What is the right-wing so upset about?
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2012 Mar 29, 10:23am 3,744 views 8 comments
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MisdemeanorRebel
2012 Mar 29, 10:47am
It's often said that Reagan wouldn't be allowed in Today's GOP--certainly wouldn't have become President. But Moynihan said it best, "Richard Nixon was our last liberal President".
Nixon would be a liberal backbencher in the Democratic Party of today.
freak80
2012 Mar 29, 3:23pm
A black Socialist Marxist Muslim fascist president who hangs out with Bill Ayers and was born in Kenya.
And I heard his middle name is Hussein!
Tenpoundbass
2012 Mar 29, 11:37pm
HMMMM Was it a Republican controlled Senate that just voted to keep giving subsidies and tax breaks to the Oil companies.
I'm confused it's hard to keep track of Who's Hu these days.
Tenpoundbass
2012 Mar 29, 11:39pm
I'm confused Is it the Republicans that calls everyone else in the country "Stupid" because they don't vote their cause. Even though those causes time and time again prove to be a scam and disastrous?
Now before you ask me to list examples, just name some and I'll say "Yeah that ONE!".
CL
2012 Mar 30, 4:54am
In any case, IDEOLOGICALLY, the subsidies are what the right wants to maintain, not the liberal left. We lose again.
I'm not arguing that the Democrats aren't complicit often times; they are. It's a question of whether or not the right wing:
1) Knows what they believe
2) Knows if the GOP delivers on it
3) Will ever be happy with any victory?
Conversely, what are the liberal victories?
One could somewhat count Medicare Part D, the largest entitlement expansion in history. Of course, we would have been forced to fund it, but still---an expansion of Medicare could be considered a moderate liberal victory. (I suspect this was Bush's attempt to mimic Clinton's triangulation).
So, name those liberal victories!!!
CL
2012 Mar 30, 4:56am
HMMMM Was it a Republican controlled Senate that just voted to keep giving subsidies and tax breaks to the Oil companies.
I'm confused it's hard to keep track of Who's Hu these days.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/obama-energy-tax-idUSL2E8ET5KJ20120329
"The Senate bill needed 60 votes to clear a procedural hurdle, but as widely predicted, it failed on a vote of 51-47, mainly along party lines."
In any case, IDEOLOGICALLY, the subsidies are what the right wants to maintain, not the liberal left. We lose again
What are these subsidies you speak of.. do you have a list ?
What money does the govt give out or grant to the oil industry ?
Let's list major policy victories and attribute them to a philosophically "left" or "right" philosophy. I can't name many that can be considered "liberal/left" in the past several decades.
Unions: decimated, and often taken for granted by the Democrats.
Score: RIGHT VICTORY
Economics:
Low-regulation; general laissez-faire system; repeal or dismantle of regulatory policies; Unbridled Wall Street favoritism; 401Ks; corporate dominance; free-trade agreements; low-minimum wage; globalization; bankruptcy "reform"
Score: RIGHT VICTORY
Military:
Muscular foreign policy; seemingly limitless cash for Defense contractors; Jingoism; Prisons-for-profit; Corporate Prisons;
Score: RIGHT VICTORY
Immigration: General immigrant bashing environment; deportations; H1B Visas; No calls for amnesty
Score: RIGHT VICTORY
It's often said that Reagan wouldn't be allowed in Today's GOP--certainly wouldn't have become President. But Moynihan said it best, "Richard Nixon was our last liberal President".
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