During the Bush adminstration there was never the same loud drum beat about the debt playing incessantly in the background. When was the Bush Adminstration ever told no to spending? How can democrats be so inept to not be able to move legislation with 72% of the public behind them. When were Republicans ever called on the games they played with spending like what they did for the war?
The difference between the two parties is their sense of "ownership of the truth". Republicans act like they own the truth about government, economics, race, etc. while Democrats just don't act that way.
I give up!!! The American Populace deserves no better than to go back to giving tax cuts to those who don't need them, providing social security to those who got theirs before they got out while bankrupting medicare as baby boomers start drawing on it, and giving lifetime health care to elected officals who are pocketing the 1.5 million dollars in gifts from lobbyists.
As a friend commented on me today - You may have challenged me to draw but I know I will win - unlike you I have nothing left to lose.
Read this book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. It talks about politicians who are being told they have been "chosen by God to lead". The author was on the Rachel Maddow show. Rachel was talking about the recent politicians in the news who are members of the "C Street Band". They live at a Christian (as in the Family) boading house on "C Street. The book is about a group who espouse a belief that "Godly, powerful rich men should get anything they want and they get to choose what they want to provide to those less favored". To put their belief about the way power should be wielded another way "more power to the powerful who have been chosen by God to be leaders with trickle down to others".
BOOK REVIEW: Checking in on a friend's brother at Ivenwald, a Washington-based fundamentalist group living communally in Arlington, Va., religion and journalism scholar Sharlet finds a sect whose members refer to Manhattan's Ground Zero as "the ruins of secularism"; intrigued, Sharlet accepts on a whim an invitation to stay at Ivenwald. He's shocked to find himself in the stronghold of a widespread "invisible" network, organized into cells much like Ivenwald, and populated by elite, politically ambitious fundamentalists; Sharlet is present when a leader tells a dozen men living there, "You guys are here to learn how to rule the world." As it turns out, the Family was established in 1935 to oppose FDR's New Deal and the spread of trade unions; since then, it has organized well-attended weekly prayer meetings for members of Congress and annual National Prayer Breakfasts attended by every president since Eisenhower. Further, the Family's international reach ("almost impossible to overstate") has "forged relationships between the U.S. government and some of the most oppressive regimes in the world." In the years since his first encounter, Sharlet has done extensive research, and his thorough account of the Family's life and times is a chilling expose.
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