Congressional Dems threatening to revoke a major network’s license because they don’t approve of the content on one show.
Right McQ, I’m going to vote to split control of the federal government with these folks. FNC, talk radio, and the right side of the blogosphere as sacrificial lambs for... fiscal gridlock?
Impeached Federal Judge Alcee Hastings as Chairman - House Intelligence Committee because you’re ticked off that the GOP wasn’t frugal enough?
Seems that some neo’s are reverting to paleo-libertarian form - discarding good for the perfect.
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Metaphorical Matt, I certainly do not think our present government is even good. But giving up pi$$ poor for an almost certain really s_cks reminds me of the petulance of paleo-libertarians. |
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And Republicans threatening to revoke licenses because somebody shows a boob.... |
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Numbers don’t lie, but they don’t always tell the full truth.
When you look at the budget for e.g., the justice department, for example, you get a total 2006 of $21 billion dollars, or about 1% of the total budget. Moreover, much of the increase has gone directly to domestic efforts to fight terrorism. Yeah, I’d like to see them drop that from the budget.
And yeah, it’s important to sweat that, while discretionary spending continues to spin out of control and is now at 2/3 of our entire federal budget.
This takes 10 seconds to verify. Or put another way, Scarborough is a complete dumba**.
Percentage changes are meaningless if they are applied to insignificant portions of the total pie. |
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Sorry I meant "entitlement spending continues to spin out of control" |
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No William, the GOP controlled government FINED the network for allowing a nipple to be shown.
The GOP has not threaten to revoke licensure, however, when any network portraits the Bush Administration in a narrative unapproved by said administration.
The difference may be lost upon you. |
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The Republican congress that curbed the excesses of Clinton and lead to a modest reduction in the growth rate of domestic spending no longer exists. In fact it ceased to exist around 1998, when this current run-up in spending really started, not the day that Bush took office.
Unfortunately, the Republicans found out in the 1990’s that cutting the government goodies and being fiscally responsible doesn’t win votes or make you popular, it makes you the "Gingrich who stole Christmas". In particular their experience with getting blamed for the government shutdowns left a real scar on the Republican party, who after all really wanted to be popular like Bill Clinton.
In the end the Republicans figured out that the American people want to be pandered to, they want their government to take money from other people and give it to them, and they want the government to solve ALL of their problems. In short they learned how to be Democrats.
With this set of facts what makes anybody believe that there will be any friction between Democrats and Republicans that will restrain spending? The only friction will be on foreign policy, not the level of spending. The Democrats main objection to Bush’s domestic spending is that he hasn’t spent enough.
What we will end up with is in order to keep sending goodies home the Republicans are going to have to compromise and agree to a tax increase.
That is my prediction. |
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Percentage changes are meaningless if they are applied to insignificant portions of the total pie. Not it your stated ideology is to spend less and shrink government. |
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Why, oh why, do I want divided government?
Posted by: McQ I don’t know because you’re not going to get it. You’re going to get Harry Read AND Nancy Pelosi, not one or the other...Oh well I don’t think you’re going to get it. And both you and the Democrats can cry in your beers, I guess.
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It is a distinction without a difference. Fines of the enormous amounts that the Republicans have recently created result in content control, pure and simple. The same network had grave doubts as to whether it could run the movie Saving Private Ryan, under the new censorship established by the Republicans.
I am against censorship. I am against it when either Democrats or Republicans do it. It apparently only bothers you when the Democrats do it. And if you think that what this Administration is doing qualifies as "good," but not "perfect" then you would have loved the Johnson Administration. |
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As long the the margins in the House and/or Senate are close, the spending will be high. It’s the price for votes. |
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McQ:
Have you lived in the Soviet Union? I am just curious, because you quote someone who characterizes Bill Clinton as a marxist.
Ask around. See how many people who used to live under communist totalitarianism agree with that sentiment. How many do you think honestly view Clinton in such terms? |
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Have you lived in the Soviet Union? I am just curious, because you quote someone who characterizes Bill Clinton as a marxist. What has that to do with anything?Ask around. See how many people who used to live under communist totalitarianism agree with that sentiment. How many do you think honestly view Clinton in such terms? I have no idea and really don’t care since it has nothing, even remotely, to do with this post. |
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