Part I – Looming disaster and how we got here The Tea Party Movement is neither a movement nor has it anything to do with the traditions of freedom represented by the American Revolution. It is in fact, ironically, about the impulse of an uneducated and badly led society to permit the restriction of its [...]
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Expansion, Not Austerity
July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Human Rights, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with tax cuts for the rich, while continuing Republican spending and starting two wars. Of course, it is an absurd idea that we must all gather in hushed tones around former Reagan-Republican [...]
Tags: Corporatism·neocon·Neocons·obstruction of unemployment benefits·Scott Brown·the Neocon Party·the Peterson-Pew Commission·unemployment benefits
Profile of a Neoconservative: How Neocons Think and Vote.
March 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · jobs, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
Peter Roskam was elected in 2006 to fill the seat of Rep. Henry Hyde, who retired and died. Roskam is a typical Neoconservative Republican…e.g., a Neocon. He had been a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives. He was in favor of cutting taxes. (Not very controversial.) He was in favor of preventing women [...]
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Nazis and Neoconservatives…Are There Valid Comparisons?
January 11th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics, wars and militarism
For some time now, we have seen comparisons between various groups, various individuals and the Nazis. The comparisons are almost always totally imperfect. First of all, Nazis were murderers. There are no murderers among contemporary politicians unless you consider it an act of murder to start a war on false premises, a war that kills [...]
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Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.
December 19th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Shame on the Neoconservatives, as they call themselves. They want to be called “Republicans.” But we can’t really call them Republicans, can we? They are not traditional Republicans. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were more or less traditional Republicans. Neoconservatives are more like the old Dixiecrats. In fact the manic racist Strom Thurmond [...]
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What’s in a Name? Republicans Are Now the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party
October 31st, 2009 · Comments Off · General, Health Care, Media, Politics
Shakespeare and the current Republican Party do not exactly fit within the same imagery. We do not see Sarah Palin quoting Shakespeare, something that might not surprise us to hear from either the President or the Vice President. The point is that we have long, long since reduced our expectations of erudition or even fiscally [...]
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Dick Cheney and Failure On the Right
September 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Politics
Someone made an interesting and valid point on television recently…a significant event in itself. In one brief segment between pharmaceutical commercials for sexual member enhancement on Sunday morning, someone said–it doesn’t matter who because they are all dipping into the same well of nonsense–that we now have a partisan Democracy. That is to say, we [...]
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