Actually, the Medicare vote was negotiated and half the Republicans voted for it. It wasn't just jammed down on a party-line basis, using every strong-arm tactic and payoff in the book, like Obamacare.
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I know who has always believed in welfare for corporations and free enterprise for workers. True, you get a handful crossing party lines, but, in general, Republicrooks love the wealthy and the corporations and hate workers and unions. Democrats, who are far from perfect, are better on these issues.
If this was ever true, it hasn't been for a generation.
Did you notice which candidate got the most money in total, in much larger donations, and mostly from the wealthy, in 2008?
Today it's the rich: the limousine liberals and the rent-seeking crony capitalists, the lobbyists, the trial lawyers, the government dependents: the NEA, the SEIU, the UAW, and the poor: the bottom 40% who pay NO Federal income tax, whose permanent dependency on Government the Democrats are working to insure, who make up the Democratic Party.
The working middle class and small business owners are the backbone of today's Republican Party. That's whom Obama wants to impoverish to pay for his promised largesse. Look at the Tea Party, that is who they are. |