So it's come down to this.
The Republicans, emboldened by their own hate of this president and the audacity of his color, scared by their fealty to superstition and having utterly succumbed to the fiction of an Ayn Rand world where real men are self-reliant and real women worship those real men, have brought us to this.
In an orgiastic display of greed and gall, the Republicans have chosen to bring the temple down on their own heads to prove their potency rather than participate in democracy.
No amount of false equivalencies, no shortage of blaring disingenuousness will hide the truth about them: they are the greatest threat this nation has faced.
Hyperbole? Pshaw! The Republicans latest and greatest move in their bitter quest for control over all the things they have come to despise has aligned them with villainy on a scale not seen on these shores.
Ever.
They hate the poor. They hate the old. They hate the middle class. They hate "the other". They hate empathy. They hate reason. They hate law.
They hate you.
They hate themselves.
And they will never admit it, can never admit it. Self-awareness just ain't in 'em. Whatever it is that makes them so loyal to the simplistic goal of merely "winning" will make this nation lose all it has gained.
And to the people who have been lured into supporting this last big push, those lost souls who labor under the delusion that they will benefit from their loyalty to the cancer that has become the Republican Party, the cancer that has eaten away at the decency that once epitomized America, by the time your realize your mistake, it will be too late.
So this is how the country ends. WIth a bang.
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Always a good way to determine what YOU believe. Make sure it's not what your perceived opposition believes. That certainly hasn't hurt anyone on the right. Especially when they have come out in opposition to the President on proposals that they either originated or supported before he agreed.
Certainly doesn't indicate any particular pathology.
"America endures and prospers."
This, however, does.
I mean, other than, well, our two major parties?
One appears motivated significantly by faith and hope, and the other primarily by fear.
"...bitter quest for control over all the things they have come to despise" kinda sums it up.
Freaks don't have enough of what they are freaks about. Coke freaks don't have enough; speed freaks don't have enough; control freaks don't have enough.
The biggest paradox in American society, to me, is that the very clear Party of the Rich is backed most ardently by large numbers of the poor.
What motivates both the party and the poor? Largely, fear. In the case of the latter, it's understandable.
In the case of the former...what are they so afraid of? Why are they so intent on pushing a large segment of their base over the economic edge? Why are they so bent on shielding those who benefit disproportionately from the protections for which taxes pay from paying taxes? Why does the old adage 'them as has, gets' sound like a critical campaign plank for them?
I'm not saying that their fear is ungrounded. There is a lot of knee-jerk government spending, a lot of pouring money down ratholes. (In the defense budget in particular.) Abuses occur. At least when the Democrats err, however, they err on the side of making things better for everybody, not just for a few.
I wonder what it's chances of not hitting anything would be, while trying to pass through the skulls of some people who believe defaulting on the US debt is a smart thing to do?
Next, we'll cap it !
And finally we'll balance it !
2archaic : fault
3: a failure to pay financial debts
Who has said that we will default? Democrats. Who has NOT said that the nation will not pay it's debts? Republicans. Therefore, Democrats are implying that they do not wish to pay the nation's debts, NOT Republicans.
Semper fi
Pizza with anchovies is never a good idea before bedtime.
Go back to sleep, and try to dream a more coherant dream this time.
If you're having trouble getting to sleep, try counting the Foxes sheep.
As a male member of the species, I cringe picturing that...
Ooops, that'll probably get me banned for life.
I'm ready to look for a new home. Please let me know if you decide to post at another forum. I will SO be there.
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Wow, CCape. Just wow!
The morning after any default in our nation's debt obligations, will find you Repubs crying louder than anyone else at the devastation wrought by such childish negligence. I'd be fine with watching you pay for such an inanity, but the rest of us would have to suffer with you. That's unacceptable.
Semper fi yourself
You won't find me crying on Wednesday morning. The fed, at worst, will be forced to scale back on it's many programs.
Semper fi
Yet, their behavior continuously showcases their hatred of everything and everyone they encounter that doesn't share their absurd view of the world and what it means to be a "community."
If the left continuously held them to the standards that they themselves profess are their guiding "life" principles, they'd have no choice but to either abandon their religion or abandon their political POV. The two are like trying to mix oil and water. Can't happen.
Religion should be the weapon of choice for the left. I've found it shuts them up like two speeding trains hitting head-on, on a moonless night no matter the s-tu-pid-ity of the argument they're making about an issue.
Try it and see . . .
Semper fi
You're kidding right?
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." - William F. Buckley
Jesus answered, "Everything." as the rich man walked away.
This is when Jesus turned to his deciples and gave the famous quote, "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven."
If you think Jesus would applaud cutting off government help to "the least of us" who have fallen victim to these hard times, that were engineered by the wealthy to create more wealth at the top 2% level, then you've got a real lecture waiting for you from on high, comes your "judgement day."
Unbelievable . . .
Jesus said to His followers, that how they treat the least of humanity, is how they treat Him.
Because of the enormous gulf between the wealthy and the poor that has been expanding over the last 30 years (and now reaching obscene levels for "the greatest nation in the world"), many people have nowhere to turn but the government.
The polls show that the majority in the US support SS, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, and all of the safety nets we agree to collectively fund for those in their times of need.
You make not like it, but neither do I like the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. Tax cuts that are increasing the debt every minute, because we have to BORROW the money to pay for them. To ask the poor to give, and then hand those cuts to the rich in new tax breaks, is an obscene concept.
If you think Jesus would approve of cutting SS, Medicare and Medicaid, in order to lower the tax rate of the wealthy to 25% (Ryan's plan), you have absolutely no concept of what Jesus taught.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUa_G1h3pw
I think the thing that is interesting, is that the polls are showing the majority of Americans get that the Republican Representatives in DC are destroying this nation. Even 50% of Republicans polled, are against the current policies of their own party.
Boehner and McConnell and their teabagger masters, forgot that SS and Medicare don't just benefit liberals and Democrats.
Republican voters tend to be against any government program that doesn't benefit them directly, but they kinda like that SS check every month, and not having to seek out expensive health care insurance in their old age thanks to Medicare.
As usual, any Republican motivation to do right, seems to always be selfish in nature.
I must confess that I don't understand this "dangerous game" Obama has played with the Pubs. I believe the address to the nation he gave on Monday night, would have been better given three months or more ago.
And I believe placing SS and Medicare on the block, even if he knew they would never be chopped, was a betrayal of the Dems sacred oath to always protect those programs.
Smarter people than me seem to think this will pan out in Obama's favor, so I guess we'll see.
Anyway, thanks for calling it like it is, and for saying what has to be said about the villians destroying this once great nation.