Rightwing defense of poverty - if you can find it

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Tuesday September 18, 2007 · 11:30 AM PDT

2007/09/18 · 11:30

According to right-wing radio host, Jason Lewis, as a liberal, I am automatically a doom-and-gloomy "tortured soul invested in defeat and pessimism" for not denying the underbelly of American society, and defending the greatest poverty of them all -- American Poverty -- capital A, capital P (raise the flag, and play the National Anthem)!

Jason Lewis: Give us your poor -- if you can find them
Dig into the numbers, and poverty doesn't look as bad as the gloomier among us say it is.

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Wednesday January 17, 2007 · 11:24 AM PST

2007/01/17 · 11:24

when the GOP was in charge. Now they aren't good enough when the Dems are in charge, but for different reasons.

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Wednesday January 10, 2007 · 6:10 AM PST

2007/01/10 · 06:10

And they said it wasn't about the oil. The Independent reported on January 7:

The US government has been involved in drawing up the law... would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalised in 1972.

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When will they get it?!

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Thursday January 04, 2007 · 1:32 PM PST

2007/01/04 · 13:32

I watched with great excitement history being made today with the handing over of the gavel to the first woman Speaker of the [People's] House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi rocks, and she is right... it's all about the children.

I also watched the first debates regarding the Democratic plan of passing much-needed legislation in the First 100 Hours. I didn't think Republicans in Congress could actually multitask, but there they were, verbally stroking themselves while at the same time stomping their feet in protest (figuratively speaking, of course) that the Dems have the audacity to put the wishes of the American people ahead of kissing the collective GOP ass to prove that they are different.

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Friday November 03, 2006 · 7:23 AM PST

2006/11/03 · 07:23

I recently read the 2006 Standing Platform for the Republican Party of Minnesota. Many of the things listed come as no surprise, but it also offered unfiltered insight into an agenda I can only say flies in the face of traditional Minnesota values, and how far right the Republican Party has moved. This document could have been used as a Halloween prop to scare anyone who considers themselves average middle-of-the road Americans.
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Devil's Choice: Immigration Reform vs. American Troops

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Wednesday April 26, 2006 · 12:46 PM PDT

2006/04/26 · 12:46

Members of the Senate today voted along party lines (with the exception of Russ Feingold) to approve $1.9 billion for border security they should have funded five years ago. They also voted to pay for it by reducing defense spending for our troops in Iraq by 3 percent. Suddenly, after five eternal years of Republican fiscal hedonism, they justify a reduction in spending for our soldiers as financial responsibility, and the immigration emergency trumping our troops in war as a greater matter of national security.
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Conservatives Bomb on Port Security - Again

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Friday March 17, 2006 · 8:14 AM PST

2006/03/17 · 08:14

Minnesota Democratic Congressman Martin Sabo, top Democrat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Committee offered an amendment yesterday to beef up funding for port security. In a nutshell, the money would have been targeted at two of the most controversial and heated topics brought up during the Dubai deal -- container and port inspections, and disaster preparedness response and recovery. It would require 100% scanning of shipping containers... only an increase of about 95% over what is currently inspected, and would have provided drastically needed communication capabilities to strategic and critical locations nationwide.
How dare they! Read More

Time Out

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Monday March 06, 2006 · 8:04 AM PST

2006/03/06 · 08:04

Okay, all you blathering righty talking heads out there who are now attempting to muddy the Dubai and port safety waters even further by playing the "race" card.

First of all, even hinting that objections to the deal are racially motivated is absurd, especially if you're trying to pin it on a Democrat. Get real. Though we've had our share of cultural rivalries while building this nation, this nation was in fact built by hands of many colors, religions, and ethnic backgrounds. Last time I checked, it was the Twin Towers that were destroyed, not Lady Liberty.

The race card is a lie, a manipulation, and it is wrong. Period. Do you raise your children this way? Read More

Thank you, Wal-Mart

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Tuesday December 27, 2005 · 7:49 AM PST

2005/12/27 · 07:49

During the '04 election, I, as many, debated politics with disagreeing family members who labeled themselves as "conservative," but interestingly enough without the "Republican" tag along with it. I found it wasn't a matter of party loyalty or a belief in what they stood for, because they really had no idea what that was. Just ask a pointed question, and you get a deer-in-the-headlights response. The step to the right was a fear and belief of the lies and myths being vomited by the neocon propaganda machine about the spend-happy, tax-raising, abortion-loving, gun-hating, socialistic, tree-hugging, bleeding-heart, evil, liberal left. Read More

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Rightwing defense of poverty - if you can find it

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When will they get it?!

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Devil's Choice: Immigration Reform vs. American Troops

Conservatives Bomb on Port Security - Again

Time Out

Thank you, Wal-Mart