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The New Antiwar Populism; The Neocons Are In A Panic Over It
Post Date: 2010-10-04 16:30:00 by Brian S
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The War Party is running scared – and with good reason. Writing in the Washington Post, neocons Danielle Pletka and Thomas Donnelly are in a panic that the rising “tea party” movement, which upended the Republican establishment at the polls, is about to abandon “the defense of freedom” in faraway Afghanistan in favor of rescuing what’s left of our freedom closer to home: “Since World War II, a touchstone of American conservatism has been the defense of freedom. The freedoms of others were regarded as essential to secure and enjoy our own. In 2010, however, the conservative movement – and the party that seeks to represent it – is at a crossroads. ...
Tea Party vs. War Party? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-03 18:16:36 by Brian S
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"We're all on the same page until the polls close Nov. 2," Richard Viguerie, the longtime conservative strategist who has allied with the Tea Party, told The New York Times. After that, "a massive, almost historic battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party begins." Indeed, such a battle seems unavoidable. Consider. The great issue uniting and motivating the Republican Party and Tea Party is the deficit-debt crisis, a national debt nearing 100 percent of gross domestic product and a deficit of 10 percent of GDP. As to the cause of the deficit that could precipitate a run on the dollar, double-digit inflation, even a default, the Tea Party and GOP also ...
Republicans I Will Not Vote For
Post Date: 2010-10-03 15:09:36 by A K A Stone
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The election is coming up and it looks to be a sweep for Republicans this time around. I will not vote for John Kasich. He wants to be Governor of Ohio. He is a supporter of NAFTA and globalization. So it is a no vote for him. Mike Dewine is also a no vote. He also voted for NAFTA and similar bills. He supported the gutting of habeas corpus. Screw him too. Rob Portman. I probably will not be voting for him either. Isn't he a globalist too?
The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell
Post Date: 2010-10-03 12:02:18 by Skip Intro
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ALL it took was some 30,000 Republican primary voters in a tiny state to turn Christine O’Donnell into the brightest all-American media meteor since Balloon Boy. For embattled liberals, not to mention the axis of Comedy Central, “Saturday Night Live” and Bill Maher, she’s been pure comic gold for weeks: a bottomless trove of baldfaced lies, radical views and sheer wackiness. True, other American politicians have dismissed evolution as a myth. Some may even have denied joining a coven. But history will always remember her for taking a fearless stand against masturbation, the one national pastime with more fans than baseball. Yet those laughing now may not have the last ...
Locked and Loaded: The Secret World of Extreme Militias (Time/CNN hit piece)
Post Date: 2010-09-30 14:29:29 by Hondo68
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ODF militiamen Frank Delollis, right, signals for a patrol party to turn around while searching the Old Roseville Prison property in Roseville, Ohio for enemy combatants during the Ohio Defense Force's annual FTX on Aug. 21, 2010. Camouflaged and silent, the assault team inched toward a walled stone compound for more than five hours, belly-crawling the last 200 yards. The target was an old state prison in eastern Ohio, and every handpicked member of Red Team 2 knew what was at stake: The year is 2014, and a new breed of neo-Islamic terrorism is rampant in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio ... The current White House Administration is pro-Muslim and has ordered a stand-down against ...
Perhaps the Most Ridiculous Thing to Come Out of Washington Since George McClellan (Redstate on GOP Pledge)
Post Date: 2010-09-24 10:39:05 by go65
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The House Republicans’ “Pledge to America” is out. A thrill will run up the leg of a few Chris Matthews’ types on the right. As Dan noted on Twitter, the Contract with America was 869 words and this is 21 pages. The Contract told you everything you needed to know about how a Republican Congress would be different from a Democrat Congress after 40 years of Democrat control. These 21 pages tell you lots of things, some contradictory things, but mostly this: it is a serious of compromises and milquetoast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity among House Republicans because the House GOP does not have the fortitude to lead boldly in opposition to Barack Obama. I ...
A GOP Pledge to Do Nothing [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-24 10:38:08 by go65
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I had a good chuckle at Erick Erickson’s enraged piece on the Republican pledge, now being circulated by Democratic spinmeisters. Question for Erickson: What did he expect? Here is the GOP cruising to a handsome election victory. Did you seriously imagine that they would jeopardize the prospect of victory and chairmanships by issuing big, bold promises to do deadly unpopular things? But if the document is unsurprising, it’s also unsurprising that Erickson and those who think like him would find it enraging. The “Pledge to America” is a repudiation of the central, foundational idea behind the Tea Party. Tea Party activists have been claiming all year that there exists ...
Tea With Little Sympathy For US
Post Date: 2010-09-19 19:35:41 by Brian S
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The Tea Party’s startling win in the Delaware Republican primary is a cruel blow to Grand Old Party hopes of gaining control in the US Senate. Christine O’Donnell was the Tea Party’s choice and had the backing of Sarah Palin, darling of the conservative insurgents. Mike Castle, the man she defeated for the party’s nomination, had been the clear favourite to win in November. Every respected pollster sees Ms O’Donnell, with her record of political failure and train of financial baggage, as a weak candidate likely to lose to the Democrat in the general election. With the margin of control in the Senate expected to be narrow, that is bad enough. But do the implications ...
The NeoCons Make Unapologetic Call for McCarthyism against Muslims
Post Date: 2010-09-18 21:56:09 by Brian S
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One of the successors to the NeoCon organization PNAC, the Center for Security Policy, released a report the other day that makes an unapologetic call for trumped up McCarthyism targeted at Muslims. The study rather humorously models itself on Team B–the alternate analysis Poppy Bush ordered up to paint the Soviet Union as an ongoing threat in 1976. They do so, apparently, in an effort to invoke St. Ronnie’s use of Team B’s “analysis” for electoral gain and ultimately to point to the usefulness of ideology to generate political support for foreign policy adventures. But nowhere do they bother to mention that Team B’s analysis was famously, embarrassingly wrong. ...
Neocon Grand Chess Game Has Failed In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-09-18 19:58:06 by Brian S
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The Neocon grand chess game as per Zbigniew Brzezinski has failed in Afghanistan. America is in no position today or for the foreseeable future to hegemonise Central Asia and contain China through the dismemberment of Pakistan as the region where this conflict would have been played out. India has failed in this grand design. The Neo Cons for the moment have been driven away by the American Public – yes they will return in one form or another, this is inevitable but the world and strategic shape of the region would have changed. The reality is, America needs a stable Central Asia, it needs Chinese Money and certainly is in no hurry to dismember Pakistan and get bogged down in a ...
Why Do Americans Get The Constitution So Wrong?
Post Date: 2010-09-17 18:53:53 by Brian S
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There’s no excuse for misquoting and misunderstanding the US Constitution. But public figures ranging from Nancy Pelosi to Rush Limbaugh do it all the time. By Lion Calandraposted September 17, 2010 at 11:01 am EDT Philadelphia — Today, more than the Fourth of July, honors America’s independence. On this day, 223 years ago, the U.S. Constitution was born, giving Americans the freedoms that they hold dear, the freedoms that men and women have died to defend.And yet, despite its brevity (slightly more than 7,500 words, compared to the roughly 77,000 words of the first Harry Potter book) very few Americans know about the document that is the cornerstone of their way ...
Reality Check: Iran Is Not A Nuclear Threat
Post Date: 2010-09-17 18:51:16 by Brian S
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Forget the neoconservative hype. The facts show Iran is not and has not been a nuclear threat to either the United States or Israel. By Scott Hortonposted September 17, 2010 at 12:42 pm EDT Los Angeles — Politicians, lobbyists, and propagandists have spent nearly two decades pushing the lie that Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the United States and Israel. After a brief respite in the intensity of the wolf cries over the past two years, the neoconservative movement has decided to relaunch the “Must Bomb Iran” brand. The fact that Iran is not and has not been a nuclear threat to either nation is rendered irrelevant by a narrative of universal ...
Tea Party Take Over – The Answer To Obama’s Prayers
Post Date: 2010-09-17 15:17:29 by Brian S
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With no end to the jobs drought in sight and an economy struggling to get air, life has not been particularly good this year for Barack Obama. So difficult are the challenges faced by the White House, had you asked me at the beginning of the week if I thought the president stood much of a chance to be re-elected, I would have argued that failing a massive and unlikely turn around in the jobs picture and a dramatic change in fortune in Afghanistan, we would be welcoming a Republican president into office come January 2013. But that was before Tuesday, September 14, 2010 – the day Sarah Palin may well have guaranteed that the Democrats will remain the majority party in the Senate and the ...
Primary Day 2010: The Tea Party’s Snarl
Post Date: 2010-09-17 13:19:37 by Skip Intro
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Primary Day 2010: The Tea Party’s Snarl Democratic operatives are ablaze with excitement over the victory of two particularly dubious Tea Party candidates in Tuesday’s Republican primaries, envisioning smoother paths to victory in the races for governor in New York and United States senator in Delaware. But for voters of all stripes, Tuesday’s primaries should illuminate the growling face of a new fringe in American politics — and provide the incentive for level-headed voters to become enthusiastic about the midterm election. Republican leaders have to decide if they want the tiny fraction of furious voters who have showed up at the primary polls to steer them into ...
The Tax Cut Racket [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-17 08:37:19 by war
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“Nice middle class you got here,” said Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader. “It would be a shame if something happened to it.” O.K., he didn’t actually say that. But he might as well have, because that’s what the current confrontation over taxes amounts to. Mr. McConnell, who was self-righteously denouncing the budget deficit just the other day, now wants to blow that deficit up with big tax cuts for the rich. But he doesn’t have the votes. So he’s trying to get what he wants by pointing a gun at the heads of middle-class families, threatening to force a jump in their taxes unless he gets paid off with hugely expensive tax breaks for the ...
A Vote for GOP is a Vote for Boehner
Post Date: 2010-09-16 10:10:16 by go65
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With their loud voices and antic style, the "tea party" activists may lead voters to expect something new and different if the Republican Party returns to power. But observing the man who would wield that power if his party wins a midterm majority should swiftly dispel that illusion. There is nothing fresh or surprising about Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, the would-be speaker, a figure so closely associated with corporate special interests that he looks, sounds and behaves exactly like a lobbyist. He golfs, drinks, smokes and maintains an unusually bronzed complexion thanks to company jets that whisk him away to his favorite Florida resorts. He seems as if he could have stepped ...
Sarah Palin Will Defeat Barack Obama Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Post Date: 2010-09-16 06:56:54 by A K A Stone
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The Republicans with the aid of the tea party have took a right turn. It is a turn back in the right direction. This is known as the Palin affect. She is largely responsible for the parties moving to the right. She has helped knock off a string of establishment candidates seeking election this year. She is showing that she is truly from the right and the voters are responding. The Democrats are in panic and they know their party is shrinking. People don't want a party that is anti America. They are sick and tired of Barack Obama and his baby killing democrats. Sarah Palin will have some favors when the Presidential campaign starts. She has proved with her endorsements that she backs ...
"Good list, but you've left out the crazy granny in the attic, Murron, off of it." [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-13 15:50:23 by Murron
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#17. To: Samuel Gray (#13) "So, I guess it's just you, the failed businessman Browneye, Paul Blart, Black Mall Cop/e_type_nigra, Yukon the diaper changer, Mad Dog, and last, but not least, Liberator, everyone's favorite sycophant, who sucks more ass in a week than a Hollywood lipo clinic." "Good list, but you've left out the crazy granny in the attic, Murron, off of it." JRiggs posted on 2010-09-13
Poster Comment:ROTFLMAO... You're right on que JRiggs, you came a running when you heard your masters voice, 4um's menopausal mamma's boy on steriods, who's still battling those nasty mood swings, that ought to be good for a few browny points. ...
Newt Gingrich On The Economy: Is There Any Politician More Congenitally Dishonest Than This Cretin?
Post Date: 2010-09-13 14:07:50 by Brian S
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DOWNLOADS: (23) PLAYS: (546) Embed Ya know, in a lot of ways, I really hope that Newt Gingrich runs for president, as we keep hearing he's threatening to do. (Thus the book tour, the wife's movie, etc. etc.) Because he really does represent the REAL Republican Party: the festering, corpulent, bloated, gaseous, slimy, and congenitally dishonest side of the GOP that guys like Mitt Romney are good at disguising. With Newt, it's really on display, and pretty hard to miss. Like yesterday with Chris Wallace -- who actually displayed some smidgens of integrity with some tough questions -- on Fox News Sunday, talking about the economy: WALLACE: Let me ...
U.S. Accelerates in 2011 as Demise of Consumer Is Exaggerated
Post Date: 2010-09-13 11:19:34 by Brian S
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Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Reports of the demise of the U.S. consumer have been exaggerated. Households are reducing their debts and building savings faster than he anticipated, said Richard Berner, co-head of global economics for Morgan Stanley in New York, giving them more room to spend in the future. “The deleveraging timetable is nearly a year ahead of schedule,” he said. Debt payments as a share of disposable income fell to 12.46 percent in the first quarter from a peak of 13.96 percent in 2008 and are about in line with the 12.09 percent average of the last 30 years, based on Federal Reserve data. Berner sees the ratio falling to what he considers a sustainable range of 11 ...
Another Government Has Been Subtly Creeping In (my title)
Post Date: 2010-09-12 23:06:18 by Murron
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Another Government Has Been Subtly Creeping In (my title) September 12, 2010 Millie Most people can recognizes an abusive marriage, the wife is scared to put on lipstick because her husband will beat her if she does. Its her fault for provoking him. If she didn’t wear the lipstick, if she didn’t act that way, well then he wouldn’t have had to beat her. But we’re not recognizing it here, that the world is beginning to tiptoe on eggshells as if there were an angry abusive drunk sleeping it off in the next room. Whether or not radical Muslims feel they have a reason to be angry at the US, they hold this country in the palm of their aggression. We now may not exercise ...
The Silent Dignity Of Solemn Remembrance Drowns Out The Voices Of The Crackpots
Post Date: 2010-09-12 18:51:04 by Brian S
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For the kin of those who perished and other witnesses of evil on that fine blue day in 2001, the anniversaries are never adequate. Yesterday, though, was the hardest. Solemn remembrance had been fouled by bating between world religions, stoked by a crackpot pastor with a ministry of flames and hatred. A pastor who can't leave well alone. Minutes before the ceremonies of commemoration – in Manhattan, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the fourth plane went down – Terry Jones strode into a New York TV studio to state that he would not be burning any Korans, ever. There was no applause. He had flown in from his horse-barn church with its horse-trailer sign ...
Gingrich Endorses Social Security Privatization Part of Ryan’s Roadmap
Post Date: 2010-09-11 17:13:37 by Brian S
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), ranking member of the Budget Committee and incoming chairman if Republicans capture the House in November, has a budget plan called “America’s Roadmap,” which slashes Medicare and Social Security in an ostensible effort to end the budget deficit. While right-wing pundits have been quick to applaud the plan, elected Republicans and those hoping to be elected are much more hesitant to endorse deep cuts to popular social programs. Many have shied away from endorsing the plan. One such politician was former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R), who dubbed Rep. Ryan “extraordinarily formidable” but had not explicitly endorsed his plan. But ...
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