Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Maybe SOME people should stop thinking in terms of “teams”. This isnt football… this is our government. I dont care if a person is from the Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats, Satans Party… it is about what type of leadership THAT person will bring.

a PLAN should be put together to solve our biggest problems… Plans by engineer minded people… not by politicians and lobbyists… ALL plans should start off asking how can we solve this problem WITHOUT government because any time the Feds get their hands on a problem it becomes a chance to be bribed and they seem all too happy to use it that way… or even worse they do like the democrats are now and use it to force their self righteous beliefs on others about smoking…

IF we try to solve the problem without government and it fails OR we do not have time to let things play out like that THEN I would be fine with the government taking over temporarily to solve the issue… Take Universal Health Care for example.. we could stop the Insurance companies and drug companies from bribing Congress for special treatment and let a true market solution by WE THE PEOPLE to solve it BUT people are suffering right now… so if we can get the government to move against the bad actors and setup a temporary single payer plan until we can figure out how to get it out into the private sector without the Insurance companies taking over again then so be it.

This isnt a game and it isnt an either or proposition. All incompassing solutions often are complex and require the system to morph over time to get to the desired end goal… I know this works because I have done it for years in coming up with very complex solutions for companies/government computer systems that much morph over time instead of being an all or nothing solution…

The modern libertarian movement, as concocted by a bunch of wealthy corporate industrialists in the 70’s, is a classic “bait and switch” applied to political philosophy. Bait with individual freedom and switch to unfettered, unregulated corporate capitalism. Wealthy corporatists were concerned with the public’s progressive activism in the 60’s, so they had to figure out a way to convince working class Americans that their interests were the same as the interests of the wealthy. They did this by concentrating on emotional issues like drugs and guns. This convinced many working class people, mainly men, that libertarian philosophy would lead to more freedom, but all it led to was more power for large corporations. It’s an insidious trick played on working class Americans and I hope people will begin to see it for what it is.

Ron Paul doesn’t like the idea of public financing of elections or regulating the media.

Our libertarian friends here would like to gloss over all of these facts about Ron Paul’s libertarian philosophy and concentrate on his opposition to the war. But, let’s not forget the core libertarian philosophy which is the most corporate-friendly philosophy in politics today.

Again, this is exactly how we got Bush in the first place. And, I don’t want to burst your bubble, but George Clooney says he’ll be voting for the Democrat no matter who is nominated.

They said nothing of the sort. Review the tape. This kind of thinking is exactly how we got Bush in the first place. You people are simply crazy.

This is exactly what the Repubs are hoping for. Block all legislative efforts by Dems and convince voters with a shallow understanding of politics to either not vote at all or not vote for the Democrat. Nice going guys. Perfect tools.

There is a common misconception about the nature of the Boston Tea party. It wasn’t about an increase in taxes. It was about a special tax BREAK for the East India company. The king’s people cut taxes for just the one company and the domestic tea importers felt that this gave a favored corporation an unfair competitive advantage.

You must have been watching a different debate than everyone else. John Edwards said that “if what Petraeus says is right and there are 100,000 troops in Iraq in 2009, I would immediately bring home 40-50,000 and then bring home the rest in 2-3 months.” He said he would only leave enough troops in Iraq to protect the embassy and to protect humanitarian workers.

Also, Dennis Kucinich would bring all the troops home the day he took office.

Comment by Peter C — September 27, 2007 @ 3:25 pm

I aggree with you. This is just like the MoveOn.org vote: pure political theatre. Not that Cheney and his puppet wouldn’t like to bomb Iran but Reid and Pelosi need the votes of “so-called” moderate Republicans to pass important domestic legislation. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if that means playing Joe (a*hole) Liebermann for a fool, so be it!

Our HHS Secretary Leavitt was asked Sunday by Wolf Blitzer why Bush was just now talking about healthcare after 6 2/3rd years. Leavitt said “Issues ripen and mature”.

Comment by ggibson1 — September 27, 2007 @ 2:23 pm

I’m pretty sure that most of the Dem candidates for president want to end the Iraq war. Given the present balance of forces in the House and Senate, I don’t think it is politically reasonable to expect them to say so, or, that Democrats will be able to pull it off under present conditions. Saying otherwise would raise expectations to unreasonable levels and only lead to frustration just like after the last Congressional elections.
Executing a safe military withdrawal from a theatre of war is, most military experts say, one of the most difficult if not the most difficult maneuver an army can undertake. If Bush could find a compliant general to stage a “surge”, I’m confident our next president (hopefully a Democrat) will be able to find a good American general to get us out of there, in say, three to six months. I’m hoping of course.

Oh poor babies. Things couldn’t possibly get much worse for conservatives, and it has nothing to do with Roberts or any other Republic who is now “seeing the light” because they see their chances of being re-elected going down the drain. What it does have to do with is the Bush Crime Family and the lemming Republicans who either aren’t running for re-election in 2008 or who don’t care if they are re-elected.

One thing Bush has accomplished is that we will have combat troops in Iraq for a minimum of five years (and it’ll probably be 10-15 years) once Commander Codpiece goes back to clearing brush.

The pressure from big money corporations works on both sides of the aisles, and all the promises made by candidates that “we’ll begin troop withdrawls immediately” are nothing more than words.

Bush and Cheney know this, that’s why the invaded in the first place. They have secured oil for their donors and they have secured access to natural gas resources as well.