While you play around
With the clowns that you’ve found
It ain’t right!
Now and then I get tired of the sounds
Of you putting me down
While you’re playing the town
Every night!
The Sweet – “No You Don’t”
This segment from last night’s The Rachel Maddow Show not only does an excellent job of exposing the ludicrous nature of the right wing’s “small government that’s still all up in your business” agenda (job, jobs, jobortion!), but it also hilariously points out just how weak the response from the left has been:
I, for one, would really like to know what Ron Paul the Libertarian thinks of Rand Paul’s totally whacked extreme right wing proposals. Looks to me like daddy wasn’t a very effective teacher. But then he didn’t really set the best example by adopting the old “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” game plan. I’m just sayin – that policy has done such wonders for the Middle East! 🙄
As for Harry Reid, I think he needs some better “rage expression” coaches!
I want ice water.
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The Maddow clip is great!! Thanks. You know how wound up I get about the abortion thing.
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Thanks PT. I don’t always agree with Rachel, but she never fails to entertain! 😀
On the abortion issue though, I’m afraid that I’m about as split on it as the population is as a whole…
Most of the women I grew up around either were at the time, or would later become, single mothers, and I’m sure many of them wish they’d made different choices. On the other hand, the thought of “abortion as birth control” literally scares the crap out of me. I know that, in the end, it has to be the woman’s choice to make, but saying “it’s up to you honey” has always seemed an all-too-easy “cop out” for the male side of the equation.
About the only thing I am sure of is that I do NOT trust the motives of many who would restrict or outright curtail a woman’s right to choose. And my suspicions are only compounded by the fact that many on the right wing side would gladly force “certain” women to have abortions and/or be permanently sterilized if they could get away with it! 😕
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Just don’t fall for the Republican line that would have you believe women opt for abortions like they’d opt for a box of cookies. Abortion is a huge decision for any woman. There are emotional ramifications, moral considerations, possible physical ramifications, personal relationships, etc. to be weighed and considered. The great majority of women don’t use abortion for birth control; they use birth control for birth control.
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You know, the democrats are bad enough PT, but the republican party has become the closest thing I’ve ever seen to that “Beast” the bible thumpers like to scare their kids with. I’m not buying ANYTHING they’re selling!
Having to deal with the ramifications and considerations you mentioned is exactly why I have such a profound respect for the women who can maintain their sanity in the process. Unfortunately, most of the ones I’ve known are just as crazy as the men. I sure wish I had your faith in the majority… 😕
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“About the only thing I am sure of is that I do NOT trust the motives of many who would restrict or outright curtail a woman’s right to choose.”
Sums it up for me too, Mak.
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Me too ImA, but I just couldn’t resist regurgitating the convoluted reasoning behind my confusion as well! 😀
BTW, I included that paragraph about Ron and Rand Paul specifically with you in mind! 😉
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Lets just hope the Middle East don’t fart 😯
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I hate to break it to you Loon, but the Middle East has been “blowing wind” for thousands of years! 😆
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😯 I thought that was my neighbors BBQ.
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Jeez Loon, what the hell do your neighbors eat, barbecued people? OMG, is THAT what’s in that Vegemite stuff?!?!?! 😆
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Has it arrived yet? Mmmmm yummy! Seriously, only use a little 😯
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Not yet Loon, but it’s still very early here… *yawn*
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What’s most interesting to me is how the two parties have switched agendas in the last century. Originally–or at least since the Lincoln era–the Republican Party was for “big government” (federal rights over states’ rights), and the Democratic Party was for ” small government” (states’ rights over federal rights). Now it’s the reverse. This country simply will not last unless the people stop siding with either party, and demand a major third party–one that takes the best ideals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties, and fuses them into a single, practical, realistic doctrine. If not that–the least this country can do is elect an independent president.
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Excellent points Scott!
I’ve thought about the political agenda switch before and have tried to pin down when, exactly, it happened. My first memory of politics of any kind was when it seemed like the whole world was in tears after the assassination of JFK. Since the biggest opponents to the “social equality” positions he had taken were from within his own party, I’ve wondered many times why the democrats themselves don’t seem to be suspects in any of the various “conspiracy theories” surrounding that event.
On the other side, of course, the republicans were kind of the “establishment” when Kennedy came along and stole the thunder away from them when they failed to act on Eisenhower’s warning about the “military industrial complex.” I think that, in order to mount what they thought of as an effective opposition to the reluctantly adopted, yet successful so far, social change agenda of the democrats, the republicans were more or less forced into the “reactionary” anti-change (conservative) role.
Since, IMHO, the blame for poor choices at the ballot box has to ultimately be laid on the shoulders of the voters themselves, perhaps the best way to force them to make more responsible choices would be to remove references to party affiliations from the voting process altogether. This would force voters to choose an actual candidate on the ballot instead of just checking straight down a party line. It would also help relegate the parties themselves to into the more proper roles as political action committees, no different, in principle at least, than any other PAC.
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