Sorry, GOP: Looks Like America's B*llsh*t Detector Just Went Off

[NorthCarolina]

Link: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011114509/sorry-gop-looks-americas-bllsht-detecter-just-went

By Richard (RJ) Eskow

It's great when we can disagree in a civilized way, but it's getting pretty hard to avoid the conclusion that the phrase "right-wing logic," as delivered by the GOP and mimicked by Mitt Romney, has become the mother of all oxymorons. They tell us corporations are people. But people? Not so much. That Right used that argument that in yesterday's elections, but it's starting to look like voters in swing states and the heart of Red America have had enough.

They love to preach the "corporate personhood" principle. IBM, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton: They're people! Why, they can even "speak"! Sure, they may be limited to the crude vocabulary of millions and billions, but you gotta admit: Come election time, they're fluent in it.

These corporations are endowed with freedom of speech, say Mitt and Friends, but employees of the same corporations aren't - especially when that speech involves forming a union. Follow the logic and the conclusion is inescapable: the Right believes that the company is a person but the people who work for it aren't.

Got that?

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[Scuba]

1. Got it! Excellent observation. Thanks.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Republicans are simply trying to even the playing field.

Pitting the individual against the corporation.

[Kurmudgeon]

3. Republicans are trying to even the playing field by bulldozing the little people out of the way.

[kestrel91316]

4. [phone]

[NorthCarolina]

5. The shame is that there are Democrats perfectly willing to assist them. nt