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To: TimF who wrote (548258)	2/5/2010 2:57:53 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 1574356

That entire post is pure bullshit. I do not know if it is by design or if you just do not know any better? >>wing fought with the liberals over passing the 1964 civil rights act, including 54 days of filibustering to stop it. It was democrats who fought it and filibustered it. The group of Democrats was in some ways more conservative than other democrats, but they where not generally really on the right wing or strongly associated with the conservative movement. That is unless your defining opposing such things as conservative or right wing, which is a silly non-standard definition, and which makes your argument circular. It becomes "the people who opposed the civil rights bill, opposed the civil bill". Really? Wow, who would have thought... AND DEFEATED, the equal rights amendment for women... ...And the right wing is even now fighting with the liberals over gay marriage and gays in the military. Not supporting specific "civil rights" bills or movements does not imply that you care less than others about people's rights. Its just a matter of opposing questionable ideas, or questionable or outright bad bills. There is something wrong with you right wingers that you cannot seem to understand basic human decency. When you get to define both "right wing" and "decency" sure than "the right wind doesn't understand basic human decency", but if your going to throw around terms to mean whatever you want them to mean, whatever is convenient for your argument, than you lose all ability to communicate a real argument. It becomes meaningless talking past each other rather than a real conversation. I could twist the definitions myself and say all sorts of questionable or false things about the left wing, but I'm not really in to mindless ranting.

To: TimF who wrote (548258)	2/5/2010 5:50:31 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574356

Goldman Sachs CEO awarded a $9 million stock bonus

To: TimF who wrote (548258)	2/6/2010 1:00:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574356

From the let-them-eat-cake dept: THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING.... Just this week, RNC Chairman Michael Steele was asked by a reporter whether he might put some effort into avoiding humiliating gaffes. He replied, "Oh, no. Accidents happen, baby." They sure do. RNC chairman Michael Steele has yet another gaffe to live down after arguing in a debate yesterday that $1 million isn't a lot of money. Steele made the comments while debating former Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) at the University of Arkansas. The topic turned to taxes, and Steele criticized President Obama's plan to let the Bush tax cuts expire for wealthy Americans. "Trust me, after taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of money," Steele said, according to the Associated Press. Alex Koppelman noted, "[I]f there's a specific part of the brain that keeps most of us from saying every stupid thing that pops into our heads, it just doesn't seem to be working for Steele." For the record, the median American household income is about $50,000. For the chairman of the Republican National Committee, 20 times that number is "not a lot of money." In the midst of a recession, when literally 99.6% of the country aren't millionaires, it's probably fair to say this is another one of Steele's "accidents." Indeed, it wasn't long before DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse noted just how out of touch Michael Steele really is, mocking his "caviar dreams." "While millions of Americans are unemployed, while millions can't afford to send their kids to college, can't afford to purchase health insurance, can't afford to stay in their homes, Michael Steele -- a man who moonlights from his RNC gig by getting paid up to 20k to give a speech -- has the audacity to tell the American people, 'a million dollars is not a lot of money."