"Billions for war, nothing for the poor."Some suggested responses:
"Great idea!"
"But War is expensive-- Paupers are CHEAP!"
"I don't know-- can't we give less than nothing for the poor?"
"Hey Buddy, how about two bucks for soap?"
Posted on 09/01/2004 3:59:35 PM PDT by Stoat
NEW YORK--The line to get into last night's Michael Reagan party at Manhattan's Gotham Hall ended on Sixth Avenue and snaked around West 36th Street to the erstwhile bank building's entrance on Broadway. Even though we hate waiting in lines, we decided to endure this one, for it seemed to be moving fairly quickly. We waited along with John Barnes, Karen Furey and Wally Olson, and some protesters treated us to a show.
A guy on a bicycle stood just off the Sixth Avenue curb, wearing a T-shirt that said "F--- Bush" (except there was an actual obscenity in place of the hyphens) and shouting slogans like "Billions for war, nothing for the poor." Now there's a policy we could get behind! But he probably meant this as a complaint, albeit (at least when it comes to the poor) an inaccurate one. Next to him stood a young lady with a sign that said "Privatizing water is not true security."
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Please be sure to visit the original URL....editing rules forced me to cut a huge section of this fun article.
Privatizing water....??
Yes, apparently this is the issue the Dems will use to take the heat off Kerry re Vietnam, endless lying and flip-flopping, treason, etc. etc. etc.
I'm astonished at how poorly the Dems have planned this out and how poorly they are doing, considering they have 95% of the media cheerleading them and George Soros and other billionaires bankrolling them....
It just goes to show that the American people aren't as stupid as they think we are :-)
I agree with that. I like it.
"Billions for war, nothing for the poor."Some suggested responses:
"Great idea!"
"But War is expensive-- Paupers are CHEAP!"
"I don't know-- can't we give less than nothing for the poor?"
"Hey Buddy, how about two bucks for soap?"
Hey!!
Going to NYC tomorrow to TRY to get on FOX NEWS with my brother!!
Got the " HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN !!" gaint poster!!
the " We don't ned a PERMISSION SLIP to PROTECT OURSELVES!!"
poster!! and a few others!
So if you see ME!! I will be wearing a " Freedom Alliance Concert " T-Shirt that my brother makes. ( HE'LL be the GRUMPY one!! I'll be the happy one!!)
We wil be handing out " Tree- De-oderants" to the passing protesters!!! hehehe.
Tom/
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, "The Radio Talk Show Amendment, Or: Why John Kerry is Now Toast"
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Krugman says he believes the United States needs a "mega-Watergate" scandal to uncover a far-reaching right-wing conspiracy, going back forty years, to gain control of the U.S. government and roll back civil rights. . . . Krugman told the crowd that the president is simply a front man for larger and more sinister forces.
"We probably make a mistake when we place too much emphasis on Bush the individual," said Krugman, who received a standing ovation when he was introduced. "This really isn't about Bush. Bush is the guy that the movement found to take them over the top. But it didn't start with him, and it won't end with him. What's going on in this country is that a radical movement . . . that had been building for several decades, finally found their moment and their man in Bush."
Krugman described the conspiracy as "the coalition between the malefactors of great wealth and the religious right." He offered no further details about who, precisely, is in the conspiracy but said that "substantial chunks of the media are part of this same movement."
Krugman said he and other liberals had been "asleep" and unaware of the true dimensions of the danger during the years in which President Bill Clinton found himself facing a variety of scandal allegations. But Krugman said there is a "complete continuity" between today's politics and the "campaign of slander and innuendo" against Clinton. "There's complete continuity going back, really, I think--but this is my next book--you really need to go back to Goldwater. A lot of this has to do with civil rights, and the people who don't like them."
Great portion about Krugman and his tin-foil paranoia...miss it not. The last two paragraphs are seminal, and perfectly summate the issues we now face with the 60s-Legacy Left.
Damn! They found us out! Must have been the tag line...
Have you read this book?
Danny Goldberg goes on for a few hundred pages lamenting the fact the he just can't understand why the progressive movement is dying. And the fix is to re-embrace civil rights, pop culture, anti-establish, blah, blah ,blah.
Goldberg is a classic example of a bright articulate guy that is completely clueless.
As Orson Scott Card wrote in a brilliant piece on OBL, their ideology is based on an overall story, and no fact or set of facts can ever be allowed to stand outside of their story. Therefore, every fact must be spun to fit their agenda. Dems cannot conceive of a world where they are out of power by popular vote, so they simply must imagine conspiracies, cheats, and sinister motives. They consistently put every event and debate in a Hitler-versus-Bambi framework. This is merely example #234,583,025
Fox has been virtually empty, the windows are boarded up, can't get too close either. Good luck, I work right across the street but will be traveling tomorrow. I'll have my co-workers looking for you
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