tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post1325151986273628010..comments2024-03-16T05:19:07.061-04:00Comments on Retirement Blues: Michigan Primary ResultsJazzbumpahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-39418729363943491142012-02-29T14:01:15.792-05:002012-02-29T14:01:15.792-05:00PA -
See my follow up here.
http://jazzbumpa.blo...PA -<br /><br />See my follow up here.<br /><br />http://jazzbumpa.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-on-republicans.html<br /><br />I routinely refer to the President as B. Hoover Obama, and have called him a corporate shill.<br /><br />I'm just one guy, with limited time and energy. I can't reasonably be expected to take on every wrong I see in this country, so I concentrate on the worst. If the Rethugs weren't so extreme and so dangerous, I might have the time and inclination for a more balanced approach. Besides, there is more than enough criticism of the Dems floating around out there. I fell no imperitive to join in.<br /><br />Still - your inference was just that, and not a valid conclusion from what I said. There is no reason to take valid criticisms of the Republicans as in any way support for the Democrats.<br /><br />As for that European far left dichotomy - if you're referring to The Netherlands or Scandinavia, it's working out quite well, thank you. <br /><br />It's austerity that is driving most of Europe to the brink. And who supports that kind of thinking here? Republicans.<br /><br />Cheers!<br />JzBJazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-41112653591431434602012-02-29T13:39:09.827-05:002012-02-29T13:39:09.827-05:00Specifics? Well, your dream seemed pretty specific...Specifics? Well, your dream seemed pretty specific to me. While a marginalized minority isn't necessarily one-party rule, I think we could call it close enough for government work. <br /><br />More generally, and maybe I've missed these posts, I don't recall any vitriol aimed at the Democratic den of thieves. So, yeah, I think mine was a reasonable inference of your position.<br /><br />Now with the clarification of your reply I think your argument becomes that once those brutish Republicans are dispensed with, the Democrats themselves will splinter and there will emerge a new true-left to foil the center-crooks? OK, but again if you've ever complained about crooks in the Democrats, I must have missed those posts. And by the way, I think that is incredibly round about way to get somewhere. So round about, I'm doubtful it would lead to where you would prefer. And by the way, how's that left/far-left dichotomy working out for Europe?Prefer Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-24602608425837856992012-02-29T12:53:12.870-05:002012-02-29T12:53:12.870-05:00PA -
You have concluded things about my position ...PA -<br /><br />You have concluded things about my position that I neither said, nor implied. Please identify specifics of where my critical thinking faltered. <br /><br />I come close to loathing the Dems. But that does not lessen the fact that the great majority of clear and present danger comes from the Republicans.<br /><br />I'm not hoping for one party rule. I'm hoping for a political process that has participants who believe in science, engage in honest debate, are genuinely interested in the well-being of the American people, and which focuses on issues of real importance to society. <br /> <br />The Republicans fail each of these tests. <br /> <br />Over the last 40 years, the Republicans have abandoned conservatism and become regressive reactionaries with no valid political philosophy. Their pandering to the religious right has dragged the discourse far off center. Political dialog for many years now has been between the right and the far right. <br /> <br />If there is valid conservatism in U.S. politics today, it exists in the Democratic party. <br /> <br />In my dream, the new party arises from the left. There is lots of room there. <br /><br />Cheers!<br />JzBJazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-57583869474898991002012-02-29T11:50:50.615-05:002012-02-29T11:50:50.615-05:00In your dreams?
Because the Democrats have shown ...In your dreams?<br /><br />Because the Democrats have shown themselves so capable of holding Wall Street in check? Jon Corzine, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin, Tim Geithner, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Obama himself, what have any of them done to prosecute the gross looting of the middle-class by Wall Street? Excepting maybe Obama, everyone of them has actively abetted it.<br /><br />But hey, I'm sure you have your own list of Republican liars and useful idiots, so I'll bring it up a level, where has one party rule ever served the people well? For someone that can so ably take-down straw man propaganda like the SS piece in the previous post, I'm always astounded by the lack of critical thinking in regards to the two major parties.Prefer Anonnoreply@blogger.com