This is amazing. Completely mindblowing to me. Nauseating.
I can not find words adequate to explain how this is the opposite of the warmth and excitement of a Democrat gathering.
I am so proud. My fellow Americans. Believers in the ideals of freedom, equal opportunity for all and good will towards each other. My chest swells with pride that these fine citizens have informed themselves, gather together to form a more perfect union, and cherish the freedom of speech with such eloquent expression of these highest of ideals that make our country what it is today. I think I'm gonna cry now.
I thought this was an interesting summary from our local Democratic committee chair:
"Privatize the profit and socialize the loss is what the Republican party is all about. The GOP believes that any government goodies that go to the top 10% is economic stimulus and any gov money spent on the rest of us is socialism!"
I'd like to hear a Republican response to this... because it is how I see the Republican platform, and I wonder what they intend with the economic direction they are pushing. Is it still trickle-down economics?
Not a repub, but I can't agree with that statement. Wasnt it mostly repubs who still voted against the "bail out"? I believe the official stance of the repubs, the real conservatives, is to tax less and spend less. In the most simple terms, the idea is its better for society overall to let those less fortunate to pull themselves up, rather than rely on government handouts. It's a legitimate argument even if you dont agree. But the GOP's platform since Reagan has been trickle down economics, reduce the tax burden on the rich and that will trickle down to the blue collar worker in the form of steady employment, growing economy...It may have worked to help us get out of the 70s economic funk, but times have changed. Clinton adapted a strategy of controlled spending, and slight increases to taxes in order to adddress the deficit that resulted from the GOP strategy. The Reagan strategy did its job, and got the economy back on its footing. But then, when times are good, you need to bump the taxes back up to a more normalized range, and focus on balanced spending/budget. We're now back in a recession and unchartered waters...but I think increased government spending is key to getting us out. Reagan spent on defense, which created jobs...Obama will need to spend on energy, which will be critical to help defend the nations future.
Wow. This is the most succinct summation I've heard so far of the McCain/Palin campaign, and of the past 8 years of the Bushies in power.
That phrase was tossed around a lot a few weeks ago, by everyone who was uncomfortable with the bailout. It's not just a Republican thing, tho I agree it's a good way to describe Trickle Down...
I thought this was an interesting summary from our local Democratic committee chair:
"Privatize the profit and socialize the loss is what the Republican party is all about. The GOP believes that any government goodies that go to the top 10% is economic stimulus and any gov money spent on the rest of us is socialism!"
I'd like to hear a Republican response to this... because it is how I see the Republican platform, and I wonder what they intend with the economic direction they are pushing. Is it still trickle-down economics?
Wow. This is the most succinct summation I've heard so far of the McCain/Palin campaign, and of the past 8 years of the Bushies in power.
I thought this was an interesting summary from our local Democratic committee chair:
"Privatize the profit and socialize the loss is what the Republican party is all about. The GOP believes that any government goodies that go to the top 10% is economic stimulus and any gov money spent on the rest of us is socialism!"
I'd like to hear a Republican response to this... because it is how I see the Republican platform, and I wonder what they intend with the economic direction they are pushing. Is it still trickle-down economics?
Dino Rossi and other Republicans may list “GOP” as their party preference on general-election ballots, King County Superior Court Judge Richard Eadie announced this morning. Democrats had sued the Washington Secretary of State, which oversees elections, requesting an emergency order to stop printing ballots because the GOP label was deceptive.
A poll by Elway Research in June found that 25 percent of the state’s voters didn’t know GOP means Republican. And more recently the opinion research firm reported that Rossi gained 6 percent when he used the “GOP” label instead of “Republican.” Dwight Pelz, chair for the Washington State Democratic Party, says 22 legislators have filed this year using the GOP label.
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But the “new system” clearly benefits Republicans. The state Washington State Republican Party—which doesn’t call itself the GOP party, ahem—legally assisted the state’s defense.
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... this is unfortunately not the rise of a viable third party, but of Republican candidates (including Dino Rossi, Republican candidate for Governor) calling themselves "GOP" to avoid association with the term "Republican".
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A man convicted of stealing $20 from a toddler's piggy bank has been sentenced to six years in prison. Four-time convicted burglar Ryan Mueller was convicted Thursday of felony burglary as a repeat offender in a Sheboygan, Wis., court.
Prosecutors say the 31-year-old Mueller broke into a home in August 2007 and stole money from a 2-year-old girl's piggy bank while she slept. They say the girl's mother walked into the room and caught Mueller in the act.
Mueller also was sentenced to five years' probation. His is to serve his sentence consecutively to a six-year prison sentence he was handed in June for a separate burglary conviction.
Stealing from the next generation....he must be a neo-con.
"If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African Amerian voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced.
If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you've got the most executive experience of anyone on either ticket, are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military and are well qualified to lead the nation should you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia."
I'm glad you found the source and posted the last one here. It's probably one of the most convincing of them all!
And if you're a black writer and director who wrote and/or collected those comments from readers at The Huffington Post and That Minority Thing.com, you present them with attribution to the people who actually wrote them, while if you're a Truther on RP you can present them as your own.
I got the whole thing from a single email that is going around, not the web I suppose I should have made that clear most people probably correctly figgered that I did not write it...
"If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African Amerian voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced.
If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you've got the most executive experience of anyone on either ticket, are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military and are well qualified to lead the nation should you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia."
If you are biracial and born in a state not connected to the lower 48, America needs darn near 2 years and 3 major speeches to "get to know you." If you're white and from a state not connected to the lower 48, America needs 36 minutes and 38 seconds worth of an acceptance speech to know you're "one of us."
If you get 18 million people to vote for you in a national presidential primary, you're a "phony." Get 100,000+ people to vote you governor of the 47th most populous state in the Union, you're "well loved."
If your pastor rails against inequality in the United States of America, you're an "extremist." If your pastor welcomes a sermon by a member of Jews for Jesus who preaches that the killing of Jews by terrorists is a lesson to Jews that they must convert to Christianity, you're a "fundamentalist."
If you give your wife a dap on stage, it's actually a "terrorist fist jab." If your daughter licks her palm so that she can slick down your youngest child's hair on national TV it's an "adorable moment." (Seriously, forget about abstinence only, teach these folks some grooming skills).
If you're 18, white, and get a 16 year old girl pregnant "life happens." If you're 18, black, and impregnate a 16 year old girl, you're a "registered sex offender."
If you're a black man and you use a scholarship to get into college, then work your way up to being the president of the Harvard Law Review, you're "uppity." If you're a conservative and your parents pay your way to Hawaii Pacific University . . . you only have four more schools to attend over the next five years before you somehow manage to graduate (it might be five more schools over the next five years. No one has yet verified whether or not Palin was actually ever registered at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. But, you know how shady people are who ever attended any kind of school in Hawaii).
If you spend 18 months building a campaign around the theme of "Change," it's just "empty rhetoric." If one week before your party's national convention you SUDDENLY make your candidacy about "Change," that's "red meat."
If you're a minority and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "token hire." If you're a conservative and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "game changer."
If you live in an Urban area and you get a girl pregnant you're a "baby daddy." If you're the same in Alaska you're a "teen father." (Actually, according to your own MySpace page you're an F'n redneck that don't want any kids, but that's too long a phrase for the evil liberal media to take out of context and flog morning noon and night).
Black teen pregnancies? A "crisis" in black America. White teen pregnancies? A "blessed event."
If you grow up in Hawaii you're "exotic." Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential "American story."
Similarly, if you name you kid Barack you're "unpatriotic." Name your kid Track, you're "colorful."
If you're a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you're "reckless." A Republican who doesn't fully vet is a "maverick."
If you say that for the "first time in my adult lifetime I'm really proud of my country" it makes you "unfit" to be First Lady. If you are a registered member of a fringe political group that advocates secession that makes you "First Dude."
A DUI from twenty years ago is "old news." A speech given without proper citation from twenty years ago is "relevant information."
And, finally, if you're a man and you decide to run for office despite your wife's reoccurrence of cancer you're a "questionable spouse." If you're a woman and you decide to run for office despite having five kids including a newborn with Downs Syndrome. Well, we don't know what that is 'cause THAT'S NOT A FAIR QUESTION TO ASK!
And if you're a black writer and director who wrote and/or collected those comments from readers at The Huffington Post and That Minority Thing.com, you present them with attribution to the people who actually wrote them, while if you're a Truther on RP you can present them as your own.
If you're 18, white, and get a 16 year old girl pregnant "life happens." If you're 18, black, and impregnate a 16 year old girl, you're a "registered sex offender."
If you give your wife a dap on stage, it's actually a "terrorist fist jab." If your daughter licks her palm so that she can slick down your youngest child's hair on national TV it's an "adorable moment." (Seriously, forget about abstinence only, teach these folks some grooming skills).
If you are biracial and born in a state not connected to the lower 48, America needs darn near 2 years and 3 major speeches to "get to know you." If you're white and from a state not connected to the lower 48, America needs 36 minutes and 38 seconds worth of an acceptance speech to know you're "one of us."
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And, finally, if you're a man and you decide to run for office despite your wife's reoccurrence of cancer you're a "questionable spouse." If you're a woman and you decide to run for office despite having five kids including a newborn with Downs Syndrome. Well, we don't know what that is 'cause THAT'S NOT A FAIR QUESTION TO ASK!
Nice to see ya.
Where you been?
