Rombaldi wrote: that Shrub started for profit...
Even Tony Blair and Gordon Brown both deny that and they certainly can not be accused of being Conservatives or natural allies of the Republicans in this country.
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Rombaldi wrote: that Shrub started for profit...
http://article.nationalreview.com/42899 ... eyn?page=2As it’s happening, incremental decline is extremely seductive. Great powers aren’t Chad or Rwanda, where you’re sliding from the Dump category to the Even Crummier Dump category. Take a city like Vienna. Once upon a time it was an imperial capital. The empire busted up, but the capital still had magnificent architecture, handsome palaces, treasure houses of great art, a world-class orchestra, fabulous restaurants . . . who wouldn’t enjoy such “decline”? You benefit from all the accumulated capital of the past without being troubled by any of the tedious responsibilities. Have another coffee and a piece of strudel and watch the world go by. To be sure, everything new — or, at any rate, everything new that works — is invented and made elsewhere. But genteel decline from the heights can be eminently civilized, especially to those of a leftish bent. Francophile Americans passing through bucolic villages with their charmingly state-regulated charcuteries and farmland wholly subsidized by the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy can be forgiven for wondering whether global hegemony is all it’s cracked up to be.
Whether decline will seem quite so bucolic viewed from a Jersey strip mall rather than the Dordogne remains to be seen.
We are that exceptional. Our current struggle is mostly with corporatism, not socialism.American exceptionalism would have to be awfully exceptional to suffer a similar expansion of government and not witness, in enough of the populace, the same descent into dependency and fatalism.
Interesting, Live365. I believe many of the tea party people (whether or not 'Republicans') do not believe the government version of 9-11. They would also be suspicious of the neglect by the US Army Corps of Engineers of the sea walls surrounding New Orleans. Many in the group come from the 'Patriot Movement' in the US. They hate the government, period.Originally posted by Live365
What percentage of Democrats still believe September 11th was an inside job and the government steered the hurricane into New Orleans?!
I mean, if you want to compare wing-nuts to wing-nuts........
OMG wrote: Again the stuff you guys mentioned were in blogs, might have a passing saying in C2C, but you don't hear that sort of stuff on a constant bases in the mainstream like you do this right wing stuff.