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Maybe We Should Let The GOP Win
« on: January 21, 2008, 03:49:14 PM »
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arendt (1000+ posts)       Mon Jan-21-08 04:15 PM
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Maybe we should let the GOP win in 2008. Hear me out... 
 Suppose that this dumbass Payday Loan bailout gets passed in some form or another.

Suppose that said bailout manages to keep the economy afloat until about the election.

Then, suppose one of the Corporate Dems gets in and the Depression arrives. There will be absolutely no financial levers left to pull, because this idiotic bailout scheme drains whatever possibility that anyone would ever loan money to this crooked government again.

The Corporate Media will:

1) say that the Dems are as responsible for this as the GOP, since they voted for the bailout.

2) say that the Dems must behave "responsibly" by slashing the social safety net.

The financial community will:

1) immediately stop covering up the mess, and let it all land on the Dems.

The Corporate Dem will assume the role of designated scapegoat, and all (corporate) history will record is that the 2nd Great Depression happened on the Democrats watch.

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But, if we let the GOP stay in power, then its ALL their fault. And things will be so bad that they will probably spend all their time trying not to get killed by their own supporters.

The people with money in the world will recognize that America is too far gone to stop itself, and they will finally take responsiblity for stopping us. They will do so by cutting the remaining financial support off. America will rapidly tank, and the GOP will be disgraced.

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All right. Its a stupid idea. It won't work. The GOP would just declare martial law and throw people in camps. Plus they would threaten with nukes; but the Russians would threaten back, and we would be in Cold War 2.

But it was more interesting than another candidate thread, wasn't it?

arendt

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rox63  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jan-21-08 04:17 PM
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1. No - some people used that excuse in 2004
 It was wrong then, and it's wrong now. This country is being bled dry, and the constitution is being flushed down the toilet. This can not continue.


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arendt (1000+ posts)       Mon Jan-21-08 04:25 PM
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5. The country "bled out" a year ago, when housing flamed out... 
 Edited on Mon Jan-21-08 04:29 PM by arendt
it is only being kept afloat because a GOPer is in the WH.

(The following is a Stephen Colbert monologue (RW devil's advocate talking points):

Do you think for one minute that all financial hell won't break loose if a Dem is put in the WH?

Do you think for one minute that a Corporate Dem isn't going to do anything that Wall Street tells them to?

So, would you rather be selling apples on the corner with a slightly less intrusive police state? Or would you rather let the jerkoffs running this mess continue to disgrace themselves, while ever more completely exposing the total corruption of the system?

I think that 2008 is different than 2004 because, today, the majority of people gets that they have been screwed. And, they get that there isn't much difference between a Corporate Republican, like McCain, and a Corporate Dem, like Hillary. So, why should the Dems disgrace themsleves by taking over?

It would be like the way the Kaiser fled and left the German democrats holding the bag for losing WW1. Can you say "Stab in the Back"?

arendt


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AndyA  (1000+ posts)       Mon Jan-21-08 04:17 PM
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2. If this happened, our only hope would be a huge Democratic margin in Congress.
 And a new Senate Leader and Speaker of the House.

Anyone know of some Dems with a spine?


Ouch............

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mnhtnbb  (1000+ posts)       Mon Jan-21-08 04:19 PM
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3. The $64M question: How long will the economy stay afloat?
 Edited on Mon Jan-21-08 04:20 PM by mnhtnbb
I think we're in for some seriously bad times, whether a Dem manages to win the WH or not.
If things start going south now--it may help Edwards' candidacy. If the economy holds on for another 6 months or longer and then tanks, we're gonna' wish we had Edwards in office.


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arendt (1000+ posts)       Mon Jan-21-08 04:27 PM
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7. This country and this Constitution are now so screwed, we are just going to have to start over. n/t
 

I know I would like to start over without all of you socialist, communist and America haters

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in_cog_ni_to  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jan-21-08 04:27 PM
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6. We cannot afford anymore repukes in power. The GOP is already disgraced. They DESTROYED our country.
 n/t


This country is far from destroyed.............yet you and your fellow primitives want nothing more than a destroyed America

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in_cog_ni_to  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jan-21-08 04:32 PM
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10. Because any one of our candidates is better than any repuke and if you can't see the difference,
 I feel sorry for you.  Geezus.


Yeah.....your canidates want to destroy this country, go back to treating Terrorist as a gnat in your face..............out of site out of mind. Turn over our National Defense and security to the most corrupt orginization there is the UN...............

 :banghead:
 
You got off your ass, now get your wife off her back.

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Re: Maybe We Should Let The GOP Win
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2008, 03:52:20 PM »

when the going looks tough, the DUmmies . . . .  quit. :thatsright:  before it actually gets tough.   :whatever: wimps. :-)