Nathan Benefield posted on 4/29/2010 4:22:00 PM
Thanks for further evidence to support the headline.

SPO101 posted on 4/29/2010 4:18:00 PM
DO YOU PEOPLE really WANT Republicans back in power? I regularly have to ask Republicans/Conservatives what IT is they WANT! You seem a bit mixed up…
1) You do NOT like big government but government grows under Republican rule.
2) NO government in your lives but you like the “show me your papers” law in AZ.
3) You do NOT like Wall St. but you want to keep them unregulated so they can FINISH the job of ruining our economy.
4) You chant “Drill Baby Drill” but think Oil Companies should NOT be responsible for SPILLS and let the government take care of the environmental disasters. (I’m talking to YOU FL, MS, AL, LA, TX)
5) Conservatives despise illegal aliens but hire them on a regular basis.
6) Right-wing chicken hawks get off on WAR but you let your children/grandchildren PAY FOR IT.
6 and a half, lol) You people demonize gays but Larry Craig’s men’s room was the most popular attraction of the 2008 Republican National Convention and gay porn sells best in Red States.
7) You hate taxes but love Reagan even though Reagan/Bush RAISED taxes.
8) You love the USA but let it’s infrastructure to age and fall apart.
9) hell no to WELFARE for the 40 MILLION Americans struggling below the poverty level but you have NO problem with BILLION dollar subsidies for wealthy Corporations and well connected business people. On & on & on…

What the #*~/? Does this make sense to ANYONE? Can you blame Progressives for thinking Republicans/Conservatives are corrupt, misinformed, mental deficient hypocrites?

Not since the WWII has a population been so damn messed up. The Germans and Italians had an excuse for embracing corporate, military/police state. They didn’t have any history of such political abominations to learn from. However the Republicans/Conservatives have the examples of Mussolini/Hitler to examine. SO TELL ME PLEASE WHY you’d put SO much wealth and power in a Corporate owned police state? The very definition of FASCISM! Right Benito?
lol
Funny how the news media jumped on this Arizona immigration law story but completely IGNORED the following: John McCain and the Republicans seem to be leading the charge toward a police state:
S.3081 - Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010 proposed by Senators Lieberman and McCain “…removes the right to trial for American Citizens and gives government the AUTHORITY to detain Americans INDEFINITELY for SUSPECTED TERRORIST ACTIVITY…”

WHAT?
The really IMPORTANT thing about this Act is just WHO defines SUSPECTED ACTIVITY? I’m sure the CRIMINALS and CONS who oversaw the recent economic meltdown (or what I like to call greatest looting of a nation’s wealth and resources in the history of mankind) FEEL THREATENED by the ACTIVITY involved with calls for JUSTICE.

Republicans know DEMANDS for ethics, responsibility and accountability are going to come down HARD on them. Especially McCain/Lieberman who’ve been covering up Banking/Financial/Wall St SCANDALS since the 80’s. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what comes next…

consciousmc.blogspot.com

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“THE Devil knew not what he did when he made man politic…”
Shakespeare

Ken Clark posted on 4/29/2010 2:59:00 PM
Wow - what a reasoned response. Actually one of your better ones of the whole exchange.

Matt Brouillette posted on 4/29/2010 1:37:00 PM
Oh yes, its outrageous!

Ken Clark posted on 4/29/2010 1:36:00 PM
Matt - I'm not defending anything. You are the one holding this insanely stupid event where you actually fire guns at......wait for it..... IDEAS......to express your displeasure with the current administration. Now, come on...you have to admit.....it's pretty outrageous.

Matt Brouillette posted on 4/29/2010 1:27:00 PM
Ken, your entire premise of attack/defense was based on Bush...the record below demonstrates that.

Ken Clark posted on 4/29/2010 1:17:00 PM
Additionally Matt - I was never defending Obama by saying that "Bush did it too" I was saying Bush was wrong too, and you never once suggested that you and your buddies get together to shoot at stuff. Odd. You may want to have your 5 year old read the comment to you.

Ken Clark posted on 4/29/2010 1:03:00 PM
Um.....I will not retract anything or apologize. Most if not All of the articles cited were written AFTER Bush had left office.

Wow! Some pair on you......critisize the bully once he's left the room.

But that's not even the point. You & your group are getting together to shoot at....ideas.....really? You are going to shoot at ideas? You want to be taken seriously......really?

Matt Bruillette posted on 4/29/2010 12:52:00 PM
You ought to check your statements of fact about what we said or didn't say. Although we don't generally address national issues (unless they have a direct impact on PA), we certainly were speaking out. But since that doesn't fit with your simplistic narrative, I'm sure you'll continue spouting off Bush this, Bush that. My 5 year old always tries that kind of defense of the indefensible: "But she did it too."

Nathan Benefield posted on 4/29/2010 12:48:00 PM
Ken,
"where the heck were you, sir?"

Right here, criticizing the Bush administration. Go to the search bar, type "Bush": http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/search/default.asp?q=bush

If you'd like to retract your statement about being silent, I'll accept your apology.

Keep in mind that we are state-based think tank, so most of our research is on Pennsylvania economic issues, not foreign policy.

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