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To: Hayduke who wrote (212581)	12/24/2012 9:46:45 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541661

When people check their stock accounts today, and see they are down, they won't blame the democrats...

To: Hayduke who wrote (212581)

12/25/2012 8:05:42 AM

From: koan

Respond to of 541661

Great post and so true.

But I would add that same Republican personality has been there since the 1920's. If one goes back and looks at Harding (Tea Pot dome), Coolidge (cut back social programs for Laissez-faire nonsense) and Hoover allowing the bonus marcher to be killed.

In the 30's and 40's, the Republican's fought FDR's New Deal tooth and nail (many votes had no Republicans), Macarthy and the John Birch society in the 50's, in the 60's the conservatives backed segregation, 70's a crazed Nixon who came close to starting a nuclear war and killed millions in Viet Nam for political purposes only. Then Reagan, a hatchet man for the plutocrats and destroyer of unions, and finally little Bush who all but destroyed this county. He governed like his father raised him.

And Mark McKinnon is a whore. Was a dem, changed to Republican to work for Bush (read gain power anyway you can) and now is a no labels guy because he has no principles and the Bush label got trashed, so he has moved on and reinvented himself. Again.

Still his article is noteworthy.

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Party of Nothing

Mark McKinnon says it is becoming clear that the Republican party "is against everything and for nothing."

"Nothing on taxes. Nothing on gun control. Nothing on climate change. Nothing on gay marriage. Nothing on immigration reform (or an incremental, piece-by-piece approach, which will result in nothing). It's a very odd situation when the losing party is the party refusing to negotiate. It may be how you disrupt, but it is not how you govern, or how you ever hope to regain a majority."

"And so, we have a Republican Party today willing to eliminate any prospect for a decent future for anyone, including itself, if it cannot be a future that is 100 percent in accordance with its core beliefs and principles. That's not governing. That's just lobbing hand grenades. If you're only standing on principle to appear taller, then you appear smaller. And the GOP is shrinking daily before our eyes."

Groucho Marx anticipated all of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0