Mouthing off

Yeah, I know - I haven't been here for a while. But here I am! Watched last nite until I was sick of it all. Well, as you must know now, the government is open and everyone (almost) is sort of happy. Not me, of course. Well, it's only a temporary open! Same crap next week. Nobody knows what was given in the billions - lost track of how much - really, no one is telling what cuts were made. However, we know for sure that they didn't cut funding for Planned Parenthood as the Teabaggers wanted! Can you believe that they were holding out only because of Planned Parenthood? Someone at Huffington Post wrote that "a pap smear" was making the government shut down! Now, retiring Sen. Kyl (R-AZ) said that P.P.'s work is 90% abortions! Lie! They did 3% last year! They gave almost 1 million mammograms! They give pap smears! They give birth control pills! 1 out of 5 women go to P.P. Lawrence O'Donnell on his show read an e-mail from a woman that was so emotional that he couldn't read anymore and they went into a commercial. He was so broken up by her letter. I won't go thru the letter but she did say that birth control pills cost $90 a month and w/insurance cost, I think it was $73 a month. And later a Dem. Congresswoman from CA spoke about an abortion she had to have which was devastating and she said that $90 a month was a lot of money when you are out of work as this woman was. Well, $90 a month is a lot of $$$ even when you are working because that is only one little thing you are spending your money on, there is food, rent, clothing, etc. etc. These Teabaggers are not rich people. You must have seen some of them on the news. They mostly look (to me) like street people! But they are crazy! They are fanatic! Anyhow, Karl Rove sent a letter around telling his fellow Republicans that when Newt Gingrich closed the govt down it helped Clinton and then Clinton was re-elected! That kind of scared the Reps - they certainly don't want to help Obama. But Obama is driving everyone crazy! Whatever they ask for he gives them. His Democrats in the Senate are not too happy about that. Now, Boehner was really in a bind because he was being driven by the T.B. (teabaggers from now on) and they said after the agreement was made by Harry Reid the Senate Majorty Leader & Boehner, the Speaker of the House, that Boehner kind of screwed them (they did not use those words)and they were going to get back at him. One of the T.B. Mike Pence of Indiana gave a speech and he said and I quote "We are doing this to help the Republican people ....I mean, the American people!" He actually said that! Now Eric Cantor, the whip of the House, gave a speech and he was at the mike and he said something like this "Now, let's talk about how all this really started" and there was a chant behind him - BUSH! BUSH! BUSH! BUSH! and he looked around bewildered and finally even he had to laugh! It was humorous at a troubling time. Now, this is not over. It will go on this coming week and again with the threat of closing next Fri nite. They will discuss Cong.Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget which I call "The Final Solution" (original title belonged to Hitler) He wants to get rid of Medicare and give the rich permanent tax cuts AND cut their taxes down from 35% to 25%! Just shoot me now!!!! It was almost comical! It is comical! Without Medicare it will cost seniors (me!) about - well, I can't figure that high! It will be thousands and thousands and no one I know can afford it. I sent an e-mail to Pres. Obama (I've done it before - never hear back from him) re Medicare. Without Medicare my husband & I would probably be dead! We pay a lot of money to Blue Cross - we have the best insurance possible - but it costs us. And we thank God for Medicare (and Lyndon Johnson, I believe). The Reps want to cut funds for the EPA, because who cares about the air we breath, they want to cut funds for air controllers, stuff you can't believe! Well, enuf about them. Let's see what happens this week. Now, On Wisconsin! When I woke up (we were at the beach in Avila, right by San Luis Obispo) Wed. a.m. I found out that Joanne Kloppenburg had won the election by a hair! Literally by a hair! I got all this by Twitter and a little news. Then on Thurs. I found out about Waukesha County and the l4,000 votes that had mysteriously not been put into the system. Yesterday they had a whole thing on this Nicklaus woman who used to work for Prosser (the opponent) and had screwed up a number of election ballots and how the hell she kept her job is beyond me! Oh yes, it is politics! You're not supposed to be partisan in that job! But she said "It was a human error" - he won by 7,000 votes!!!!!!! Now, the day before they were having a recount. But w/7000 votes you don't have a recount. There is going to be a recount done by Kloppenberg people but it will cost and they are asking for donations. It is sad. I don't know, I don't understand it. I was up Tues nite and tweeting and the WI tweeters were going crazy. The votes were up and down. He was winning - she was winning - it was really crazy. Someone tweeted - I feel like throwing up! There never was a voter turnout ever for a judicial vote! This was an important judicial vote, it was the "break the tie" judicial! They are supposed to have an investigation by the Federal Govt. We shall see! Meanwhile, Donald Trump is going crazy!!!! He is most likely going to run for Prez when his show is over, he can't do it now while the show is running and evidently, his rating are so high, they are skyrocketing, on NBC (I wouldn't watch it if it were the only program on) He has become a "birther" and he is nauseating! He hired people to go to Kenya and to Hawaii to check out Pres. Obama's birth. He said his people spoke to Obama's grandmother and she said he was born in Kenya and she was right there. Well, let me tell you about her! She is his step-grandmother and no way was she there when he was born! Most likely didn't even know his grandfather 49 yrs ago! Obama has a birth certificate! End of story! But Trump (or as someone called him - Chump!) is not letting go. He held a meeting in NYC yesterday for birthers! Someone keeps tweeting that they want to see the birth certificate for that thing on his head! He was in the news so much yesterday that I got sick. He was on the Today show w/Meredith Viera and they played it over and over and over.Blich!!!! Now, better news. Glen Beck is out - well, technically he is not gone yet! But he will be. He was either fired or he quit - my $$$ is on fired! He is an animal. He was fired because of his bashing Obama constantly and of course, he was losing sponsor after sponsor and audience, too! I can't say I'll miss him because I never watch him but they do show bits of him on the news I watch and he really is crazy! Well, I am exhausted. I will try to keep up to date. Sorry about the lapse!