Conservatives Rejoice! Happy Days are Here Again! The two Republican victories in the gubernatorial races should be considered a mandate for Republican leadership, a mandate for increased spending and troop levels for the US Foreign Legion efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and also a mandate for a greatly a expanded Patriotic Act to remove any civil liberties that US citizens still have. The people's Republic of China probably grants it's citizens fewer civil liberties than the US, particularly with regard to free speech, but that should only encourage Republicans to try harder to become #! in denial of civil liberty. With regard to economic freedom, China seems to encourage more innovative free enterprise than the US, which would help explain it's extremely rapid economic growth, although the US still theoretically still has the world's largest GDP. But if the Republicans try harder, and emphasize subsidizing their bureaucratic economic dinosaur buddies on Wall St, and increase payments to the military-industrial complex, they may soon be able to brag that the US is an even more authoritarian country than China. When one considers that US spending on it's collectivist "benign imperialism" military efforts in the Mid-East is counted as part of positive US GDP, one can see that the US economy is a Humpty Dumpty that has fallen, and not an economy in need of a Republican recovery plan, or a simple time-out from Democrat recovery plans; the US is in need of American Revolution II. Neither Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, nor Ron Paul and all of his men are going to put Humpty together again. So rejoice, Republicans authoritarians, you and your heros Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity have plenty to be proud of as you beat the drums for an escalation of military action to keep America "standing tall" as the world's #1 nemesis, and pave the way to revolution.
well put. your reference to glenn beck made me think of a segment on the daily show yesterday, in which stewart did a spot on beck impersonation... oughtta check it out. i agree though... things will have to get reall really REALLY fucked before all the sheeple wake up. hope it isn't too late by that point
Hell Yeah, Republicans Rejoice!! Palven, my friend, I'm not exactly sure what you are ranting on about, but I will attempt a reply. Regarding the civil liberties and your claim that our civil liberties are being destroyed: Yes, Bush gave us the Patriot Act and that gave the gument the authority to delve into our lives. Yes, Bush was not interested in hearing any dissent, any criticism. He also gave us some unique comedy during his speeches. Surely I missed something, but see when Bush was oppressing my civil liberties, I just didn't notice (except when I was trying to smoke weed and not get arrested, but that wasn't Bush's doing.) I'm curious, how have your civil liberties been oppressed, and do you like Obama's expansion of big government? The libs are currently oppressing our freedoms so much more than the previous administration. And they also don't want to hear any dissent because they know what is good for us, they know what is best. The main way libs oppress the people is through the destruction of the economy. Because money is power and freedom. And I guess Obama doesn't like that. I think he likes people on welfare, because then he can control those impoverished people. There is this myth that Keynesian spending creates growth. But Obama's stimulus has done basically nothing. If Congress would stop screwing around listening to Colbert's comedy, debating amnesty for the illegal immigrants and just extend the Bush tax cuts, the economy would explode, people would get to work, unemployment would shrink and we could balance the budget like the Republicans did back in the 90's. Not quite sure what you're going on about calling America authoritarian because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I understand that we have spent a butt load of money on these wars, but don't you realize that we are dealing with people that hate us on a philosophical level. They hate our freedoms and way of life, they hate the fact that we aren't Muslim. Some Muslims (Saddam and the Taliban) hate other Muslims (The Kurds and the Hazara) saying "You're doing it wrong!" Now, I don't know how to deal with these people. We can't be nice to them, cause they will just laugh at us, then attack us. We aren't having much luck killing them, cause they are so decentralized. So we have spent a Brazillion (to use a mythical Bushism.) dollars fighting these people. And you call us authoritarian. But, yes, Republicans can rejoice. Because hopefully we will get some real fiscal conservatives in office, not liberal fuckups like Bush and McCain. And fixing the economy is first and most important to me.
