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JackBauer · 02-09-2011, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by PatsSB42

That's not the headline of this story now is it? You're like that lady in the cell phone commercial that gets upstaged by the new neighbors surprising cell coverage after warning them about the dead-zone......"yeah, well so?, you got crab grass!"

No idea what you're talking about. The fact that 8 freshman Reps and 3 founding members of the TP caucus aren't bat**** crazy doesn't diminish or invalidate anything I've written.

PatsWSB47 · 02-09-2011, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by JackBauer

No idea what you're talking about. The fact that 8 freshman Reps and 3 founding members of the TP caucus aren't bat**** crazy doesn't diminish or invalidate anything I've written.

It's called progress. Celebrate it. Personally I'm not a tea party guy but the stereotyping is inaccurate and lazy quite frankly.

JackBauer · 02-09-2011, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PatsSB42

It's called progress. Celebrate it. Personally I'm not a tea party guy but the stereotyping is inaccurate and lazy quite frankly.

If this is what we call cause for celebration in our political system, that's a pretty sad indictment.

***Harry Boy*** · 02-09-2011, 04:06 PM

Do democrats ever vote the party line-------------

JackBauer · 02-09-2011, 04:11 PM

Great point, Harry. I wasn't aware we were trying to pass off Democrats as anything other than Democrats.

Real World · 02-09-2011, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Holy Diver

you don't understand how campaigns are funded I guess. You must think JP Morgan crosses their fingers and hopes things go their way.

seriously?

So JP Morgan passes our federal budget, and determines how much of our money is spent each year?

chicowalker · 02-09-2011, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by JackBauer

They're financed by the same people, aligned with the Republicans, vote for the Republicans. Favor almost all the same things the Republicans do. They gained prominence by running as economic populists during a time of economic uncertainty; they'll favor the same counter-productive agenda as the Republicans until their ranks are cut down severely in 2012 and the movement fades into history as an afterthought.

That's what I expect to occur as well.

chicowalker · 02-09-2011, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Harry Boy

Do democrats ever vote the party line-------------

Less than Republicans have in recent years, I would guess.

***Nikolai*** · 02-09-2011, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by wistahpatsfan

Agreed. It doesn't take long for a movement to be co-opted in America. I started to realize that there is nothing the corporate pigs won't mess with when I heard Janis Joplin singing on a Mercedes commercial and Led Zeppelin on a Cadillac ad. They are totally up front with it now, and they don't care what anyone thinks. If Ralph Nader ever revives the Green Party, i wouldn't be surprised if I saw Dupont and Exxon supporting and funding it...just so it could be absorbed into the Republicrat "family". Wait for Michael Moore wearing a Tyson Foods baseball hat soon.

Great post and great points. The question is at what point is a corporate entity considered to be acting against America's interests, and can be done about it once that line is crossed? Are there lines yet to be established (such as campaign funding)?

I'm not necessarily anti-corporate, but I think one would have to be a bit naive to think that threats to our national security and prosperity have to wear the flag and seal of a nation-state.

PatsWSB47 · 02-09-2011, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by JackBauer

If this is what we call cause for celebration in our political system, that's a pretty sad indictment.

Well I think its at minimum a cause for a little re-evaluton of some prejudices, not an excuse for ridicule. Unexpected party independence from the right that goes in your direction and all you can see is an opportunity for talking points rhetoric.