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- Mr. Hagel, thank you, thank you, for your courage in speaking out, for being a conscience in a party that has lost its conscience.
Take back the party from these neocons! From these phony Christians! And bring us back into sanity again! - Reply to this comment
- clemenhagen1,
Whatever the Republicans might be today they are traditionally the party of civil rights.
The first voting rights act, the first proposal of equal rights for women, the first anti-lynching law, the first just about everything that had to do with equal rights and the protection of racial minorities and women was a Republican initiative.
I'm from Texas. The Republican Party of Texas was founded by a group of African Americans. Not a single white in the bunch. Today the party is dominated by lily white, goose stepping neo-Nazis.
I was in the civil rights movement. Every redneck sheriff that turned the dogs loose and threw me in jail, every Klansmen who threatened to kill me was a Democrat. Today, most of those same scum or there children, are Republicans.
Its the indisputable fact that the Republicans led the way on civil rights for more than a century after their founding that makes the present state of the party so appalling.
Which is why, after having served as a Republican city chairman and a member of the Republican state committee that I left the party. But not for the Democrats who are every bit as bad as the Republicans (tho on different issues) but for the Libertarians. - Reply to this comment
- If we had a coup, it started when Tom DeLay sent his "Stop the Count!" flunkies down to Florida to storm the building where they were trying to determine who won the election.
It finished with the Supreme court installing our Deluded Leader on a 5 to 4 vote. - Reply to this comment
- Classic conservative spin, playing the Civil Rights Act of 64 card, as if Republicans were the champions of civil rights! Let's briefly review the history, shall we. When LBJ bullied the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act through congress, his old buddy and political adversary Everitt Dirkson prophesized the result: it'll cost you the South. Initially them southern boys salved their anger by supporting George Wallace and the modern day Dixiecrats. When that didn't work they found God in the form of Reagan, and the bigots flowed to the Republican Party like bees to the nectar. The Republicans today stand firmly as the Party of God, Guns, ***, and the Great Unwashed Inbred South. Nice try spinning your revisionist history, but please try passing the Republicans off as civil rights leaders somewhere else.
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- Getserious1 -
Get serious indeed. What we have is a sliding scale of news organizations ranging from the left all the way to the right. This is and always was inevitable. It is why Fox News has its success and why CBS news will never go away.
People watch the news that speak to them and their beliefs. It bolsters and reinforces their sense of self. W eput such a high value on the press in this country when it is clear that we should not. They are less reporters of facts and more holders of mirrors.
So what does it mean? Media and the news are more of a general haze of reality than hardnosed facts and evidence. Its too complex for the average schmo to unravel the web - so we turn to the agency that seems to unravel it for us in the way most sensible to us - that is the one that fits our paradigm of how the world operates. - Reply to this comment
- Hagel said, "I want every member of the United States Senate to have to take a position on this," Hagel said. "We have kids dying every day... I think, for whatever reason, the advice he got was not very solid...It is wrong to put American troops in the middle of a sectarian civil war."
I doubt it was the advice GBW was given. More likely GWB was told the opposite and he decided to go his own way as always. - Reply to this comment
- Some where along the way there must have been a coup and we all missed it.
Posted by mt5937 at 10:31 AM : Jan 22, 2007
Yes, we missed the fact that so-called "lobbying" is legal and has become an institutionalized form of influencing our government in ways which leave normal Americans catching their breath. AIPAC tells our elected officials the Palestinians dont't exist, or are terrorists, etc. If want to get re-elected shut-up (but in a nice way).
The tink tanks work away on neocon theories in the interest of big capitalist foundations who finance them in order to foward their commercial interest; "small government" so they can get away with 5 bucks/hr wages, and control world oil.
All this happening before our eyes - I think the only guy who told the truth was Ross Perot when he talked about the "fellas in washington wearing $1000 crocadile shoes".
If this isn't the mother of all American wake-up calls, and we don't respond - it's definately over for "We the people". - Reply to this comment
- Hagel is no true Repulican anyway. He sounds more East Coast Democrat than anything else. I persaonlly can't wait until the 60's generation is not a factor anymore.
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- Both parties and the media need to be taken out and shot.
Neither party represents my interests even in a marginal way. And as a 30 year veteran of the media, what passes for journalism today is an absolute disgrace.
Some where along the way there must have been a coup and we all missed it. - Reply to this comment
- "I wonder how all this sharing of like-minded opinions will play out on the national level."
Posted by karlimhof
It won't play out at all if the people that matter, your elected officials, are:
1- not made aware of their constituent's opinions.
2- not held accountable for their vote..
That means, if you have an opinion about a subject, drop an email to your Senators and Congressperson. If his/her thinking is different than yours, he/she may still vote your view IF he/she gets enough notices from his/her constituents...
Sad part is... too many would rather rant here and never let their elected officials know their opinions.. - Reply to this comment
