Comments on: Political Culture: Two Guys Named George Play Ball

By: 1Py_Korry1

1Py_Korry1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:16:44 +0000

Dang! Both videos are no longer available.

By: 1Py_Korry1

1Py_Korry1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:16:10 +0000

The reality of the “strong defense” mantra goes something like this: Tax dollars awarded to private corporations whose business is to find new and novel ways to kill people and whole societies. Always advocating for a “strong defense” is pork barrel politics pure and simple. Its' the kind of politics conservatives love to criticize, but always have time for when it comes to allocating money for the military-industrial complex — a phrase, by the way, made famous by a Republican (Einenhower). Liberals and conservatives have supported these industries since WWII, but defense has become the catch-all phrase conservatives use when they want to accuse the other side of being weak.

And Cap: tax cuts don't always increase revenue and spur job growth — or were you asleep for most of the 1990s?

By: 1Py_Korry1

1Py_Korry1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:16:44 +0000

Dang! Both videos are no longer available.

By: 1Py_Korry1

1Py_Korry1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:16:10 +0000

And Cap: tax cuts don't always increase revenue and spur job growth — or were you asleep for most of the 1990s?

By: 1Py_Korry1

1Py_Korry1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:16:44 +0000

Dang! Both videos are no longer available.

By: 1Py_Korry1

1Py_Korry1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:16:10 +0000

And Cap: tax cuts don't always increase revenue and spur job growth — or were you asleep for most of the 1990s?

By: kshane

kshane — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:25:28 +0000

I don't agree that McCain is an honorable man. Despite his claim to “straight talk” the fact is that he is not telling the truth about his relationship with lobbyists. He has broken the campaign finance law that he co-authored. He would be delighted to keep the country at war indefinitely. Just because he's getting a free ride from the press, that doesn't make him honorable. And if he doesn't get down in the mud during the general election, you can be sure that his Republican colleagues will, at which point McCain will pretend he has nothing to do with it.

Despite the fact that I'm a life-long Yankees fan, Mays is my favorite player ever. I wore number 24 in high school as a tribute to him.

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:01:25 +0000

(I meant this to go under Cap's comments, BTW)

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:00:40 +0000

In the past eight years, we've depleted our National Guard for the sake of US defense to the cost of billions that the taxpayer will have to foot the bill. Tax cuts do not create revenue in a recession and spin this however you choose, we're in a recession. Bush may tell you otherwise but it ain't necessarily so.

Tax cuts might increase jobs (not sure how) if we enforced keeping them in country. We don't. China has boomed thanks to most of our industry deserting the country to get in on all that cheap labor. Mexico has done okay for itself, but the people there know those slave wages aren't enough, so they migrate here, hence exacerbating the illegal immigrant population.

Yes, liberals often speak with an inflated piety and when they get their big shot, they peter out. It's just the truth. But let us get one thing straight: it's not the political ideology that's the big problem. It's this administration that's the big problem, and the McCain platform to continue this administration's policies. Forget the whole "Straight Talk Express" and "Maverick" nonsense. You sync up McCain's non-election stances with his current ones and you'll find he has contorted himself to the image of this failed, spendaholic, bloodied-hands administration.

This year it isn't about left versus right, liberal versus conservative. It's about that which reeks of Bush and his cronies and that which does not. Maybe the alternative isn't much better, but it is not THIS administration, and that's a start.

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:27:15 +0000

I've got a stomach full of gin, blue curacao, and bourbon, so I'll try to keep this as short and coherent as possible (no promises). Self-righteous people are a dime a dozen on either side of the aisle. But I'd much rather live by a philosophy where I'm willing to share what I have with strangers and trust them to act in good faith (i.e. liberalism) than assuming a tribal mentality where I convince myself that those people I don't know personally are intent on doing me harm and are endlessly scheming to take everything I possess away from me (i.e. conservatism). I'd rather help the weak than hold them in contempt. Supply-side economics fails every bit as badly as communism fails because both systems allow the worst in human nature to flourish (greed vs. laziness).