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The Right-Wing Takeover Has Been Stopped (Mega Barf alert)
Real Clear Politics ^ | December 23, 2005 | Froma Harrop

Posted on 12/22/2005 11:26:37 PM PST by Angel

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I don't know where to start with this. First of all, I don't agree that the mainstream positions have won. I think "sensible" people agree that drilling in Anwar and elsewhere for energy independence is important. I also think that most "sensible" people want the government to do what it can to prevent another attack. As for the intelligent design ruling, it was crazy. Why can't our students at least be told there are other opinions out there?
1 posted on 12/22/2005 11:26:41 PM PST by Angel
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To: Angel

LMAO!!!
The welfare grandmothers, abortion enthusiasts, condom throwing sodomites, gold-chained union "organizers", Hollywood drunks, race extortionists, college professors, permanently oppressed race victims, and all the other losers, parasites and humorless malcontents who makes up the Democrat Party base are WINNING. Hahahahahahahaha....!


2 posted on 12/22/2005 11:34:40 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Sorry! Didin't mean to leave out the athiests and the screeching feminists!


3 posted on 12/22/2005 11:36:47 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Angel; Admin Moderator

Angel, you've been around here long enough to know you should list the author (Froma Harrop) in the heading.


4 posted on 12/22/2005 11:37:01 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Angel
And then they turned the tables on the opposition: Some questioned the patriotism of those who would load the "must-pass" defense bill with extraneous special interests.

The writer denounces the questioning of patriotism (I don't recall that) from the conservative senators as a purely political maneuver, then praises it from the "moderates" when used as a purely political maneuver.

The problem I have with people who cackle over "turnabout" is that it is another example of amorality being praised by the left. It's like me, as a pro-gun voter, being anti-gun in order to defeat a pro-gun democrat. I've won a momentary victory but have trashed my morals.

Yet silly people like this writer giggle over it when THEIR guy does it.

5 posted on 12/22/2005 11:38:45 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Warning: Adult language, but great Christmas message: http://foamy.libertech.net/noxmas.swf)
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To: Lancey Howard

Like a can of mixed nuts!


6 posted on 12/22/2005 11:39:28 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Peace Begins in the Womb)
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To: Angel

(de·lu·sion) (d[schwa]-loo¢zh[schwa]n) [L. delusio, from de from + ludus a game] a false belief that is firmly maintained in spite of incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary and in spite of the fact that other members of the culture do not share the belief.


7 posted on 12/22/2005 11:39:37 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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The nation has begun to march in the other direction from the right-wing majorettes.

This silly, rhetoric-heavy, fact-light column shows how deluded these people are.

No mention of the booming Bush economy, the successful election in Iraq, Bush's rise in the polls, the renewed support for Iraq in the polls, the resurgeance of Merry CHRISTmas, the decision about "separation of church and state" recently.

Dream on, libs, the graves you're whistling past are there for your party's future, like it or not.

8 posted on 12/22/2005 11:41:20 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Warning: Adult language, but great Christmas message: http://foamy.libertech.net/noxmas.swf)
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To: Angel

These people have been smokin' too much of they're own product. Stopped? Hell, we're just getting warmed up.


9 posted on 12/22/2005 11:41:23 PM PST by Lancer_N3502A
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To: Lancey Howard

Sounds like a roll call for loonies. I don't think you missed anyone. And, you hit the nail on the proverbial head.


10 posted on 12/22/2005 11:45:07 PM PST by Adrastus (If you don't like my attitude, talk to some one else.)
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The pro-environment senators easily ignored the latest tantrum by Sen. Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican obsessed with developing the refuge.

Why is it that east coast elites and west coast tree huggers know more about what is better for Alaska than the people who live there?


11 posted on 12/22/2005 11:45:11 PM PST by truemiester (If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
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"For starters, the Senate said "no" to opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. It has saved the refuge before, but this time the Republican oilmen turned the vote into a game of chicken."

HOOREY! Big oil money loses out to big Environmental money! Between the shortage and the high gas tax, we'll all be getting bikes this summer. :)

"The pro-environment senators easily ignored the latest tantrum by Sen. Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican obsessed with developing the refuge."

Yeah, screw Alaska! They're a red state. Who cares if we're forcing our morality on them? What are they going to do? Being 50th in population we can drag these backwoods hicks anywhere we want to go!

"In another vote, the Senate temporarily extended the USA Patriot Act past its Dec. 31 expiration date. President Bush wanted the anti-terrorism law renewed, but that wasn't going to happen without a frank conversation on his recently revealed surveillance activities...The citizens have not signed on to giving Bush the right to wiretap Americans making international calls without a warrant -- especially since he already can do it in an emergency and ask permission later."

Cause the American left LOVES to befriend people who hate us. Kind of makes you wonder what they're talking about eh?

"The third victory for rational thinking took place in central Pennsylvania. There, a federal judge ruled that "intelligent design" -- a crypto-creationist challenge to the theory of evolution -- is religion, and forcing it on science classes in Dover, Pa., was unconstitutional."

Cause as we all know Atheism isn't a religion. Even though it has an opinion about god, places of worship (science labs) and beliefs in things that can't be proven (like black holes) we can still teach it in schools, cause the schools are left wing ivory towers and we say what goes down in them...

"All these events, one after another, suggest that the newfound courage of moderates is not a fluke."

He means "moderates" in the French kind of way - remember, right now France has a "Conservative" government...

"There never was this big groundswell to develop a wildlife refuge,"

The groundswell was in Alaska, but since that's thousands of miles from LA and New York who cares?

"make Bush king"

Yeah, that's reserved for leftists like Bill and Hillary...

"or teach creationism in the schools."

Cram our religion of Atheism on the populace...

"The nation has begun to march in the other direction from the right-wing majorettes. May the parade grow long in 2006."

And the parade will stay sort of long...until we run out of beer, dope and money for bribes.


12 posted on 12/22/2005 11:49:15 PM PST by Tzimisce
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When will Republicans start showing real pictures of that sh_t hole called ANWR? Some refuge...
13 posted on 12/23/2005 12:00:35 AM PST by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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1. When gas prices rise people will blame the Democrats for blocking the drilling in Alaska.

2. When the US is viciously attacked with another 9/11 or worse, people will blame the Democrats for killing the Patriot Act.

3. Intelligent design suffered a minor setback and is as valid a theory as any science out there. This is like how the left has hysterics about how Leonardo da Vinci was treated, yet they are again exposed as the hypocrites they are, on blocking as valid a theory as any. The fact that they MUST bloke a THEORY also proves they are running scared.

These three points only showcase what a failure and disappointment "Fritzmas" was for the spiteful Left. They are now desperately trying to sooth their frail minds with ANY good news they can spin and pull out of a magic hate. It's a pathetic sight.
14 posted on 12/23/2005 12:01:19 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the treasonous and immoral Democrats!)
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I don't know where to start with this. First of all, I don't agree that the mainstream positions have won. I think "sensible" people agree that drilling in Anwar and elsewhere for energy independence is important. I also think that most "sensible" people want the government to do what it can to prevent another attack. As for the intelligent design ruling, it was crazy. Why can't our students at least be told there are other opinions out there?

If you expected "sensible" arguments from Froma Harrop, you were sadly misinformed. Left-wing feminist screeching is her metier.

15 posted on 12/23/2005 12:06:08 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Darkwolf377

These people have a very narrow view of whats going on around them. They lose all sense of what is really happening around them. They believe what they want to believe.






16 posted on 12/23/2005 12:07:25 AM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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I never thought I'd see the day that the democrats would try to sell themselves as trying to protect constitutional rights, and some thinking themselves to be conservatives, would buy off on it. I'll admit to having had concerns over the Patriot Act at times. That has been relieved significantly as the democrats have come to my rescue.


17 posted on 12/23/2005 12:12:25 AM PST by DoughtyOne (MSM: Public support for war waining. 403/3 House vote against pullout vaporizes another lie.)
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To: Angel

More lies from the left. ANWR wasn't going to be "developed" - a very, very small portion of the 10-02 area was going to be. Lies, lies, and more lies. That's all the left can offer because that's all they have. The truth is not on their side with any issue.


18 posted on 12/23/2005 12:31:29 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Echo Talon

Ted Stevens has a number of times...Boxer always comes back with pictures of some poor little bird sitting in a nest and says the bird's habitat will be destroyed if the drilling is allowed, as though Stevens hadn't even said anything. Stevens comes back and calls her out as a liar (literally) and one of the richest people in America but won't allow the people who live in Alaska to develop their own land and make a basic living. Boxer returns saying she can't believe Stevens would suggest that she isn't telling the truth, and basically implies she knows more about Alaska than its own representatives. It's appauling.


19 posted on 12/23/2005 12:34:00 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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That really irritates me, California liberals forcing other people in different states to do things. maybe she should worry about her own state you know the bathhouses, gangs, murder, illegal immigration, mud slides, fires, blackouts and earthquakes...
20 posted on 12/23/2005 12:42:33 AM PST by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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