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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Even THE DRUDGE REPORT
is reporting this!
The GOP has officially declared war on all inconvenient facts! This is outright disgusting! I cannot believe I ever supported these clowns!
I posted that report earlier. Calling it Tyranny is a bit much. It basically just says that tax cuts for the rich don't work.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen FryOk, maybe tyranny IS a bit much...
But the fact that this non-partisan report is a target of political censorship is still pretty sickening.
The Republican Party no longer cares about facts! I know I'm being harsh, but if you try to suppress a report because the facts don't support your political views, you are unworthy of holding elected office!
Not surprising at this point. Romney's campaign said they wouldn't be controlled by fact checkers.
That and the essay I posted before shows there's a really eerie correlation between Republican fear-mongering and the Republican party funding itself through snake oil salesmen, Ponzi schemes, and scams. Well...
The Republican Party ain't the Republican Party of the 80s or even 90s anymore.
I guess we're hitting some sort of a life cycle period here.
Tomu, as much as I like you, and as much as I wish it were true, I don't think that's the case. I believe the GOP lost their collective minds. Idealogy over facts, truth be damned.
Or I could be wrong. Maybe I've been watching too much of The Young Turks. I will admit Cenk Uygur is quite the cynic.
But Frank Rich says the GOP "solution" to losing has been "go further right" for decades.
I seriously wanted to take a flamethrower to every single campaign sign today, regardless of who it's for.
Story: I was driving down a road I normally drive down when heading to and from work when I noticed one of those "Stop Obama! Vote the R!" campaign signs. There wasn't one there before and I started facepalming at it, but I decided if people wanted to put it there, it was fine by me.
Now here's where the part that really pisses me off. I then proceeded to see 5 more of those damn things within a mile after seeing the first one, and I should note that there was no other signs around them.
I'm perfectly fine with people putting signs on corners or in their yards, but that was just ridiculous, and made me want to go out and torch every single one of them.
But, from the stories I've been hearing from y'all, it makes me kinda glad Texas is a solid Republican state. For once.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."I think public property is open for signs of those sorts, though. That or they're not considered enough of a nuisance for any officials to take them down. Also, your comment about Texas distresses me, given what Republicans have managed to do here.
Also, it's becoming less likely to be a solid red state after this year, due to shifting demographics.
Really, the only thing that might get the Republicans soul-searching is if they consistently lose House and Senate seats and the presidency to the Democrats. Basically they need to be put in a position where they would have to rethink their strategy to survive as a political party.
Wizard Needs Food BadlyI don't think we'll see any change come from the GOP unless they absolutely have to undergo some in order to survive as a party. Look at how close the race is in spite of who they picked. Romney is essentially a real, living version of an evil capitalist strawman straight out of some leftist propaganda piece.
If I was some shadowy political puppetmaster and I had a candidate like Romney, I'd be pleasantly surprised if he even had a fighting chance. Assuming the election results were significantly close, the first thing I'd do is assume that my party could probably get away with getting someone with essentially the same views to run if they had a bit more charisma and were more convincing liars.
While I don't think this is the end of the world or anything, the 2012 Election Cycle feels very much like the GOP's "Gandor Calls For Aid" moment. The party seems to have cashed in every favor and every string it could pull.
And well, as we're seeing, their back-up, as it were, is failing. Or at least not doing as well as it should be despite a massive financial advantage.
They're still set to face a Democrat held Presidency (83.6% chance) and Senate (91.6% chance). That's still a massive screw job, and the potential murder of the Republican Super PA Cs. If the Republicans fail to pull in extensive results, the Super PAC donors are going to be demanding answers out the ass from the Koch Brothers and Rovey why their moneyed advantage meant jack-freaking-shit.
So, I went to early voting this afternoon. Took almost two hours, and that's pretty typical from what I've heard.
I live in Florida. Early voting was reduced from 14 days to 8 days this year. Clearly those extra days were unnecessary.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.![]()
Please that's small potatoes.
Governor Jerry Brown's Prop 30 (which would temporarily raise taxes on the rich, along with a temporary quarter-cent sales tax hike) was thought to surely pass until some pacs from Arizona started running ads against it.
Now the whole things a toss-up.
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
There are but like I said, the proposition passing was thought to be a sure thing, so they were caught off-guard by this sudden turn of events.
There just now starting to respond to the anti-Prop 30 groups.
I should point out that if Prop 30 fails to pass, public schools could be forced to cut a month out of the school year.
edited 3rd Nov '12 4:26:55 AM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016I know I sound extremist but it's shit like this that makes me wish the GOP would just roll over and die so the Democrats could take over the country. They are incredibly corrupt in their own ways but they're not the disaster in the making the GOP is turning out to be. Who knows we might even get a good second party like the Greens in power if the GOP is shown to be full of fools.
Either way I blame Fox News and the conservative media for this. It has spent so long perpetuating the myth of this alternate reality where these things work that short of forcing Rove, O'reilly, Beck, Limbaugh, and all those nutbags to say on air that they lied is going to do nothing to sway the 30% of the country or more that believes this bullshit. Obama should be killing Romney in this election because, frankly, Romney is a fucking moron whose plan will bankrupt us and destroy every improvement brought about in the 20th century. The fact that he's not proves that people are influenced too easily by liars who have no plays billing themselves as news outlets.
Maybe we need conservatives that aren't stark raving mad...? Tea-party isn't the answer, talking heads isn't the answer, either. But somehow, that's what a lot of people want.
So what is the answer? What would a rational Republican party actually look like, that would still play counterpart to the Democrats?
edited 3rd Nov '12 7:17:49 AM by pvtnum11
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.

I'm not saying they're not doing that I'm just saying they probably don't have to.
Also Romney flip-flops a ton. I expect that to be reversed in four years if he feels like it.