opihimoimoi
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Mon Sep-15-03 06:38 AM
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Bush is only a symptom of the "Republican Conservative Movement" |
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This is what America gets from Obstinate, Arrogant, Selfish, Stubborn, vicious thinking and policies that is in the White House and 2 Houses led by Republicans.
Its not only Bush who must leave/resign/be defeated for the sake of the Nation, its most of them.
The math equation is simple and direct:
SMART VOTING RESULTS IN SMART LEADERS RESULTS IN SMART DECISIONS RESULTS IN A GOOD SOCIETY RESULTS IN LESS MISERY MORE FUN.
Poor voting gets you shit. Not voting is a form of poor voting.
We Need VOTING 101
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Mon Sep-15-03 06:49 AM
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1. Voting 101, Section 1: Taxes |
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Edited on Mon Sep-15-03 06:50 AM by JHB
Paul Krugman: The astonishing political success of the antitax crusade has, more or less deliberately, set the United States up for a fiscal crisis. How we respond to that crisis will determine what kind of country we become.
If Grover Norquist is right -- and he has been right about a lot -- the coming crisis will allow conservatives to move the nation a long way back toward the kind of limited government we had before Franklin Roosevelt. Lack of revenue, he says, will make it possible for conservative politicians -- in the name of fiscal necessity -- to dismantle immensely popular government programs that would otherwise have been untouchable.
In Norquist's vision, America a couple of decades from now will be a place in which elderly people make up a disproportionate share of the poor, as they did before Social Security. It will also be a country in which even middle-class elderly Americans are, in many cases, unable to afford expensive medical procedures or prescription drugs and in which poor Americans generally go without even basic health care. And it may well be a place in which only those who can afford expensive private schools can give their children a decent education.
But as Governor Riley of Alabama reminds us, that's a choice, not a necessity. The tax-cut crusade has created a situation in which something must give. But what gives -- whether we decide that the New Deal and the Great Society must go or that taxes aren't such a bad thing after all -- is up to us. The American people must decide what kind of a country we want to be. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/magazine/14TAXES.html?pagewanted=print&position=And from his new book The Great Unravelling: Don't assume that policy proposals make sense in terms of their stated goals. Do some homework to discover the real goals. Don't assume that the usual rules of politics apply. Expect a revolutionary power to respond to criticism by attacking. Don't think that there's a limit to a revolutionary power's objectives.
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Mon Sep-15-03 07:09 AM
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5. Yup, Bish is killing us with his inept fiscal agendas. |
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resulting in more pain, less fun.
He gotta go and all his Pub cronies too.
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Mon Sep-15-03 06:51 AM
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Sometimes I think we focus too much on Bush and not enough on the Repubs in the House and Senate...because if we take care of those disastrous Repubs, the Bush problem will take care of itself. I'll guarantee if we get a landslide in the House, Bush will be gone.
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Mon Sep-15-03 07:12 AM
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6. Somehow, we must effect a shift from delusion to Sanity and Reason |
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The Pub Party is built on Delusion/fantasy. Evidence:: Rash Boil Ass Limpballs
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Mon Sep-15-03 07:00 AM
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3. Symptom? Like pus being a sign of syphilis/ghonnorhea? |
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The whole republican movement is a mass deception of the american electorate, dedicated to covering up criminal atrocities, mass corruption and gross ineptitude. Bush 1/Part 2 is what will bankrupt the republican party into oblivion, but it may bring down some Democrat icons. The Democratic party needs a thorough renaissance, and that will mean purging their own grim secrets.
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Mon Sep-15-03 07:07 AM
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4. Its already happening..... anyone even closely aliagning to the Pub |
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philosophy/mantra is slowly weeded out from higher office by the election process. But that is the Dems side.
The important mission is to cleanse not only the Dems but the Nation of poor leadership. The Repub movement is starting to hit the wall, resistence, all because of poor results in America leading to the Unraveling Mentioned earlier.
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