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Posted By Beau7890 9 months, 1 week ago in Political NewsOnce again, both the president and the country are following New Deal-era precedent. In the 1920s boom, the reigning moral crusade was Prohibition, and it packed so much political muscle that F.D.R. didn’t oppose it. The Anti-Saloon League was the Moral Majority of its day, the vanguard of a powerful fundamentalist movement that pushed anti-evolution legislation as vehemently as it did its war on booze. (The Scopes “monkey trial” was in 1925.) But the political standing of this crowd crashed along with the stock market.
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A chicken walks into a bar holding a violin case. He’s wearing a chrysanthemum in his lapel. He sits down at the mahogany bar ...
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antibrainwasher9 months, 1 week ago
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Flip flopping conservative values. Which ever way the wind blows, like the cowards they are. Bunch of hairless apes, with the baby jesus on their side, shouting communism and socialism living in a house of cards. I give you the immoral majority of thieves and cowards that consitute the repugnicoward party.
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Goppy9 months, 1 week ago
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I think America is coming to realize that ... as vigorously as the Right has tried to portray the left as 'Godless' ... (Ann Coulter even made her bucks off training her readers to repeat that slogan.) ... the proof is in the 'Walk".
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And America has come to recognize some creepy aspects in the way The Right "Walks".
Beginning with the audacious smugness with which they position themselves as arbiters of Morality .... when they ...
... work hard to prevent Children from getting Health Care ...
... work hard to make criminals of our seniors merely for buying less expensive drugs in Canada ...
... work hard to cut funding for the GI Bill ...
... work hard to cut funding for Head Trauma centers for our soldiers ...
(The above two - even as they demand MORE sacrifice from our young soldiers.)
... work hard to defend Torture as a policy ...
... work hard to make Bush unaccountable for the mess he created ...
... work hard to defend Bush's Signing Statements - making him unaccountable to the Laws he signed ...
... work hard to institute a permanent Welfare for the Wealthy handout program ...
These examples fly directly in the face of The Modern Republican's moralizing and platitudes.
Any NORMAL thinking ... RATIONAL American can see this.
Unfortunately - it took the tragedy of a George W. Bush and Dick Cheney tenure to really force the issue home.
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beavith19 months, 1 week ago
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the author is a simpleton.
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every time i read one of these op-ed in the NY times, i realize why i don't care for that paper.
(disclosure: i'm not religious, nor do i care for the wedge politics of the far right)
this is just more chest thumping by the left.
let me ask, though.
if this was a long time coming, why did Obama wave a sample of these stem cells at the signing, but sign the budget bill in some back room? perception versus reality?
i'm trying desperately to support the president, in my own mind, but i'm not seeing a whole lot of difference between early Obama and early Bush. its one of style. not substance.-
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Beau78909 months, 1 week ago
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I understand that you don't care for the NY Times or its op-eds. But Frank Rich is not a simpleton.
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And your example of Obama with stem cells is an example of how his style may be more similar to Bush's than some of us would like, while the substance--the policies--are couldn't be more different.
It 's possible that after 8 years of Bush, you can't remember the difference between style and substance.
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