AM ERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

IS IT JUST AN RESUCHIONIZATION FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF THE INDIANS.

YOU CAN NEVER BE CERTAIN THAT

SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT DENIES IT

IF THE BUSH TAX CUTS

AND DEREGULATION WORKED OUT SO WELL, WHY DID WE END UP IN A RECESSION SURROUNDED BY RECORD BREAKING DEFICITS BECAUSE OF IT? - KINGOF THE LOST SOULS.

The Middle

The middle way is no way at all. If we fail in this great and glorious contest, it will be from endlessly searching for change in the middle. - John Adams, 1777

DEFICITS

The hot new topic in Washington !
Solution - end the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan
let Bush tax cuts expire
get the economy back on the feet & growing
control health care costs with single payer

TRUE CONSERVATIVE MANTRA

Less government in business and more business in government.
Free market = no responsibility

The Proper Role of government regulation of the free

market is to prevent companies from committing corporate suicide. The single-minded pursuit of profits leads corporate leaders to persistently value short-term gains in profitability and market share over the long-term sustainablility of their enterprise.

UNRESTRAINED CORPORATISM

IN LESS THAN TEN YEARS:
WORST TERRORIST ATTACK IN AMERICA
LONGEST WAR IN US HISTORY
WORT ECONOMIC CRISIS SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION
WORT MAN-MADE ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE EVER

Republician Taking Points

"Government is the problem."
"The private industry does it better."
"Don't let big government stand in the way."

The Corporatists

"...but our perception of reality is inversely proportional. The higher up the ladder any politican moves, he finds how little power he really effectively has. The corporatists own America lock, stock and barrel. And any politician learns this lesson the easy way or the hard way, that when Big Oil, the Military-Industrial, HC-Industrial, Bankster and Wall Street-Industrial complexes say 'JUMP', any career politican with his own job security in mind, obediently asks 'HOW HIGH'? The America of years ago, is now but a whisper of its former self.
The corporatists have accomplished what any million-man foreign army never could on their best day, and achieved what no other despot or dictator has ever imagined in their wildest dreams. They have over-thrown our government and this republic without firing the first shot, or driving the first tank down our streets! And yet, we still manage to over-look their treachery, handsomely rewarding them for turning their backs on us at every turn, and we seem to never come to grips with this stark reality, that all the brilliant speeches ever spoken will never"

"Our reality is decidedly corporate."

"Until we break the corporate virtual monopoly on what we hear and see, we keep losing, don't matter what we do."

IF YOU PLACE YOUR BELIEFS

BEYOND QUESTION, HOW CAN YOU BE SO SURE THEY ARE RIGHT?

So we should put Republicians

into office to do NOTHING?

THE IDEA THAT THE MINORITY PARTY

REPRESENTS THE "WILL OF THE PEOPLE" IS THE SEEDLING OF A TOTALITARIAN MINDSET. IN THIS MINDSET, DEMOCRACY DOESN'T MATTER, IDEAS ARE NOT TO BE DISCUSSED, AND OPPOSING VIEWS ARE NOT RESPECTED. - JAMES ZOGBY

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's

oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith

IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY

FULL TIME LIVING EXPENSES IN A PART TIME

WORLD. THE NEW REALITY.

FREE HEALTH CLINICS ARE OVERWHELMED.

But we don't have a health care crisis. Just hope you don't have to join to train wreak.

LET'S SEE IF I GET THIS STRAIGHT -

A republican administration requests nearly a trillion $ to bail out the banks - the republican congress voted against it in mass - now a Democratic administration wants to charge the banks a fee to recover the $ and the republicans in congress are opposed to the fee. They didn't want to give the banks any money initially and now they don't want it back. Who really represents WALL STREET.

The new logic -

since when does letting a tax cut expire become a tax increase - especially when its a marginal tax rate change. I'm tired of hearing that the rich are going to be driven into the poor house. Keep in mind it only applies to income in excess of $250,000.

CORPORATE TAX RATES ARE JUST TOO HIGH

HERE IN THE UNITED STATES - AFTER ALL GOLDMAN SACKS HAD TO PAY AN EFFECTIVE TAX RATE RATE FOR 2008 OF JUST 1%.

WHAT HAVE THE REPUBLICANS OFFERED

ASIDE FROM 'NO'?