Ever wonder what that (R) in front of a republican's name stands for?

[Hubert Flottz]

Mitch McConnell (R)ickets, Kentucky
Johnny Boner (R)ickets, Ohio
Shelly Moore Capito (R)ickets, West Virginia

There is a new "War on Poverty" and this time it's a war on the poor.

Folks in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia have forgotten that the democrats are the ones who declared, War on Poverty" back when LBJ was president, so now they vote for MORE poverty and privation. Taking nutritional assistance from poverty stricken children, who are needy because they were innocently born into a world of poverty, in order to keep giving tax breaks to the wealthy is anything but Christian or "Compassionate." It's monstrous criminality in a country like ours. Time to end the GOP's War on the Poor.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000344.htm

Time to stop trying to turn the USA, into a third world country for America's working poor and for the unemployed poor, who can't find a job, that pays enough, to feed the innocent children of the poor.

Say Amen Somebody...

[BlueJazz]

1. Can I get a witness! Amen!

[Hubert Flottz]

2. You damn sure can!

One thing we can always be sure of, about the GOP...they are always up to no good.

[shenmue]

3. Amen

[City Lights]

4. Haha, I always thought it stood for "Repulsive." nt

[NV Whino]

5. Retro? Reprobate?

Reprehensible. I could go on.

[Octafish]

6. Amen, Brother Hubert!

Which brings up what Brother Harry said:

EXCERPT...

The record the Democratic Party has made in the last 20 years is the greatest political asset any party ever had in the history of the world. We would be foolish to throw it away. There is nothing our enemies would like better and nothing that would do more to help them win an election.

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.

CONTINUED...

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1296

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Great read and so true!

What we don't need is people without a political spine. I hate to vote for someone who sounds just exactly like the no accounts he's supposed to be running against.

Case in point, Joe Manchin (Din0) WV. I expect Joe to change parties for the record, like he long ago has in principal, soon.

Nick Rahall sided with the GOP and campaigned against the democratic ideas and today he is unemployed as of January. West Virginia now has only one democratic representative left in Washington and that's Joe Manchin (Din0)

West Virginia had a tie in the state senate after this past election, but yesterday one democratic West Virginia senator switched his party affiliation to republican. You just can't trust, or count on, a blue dog democrat anymore.