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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:49:01 GMT, "Phil"
wrote:

Reading Paul Krugman on civility is like reading Al Franken on
humor.

I think that Al Franken is hilarious. And so is P J O'Rourke.
Taken
together they offer a good spectrum of political thought...

Al Franken is, or "at least" was, a very funny guy. I despise his
politics.

As does every good crypto-fascist neo-con PNAC'er, even hypocrites
like
you
who pretend to be regestered Democrats. At least everyone knows
where
Duh-Mikey stands. He's a consistent idiot.



Pretend?

I just got my new voter reg card. It says Democrat.
Why would I pretend? I buy into the traditional, but
sorely abandoned, principles of the late 50's, early 60's
Democratic party. And I haven't bought into Republican
agenda. Just cause I happen to question the sacred cows
of modern liberalism, doesn't mean I am a so called crypto-fascist
Comservative. My politics is probably not too far away from
Schwartzenneger's. It's sad, I don't feel welcome in either
party.



IMO, one of the sad things about the current Democrat party is that they
claim to be pro-choice but let someone who happens to be pro life want
some
time to speak at their convention and you will not see them.


Yeah, but it cuts the opposite way for the Reps. Just a week or two ago,
there was a big venting against Specter for being pro life. They siad he
shouldn't be running the Judiciary commitee because of that.

I missed that, who was venting?

As to fiscal policy, they have no desire to do what works for the
country,
only what works at getting votes, namely more handouts of other people's
money.


Mostly, yes, but from time to time, the rep's do that with subsidies and
tax
breaks for corps or industries.


I don't think companies should be paying any taxes, since they just mean
higher prices. I've never thought subsidies are good idea.

I don't quite get why they hate Bush so much, he's really closer to a
conservative Democrat than a conservative Republican.


He is more in tune with the cons, look at pro life, tax cutting
as examples.

The vast majority of the GOP believe in tax cutting. Most are pro-life
AFAIK.


When he gets re-elected it will be interesting to see if he continues to
grow government the way he has been, or if he will become more
conservative.
If he gets a veto proof Senate as I think he's likely to, it might be
either
very good or very scary.


A veto proof Senate is a dream, anyway, "at least"' for now.
only 1/3 are up for election.


Certainly scary would be a Supreme court that might overturn Roe v Wade,
although I doubt that would happen since it would probably keep teh GOP
from
power in the future. For fiscal policy, I take a real conservative
approach
over a liberal one every time.


an antiabortion ruling would be scary. Its too late to try
and put that genie back in the bottle.

It would just throw it back to the states but the Dems would jump on it with
both feet and the GOP would likely suffer massively.


I can rememember when they were talking about getting rid of the DOE,
The
Education Department, and the EPA.

As far as I'm concerned they could go and the country wouldn't suffer a
bit.
Nothing they do that can't be handled by the states.


There needs to be a national concensus and policy on those issues.

Why? The energy sopurces we have are in abundant supply. There are people
workiong on alternatioves but there really is no need for a replacement.
The future will be fusion engines, but not for a long time.

I have no problem with there being an EPA. Its the rules that are the
problem.

My problem is that the regulation is capricious and uneven.

People in their own states are the best at finding who's polluting what and
where.


I will now be getting ready for the torrent of flames and ad hominem
attacks
soon to follow.


Nah, you put up a more and reasoned and intelligent post, than usual.
(Sorry, I just couldn't resist "at least" one dig!)

Of course you could, you chose not to.



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