Originally posted by FeceMan
Why would he be gloating over this? Yippee, the politicians got things done quickly for a change. Clearly, it's because Republicans are notoriously inefficient.
No. It's because politicians are inefficient. Only someone who wants to propigate party lines would blame it on one side or the other. Or vice versa. Period.
It's just too bad you post pays respects to party lines.
Originally posted by Strangelove
Of course, by removing the tax breaks on oil companies, some neocons are seeing it as raising taxes. I even heard the old Republican stand-by "tax-and-spend liberal." Indeed, that label baffles me because every government [b]taxes and then spends [/B]
Well, this is not quite true. Most Republican governments rape any surplus that exists prior to their reign, and then start stripping away what little social programs there are anyway. They then leave the mess for the next incumbent. By doing this they will have also diminished democracy by transferring decisions out of the public arena into private hands. Basically, they're bandits because the people who end up suffering the fall-out is the general population, not the top 1% who have the money to withstand it.
For more on this issue, and much more, check out Noam Chomsky's Imperial Ambitions.
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
No. It's because politicians are inefficient. Only someone who wants to propigate party lines would blame it on one side or the other. Or vice versa. Period.It's just too bad you post pays respects to party lines.
Originally posted by FeceMan
Why would he be gloating over this? Yippee, the politicians got things done quickly for a change. Clearly, it's because Republicans are notoriously inefficient.
Or perhaps the Dems were just extremely efficient at blocking the other sides goals... Federal judges come to mind.