Pathetic Republican Debate on 1.14.2016

PATHETIC REPUBLICAN DEBATE

Republicans need to earn support from the intelligent people also who would make at least half of the American voters; they need to offer reason and solutions to appeal to them and quit smoking and duping Americans.

1. The debate was not about what they can do, but what they can un-do

2. They talk about bombing and destroying others, they need to talk peace

3. The more virulently they attack Obama, the more claps they get, pathetic!

4. They put down America, and everything American - it’s embarrassing

5. Facts simply don't matter to them - they boldly say the most blatant lies

6. Trump looks better than those two creeps Rubio & Cruz who are sold outs

7. Where are the good Republicans? Their silence will ruin the GOP

Seriously, we need to limit the terms for Congress and Senate to two. So they can serve the nation, instead of being loyal to the guys who throw bones at them. You can buy these guys if you got millions, their souls are for sale.

I am Not a Republican or a Democrat, but an Independent voter. My loyalty is to America and American interests and not any party. My freedom allows me to choose the right candidate regardless of his or her party.

Dr. Mike Ghouse is a community consultant, social scientist, thinker, writer, news maker, and a speaker on Pluralism, Interfaith, Islam, politics, terrorism, human rights, India, Israel-Palestine and foreign policy. He is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. Visit him in 63 links at www.MikeGhouse.net for his writings at TheGhousediary.com and several blogs listed there in. 

Democrats are done for the next two years - Republicans win big time in both the houses

As the counting had begun, I wrote the following posts on the Facebook

CONGRATULATIONS

• Gregg Abbot - though I did not vote for you, you are the governor. Your statements about women were not polished at all, and I am surprised Texas women voted for you. Hell, you are the governor, just behave. 

• Wendy Davis, it was a good effort, a Democrat would have been better for the sake of women's rights. There is the next time; it is a significant achievement for your party. Don't wait for three more years, begin your campaign now. 

• John Cronyn, I did not vote for you, but hope you serve our great state of Texas
• Kenny Marchant,  I voted for you, congratulations keep us represented well
• Pete Sessions, my support has been there for you will continue, congratulations
• Louis Gohmert – I am surprised at your win, you are an embarrassment to Texas
• Mark Veasey – Congratulations, you have the sincerity to serve your constituents
• Eddie Bernice Johnson – Congratulations, you are the longest serving congressperson
• Keith Ellison, congratulations, it’s a great victory against the bigot Daggett.
• Michelle Bachman – good riddance, glad not to see your name.
  
• Mitch McConnel -A reluctant congratulations, just be graceful to the people for giving you a chance. Don't F_up things that are in place, just empty your hate for Obama, show some respect for the current president, if not how can you expect Americans to respect you.

Man it feels, good to be independent - to be able to congratulate both Republican and Democratic candidates and chew them out too.

Rush Limbaugh has said (2012), that  a Good republican cannot even say good things about Obama and he did not like John Huntsman for praising Obama. He defined a good republican to be an asshole. That is the kind of creepiness creeping into the party. 

Well, I am proud to be an American - it is a great tradition to watch the winners and the losers graceful acknowledge each other

BAD NEWS FOR AMERICA

I am saddened with the outcomes, we the people will lose out in the next two years.  We are making a mistake in giving both the houses to the same party. The assholes will become arrogant and pass crazy bills, remembers all the wars and bad things have happened when both the houses were with the same party – either Republican or Democrat.

Senate 47 v 42- Republicans just need 4 out of the 11 to get the majority.
House 176 v 102 – Republicans need 42 seats and they will get it.
Prayer is all we can do – God bless America

I was hoping the Senate to remain with Democrats and house with Republicans – they need to work, they need to debate and fight on every bill instead of dunking it. Americans will lose out with this scenario. We have to be responsible to keep checks and balances in place.  Never again should we give them a pass.

DEMOCRATS ARE DONE FOR 2 YEARS

At this moment, Republicans got 51 senate seats and 218 house seats!

Tomorrow, Mitch McConnell will be out on the path of destruction. I am afraid; we will face some nasty decisions in the next two years - We made the mistake of giving both the houses to the same party - Never again! God save America.

They are anxious to bomb Iran and weaken America, all the good we have achieved together as Americans will be torn up. They will pile up the budget deficits and finish America. Those SOB' have nothing to lose, it is the average American, that is you and I who would lose. We have to be guardful of them now. God Bless America!

OBAMA PRESIDENCY NOT APPRECIATED

Obama pulled the country out of disaster, unemployment is low, he passed equal pay for women act, but Republicans have rejected it. | The GDP has leaped forwards to 4.6% | Gas prices are below $3, how many people will thank him during the thanksgiving and Christmas holidays | Home foreclosures have gone down | 10 million new jobs have been created | Budget deficit is in checks | He will leave a good solid infrastructure of roads and bridges to last for another 30 years | Imagine the Romney presidency, he would have bombed Iran, but screwed American to the end, he would have finished the wreck Bush left, thanks to Obama for saving Americans from another disaster.

Obama has an impressive record but his folks did not make a big deal out of these and let themselves run down by the Republicans.

Mike Ghouse, independent voter

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Mike Ghouse is a public speaker, thinker, writer and a commentator on Pluralism at work place, politics, religion, society, gender, race, culture, ethnicity, food and foreign policy. He is commentator on Fox News and syndicated Talk Radio shows and a writer at major news papers including Dallas Morning News and Huffington Post.  All about him is listed in several links at www.MikeGhouse.net and his writings are at www.TheGhousediary.com and 10 other blogs. He is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. 

I voted today, early voting on 10.31.14

It was a smooth process!  I asked Google, “Where do I vote today” – it responded with the address of Marsh Lane Baptist Church on Royal at Marsh Ln, that is where I went.

Had a nice conversation with the folks in the line and inside the voting room, I sought permission from the precinct Judge to take pictures and here are a few.  It was all efficient… within a few minutes it was all done.

Outside the building,   I talked to people if they went straight party line or chose the individuals – the answer was pleasant – all the 14 people responded that they chose to vote individually.  That’s how it should be, voting for the individual and that takes time to go through the entire list, if you chose party, it is just one single click.  I hope it is a trend!  How did you vote?

Among the biggies, I voted Wendy, Alameel – democrats and Marchant – a Republican and then for the state representative and senator I went with Democrats but among judges, went with the Republicans I knew, others went democrat. I was surprised with a page full of names of only Democrat judges on the ballot without contest; the same was with Republican judges on some pages.  That easy?
 
I have always shared who I voted. We don’t need to play games to be politically correct, you are who you are, and I am who I am and we need to learn to accept each other. If someone does not like you for the way you voted, and don’t want to be friends, their friendship was shallow anyway, and I say good riddance.

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Mike Ghouse is a public speaker, thinker, writer and a commentator on Pluralism at work place, politics, religion, society, gender, race, culture, ethnicity, food and foreign policy. He is commentator on Fox News and syndicated Talk Radio shows and a writer at major news papers including Dallas Morning News and Huffington Post.  All about him is listed in several links at www.MikeGhouse.net and his writings are at www.TheGhousediary.com and 10 other blogs. He is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day.
 

John Boehner signs up for Obama Care, that is hilarious!

THIS IS HILARIOUS! SPEAKER BOEHNER HAS SIGNED UP OBAMA CARE... Al Sharpton is having a field day on this http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation Boehner has been opposing it endlessly... what a hypocrite.

We the moderate Republicans need to speak up before we lose the majority in the house - may be we should sit on sidelines until the radicals among us come to senses, and I am a Republican and I do not approve what the GOP leadership is getting away with.

These dudes have been shamelessly anti-Obama.

Mike Ghouse

America's hero Obama, and the Villian Ted Cruz

URL - http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2013/10/americas-hero-obama-and-villian-ted-cruz.html

The Good news as of this morning, Thursday, October 17, 2013, the US Government is back in business.  Thank God for my fellow Republicans – the ranking ones like John McCain, Mitch McConnel and a whole lot of them for taking the action. Its a victory to Obama and victory to a majority of Americans for what he represents; Americans!  I have told Republicans to speak up against the extremists among us, I am glad they finally did.

 
Ted Cruz is the villain of our nation, and the villain of the ordinary Americans. He persisted because good Republicans did nothing about his evil designs. Finally an unprecedented thing happened - 88 out of 100 Senators have passed the bill, still 12 of them did not approve, and that is OK, that is how democracies function, at least some opposition is needed. As long as the majority is sensible and cares about America, we can move forward.

Ted screwed the Republican Party,  “his act cannot be approved by conservative Republicans either, who prefer stability over chaos, and are disciplined enough to follow a system. That is how democracies work.”  John McCain has rightly called them Wacko birds.

The stupidity in my party is that a majority of them are goats, sheep, and conformists. No one has the balls to stand up against a handful of bullies – now we have learned the lesson. But it’s going to cost the house in 2014. I am afraid my favorite congressman Pete Sessions will be gone, is there any moderate Republican out there to take his place? 

Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/obama-care-is-good-for-am_b_4082498.html

Action for Republicans by Republicans - http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2013/10/action-for-republicans-by-republicans.html

http://republicanmoderates.blogspot.com/2013/10/government-shut-down-ted-cruz-and.html

These two are good for now.

Mike Ghouse is a speaker on Pluralism and offers pluralistic solution on issues of the day.  He is a moderate Republican committed to speak up against the tyranny of the extremists among the Republicans.

Press Conference; Preserving Obama Care

Dallas, Texas - Thursday, October 10, 2013.
URL - http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2013/10/press-conference-preserving-obama-care.html


I am a Republican, a moderate Republican,  and  am here to tell you,  that  neither I, nor the Republicans or the Americans gave permission to Ted Cruz to turn the nation upside down, we are not a third world country to break the rules and do what we please.  You and I are safe today, and our government remains a model of stability to the world because we are a nation of laws. We have systems to follow, a due process to hang on to, and rules to obey.

This act cannot be approved by conservative Republicans either, who prefer stability over chaos, and are disciplined enough to follow a system. That is how democracies work.

Other pictures taken today - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeghouse/10192491583/in/set-72157636398658675/

Ted Cruz sounds like a class room bully who frightens the kids and gets away with it. He is indeed an excess baggage of the Republican Party that can be done with.  Can the Senate or the President fire him? Hell no, we have a due process to do everything, and it is embarrassing that the Republicans got bullied by him, and even the conservatives threw the system of due process out the door. It is not good for the country, it bring chaos.

Shame on me and fellow Texas Republicans for voting him in, but 2018 is not too far, we will do the right thing, but do it respectfully obeying the law of the land.

The prime responsibility of Government is to protect her Citizens from external and internal enemies - the external being other nations attacking us, and we need not worry, we’ve got the best defense forces in the world.  However, the #1 internal enemy remains the disease that cripples productive Americans from being contributors to the greatness of America.

My fellow Republican need to understand that a healthy America makes us a productive Americans, the health care is an investment in human capital, and not a charity or subsidy. A corporation would rather have productive employees than the ones who get sick frequently and lower its productivity.  It behooves for us to invest in the health care, even it were totally paid for by our taxes. Healthy Americans makes a healthy America.

Affordable care act is not a political issue. It is neither Republican nor Democratic, it is an American issue, and it has two dimensions; Legal and Human.

It is illegal to drive on the wrong side of the road, it is illegal to go 40 MPH in a school Zone during the school hours and it is illegal to rob the bank at gun point.  It is illegal to bust into the Capitol Hill and stop their proceedings; it is illegal to stop the congressman from doing his duty if we don’t like him or her.  It is illegal to mess with the established systems.

The Affordable Care act was passed by the Congress, the Senate and Signed by the President and ratified by the Supreme Court. It is a shame that few of the Republicans to claim that no Republican voted for it, that is gross disrespect to our system. We honor all the legislations passed by the elected representatives. This is a dishonorable act on the part of the few and illegal. Shouldn’t there be consequences for breaking the law? Shouldn’t I be arrested if I block Ted Cruz from entering his office and doing his job just because I don’t like him?


The Human side of the equation is inhuman, that these nuts continue to be rewarded with a paycheck, and deny the same to 2 million federal workers. I was listening to NPR, some congresswoman said, she has got to have her paycheck because her son goes to college, what about the 2 Million Americans, and don’t they have kids? Why should you be bloody special?

Then my own story – I could not afford the expensive health insurance, and was hit by a massive heart attack on July 9 this year and will be indebted for life to pay those bills. Then they say I needed a Quad-pass surgery and I was tense, and did not want to get into debt, no one would sell me the insurance.  Thank God for the affordable health care, my wife found me the company to insure me with the pre-existing conditions. I am paying $380/month compared to $800 quotes I had received before.  There are millions of Americans out there who can’t even afford that. 

What Republicans need is an education in business besides basic biology and mathematics. We need to understand that the economy expands with volume and brings prosperity to everyone. If we make insurance affordable, the enrollment volume will pay for it, there is more money in the piggy bank to even out with the consumption. Then of course, a healthy America is good for the economy, good for business and good for the American spirit.

I urge my fellow Republicans and Americans to call on the Congress and demand to reopen the government. I have sent faxes and published the same. Please remember evil exists not because of men like Ted Cruz, but because of men and women like you and I, who do nothing. What are we afraid of doing the right thing? Please pick up the phone and make the call to your representative. You can find his or her number at

http://www.contactingthecongress.org

Video - speech on Obama care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQrVPyeaqI

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Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, peace, Islam, Israel, India, interfaith, and cohesion at work place. He is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day at www.TheGhousediary.com. He believes in Standing up for others and has done that throughout his life as an activist. Mike has a presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; and several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes all his work through many links.