But you see, that just proves that he doesn’t intend on leaving after his term is up!! It all makes sense now, doesn’t it???
A forum that is 95% liberal and a thread where you ask people to post negative anecdotes about the GOP, very interesting indeed.
cite?
A natural consequence of fighting ignorance.
If you have a favorite example or three of comparable Dem craziness, refuting the OP premise that no, they don’t both do it, then please contribute them.
Of course a forum dedicated to fighting ignorance is going to be primarily liberal. The Republican party’s recent policy positions are based on ignorance. Global warming isn’t real, abstinence only education works, weed is teh devil, cutting taxes raises additional income, punching someone in the face is superior to attempts at diplomacy, Obamacare is shattering the economy, the minimum wage should be repealed, etc. etc.
Well, plus the moderating influence of people who weren’t raised in the occasionally astonishingly pseudofascist United States, like me.
I might be skewing the average, I’m 197% liberal.
In all fairness, Dave Hodges, whose site I linked to before and who is the King of All Crazies, isn’t exactly a straight-up Republican. He’s WAY more red than blue but he has a libertarian bent that leads him to sometimes lean across the aisle.
He really hates big banks and Wall Street
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/01/09/nuremburg-trials-for-banksters/
This article is all over the place and while it references global warming scams and death panels the main drift is the evisceration of Wall Street and the bankers responsible for the financial crisis. (Spoiler alert - he wants them executed ).
and he’s against torture and drones
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/02/05/the-drone-ranger/
and against GMO’s
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2015/03/01/gmo-dangers-revealed-former-u-s-government-scientist/
he’s against militarization of the police and police brutality. He’s all in with citizens filming police encounters.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/04/27/am-i-free-to-go/
and against police asset forfeiture
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/09/29/the-new-mafia-wears-a-badge/
It’s scary how much crazy he can inject into these topics, I think I need a shower. And the last one isn’t really crazy at all except for the first paragraph and the conclusion. My head hurts.
Pot kettle. Follow the money:
For four consecutive years, Obama directed a government that spent a trillion dollars more than its income. Today he brags because the level has been reduced from complete insanity to complete insanity.
Excuse me if I look elsewhere for lessons on sustainable behavior.
A trillion here, a trillion there, sooner or later you are talking real money.
I’m inclined to agree, that the Republican party has, in the last few years, taken an especially crazy turn. And while the left certainly says/does some stupid things, I can’t think of anything on par with the idea that the government is orchestrating some sort of plan to enslave us all.
It really is over the top, as dumb as those stories about the government printing up thousands of “Martial Law” signs.
It would be reassuring to have those in positions of leadership point out the absurdity.
McCain tried that…and got booed by his own crowd for it.
I think it’s interesting that you left out the deficits, all in the hundreds of billions, that ran back to 2000 with a variety of combinations of party control of the presidency and congress. I agree that the deficits are concerning, but they are clearly not the product of one party or the other.
Yes, both parties are irresponsible. Sorry if I appeared to suggest otherwise.
I don’t know of any Republicans that have stated that Guam might tip over.
However, it did not become part of the party’s platform.
It depends what you call “sustainable”.
I actually like this approach. We could cut 3/4 of the cabinet departments and raise the Social Security retirement age to 80, and balance the budget this year; next year everyone would say “Woo hoo! Problem solved!”, then cut taxes and start spending like drunken sailors again. There are lottery winners who blow through millions of dollars in a few years and go bankrupt, and there are people put some money aside every month, invest it wisely without too much risk, retire comfortably, and leave something to their children.
The U.S. didn’t rack up its debt overnight, and we won’t fix it overnight. I’d rather see sustained fiscal discipline than crisis measures. We need to get time working for us. Keep cutting the deficit by $100 billion per year; in a couple decades we might get somewhere.
I thought we were talking about how one side is crazier than the other. Nothing is crazier than that (although it’s fairly harmless).
For those of you who think the Republicans have suddenly gone crazy, a lot of the folks may in fact be libertarians, who have always been crazy 