Tea Party Nation Accuses First Lady of Slavery

Tea Party Nation blogger David DeGerolamo makes the outlandish claim that Michelle Obama is trying to make slaves out of American children.

One of the tenets in George Orwell's 1984 was "slavery is freedom". Michelle Obama yesterday told our children that higher education is freedom. According to CNNMoney:

"The average debt load for the class of 2012 was $29,400, according to a report released Wednesday by the Institute for College Access & Success' Project on Student Debt."

People also get loans from banks. I don't imagine that Mr. DeGerolamo is going to accuse Jamie Dimon of trying to make Americans slaves anytime soon.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposed low interest rate student loans through the Federal Reserve System. President Obama signed into law student loan reform. Republicans wanted to raise the interest rates on student loans. Republicans blocked legislation that would stop an increase in student loan interest rates.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked consideration of a Democratic bill to prevent the doubling of some student loan interest rates, leaving the legislation in limbo less than two months before rates on subsidized federal loans are set to shoot upward.

Along party lines, the Senate voted 52 to 45 on a key procedural motion, failing to reach the 60 votes needed to begin debating the measure. Senator Olympia J. Snowe, the moderate Republican from Maine who is retiring, voted present.

I wonder how many posts on Tea Party Nation we can find that took the Republicans to task for trying to increase student loan interest rates. What is even more ridiculous is a tea party blogger accusing Michelle Obama of trying to force children into slavery. However, this tea party blogger

Democracy For Now Supports Students Loan Fairness Act

Democracy For America is running a petition in support of Elizabeth Warren's bill Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act.

Get this: Student loan interest rates are about to double to 6.8 percent. But big banks? They’re getting a sweet deal on borrowing money from the Fed: 0.75 percent.

No, that’s not a typo. Students will be paying 900 percent more than the biggest banks on Wall Street to borrow money.

Our biggest banks don’t deserve another sweetheart deal. And educated young Americans looking for jobs, and looking to build a future for themselves, don’t deserve to see their interest rates skyrocket.

The text of Warren's remarks.

Warren's legislation would direct the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to make available low interest student loans available through the Federal Reserve System. Warren's concern is that students will be buried in debt if Congress allows student loan rates to increase. On July 1st, student loan rates will increase from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats should hammer Republicans on this issue. Republicans can't afford to lose more young voters.

Democracy For America sent out this email to its supporters.

Senators Tammy Baldwin and Kirsten Gillibrand have signed onto our campaign to keep student loan interest rates from doubling -- joining more than 100,000 other Democracy for America members demanding we treat our students as well as the big Wall Street banks.

Let's see how many more Democratic senators Democracy For America and activists can get on board.

Quote of the Day

"Many losing candidates became elder statesmen of their parties. What lessons will Romney have to teach his party? The art of crawling uselessly? How to contemn 47 percent of Americans less privileged and beautiful than his family? How to repudiate the past while damaging the future? It is said that he will write a book. Really? Does he want to relive a five-year-long experience of degradation? What can be worse than to sell your soul and find it not valuable enough to get anything for it? His friends can only hope he is too morally obtuse to realize that crushing truth. Losing elections is one thing. But the greater loss, the real loss, is the loss of honor."

Garry Wills, on Mitt Romney.

Romney had only one true constituency and that was his rich donors. In a conference call to his donors, Romney left no doubt that he believed his infamous 47 percent remark.

Romney argued that Obama’s healthcare plan’s promise of coverage “in perpetuity” was “highly motivational” to those voters making $25,000 to $35,000 who might not have been covered, as well as to African American and Hispanic voters. Pivoting to immigration, Romney said the Obama campaign’s efforts to paint him as “anti-immigrant” had been effective and that the administration’s promise to offer what he called “amnesty” to the children of illegal immigrants had helped turn out Hispanic voters in record numbers.

“The president’s campaign,” he said, “focused on giving targeted groups a big gift — so he made a big effort on small things. Those small things, by the way, add up to trillions of dollars.”

Giving tax cuts to people like himself is not a gift. For someone who refused to say how much his tax plan would add to the deficit; I find it hilarious that positions once held by Republicans on immigration and health care are freebees.

More on Romney's conference call.

“With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest, was a big gift,” he said. “Free contraceptives were very big with young college-aged women. And then, finally, Obamacare also made a difference for them, because as you know, anybody now 26 years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents’ plan, and that was a big gift to young people. They turned out in large numbers, a larger share in this election even than in 2008.”

Women have to pay for their birth control through their health coverage. Students have to repay their student loans. What Obama did was add birth control to the Affordable Care Act and stood against Republican attempts to increase student loan fees. Romney views these groups with disdain.

Update: Republican strategist Ana Navarro goes off on Mitt Romney.

Mr. Romney, Pres. Obama didn't win Hispanic vote b/c he offered "gifts". Obama won b/c u offered NOTHING. Hispanics work hard for their $.

Is there anybody that Romney will not piss off?

Update: Gov. Bobby Jindal comes out against Romney's "gifts" statement.

“I don’t think that represents where we are as a party and where we’re going as a party," Jindal continued. “That has got to be one of the most fundamental takeaways from this election: If we’re going to continue to be a competitive party and win elections on the national stage and continue to fight for our conservative principles, we need two messages to get out loudly and clearly: One, we are fighting for 100 percent of the votes, and secondly, our policies benefit every American who wants to pursue the American dream. Period. No exceptions."

Republicans are free from having to defend the buffoonish Romney. They can publicly kick his ass to their heart's content. I can't say I blame their anger. Romney really was that bad of a candidate and he is still damaging the Republican brand after the election.

Why Mommy Is A Democrat

Wingnuts from Wizbang to (surprise) Free Republic say the book Why Mommy Is A Democrat is hysterical. Why then do people who find something humorous say the cruelest things?

jellybean

I notice the elephant is about to run down the homeless guy.
Wonder how many raging elephants are roaming the streets of our major cities.

Inyarear

Dhimmicrats make sure that all children have to go to school so that teachers can rape them and bullies can murder them, just like Mommy does.

GaijinBiker

And does anyone else find it interesting that Momma Squirrel is apparently a single mother?

BW2221

Because mommy is a Democrat, her child probably doesn't even exist to read the book. She probably had him/her aborted.

Beth

Democrats hide their stash on the children, just like their crack-whore Mommy does. (So that big bad elephant cop won't haul her off to jail again?)

QueenBee3

Democrat has become the religion of choice for these people. It's not just a political party, but a dogma.

I enjoy politically incorrect humor just ass much as the next guy. I even find Dennis Miller funny. What I quoted above is not humor. It is hate speech. These same people who post anonymously on the internet would not dare talk this way publicly amongst strangers.

"But just because Ann Coulter should be allowed, by law, to say whatever she wants to whichever audience chooses to invite her," wrote Wizbang blogger Jeff Harrell. "So also should she be held responsible for saying things that do more harm than good." Harrell should read the comments in Wizbang before he condems another conservative for an ethic slur he agrees with. Harrell is more concerned with Coulter hurting business than preaching hate.

There are many reasons why Mommy could want to be a Democrat. It is strange that Republicans who love fetuses fail to adopt. John McCain adopted a girl from Bangladesh. The Senator was attacked for his act of kindness.

A lot of phone calls were made by people who said we should be very ashamed about her, about the color of her skin. Thousands and thousands of calls from people to voters saying "You know the McCains have a black baby" I believe that there is a special place in hell for people like those.

Journalist John Sugg adopted five siblings.

While going through the adoption process, I discovered an interesting fact. Rich folks don't often adopt poor kids. There are exceptions - we met a Tampa physician during our adoption process, and later I befriended a Florida politician who had to lie about sexual orientation in order to rescue a child from DCF's clutches.

In mandatory pre-adoption classes, my wife and I found ourselves in the sometimes awkward status of being the only would-be parents who were sorta upper middle class. As became clear, when the wealthy adopt, they seek out infants from private agencies - or the really trendy spend enough money to support a herd of foster children by going to places such as China in search of cute toddlers.

The Republican-controlled Congress cut 12.7 billion to student loans. Most mothers would tell you they want their tykes to get a college degree. Kansas State sophomore Tiffany Cooper asked the President about the cuts. Bush said, "We are not cutting money out of it." Think Progress has a video of Bush asking his aide for answers. That's not the kind of response that makes Mommy happy.

Mommy would tell you that Democrats aren't about dogma. Only one party pushes that the big bang is a theory. Only one party has leader who thinks intelligent design should be taught as science.

Best of all: Democrats won the female vote in 2000 and 2004. Mommy sure does like the Donkey Party. No matter what wingnuts say, women do vote Democrats.