The Barnyard

just read a clip on the at&t homepage where some boston red sox player was doing a rehab stint in new hampshire, he apparently was called some racial slur

one of the comments from the locals was something to the effect that the player should just shut up....that by talking about racism he perpetuates racism

in much the same way the jews were asking for it from the nazis. if you just ignore racism it doesnt exist, other than reverse racism

so, by being called...i guess the n word, by graciously not going off too much about it, treating it with humor, the guy was a racist..the black player i mean

the reverse racism crowd owe a lot to the nazis. a lie backed up by hate towards an oppressed minority becomes the proof of how bad those minorities were

the perversion and prostitution of language and discussion continues apace

If you are going to blame the GOP for not acting on Fannie and Freddie, shouldn't you also give them credit for the budget surplus.

Uhmmm.......what budget surplus?

As you can see at www.cbo.gov/ the explosion in federal revenue began with the Clinton tax increase of 1993, passed without a single Republican vote in the House or Senate. Contrary to the collapse the GOP said would happen, in 1994 the first full fiscal year after the tax increase federal revenues grew by over $100 billion, the largest increase ever in federal revenues up to that time, and only the second increase in federal revenues in the preceding six years. As you can see at the CBO's site, by 1998 the federal budget was in surplus for the first time since LBJ was president.

They continued to grow until the Bush and the GOP congress's 2001 tax cut, which led to reduced federal revenues, and along with Bush and the GOP Congress's spending spree brought us from record surpluses to record deficits.

Go to the site, it's all there. Don't take my word for anything.

As far as your original question, mathematically, they don't deserve much credit because they fought the driver tooth and nail. Anecdotally, having lived through it, I would give the GOP congress some credit for things they worked with Clinton on, especially after the 1995-96 government shutdowns taught them that just fighting anything Clinton wanted was a losing proposition with the public. But, that's me bending over backward to be fair.

If you are just dying to give a Republican some credit for the surpluses, I would suggest Bush 41 who ended the Cold War and enabled the reduction in growth in defense expenditures during the nineties.

John Kerry's wealth was made a huge issue in 2004. Don't lie.

Also, can you imagine the hue and cry if Kerry had anything to do with a company that closed American plants ahd shipped the jobs to a communist country?

I could be wrong but didn't Ford motors shut down plants in America and open some up in China.

Kerry was called a socialist of course. Imagine what he would have been called by the very people now defending Willard, had he personally shipped jobs to a communist nation.

American progressives have historically been closely associated with the politics, economies and societies of the extreme left; communists, national socialists, democratic socialists, and maoists.

i am currently reading a diary of a german jew, the nazis in the 1933-34 period liked to refer to their enemies as being "liberalistic" as well as in the vein of marxism.

in truth, the national socialists in germany did not really care so much about ideology as much as it flourished on resentment and hate. it took measures that could as well be described as socialistic at times, as well as fascistic. hitler wanted power & he hated the jews above all else. petty characterizations of left & right are almost meaningless in the face of those folks

klemperer is the name of the diarist, one of his relatives was somewhat famous but the story is just numbingly awful.

the thirst for "law & order" and the need to get rid of social deviants like homos & easy women and gypsies, etc....its not a matter of left versus right insofar as the nazis are concerned.

they could hate russia then when hitler signed the pact, then they liked russia...except when they didnt. same with pact with poland. pact with devil no matter how you slice

also, a newer book on dubbyas wars...they define him. the extermination camps define hitler

Don't know him.

But Werner Klemperer did a stand-up job as Colonel Klink in Hogan's Heroes.

Hoooow-ghannnn!