This is a couple of days old, but I've been meaning to link to it here. I think the right had to rile up the crazies on health reform because those are the only supporters they have remaining. It looks like "fiscal conservatives" aren't buying the lies any more. From
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1320-To-The-RNC-WAKE-UP.html">The Market Ticker:
just received one of the famous "fundraising calls" from the RNC.
They were soliciting people to give them money (and tried for slightly over $3k!) to "stop Obama's Health Care plan that will cost $1 trillion."
Oh boy did that poor sap get an earful.
I "explained" that:
- $1 trillion is a lot of money. $12 trillion is a lot more, and that's how much the RNC has allowed to be pissed away backstopping and rewarding people who have stolen from the American people through bailouts and handouts, all of which have gone to the very people doing the stealing!
- John McCain, to whom I gave a significant campaign donation, returned my favor by suspending his campaign to push through the EESA/TARP, a bill that by 300:1 margins the American People opposed.
- If the Republicans are the party of the people why is it that they are allowing these bankers to steal over $30 billion dollars by re-ordering transactions to generate the MAXIMUM in overdraft fees? That's FRAUD and yet it was under a REPUBLICAN administration that this happened.
- The Republicans have for years presented themselves as "conservatives" and the party of "family values." Why is it that "conservative" doesn't include calling for EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE SCAMMERS TO BE THROWN IN PRISON and WHY IS IT THAT I KEEP HEARING ABOUT SOME FLOOZY SCANDAL FROM THESE SO-CALLED "FAMILY VALUES" CHAMPIONS?
- The ONLY difference between the RNC and DNC is that the DNC tells me up front that the Democrats intend to gang-rape me at the outset. The Republicans claim to intend to protect me, but then after I lower my guard I am violated from behind without warning. This is unacceptable but if I am forced to choose between being warned first and being lied to I'll take the warning thank you very little.
(snip)
I was a dyed-in-the-wool Republican since I first gained the franchise in 1981. I voted for Ronald Reagan, both Bushes and straight-ticket in state and local races for nearly 30 years.
The Republican Party is supposed to be the party of fair dealing, capitalism, honesty and supporting the effort of individual Americans to get ahead through their own hard work, living within the rule of law.
It has instead become the party of kleptocracy, the party of jackbooted corporatism abusing its power to stomp on the neck of the lower-income American, the party of fraud, the party of hypocrisy and the party of theft-at-gunpoint from every American in support of all of the above.
None of this is acceptable; the RNC's "core values" as practiced (as opposed to as-stated) read more like something out of Nazi Germany than anything I can reasonably associate with a legitimate political party in The United States.
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OUCH!