Mad_Machine76
Mad_Machine76's JournalI'm so tired
of "Johnny-come-lately" Republicans denouncing what most of us view as the extremism running rampant in today's GOP Tea Party. Huntsman was a little better than most of the Republican candidates during the primary but in the end he still endorsed practically the entire GOP Tea Party agenda in his futile attempt to win the GOP nomination, even muddying his previous unapologetic defense of his belief in global warming. Oh, yes, of course, he DID ultimately end up endorsing Mitt for POTUS.
It would be refreshing to (once again) see some elected Republicans trying to work with Democrats while they are still elected (in office) and able to actually DO something and make a difference instead of waiting to turn their barrels on them until they are out of office and, ultimately, powerless to really do anything, sometimes at even the expense of countless lives as what happened with Colin Powell and Iraq. Had Powell stood up to Bush and spoke out about the folly that Bush/Cheney were going to be getting us into in Iraq and the flimsy evidence they were using to get us to invade/occupy it, I believe that it might've slowed and/or stopped the rush to war that was proceeding apace at this time. He has bloodstains on his hand that he will never IMHO be able to get rid of by keeping his mouth shut and delivering evidence to the UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL that he KNEW to be unreliable and/or false.
My message to Republicans is this: If you don't like the extremist things your party is doing and putting in their platform planks, do something about it! Speak out! Vote against filibusters! Agree to work with Democrats on issues! Otherwise, if you keep your mouths shut, if you join them in their filibusters in the Senate, etc., then you are supporting/enabling the extremists!!!
Wow
Somebody (besides us) cared to notice- after a decade or more? Who did they think the Sunday morning shows were having on their programs? Representatives from the Sierra Club? Senator Bernie Sanders? Ralph Nader? Michael Moore? Hell, news programs everywhere always seem to have "Tea Party" people on their shows to comment on things even though they're not even their own political party. *smfh*
*ugh*
with friends like these.................
Wasn't the jobs estimate on this project overestimated? Nobody can wait for the EPA to finish their environmental review? The environmental consequences of the pipeline and the people whom reside around it will be there LONG after the influx of jobs (which are mostly temporary) are gone and, as we know, the oil and gas companies always seem to be having *problems* with their pipelines, refineries, etc. The pipeline will also have no discernible effect on gas prices as the oil won't be mandated to be sold here in the US unless, as another poster pointed out, we build a new refinery here and Congress makes it so (ha-ha). There *should* be nothing wrong with asking them to wait until the EPA finishes their review and determines whether or not the pipeline is going to be harmful to the environment. I know, of course, Republican Ferengi Alliance doesn't care one wit about the environment and would gut the Earth from the inside out if profit could be had but any self-respecting Democrat should know better IMHO.
It may be "popular" project but that doesn't make it good.
Couldn't agree more
The problem is that there will be a certain segment of the population whose lives have not significantly improved during the last 4 years and whom will somehow believe that that is President Obama's fault despite the actual complexities and nuances of the situation and will vote for somebody "different" thinking (hoping) that they will do a better job somehow- sort of like what happened in 2010. President Obama will have to work hard to show how everything he has done has benefited everybody in some way and how disastrous the policies that the GOP plans to implement under a R.MONEY "autopen" Presidency would be to the economic recovery and the well-being of middle class voters in general. I think that, given that the Republicans are not offering anything other than failed Bush economic policies (or worse), it should not be an incredibly hard case to make as long as most people still hold Bush accountable for the state of the economy that President Obama inherited. President Obama needs to also make the case that Republican obstructionism is largely to blame for more not getting more done in Congress, which shouldn't be too hard of a case to make either. I don't quite understand where the "magical thinking" that R.MONEY would be "better" for the economy comes from- though, I guess, the default assumption in our society is that businessmen are somehow better equipped to manage the economy than anybody else despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I see your point
*ugh* 
Hopefully, though, President Obama will be able to remind people that the Republicans are the ones whom will clearly be at fault here since they are breaking the debt they negotiated, supposedly in good faith to keep the govt going.
Man, I f*****g hate Republican Congresscritters right now!
R.MONEY!
Completely tasteless comment IMHO. So was Ann's assertion that it's his (Romney's) "turn" to be POTUS. This is the kind of "entitlement reform" that we REALLY need to have in this country IMHO.
and yet
they go on and on about Obama "not leading" or "leading from behind"?
Romney is Norquist's "auto-pen" candidate and it sounds like most Republicans understand that, if they control both the House and Senate, they will expect him to sign whatever they send to him, no questions asked. I do wonder what "little things" they would be willing to let him go his own way on. I can't imagine much.
He and the rest of his party created this Tea Party mess for themselves
the "old guard" GOPers are now getting wiped out by these reactionary upstarts one-by-one it seems.....
I might understand what you went through, Ann
if I had ever been living off a stock portfolio at any time in my life.
A LOT of things seem to have been covered up (or papered over)
during the Bush (mis-)administration. I imagine that it may be decades before we know the full extent of the damage that the Bush (mis-)administration inflicted on this country.
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