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Forget Family Values
The pundits already have. Bipartisan equivocation. Steelering the election. Will the real Ed Morrow please stand up? Plus more.
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BIPARTISAN LIBERAL PROGRESSIVISM
Re: Ryan L. Cole's
The Era of Bad Feelings:
Have you ever noticed that "bipartisanship" always -- always! -- means "doing what the Democrats want?"
I remember, back in 2004 after George W. Bush won his second term by a large margin, seeing a prominent Democratic commentator go through a lengthy list of "here's what President Bush has to do to win Democratic support." I don't remember every detail, but every point mentioned seemed to be things I took as having been explicitly repudiated by the election results.
I didn't see any "here's what President Obama has to do to win Republican support" laundry list this time around. What has been repudiated now?
I think I'd be happier -- and probably the nation would be better
off -- if, this time around, the Republicans took issue with the
Democrat agenda and picked fights. There's been too much
"getting along" already.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida
Late last Wednesday the 25-year-old Obamaniac in the next office bounded into my office, something he never does, to gloat. This is the man-child who stopped discussing the election in July when my response to his challenge "Why don't you like Obama?" was "I lived through Carter and this has the exact same feel."
Last Wednesday, I let him revel without response; just watching until he stopped and noted that he was goading me without effect. "Your guy won. Now it is time for you folks to shut up and put up. We'll be watching." He left.
One relief of this outcome is that the legions of
whiners, criers and ninnies must now be quiet and must back up
their years and years of nattering. We needn't marinate
in vitriol as they have, but (and this has been hard for D.C.
Republicans) we must always remember that we do not need to do
their work.
-- Reid Bogie
Waterbury, Connecticut
WILL THERE BE ANOTHER ELECTION IN 4 YEARS?
Re: Daniel Allott's
The Most Important Election Since...:
"So why are we regularly told that the next election will inevitably be looked back upon as the hinge of American -- and perhaps world -- history? It's the same reason why a football player will tell reporters that his next game is the most important ever, even if he played in the Super Bowl the year before."
Mr. Allott's article brings to mind Duane Thomas, one-time running back for the Dallas Cowboys.
Thomas was generally taciturn, no doubt due to the idiotic
questions of the Moron Media of his day. When asked how it felt
to be playing in the ultimate game, Thomas wondered aloud if
there would be another Super Bowl next year.
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
PLAYING GAMES WITH THE ELECTION
Re: Jeremy Lott's Redskinned
Alive:
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Rocco| 11.11.08 @ 12:14PM
RE: A.C. Santore's letter above.
If I am not mistaken, I think I read a few days ago that the Republican party reaffirmed its rules on primaries for 2012. That may or may not be true; I also understand that the individual states set the rules for primary elections. Nonetheless, if that or some combination thereof is true, then it confirms the moniker "stupid party" for the GOP. Isn't insanity defined as doing the same thing again and again, and expecting a different outcome?
Mr. Elsasser: Right on the money concerning the Republicans' loss of conviction on core beliefs.
David Govett| 11.11.08 @ 12:17PM
As for "Democrats are compelled to follow Republicans with pooper-scoopers," let it be remembered that it was Pelosi-led Democrats who led Congress these past two years. What Congress taxes, it get less of; what is subsidizes, it gets more of. (The President is little more than an economic cheerleader.)
Rocco| 11.11.08 @ 12:29PM
Now on which planet does M. Delphia Block live? There's proof of the efficacy of our public education system - lack of historical perspective, ignorance of history. Citing NPR's "Fresh Air" (anything but) was a dead giveaway. The credit problem didn't happen overnight - it was a long term consequence of Carter's CRA program, aided and abetted by the Clinton administration's pressure on the financial system to increase home ownership. Any banker will tell you of pressure to overlook credit standards because of government pressure to increase lending. Standards were thrown out the window. Any financial institution cannot long survive once that happens. Sooner or later the house of cards will collapse. The Republicans, on paper, did have control of Congress, but in reality could not pass reform legislation into the 2000's when it became clear (McCain's warning in 2005) that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were on the way to collapse. Contrast that with Maxine Waters' moronic comment on the "outstanding leadership" of Franklin Raines. I am not a Republican, and damn sure not a Democrat, but I will give credit where it is due. Republicans did sound the warning, but corrupt Democrats like Dodd, Frank, and even the Redeemer himself blocked reform and were recipients of the largess of those two agencies.
Geez, where do these ignoramuses come from?
Rocco| 11.11.08 @ 12:59PM
Also, the so-called Savings & Loan debacle cited by Block had its genesis in the 1970's due to inflation, migration of savings from low-rate long term savings deposits to higher rate money funds, vs. lower rate long term mortgages. S&L;'s were funding 6% mortgages with 10% short term deposits. At the time, securitization of mortgages was not common. So, over time, the net worth of these institutions was eroded. By 1981, most of the country's nearly 4,000 S&L;'s lost money. And by the way, didn't Reagan enter office in 1981? The issue is not lack of regulation overall, it was the government's mismanagement of the economy which caused the S&L;crisis, and government dictates on the financial services industry which has caused the current crisis - Housing Sec. Cuomo, Dodd, Frank et al. at the helm.
But, I guess facts don't matter much with these Koolaid-drinking idiots on the left.
Ms. Know| 11.15.08 @ 8:06PM
You would think values would play a role in how we pick those who will lead us, but somehow they went out the door, and the left-wing illuminati came on it.