THANK GOD someone else sees that! :rock2Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkThanos
I swear my right eye is developing a titch from people who think Bush was anything close to a libertarian.
Madison would be slitting his writs right now...
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THANK GOD someone else sees that! :rock2Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkThanos
I swear my right eye is developing a titch from people who think Bush was anything close to a libertarian.
Madison would be slitting his writs right now...
Obama was wholly unprepared for the Iran question. He knows the issues involved in Iran and he eventually answered the question, but he didn't have a smooth piece of rhetoric ready to go on the issue. He'll have his staff of policy experts prepare him better, next time.
On the subject of Libertarians... a couple of libertarians like Will Wilkinson and even a libertarian economist like Megan McArdle are bugging the crap out of me right now. All they can seem to do is throw shit at the solutions being offered in this stimulus bill. They have no comprehensive ideas of their own but they do seem to recognize that something needs to be done. But right now they're only in bitch bitch bitch mode. And not only that, they have some of their facts screwed up too. I hate the talking point McArdle was mimicking about the economy not recovering from the Great Depression until WWII. Pure hogwash! From 33 to 41 there was significant growth in GDP and employment in every year except 1937. It's like whatever libertarian pill they swallowed way back when, had some type of coating that makes them vomit when they think of Keynsian economics. A lot of libertarians need to grow up if they want to remain relevant to the most signficant debates going on right now.
I hope everyone here taking shots at Obama applied the same standards/observations of Dubya. How anyone who supported Dubya can even begin to slam Obama for anything speech related, or anyone for that matter on that front, is beyond my grasp.
The speech was off , maybe due to this incident:Quote:
Originally Posted by Realgirls4me
Yahoo News:
U.S. President Barack Obama bumps his head on the doorway as he boards the Marine One helicopter at the White House in Washington February 9, 2009.
Darkthanos:
What kind of dirty underwear have you been smoking? Reagan, as he did here in California, actually grew the size of government. ...The defense industry certainly didn't mind his sense of "smaller government". And in case you haven't read a paper of late, government seems to be the only cylinder working right now in this recession. Everyone and everything is turning to it for its survival.
In the examples you cited, what did the Reagan administration do to either free the hostages or win the Cold War? I'm talking hands on. The Soviet Union was already imploding under the Ford Administration according to Gorbechov, and Reagan didn't lift a finger to free the hostages -- not a thing.
Ah yes the great communicator. He never mispoke. Oh I forgot about this gem."Alright. My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today thatQuote:
Originally Posted by DarkThanos
I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in
five minutes."
OTOH having a president people thought was just crazy enough to push the button kept our enemies so scared that they basically left us alone while he was president. He's the reason I'm a republican and hate communist.
Yeah I love Barrack, but he did sound really really nervous. His drop in popularity is simply because now people see even his shit can stink from time to time. He's only human. Of course us Illinioans knew that already.
I knew it. ...So all Reagan did was blow shit up the ass of the Soviet Union, as well as this country's citizens, along with turning this country from the largest creditor to the largest debtor nation, leave us with unprecedented debt and homelessness, and basically prove that trickle down does not work. Great legacy that Reagan left.
You hate communist. Who do you consider a communist? Did you hate everything Martin Luther King stood for too? Because a lot people called him a communist. As a matter of fact conservatives call anyone who wants to change the WRONGS in this country a communist.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrendaQG
....And what does the republican party think of Transsexuals as a whole?
In the process defeating the Soviet union without having to fight a thermonuclear war by demonstrating finally the economic superiority of the capitalist system, and freedom in general. Not to mention reversing the economic malaise of the late 70's and early 80's. Which was done by lowering the top marginal tax rate from somewhere around 70% to about 25%, which created jobs and kick started the economy by freeing up capital for reinvestment in the private sector.Quote:
Originally Posted by Realgirls4me
He once quipped. "Why has the media stopped calling it Reganomics? When the economy was doing bad it was Reganomics why not now that the economy is good?"
Now we are about to have the government invest in the banks and failing heavy industry, effectively socializing industry, and medicine. Pure bolshevism! Might as well move to China at least they won't make a pretense at being true capitalist while the collectiveize the people.
A communist is someone who endorses Marxism in any of it's derivative forms. i.e Marxism-leninism, Maoism, Marxist feminism etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by fitz207
The only people who called MLK members of the Communist party were J.Edgar Hoover and the Klu Klux Klan. No one else would have seriously thought that. Unless you know of MLK thinking that so called "wealth redistrubution" by force is an acceptable way to achieve fundamental fairness. I really doubt that.
As for what "the republican party thinks of transsexuals". I don't know the next time a fellow republican is sucking my cock I'll ask them.
Seriously there is great variance from place to place, in the Republican party. You cannot pigeon hole us.
What do the democrats really think of us By the by? They pay us good lipservice but when it comes down to brass tax they don't make good on anything they say. All they have ever told us and meant is "get in line and wait". They have been good to the LG's but not to the T's.
On and one more thing. Every provider of goods and services on this board is when it comes down to it a business owner on some level. Engaged in private enterprise and very proud of it's results. Under communist rule people like us were sent for "reeducation". Hard labor in godforsaken places.