Posted on 01/12/2003 5:35:14 PM PST by StACase
Posted on the Propaganda thread at YourTurn.NPR.org By Bill Wilkerson:
Conservatives are generally thought to favor:
1) States rights (see 2000 election, where Supreme Court overrides a state's election laws)
2) Less government interference in citizen's lives (see Patriot Act and Total Information Awareness program)
3) Reducing the size of government (see Homeland Security Act)
4) No nation-building or policing the world (see Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea)
5) Fiscal responsibility (see 2002 and 2003 budgets)
6) No unfunded Federal mandates (see Leave No Child Behind Act)
7) Truth and honesty in government (see Dividend Tax Elimination proposal and the "possible" war on Iraq )
8) Family values (see last week's GOP decision to deny unemployment benefits to one million laid-off workers)
9) Integrity (see Enron , Halliburton scandals, then count the heads in the administration who were not involved; any score above one is considered miraculous or profoundly gullible)
10) Freedom (see Patriot Act again and again)
Does anyone else here see why some people have trouble thinking of the President as a conservative? That's only the top ten cases of abandoning principle, and with less than two years of track record. Even nuns and schoolmarms and do-gooders know that politicians lie. Nobody ever expected a President to lie about virtually everything....
New Conservative rules: prevaricate, simulvaricate (two major deceptions at the same time), multivaricate (several at a time - conflicting stories are desirable) and finally, postvaricate (lie about the lies that were just told).
Sure glad we don't have any damn liberals running things.
Could you explain this one to me? I am a little fuzzy on how the elimination of the dividend tax and/or our hitting Hussein before he hits us constitute dishonest gov't policies.
Log in at NPR. I'm just the messenger.
Supreme Court stopped the state kangaroo supreme court from changing the outcome of the election.
Did someone say prevarication? This would be correct if judges made the law, which they don't, or shouldn't. It was the Florida kangaroo court that overrode the state election law when they ruled that 7 = 19, and it was the US Supreme court that put them back in their place.
Why preach to the choir?
Hogwash!
1. States have no rights. Only individuals have rights.
2. Under the Constitution, powers are reserved to the States that are not specifically granted to the Federal government, and only if not forbidden to the States by the Constitution. The Second Amendment would be an example of a restriction on State powers.
3. The Supreme Court ruled that the SCOFLAW violated the Eleventh Amendment in its rulings. States are forbidden from doing that.
This person ought to read the Constitution. It is a short document and written in layman's language.
Individual rights come before states' rights. Recounting some counties (with the intent of salvaging incorrectly-marked ballots) and not others violates individuals' right have their votes counted fairly.
2) Less government interference in citizen's lives (see Patriot Act and Total Information Awareness program)
3) Reducing the size of government (see Homeland Security Act)
National Security comes first.
4) No nation-building or policing the world (see Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea)
We are not "policing the world," we're trying to stop madmen from killing us. That is acting defensively. We did not particularly want to get sucked in to Afghanistan, but we're there now, and we're not going to abandon it (lefties would attack Bush whether he chose to rebuild Afghanistan or run away).
5) Fiscal responsibility (see 2002 and 2003 budgets)
Tax cuts are responsible. Uncontrolled spending is irresponsible.
6) No unfunded Federal mandates (see Leave No Child Behind Act)
Oh, the horror!7) Truth and honesty in government (see Dividend Tax Elimination proposal and the "possible" war on Iraq )
So we have a responsibility to be truthful to our enemies about our intent? (Saddam gets to see anything American citizens do.) What about the dividend elimination or the war with Iraq is dishonest? Was Bush lying when he said he wanted to stop taxing dividents?
8) Family values (see last week's GOP decision to deny unemployment benefits to one million laid-off workers)
This is a gross mischaracterization of the decision. The GOP Senate wanted to give a 13-week INCREASE in benefits, but Hillary wanted a 26-week increase. Republicans did not agree to a 26-week extension, thus "denying" unemployment benefits. Frist INCREASED unemployment benefits, and promised to consider incrasing them again.
9) Integrity (see Enron , Halliburton scandals, then count the heads in the administration who were not involved; any score above one is considered miraculous or profoundly gullible)
Count the number of Democrats in bed with these same companies (and remember Global Crossing)
Read the Constitution, newbie!
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So tell me something I don't know.
Better yet log in and tell them
That is a very sensible suggestion.
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