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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: CG6468 on May 17, 2012, 07:50:11 AM
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I don't THINK this has been previously posted.
The Most Important Election Ever
By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Saturday, April 28, 2012
Quite honestly, the only people I ever hear from who are dopier than liberals are those who identify themselves as conservatives and insist that Republicans and Democrats are identical.
Anyone who would suggest that there is no difference between Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner or Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, is one very dumb bunny. No difference between the likes of Henry Waxman, Al Franken and Charles Rangel and Darrel Issa, Peter King and Paul Ryan? No difference between Joe Biden and Dick Cheney? No difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? You have to wonder what madcap pharmacist is supplying these alleged conservatives with their stupidity pills.
How can anyone who takes the Second Amendment seriously insist there's no difference between the two parties when gun sales are booming, all thanks to such flame-throwing racists as Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and the Black Panthers? The good news is that income taxes on the gun industry have jumped 66% since Obama's election, and it's mainly due to increased sales, not Obama's counterproductive tax policies. It's ironic that the man who is most opposed to law-abiding citizens owning weapons not only selected Eric ("Operation Fast & Furious") Holder to be his attorney general, but has personally done more to hype American gun sales than any prior president.
Even though the mainstream media has done everything in its power to cover up or at least downplay this administration's scandals, even they couldn't conceal the Secret Service hanky-panky down in Colombia. But, on the plus side, it has served to put the Service in a different light. In the past, one had to worry that if you wrote or said something disrespectful of Obama, angry agents would show up at your front door. Now, if they show up, it's only 50-50 whether they've come to arrest you or because they heard you were throwing a party.
This IS the important election to top them all (http://patriotpost.us/opinion/burt-prelutsky/2012/04/28/the-most-important-election-ever/)
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No difference between Joe Biden and Dick Cheney? ...Now that is stupid.
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No difference between Joe Biden and Dick Cheney? ...Now that is stupid.
The entire democrat structure is stupid.
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Great article, except for one point.
Speaking for myself, I tend to lump ALL politicians in the same mold when they meet these criteria:
1. They're professional politicians
2. As politicians, they've been in D.C. or their state capitol or their local area longer than reasonable -- which tends to mean they're professionals
3. Their voting record (meaning attendance) is spotty or poor
When these things happen, politicians being politicians and all, they're far more likely to serve themselves and each other than their constituencies.
And this type of behavior isn't isolated to Democrats only. Republicans are just as likely to resort to cronyism and malfeasance as the Dems.
This, I believe, is the central point that most mean when they say, "Dems and Repubs are THE SAME!!!" What they mean is their behavior tends to run in similar patterns -- self-serving, self-protecting, and defensive, i.e., unwilling to make unpopular or politically incorrect stands on issues.
I believe this is why the U.S. Congress is, as a body, held in such contempt by many Americans.
Couple that with the pork barrel spending and other failures to even pass a damned budget, and there you go. It's not hard to see why that is.
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I agree with your summation, Eupher. That is exactly whey we need term limits!
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I agree with your summation, Eupher. That is exactly whey we need term limits!
Make that two number one.....make it so.