calimary
calimary's JournalI think it's "Supply-Side Jesus" they worship.
Not the real one. The real one drove mendacious, heartless, greedy, selfish, moneygrubbing assholes like them OUT of the Temple.
NAILS it, Divernan! Nails them all on the teabagger level.
Certainly nails it across the board on the GOP.
THIS^^^^^!!! Good one, MADem!!!
And aren't they about to take off for ANOTHER break? GEEZ, nice "work" if you can get it...
This asshole better not be calling himself a Christian.
Because he can't possibly be a follower of Christ if he turns his back on those whom Christ described as "the least of My brethren."
Totally. We underestimate any of them at our peril.
And their warchest-building potential.
CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!! That's what Mad-Eye Moody always warned Harry Potter, and we would do well to remember it.
Not necessarily. Almost four out of ten think it's a good idea.
Even though four out of ten constitutes a minority. In the GOP, minority views have a way of speaking a lot louder and more forcefully than they deserve to.
I call 'em republi-CONS - because all they offer is a CON job.
Been doing it for years. Proudly. I give them all the respect and deference they deserve. Which is: NONE WHATSOEVER!!!!!!!
That's why I consistently refer to them here and elsewhere as the bad guys, and the enemy. It's part of imaging. Perception management. Labeling. Which needs to be applied to them - pardon the pun - liberally. Yes it's reduced to cheap sloganeering. Bumper-sticker politics. Name-calling if you will. It's actually truth-in-advertizing to me. Call 'em what they ARE. Paint them in public as what they ARE. Hang it around THEIR necks like whole collections of scarlet letters. They've earned every last letter. Besides, their ilk has been calling me and others like me names for years, too. How 'bout the "loony left," "feminazis," "pointy-headed liberals," "limousine/latte liberals," "Commie-lovers," and worse - a LOT worse. And oh yeah - this is a good one: "do-gooders." Said with a sneer and a curled lip and a soured voice - because somehow being a do-gooder is a bad thing. (!!!!!?!?!??!!?!?)
For YEARS, some of us have been advocating getting meaner with the enemy, not being nice, not being polite, smackin' 'em across the teeth with the verbal 2x4. The answer usually comes back - "oh but noooooo, you can't do that. Gotta be nice. Turn the other cheek. Kill 'em with kindness. Be bigger than them. Name-calling baaaaaaad. Makes you no better than them. You must take the high road." Well, I've found that taking the high road, when the opponent will not, is the road that takes you straight over a cliff. Playing fair can only work when all sides agree to it. When all sides agree to play by the same rules. Well, THAT side does NOT. They make their own rules and break even those when they feel like it. They don't regard ANY conventions of propriety or fair-fighting as relevant. They bring samurai swords and butcher knives and hack-saws and chainsaws to knife fights. Too many on our side insist in arming themselves for a knife fight with a feather duster. I think our side should start arriving at knife fights with Sherman tanks. That's the only thing that side understands, and it's the only language they speak.
We are unfortunately faced with an enemy that is proud, even boastful, of its ignorance. Proud of its "you gotta be cruel to be kind" forward flank. Proud of its "creative destruction" schtick, and all the other fancy-ass wording they use for it to make it more palatable to the masses just like so many crates of toxic, chemically-saturated, rotting processed chickens from China. So we have to respond differently. Taste of their own medicine. See how they like it. Only - not delivered by mere teaspoon. By enema in the public square would be preferable.
You always come up with the MOST interesting threads, kpete!
All I can say is - stranger things have happened. Fascinating tidbit about eric cantor, too. Wouldn't surprise me, that weasel! Wouldn't surprise me if others of his little pals did something similar.
Well, I imagine any of us would ask more questions than Chuck Todd-Blossom.
He may not care to set the record straight. But the rest of us do. I don't see how any of us would be any worse than the lazy stenographer job he evidently is committed to doing.
ronald reagan WAS a national disaster. One of the worst things to happen to America in all of its
history. No exaggeration. He put a "human face" on greed and selfishness. And religious fanaticism. He made being a cheapskate respectable. He made being a Neanderthal respectable. He made it okay to be willfully ignorant, turn your nose up at those less fortunate, he made it okay to assume EVERYONE and ANYONE needing food stamps or some sort of public assistance were nothing but lazy moochers and welfare queens. He made robber barons respectable - admired, even lionized. He made cheap sloganeering respectable because then you didn't need to think or reason or try to read or learn more, or dig beneath the headlines or talking points. He made it cool to be proudly stupid, ill-informed, paranoid, and gun-crazed. You know that comment then-candidate Obama made - about the folks who cling to their guns and bibles? Well, before reagan, those people kinda hid in the closets. They were the crazy uncle you kept hidden away in the attic when company came over because you knew enough to be ashamed of him. And reagan brought them out into polite company, proud and unapologetic, to take their place out in the open, stand in the sunshine, and feel totally justified to get in yer face.
SO much damage, destruction, distortion, desolation, and death he single-handedly wrought upon this country. I trace most of the ills with which we now are afflicted - DIRECTLY back to him. He made piratizing respectable. He made pollution respectable. He elevated the science deniers nearly to some sort of sick priesthood, where they were legitimized and held up as objects of admiration rather than of the scorn they truly deserve.
HIDEOUS legacy. It'll take us generations to recover from it and somehow struggle back onto the correct track. We've been set SO FAR BACK, legislatively, morally, intellectually, and yes - spiritually, that it'll be YEARS before we approach some sense of normalcy again.
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