clarence swinney (364 posts) Mon Sep-28-09 01:02 PM
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HOW IDENTIFY A CONSERVATIVE
NOTE: THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE 8 YEARS OF BUSH II AND NEO-CON DISASTERS --IMAGINE THAT HORRID LIST
HOW TO IDENTIFY A CONSERVATIVE
Love to Spend & Borrow
Hate to pay your way
Praise two presidents who, over 12 years, had an average GDP growth of 2.6%.
Love gutless Marine and Admiral who pled the Fifth to avoid conviction for crimes.
Love 137 who were charged with crimes over 8 years of plunder the treasury.
-----------------YOU ARE A CONSERVATIVE IF YOU CLAIM THESE------------
# 1--Debt Creation—equivalent of 600 years worth in 12 years.
# 1--Deficit Creation—400 years worth in 8 years
# 1--Lowest GDP Growth, over a 12 years period, since WWII.
# 1--In number of times (258) a President and Admiral testified under oath “I don’t rememberâ€.
# 1--Bank Failures—President smiling and chanting “No Pain –No Gainâ€.
# 1--Personal Bankruptcies -President smiling and chanting “No Pain-No Gainâ€
# 1--Business Bankruptcies-President smiling and chanting “No Pain-No Gainâ€
# 1--Farm Foreclosures
# 1--Looting of S & Ls after a President said –“Folks, I think we just hit the jackpot.†The Vaults are unguarded come and get it. They did. 140 Billion charge to taxpayers.
# 1--Total bankruptcies
# 1--Stagnating median incomes
# 1--60% Tax Cut to Rich
# 1--In having a President with Alzheimer’s. No pain-No gain.
# 1--In having a President who was Produced-Directed-and Protected like a Grade B actor in a Role.
# 1--In having a President who lied, over and over, about his wife’s age. Who cared?
# 1--In having the first President to have had a Shotgun Wedding.
# 1—In having a President who shacked up with love of his life while his wife was in the hospital delivering their child.
# 1--To have a President who lied about having a close-knit family.
# 1--To have a President guided in his decisions by the Stars
# 1--In having a President who preached religious values but never had membership in a church and rarely attended worship services and was never known to pray
# 1--In having a President who called a lying, stealing, wife abusing psychotic Marine a “Hero†then a “Liarâ€.
# 1--In having a President who rarely used the word “ethics†during 16 years in Government.
# 1--In losing 241 Marines from a stupid decision to shell civilian villages.
# 1--In claiming a “Great Victory†after an attack on a small Island with 88,000 inhabitants armed with .22 rifles and pea shooters.
# 1--In claiming as a “Great Victory†and proclaiming “we have finally killed the Vietnam Syndrome†and “America Stands Tall Againâ€. What would he have said had we conquered Haw River N C. Greatest victory since WWII?
# 1--In pushing a “disinformation campaign†against a very small nation then bombing that nation which resulted in a revenge bombing of Pan Am 103 killing 270 Civilians.
Then, bragging how he had “defeated Terrorismâ€. Till Bush resurrected it.
# 1--In shooting down an airliner and killing 290 civilians. OOPS! Goof. Sorry Iran.
# 1--In having a 20% Prime Interest Rate smiling and proclaiming “No Pain-No Gainâ€.
# 1--In having the highest “real†Interest Rates since WWII.
# 1--In having 15% Home Loan Interest Rates and smiling-No Pain-No Gain.
# 1--in having 16% college loan interest rate
# 1--In killing the Home Construction Business by allowing Raids on S & L’s to use money for golf course, resorts, business building etc. where in the past the primary purpose was to build homes in local communities.
# 1--In having 10.8 % unemployment while smiling. No Pain-No Gain. Highest rate since great depression.
# 1--In having a recession in one-third of twelve years.
# 1—In scandals. Every Major Scandal in 20th Century was on a Republican Administration unless you want to call ML major.
----------------------YOU ARE A GREAT CONSERVATIVE IF----------
You don’t like children (screw them they don’t vote)
You don’t like the poor (screw them they don’t vote)
You don’t like the elderly (screw them they are unproductive and wasteful)
You don’t like the infirmed elderly (screw then they don’t vote)
You don’t like students ( keep them stupid so they will vote Republican)
You hate unions
You don’t like minorities ( screw them not enough vote)
You don’t like legal immigrants ( screw them they don’t vote)
You love profiteering from public service
You love the very wealthy and cannot do enough for them
You worship big business
You love to tear down years of Progress and smile as you slash and burn yelling “No Pain-No gainâ€.
You love, with a passion, the opportunity to transfer wealth from hard working middle class to those who will never spend their wealth but just keep yelling â€More-More-More-give us more and we will never be satisfied until we are like Haiti where 5% own 95 % of the wealth.
You love to use the whip of punishment instead of the effort to change and save from sin.
You love the threat of War which allows you the opportunity to send more wealth to big corporations and the rich.
You like, admire, and almost worship that which 75% of Americans detest as mean and cruel--Your God-Newtnut
You love all types of killing guns
You love executions
You love to steal elections
You were against WWII Draft
You hate Medicare (but love to use it)
You hate Social Security (but love to get it)
You hate Medicaid
You love world’s largest rich man’s gambling casino-Wall Street
You love to kill Mommie’s by denying abortion that will save her life
Want a Deep Recession then take a chance with Republicans in total control for their history is that---ALL depressions—all “significant†recessions have been under a Republican Administration in the Twentieth Century.
Addendeum10-08-O9
20 years of Conservatism—Reagan-Bush I-Bush II and we have been in a Recession in 7 of 20 years or in 35 percent of the years.
---unbiased, impartial, objective political historian--
cswinney2@triad.rr.com
notesdev (1000+ posts) Mon Sep-28-09 01:08 PM
Response to Original message
1. I got a simpler formula
a conservative is someone who defends the status quo.
Stick to this definition - its actual, technical definition - and "conservative" and "liberal" break out in very interesting ways.
rfranklin (1000+ posts) Mon Sep-28-09 01:13 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. Actually they hate the status quo....
They want to go back in time. They are convinced that the days of slavery and barefoot and pregnant women were the greatest times ever.
...
---unbiased, impartial, objective political historian--
The funniest bit is that they actually believe that enough to use it as a signature line.
Cunservativz eet baybees an drinck streno becuz we bee bad.
# 1--In shooting down an airliner and killing 290 civilians. OOPS! Goof. Sorry Iran.
# 1--In having a 20% Prime Interest Rate smiling and proclaiming “No Pain-No Gainâ€.
# 1--In having the highest “real†Interest Rates since WWII.
# 1--In having 15% Home Loan Interest Rates and smiling-No Pain-No Gain.
# 1--in having 16% college loan interest rate
# 1--In killing the Home Construction Business by allowing Raids on S & L’s to use money for golf course, resorts, business building etc. where in the past the primary purpose was to build homes in local communities.
# 1--In having 10.8 % unemployment while smiling. No Pain-No Gain. Highest rate since great depression.
# 1--In having a recession in one-third of twelve years.
# 1—In scandals. Every Major Scandal in 20th Century was on a Republican Administration unless you want to call ML major.
Walter Rayford Tucker - Democrat - Mayor of Compton, California from 1991 to 1992; U.S. Representative from California from 1993 to 1995. Sentenced to 27 months in prison for extortion and tax evasion.
William McCuen - Democrat - Secretary of State of Arkansas from 1985 to 1995. Admitted accepting kickbacks from two supporters he gave jobs, and not paying taxes on the money. Admitted to conspiring with a political consultant to split $53,560 embezzled from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted on corruption charges. Pleaded guilty to felony counts tax evasion and accepting a kickback. Sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Walter Fauntroy - Democrat - Delegate to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991. Charged in federal court with making false statements on financial disclosure forms. Pleaded guilty to one felony count and sentenced to probation.
Carroll Hubbard, Jr. - Democrat - Kentucky State Senate from 1968 to 1975 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1975 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Elections Commission and to theft of government property; sentenced to three years in prison.
Joseph Kolter - Democrat - member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1969 to 1982 and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1993. Indicted by a Federal grand jury on five felony charges of embezzlement at the U.S. House post office. Pleaded guilty.
Webster Hubbell - Democrat - Chief Justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court in 1983. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges - sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Nicholas Mavroules - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and accepting gratuities while in office.
Carl Christopher Perkins - Democrat - Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1981 to 1984 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1985 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud in connection with the House banking scandal. Perkins wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000. Pleaded guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal Election Commission and false financial disclosure reports. Sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Richard Hanna - Democrat - U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1974. Received payments of about $200,000 from a Korean businessman in what became known as the "Koreagate" influence buying scandal. Pleaded guilty and sentenced to federal prison.
Angelo Errichetti - Democrat - New Jersey State Senator was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $40,000 for his involvement in Abscam.
Daniel Baugh Brewster - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Maryland. Indicted on charges of accepting illegal gratuity while in Senate.
Thomas Joseph Dodd - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Censured by the Senate for financial improprieties, having diverted $116,000 in campaign and testimonial funds to his own use
Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. - Democrat - Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky. Convicted of vote fraud in federal court in connection with ballot-box stuffing. Served five months in prison.
Jerry Springer - Democrat - Resigned from Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after admitting to paying a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police raid on a massage parlor.
Guy Hamilton Jones, Sr. - Democrat -Arkansas State Senate. Convicted on federal tax charges and expelled from the Arkansas Senate.
Daniel Flood - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1945 to 1947, 1949 to 1953 and 1955 to 1980. Pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge involving payoffs and sentenced to probation.
Otto Kerner, Jr - Democrat - Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968. While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of over $300,000 in a stock deal. Convicted on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and related charges. Sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $50,000.
George Crockett, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Michigan. Served four months in federal prison for contempt of court following his defense of a Communist leader on trial for advocating the overthrow of the government.
Cornelius Edward Gallagher - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1959 to 1973. Indicted on federal charges of income tax evasion, conspiracy, and perjury
Mark B. Jimenez - Democrat fundraiser - sentenced to 27 months in prison on charges of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit election financing offenses.
Bobby Lee Rush - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Illinois. As a Black Panther, spent six months in prison on a weapons charge.
Bolley ''Bo'' Johnson - Democrat - Former Florida House Speaker - received a two-year term for tax evasion.
Roger L. Green - Democrat - Brooklyn Democrat Assemblyman. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for accepting travel reimbursement for trips he did not pay for and was sentenced to fines and probation.
Gloria Davis - Democrat - Bronx assemblywoman. Pleaded guilty to second-degree bribe-taking.
The above information was compiled from pure, knowledge, various news articles and
http://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html
Looks a lot to me like Luther's 95 theses. Shall we get together and go nail these on the front door of the Capitol Building?(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TkKZZyzUvio/SO7s32thwcI/AAAAAAAABoI/uB40sbGogS0/s400/Revelation+3,+1-6+Sardes.jpg)