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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (42466)	4/13/2004 7:09:36 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 89467

Scott, I'm dreading the notion of inadvertently turning on the TV and finding the Petty Dauphine on the screen. The White Louse is losing its marbles. It is preempting American Idol tonight and putting Bush in front of that audience. This is guaranteed to P.O. most American Idol fans who want nothing more than to escape reality. Lately, I could swear that some clever Machiavellian from the Democratic side of things is running Bush's campaign. Bush could not be more inept than he has been over the past month. *** OK, so have I introduced you to BUSH BY THE NUMBERS? This is my campaign to have everyone in America laughing at Bush with the mere mention of a any Arabic number, let alone a Roman Numeral. So, at the risk of causing some here to learn the jokes, here's # 1358 "Anytime a liberal points out that the wealthy are disproportionately benefiting from Bush's tax policies, Republicans shout, "class warfare!" In her book, "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century", Barbara Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that began in the village of St. Leu and spread throughout the Oise Valley. At one estate, the serfs sacked the manor house, killed the knight, and roasted him on a spit in front of his wife and kids. Then after ten or twelve peasants violate the lady, with children still watching, they forced her to eat the roasted flesh of her husband and then killed her. That is class warfare. Arguing over the optimum marginal tax rate for the top one percent is not." Source: Al Franken, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" p. 303 * # 1837 Of course, in America we are much more civilized about dealing with the rich. In the 1830s, a small handful of Baltimore worthies got together and founded a few banks, issuing currency and taking in deposits. Everything went well for a couple of years, but then, as the Panic of 1837 set in, the banks collapsed, with currency holders and depositors both being ruined while the bankers remained rich and lived in fine new mansions recently built on the hills surrounding the old town. Efforts to get these crooks to disgorge their ill-gotten gains were to no avail in the corrupted court system, so the dispossessed and defrauded took matters into their own hands. The vigilante committee marched en masse up to the mansion district and proceeded to burn down the fine new homes, tar and feather the occupants and run them out of a town on a rail. And that's how Texas got founded. Some things never change.