Jon Stewart reviewed the GOP “Pledge to America,” a kind of motivational speaker-style presentation that the GOP is passing out to Americans this fall. The “Pledge” features boilerplate language about small government and traditional values and liberty and freedom. It recalls the “Contract with America” drawn up by Republicans and fronted by Newt Gingrich in the Clinton years that was also full of boilerplate language about small government and traditional values and liberty and freedom. It was also a contract the GOP never kept. There was out-of-control spending and extravagant international state-building ventures and vast unconstitutional domestic snooping programs and extra marital affairs and so on. Yet Stewart has found a promise in the new Pledge that he believes the Republican authors can keep.
What makes us cowardly? What are we afraid of? Socialism? Communism? :Koolaid: drinkers with no rebuttals except attacks?
We are confronting the issues and idiots like you have only one response, attack!!! Great answer, but so typical. Do you notice the number of responses to all of the posts that you say are my cut and pasting? Attacks from the Liberals and points from the Conservatives.
Doesn't seem fair to you stoners, wackos and nutjobs, does it? Meanwhile the Democratic Party can't figure out what to do, its members are running away from defending their leader, in order to try to save their political lives.
Nmysys wrote: My cut and paste posts are news unlike this one from Wayne from a comedian.
Of course, you wouldn't know the difference being as how you could care less about knowing what is really going on in the real world.
I'm sure you know that political humor has a long and distinguished history in the United States. It was used in political cartoons to get ideas across for more than a hundred years.
Will Rogers was a great and very popular political comedian who brought home the issues of the day.
If it were a right-leaning comedian I'm sure you'd think was fumy as hell. And if it were questioned by anyone you consider "left" you'd use it to say liberals have no sense of humor.
This political cartoon comments on the progressive income tax in the early twentieth century.
Economists have examined the GOP "pledge" and determined that it will raise the deficit by 4 trillion dollars over the next ten years, on such things as unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate welfare.
"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you can be batman. Then always be batman." Unknown
This just falls under things we like to say and associate ourselves with but really do not want in action.
Why can't the real righties and lefties spend anytime in each others' shoes. Wayne is right, if something is pro right wing, all the right wingers love it, but lack the ability to see the same type of level of information or humor in a left wing post. If you cannot cross perspectives like this, you are the problem. You don't have to agree, but you should see that most things others say are just as silly as the things you post.
Plus most of the right wingers I meet locally want big government, more oversight and more laws. We recently voted for more taxes and more of just about everything the local government can do. And our local govt is 100% republican.
This pledge, as a conservative person, just seem silly. Actions speak louder than words and you are all just talking.
You want smaller govt and less taxes, just fire half the people you worship locally. Seems like right now the only reason we need a local govt is to maintain/plow the roads and protect us from unreasonable gas pollution. Seems like people might argue that these are the two things they are not doing, they are too busy getting their hands in every other aspect of your life.
