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You're so cynical.
I know. I feel like Kyle in that episode of Southpark
You're so cynical.
I thought the elephant in the room (pun intended) about the GOP is that it's not so much the party of the 1%, rather it's the party of disgruntled and non-progressive white people (and not just the Tea Party) who want to maintain a status quo. Why else would people vote against their own self-interests? It's a short term game though. The GOP is alienating every non-white or open-minded group in the country. There is a demographic tsumani coming, and they won't know what hit them.
You know, I've heard this before but it has seemed to ring false during the past 3 years. The Democrats in Congress were voting for their own interests and constituents interests. Meanwhile, the Republicans, who are supposedly gifted with individual minds as well, somehow managed to unanimously band together to filibuster and block... damn near everything. If the Democrats had had anywhere near that level of cohesion, they would have rammed everything they wanted down the Republican Party's throat while they still had a supermajority.Republican or Democrat. Does not matter. Same shit will happen. The party allegiance is more about which set of individuals you want to align with for access to power and perks.
You know, I've heard this before but it has seemed to ring false during the past 3 years. The Democrats in Congress were voting for their own interests and constituents interests. Meanwhile, the Republicans, who are supposedly gifted with individual minds as well, somehow managed to unanimously band together to filibuster and block... damn near everything. If the Democrats had had anywhere near that level of cohesion, they would have rammed everything they wanted down the Republican Party's throat while they still had a supermajority.
There won't be a nation in 5 years if Obama gets his way.
right. Hurricanes couldnt do it. The south rebelling couldnt do it. The German wars couldnt do it. The russian wars couldnt do it. World financial collapses couldnt do. But Obama single handedly could destroy the US. Good to see a well reasoned argument.There won't be a nation in 5 years if Obama gets his way.
Politics swing back and forth, in no small part because most generations enjoy rebelling against the ways of the one preceding it. Conservatism will be popular a generation from now and re-establish all its agendas, and liberalism will take it turn again after that. So don't ram anything too hard down anyone's throat. You'll be pissed when the Republicans are returning the favor 30 years from now.and..........if we happen to get the majority back and our President in his 2nd term regains his spine...............we WILL ram it all down the Republican's throats...........and 5 years from now, if any are successful --- the Republicans will say it was their idea all along!!
You know, I've heard this before but it has seemed to ring false during the past 3 years. The Democrats in Congress were voting for their own interests and constituents interests. Meanwhile, the Republicans, who are supposedly gifted with individual minds as well, somehow managed to unanimously band together to filibuster and block... damn near everything. If the Democrats had had anywhere near that level of cohesion, they would have rammed everything they wanted down the Republican Party's throat while they still had a supermajority.
And btw my source is the liberal Washington Post
Ohh the WashingtonPost is liberal now? What decade was that?
The fact is in a well-known peer-reviewed study (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/groseclose/pdfs/MediaBias.pdf) the