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JTEM is serious about Hillary. Quite frankly, she would represent a vast improvement over anything we’ve seen over these past 12 years…
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Ready for Hillary is the nation’s premier organization urging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016 and laying the groundwork of support for her potential candidacy. We are Americans of all walks of life in all 50 states who are mobilizing so that we are ready for Hillary when she is ready to run.
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Scott Prouty, the Florida bartender-turned-”47-percent”-videographer,
Did anyone to the left of Hitler — Anyone at all — ever ask yourself, “What was a bartender doing at a $50,000 per plate fundraiser?”
I know people like simple answers (simplistic answers), but seriously, folks, is not a one of you seeing the issue here?
It was a $50,000 per-plate fundraiser, and the man who the media is telling you was there & recording Mitt Romney was a bartender… A FRIGGING BARTENDER! How on earn did he get into a fundraiser for rich people?
Reality simply does not work the way you people want to believe. Mitt Romney was NOT brought down by a bartender, much less a bartender sitting at a $50,000 a plate fundraiser.
Think, people, THINK!
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A Colorado sheriff has joined the list of at least 340 sheriffs who have vowed to uphold the Constitution against gun-control measures that violate Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
So get rid of them. It isn’t a sheriff’s place to decide whether or not a law is constitutional. They have no business setting themselves up as sheriff AND judge. This is not justice, this is not law this is dictatorship that you’re advocating.
Secondly, you have just destroyed your excuse for Bush. Remember: You people accepted Bush as President, claiming he was legitimate because of the courts. It is the Supreme Court which decides what is and is not constitutional — ACCORDING TO YOU — so that justified your support of an unelected dolt as President.
…but now the courts don’t decide what is and isn’t constitutional. Not according to you. So you were treasonous for supporting Bush & Cheney. You admit that now. Even as you cling to guns claiming to be supporting the constitution, you admit that you were treasonous against the constitution, that you supported a coup back in 2000.
Well, DUH. The rest of the planet has always known that….
Look. There was the threat to constitutional government, just like you right wingers always fantasized over. There was your moment to rise up in defense of the constitution, there was a time when you had to stand up like men and support liberty. You didn’t do that. And the result wasn’t just a coup, the result wasn’t just an unelected “President” installed, you people also brought us the Patriot Act — the loss of liberty itself.
Accept responsibility for your actions. Your moment came. You had your chance to stand up like men and defend America. You refused. Heck, you supported it’s destruction. You all committed treason.
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When they say “Liberal” they mean “Not Liberal”
Reagan was a neocon technically, but the whole free-market thing and the general promotion of ‘American values’ is liberal to the nth degree. The US political scene isn’t quite as homogeneous as it is here in the UK, but both major parties fundamentally agree on economic matters at least.
And claiming you want commoners to have a direct say in the workings of government is Marxist, my friend…
Hardly. The only thing Marxist about it is the adherence to an ideal above the people, or even reality.
Direct democracy is an election — voting — and although this is a very good thing it is a very inefficient thing. As I used to be fond of pointing out, if left to a vote America would have had national healthcare years ago… only to abolish it… only to bring it back… only to abolish it…
What I talked about was representative democracy, the closest thing to actual existence in America being the Jury — Jury Duty. You get a summons, you show up and if they need you and nobody challenges you as possibly prejudicial to one side of the case, you sit for the duration.
The greatest foreseeable issue with such a system, applied to a government body, would be a rise of the bureaucrats, the ascension of the Civil Servant above citizen and office holder alike.
As a Brit you’re probably blind to it, but in the U.K. the civil servants hold most of the power… plus they swear an oath to the royal family, not the people. With term limits here the civil servants could become as powerful as they are in the U.K., and with a jury duty type system they could potentially become even more powerful (if that is at all possible).
See, if you replace career professionals with temporary common people, the office holders would rely more & more on the civil servants to guide them through the system, explain the rules… explain what all the legal jargon means… tell them what is and isn’t possible. This has already surpassed the joke point in the U.K. (though, oddly, most Brits will insist that the opposite is true), and it’s something that freshman members of congress complain about.
…one story was from a member discussing his first committee meeting. Someone was testifying before the committee, and as a member he asked a few questions. Afterwards the committee staff (the civil servants) were all upset because he had asked questions when they hadn’t prepared any for him! Yes, the civil servants were telling the congressmen what questions to ask. THAT’S POWER!
And, yes, they would become even more powerful with a jury duty type system…
Which brings us back to terms limits.
Term limits are touted as the solution to the problem. The good politicians, or so we are told, will keep rising higher & higher into new offices (taking their experience with them) while the bad politicians will eventually reach their level of incompetence and be pushed out. So, in theory at least, the longer they’re in office the LESS reliant they are on the civil servants, and the more power the representatives of the people have…
Fact is, there is no “Good” solution to any problem, and any true liberal knows this. Marxists & Conservatives alike have their dogmas, while liberals are mired in the here & now, the reality we all must face and the lives that people are living…
There are no good solutions. Some are better than others, one may be the best amongst all the known alternatives, but none are good. All have flaws, which brings me to something the (Liberal) Democrats used to say a lot when I was a kid:
“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.”
The meaning, of course, is that it’s real easy to complain about people, parties or ideas, but it’s damn hard to come up with a good party, person or idea. Most political arguments melt down to a smearing of the other side in the lame belief that, assuming you can tear them down, by default your side will have to be the alternative.
….but your side — whatever that side may be — is just as imperfect, just as easily torn down as their side was.
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A man wanted for crimes against humanity has won the Kenyan presidential election by just over 4,000 votes, according to early figures released by the election commission.
Ironically, the more they complain about this guy, the more the “Social Justice” nutters are going to rally to his defense…. “Oo! Look! White people don’t like him! He must be a good psychopath.”
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Look, it’s this simple:
If you believe the crap you say then act like you do. If you think the only way you can win elections is by supporting a national healthcare system, then support a national healthcare system.
Good golly God, your candidate — Mitt Romney — created the very template that Obama used for his national healthcare plan! You could have owned national healthcare! You could have wrestled it away from Obama, won all the pro-healthcare votes in the nation, but instead you intentionally flung them all away believing it would cost you the election… and now you say that it did.
Yes, yes, we know that you want America to be the only western nation that says healthcare is a luxury, that it’s a privilege for those who’ve got money. You’ve been telling us for years. But do you want to win elections or don’t you?
If you insist that the voters want free healthcare, give the voters free healthcare.
…or don’t. We’d be better off without you in office.
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