Conversations with Republican friends have brought me to the generalization that Republicans are more likely to be fundamentalists in their religious beliefs than Democrats. These were conversations on politics, not religion.
A recent conversation began with agreement that we would like to see both parties work together. Why couldn’t they approach the idea or proposal of the other with a positive attitude? Then I mentioned the vote on the stimulus package put forward by President Obama and how I admired the three Republican senators who voted for it.
“Oh, we’re on opposite sides of that!” my Republican friend exclaimed.
“But isn’t that an example of cooperation?”
“Obama was the one who wasn’t cooperating. He rammed that through too fast without giving Republicans a chance to have their input.”
“Hey, wait a minute. Wasn’t there an urgency to get something done? All the experts on both sides said this was ‘uncharted waters’. Nobody came forward to say ‘this is the way out of this. This is what we must do to revive the economy.’ Nobody! No one claimed to have the answer. Wouldn’t it be better to say, ‘OK Mr. President, we’ll go with your plan’ especially since the President had listened to Republicans and had put a significant tax relief in it.”
“No. He just pushed it through so quickly no one had time to look at it critically.”
“What about the financial bailout pushed through a couple of months before Obama took office?”
“What bailout?”
“Remember the three page legislation that put $700 billion it Paulson’s hands to pretty much do with as he pleased? Remember how urgent it was to push that one through? Paulson got down on his knees to Congress and Bush signed it a week later. One week! Wasn’t that pushy?”
Republican amnesia on that one.
Fundamentalists take their dogma without question. Republican presidents and legislators are always right even if what they say today is a direct contradiction of what they said a month ago. Similarly The Bible is God’s word no matter that it is filled with contradictions. Could it be that being brought up to believe the Bible without question prepares them to accept whatever Republican leaders say no matter how nonsensical?
One more dialogue:
“I can’t stand Slick Willy.”
“What do you mean?”
“All his slick real estate dealings. He’s a crook.”
“Ken Star spent nearly $40 million investigating his ‘slick’ deals and found nothing.”
“He was impeached.”
“Yeah, for lying about getting a blow job, not for any slick dealings unless you call ejaculating on a red dress slick.”
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Blue dress….
Oh, and about Bush’s $700 billion giveaway right before he left… No one knows where it went!
Anyone still calling themselves a Republican is an idiot.
Posted 23 Jun 2009 at 5:53 pm ¶“What I believe is that the world would be a much better place if we accepted each other’s beliefs as being no less valid than our own.”
hmmm..unless they happen to be Repulicans? I know many Democrats and Republicans and I would hardly call them idiots. Misled and deceived would aptly apply to both sides.
Domocrats vs Repulicans=pot calling kettle black.
Both groups are deceitful self-serving liars and they don’t give a tinkers damn about the working class. They all use us to support their parasitic existence…both sides.
The morals of a person tells their character. Go back and review the revelations of those on both sides who were caught in lies, in affairs, pedophilia, tax evasion, frauds, fathering children with women other than wives etc etc. You will find the playing field quite even. Have people become so accustomed to liars and perverts in chage that it is now the accepted norm?! Good grief and heaven help us if that is so.
They live in luxury that taxpayers provide and they don’t have a clue how it is to work for a living. They look upon the masses with total disdain and disrepect and perhaps that is what we deserve for being foolish enough to listen to them.
They are supposed to be working for us and not the other way around.
Posted 09 Sep 2009 at 5:07 pm ¶BTW, the lies that Clinton told were to the Grand Jury which is a Federal Felony offense. It doesn’t matter WHAT he lied about, it is the fact he lied to a Grand Jury(and the entire nation) and was not convicted of that felony. If you choose to accept that the leader of this nation can break the laws of the land and get off clean, that is your choice. A nation reflects the morals and actions of the leaders. Look where we are today. There has not been a decent man in the Oval Office in my lifetime and now we have stopped scraping the bottom of the dirty barrel for a ‘leader’, we are scraping under the nasty thing.
Posted 09 Sep 2009 at 5:13 pm ¶justme, It would be helpful if you listened to (or read) what another is saying (or writing) and responded to their thoughts rather than grabbing onto a bunch of assumptions. I was not trivializing Clinton’s lying by not further identifying it as lying to the Grand Jury. It ranks high on the list of stupid things politicians have done and, undoubtedly, will continue to do.
Posted 17 Sep 2009 at 1:40 pm ¶What we are seeing in our country is the apparently inevitable conclusion of any system our species puts in place to govern itself. Our species seems doomed to game the system until it fails.
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