Lunatic Fringe
A conspiracy is an agreement to perform together, an illegal, wrongful,
or subversive act, and according to legal statutes is a
crime
in and of itself. Beginning on Inauguration night in 2009, repugicans
conspired to deliberately obstruct any and all attempts by new
President, Barack Obama, to reverse the devastation of their economic
malfeasance that led to the worst recession since the Great Depression,
and whether or not it was an illegal act, it was certainly wrongful and
subversive. Over the past four-and-a-half years, repugicans have
systematically conspired to abrogate their duty as legislators, and
between swearing oaths to violate Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S.
Constitution, to fabricating false scandals to take down President
Obama, or serving corporate interests, it is high time to demand an
investigation into Republicans in Congress and take appropriate action
to remove them from office.
On a Sunday talk show, House Speaker John Boehner stated, without reservation and with pride that repugicans “
ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal,”
and it illustrates that throughout President Obama’s tenure as leader
of the Executive branch of government, they have been guilty, at least,
of dereliction of duty and at most, conspiring to inflict damage on the
federal government. The list of attempts by repugicans to prevent the
federal government from operating according to the Constitution is
exhaustive, but there are instances that demand an accounting for the
certain, and potential, damage they have caused this nation and its
people. The repugicans most egregious offenses involve starving the
government of resources, and it involves violating their oath of office
as well as a well-planned conspiracy to defund the Treasury Department’s
ability to collect revenue, and it appears the man charged with
providing oversight of the government is at its center.
Last week repugicans proposed defunding the Internal Revenue Service for doing
its due diligence in scrutinizing bogus tax-exempt “social welfare”
applications of conservative groups, and according to testimony from the
Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, the IRS
was
asked by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (r-CA) “
to narrowly focus on tea party organizations.”
Besides wasting time on a Rrpugican-fabricated scandal, Issa’s
campaign profited by raising nearly $450,000 more than his previous
quarter for the largest fundraising effort since he took office eleven
years ago. There is a
petition
to demand a Congressional Ethics Committee investigation into Issa for
his manufactured IRS scandal, if for no other reason than House repugicans are using the so-called scandal to
slash the IRS budget and starve the government of much needed revenue that repugicans have made their primary goal throughout President Obama’s tenure.
Despite swearing an
oath to “
support
and defend the Constitution of the United States…and faithfully
discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter,” all repugicans in Congress have violated their oath by
swearing to anti-tax, and un-American, Grover Norquist, to “
oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses.” The oath violates every congressional representative’s oath under
Article 1, Section 8, that mandates Congress “
lay
and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and
provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.” The repugicans have fulfilled their oath to Norquist and opposed any and all attempts “
lay and collect taxes.”
Besides slashing the IRS budget to restrict them from collecting $1
trillion in taxes from their wealthy supporters and corporate masters
due to the phony IRS scandal, they used greater tax cuts for their
wealthy supporters as a ransom to pay the debts they created during the shrub junta.
It is a crime to hold a hostage for ransom, and repugicans committed an
$18.9 billion
crime in 2011 when they ransomed the debt limit increase in exchange
for maintaining tax breaks for the rich and severe spending cuts that
cost the people services as well as raising the unemployment rate and
creating stagnation in job growth
according
to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The repugicans admitted they
held the full faith and credit of the United States hostage, and
promised they would repeat the crime when the limit needed to be raised
again. For the record, repugicans raised the debt ceiling several times
during the shrub junta as “
necessary to keep the United States’ economy healthy and running smoothly,” and it proves they deliberately damaged the economy, growth, and credit rating with their criminal conspiracy.
When repugicans swept into the House after the 2010 midterm elections, they
promised their constituents creating jobs was their highest priority,
and besides not creating even one job over the past two-and-a-half
years, they successfully
obstructed 17 jobs bills as of one year ago. Each time repugicans claimed “
America is broke”
and could hardly afford putting millions of Americans back to work, but
each and every jobs bill was deficit neutral. However, throughout the
time they blocked those bills, they fought for more unfunded tax cuts
for corporations and the wealthy despite adding to the deficit they
claimed was unsustainable. Besides keeping Americans desperate for jobs,
they successfully starved the federal government of tax revenue
employed Americans would generate.
Throughout
the President’s first term in office, repugicans made little secret
their goal in preventing economic recovery and killing jobs was to deny
Obama a second term. However, their criminal activity has continued
unabated well into the President’s second term and it is further proof
the not-so-secret conspiracy is emasculating the economy to allow their
wealthy Wall Street and corporate donors the ability to privatize the
federal government. On Sunday Speaker Boehner claimed repugicans were
serving the will of the American people, but at no time in the nation’s
history have the people supported any party’s attempt to destroy the
economy or prevent economic growth. Whether it is the repugican
adherence to Libertarian ideology or portraying Barack Obama as
incompetent, their four-year conspiracy is criminal. Every policy and
agenda repugicans put forth is in direct opposition to the will of the
people and borders on criminal conspiracy to destroy the federal
government’s ability to function, and for their efforts and to preserve
the Union, they deserve investigations, prosecutions where possible, and
removal from office as the criminals they have proven to be over
four-and-a-half conspiratorial years.
It's
quite impressive to know that Alex Santoso received his PhD at only 25.
But it's not a world record. There are outliers, childhood prodigies,
who skipped grades left and right to get a doctorate at unbelievably
young ages, like Ruth Lawrence.
Finding
a job is tough in today's economy. And if sending hundreds of resumes
don't work, what's a job seeker to do? How about putting oneself on
display? Hey, if it works for prostitutes in Amsterdam's red-light
district, why not this?
While
we speculate on what biological forms any extraterrestrials may take,
several experts believe that we are more likely to encounter advanced
forms that can reach out to us. Maybe even artificial intelligence. When
any intelligent species reaches the point of space travel, it shouldn't
be too long -on a cosmic scale- before they can build machines that are
smart enough to both replicate and improve themselves. And travel
through space. 
