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"He has blundered into a deepening quagmire in Afghanistan,
has continued the Bush policy of buying
off Wall Street hustlers instead of confronting them and is now on the cusp of
bargaining away the so-called
public option, the reform component of his health care program."
Robert Scheer,
Obama's
Presidency Isn't Too Big to Fail
The New Democrat is the Old Republican. Just as the Old
Republicans devolve into some sort of deranged regional Confederate Party full of
Michael Douglas' "Falling Down" character, taking the perceived
demise of the white male in society as some sort of personal attack on their
world.
The religious fanatics populating the Old Republicans are an angry
unintelligible mass of screamers without logic. Raised by not sparing the rod,
these beaten little Christers are now lashing out in the anger as the adults of
abused children. The abused become the abusers in Max Blumenthal's well
researched analysis of the angry white mobs of the Christian right... the New
Confederate Party.
The New Democrat is really the old Rubin-McAuliffe corporate
Democrat. McAuliffe whose guiding political philosophy is "Hey pal, payola
for me not the other guy's party..." witnessed for the first time in 2006
Democrats receiving more campaign bribes from corporations than the Republicans
by 60% to 40% advantage. Pelosi and Reid behaved like it. Not able to find the
votes to stop anything or for any traditional Democrats populace position promised
in the elections. From 2006 to 2008, Reid and Pelosi's marching orders came
from their corporate owners whose bidding was carefully followed with excuses
to the public.
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