Politics - 11 July 2007

but avoid the second one like the plague?

Is it because on the first one they were proud to call themselves "state-rights" Republicans, but the second one reminded everybody that previously it was the racist conservative Southern Dixiecrat Party who were for "state-rights"?

The northeastern RADICAL / PROGRESSIVE / LIBERAL Republican Party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Nelson Rockefeller, on the other hand, used the power of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to free the slaves, protect the environment, break up monopolies, regulate big business, help the American worker, and give equal rights to minorities.

It kind of blows their "we're still the Party of Lincoln eventhough we fly the confederate flag and most of our leadership comes from the South" idea out of the water doesn't it?

2007-07-11 07:23:51 · 8 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3

Seems to me you would be handing the extremists in Iraq, Iran, Syria, etc. a victory. We have yet to leave Japan, Germany, Britain, etc. What makes you think we should ever leave the middle east?

2007-07-11 07:22:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

is it political?

2007-07-11 07:18:18 · 19 answers · asked by NAMELESS ID 1

When the US started building the Interstate system... when we organized a Department of Energy.. when they started building public schools... did people become as upset about that as some have about the possibility of public Health Care? I'm curious because either this is normal and it will pass, or people don't think health care is a universal need.

2007-07-11 07:17:10 · 8 answers · asked by pip 7

Based on what their children do:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/11/us_embassy_asks.html

2007-07-11 07:13:43 · 11 answers · asked by El Duderino 4

France and Germany are heading rightward towards a more US friendly approach because obviously they realize they were dead wrong about us. The foriegn media blatently and verifiably LIE about the USA every day.

I don't personally give a rats **** what third world dungheaps, lazy socialists and despot arabs think of us. Why on earth should I?

Get bent I say.

2007-07-11 07:09:04 · 18 answers · asked by fourthy27 2

Do you really think so? Thinking back to the Wild West I would beg to differ.. Don't get me wrong.. I'm a gun owner and my definition of gun control varies between hitting what you aim at and admitting that people don't need a Howitzer for their Hummer... but seriously.. historically speaking I don't see this as a valid argument.. your thoughts?

2007-07-11 07:03:24 · 13 answers · asked by pip 7

2007-07-11 07:03:19 · 4 answers · asked by justgoodfolk 7

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSWBT00724820070711

OK the facts are clear, tax REVENUES are UP - the tax cuts worked on the revenue side. Tax revenues keep increasing at a double digit clip while inflation is about 2.5%. Tax revenues keep increasing faster than anyone on either side expects. The CBPP says "of course revenues go up in a recovery" but the recovery is continuing well after a record-long series of overnight interest rate hikes, meaning it's fueled in large part by the tax cuts.

The problem is on the SPENDING side. And YES, BUSH HAS SPENT TOO MUCH AND IS STILL SPENDING TOO MUCH.

But you can't make that argument and then turn around and try to spend MORE than HE does!!!!!

2007-07-11 07:01:31 · 11 answers · asked by truthisback 3

We should all start brushing up on our Mandarin...叢 吮

2007-07-11 06:56:49 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why or why not?

2007-07-11 06:56:03 · 7 answers · asked by feline11105 2

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/pl/081201presidentbush/im:/070711/480/c937ca9ef4b345309ad0f0ce0d758060;_ylt=AgempTCrvEPVT73c9ih2UqtrWscF

2007-07-11 06:53:03 · 1 answers · asked by JF 3

2007-07-11 06:51:22 · 9 answers · asked by fewa1982 1

Are you for or against a gun control system like the one they have in Canada?

2007-07-11 06:50:01 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did he abuse the privlege? What do you think the courts held?

2007-07-11 06:49:33 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-11 06:46:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Like a mighty oak, in the face of public and political; pressure he holds firm.

What kind of a moron thinks you should just quit a war?

You get em Georgie!

2007-07-11 06:44:15 · 24 answers · asked by fourthy27 2

Why or why not?

2007-07-11 06:43:04 · 28 answers · asked by El Duderino 4

It wont make up for all his failures but his legacy would improve.

2007-07-11 06:39:59 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

My opinion on the Iraq "conflict"
I am not saying surrender, after all who do you surrender to, I take this very seriously. I think that most people do not understand the situation and what it is doing to America on the world stage. This is not a war with a clearly defined enemy or objective, it is an occupation of political ambition and people are being lost (forever), what I am trying to say is this is not a conflict that is protecting anyone, it is actually causing a thought pattern in the world that will create more animosity towards Americans in general, ie: more new generation terrorists!

2007-07-11 06:38:00 · 8 answers · asked by tom2day 2

To restore honor and dignity to the White House?

We can do better in Washington D.C. We can have new leadership in Washington D.C., leadership that will lift this country's spirits and raise our sights. George P. knows what thousands of other youngsters know, that just because the White House has let us down in the past, that doesn't mean it's going to happen in the future. George P. joins us in a campaign that's going to restore honor and dignity to the White House.
Interview with CNN Anchor Kyra Phillips (September 23, 2000)

2007-07-11 06:36:20 · 5 answers · asked by El Duderino 4

We could just lay on our a ss, guzzling beer, feeling sorry for each other and smoking our joints as we wait for our gov. checks and food stamps to arrive.
What a party we'll have while we dream of the days before the attacks and riots, when our pants were dry, and we didn't have to climb over the rubble of our cities.

2007-07-11 06:36:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-11 06:34:00 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why or Why not?

2007-07-11 06:29:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

now that the neolibs have taken it over

2007-07-11 06:26:53 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-11 06:24:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

BREAKING NEWS - Just moments ago, Senate Republicans succeeded in a filibuster in which they refused to end debate on Virginia Democrat Jim Webb's S. 2012, which would have placed strict limits on National Guard and reserve deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as well as mandating more downtime at home before active-duty combat troops are returned to battle.

The vote was 56-41 to end debate, with 60 votes needed to move to a full, up-or-down vote on the Webb measure. Once again, the GOP has been successful at destroying another Democratic attempt at helping service members and their families caught in the buzzsaw of the Bush administration's lies and incompetence.


http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2007/07/republicans-kill-webbs-troop-protection.html

2007-07-11 06:22:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-11 06:22:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it gay marriage, gun control or terrorism?

Is it environmental issues, dependence on foreign oil, health care and national debt?

How do curb or change current activities to lay a better foundation for their future?

2007-07-11 06:19:00 · 19 answers · asked by El Duderino 4

WILLINGBORO — The Pennsauken man who shot and wounded a member of the U.S. Air Force before killing himself left suicide notes that indicated he was “angry at the government and wanted to make a statement” on Independence Day, one of the man’s relatives said yesterday.

Matthew J. Marren, 22, of Walnut Avenue, drove to a home on Windsor Lane rented by Senior Airman Jonathan Schrieken, 22, at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Marren got of this vehicle, found Schrieken outside the house, shot him once in the chest with a small-caliber firearm, then turned the gun on himself, said Burlington County First Assistant Prosecutor Ray Milavsky.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-07062007-1374033.html

2007-07-11 06:18:12 · 25 answers · asked by james_r_keene 2