Comments on: On Moderation

By: flagrantenigma

flagrantenigma — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:36:54 +0000

No, Hula, we just think that worshipping Reagan's hairy old ass doesn't make you a statesman. Sadly, you appear to imagine that posterior adoration makes you an intellectual.

By: hulagate

hulagate — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:13:24 +0000

"...The past 30 years have been such a violent departure from the norm, such a profound destruction of the basic functions of government, that a major rectification is called for now--in rebalancing the system of taxation toward progressivity, in rebuilding the infrastructure of the country, not just physically, but also socially and intellectually..."

And you thought Howard Scream was a NUT JOB.

By: hulagate

hulagate — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:43:59 +0000

And now a tome not from Time about socialism...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090303/ap_on_bi_ge/fed_consumer_credit

Obama's SPASTIC fiscal plans, if they can be called plans, will in the not too long run drive up all costs, drive up taxes, drive up unemployment, drive up government malfeasance, drive up the debt, drive up the personal economic decline, drive up the short selling against the box.

These attempts to supplant the normal if forever imperfect markets did not start with Obama (thanks again FDR) but they are being expanded to the point of such short-sighted STUPIDITY that it will take brains broader than those that infest the tree killing cauldrons at the New York Times to soon tell the truth about them.

Some change, that one.

Move On indeed.

By: hulagate

hulagate — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:23:55 +0000

"...left the solutions deliberately vague..."

Yes, voting PRESENT as a career will do that.

By: hulagate

hulagate — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:13:08 +0000

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090303/ap_on_go_co/congress_spending

Pigs, Obama.

Obama, Pigs.

By: Donklephant » Blog Archive » Brooks And Klein Spar Over “Moderate” Budget Meme

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:07:53 +0000

[...] now we get to Joe Klein, and he explains why Obama’s agenda is hardly leftist… In almost every case, Obama has chosen a moderate [...]

By: Joe Klein on Obama as moderate « Later On

Joe Klein on Obama as moderate « Later On — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:22:07 +0000

[...] in Daily life, Democrats, Government, Obama administration at 11:21 am by LeisureGuy Interesting column by Klein: David Brooks writes today as a moderate-conservative anguished by Barack Obama’s [...]

By: David Brooks, Outright Liar « Suck the Rainbow

David Brooks, Outright Liar « Suck the Rainbow — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:58:28 +0000

[...] There is something about this very simple fact that drives every Republican insane and makes them lie about it, jointly and severally. The entire party cannot comprehend how basic, fair and un-radical that tax policy is. It would only be radical if you contrast it with the prior thirty years of radical conservatism, conceived in voodoo economics circa 1980 and culminating in a global meltdown circa 2009. Compare Brooks to Joe Klein, aka Jokeline, who after his long history of not getting it, gets it. [...]

By: stuartzechman

stuartzechman — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:57:17 +0000

astarf:
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it's worth noting that the percentage of federal taxes paid by the rich actually increased
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Links to sources, please?

By: stuartzechman

stuartzechman — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:55:52 +0000

The last 30 years have seen nothing but an erosion of these principals and a secularization of our nation.
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No, we've always been a secular nation.
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The last thirty years have seen a slight secularization of Iran, maybe.