i like the Huckster more and more. i just hope Romney doesn't pay off him or Palin to stay in the nomination contest. Palin and Huck need to make a pact that whichever one finishes behind the other in IA, drops out and endorses the other. Maybe the alliance can beat Moneybagz Mitt. Once that's done, they can form a ticket and beat moneybagz Obama™.
Or we can actually reform the Republican Party and have some actual change. No more big government.
Yeah, right. Tell me how the GOP squished government down to size when Dubya was President and rubberstamp majorities of Republicans controlled Congress. Six years, and they had their chance.
All that we have to show for that is lots of dead bodies -- American, Iraqi, and Afghan; tax cuts for the super-rich while Big Business became importers instead of manufacturers; huge profits for war profiteers; speculative boom that went belly-up and reeks worse than skunk spray; and unfunded Medicare benefit; and finally the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
We have big spending now just to cover the consequences of a horrible economic downturn, and if we didn't spend the money to counteract the Depression that might have ensued, then we would be headed to a dangerous situation. Think of Russia in 1917 or Germany in 1932. Our economic elite is no better than the court of Nicholas II, and the white part of the American masses are as gullible as the Germans were around 1932. If you think big spending is bad now, just think how difficult things would be if people faced the threat of starvation so that some politicians can cut spending to the bone -- literally the bones of people who did nothing to deserve their distress.
Fiscal responsibility in 2003 meant finishing the job in Afghanistan instead of diverting military resources in an aggressive war in Iraq, raising taxes in wartime instead of cutting them for people who could most afford to pay them, and pushing war bonds instead of real estate speculation. Fiscal responsibility in 2010 means rescuing America from the follies of George W. Bush.
And you can try reading...
The sad thing is, he's absolutely correct. We have got to re-think our political alliances.
Okay, you both can learn to read.
And you can learn to think. The Republican Party is irredeemable.
It's not when the youth are dramatically different.
I agree. The youth are dramatically different, in a way. They are far more liberal than older voters.
As a corollary of that, they are also shaping up to be disproportionately Democratic, because they aren't fans of the extreme social conservatism promulgated by the leaders of the Republican Party.
