"the old elephant had become a rogue"
In all last night's excitement over flicking shafts, rovings, hedgehogs and voles, you might have missed my link to Christopher Buckley's blog entry on"The Conservative Case for Obama." Buckley's good, of course, but what I find particularly illuminating and educational are the blog comment responses of other disillusioned Republicans -
[T]hese are tumultuous times. We are using an outdated system of government which was supposedly created to encourage a free market using "recent" laws created 20 years past. They have failed miserably. The ability for greed in the financial market system gives us pause to remember the reasons for the Sherman Anti-Trust legislation and The Clayton Act.
Regulation is not more government; it is merely righting a wrong that is plaguing our great country. You said "But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren't going to get us out of this pit we've dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money..." Exactly what is "leftist" now? I was a Gerald Ford/Howard Baker of Tennessee Republican. I was "moderate. Now it would seem I am called a "leftist." My views haven't changed. My former party has. McCain and his millions from second wife Cindy, his idiot VP pick Palin with her unethical idiotic behavior, don't have a clue about is happening in the real world today. A war that was shadily thrust upon us from greed and megalomania has drained this country dry. The "Wealth of Nations" theory from the 1780's isn't working in 2008. More tax breaks to the %1 percent who own %95 of our countries' wealth will not bring the rain trickling down upon the %99 who so desperately need it. Let the Republicans know they must re-think what
they consider socialist. They need to get religion out of politics, and extremist philosophies should be abandoned. Those right wingers have earned their new name, "neocon" suits them.
It was painful to bring the donkey into my stable. I had to turn out the old elephant, he had become a rogue. Let us pray Senator Obama (who will NOT raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 per year) will keep his judgment sound, and make changes in our country, reflecting a world in evolution from its many new components, including a "simple" little device called the "PC."
Meanwhile, everyone in my family is sending round the link to Les Misbarack - which is pretty funny (the sending, not the link - it is, indeed, brilliant), considering we're all big classic musical fans, but I don't think any of us have actually seen Les Mis....). I especially like the Palin impersonator as Mme. Thenardier - still Just Plain Folksy, even in Cockney: "...Never know your luck /When there's a free for all, /Here a little pinch, /There a little touch, /Most of them are goners /So they won't miss much!"
Eeek.
What one of my friends says she finds the most scarey about the New Republicans is the way they're using Palin (and of course W)'s phony and attractive "we're just regular folks like you" shticks to enlist the working class in voting for policies that are patently against their own interests.
Never know your luck when there's a free-for-all.
[T]hese are tumultuous times. We are using an outdated system of government which was supposedly created to encourage a free market using "recent" laws created 20 years past. They have failed miserably. The ability for greed in the financial market system gives us pause to remember the reasons for the Sherman Anti-Trust legislation and The Clayton Act.
Regulation is not more government; it is merely righting a wrong that is plaguing our great country. You said "But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren't going to get us out of this pit we've dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money..." Exactly what is "leftist" now? I was a Gerald Ford/Howard Baker of Tennessee Republican. I was "moderate. Now it would seem I am called a "leftist." My views haven't changed. My former party has. McCain and his millions from second wife Cindy, his idiot VP pick Palin with her unethical idiotic behavior, don't have a clue about is happening in the real world today. A war that was shadily thrust upon us from greed and megalomania has drained this country dry. The "Wealth of Nations" theory from the 1780's isn't working in 2008. More tax breaks to the %1 percent who own %95 of our countries' wealth will not bring the rain trickling down upon the %99 who so desperately need it. Let the Republicans know they must re-think what
they consider socialist. They need to get religion out of politics, and extremist philosophies should be abandoned. Those right wingers have earned their new name, "neocon" suits them.
It was painful to bring the donkey into my stable. I had to turn out the old elephant, he had become a rogue. Let us pray Senator Obama (who will NOT raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 per year) will keep his judgment sound, and make changes in our country, reflecting a world in evolution from its many new components, including a "simple" little device called the "PC."
Meanwhile, everyone in my family is sending round the link to Les Misbarack - which is pretty funny (the sending, not the link - it is, indeed, brilliant), considering we're all big classic musical fans, but I don't think any of us have actually seen Les Mis....). I especially like the Palin impersonator as Mme. Thenardier - still Just Plain Folksy, even in Cockney: "...Never know your luck /When there's a free for all, /Here a little pinch, /There a little touch, /Most of them are goners /So they won't miss much!"
Eeek.
What one of my friends says she finds the most scarey about the New Republicans is the way they're using Palin (and of course W)'s phony and attractive "we're just regular folks like you" shticks to enlist the working class in voting for policies that are patently against their own interests.
Never know your luck when there's a free-for-all.