Linked to evangelicals’ conservative worldview is a deep worry about “the coarsening of American life.” I, too, am weary of the coarsening of American life, which began in earnest, as I recall, when Reagan, elected after sending reps over to ask the Ayatollah to hold the hostages until after the election, set about emptying hospitals and halfway houses, slashing social programs, gutting fairness rules for broadcasters, cutting taxes for the rich, fattening up the miltary contractors with the idiotic, yet to work in an unrigged test, Star wars program, invading the tiny country of Grenada, trading arms to Iran for hostages …
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Kenneth D. Brown
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Did I forget to mention that Reagan was the first President to cut and run in the aftermath of a terror attack on US forces? And yet, as bad as he was, Nancy refused to let the Bush campaign use his image in their commercials. apparently, Nancy knew how truly evil Bush and his family were.
Posted to Face-to-Face With the Fundamentalist Base
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A few points ; 1) Since people here illegally keep a low profile, what dependable data is there on their actual numbers? If none, then we really don't know the percentage of foereign born in this country..A century ago. We had no quotas and anyone who could get here could stay. We needed their labor. The situation today is almost the opposite. 2) The minimum wage remains low precisely because of the surplus of unskilled, undocumented workers. There is no need to raise the minimum wage when it's so easy to find cheap undocumented labor. 3) Senator Clinton's positioning aside, it …
Posted to Theyve Come for Us All
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No surprise that they (we) vote against our own interests. We are the least educated and least informed population in the free world. Our once independant media now keep us distracted with runaway wives, missing beauty queens, car chases and "reality" TV, our educational system is underfunded and under attack by fundamentalists who see education as a threat to religion. Even so, Bush lost the last two elections, first put into office by a supreme court decision that itself violated the law, after "winning" Florida through purging voter lists and intimidating vote counters with shipped in protesters, and four years later …
Posted to The War on our Children
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And as obvious as this trend toward killing off what's left of the middle class in this country is, you would think alarm bells would be sounding in the halls of government. Instead they suggest ending the home mortgage deductions and counting employee health benefits as taxable income, cutting medicaid, food stamps, and other social programs, while giving the top 3% another 70 billion in tax cuts. And Bush has now borrowed from foreign banks, more money than ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED, funneling it to his cronys in the form of tax cuts and no bid contracts. This is a criminal …
Posted to Symbol of the System
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My Thanks to all the above writers. I had nearly forgotten what it felt like to read and participate in intelligent conversations, without the inane comments and personal attacks from the right that have come to be a frequent feature of these forums.
Posted to Symbol of the System
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More on WMD, in "farhenheit 9/11" we see footage of two seperate speeches given by Powell, and Rice after Bush took office, both asserting that Saddam has no weapons, nor weapons programs, that the sanctions and inspections had seen to that, that he was "contained". The NIE up to a year before the war, which was the opinion of the entire intelligence community, held that he had no weapons. The inspectors in Iraq until war was imminent could find no WMD, even at the sites that the US directed them to inspect. The constant repeating of the phrase "everyone thought he …
Posted to Democrats: It's the War
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Scorp, You can see these speeches on film, as i said, they are included in the Moore film, if they are recorded in some printed record somewhere, I am not sure where I would look for that, maybe some TV network archives. Thousands of Iranians and Kurds died, true, with chemicals sold to Saddam by the US, Britain, and Germany. Easy to assume he still had such weapons years later if you completely disregard the weapons inspectors. Forget what a politician might say, it was Politicians that supported Saddam through the 80,s, Pinochet in the 70,s, etc, etc, Bush looks into …
Posted to Democrats: It's the War
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Let me see if I understand this correctly. Actual Film footage exists of not one, but two cabinet level officials, Powell and Rice, delivering speeches in which they assert that Saddam has been prevented from posessing banned weapons, but because it is included in a film made by a person with whose views you disagree, it can't be considered. Just watch it once and see/hear what they said. Or don't. There are lots of politicians on both sides that say untrue things. They are still untrue. These people are all part of the problem. They are beholden to a military industrial …
Posted to Democrats: It's the War
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The old saying about the duck, "if it walks like a duck...." etc, applies to "democrats" too. Quite a few vote with the republicans in the house and senate, on tax cuts, patriot acts, bankruptcy bills, CAFTA, etc, etc. They are, in effect, republicans, and if we could get rid of them we might find that those remaining are actually a pretty cohesive, united bunch. I recently told a fundraising caller from the DCC (I may have the initials wrong) that I wasn't going to make good on my pledge this year out of disgust that so many of them voted …
Posted to How the Right Has Won
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In point of fact, Bush did not win Ohio in 2004, any more than he won Florida in 2000. Purging of voter rolls, voter intimidation, long lines and malfunctioning voting machines that without exception malfunctioned in Bush's favor, even machine tampering by employees of the manufacturer so as to avoid a manual recount, are what gave Ohio to Bush, while exit polling, accurate in every other state in the union, in every other election in which it was used, as well as in some former soviet republics where we depended on it to allege election fraud, gave Ohio to Kerry, just …
Posted to Missing Their Moment
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Jay also wrongly states the Hitler and his "gang of thugs" seized power. In fact they used the electoral system that was in place at the time, aided by backroom deals and impotent opposition. Today's fascists own the computerized paperless voting machines and won't let anyone examine their software. Today's opposition party is utterly and criminally useless, the "good germans" of our country's brush with fascism.
Posted to A Fundamental History Lesson
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Bush/Rove knew exactly what they were doing in nominating her, and her views are not unknown, as some conservatives and liberals have suggested. They are well known to the fundamentalist christo-fascists who came out early in support. She will be the 5th vote to overturn Roe, as well as another who will see no conflict of interest or need to recuse herself when Bush or some of his cronies, having been tried for some of the many crimes thay have committed, finally take their appeals to the supreme court.
Posted to Judging Harriet Miers
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Who was it who said "people get the government they deserve" ? I'm already starting to see the shortlived wave of media independence receding as the white house spin machine shifts into overdrive. Not to be overly cynical, but the public's attention span is nearing it's expiration date. Soon we'll be celebrating the anniversary of 9/11 ("whew..."). Mid-term elections are more than a year away, and the problem of computerized paperless voting machines has still not been addressed. And the democrats are as much a part of the problem as the republicans, with few exceptions. The problems facing this nation are …
Posted to Will History Repeat Itself?
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