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valerief

(53,235 posts)
3. This explains them best.
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 01:49 PM
Sep 2012

Homer Simpson:
Wow, Mr. Burns, you're the richest man in the world! You own everything!

Mr. Burns:
Ah, yes, but I'd give it all away to have just a little bit more.

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
4. They get away with stuff because the media is too timid to call them on it /nt
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 01:50 PM
Sep 2012

It has been happening for decades. If only the media would grow a bit of a backbone. At least People like Rachel Maddow are capable of calling them out but she's dismissed as a "lefty" despite the fact that her facts are always fully researched and spot on.

mother earth

(6,002 posts)
6. Got that right, if there really was a "liberal" media they'd be called out on it until the outcry
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 01:54 PM
Sep 2012

made it impossible for the bastards to continue doing it. They haven't stopped.

 

bigdarryl

(13,190 posts)
5. Considering there was NO help from the rethugs to jump start the economy
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 01:52 PM
Sep 2012

It's doing good on its own

Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts)
8. I think their plan is to impede and
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 01:56 PM
Sep 2012

roll back progress in all areas - economic, social, labor, environmental, etc - so their party can maintain relavency by fighting the same old battles with democrats over and over again. If all these problems were to be fixed by democrats there would be no more basis for the republican party to fight for control.

Freddie

(9,269 posts)
9. That's why they oppose any kind of universal health care
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 02:13 PM
Sep 2012

No matter how it would be achieved.
Because once people have it, they will really like it and never give it up. Look at Medicare.
So thd Repugs are saying a giant "f u" to the country with their opposition.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
10. I still can't believe ENRON
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 02:50 PM
Sep 2012

Screwed the California power companies and basically got away with doing such illegal bs there were not any laws against it.

To me it set the standards to let wallstreet and the Fed screw us without a kiss, and ENRON the rest of the government.

The Republicans are all reprehensible.

 

just1voice

(1,362 posts)
11. Torture camps are a wee bit unpatriotic, as were WMD lies to commit war
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 03:16 PM
Sep 2012

In fact, torture and conspiracy to commit war are treason.

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