Republican Revisionist History...

[kentuck]

We can expect a lot of revision to take place between now and the election of 2008. We will never know how great our economy was doing under the Republicans until the Democrats take power. We will never understand the magic of their tax cuts until they revise the numbers for all of us. Although the Repubs are skipping out of town without even putting a budget on the table, they will blame the Democrats for next years "bad" numbers. That's what they do - they blame others for their own failures.

And do not expect any troops to be withdrawn from Iraq under George W Bush. His father spoke the truth yesterday while being badgered in a Middle Eastern country. And when the troops come home after Bush is gone, the Republican revisionism will be that the Democrats "lost" the war. Just like Vietnam, they did not have the backbone or courage to stay the course and "win the war".

Republicans are good at revisionism. Just as they revised Ronald Reagan's "conservatism". Just as they revised their expertise in foreign affairs. Just as they revised their leadership over our military. Just as they revised their "fiscal conservatism". Just as they will revise their corrupt rule of the last twelve years. It's what they do.

[Richard Steele]

1. They've been revising in advance for a few years now.

The actual state of the economy is HORRIBLY BAD, and
there's no real hope of recovery as things stand right now.

REAL unemployment is well past 10%, inflation is so bad that
they REFUSE to even use any real numbers to define it, and
the economy is creating one new minimum-wage job for every
TWO median-income positions it loses.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. hi again dick... i keep liking your responses today... i wonder...

how the official white house website portrays Thomas Jefferson these days.... it used to bash him pretty hard... I'll check it out and post current "revisions" here in a few minutes

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. K&R , why so few readers and votes on such a worthwhile OP? way to go Kentuck

[kentuck]

5. Thanks Ghost !

We just keep plugging... :)

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. same here buddy, i wish dick would give you another recommendation

[Richard Steele]

11. Ask, and ye shall RECEIVE. Recommended!

It's not that I don't CARE, but I'm not as
young as I used to be. Sometimes, by the time
I FINALLY finish pecking out a serious response, I've
forgotten that I wanted to recommend the OP.

Like GrandpaSteele always said:
"It's no SIN to get old...it's just damned inconvenient."

[Jeffersons Ghost]

14. LOL, now there's an :"Inconvenient Truth" Dick, I can dig it!

[deutsey]

3. Yep, the party of "personal responsibility"

:eyes:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. well, there's you two votes.... thanks dick, if that one came from you

[deutsey]

13. O Jeffersonian apperition, what mean you by this cryptic riddle?

:shrug:

Is this a response to Tricky Dick in my my sigline, hostility at me? Not quite sure what you mean by this...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. naa sorry... it's just a typo... i didn't mean to attach to your sarcasm deutsey.HERE'S A RIDDLE...

but I DO have a riddle: what is big, greedy, molests children, lies, cheats, steals and commits war-crimes against humanity, only to get away with them by blaming others later?


HERE'S YOUR CLUE:

[donsu]

8. I did a painting about their revisionist history

and coupled it with their evolution denial.

it's a bunch of prehistoric bones floating in air

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. that sounds fantastically original.. have you got an online link to the painting...

I don't only view good art, I experience it, when I can

[donsu]

23. nope, I don't have the equipment to put pics on the internet

but if you are ever in Key West, come on by and have a look

[opihimoimoi]

10. This thread needs to be K&R...The GOP Lies Cheats Steals

They play dirty, they use the rules not for fairness but to advance their agenda, their goal...which is to dominate to control

they are poor losers, they never come together to help for the COMMON GOOD

They are the reason we have so much misery in this great Nation of ours...their track record speaks for itself...it sucks.

Benevolency, altruism, sharing, caring, helping, teaching, inspiring, etc...all the good things in Humanity is MISSING from the GOP's list of adjectives....

Instead....they blame, denigrate, distort, etc///all the bad things Humans do....

Come, we search for the CURE

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. what you describe is commonly referred to as "compassionate conservatism" opihimoimoi

I just want to keep the names of this philosophical approach straight... still only 5 votes, come on DU!

[Richard Steele]

16. This post should be a thread of its own.

When you get right down to it, when you discard all
the propaganda and SPIN and buzzwords and rhetoric...
there is a very BASIC difference between "US" and "THEM".

And your post touches upon that DIFFERENCE.

Personally, I don't think that this concept can be explained
often enough, or in too many ways.
It needs to be repeated over, and over, and over, in as
many ways as it takes until EVERYONE "gets it".

[Jeffersons Ghost]

18. I DID ONE A FEW WEEKS BACK... IT WAS HILLARIOUS... check it out..

right after elections when media was saying Dems in power sought to work in bipartisan effort, can you remember the general mood at DU? read the subsequent posts for even more laughs http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2654691

[kentuck]

19. That was very apropos..

:)

[Jeffersons Ghost]

20. i think i'll listen to the news a bit and then repost it with a few additions...

after the bold copy at the current ending... that kum by yaa link has added a cartoon of a dancing sheep to the mp3 since I posted the OP. Neat version of the song and worth it's own OP if I use the dean/kerry picture posted in the replies perhaps. I want to wait until one of our folks makes some stupid bipartisan type appeal:

http://plumflowerembroidery.com/pfaudio/kumbaya.mp3

[Bandit]

17. Democrats "lost" the war. Just like Vietnam,

Except it was under Nixon that the US pulled out...Democrats actually enlarged the war by adding more troops....

[guruoo]

21. K&R - n/t

[warrens]

22. "If Republicans told the truth, no one would ever vote for them"

Lying is just entry-level Repuke-ism. They quickly graduate to vote tampering, swift boating and tinkering with the engines of small planes carrying Democrats.

[leftofthedial]

24. we need to get these criminal punks out of public life

permanently

[byronius]

25. GEORGE W. BUSH WAS A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT.

Get used to it.