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aimee
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good post!
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Jaypeeto3
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Thanks, Aimee.
I get so TIRED of the whining premise that it is the Government’s “job” to pay people’s bills. It is NOT.
It’s NICE if the government can help out sometimes, sure,
but our responsibilities are primarily our OWN.
Love,
Jaypeeto3 (aka Jaypeeto4)
I get so TIRED of the whining premise that it is the Government’s “job” to pay people’s bills. It is NOT.
It’s NICE if the government can help out sometimes, sure,
but our responsibilities are primarily our OWN.
Love,
Jaypeeto3 (aka Jaypeeto4)
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Richardols
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You’ve given a fine reasonable explanation of why you’ve chosen the GOP, but you unfortunately IMO followed it up with a wholly unprovable conclusion about life in the 80s under the Dems.
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mary_bobo
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Thank you for this and your previous post. You are my kind of person. To add to your list of rich Dems like Kerry, how about Kennedy, Pelosi, Feinstein, and that does not count the ones who have gotten rich after they got to D.C., like Sen. Clinton. Most of us work hard for what we have and while we don’t object in any way to helping those less fortunate, welfare should not be first and foremost. Those receiving this aid should be required to do something so that they feel like they have earned it.
I resent the idea that all Republicans are rich. Just another of the long, stale Dem mantra.
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mary_bobo
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mary_bobo
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I just wonder how many of the folks on this forum have checked out the voting record of Ms. Pelosi. She is a Catholic who voted in favor of partial birth abortion among other things. And as far as caving in, she can’t wait.
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rlg94086
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She is very consistent on abortion:
vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=H0222103&type=category&category=Abortion%20Issues
vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=H0222103&type=category&category=Abortion%20Issues
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Richardols
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How about Rep. Darrell Issa, R -CA, $140 million; Rep Robin Hayes, R-NC, 60 million; Rep Charles Taylor, R-NC, 56 million; Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-RI, 40 million; Sen John McCain, R-AZ, 29 million; Rep Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-NJ, 20 million; Rep John Campbell, R-CA, 17 million; Sen Elizabeth Dole, R-NC, 13.5 million; Rep Mike McCaul, R-TX, 13.25 million; Rep Kenny Marchant, R-TX, 13 million; Sen Gordon Smith, R-OR, 13 million, Rep Chris Chocola, R-IN, 12 million, and on and on?
The Republicans have their own share of fat-cat millionaires. No cloth coats among that bunch either.
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Paganus
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Nope - I supported Buchanan, until I met him. No charisma.Come on now…you must have voted for former Pres Clinton
And the strangest ideas - a fence on the border of Mexico? Crazy stuff. I think people called him a racist for that one. How times change…
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mary_bobo
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Never said or implied that there are not wealthy Republicans, just answering the idea that all GOP are wealthy which is far from true.
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Paganus
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If the President of the United States, backed by Congress and the Governor of Florida, cannot provide food and water to one bedridden lady in a hospital, then maybe he should just quit and go home. Previous Presidents have triumphed over enemies more powerful than a single crazed judge. The truth is that he wasn’t serious: he was just pantomiming to the prolifers, as always.
If big business won’t do it, I am certain that big government will. I would prefer it otherwise, but big business has freed itself from the restrictive confines of patriotism - they don’t even pretend to care anymore. I certainly do not see the Church stepping in - even Catholic schools are exclusively for the rich these days (to send my first-grader to our parish school would cost more than a year at my university!). For the rest of us, it’s big government or go without. I’ve seen go without and it gets ugly fairly quickly. I won’t let my kids suffer that, just to keep things cozy for the country club set.
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aimee
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Well Mr Buchanan isn’t Français for one…If you want charming its the Français
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Contarini
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They will try, no doubt. But the Republicans still have the White House.
It seems to me that generally when one party controls more than one branch of the U.S. government, the results aren’t good. Perhaps it will be a good thing for the two parties to have to work with (or against!) each other.
Still, I agree that this is something to worry about. These issues are the main reason I was (on the whole) happy Bush won in 2004, in spite of my huge issues with him. The good thing is that Roberts and Alito are ensconced in the Supreme Court, and together with a Republican White House I think they form a good obstacle to some of the things the Democrats might try.
Same as above, though this is not an issue I care about as much.
And Bush can veto them, and/or the Supreme Court can strike them down as unconstitutional–which they obviously are.
Same as above–again, this is something that does really bother me.
I’m with you on both points–both your disapproval of the war initially and your fears concerning the result of an immediate pullout. I don’t understand why people assume that if we shouldn’t have gone in we shouldn’t be there now. I’m particularly annoyed with Democrats who supported the war but now want to pull out. It seems to me that the responsible position is the reverse–we shouldn’t have gone in, and those who supported it should take the consequences. But now that Western troops are the only thing preventing a full-scale civil war, we’re obligated to stay as long as necessary.
I don’t understand economics enough to know if you are right here.
Agreed.
Well, frankly I think there are much better reasons to impeach him than there ever were to impeach Clinton (and I supported the impeachment of Clinton).
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Richardols
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Hélas, nous n’avons pas des candidats françaises cette élection!Well Mr Buchanan isn’t Français for one…If you want charming its the Français
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aimee
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Well…true
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Al_Masetti
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Getting back to the political relalignment…
Ummm… the Democrats have consistently opposed the Patriot Act (which requires anti-terrorism coordinatiion among government agencies and breaks down the “Gorelick Wall”) and have consistently opposed “wiretaps” on terrorist communications and financial transactions.
So… we COULD combine the experience of the United States prior to the Patriot Act and the experience of Israel.
The combined experience would suggest a weekly terrorist bombing of pizzarias, shopping centers, public transportation buses and trains and terminals. Sniper attacks. Localized. anthrax and nerve gas attacks. Occasional spectacular truck bomb attacks to take down office buildings or to break all the glass in a financial or office district (an IRA tactic).
In Israel, the police and army observed dry runs and practice sessions (including the videotaping of targets), but owing to political correctness were unable to pre-empt or prevent the attacks. The mainstream media declined to print factual information about such events as the occupation of Christian churches and desecration of altars, etc.
Part of the Political Correctness included the banning of private firearms, so people were unable to respond when a terrorist cut loose with a machine gun.
And that’s what we can expect, as just a partial description, of a political realignment.
Ummm… the Democrats have consistently opposed the Patriot Act (which requires anti-terrorism coordinatiion among government agencies and breaks down the “Gorelick Wall”) and have consistently opposed “wiretaps” on terrorist communications and financial transactions.
So… we COULD combine the experience of the United States prior to the Patriot Act and the experience of Israel.
The combined experience would suggest a weekly terrorist bombing of pizzarias, shopping centers, public transportation buses and trains and terminals. Sniper attacks. Localized. anthrax and nerve gas attacks. Occasional spectacular truck bomb attacks to take down office buildings or to break all the glass in a financial or office district (an IRA tactic).
In Israel, the police and army observed dry runs and practice sessions (including the videotaping of targets), but owing to political correctness were unable to pre-empt or prevent the attacks. The mainstream media declined to print factual information about such events as the occupation of Christian churches and desecration of altars, etc.
Part of the Political Correctness included the banning of private firearms, so people were unable to respond when a terrorist cut loose with a machine gun.
And that’s what we can expect, as just a partial description, of a political realignment.
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Jaypeeto3
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You’ve given a fine reasonable explanation of why you’ve chosen the GOP, but you unfortunately IMO followed it up with a wholly unprovable conclusion about life in the 80s under the Dems.
In a way, you are right, in that I can’t prove anything now, because I don’t have hundreds of videotapes of all the congressional sessions I watched on C-SPAN in the 1980s in which the Democrats (with few exceptions, like the wonderful old Democrat Claude Pepper) opposed every single Presidential initiative to roll back the communist advance in Latin America, and every single effort by the then-President to make our conventional military so superior to that of the Soviets that the Soviets would go flat broke trying to keep up with us (which eventually happened). I remember a much younger John Kerry going down to Managua, Nicaragua and coming back talking about how nice the Sandinistas were and etc. ad nauseum.
And Pat Schroeder going to Nicaragua to help the Sandinistas harvest coffee crops (which they were confiscating from the private farmers). I could go on and on about House Speaker Tip O’Neill telling Americans how he just KNEW things were so much better under the communists because his sister was a Maryknoll nun and she told him that the Sandinistas were nice guys.
It was a revolting scenario, watching Democrat after Democrat, with very few exceptions, stand up at the microphone and rail against the anti-communist Nicaraguan fighters and talk about how horrible we were for trying to unseat an expansionist, Soviet-allied Communist regime. If someone had told me before hand that our own congresspersons would do such Vomitrocious things, I wouldn’t have believed it, but I watched them with my own eyes. That is another reason I so vehemently opposed John Kerry in 2004. I don’t want a jerk like that in the White House.
Bush is no great president by any stretch of the imagination, but in my books, Kerry is a traitor.
In a way, you are right, in that I can’t prove anything now, because I don’t have hundreds of videotapes of all the congressional sessions I watched on C-SPAN in the 1980s in which the Democrats (with few exceptions, like the wonderful old Democrat Claude Pepper) opposed every single Presidential initiative to roll back the communist advance in Latin America, and every single effort by the then-President to make our conventional military so superior to that of the Soviets that the Soviets would go flat broke trying to keep up with us (which eventually happened). I remember a much younger John Kerry going down to Managua, Nicaragua and coming back talking about how nice the Sandinistas were and etc. ad nauseum.
And Pat Schroeder going to Nicaragua to help the Sandinistas harvest coffee crops (which they were confiscating from the private farmers). I could go on and on about House Speaker Tip O’Neill telling Americans how he just KNEW things were so much better under the communists because his sister was a Maryknoll nun and she told him that the Sandinistas were nice guys.
It was a revolting scenario, watching Democrat after Democrat, with very few exceptions, stand up at the microphone and rail against the anti-communist Nicaraguan fighters and talk about how horrible we were for trying to unseat an expansionist, Soviet-allied Communist regime. If someone had told me before hand that our own congresspersons would do such Vomitrocious things, I wouldn’t have believed it, but I watched them with my own eyes. That is another reason I so vehemently opposed John Kerry in 2004. I don’t want a jerk like that in the White House.
Bush is no great president by any stretch of the imagination, but in my books, Kerry is a traitor.
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Richardols
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It certainly is your impression of what we can expect. Has the Administration yet said that a political alignment will result in weekly terrorist bombings, sniper attacks, machinegunnings in the streets and subways, etc.? I don’t think that even Joseph Farah, the right-wing extremist editor of the World Net Daily, has painted this scenario as what to expect after next week.
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Jaypeeto3
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I** don’t think that even Joseph Farah, the right-wing extremist editor of the World Net Daily, has painted this scenario as what to expect after next week.**
LOL !!
I don’t expect it to happen “after next week” if the Dems retake Congress, for goodness sakes. But if they undermine our antiterrorist laws and practices, as some of them have promised to try to do, the country will be less safe that’s for sure.
Besides, next week is too soon. The Dems won’t be sworn in until January if they win.
LOL !!
I don’t expect it to happen “after next week” if the Dems retake Congress, for goodness sakes. But if they undermine our antiterrorist laws and practices, as some of them have promised to try to do, the country will be less safe that’s for sure.
Besides, next week is too soon. The Dems won’t be sworn in until January if they win.
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Richardols
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Actually, it’s not a matter of “now.” Your statement “the Democrats been running the White House and the Congress in the 1980s, all of Central America and Mexico would be under communist rule by now, we’d have scads of red terrorists from Latin America in our country, the Iron Curtain would still be standing in Europe, as would the Berlin Wall” is wholly unprovable.
I could just as well assert that had the Dems been in charge from 1960 until now, we’d be living in a paradise and some Republican could have replied that if the Republicans were in charge from 1960 until now, even God would want to move to the U.S. for all eternity. Both wholly unprovable, no matter how much we might think that such would have been so.
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