Comments on: GOP Political Suicide?

By: Rick Bentley

Rick Bentley — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:33:41 +0000

Elena I used to see the Democratic Party in line with what you stated.

After watching them, post-Clinton, on a number of topics, I don’t feel that way anymore. Not caring about illegal immigration lowering wages and creating greater wage disparity, for the sake of racial politics. Siting and watching while we fragment further towards a society of haves and a society of have-nots, as long as the have-nots remain convionced to pull the lever for them. Repeatedly just moving to take raw money from the wealthy and middle-class to give to the poor – already 47% of people pay no Federal taxes, something is seriously broken here. Colluding with drug companies to let them raise prices ad infinitum without the balance that drug reimportation would provide. Sitting and play-acting while their own policies hurt lower and middle class Americans. Feeding everybody hogwash – “we can’t afford not to do this bailout/health care giveaway/whatever the next big thing is”.

I watched Nancy Pelosi on Charlie Rose yesterday. She is a fine example of an ideologue with only a vague grasp on what is really going on in the world.

By: Elena

Elena — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:32:21 +0000

Let me add, right now, the democrats aren’t impressing me either BTW. IF the Democrats behaved as I believe they should, I might find myself putting a big fat D by my name, however, there are too many times, I can’t distinguish between the two.

By: Elena

Elena — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:30:03 +0000

Tito,
I can’t imagine finding the time to chit chat politics with you, as interesting as that would be mind you. So I guess we will just have to call it a draw. I wish you the best, I truly do.

By: Elena

Elena — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:28:30 +0000

Slow,
The Democratic Party stands for equal opportunity in my mind. It believes that the “each man for himself” mentality is not how a great civilized society is built. The Democrats believe that government has a place in providing a foundation for its people. There is definately a John Locke belief system, wherein there is a “social contract” between the people and their government. To believe that corporations will behave benevolently and that pure capitalism without regualtion by the government is a sustainable economic paradigm is not reality based. The most recent events with the stock market and banking crisis has proven that. Throw in the greed of health care insurance companies and energy corporations, it’s a perfect trifecta of greed.

On a side not, I just received my renewal for the family insurance policy. Our ER visit copay just doubled! Something is definately broken and it isn’t my arm, thank G-d, I can only imagine how the insurance company would try and screw me out of that reimbursement!

By: Elena

Elena — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:21:01 +0000

The flyer Fitz sent out depicted Hispanic men in a horrible prejudicial light, alluding to illegal immigration as only a “south of the border” issue.

By: Elena

Elena — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:19:40 +0000

Colgan folded under the pressure. I was disappointed. No one is FOR illegal immigration, but once again, if you don’t stand up against the extreme rhetoric directed at Hispanics then you condone it, to me, it just is that simple. Colgan could have done both, taken a stand against illegal immigration and a broken immigration system AND spoken out against the tide of hate, he chose not to.

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By: Firedancer

Firedancer — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:26:12 +0000

So Tito, are you comfortable with the Republican philosophy evident on the OTHER blog, i.e. bvbl? Are those your people? Just curious.

By: Moon-howler

Moon-howler — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:54:53 +0000

I don’t think the Democrats used immigration as an issue in that election. If I substituted Democrats everyone would laugh and ask me to name one.

By: Rick Bentley

Rick Bentley — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:52:32 +0000

I wish i had a scan of that flyer. I did save one for my archives. big oversized flyer all about the singular issue of illegal immigration and how Charles Colgan was going to work against it. Sent to every mail box I assume, even to the illegal aliens next door to me. Thanks CC for helping to send them the message that they were not welcome. I’m sure many an illegal family saw that flyer, would that they looked at it closely enough to understand that that was the DEMOCRATIC candidate taking the time to mail a hard-line position out in big bold letters.