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Think about it: Isn't there some valid reason why "knee jerk liberal" has become part of the lexicon?

Have you ever wondered why you people are properly called "ReTHUGlicans"? Have you looked at GW Bush or Dick Cheney's faces? These are War Criminals!

Are you still willing to think for yourself?

Have YOU ever thought for yourself? (I see no signs of any such thing in any of the letters you've written).

"Is our children learning?" (GW Bush) [Response: I certainly hope they "IS learning" to parse the sentence in a way that you and GW Bush might understand]

Is government the answer to all of our problems?

No. But certainly government has to learn how to facilitate the efforts of citizens to live happy lives - no government, left or right, has yet learned how to do this simple thing!

What about our failing urban public schools?

"Is our children learning?" (GW Bush)

Do liberal-progressive politicians have any realistic solution to continuing generations of illiterates and drop outs?

"Is our children learning?" (GW Bush)

What ever happened to the notion of accountability?

Whatever did, indeed, happen to "accountability"? Have you, zoltan newberry, ever thought of asking GW Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld - and the other assorted war criminals of the outgoing administration - to account for their lies and their crimes?

So whatever happened to accountability, zoltan newberry?

What about class warfare?

I do know that we human beings have to go to war against thieves, and War Criminals like GW Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzalves, and other assorted scoundrels.

Is this really such a good idea?

It is indeed a very good idea to get the thieves, scoundrels, war criminals and such loathsome vermin out of the system

If the rule is "whatever it takes to win and keep power," can't that approach lead to the same horrors we have seen before when the ends justified the means?

Ask your heroes GW Bush, Dick Cheney and other assorted war criminals the answer to that question.

Now that you guys are in control, what can you do for all of us?

Why don't you work with human beings to put the war criminals in jail where they belong? And then, why don't you try and learn how to operate in a truly civil society? That might be of some value to all human beings.

Are you thinking?

Have you EVER thought for yourself?

Are you taking unintended consequences into account?

Did GW Bush, Dick Cheney (or you for that matter) ever think of this?

Have you learned from the horrible failures of the past like welfare?

Have GW Bush, Dick Cheney (and those other assorted criminals) learned anything from the horrible failure of their criminality?

What's up, my dear Libral frems?

What's up, you loathsome ReTHUGlican?

What's up?

Let me tell you what's DOWN: GW Bush, Dick Cheney, and assorted war criminals, they're all DOWN, that's for sure! You too are DOWN, and that's a very good thing too!

GSC

...and get to the real work.

This will involve:

1. Defining just what it is you guys want your government and your nation to do over the next 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, ....

(Because, for better or for worse, the US is still the world's superpower, what you guys do will sizably determine what and how the rest of the world will do as well. I do hope that you and your leaders will seek to do wise things, in contrast to GW Bush and Gang, who deliberately went out of their way at each point to do exactly the most foolish [and even criminal] things that they could find to do!)

2. Working out, from day to day, just what it is that needs to be done to accomplish what you (and we in the rest of the world) want finally to achieve (in some measure at least) over the next 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, ....

(It's not impossible to do this kind of thing, in a very natural, human sort of way. I personally have great hopes that your President-to-be Barack Obama is one US leader who will genuinely try to get things right).

Doing the above will involve thinking and working in dimensions way beyond these simplistic labels like 'liberal'; 'progressive'; 'conservative', and the like (most of which only help to prevent people from thinking deeply enough about real issues at hand).

I notice that one reader came up with the interesting concatenation "conservative liberal". Use any darned label you choose, so long as you really work to get the things done that really need to get done. There are a huge number of very difficult things to do after these disastrous eight years of GW Bush and Gang.

Now, how to decide just what are the things to get done, how to use your resources and time most effectively - in such a way that you don't get swamped under?

GSC

I will lay any bet with you, zoltan newberry, that you have never in your life known any such person as you have claimed in the following:

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"Gopi Saraswati Chandi I used to know in Dehli where the air is so polluted from your dirty coal and horrid Tata trucks and cars, you walk out of the house and a minute later your white dhoti is black from alla da smoke."

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The place "Dehli" does not even exist (at least not in India)!

Apart from being just the plain "garden variety knee-jerk jerk" as AJCalhoun appropriately observed, you are also the plain "garden variety knee-jerk liar" as well. That's par for the course for ReTHUGlicans like GW Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, .... (and, of course, zoltan newberry himself). And they're all down, DOWN, and doomed to go even lower, which is exactly where liars like them should be - permanently.

-- GSC