Dear Guys,
"Hate government; love power. That ought to be the New Republican motto. At least, it'd be honest." --Domenic
I like that Paul Krugman finishes his New York Times article saying,
"So once again, if you're poor or you're sick or you don't have health insurance, remember this: these people think your problems are funny."
Conservatives Are such Jokers
Paul Krugman
Op-Ed
New York Times
Oct. 5, 2007
I have no idea what Congress will do after the president vetoes the S-CHIP legislation. I have noticed though that one Republican rag boasted that the Democrats do not have a sufficient number of votes to override the President's veto.
Hence my rant:
My take on Republicans today is that they hate government, but love power. Let's think about that for a moment:
If they take power in government, they use it to diminish government: to defund departments, eliminate offices, and kill programs. Hence they make government less effective. Then they say that government doesn't work. If you ask me, it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Yes, there is a brand of old-time, Main Line, fiscally conservative Republican that is close to Libertarianism in political philosophy. Bill Maher says he's Libertarian. So, does Alan Greenspan.
I'm not sure that Libertarians who vote Republican are any different than those who hate government, though. I don't trust them on that.
They'd have to prove it to me.
As a rule of thumb, I'd say that voters who earn less than the Republican candidates they're voting for [$165,200.00/year] vote against themselves, their families, and their own self-interest when they pull the Republican lever. Not to mention that their non-government health care plan is nowhere near as good as the anti-health care Republicans' government plan is, the one we provide for them. Or do they provide it for themselves?
The election of 2006, in which I believe Democrats won every contested and uncontested seat in Congress, was not an aberration. The Internet and liberal bloggers have tapped into a social revolution that will play out over the next four presidential terms, as it did when FDR was elected in 1932.
I doubt that Republicans who hate the creeping socialism of S-CHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) will ask their parents not to cash their socialized Social Security checks or their socialized Medicare provisions.
I've heard that FDR's New Deal saved capitalism because without it there'd have been a bloody revolution. The disparity between those who earn one-thousand dollars per day and those who earn something less is growing. That's not good. The disparity between those who earn in excess of one million dollars per day and those who earn something less is also growing. That's worse. Sadly, there are billionaires this year who did not "make it" into the Fortune 400 Richest Americans because their net worth is not big enough.
Even Alan Greenspan has said that these disparities cannot continue if we expect our nation to survive. Oligarchy is not the best form of government, I suppose. Mr. Greenspan also said that only John Edwards among the presidential candidates has addressed this issue.
Hate government; love power. That ought to be the New Republican motto. At least it'd be honest.
"Someone has to talk Bush out of the tree." - Evan Thomas, Newsweek (Hardball, MSNBC).
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