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Sat Aug-06-11 12:10 PM
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The Tea Party wants to return America to the Fifties. |
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:11 PM
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1. I was thinking more like |
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Sat Aug-06-11 02:22 PM
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17. as long as we keep... |
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feeding the beast that is religion, we are going to go back no matter what.
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Sat Aug-06-11 03:30 PM
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21. No. That was the beginning of The Age of Enlightenment. More like back to the Dark Ages. n/t |
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Sat Aug-06-11 06:49 PM
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23. yeah. expect the pugs to introduce bills allowing slavery. |
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:11 PM
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2. That's going to happen with or without the teabaggerclan. |
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:12 PM
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:12 PM
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3. Yeah, their fantasy time when women and blacks "knew their place." |
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:15 PM
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6. I think of the tea party as the neo confederacy, and we're in a civil war. |
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:12 PM
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4. I know - I've thought of that exact same statement. Back to the |
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Wild, Wild West is where they want us.
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:14 PM
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I just finished a book on Eisenhower and many of the policies were to the left of Obama today. The Tea Party approach was tried in the 1958 midterms and fell flat for massive Republican losses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1958
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:22 PM
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That is when there was same tax rates that are now in place and the divide between the rich and poor was the greatest.
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:37 PM
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I am in a middle of a history of labor book and read that what we take for granted in the workplace, 40hr weeks, OT, unemployment, etc... all was first proposed by the Socialist Party at the time, which other parties adopted. What was considered radical in the late 1910's is commonplace today.
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Sat Aug-06-11 02:23 PM
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18. every benefit we have in the workplace today... |
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was brought to you on the backs of union labor. Many people spilled blood for our paid vacations.
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Sat Aug-06-11 02:28 PM
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unions built this party- of course, the party has long forgotten that
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Sat Aug-06-11 07:40 PM
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25. Bingo. They want what is nicknamed "America 1928". |
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:25 PM
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:48 PM
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11. Actually, the 1850s nails it. They imagine they are Tom SAWYER, but TWAIN would MOCK them!1 |
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In The Innocents Abroad, still the most read travel book, he describes the weeks crossing the Atlantic with Sunday services and a patriotic holiday, where he and his tour people joke and wink through the hymns and the rituals. And in the tour around the rim of the Mediterranean he is a modern cosmopolitan.
It'd be great if his spirit could report on Goodhair's prayer hoo-haw!1
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Sat Aug-06-11 12:50 PM
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12. hmm, the 50's tax rates would do a whole lot to clean up this mess |
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Sat Aug-06-11 01:13 PM
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I believe the highest income bracket under Ike was 90%. It was 50-70% under tricky Dick.
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Sat Aug-06-11 01:39 PM
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16. But they've been convinced that the prosperity of that era was not because of |
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Sat Aug-06-11 01:17 PM
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15. obama wants to return america to the thirties (pre-fdr). nt |
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Sat Aug-06-11 02:24 PM
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19. Why do so many refer to the "Tea party" as separate from repugs? |
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It's marketing. Branding. Tea pigs are repigs. Please, people, stop buying into the hype.
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Sat Aug-06-11 06:50 PM
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24. I heard he kicks puppies competitively, for distance!!!! |
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Sun Aug-07-11 09:12 AM
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26. frankly, i wouldn't doubt it. nt |
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Sat Aug-06-11 03:31 PM
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22. You have not shot far enough |
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