let's get partisan!

i agree that there are some values that we should share whether we support the red or blue politicians, but there is a large chance that the red politicians don't agree with the values i think we should share. i hope obama taking this in a bit from his experience with the stimulus bill. his killing the republicans with kindness doesn't seem to be working. (i know i know, he says it's a long road... but is it really one that we wanna go down?) one problem is most republican politicians don't have any illusions about bi-partisanship and don't have a desire to take action on the word.

case in point:
" Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.) suggested last week that the party is learning from the disruptive tactics of the Taliban, and the GOP these days does have the bravado of an insurgent band that has pulled together after a big defeat to carry off a quick, if not particularly damaging, raid on the powers that be. "

... at the expense of the rest of us...


post article:"GOP Sees Positives In Negative Stand"

additionally i say, "let's get partisan" b/c the centrists are also pissing me off and mr. krugman as well. the first lines of his latest editorial:
"What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses?
A proud centrist."

krugman's editorial: the destructive center

i couldn't agree more and neither can the economists quoted by harper's who said "the cuts that would have provided aid to states and education programs...were 'outrageous' and 'disastrous.'”

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