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Another strawman from the resident corporate shill. I didn't say we had to increase taxes on the common man, I said we had to increases taxes on the wealthy and corporations who are paying today a tiny fraction of the taxes they paid when America had it strongest growth and aren't reinvesting in our economy despite your continual snake oil promising the opposite, trickle down zealot!

Hey Adolf, how is the race baiting going?

ya, suckers who like the 8 hour day, no child labor, some vacation, the minimum wage, etc .. some "suckers" I'd say.

More JayB drivel attacking public employees and unions but nothing about the largest economic inequalities in over a half century, all "growth" of the last 30 years having gone to the upper 10%, most people's real earning income having decreased since his trickle down religion was forced down our throats 30 years ago, about most corporation paying little to no taxes, about most major coporations hiding income in tax heavens, about banks getting untold trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money at 0% so they can turn around and lend it to you at whatever you can afford ... until bankruptcy, etc ... The economy won't recover until people have money to spend because it is a consumer economy, yet JayB wants to decrease wages further and rob them of their pensions so they have even less money to spend. I guess his math isn't very good.

Which one were you?

You are for sure going to hell now!

yeah! government has no business telling joe blow how many 15 y.o. wives he should have. No more government hijacking of marriage.

For Fox, Beck, Limbaugh -- Race Baiting Has Become Standard Fare, with More to Come This Summer Irrational Obama Derangement Syndrome has spread across the airwaves, frothing into pure racist paranoia and hate talk. July 14, 2010 | If you thought last summer’s Obama Beer Summit was troubling in terms of how far-right media partisans wallowed in the topic of race, early indications are this simmering season is going to be much worse as Fox News and its brigade of haters fan the flame of division and distrust. There’s no question that race peddlers went nuts last summer over the controversy involving Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, MA police Sgt. James Crowley, as well as Obama’s later involvement in the story. But this time around, ‘wingers have removed all mechanical governors and are talking about race in America the way that perhaps they’ve always wanted to talk about it during the Obama era; in unapologetically ugly, resentful and divisive tones. How else do you describe the emerging right-wing meme, pushed by Rush Limbaugh, that Obama is really some sort of Black Manchurian Candidate, fixated on exacting revenge from prejudice white America? Aided by a storyline that involves a tiny hate group called the New Black Panther Party (so much more menacing that an aging Harvard prof!), the GOP Noise Machine has gone loco over a comically porous story of voter intimidation; a tale that even one Republican official with intimate knowledge has dismissed as “small potatoes” and not worth any attention. more here: Frothy racist wingnuts.

and how many synapses did you pop on that one? Better get my sandbox toys to play with CC's right wing brain trust: http://www.fatbraintoys.com/toys/toy_categories/outdoor_toys/beach_toys_sand_toys/index.cfm

Here comes the thug.

I hope you didn't strain yourself too much to come up with that retort.

Rob is Pamela? Now, I understand the obsession with boobs.

What a weeny. His counts of the crippled and the blind are among his lowest. and he has no nun hits either, lame.

is that an obscure reference that I am missing?

man of the month?

People don't need to read her books to understand that the classic right wing playbook is to blame "welfare queens" to deflect attention from their plundering public coffers and the middle class. IMO, her influence is a myth perpetuated by right wing media so as to push the easily conned into believing that her nasty philosophy is the work of a superior intellect. The right wing needs to create myths about the would-be philosophical underpinning of untenable positions like "why should the Supermen of Wall Street be regulated to protect the lice of Main Street?"

why do you have to bring up that garbage again Rob? Kevbone wasn't talking conspiracy. Especially when you could be talking about the GOP's racist new Southern strategy.

Do you really think it's because of "conservative undertones" that Rand's drivel is pushed almost every day on the airwaves by neanderthals like Beck and Limbaugh?

Even Greenspan who spent 20 years in Rand's closet (he was a close member of her inner circle), eventually admitted he got it wrong so there is hope. Although, Greenspan probably said the exact opposite in the next sentence like dead-enders usually do so scratch that idea. Isn't it scary though that people in charge of policy for as long as Greenspan was, idealize frauds with nasty ideology like Rand.

"She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed democracy on the grounds that "the masses"—her readers—were "lice" and "parasites" who scarcely deserved to live [...] a horribly damaged woman who deserves the one thing she spent her life raging against: compassion."

Drill, Gamble, Loot, Starve: The Chamber of Commerce, the GOP, and the Politics of Plunder by Richard (RJ) Eskow Posted: July 15, 2010 09:24 AM The United States Chamber of Commerce has released an "open letter" to the President, Congress, and the American people which contains its blueprint for our political future. It lays out the current Republican playbook in stark terms, and it reads like the battle plan for those alien spaceships from Independence Day: Drain the resources, take everything from the population, strip the land to a husk... and then presumably sail away in mile-long spaceships toward the next targeted planet. What we're seeing is the Politics of Plunder, revealed in all its nakedness. There will be another example of this corporate-driven mindset this week, possibly even today, when all but a handful of Republican Senators vote against a moderate set of curbs on Wall Street excesses. The Democratic Party may disappoint its supporters from time to time, but it seems that Republicans never do -- once you accept the fact that its real "supporters" are the mega-businesses represented by the Chamber of Commerce. Some of the delegates who chanted "drill, baby, drill" at the GOP Convention are staring out their windows at oil-soaked beaches, while others have gone broke in an economy ruined by Wall Street gambling. That won't stop the Politics of Plunder. (Come to think of it, "drill, baby, drill" would have been a perfect motto for those spaceships.) To be clear, the Chamber of Commerce isn't the political lobbying arm of "business," as it sometimes claims. It specifically serves the interests of massive businesses, which are often at odds with the needs of small and medium enterprises. Any CEO of a smaller company who's pressured by one of the Chamber's sales representatives to join, as I was in my business life, is being asked to subsidize policies that will benefit the Chamber's mega-donors -- often at her or his own expense. The Chamber's letter serves those mega-interests well, and we can expect most Republicans to follow it in lockstep, no doubt with cheering crowds pumped up for the same old chants and a few new ones. Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/drill-gamble-loot-starve_b_647271.html

Fairweather is a good soldier for the GOP's racist new southern strategy, i.e. trying to have white people believe that minorities are out to get them: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/republican_party/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/07/15/black_panthers_southern_strategy "the right has consistently seized on incidents that reinforce the idea of whites as a persecuted class and minorities as alien Others. Now, even issues that don't seem to involve identity at all -- like healthcare or TARP -- are boiled down by the right to cultural concerns. The Democrats, as John Boehner put it, "are snuffing out the America that I grew up in." Whether they're associating non-whites with un-American things like socialism, implying that blacks have gained the upper hand and are abusing their power, or even accusing minorities of being racist, the strategy is consistent. Of course, since something like the Crowley-Gates incident doesn't happen often, the right has had to make its own luck, so to speak. One technique they've perfected is to seize on minor incidents and blow them up into telling parables. The Black Panther story is one example of this; so was the strange “a white kid got beat up on a bus!” thing. Alternately, casual comments by public figures who are from ethnic or racial minority groups can be repeated ad nauseum to paint them as un-American, validating the "real America" idea: Van Jones, "wise Latina woman," and so on. And if nothing's floating around, they can always make something happen, like James O'Keefe's bogus ACORN frame-up, or Bob McDonnell's liberal-baiting, slavery-free declaration of Confederate History Month."

When did you see last a drummer like that? [video:youtube]ItZyaOlrb7E

Dude, you and your boys have driven the economy into such a hole with your trickle down bullshit, tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation of industry (especially finance) and privatization of the commons that the tax base has shrunk to such a point that it doesn't have the capacity to fund anything, littler less the wars you have pushed on us, or tax cuts for people who don't reinvest in our economy.