Domestic “Conservative Christian” Terrorists Target America’s Economy
Self described “Consevative Christian” Anders Behring Breivik used guns and bombs to inflict terror on a massive scale in Norway.
Are our self-described “Conservative Christians” in Congress less fanatical ?
On dkos, Nicholas Kristof accurately identifies the greatest threat currently facing America.
IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage our education system, we would erupt in outrage.
Well, wake up to the national security threat. Only it’s not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists.
WORD!
Also, I noticed that our job creatin’ richest Americans and their corporate stock portfolios are creatin’ jobs in the global market – China, India etc. not in the good old US of A.
Pretty bold words from Kristoff. I wonder if other media elites will pick up this theme.
They would if the Democrats started saying that the Republicans are putting their oath to Norquist above their oath of office.
A few days ago, Kramer on CNBC came up with an interesting comment. He said that the Tea Party is no longer acting like the “fiscal conservatives” that they call themselves, but rather old-fashioned, bomb-throwing Anarchists.
these small government t-hadjis are, really “no governement” anarchists.
In their zeal to say government does nothing right, they have set about on a rampage to make their statements a self-fufiling prophecy. What they say ISN’T so, but they are trying to MAKE it so.
In essence, they are working on throwing out the baby with the bath water, leaving themselves and us, deprived of the support we have all worked so hard for.
Taking it down to its even smaller common demoninator, its about their own egos. proving they are right.
Again, I wonder, who is going to be the adult in the room, put their foot down and place these nut jobs into “time-out” until they grow up and acquire some common sense??
Aoine wrote:
Nope! It’s that we believe that government should be limited to provide only the basics: police, fire protection, public education, currency, roads and bridges, national defense and the like. What we don’t believe that government should be providing is welfare, health care, day care, and all of the other nanny state things y’all love so much.
Gee, it’s just so upsetting that the Republicans are trying to do what they promised the voters they would do when they ran for election in 2010. The Clerk of the House of Representatives posts post-election reports on total votes, for each contest individually, and in the aggregate, which you can download here. (Warning: .pdf file.) Out of 86,784,957 total votes cast:
44,593,666 (51.38%) were for Republican Party candidates;
38,854,459 (44.77%) were for Democratic Party candidates;
1,002,511 (01.16%) were for Libertarian Party candidates;
230,764 (00.27%) were for Green Party candidates;
123,841 (00.14%) were for Constitution Party candidates; and
519,043 (00.60%) were for independents.
The remainder were for very minor party candidates, or were write-in votes.
The Republicans won a majority (not just the plurality) of the total votes cast, outdistancing the second-place Democrats by 6.61% of the vote.
Of course, it’s just vitally important that we borrow more money st that we can continue to fund important research like this.
What we don’t believe that government should be providing is welfare, health care, day care, and all of the other nanny state things y’all love so much.
Unless, of course, your folks are smack in the middle of making use of these programs. Which plenty of you are — you are just in denial that they are government programs. That’s how you get the brain dead signs like Keep Your Government Out of My Medicare. What you people are is confused.
Poll after poll after poll makes it really clear that Americans do not want Medicare or Social Security cuts. Really, Americans do not want much cut other than foreign aid. And that does not count for much.
Republicans may have won the majority of the votes in 2010, in a very low turnout election, but Democrats won big in 2008. Which hasn’t stopped you people from ignoring that fact. And the key here — which I have a hard time convincing the left of my own party of — is that as long as there is someone else in the room with a vote, you do not get everything that you want. And just because you may have a majority in the House, you are entitled to compromises with the government that is there. You are not entitled to running the show. Because Democracy simply does not work like that.
Boehner said he has the same duties as the president. I guess he thinks that means that he runs the whole country. Boehner seems to be confused about the Constitution he claims to be an expert on.
BTW, here’s the link to the Kristof piece “Republicans, Zealots and Our Security”
Dana writes “Gee, it’s just so upsetting that the Republicans are trying to do what they promised the voters they would do when they ran for election in 2010.”
Perhaps you fail to consider the possibility that they over-promised. Perhaps they failed to recognize that with a duly elected President from the other party, they were doomed from the start to be able to deliver on their promises, and that they were irresponsible to make the promise in the first place.
Republicans had every expectation to prevail, after effectively running the country with 41 Senators in the first half of Obama’s term. It is Obama’s sudden discovery of his spine that is causing all the consternation now.
There’s Jason being a dumbass again. Comparing the American Christian Right, as a group, to some individual “unstable isotope” in Europe.
sometimes when you love something. You have to stomp on it’s face, piss on it, light it on fire, hang it from a tree and let everyone see just what lengths you are willing to go to.
Oh and when you are pissed you couldn’t stop TARP, you somehow think that doing this will screw over the banks.
I’m just glad taxes aren’t going to be raised and I now have to work to 70 before I can retire.
Allah Akbar baby
“It is Obama’s sudden discovery of his spine that is causing all the consternation now.”
Don’t get too excited. It’s just one vertebra.
removing double post
I can understand if we accidentally elected a Democratic President who somehow freakishly wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. What’s harder to accept is that we elected a Democratic Senate that seems prepared to let him.
I have no clue what Obama wants. I feel like I am looking at Obama through a series of funhouse mirrors. Does he really want to cut the safety net? Or is he just brilliantly dangling that to smoke out Repubs on tax cuts?
I do know if Obama had wanted to cut the safety net, he could have done that deal by now. Maybe he still will at the last minute, and is just playing to the base for re-election purposes.
Last year I wanted Obama to fight. He refused to use the bully pulpit, and he didn’t use veto threats. If he had used the veto threat we would have passed the middle-class-only tax cut. Now it seems like he is fighting – but for what?
See? Funhouse mirrors everywhere.
Or is he just brilliantly dangling that to smoke out Repubs on tax cuts?
LOL, that brilliance shined through last year when he said we can’t afford to let the tax cuts be extended. And then extended them.
Andddddd here we are 8 months later. Brilliant really. A strategy that lengthens the age to retirement, cuts programs on the most needy, does nothing to cut war spending on wars we should be out of and doesn’t cut loop holes or raise taxes.
yes, he’s brilliant all right.
DOW almost at 13,000 though.
What are the odds we are at 4 wars before he leaves office?
The next war will be a civil one, if the teahadists have their way.
You should care about the Dow now, dv. It, directly, affects your new compensation! 😉
Im sure you raised all this anger and angst during the interview process…;-)
Dana Pico ignores the point of the post: that Republican zealots are as dangerous and fanatical as Norwegian zealots. Instead he indulges in his favorite pastime. Being 100% wrong.
They won by saying that Obama was trying to cut Medicare and Medicaid.
They’ll do so again.