Escape

Tax Cuts work

And Obama is going to go along with Tax Cuts.

//www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/11/06/us_obama_republicans_3

oh BULL! Shushtari,

Why is Carter the "biggest idiot"? Because he refused to invade Iran and put a corrupt Monarch back in power by force, even though it cost him the election?

Compared to the genocidal level atrocities committed by most US Presidents, Carter was an angel.

i'll tell you why I despite the lefties....

TWO WORDS: JIMMY CARTER

by far, the biggest idiot to sit in the white house

Correction

That did not come out right.

Being Tough on IRI= invading iran and pushing for more sanctions.

Productive debate

Did i use the right word? I mean with Sargord Pirooz aka Standard and poor index In the room , how can a debate be productive?:)

Watching an interview with the new Senator elect from Utah vowing that he will propose and vote for an amendment to the constitution, mandating congress to pass a "balanced budget" Every god damn year. These Mo..f'ers are not kidding. They are talking a nice cut across the board. Twice he was asked about the specifics, both times he dodged.

I'd say let them do whatever they want to now that they have the podium and let these "take your hands off our medicare" people learn their lessons and be better for it in 2012. I also don't see them having enough courage to go too far on making any irrational decisions on getting tough with IRI. They've got their hands full for now and they have to secure their future in politics.

Republicans only care about winning not a functioning gov't

What actual proposals did Republicans advance to help create jobs? Tax cuts - which won't work.
What actual proposals did Republicans advance to balance the budget? Tax cuts - which won't work.
What did Republicans complain about the most? The wall street bail out - which was originally their idea. And the HIR bill - which has barely taken effect and will improve the deficit.

They ran a campaign based not on what would help, but based on what would help them win the election. So long as we are "crippled" by an allegiance to facts, logic, and a functioning government, they have the advantage.

Low-life SP:

The plural form of "low life" does not take an apostrophe mark. You may want to use "low-life" which is the adjectival form of the expression.The plural forms are: "low lives" or "low lifes" without an apostrophe!!!

Great analysis by Christopher Hitchens

 on why the Democrats lost:

 //www.slate.com/id/2273158/

Although I have to admit that (notwithstanding my previous comment below) there may be something to this whole "Zionist conspiracy" thing.  This is one of the best parts of the Hitchens piece: :-))

 Junk polling spreads like a weed. In early October, the Weekly Standard, for which I have written and which I read, published an editorial signed by the magazine's editor, William Kristol. The subject of the editorial was American attitudes to Israel, and the entire factual content was furnished by the findings of an opinion poll. This poll had asked respondents to say how "pro-Israel" they were and how much their views of the matter influenced their voting intentions. Quite a lot of people said they were pro-Israel, and, of these, quite a good proportion said that they wouldn't vote for a candidate who wasn't. The poll had been commissioned by the Emergency Committee for Israel, a new lobbying group founded in July. (It considers the state of "emergency" to be this: exorbitant pressure by Obama on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about settlements. I suppose it is possible to go around believing this.) The group has about six identifiable members, one or two of whom are quite nice. One of them is William Kristol, though he was too modest to mention the fact in his editorial.

What if it had been Democrats going to war?

 Just realizing how this conversation has turned into being about the war makes me realize again,that is all you voted for.That is all anything is about for you.

What if a Liberal Democrat had been the one going to War?I for one would never have stooped to making it a Political deal as liberals have.This is what I am talking about Democrats 'blame'.How convienent it was for the Democrats to blame 'Republicans and Conservatives' for the War.Nice way to get elected.But this is not the time for liberal economics.

That is the summary of this blog...

Thank you for your replies and I apologize for any offenses.

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I just want to say that wars are bad because the high collateral damage.......yes, some terrorists got killed......but a lot of innocent people got killed due to the misinformation and incorrect intelligence. It does not look like there is a clear victory in Afghanistan......the government is making deals with the Taliban...

Escape: It is amazing how easy we can white wash our crimes

Using your analogy, when cop make up bogus report that my house is full of murders and robbers, and use that report to break in to loot my house, that is when we call them out. Wasn't that the case regarding Iraq invasion?

You have the audacity to say that we don't kill innocent civilian any more where as the secret report, thank to wikileak, showed how systematically we looked the other way when torture and murder was going on. Under the international law, the responsibility is squarely on the occupying force, which was illegal to begin with.

And to show the level of hypocrisy by the US regime, just as Vildemose pointed out, the US is currently planning on the biggest arm sell to the worse regime in the world. What gives????????

And like Ari said, when it comes to Republicans, logic plays no rule.

Mehrdad

Escape: The terrorist

Escape: The terrorist Islamists' arguments are pretty much like yours; laiden with fear-and war-mongering..

Are you sure you're not part of the IRI establishment? I bet they would hire you with fringe benefits in a heartbeat.

Anti-War and Terrorists

Are two sides of the coin.Pacifist's who insisted America do nothing about terrorist have joined with the terrorist's.It's the same side isn't it?

If it were up to these pacifist's America would be looking like Isreal right now with nutcakes shoving bombs up their assess trying to cross the border.

Cities across America would have blown up.9-11 would have went on to be 9-12,9-13,9-14,9-15.........

According to the Terrorist pacifiers we are supposed to sit and let them make terrorist camps across Afghanistan,we were supposed to let Saddam Hussein fund them.Yes you really have AMERICA'S interest at heart.NOT..And NOT Afghanistan's interest or Iraq or even Yemen for that much.

You like to twist it so people who fight terrorists,are the terrorists.

The logic of a jackal.

Just bear with the wars,we will prevail.

Escape- I hate to say it, but a great number of Iranians

are clueless conspiracy theorists, and that's what they base their political ideology on.  I'm a life long Democrat.  Back in 1996 when I was a volunteer for the Clinton campaign (actually got to meet him), I was shunned by other Iranians because I was told that we should vote Republican--because the Democrats, I was told, were in the pockets of "Zionists." Now, they're saying the same thing about the Republicans...and that is that we should vote for the Democrats because Republicans are in the pockets of the "Zionists." Totally clueless... 

You know what Mehrdad

We don't kill innocent people on purpose.The terrorist's do.And its not that often that we do anymore. The terrorist's that want to kill Americans.Those countries should have driven them out.

Tell me,if your house is full of murderer's and robbers...,the cops break in and shoot you along with the terrorists,do you think thats really the cops fault?You going to sit and bitch about the cops ? How much sympathy do you expect? It's over and that's why the anti war movement is pretty much dead. Don't be a useful 'you know what' for terrorist's.

  Ari,It's about blame

  Ari,It's about blame when blame is due.
There's noone to blame in Sacramento.There's no Republicans.The State is in shambles and it has been since before Bush.This is serious if you are a Californian and you give a crap about your future.Do you have kids? Do you think 20 more years of this 'Democratization' of California is going to leave it with a pot to piss in? People just vote for Democrats here because of the Blame on Republicans.They think the Nation's security does not require these wars against the Al Qeada,the Taliban and are not only dangerous to the nations security,they are dangerous to our economics.Because they are not fiscal conservative,they are Tax and spend liberals. If you like to have people who cannot balance a budget,who have to borrow 40 million per day to pay for the unemployment,then it's just fine.

This has got to stop.If we don't start conserving our money,our jobs,we will have NONE.This is the road we are on.Even the entertainment multi millionaire mongols are hurting.When we are all wearing buckets,what Democrat is going to say 'I should have voted for a conservative'??  Still NONE!!  They are so hard headed..

Ari

The teaparty nutcases and their corporate/religious backers are not any different thant the basiji/hizballahi thugs of the IRI ruling elite.

They are racist bigots with a sense of superioty, "manifest destiny", and false sense of exceptionalism over others in the world. The mullahs and tea party leaders (Christian zionists, rapture-ready) are two side of the same coin.

No Escape, I am talking about the 4500+ American soldiers

and many hundred of thousand Iraqi and Afghan civilian.

The terrorist Taliban, Saddam and Khamenie have killed many thousand innocent civilian just like their counter part terrorist Americans. When civilian die, they don't care which terrorist kill them, they die just the same.

Vildemose: Only if more of our leaders in Congress had as much of a back bone, integrity and wisdom as Ron Paul, we would certainly be in a much better place in the world.

Mehrdad

vildemose, agreed.

For example, here's a bit of news that can generate some anger emotion A doctor is left for dead after a hit and run accident. The prosecutor won't consider a felony charge. His stated reason: the driver is a billion Dollar wealth manager for Morgan Stanley and could lose his job!

Mehrdad

When you say 'Bombing Innocent people'  you are talking about the Taliban,Al Qeada and Saddam Hussein's Republican guard.

The biggest freaking killers of your lifetime.

Those are NOT innocent people unless you are freaking terrorist.

You are a REAL CREDIT to the Iranian exile.

Now I'm sick of arguing the war with terrorist apologist's,it's a waste but thanks for your comment anyway.

Ari: Republicans are able to

Ari: Republicans are able to connect with the voters on a visceral and emotional level. Intellect has nothing to do with it.

Ron Paul

Saudi Arms Deal Is About Iran

Listen to Rep. Paul deliver this speech by clicking here.

...Some will argue that these arms deals are international trade which we should encourage and applaud. Sadly, the United States does not build much that we can export these days. But the fact is that the U.S. weapons industry is underwritten by the American taxpayer. From research and development to acquisition by the U.S. military, the costs of the U.S. arms industry are borne by American citizens. But, as so-called private companies, the enormous profits they make selling weapons to countries like Saudi Arabia are of course privatized.

So the costs are socialized and the profits are privatized. There is a word for this arrangement, and it is not “capitalism.”..

//original.antiwar.com/paul/2010/11/01/saudi-arms-deal-is-about-iran/

Puzzled!

1. "Except,as I said,their [Democrats] bickering politics of blame,blame,blame.."

2. " If history tell's you anything,you'd know it was the BROWN PAST that got us here."

If the blog wants to make a point that blaming is silly, why does it indulge in blaming? 

Also, the fact that liberals are spineless and ineffective should make their conservative adversaries happy. Why is an apparently pro-conservative blog attacking liberals for losing? 

What puzzles me is that liberals think and write coherently but rarely accomplish their agenda, whereas conservative writings read like bad Tork jokes but persuade more voters. 

I am with Vildemose on this one

and like COP vote based on merits/issue rather then party line. 

And have only add one thing, if bombing and killing innocent people is a sign of having balls, then Hitler must have the biggest balls ever.  We all know where he end up in the history book and have no doubt the same faith awaits  GWB/Cheney criminal gang.

Now you go and rob some balls to go and bomb innocent people.

Mehrdad

Just watching this trailer

This time, there will

This time, there will not be some kind of pendulum at work.

There was no pendulum for the British Empire, the French Monarchy or the old USSR. Some rot is irreversible.


In fact, the USSR still remains my favorite analogy: we're in the Gorbachev era and lurching towards the Yeltsin era: look, the clowns have arrived!

I think the trend is simply irreversible, just as it was in the USSR, no matter who is in power. I feel sorry for Obama.

My best guess is that by 2014, a lot of the US will sort of look like Mumbai, minus the tasty food.

Along with the Wall Street sleazeballs who saw it coming and didn’t care– or took the opportunity to get rich off of it– Republicans, Democrats and soul-selling academics are not spared.

It’s made by Charles Ferguson, who– unlike Michael Moore– is actually capable of focusing on the subject at hand and building a case. His previous film, “No End in Sight,” was a devastating look at the Bush administration’s criminal unpreparedness for dealing with post-invasion Iraq, and its failure to adjust to the realities on the ground.

I don’t know how widely “Inside Job” is being shown, but try to see it now or when it comes out on DVD.
//www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/inside-job-trailer-new-do_n_703445.html

//www.sonyclassics.com/insidejob/

 Required reading for our wingnutters:

 //whatsthematterwithkansas.com/

You're right,had the

You're right,had the drilling been appropiated by Big Govt and environmentalist's shut up and locked away if they protested as in China,the drilling would have occurred in shallow water's where maintainance can be maintained.But since we have a small govt (right) and open system environmentalist's drove the wells so deep,it was very hard to fix the leak.I hope we learned a lesson from that. If you're going to drill,do it right and toss aside to liberals and their good 'intentions' that do nothing but drive you to hell.

Democrats controlled the congress during most of Bush's presidency.2002-2010.Figure that in next time you consider the economy.Reid,Pelosi,Boxer did what for the economy?

I don't know where to draw the line at small govt,it's kinda irrevelent because we've never cut back on govt,it just keeps growing and growing.Is that ok with you? I would draw the line right here,no more programs,no more taxes,no more dependency.No more laws,we have set up this govt enough to run now haven't we? How much more do we need?

Where do you draw the line on Big govt?How long before they are telling us what to eat?What to wear? What to drive? What's good for us etc etc etc..

There are a few Democrats I would vote for,I did vote for Bill Clinton 2 times.He's become a rarity..I would consider him to be conservative to todays Democrats.

And Spink I'm a California native from the 1960's. But I've toured the country a few times.And you? You're a Iranian/American who really has no clue to Iran,or America!! Hhahah

He's not Iranian

By the way, escape, most Iranians actually support the Right.

I consider myself independent as I'd vote for anyone whose stance matches mine, be it left or right. 

Both parties have strayed too far from what the founding fathers of this land had intended. Both cater too much to the special interest groups.  

Like I say to my extreme Right buddies: "I won't think twice to vote for a republican if I agree with his stance..Can you say the same thing?, Can you vote for a democrat?"

We had the Right control the Congress and the White House for a long time and all they did was to drive the economy to the ground and involve this colutnry in two very expensive wars.

Want small government? Where do you draw the line at being small? Wanna ask Rand Paul???

The BP disaster and the economic meltdown are the results of your small government, nice going!

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Geez, not only are some

Geez, not only are some Iranian exiles out to lunch with regards to politics in the country they no longer belong to, but they're also quite out of it when it comes to politics within their semi-accepted social status here in America.

After skimming this diatribe, I can clearly see why. Honestly, as in the case of Cuban exiles, it appears my country was on the unfortunate receiving end of an influx of some of the worst characters to come out of my father's country. It's no wonder these social low-life's were so roundly defeated back in '79. I just wish they hadn't picked my great state and country to stink up with their stupid foreigner ways.