Mouthing off: Mouthing off

Mouthing off: Well, first of all, Keith Olbermann has resigned from MSNBC! That was a big blow to us and his many thousands of listeners. We always watch from beginning to end, but on Fri. he always uses the last 10 min. to read a story from James Thurber, it is called Fridays w/Thurber. I can't stand the reading so I never watch it. However, this past Fri. he evidently read just a little and then used the last few minutes to tell his audience that he is gone!!!!! He will be sorely missed. They will be moving Lawrence O'Donnell from the 7 p.m. - Pacific time - to the 5 replacing Keith. They will move Ed from the 3 p.m. time slot to 7, and then Cenk (from the Young Turks - he is really very good) will replace Ed at 3 p.m. I watch all of them plus Rachel Maddow. I do tape 2 of the shows, I really can't sit there all day altho I would like to!
Now, back to business. Cong. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) who is a very strange person, altho for some reason she gets more $$$ donated than any one else in Congress. She had $13,000,000 for her last re-election campaign. I suppored - in my own little way - Tarryl Clark who is Dem., of course, but would have done very well for the state. Bachmann is for herself, has never seen a camera she didn't love, she is a clone of Palin. She is in Iowa now (I gather that is where you go this time of year - too cold for me - if you want to run for Pres.) and she is going to give her own version of the State of the Union speech Pres. Obama will give on Tues. Now, Paul Ryan of WI is scheduled to give the Rep. rebuttal to the speech on Tues. but she will give her own, as she is a founding member of the Tea Party and Speaker (or Weeper, as he is called) Bohner is not too happy w/that. It may screw everything up for the Republicans.
l2 days after the horrible Tuscon shooting, the Reps were calling for someone to replace Gabby Giffords in the House. They already have one of their own ready to step in, feel it's wrong to have a district unrepresented. Do you believe this? They are something else! Had a Republican been shot they never would have said anything like that! Meanwhile, she is doing very well they say. She has a long haul ahead of her and the whole think makes me ill! I can't stop thinking of that little girl that was killed. They interviews her neighbor yesterday that took her to the mall. The neighbor was shot in 3 places. She is going to have to live w/that the rest of her life. They had a great day planned, lunch after meeting w/the Congresswoman, and then nails done. Lovely lady who evidently loved this child! Meanwhile , the NRA feels there is nothing wrong w/the 30 round clip that the shooter had. Yes, everyone needs 30 round clips!! They can't buck the NRA, biggest lobbyist in the country. Lots of $$$$$! Speaking of $$$$, there is a good chance in 2012 that the Reps can take ove the Senate and the White House! They get $$$$ from everywhere, even from Europe, Middle East and Far East and locally from oil, Big Pharma, Wall St., you name it! That is thanks to our Republican Supreme Court that voted that it is ok to get $$$ from anywhere and any corp and no one has to know who it is. Now, if - God forbid - that happens, we can say bye bye to Social Security, Medicare, etc. etc. etc. The top l% rich people will get a permanent tax cut, that is for sure!
They say Obama needs a billion dollars to win the Presidency and that he can get it. Lets hope!!!!! Anyhow, I have a lot more to say (I always do!) but I am tired of typing.