Letters to the Editor
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Did You Notice
Did you catch the way he slipped the whole "frivilous lawsuit" talking point in there. The implication in the conservative world is that somehow Democrats and liberals are FOR frivilous lawsuits. How did this happen? Or is that just code for "John Edwards, trial lawyer." I keep waiting for someone to hit back.
I'm punting on the Ds and the Rs this time around. They drink from the same tainted well. I'm sick of hearing you're wasting your vote to vote from someone from another party. I know for a FACT that my vote is wasted on the current crop of corporate tit-suckers. It's time to take a chance on some new blood.
I feel better now. My only problem now is figuring out just who that new blood is.
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No difference?
A Nader vote mattered a lot in 2000.
How quickly they forget...
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Did Rudy mention that his fucking Yankees got their asses kicked by a team with a $65,000,000 payroll?
How you like them Big Apples, Rudy, ya mediocre son-of-a-bitch?
Go Tribe.
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Wait...
So the Republican front runner is a liar and an idiot of a magnitude equal to Bush. Who would have guessed?
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Dear Anonymous:
So the Republican front runner is a liar and an idiot of a magnitude equal to Bush.
I don't think anybody said exactly that, but to clarify for your tiny brain:
The thrice-married, twice divorced "Catholic" Republican front runner is a liar and hypocrite of a magnitude equal to Bush, however, when it comes to being a complete fucking idiot -- nobody -- not even Rudy -- can compete with Dubbya.
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Neither Matthews or Giuliani is a Money Honey
Chris Matthews knows so little about economics he probably thought he did answer the question on hedge funds.
Just think about where the philosophy that an unfettered market is a good thing comes from - you know, slavery being cost effective and all.
Why isn't Jim Cramer asking the questions?
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What a dirt bag
His definition of "free market" is feudal Europe -- not anything approaching Adam Smith (who advocated against excessive patents and copyrights and for trust busting). Why do people get away with using bullshit terms like "free market," "terrorism" and "security" when they mean nothing -- or at least something radically different to every listener?
As for the previous poster, gbarton: Clinton is no Gore, and Gore 2000 was no Gore 2008. Moreover, for the millionth time, Nader didn't lose the election -- a) the 5 million Bush voters in FL deserve some of the blame; and b) the election was stolen anyhow and would have come to the same count had Nader not run. And you should also know that I am not going to vote for someone right-wing fuck who wants to privatize the world that she thinks the US has the right to order around, even if the alternative is worse. I'm done. I wouldn't vote for Mussolini over Hitler and I'm not going to vote for Clinton, period. She doesn't deserve my vote and it's about time I stopped capitulating to this broken democracy. I will vote for someone who represents me from now on.
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Please Stop Beating Around the Bush, Mr. Lewis...
Tell us what you REALLY think about Duh-bya!!!
In all seriousness-- well-said, 100% agree. Giuliani's a craven scumbag and happily co-opting all of W's failed policies-- but at least he doesn't call that Texas shithole called Crawford his home.
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Chris Matthews
My problem with Matthews has long been the lack of follow-up questions. He feels that his job is to ask questions, get a response of some sort, then move on. I guess he's just there to build up material for Jon Stewart to dig up 2-3 years after the fact.
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Free market
Giuliani goes on and on about the wonders of the free market. Well, I'm not about to argue that the free market isn't the best basis on which to build a prosperous economy. But, like any system ever created, if it is adhered to too absolutely, significant problems are exposed. The trouble with so many of those who preach its wonders is that their devotion is so slavish, so blind, so absolute, that they can never acknowledge that there are areas where it isn't working quite right. In our current economy we are seeing far too many results that are wildly and irrationally out of balance (i.e. CEO salaries, the exploding gap between the very wealthiest and everyone else). Reliance on the free market must be balanced by an acknowledgement that not every result is a sacred revelation and a concern for the needs of those that its workings leave behind.
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Unfair Question
What do private equity firms and hedge funds have to do with 9/11?
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Kill all the lawyers?
Just like "voter fraud," the GOP beats the whole "frivolous lawsuit" drum in an effort to hoodwink clueless, cynical, and hateful voters. The GOP won't be happy until the poor simply aren't able to seek legal redress in courts, and if they manage to get to court, the GOP works hard to ensure that caps on damages lets the wrongdoers get off without incurring too much fiscal harm. Equal justice under the law?
That's now what the GOP wants, but they can't say that, so they doll it up as a campaign against "frivolous lawsuits" -- and the media happily obliges by running with news stories about so-called excessive rewards, even though those are always the exception, not the rule.
How ironic that the Law & Order Republicans are so against lawsuits; but not really -- they're all about the powerful preying on the weak, the privileged lording it over the poor, and for people to enjoy exactly the amount of liberty they can afford -- a sliding scale of liberty and justice, basically, with those at the top able to enjoy the most liberty, and those at the bottom enjoying the least. So, their stance against lawsuits makes sense, because to them, accountability in courts of law steps on the toes of the privilege and the powerful.
Democratic it ain't, that's for sure. The Greeks actually valued isonomia (equal political rights) a great deal, viewed it as integral to democracy, though we don't hear about it so much, and really, when you hear a fascist scumbag like Rudy (or any number of the GOP notables) talk up "frivolous lawsuits," the importance of isonomia in a just society becomes even more apparent, because that's not what they're about.