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The GOP is only concerned about having power. They don't know how to lead or how to serve the American people, they just want to control government so they can pass on the agendas of fringe religious groups and the syphilis-ridden ideologies of social conservatives (aka America's Taliban). It's too bad that Republicans scoff at socialist policies for Americans then they turn around and hand Pakistan $15 Billion in aid money or pass along corporate handouts to megalith corporations. But for the average America person? They don't care. If you're dumb enough to vote for another Republican President then you deserve to lose your job and wallow in the recession that the last one handed us.
The writer best represents the left's mentality with his oxymoron "underdog majority..." The Dems are the MAJORITY party because their congressmen won by at least one vote. The use of pejoratives allows the left to blanket itself in self-righteous indignation when they perceive that their majority may be slipping away. They need to subconsciously prepare themselves in the event their reps come up short and suffer defeat.
The writer best represents the left's misguided mentality with his oxymoron "underdog majority..." The Dems happen to be the MAJORITY party that controls the vote in congress. They do so because they won their respective elections by at least one or more votes. Al Franklen come to mind? The use of pejuratives allows these more enlightened minds to blanket themselves in self-righteous piety, and indiganation toward conservative voters. They consistently fail to recognize that they may be only one election away from actually becoming the "underdog". Their underlying, though subconscious, reasoning may rest with their inability to deal with the fact that others feel a whole lot different about the direction our country is heading.
longshanks are you for real? Do you believe your own bull. Control government? The Republicans? Uh Nah. The health care bill is the largest government take over ever attempted. Let's see before that there was government take over of GM & Chrysler. And before that the banking industry. But yeh the Republicans want to take over government. Wow when you blow smoke what are you smoking?
If you accuse the GOP of trying to stop health care ONLY to make Obama look bad, then I guess the Dem's were opposed to sending the surge to Iraq only to make Bush fail, not because they believed in their positions. When Reid said we had LOST in Iraq, was he saying that because he WISHED that Bush failed (to engender more power for him and his party)? Or did he believe we had truly lost? Your argument is that politicians do things to gain power? Duh! Of course they do! Both parties. Sometimes they do things because they believe in them. Perhaps the GOP doesn't like the idea of putting Health care in the hands of Government Bureaucrats. (I know I don't) When the claim is that we will reduce 1/2 Trillion of fraud and waste in ONE program to help pay for a new program, how can you expect 1.That the fraud and waste WILL INDEED be eliminated, and 2.This new program won't have any waste or fraud in it.
One thing that has been talked about in this bill is that we will help pay for it by eliminating this waste and fraud in Medicare. That has been talked about since last February. 9 months later what action has been taken to eliminate this fraud? Is it that we must accept a NEW program ripe for fraud before we can attempt to reform another program that is already ripe with fraud? It's not about power only. (it's fear of abuse of that power)
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