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[mdlbear]

We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore -- In These Times -- a well-written tirade against the current Republican party, by Garrison Keillor. (From filkerdave)

Here in 2004, George W. Bush is running for reelection on a platform of tragedy—the single greatest failure of national defense in our history, the attacks of 9/11 in which 19 men with box cutters put this nation into a tailspin, a failure the details of which the White House fought to keep secret even as it ran the country into hock up to the hubcaps, thanks to generous tax cuts for the well-fixed, hoping to lead us into a box canyon of debt that will render government impotent, even as we engage in a war against a small country that was undertaken for the president’s personal satisfaction but sold to the American public on the basis of brazen misinformation, a war whose purpose is to distract us from an enormous transfer of wealth taking place in this country, flowing upward, and the deception is working beautifully.

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[madfilkentist]

In other words, the choice is between the Republicans who want to run us through an endless war and the Democrats who want to bleed us "well-fixed" people (which in practice means anyone earning a professional's income) with ever-higher taxes.

They should both go to hell.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I'll second that. The party of Lincoln was never the party of Liberty; Lincoln did far worse to the Constitution than Dubya ever did, putting newspaper publishers in jail and suspending Habeas Corpus willy-nilly...

On the other hand, Hillary Clinton's social(ist) healthcare bill had more ways to go to prison by having the temerity to pay for your healthcare than half the US Penal Code, so it seemed...

Phooey on the lot of them.

What I want is a government that provides for the common defence (instead of being offensive, both militarily and otherwise, all the time) and promote, rather than provide for, the general welfare (it seems the one party wants to provide for corporate welfare, while the other wants to let the hoi polloi sit on their collective(ist) butts and draw a check on the backs of those who are smart enough to make a dime or two)...

And I have come to believe that securing the blessings of liberty for us and our posterity is the most important clause of that august Preamble... if they will LET US ALONE and make it stick, truly free men and women, those who think for themselves, can simply go about their business... and peer pressure all but shames them into helping make the world a better place. Look at Bill Gates, forced out of Microsoft and into philanthropy. I can't think of a better way for that guy to end up. Jamie Moyer. Multi-million dollar pitcher, future hall of famer, giving it away and encouraging others to do likewise. Heck, next thing you know the Donald will be doing it.

[dejla.livejournal.com]

I wish Garrison Keillor weren't married. I'd marry him.