90. TriGeek:
“Hey Vivo, how can we use the Left/Right terms correctly when the Left is always changing their call signs. “Don’t call me a liberal, I am a “progressive”.”
I’m referring to people who call anyone they disagree with a liberal, leftist, communist, socialist, Nazi, fascist, etc. It never makes sense. Just like when I call you a conservative, right-wing, demagogue, etc. You get lumped into groups that may have some similarities with your thoughts, but your never 100% of something. So it becomes name-calling.
I have what you call ‘liberal’ ideas but my beliefs are a mixture of common sense and pragmatism. But when you hear people like Limbo, O’Reilly, Beck, Colter, Palin and the ones that parrot them, the insanity is very clear.
“Calling the GOP the party of No, when from 2000 to 2008, that is ALL the Democrats said. They had no plans for handling terrorists,”
The country was united after 9/11 and expected the administration to be in a leadership and command position. But instead of looking for terrorists, they invaded a rogue country with no terrorists. Can it get dumber than that?
“they had no ideas for rebuilding the economy after 9/11.”
The economy wasn’t crashing after 9/11 (???)
“Remember, when Bush took over, the dot.com crash had already started, ENRON was already set to implode, and then the financial industry was braught to its knees on that horrible day in September. Despite all this, tell me what happened to the economy by 2003. It was booming!! How quickly you forget.”
Because???
The Republican principles of free market were prostituted by lack of legislation to curb banks into non-bank business, like the AIG, Lehman failure, 0% down loans, jumbo payments, no income verification, creating the housing bubble that hasn’t gone away. Many made millions (probably mostly Republicans) and millions lost billions. Lots of foreign banks got stuck with toxic assets.
How quickly you forget . . .
