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Re: Snowe resigns

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 03 Mar 12 7:11 PM | 79 view(s)
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Hi clo,

Limbaugh is shameful. But I've had his number for years, so no big surprise. He's a cheap kinda guy.

It is the capitulation to Limbaugh labelling that has killed the GOP, in my view. He and his ilk make the party toxic for the majority of people that think a little bit and who have experienced a life. And so you get the sort of candidates whom a chauvinist, anti-factual, regressive, mostly ignorant portion of the voting population wishes for. And that part of the GOP electorate is a reflection of who Rush Limbaugh is.

This isn't to say that, for instance, an argument cannot be made for limiting the size of government, depending upon circumstances. But that is a different thing from saying government is always intrinsically wicked, which is plain daft. It isn't to say that there can be no social or fiscal advantage to lowering higher rates of income tax, but the possibility of benefit obviously depends upon where they start, and if there are ill consequences of doing so in the circumstances you are in, just admit it and try to figure a solution to the problems we face based on reality. It isn't to say that having a strong military isn't a useful thing for a sovereign nation, but does a country really need to have a defense capability beyond the reach of the next 20 countries combined and does that military need always to be at war?

So the dogmas have become ridiculous, where once the argument emanating from the right of the spectrum was a wee bit more subtle, and much stronger for its subtlety.


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Re: Snowe resigns
By: clo in ALEA
Sat, 03 Mar 12 6:41 PM 		Msg. 06742 of 54959

Cactus Flower,

Listening to this crew is proof 'contraception' should have been used more YEARS ago....

Don't know if you're aware of Rush Limbaugh, his goal is to incite & inflame & set afire under the rightwing nuts.

Ms Fluke testified to the congress, about a friend that wasn't covered for the pill which she needed for medical purposes. Her friend had to have an ovary removed because of the cyst.

Well, I believe Rush finally went over the edge after attacking Ms Fluke, college student, from Georgetown, calling her 'a slut & prostitute' & suggesting since she wanted others to pay for her birth control she owed the public. His way of paying back, she should make videos of her sex acts to share.
He spent the last three days on air, attacking her & her parents.

President Obama called her yesterday. He complimented Ms Fluke for her grace under fire & said her parents should be proud.
Several sponsors have pulled their ads from Rush's program & I hope this continues.

The republican candidates responses, when pushed, have been like a wet dish towel, no outrage.
This from the crew claiming to respect families...
What if Rush attacked their daughter(s)...
The republicans on the whole have been tepid & or mute, they are AFRAID of Rush, a man full of hot air, a man that deserves to be shunned....
This is the group always pounding their chest(s) to go to war, yet they are COWARDS when dealing with an inappropiate shock jock...

They should be ashamed!

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