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Perfectly valid questions, FW!
But after the Florida Democrats threw out all the Republican absentee ballots from overseas military personnel in 2000, I'd be real careful about the first question.
The second question applies to Democrats - or, more accurately, to liberals - as well, as witnessed by the Kelo injustice. Another angle on it: Democrat hostility to big business costs lots of us little guys our jobs.
The third question is certainly applicable to Republicans, at least the sorry lot we have in Congress this term. I am completely bewildered by them. Free spending has always been the Democrats' speciality, and these guys bought into it lock, stock and barrell. (Indeed, lack of spending discipline is one of my issue with the President as well.) My only guess is that they wanted to get along with the Democrats, so they decided to play the Democrats' game of spending money like drunken sailors with them.
Your last question hits both parties. It applies to crooks on either side of the aisle in Congress, and to crooks of either political persuasion. Go look at the list of Democrats on the take from Abramoff at http://www.gopsenators.com/hottopics/glasshouses_senate.aspx, or the record of Bubba's scandals at http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/Clinton_Scandals.shtml. Nixon was a crook, so was Bubba.
posted by
WriterofLight
on January 19, 2006 at 6:05 PM
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I agree with your views regarding blacks & Democrats ...
however, which party gathers votes by excluding large segments of the population? Which party represents big business but says it's on the side of the little guy? Which party purports to represent the fiscally cautious, yet runs up massive deficiets? Which party pledges an allegiance to a strict interpretation of the Constitution, yet feels it is above the law?
The sword cuts both ways!
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fwmystic
on January 18, 2006 at 2:43 PM
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Allow me to clarify:
Byrd is the former Klansman. The reference to Kennedy was to wake him up from his stupor so that he can inveigh against the presenceof a former Klansman in the Senate, which he would gladly do had he a shred of integrity after his tirades against Judge Alito and the CAP group.
posted by
WriterofLight
on January 17, 2006 at 6:34 PM
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And it's not the first time.......
Aired on CNN November 18, 2004 - 09:00 ET
O'BRIEN: Another thing we were talking about in the news today, of course, is the House Republicans changing the rules to essentially inoculate Tom DeLay if, indeed, he is indicted.
No, don't laugh before I finish my question here. What do you make of that this morning? We're hearing lots from -- from Capitol Hill about this.
CLINTON: Well, I mean, what can I say? It's just so typical. I mean they're running the House of Representatives like a fiefdom with Tom DeLay as, you know, in charge of the plantation.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 17, 2006 at 6:34 PM
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Can you imagine the outcry if Rush Limbaugh used the
P-word in a situation like this. Also, I am not sure that Ted Kennedy was a member of the KKK. That honor might fall to Robert "Sheets" Byrd. I am just thinking I know this though. I might be wrong.
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sarooster
on January 17, 2006 at 6:25 PM
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