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Edited on Fri Jul-13-07 02:52 PM by progressoid
"Well, it's not out of love for them or their performance. My guiding beacons are principles of conservatism and charity, and the Republican Party comes far closer to those than do the Democrats.
The Democratic Party's platform has abandoned the middle of the road, and I rarely find any common ground with them on any subject."
Who and what is it that you think embodies those principles of conservatism and charity, JohnG?:
-Jack Abramoff and his lobbying in defense of Mariana Islands slave labor
-David Safavian and his golf trips
-Bob Ney and his bribes
-Thomas Noe and his illegal coin dealings
-Bob Taft and his ethics convictions
-Steven Griles and his obstruction of an investigation
-Claude Allen and his stealing from Target
-Tom DeLay and his illegal campaign financing
-Duke Cunningham and his yacht
-David Vitter and his trips to Canal St and the DC Madam
-Scooter Libby and his lying to investigators about the Valerie Plame
-Ken Lay and Enron
-Lee Raymond and his $400 million golden parachute
-Condi Rice and her shoe shopping trip in NYC while Katrina victims were begging for rescue
-Halliburton and it's war profits
-John Yoo and his torture memo
-Alberto Gonzales and his unitary exective memo
-Dick Cheney and his 4th Branch of government
-Walter Reed's building 18
-Paul Bremer and the Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority losing $9 billion in funds
-Paul Wolfowitz and his estimate that the Iraq War would cost $5-10 billion and be paid for by Iraqi Oil
-Bernie Kerik and taxpayer funded love nests
-Geroge Bush and "Bring it on.", 3406 US troop members killed in Iraq since his dare
-Rumsfeld refusing the military's request to send more troops to Iraq
-Bush's $8 trillion national debt
-Senator Stevens' bridges to nowhere and his "Corrupt Bastards Club"
All of this is just a small, and only the most recent, part of the decline of the United States government at the hands of the Conservative movement. And after Cheney, Bush and their cronies leave office, and the Justice Dept stops covering up the crimes that have been committed, undoubtedly more evidence of the lack of ethics, competence, and charity of the Conservative-based Bush government will come out. Unfortunately though, these people will be sitting in their cushy chairs at their think tanks spinning away their incompetence, arrogance and greed while the rest of America tries to undo the damage they've done.
If this is your movement, then I'm glad that you can't find common ground with the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party actually is based on economic opportunity for all. And the results are in:
"From 1948 to 2001, there
were five Democratic and five Republican
presidents. According to research on pretax
income by the political scientist Larry
Bartels, every Republican administration
saw an increase in income inequality:
Incomes rose more slowly for families
at the 20th percentile than for families
at the 80th (near the top). In contrast,
income inequality declined during four
out of five Democratic administrations
(all but Jimmy Carter's).
The main explanation for these differences
in pretax income, Bartels argues,
was macroeconomic policy. Economic
growth was 30 percent higher and
unemployment 30 percent lower under
Democrats than under Republicans.
Tight labor markets benefited lower and
middle-income families more than
those at the top." American Prospect May 2007
Platitudes and talking points get you nothing, JohnG. The Conservative Movement has eroded our Constitutional Rights, accumulated trillions of dollars in debt to be inherited by future Americans, eroded our confidence in our public officials and has allowed corporations to profit off crime and cronyism while the American people work harder for less. Energy prices, property tax, housing costs, tuition, healthcare costs and goods and services are rising faster than wages.
The Democratic Party is supported by the majority of Americans in stem cell research, withdrawal from Iraq, Social Security protection, environmental protection. Americans trust the Democratic Party more on education, taxes, the economy, Iraq, the federal budget, healthcare, and ethics. Only terrorism still benefits the GOP. And after 6 years of fear-mongering, corruption and greed, terrorism is the only card the GOP has left to play.
So while you can rely on your Fox News-inspired political views, reality has a well-known Liberal bias (h/t Stephen Colbert). Maybe it's time you join the reality-based community.
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