach Foster from the right. Join them as they weigh in on what comes next after the fractious deficit debate. Then meet Paige Wheeler, our newest contributor to The Halli and MoJoe Show and discover her PurpleLetter.org. Tune in and you may just win a freebie from The Halli and MoJoe Show. As always, MoJoe will be manning the store.

Also, put on your calendar August 14, when I will interview John Schlimm, author of Twang, a simply fun and outrageous novel, a jaw-dropping insider's look behind the stage curtains, Stetsons, and rhinestones of the billion dollar Country Music industry. John is a former Country Music publicist. By the way, he also worked as a publicist in the Clinton White House. This interview should be a heckuva lot of fun!

Listen to The Halli and MoJoe Show Sundays at 5 PM EST on BlogTalkRadio.

Posted: August 3, 2011 11:21 A.M. HCJ

MAJORITY DISAPPROVE OF DEBT-CEILING DEAL

Proving once again that the people are smarter than those who represent them, particularly the Republicans, 60% of Americans disapprove of the fact that there are no tax increases in the deal for the wealthy. Of course, the 60% are the plebes who don't fund the campaigns of the Dems and R's. Is it any wonder that the approval rate for Congress has reached an abysmal 14%?

Posted: August 2, 2011 1:39 P.M. HCJ

PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE POLITICS

Obama has done it their way. The country is now being run by the Republican/Tea Party meme. Spending has ground to a halt. The stress has been further placed on the middle class. Knowing this, 2012 looms. If, indeed, the economy continues to tank, and all indicators say that it will, the Tea Party has leant Obama a hand in getting re-elected. "We did it your way" would be a fair mantra for Obama. We wanted a bigger stimulus package, and you froze us. Will hurting voters continue to support the Republican austerity measures? I'm thinking we've just taken a trip through the looking glass, thank you Tea Party, the mad hatters.

Posted: August 2, 2011 8:33 A.M. HCJ

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Posted: August 1, 2011 8:26 P.M. HCJ

A FEW POINTS

I believe in compromise. What President Obama did in making this deficit deal with the Tea Party, Republican Party no more is not compromise...it is utter surrender.

And with that surrender comes the reality that there is no president in recent American history who has so squandered the good will of the voters who elected him.

This is no small point.

While time might heal some wounds, what we have today is a failed presidency. Barack Obama not only squandered good will, but his power as well and this to a radical, extremist group who indeed, held America hostage and won.

Think of the ramifications of this, the precedent set. Now, all a radical group has to do is "Just say No" and mean what they say. For this the rest of the country will suffer. A true compromise between the parties' would have thwarted this precedent.

But Obama's surrender sets it in stone...and you can rest-un-assured that there will be more of this in the not too distant future. Democrats better brace themselves...or figure out a way to stop this president from further damaging the fundamental core of the Democratic Party...assuming that it's not too late.

Posted: August 1, 2011 11:31 A.M. HCJ

SURRENDER BARACK OBAMA

He has wiled away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
His head he’s a scratchin' while his thoughts were busy hatchin'
If Obama only had a brain.

He’d unravel every riddle
For every individ’le
In trouble or in pain.

With the thoughts he’d be thinkin'
He might have become another Lincoln
If Obama only had a brain.

Oh, he could tell you why
The ocean’s near the shore
He can think of things he’d never thunk before
And then he’d sit and think some more.

He would not be just a nothin’
His head all full of stuffin’
His heart all full of pain.
He would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry.

If he only had a brain.

When a man's an empty kettle
He should be on his mettle
And yet he's torn apart
Just because he's presumin'
That he could be a human
If he only had a heart.

Picture him on balcony
Above a voice sings low
Wherefore art thou, brainy Clinton?
Help, I hear a beat, how sweet!

Just to register emotion, morality and devotion
And really feel the part,
He could stay young and chipper
Leave a reputation like The Gipper
If he only had a heart.

Yeh, it's sad, believe me, Missy,
When you're born to be a sissy
Without the vim and the verve.

But he coulda shown his prowess,
been a lion not a mou-ess
If he only had the nerve.

But I'm afraid there's no denyin'
He's just a dandelion
A fate he much deserves.

He coulda been brave as a blizzard
Been gentle as a lizard
Been clever as a gizzard
If he only had a brain!
The heart to defend the disenfranchised
The NERVE to fight the whack-a-doo Republican Party!

No brain, no heart, no nerve!

The surrender President Barack Obama, a wizard NOT!

The final straw!

*With apologizes to Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg

Posted: August 1, 2011 9:51 A.M. HCJ

AMERICA'S LONG NIGHTMARE

Washington has always had its scuffles, and the American electorate with it. But these days it seems those scuffles have become street fights more dangerous than the gang-related violence one might find in the inner cities of our nation. The scuffles have turned into downright brawls, and in an eerie way, the American people appear stunned and incapable of measured response to the scenes they are witnessing on Capitol Hill.

Last Friday night was American theater better than anything you might see at the venerable Kennedy Center. A president of the United States called a press conference in which the normally restrained Barack Obama unleashed a tirade against Republican and Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner the likes of which many of us had never heard.

The President’s remarks were met with a tit-for-tat by an uncommonly restrained Speaker Boehner, although his words were laced with vitriol at his president. Still, Boehner, who bears an uncommon resemblance in style to his late fellow Ohioan Dean Martin, seemed in an odd way almost anesthetized in his delivery. Had he had a Martini earlier in the evening?

Both men seemed startled, having that deer in the headlights look about them, and that made me wonder.

If you subscribe to the theory that Washington reflects the American electorate as I do, than these two men represent everything that seems odd in America these days. Our leaders are like their citizens: irritable, angry, at times emotionally numb, having difficulties maintaining close relationships.

Forgive me for playing psychologist but I am going to make a diagnosis on what is going on in America. I think America is suffering from a national case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Ever since 9/11 this country has been in a massive meltdown, incapable of staying focused on any one event, operating at half-tilt, reactive rather than active, and exhibiting all the symptoms I stated earlier common to PTSD to our nation’s extreme detriment.

It wouldn’t be the first time America has exhibited the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Who would deny this country went into full PTSD mode after the death of President Kennedy? There are those who say the Sixties were a clear reaction to those turbulent times when our beloved young president, his brother Bobby, and Martin Luther King’s lives were violently taken before our very eyes.

Now here we are nearly 10 years after that brutal September day when we lost so many in those towering infernos at the evil hands of al Qaeda, again before our very eyes. And just as we felt back in the Sixties, our nation is traumatized even 10 years later. In fact we’re doing exactly what we did as a nation in the Sixties: splitting into angry, righteous factions out to do our fellow Americans in. Anxiety seems to rule the day and an eerie numbness as well. No one seems to be thinking clearly. And who would argue the inability of our leaders and our citizens to maintain close personal ties. Some of our leaders even admit to hearing things, Michelle Bachmann, a key symptom of PTSD.

This is America’s grand long nightmare, nightmares another symptom of PTSD. But maybe if we name it we can do something about it. If we don’t, al Qaeda wins and America loses…and America is losing.

Posted: July 27, 2011 1:51 P.M. HCJ

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