Hi Humans,

Don't be shy. If you want to comment on my blog entries, please do so. You don't have to be a dog to say what you think. or if you have a pet dog and want to have your dog speak for you, that's also OK. I would like to hear from you or your dog.

Chloe

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Tea Party Anarchists Hold Disaster Relief Hostage

Hi Humans,
I am appalled by the cynicism of the Tea Party Anarchists who want to withhold disaster relief unless cuts are made to other government services. What are these other services that they want to cut? fire departments? police? the army? education? roads? Medicare? Social Security? Of course cutting income tax breaks (charity for the most wealthy and screw the most vulnerable) are off the table. Let us hope that enough of you humans will wake up to what those radical right wing idealogues want to do to you and vote the rascals out of office. That would make sense to us dogs. But then, you guys are just humans.
Chloe

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Semantics and Politics

Hi Humans,
You use words in strange way. If a word is supposed to be good, then you want to call yourself that even if it doesn't fit. This is especially true in Politics. In the USA (unlike some other places), Socialism is a bad word. So people on the extreme Left call themselves Progressive, Social Democrats, anything but Socialist. Some people on the Right consider Liberal to be a bad word (somehow associated with Socialism) even though Liberalism means freedom and is what America is all about. Republicans like the word Conservative even though their party is being taken over by radical zealots like the Tea Party Toddlers who espouse a philosophy that borders on Anarchy (a bad word which they would not accept).
Recently, President Obama saved Capitalism by continuing the Stimulus which was started by President Bush to save Capitalism when he realized that it was going to self destruct because of the unbridled dishonesty of Wall Street which the Republicans allowed.
So now they say President Obama's popularity is low. The extreme Left dislike him because he has turned out to be the pragmatic, slightly left of center Conservative that he always has been (they were just practicing denial). The extreme Right dislike him because they have designated him to be a Leftist, Socialist, Liberal (all the bad words they can think of) no matter what he does. They refuse to let reality get in the way of their fiction.
So what can you expect from Humans and their words? We dogs are spared the silliness of semantics because we don't speak at all.
Chloe

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Tea Party Candidate

Hi Humans,
A new Tea Party Toddler entered the race to become the Republican nominee for president, a human by the name of Governor Perry of Texas. His speech did not make sense. He promised good things like high tech stuff, education, etc. along with the Tea Party mantra of less spending, less debt, and lower taxes. So he is promising more services but less spending and less taxes to support those services. The only way to put all those together is to borrow more (like Bush, the last Republican president did). And the Republicans claim that they are the fiscally responsible ones?
If things were the way they should be, the Democratic Party would be the liberal engine of progress and the Republican Party would be the conservative brake to make sure the train does not run off the tracks. The President would be a slightly left of center pragmatist (like Obama) who would use the guidance of both parties to move things forward responsibly. However, the Republican Party that should bring conservative moderation to the process has been taken over by radicals who want to dynamite the tracks to completely stop and destroy the train.
Anyway, that's how this little doggie sees it. I hope the American people will see it as well.
Chloe


Monday, August 8, 2011

Political Foolery

Hi Humans,
Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." We can hope that the middle class and poor Republicans who were fooled by the Tea Party Rascals during the last Congressional election will realize that less spending and keeping taxes low means decreasing their own government services in order to give tax breaks to people other than themselves. Lowering the government's debt will mean pain for some people, but including a fair balance of both decreasing spending (services) and raising taxes (or just not keeping the Bush tax cuts) will spread the pain among everyone (rich and poor). So let us hope that the next election will be the time when some of the people are no longer fooled and will vote in a Congress that will help President Obama to continue fixing the financial disaster started by the Bush Republicans who borrowed so that they could lower taxes.
You can't fool us dogs all of the time. I hope we can say the same for you humans.
Chloe

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Tea Party Mischief

OK Tea Party Toddlers. So now your juvenile mischief has resulted in a downgrading of the credit of the United States of America. But you don't care as long as you get your way. So why should I care? After all, I'm just a dog.
Chloe

Friday, August 5, 2011

Election in 2012

Hi Humans,
Well, your 2012 elections are approaching next year. My advice is re-elect President Obama. He is an intelligent centrist leader who represents all Americans. Throw out the radical Tea Party Toddlers in the House of Representatives. You need mature Humans in Congress who deal with the real issues pragmatically, not crazy idealogues who are willing to destroy the American economy to get their way.
Even a dog like me can see that.
Chloe