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A frightening prophecy. Then

A frightening prophecy. Then again, I pretty much gave up when Bush was reelected in 2004 after starting 2 wars, destroying or straining all of our alliances, rolling back most environmental laws, and exploded the deficit out of control. I prefer to just be an observer of history at this point. It's sort of like being in Germany in the 1930's only instead of a war coming it's just going to be stagnation, gridlock, and ever increasing polarization as long as a Democrat is president and the Republicans control anything.

I find it amazing that the same people who wave the flag the most have been convinced that taxes (i.e. government) and government itself (i.e. people and ideas coming together for the collective good) are somehow both inherently bad things. Yes, the more you hate the government and equality, the more it makes you a true patriot

The Tea Baggers are the best. Where were they when we had record debt and a collapsing economy BEFORE a black man was elected president? I doubt they would be so fired up if the president was a white republican and the hordes of Mexicans were all blonde haired with blue eyes. Their real motivations only have a very limited correlation to the economy.

Z's picture

LOL! God, Little Suzie

LOL! God, Little Suzie Newsykins is hilarious! This was a great one, Mark. 5***** Loved it.

Spot on.

Spot on.

mainestategop's picture

Talk about exageration and

Talk about exageration and distortion! LOL!!

Obama has been in charge for over 20 months but democrats have run congress for 4 years.

Also Many Democrats such as Anita Dunn DO support Chairman Mao.

Its going to take time to

Its going to take time to repair the damage of the last administration. Maybe 100 years if neccesary. It took a decade for FDR to fix what Herbert Hoover Did when he and the bosses deregulated wall street and created the great depresion. It would have been longer if it weren't for the war boom.

Gary Kleppe's picture

I'd never heard of Dunn

I'd never heard of Dunn before now, but it took about thirty seconds to debunk the lie here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn

"Following [Dunn's] statements, Glenn Beck played on his show a portion of a speech Dunn gave at a high school graduation, during which she referenced Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa as two of her 'favorite political philosophers.' Beck stated that the speech revealed Dunn as a Maoist, while Dunn stated that her reference was meant to be ironic, and was a quote borrowed from Republican strategist Lee Atwater."

mainestategop's picture

Ironic? So if Karl Rove made

Ironic? So if Karl Rove made a similar statement about say, Mother Teresa and Augusto Pinochet, Or God forbid, Mother Teresa and George W Bush!

Nope! No spin for Karl Rove! The networks would be attacking him for over a decade.

Also Ron Bloom, Obama's manufacturing Tsar openly praised Mao and advocated abolishing free markets completely. He also paraphrased Mao saying he agreed with him that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. (Which is a cornerstone of liberalism I might add.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27cXXirAIw4

BTW, the internet is a free market. So in other words government should make it out like TV and limit choices and options. We can't have people sneaking around anonymously criticizing Obama and socialism now can we?

COTO's picture

More of a he-said/she-said

More of a he-said/she-said than a debunking.

You cut me deep, Mr. Kleppe.

Any time I've plead "irony", you didn't believe me. I thought you might just consider it a lame excuse but... now... it's me, isn't it? :'(

TALK ABOUT STUPID, YOU GONNA

TALK ABOUT STUPID,
YOU GONNA BLAME THE BUSH HOUSE OF CARDS ON NANCY PELOSI!!!
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
TYPICAL WINGNUT!

mainestategop's picture

The average unemployment

The average unemployment during the Bush years was 5%. Until 2007 when the Dems took over passed all kinds of regulations and prevented the tax cuts from becoming permanent

But what was it in 2007 and

But what was it in 2007 and 2008 just BEFORE Obama took over?

mainestategop's picture

It was before pelosi and the

It was before pelosi and the Dems took over in 2006.

You mean when dems took over

You mean when dems took over congress in 2007 they were able to pass legistlation that Bush was willing to sign? Oh, and how was it that not extending tax cuts at that time caused unemployment? Here I thought it was all that investment and housing market loan fraud. I like the generalizations, and even the graphic. It makes the generalizations look even smarter.

mainestategop's picture

They could simply by

They could simply by overiding his veto. They also blocked a lot of other legislation and Bush was forced to compromise.

By not making the tax cuts permanent, business was unwilling to risk assets through development and new hiring. Add to this, Obama is the most anti business president we have. He is totally unpredictable so business has to sit on the fence due to the uncertainties he is creating. Small businesses are especially effected.

The new Socialist health care mandate that forces employers to buy expensive ineffective insurance polices for their employees as well as individuals is the worst. Its unconstitutional and it destroys incentives to lower prices. Massachusetts which has it has one of the highest premium costs in the country and one of the worst economies in the nation! Only maine, Rhode Island, Vermont Michigan and Alaska and Pennsylvania perform worse.

The good news is all of my employees are already covered but the bad news is hiring is more difficult and since the mandate destroys the incentive to reduce cost and causes them to increase cost, My own family and even my business will suffer once prices start shooting up. I am hoping for Anthony Kennedy to take the side of liberty. If he doesn't I could be out of business in a year.

They didn't override any

They didn't override any vetos, and it requires more of the legislature than they controlled. I'm guessing you failed civics, as well as history.

COTO's picture

If only we could

If only we could realistically expect "change from the change".

Happy raging. :)

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Little Suzie Newsykins is

Little Suzie Newsykins is back, doing her best to be a grown-up!

-MF

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