WebsterMark wrote on 05/09/13 at 15:33:36:Srinath; this is one of those times I have no idea what you are trying to say.....
Oh gee Let me explain it for you ...
You brought up Hank "guam is tipping over with 8000 soldiers) Johnson ... and I brought in Michelle "I'll pay Homane to a serial killer" Bachmann.
Then you brought in other librulls cos "Stupidity is inherent in liberalism" and I brought in the queen of the republicommunists Sarah "We will stand by our ally North Korea" and Mitt "250,000 /yr is middle income" Rmoney.
OK so I guess - We are seeing who is stupider ...
Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 05/09/13 at 14:21:37:As a life-long Republican, but hopefully, not Tea Party guy, if our party is to survive, we've got to distance ourselves from idiots like Bachman and Palin.
We need the Republican party of old - Senators like John Bricker from Ohio, Eisenhower, Jerry Ford, Dulles, Reagan, Goldwater, Dirkson - solid conservatives who were statesmen, who knew how Washington politics should work, and who were able to reach across the aisle to good Dems like Johnson, Kennedy, Stevenson and get things resolved.
None of these kinds of statesmen, from either party, would have been in office had there been term limits in their day.
Oddly I think I am a Ron Paul Democrat. The republicans of today are communists. They want to cut taxes for the rich. They also want to cut services for the poor and middle class. The great "cut it from you, and cut it from you and give it to me ... cos you're government waste and I am job creator"
Reagan increased taxes on nearly everything. Except he did so without burdening the poor or middle class. The Idiot that is now running NC Republican pat McCrory has proposed to charge sales taxes on everything, milk and bread etc etc ... That will sock the poor ... the poor do better with inflation but worse with taxation. Those that have no $$$ @ the end of the month dont care about inflation. Their income will adjust cos that is what inflation is. But taxation will kill them.
The modern republican mantra is "Cut it from you, and cut it from you and give it to me ... cos you're government waste and I am job creator" ... It used to be centered around the idea of fairness in taxation when Regean was president.
Regean was also not afraid to tax imports in that time frame. Now we have a policy that says "Pay china first" ... no we can screw china, they dont have a prayer, we can print the $5,000,000,000,000 we owe them - in 1 nice bill ... not even wasting time ... and hand it to them.
Cool.
Srinath.