Letters to the Editor
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Re: Not even close
Exactly,
Show me,someone show me those rich endowed children on the left that spout “Individualism”, “Market Forces”, “Help thyself”, “Welfare Queens”, etc. and/or work for magazines making a good salary, even though the magazine makes no money, run businesses to the ground time after time and still have money, have been wrong about literally everything when it comes to the “War on Terrorism” and still get to be called experts (and get paid well for being wrong), etc.
Then lets discuss... Right now, I've only been hearing crickets... or diversions...
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OliverA
Dear George Bush,
Go outside.
Hear cicada?
Go to Texas.
Sincerely,
the whole cascading gop,
the group of noisey flops.
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Beware of those East coast Jewish moms
The E.coast Jewish mom doesn't want her son to rebel, to take risks or go through what most young males(excluding trust fund Republicans like Bush)must go in order to find their way as adults. A common denominator to all those chickenhawks is that they never rebelled against their parents, were overly coddled and sheltered by their moms and never had to struggle, because their parents took care of them and provided lucrative employment. It's very obvious why they are unmoved by the death of soldiers dying in the wars they promote;they are incapable of any empathy because their life experience is so radically different. A spoiled brat cares only about himself.
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@caiubi
...I know who you are. In a day or two I will know where you live. I do not make threats.
Yeah, shooter can be tiring, but this is a little...creepy.
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Of Course..............
If these people actually had to "make it on their own" they wouldn't be republicans. The very experience of struggling to become self sufficient and to make ones own way tends to make a person pretty liberal and understanding of others. The experience of that struggle shows anyone who goes through it just how much luck and circumstances plays into Life.
I know it did for me. I was raised to be a republican by my parents and teachers, and thought myself to be one. Then, at a very young age we found ourselves poor and on food stamps. Not long after that i had to struggle to make my way through school and career with no help. I eventually got myself out, but i saw then what B.S. the entire republican charade is all about.
These people can hold their fantasies because they will never experience reality, being under their mothers skirts, to ever learn the lessons that real work and struggle teach. They will never have those experiences that teach us humility and understanding. Those days and nights when one really never knows how they will ever make it or survive, how much fate and luck play in any life, and how much we all really need each other and how, yes, social programs DO help.
The very characteristics that conservatives claim as their own, tend to make a person very liberal.
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The New Entitlement
I took on Dubya's peculiar concept of entitlements in a 2005 Raw Story piece:
http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/steinberg/new_entitlement_031305.htm
This, then, is the New Entitlement. Where once progressive social programs that redistributed resources from rich to poor were (perhaps unfortunately) called “entitlements,” for unhappy “haves” like our President, the term now means “what’s mine is mine, and you ain’t getting any of it.” And so he schemes to end the limits on transgenerational transmission of wealth by framing the inheritance tax as the “death tax.” He demanded sharp reductions in taxation on income from wealth (dividends and capital gains), while tax rates on labor are largely unchanged. And he jousts with the Social Security windmill because a system that rounds off the sharp edges of poverty and misfortune is a reminder to everyone of the role of chance in the distribution of the wealth. And if net worth depends even in part on chance, his claim of entitlement is suspect.
We are ruled by men who were born on third base and think they hit triples.
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cronies
Glenn:
1. This was an entertaining, and well written, little ditty. And it was admirably concise, especially given your track record in this area.
2. But you never really (expressly) come out with your point: is your point merely that a gaggle of weenie boys--whilst hiding behind their parents'skirts--talk tough but don't have the courage of their convictions? If so, that would seem to apply to many of the persons who frequent blogs such as this one, i.e., those who claim the Republic is going down the constitutional tubes but seem content merely to sip their Starbucks, shake their heads in dismay, and peck away at their computers with comments such as "Glenn, I couldn't agree with you more." Not exactly a Profile In Courage that, is it?
3. So what if the weenie boys in #2 exist? They are making the same arguments on most of the same topics as say, John McCain. Is John McCain a weenie boy too? If not, then your essay is merely a psychological profile, albeit an entertaining and fairly hilarious one.
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The Update is the best part
They actually have the temerity to write apologetics to nepotism and cronyism? Uproarious.
The bootstraps/umbilical cords line deserves to become an internet meme. Hopefully other bloggers will take it up.
I'm thinking we can get some mileage constantly jabbing all these guys as mamma's boys and daddy's little helpers. Ridicule and satire are a vital element in crushing their political influence.
Oh, and note to Glenn, you used "meretricious" in a comment where I believe you meant "meritorious." Meretricious refers to an argument that is plausible but false, and the implication is that the arguer knows its false. A disingenuous person uses a meretricious argument.
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At least he did not sleep his way up to the top
Like Hilary Clinton and Ariana Huffington. The conservative way is to will it and the liberal way is to marry it.
Joan, where is my red star?
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Contempt for the American People is the current province of the ultra-right
I don't have cognitive dissonance on this issue shooter242. In 2001-2 we should have gone into Afghanistan to get bin Laden, all his associates, and their supporters. AND we should not have diverted resources elsewhere until this real mission was accomplished. -- Holly McLachlan
Then the argument for only one reason to invade a country (in response to an actual attack) is not true. -- shooter242
It was an incomplete or poorly expressed argument, not an untrue one. There is only one legitimate reason to invade another country; it must present or harbor a grave threat to our national interest that rises to the level of physical attacks -- like Pearl Harbor, like 9-11.
What IS true, is that there is a double standard around Iraq and Afghanistan. That opens up a very large can of worms.
So eat worms. With enough soy sauce they're probably rather appealing in a stir-fry.
Effective pursuit of our national interest is the only legitimate goal of our federal government in foreign affairs. I believe our interests are commonly supported at the international level by maintaining a reputation for fair play, respect for law and the fundamentals of human rights. I favor having our government pursue these goals beyond what contemporary, self-styled conservatives want because it favors our long-term interests to do so. And I don't have a problem with pursuit of the more "traditional" aspects of national interest. But, I've got a real problem with using the U.S. military for stateside partisan gains. It's not a tool to be used in "playing to the base".As an aside, OBL and company are technically just suspects in a conspiracy who if enrolled in our legal system would stand a very good chance of acquittal. -- shooter242
If bin Laden had been pursued throughout the high border country of Afghanistan he would not have been taken alive. But, if by some odd chance he made it to a civilian U.S. criminal court he'd have had as little chance of being freed as Moussaoui did.
You ultra-rightists always reveal your underlying contempt for the American people when you get going, don't you? The folks who took down that 4th plane over Pennsylvania just, somehow, aren't representative of anything real to your kind.... or maybe you envision them as somehow whiter and righter than they probably were.
All the vari-colored people who walked home peaceably over the Brooklyn Bridge on the afternoon of September 11th, 2001 -- they just don't stick in your mind like the rampaging human dogshit who were hauling big-screen TVs out of Wal*mart after Katrina.Why? Which type are you more like? The kind who stick in your mind perhaps?