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It is very scary to me that polling shows the GOP possibly winning majorities in the House & Senate 2010 midterms. I just don’t understand how people could be so forgetful. Don’t they remember the huge mess that Bush left the country with less than two years ago?

And it’s not only that the Republican President Bush left us a huge mess, it is that the Republicans have made a coldly calculated decision to obstruct everything President Obama and the Democrats in congress have attempted to do to clean up the mess.

The Republican Party have put their own political fortunes in front of the good of the United States over and over again since Obama took office. They have constantly obstructed all positive movement while also spreading many lies about President Obama. And now American voters want to reward them for it? It is unthinkable!

When will people turn off the noise of the right wing lie machine and begin taking a closer look at what the GOP wants for the future of the US.

I would love to say that it’s simply a return to the failed policies of Bush because that would obviously be bad enough. But it is actually much worse than that. By the standards of the Republican Tea Party of 2010, President is a “socialist.”

The Republicans agenda for 2011 when they hope to control the Senate and the House include the following five things:

1. Privatize Social Security. Imagine what would have happened to Social Security during the Bush economic crash of September 2008?

2. Destroy Medicare. The GOP hated Medicare when it got started in the ’60s and they still hate it today.

3. Extend the George W. Bush tax cuts for millionaires that helped destroy the US economy.

4. Repeal the 17th amendment. Yes, for some insane reason they think that people should not have the right to vote for their own Senators.

5. Start ridiculous “investigations” into the Obama administration. I am not even joking, they’ve already said they plan on doing this as soon as they get a majority. And this after the Democrats never did any investigations of the real crimes committed by the Bush admin?

It is because of this frightening right wing agenda that I must endorse every Democratic nominee running for congress this year. Whether it be Congressman Alan Grayson or any other Democrat running against the Republican Tea Party. It’s not that the Democrats are perfect; they’re not. It’s that the GOP in the Tea Party era is really dangerous to the future of the US. We are in too precarious of a position to allow these far right wing politicians get any kind of real power.

Possibly the worst thing about a possible Republican Tea Party win in 2010 is that it would give the likes of Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, and the rest of the Possible 2012 Republican Presidential Candidates a bit of momentum.

Well the two chief political parties have really screwed up this time. Not only have they shattered any semblance of freedom for the current generation, they have buried the next two generations so deep in debt, that only some of our grandkids will ever be aware of what a good quality of life feels like. This has prompted a major reaction in America. It has resulted in the tidal wave of support for a fresh party. This new party is collectively being called the National Tea Party. (more…)

After over a year of battle against the Republicans, Fox News, the Tea Party, and the health insurance industry, President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party were finally able to make the Health Care Reform Bill the new law of the United States.

It is hard to overstate the importance of the health care victory for President Obama. It’s a legislative victory so big that it boosts Obama into the debate about the greatest American Presidents of the past 100 years. Universal health care has been a goal for progressives since Theodore Roosevelt first proposed the idea in the early 1900s. (more…)

Once again we ask,  “Who let the dogs out?!”

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“People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.”~Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton, (nee Sayles), acknowledged as one of the most accomplished women in the world of literature, died February 13, 2010.

Clifton, an artist known for her affable demeanor, common sense approach to poetry and writing, served as the Poet Laureate of the state of Maryland for six years from 1979 to 1985.

She was born and raised in upstate New York. Upon graduation from high school at age sixteen she received a scholarship to Howard University in Washington, D.C., where (more…)

Jeffrey C. Jones, founder and CEO of the non-profit corporation Miracles Global can be seen in the following video explaining the activities at New Jersey’s Rutgers University Camden Campus to fund relief efforts for the survivors of last month’s earthquake disaster in Haiti.

We have established an unofficial policy at YouThinkWhat whereby we do not mention certain news personalities for whom we have no respect. We generally do not celebrate the stupid people. We do not respect the former governor of Alaska, a person we consider devoid of personality, and extremely stupid;  which is why we rarely publish articles about La Palin (more…)

“We are the world, we are the children…”
Lionel Richie

In March of 1985 forty-five American singing stars gathered at the A&M music studio to record a song composed by the late Michael Jackson and lyricist Lionel Richie. The featured singers from several genres of music joined to make a record that would be sold to raise money for the charity USA For Africa. They raised over $30 million to help the less fortunate overseas.

On February 1, 2010 a new generation of celebrities, count’em 80, singers, actors, and the like–joined by some old school participants from the first recording, have gathered to do a remake of the original song We Are The World. This time money raised will go the benefit the survivors of last month’s devastating earthquake in Haiti. The organization is We Are The World 25 For Haiti. (more…)

“You have to think about yourself, because no one wakes up in the moring with you on their mind.”~Attorney Allie Latimer

Allie Latimer is a living American shero who counts among her many educational, civic and professional  achievements, the fact she is the founder of the national organization Federally Employed Women (FEW).

FEW is an advocacy group established in 1968 to improve the status of women employed by the Federal government and by the District of Columbia government. (more…)

It’s February in the United States and that means it’s time to celebrate the myriad contributions made by so many little known and well known people of black African descent.

It’s time to honor those who made it possible to change this country from the inside to a nation closer to living up to its creed of equality for all. (more…)