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freshwest
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(18,791 posts)G...O...T...V and get rid of all Pukes and TeaTaliban.
progressoid
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(81,209 posts)It's their way or the highway. Just like their guiding "light," george w. bush.
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FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Would make a great bumper sticker if you had a really BIG bumper.
It would!
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hopemountain
(3,919 posts)the community leadership development meeting in austin - with only the mucky-mucks present.
MADem
(135,425 posts)include any women?
Sounds like they think they're the font of all knowledge and wisdom....they should give them their own weekly series:
Arseholes Know Best!
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)Daniel Rothberg
April 30, 2014, 1:36 p.m.
Reporting from Washington
Unlimited campaign expenditures impair the democratic process, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens told senators Wednesday, urging Congress to amend the Constitution to allow reasonable limits on election spending.
The Republican-appointed justice, who last testified before the Senate in his 1975 confirmation hearing, stressed the importance of creating a level playing field in elections. Stevens offered five points for enacting an amendment to correct what he views as an "error" in campaign finance jurisprudence originating from the Supreme Courts decision to overturn limits on campaign spending in its 1976 Buckley vs. Valeo ruling.
While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech, Stevens said. After all, campaign funds were used to finance the Watergate burglaries -- actions that clearly were not protected by the First Amendment.
Stevens, who led the courts liberal wing, cast campaign finance rules as a nonpartisan issue and said they would allow elected officials to better serve the public. While Stevens did not mention any recent cases by name, the former associate justice criticized Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, a 2010 decision preventing Congress from restricting independent political expenditures made by corporations and unions. Stevens argued regulations should distinguish between funding from constituents and contributions from corporations or out-of-state donors.
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http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-supreme-court-stevens-congress-money-speech-20140430,0,4630203.story
libodem
(19,288 posts)dem in texas
(2,674 posts)I am reading a great book on the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840's. In this book, "The Graves are Walking", the attitude of the British parliament and the wealthy Irish land owners toward the poor Irish peasants is exactly the same as Paul Ryan's attitude toward the minority poor in 2014.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)I'm not surprised.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)As an Irish-American, Paul Ryan dishonors his ancestors' memories by bashing the poor. He uses the same rhetoric about "not creating a 'culture of dependency'" that the British government used to justify denying Ireland relief during the Black 47...and to justify not even using enough of the non-potato crops grown in Ireland for export to feed the Irish populace until the potato crop could recover.
There is nothing lower than a person who disrespects the pain of his own people in their time of need by calling for nothing to be done to help those in need today.
There is no difference between Paul Ryan and those in the British imperial regime of the 1840's who left his ancestors with the choice of starvation or exile.
These words of a song of the 19th Century say it well:
O, Father dear, I oft times here, you speak of Erin's Isle,
Her lofty scenes, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild
They say it tis a lovely place, wherin in a saint might dwell,
So why did you abandon it, the reason to me tell?
Oh son I loved my native land, with energy and pride
'Til a blight came over on my prats, my sheep and cattle died,
The rent and taxes were so high, I could not them redeem,
And that's the cruel reason why, I left old Skibbereen.
Oh, It's well I do remember, that bleak December day,
The landlord and the sheriff came, to drive us all away
They set my roof on fire, with their cursed english spleen
And that's another reason why, I left old Skibbereen.
Your mother too, God rest her soul, fell on the snowy ground,
She fainted in her anguish, seeing the desolation all round.
She never rose, but passed away, from life to imortal dream,
She found a quiet grave, my boy, in dear old Skibbereen.
And you were only two years old, and feeble was your frame,
I could not leave you with your friends, you bore your father's name,
I wrapped you in my cota mior, in the dead of night unseen
I heaved a sigh, and said goodbye, to dear old Skibbereen
O' father dear, the day will come, when answer to the call
All Irish men of Freedom Stern, will rally one and all
Ill be the man to lead the band, beneath the flag of green
Loud and clear, well raise a cheer , remember Skibbereen
czarjak
(11,266 posts)Go Fuc...... yourself.
TBF
(32,045 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)...as noted by his frequently pointing out how much he donates to minority charities. He employs his token contributions like a transparent suit of armor.