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Pseudoconservatism - The Zot That Endures
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| 8/6/10
| P.M. Carpenter
Posted on 08/07/2010 3:32:59 PM PDT by fifthcolumnist
Genuine conservatives would have restrained, as best they could, Democratic proposals to cure what ails us, for genuine conservatives are of course genuinely wary of too much change, too fast. But they would not have made a political game of uniform obstructionism; they would not have toyed with, of all things, unemployment benefits; and they most decidedly would not be advocating trillions in extended tax cuts while in the grips of such looming debt.
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To: fifthcolumnist
and they most decidedly would not be advocating trillions in extended tax cuts while in the grips of such looming debt. Genuine conservatives would understand that reducing taxes (and regulation), thus making America a business-friendly environment where more businesses want to do business, is what will reduce the debt.
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posted on
08/07/2010 3:36:09 PM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(The success of Darwinism was accompanied by a decline in scientific integrity. - Dr. Wm R. Thompson)
To: fifthcolumnist
and they most decidedly would not be advocating trillions in extended tax cuts while in the grips of such looming debt. Genuine conservatives would understand that reducing taxes (and regulation), thus making America a business-friendly environment where more businesses want to do business, is what will reduce the debt.
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posted on
08/07/2010 3:36:12 PM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(The success of Darwinism was accompanied by a decline in scientific integrity. - Dr. Wm R. Thompson)
To: fifthcolumnist
...and they most decidedly would not be advocating trillions in extended tax cuts while in the grips of such looming debt.... This alone tells me the article is BullFeces. Raising taxes during a downturn is like taking seeds away from the farmer to eat when he most needs to plant them to generate more product.
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posted on
08/07/2010 3:37:17 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: fifthcolumnist; 50mm
Welcome to FR. Maybe
You sign up today to post this?
“they would not have made a political game of uniform obstructionism; they would not have toyed with, of all things, unemployment benefits; and they most decidedly would not be advocating trillions in extended tax cuts while in the grips of such looming debt.”
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posted on
08/07/2010 3:38:11 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Genuine conservatives want to slash taxes and eliminate some enormous federal agencies that have gone out of control, like the EPA.
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posted on
08/07/2010 3:39:32 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: fifthcolumnist
Interesting screen name; would that make you a member of the “fourth estate, fifth column dis-informers”?
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posted on
08/07/2010 3:46:27 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: fifthcolumnist
Did you write this drek? If so, could you please expand on this point:
they would not have toyed with, of all things, unemployment benefits
Do you mean they shouldn't have insisted that the "benefits" be paid for before they agreed to the extension?
Also, if you wrote this and it's your blog, why do you excerpt?
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posted on
08/07/2010 3:50:15 PM PDT
by
jellybean
(Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
To: darkwing104
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posted on
08/07/2010 3:56:55 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
To: fifthcolumnist
I just love it when a pretend conservative tries to tell me what I should think.
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posted on
08/07/2010 3:57:08 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
To: fifthcolumnist
You seem to mistake common sense for “uniform obstructionism”.
At what point do you think King Barack should be responsible for the economy that he controls?
It’s an answer no lefty has been able to answer - perhaps the reason that Independents are abandoning the progressive ship?
It’s the reason that progressives have had to draw attention away from the economy instead of to it. Maybe you should employ the same tactic - if you care to survive through November.
To: fifthcolumnist
Reading through your blogs, I find the most honest statement you make is: I'm no economist... Which is true. Economists generally deal in hard numbers and analysis. Pure economics isn't swayed by emotions or polls (albeit, too many so called economists play that game). Your profile states you have a PHD in political science, which by definition, is the polar opposite of tangible study. It reduces the study of what runs a country down to Jungian and analysis of how neural linguistics can influence the voters- not on what is right or wrong; correct or incorrect. This is the mantra of the left or the jelly filled DC establishment Right, not on Conservative values.
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:06:48 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: fifthcolumnist; 230FMJ; 50mm; A.Hun; abigailsmybaby; AFPhys; Aircop_2006; AliVeritas; Allegra; ...
They've become the party of the Limbaugh putdown, the Beck sneer, the Palin sarcasm -- and within that faux populist mix there's not a dram of fresh or serious thinking; and it is that insufficiency which has re-earned them the 1950's Hofstadterian epithet of "pseudoconservatives."Fail!
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . . don't be shy.
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:08:42 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: fifthcolumnist
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:10:19 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try. ~Master Yoda)
To: fifthcolumnist; darkwing104; dynachrome
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:14:31 PM PDT
by
50mm
(Videoblogpimps - the vuvuzelas of Free Republic)
To: fifthcolumnist; darkwing104; Old Sarge; 50mm; rabscuttle385
"for genuine conservatives are of course genuinely wary of too much change, too fast"
Oh, you'd be surprised to see how fast things can change around here.
IBTZ.
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:14:35 PM PDT
by
paulycy
(Demand Constitutionality: Marxism is Evil.)
To: fifthcolumnist; Old Sarge; darkwing104; rabscuttle385; 50mm; Atom Smasher; 230FMJ; Aircop_2006; ...
Don't let the door hit ya, etc., etc., etc.. IBTZ.
"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."
To: paulycy
'Oh, you'd be surprised to see how fast things can change around here.'LOL Good one!
"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."
To: fifthcolumnist; darkwing104
IBTZ, this should be fun!
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:20:13 PM PDT
by
Las Vegas Ron
(People I know have papers for their mongrels.)
To: fifthcolumnist
For once even I’m IBTZ!!!
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:20:36 PM PDT
by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Anyone who has read Roman history knows a barbarian invasion when they see one.)
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