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Senator Barbara Boxer has said that the Democratic Party is "The Party of Hope", and the Republican Party is "The Party of Nope." The GOP is also "The Party of Dope", if you include Rush Limbaugh; and "The Party of Dopes", if you add his Dittoheads. At this rate, the GOP -- the Grand Old Party -- will soon be the Gone Old Party.
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During World War II, if Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose had been broadcasting from the USA, FDR and the White House would certainly have called them out and responded to them by name. Back then, of course, Sally was forced to broadcast from Berlin, and Rose from Tokyo. Today, however, the United States has hundreds of outlets for subversive broadcasters, like Rush Limbaugh, who are doing their best to destroy America's capitalist system. Their extreme views --huge tax cuts for the rich, financial de-regulation, etc. -- which were put into place by the Bush administration, have virtually destroyed our economy. Now, Rush, Hannity, Savage, Malkin, etc., continue to broadcast far and wide their extremist views in an effort to stop Obama from rescuing the economy. At the very least, Obama and his staff have every right to call these people out and respond to them by name. Yesterday, the market went up by nearly 400 points. That may be a leading indicator that our country is finally starting to move away from the Bush economy into the Obama economy.
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Our newspapers have morphed into a modern American version of the old Soviet Union's Pravda and Izvestia. Pravda meant "Truth" -- and Izvestia meant "News". Accordingly, the old Soviet Man On The Street used to say: "There is No News in 'Pravda' -- and No Truth in 'Izvestia'."
In 1787, when the Constitution was adopted, the the backbone of the American economy consisted of thousands of small, independent tradesmen, manufacturers and landowners. However, as the nineteenth century progressed, there was an increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people, many of whom became known as Robber Barons, including Harriman, Hill, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, DuPont, Insull, etc. These were railroad magnates, oil magnates, industrialists and bankers.
The social legislation of the early twentieth century, instituted by Republican reformers such as Teddy Roosevelt and other "trust-busters" -- including estate taxes, progressive income taxes, etc. -- was designed to break up these dynasties, eliminate the huge concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, and restore the American economy to the more widespread distribution of wealth which existed at the time of our nation's inception.
This social legislation resulted in a slight "re-distribution of wealth", not in any attempt to bring Socialism or Communism to these shores, but rather to try and restore the kind of economy that existed at the time of our Founding Fathers -- a fairer, more equitable, more widespread distribution of America's wealth than had developed by the end of the nineteenth century.
Today's Conservatives are exactly the opposite of what they present themselves to be. Today's Conservatives favor an increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people, and they oppose any legislation that would restore the more equitable society that existed at the time of our Founding Fathers. They are diametrically opposed to the American Dream and to the economic system upon which our nation was founded. Today's Conservatives are "American Patriots" in the same way that "the wolf in sheep's clothing" was a sheep.
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Maybe both families are white trash, but only one of them had the audacity to think she could be Vice President of the United States -- one heartbeat away from the presidency. Levi Johnston does not seem to be white trash. He appears to be a bright, intelligent, committed young man -- far wiser and more mature than his 18 years would imply. He probably would have been an excellent husband and father, if the natural feelings between Bristol and him had been allowed to run their course. I'm very glad Levi is speaking out now. He is helping all of us see what a narrow escape our nation just had. Republicans are criticizing Obama? Poo Bah! They would have saddled us with Sarah Palin as our Vice-President. Thank you, Levi, for letting us all see the next near-disaster Conservatives were preparing to heap upon our country.
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If Arlen Specter had remained a Republican, he would have been defeated easily by Conservative Pat Toomey in a Republican primary in 2010. However, by switching parties and becoming a Democrat, Arlen Specter will be re-elected overwhelmingly in the general election of 2010, with the support of Democrats, Independents and a great many disaffected Republicans. What does this tell us about who and what is still left in the Republican Party? The GOP base is rapidly shrinking and melting like the Grand Old Wicked Witch of the West.
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When you refer to the "Israeli occupation regime", you are eliminating yourself as an impartial, honest broker. It clearly shows whose side you are on.
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