"I try not to. But you're young. Think all you want."
-Demolition Man

:D

Michale

Your are going to say this isn't a Right v Left issue.

If that's true, why are all these comments almost nothing but pointing fingers at the Right and ignoring how it's Democrats who are part of the problem.

This Net Neutrality is a perfect example...

I believe it was you who was the fiercest supporter of Net Neutrality, back when Obama supported it to..

Now Obama has seen that my argument is the correct one and is going about to make Internet "Fast Lanes"....

Now, in my not so humble opinion, Obama has made things better..

Your take???

Michale

I believe Arlen Specter said words similiar as did Joe Lieberman..

A man is defined by his actions, not his words..

Wouldn't you agree???

Michale

Yea, well you used "values".. I extrapolated.. :D

He wants a "livable" wage..

Who defines "livable"??

Is "livable" 2 Priuses (Priusii??? Priusium??) in every garage, 72" LED WideScreen on every wall??

Whatever happened to compensation in accordance with the requirements of the job???

Should someone who flips burgers get the same pay as someone who does open heart surgery???

If someone wants that kind of pay, here's a crazy thought... EARN IT....

Here's another thought.. Why don't Democrats take steps to not make the cost of living so expensive??

Democrats have been in power for 6 years now!

Where's the progressive utopia that they said their rule will bring???

Don't tell me, let me guess..

It's all the Republicans' fault... :D

Michale

"Honorable" is your word. I said he thought the Republican party had grown too extreme.

In his words, he was surprised by "how far right the party had turned following the emergence of the Tea Party."

And I don't like him just because he's running as a "Democrat". I like him because of his beliefs:

"I would go after money to maintain our vital infrastructure: sewers, roads, railways, bridges and waterways. That will create jobs. I would advocate job training and experiences that help us better meet the requirements of today's jobs. I'll press for educational excellence; do what we have to do to raise all standards and increase funding for our educational efforts."

On the ACA:

"I do support any and all efforts to make the Affordable Care Act ... the best law. There was a botched rollout. I want to see fairness with this law. ... I know I can assist in that effort to make the law much better."

On a living wage:

"I believe it's imperative ... to raise people out of poverty and give people a livable wage. For too long this issue has been avoided in Congress or turned down by the Republicans."

http://www.kundrataforcongress.com/english/

-David

Another example of the Left's ongoing war to silence diversity and eliminate anyone from the public who disagrees with them..

Where is the tolerance???

Michale

Or, he's a former Republican who realized he couldn't get elected AS a Republican and jumped ship.. :D

Does the name Arlen Specter mean anything to ya?? :D

You say "honorable", I say "oppurtunist".. :D

Michale

Did you think that you would EVER hear from the LEFT that NO DEBATE and NO QUESTIONING is the preferred path to travel??

Heaven forbid that people should actually, HORROR OF HORRORS, be exposed to new ideas and new perceptions that would cause them to question the status quo...

I like that sentence. Partly because it's strictly accurate, but mostly because the word evolution really annoys the pseudo science wing of the Republican Party.

You mean, as opposed to the pseudo science wing of the Democratic Party?? :D

I can provide numerous examples upon request... :D

Michale

I don't see any real policy changes.

They're just learning how to hide the Ayn Rand and von Mises books and taking classes on how to talk to women.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/republican-candidates-women_n_4675979.html

It is interesting though. Here in Ohio's District 1, I'm excited because we just chose Fred Kundrata to run for Congress in District 1. He's a former Republican who decided that the Democratic party better represented his values because Republicans had gotten too extreme.

Me personally, I don't really care about the culture wars. I'll vote for a Republican when I see someone capable of discussing economic policy beyond giving tax cuts to the rich and hoping the benefits "trickle down".

Keep sending them our way, Republicans!

-David

Funny you should mention the John Birchers.. :D

If it's possible for the left to have its John Birch moment, we're in it. Wave goodbye to cardboard civility.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304431104579548052289065492?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304431104579548052289065492.html%3Fmod%3DWSJ_hpp_sections_opinion

Once again, whatever accusation that can be leveled at the Right, almost surely applies to the Left as well..

Ahhhhhhhh It's refreshing to be a political agnostic.. :D

Michale

I like that sentence. Partly because it's strictly accurate, but mostly because the word evolution really annoys the pseudo science wing of the Republican Party.

Political scientists have many lines of evidence that living species of the Tea Party belong to the John Birch Clade via the Ultra Reactionary Republican Clade of the Mainstream Republican Clade of the Whig Clade.

First, there is the fossil evidence, found in library stacks, or stacks of paper on my desk. These majestic mounds are like a window back in time. As political scientists dig deeper into the stacks, they travel back in time. OK, strictly speaking, it's political grad students that wield the pickaxes and whisk brushes. But, regardless of who does the manual labor, at what wage rate, on what deck of the Political Ship of the Imagination, many JBS tracts from the 1950s are nearly word for word identical to tea party fliers reliably dated to 2008.

There is also DNA evidence. This can be studied by grinding up bits Sarah Palin, Dick Armey, Michele Bachmann, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz, extracting their sound bites, mixing them, and watching the bites clump together on talk shows. This is complicated, you need white suites, pipettes and laminar hoods to maintain political correctness.

You can also follow the money coded for by the DNA, or maybe that works the other way around. Anyway, the DNA of American's for Prosperity, The Chamber of Commerce and Freedom Works reveals that much of the Tea Party Movement is actually held together bt a matrix of AstroTurf and well edited nostalgia. See Disney Land/World.

Persecution by the Obama Administration..

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/7/house-republicans-find-10-of-tea-party-donors-audi/

On average, about 1% of Americans are singled out to be audited by the IRS...

By contrast, 10% (TEN TIMES THE AVERAGE) of donors to Tea Party organizations were singled out to be audited by the IRS...

Now, applying ya'alls "CHRISTIE LOGIC" (patent pending) either Obama knew what was going on and is, therefore, responsible for the actions of his IRS...

Or he is incompetent because he DIDN'T know that his IRS was targeting his political opponents...

Which is it???

Michale

As Liz pointed it, it's making it easier for viable Republican Candidates to avoid being primaried and thus go on to win General Elections..

I believe the term ya'all are searching for is Hoisted By Their Own Picard

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/071/d/1/hoisted_by_his_own_picard_by_wytrab8-d5xv9z7.jpg

:D

Michale