Can we talk about the Culture of Corruption?

[Adre]

My estimate is that you agreed with this.

Not necessarily, I'm just not very interested in debating precisely where on the ideological spectrum everyone stands. I stated I believe in governing from the middle and I stand by that. And I believe in dealing with things as they are, not how I wish them to be.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Not necessarily, I'm just not very interested in debating precisely where on the ideological spectrum everyone stands. I stated I believe in governing from the middle and I stand by that. And I believe in dealing with things as they are, not how I wish them to be.

Anathema to glibertarianism.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If you do not aim at what you wish for, you probably will never achieve it. If you aim to the middle, you aim at a moving target, almost always to the left.

 

[RobDownSouth]

If you aim to the middle, you aim at a moving target, almost always to the left.

Is that what they taught you on the Murine boot camp gunnery range?

Small wonder you BOLOed.

 

[Adre]

To use an expression I normally avoid, 'whatever.'

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

As the Democrats envision a possible debacle in the upcoming November elections, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas has been crowing that the hard-line left within the party has prevented the moderates from having any influence. He has been countered by the Democratic think tank Third Way, which has vocalized its displeasure with the hard-line leftist leaders such Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

And that’s only what is apparent to the public; in private, if the Democrats plunge in 2014, the moderates are planning to blame the leftists because the left eschewed free-trade deals and entitlement reform, while progressives will vilify the centrists for their abandonment of protection of benefits.

One anonymous strategist said, "This is a coming divide for the Democratic Party. Not only about explaining 2014, but laying the groundwork for 2016."

Third Way cofounder Matt Bennett argues that the dwindling popularity of Democrats is due to the harsh class-war rhetoric flowing from the mouths of leftists. He said, "Democrats lost touch with the middle class. We engaged in arguments that have intellectual but not emotional resonance. Income inequality is a problem, but that doesn't make it something that will land in public.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/31/Dems-Show-Chasm-within-Party

 

[Byron In Exile]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/31/Dems-Show-Chasm-within-Party

Yes, link more...

In my country of Kazakhstan, we have links to things.

Very many links.

So you provide more links.

Very nice-a.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Also, your words, I should say...

Some-a-times, sound like meaningless gibberish. As though an owl would scream in my ear.

However, I am thankful is not sound of Uzbeks, who are of use for nothing.

 

[Adre]

*chuckle*

His positions didn't change, and more of them were right than wrong.

Except for:

Gun laws
Climate change
Healthcare reform
Auto bankruptcies
Abortion
Blind trusts
Gay rights

*chuckle*

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

To use an expression I normally avoid, 'whatever.'

*chuckle*

The battle cry of the "center."

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Also, your words, I should say...

Some-a-times, sound like meaningless gibberish. As though an owl would scream in my ear.

However, I am thankful is not sound of Uzbeks, who are of use for nothing.

lol...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Except for:

Gun laws
Climate change
Healthcare reform
Auto bankruptcies
Abortion
Blind trusts
Gay rights

*chuckle*

I do not think that this is the full Senator Obama record, you have hit the high points, but leaving out Gitmo in inexcusable...

 

[Adre]

I do not think that this is the full Senator Obama record, you have hit the high points, but leaving out Gitmo in inexcusable...

But, but, but...Gitmo. I'll take that as a win.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Not until the executions begin.

 

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Radio Silence on Leland Yee
He stands accused of conspiring to arm the Mafia, but the media won’t say it.
Charles C. W. Cooke, NRO
APRIL 2, 2014

Having assiduously ignored one of the gonzo corruption stories of the last decade, CNN this week offered a peculiar defense of its silence. Rankled by a curious Twitter user, who asked why “the Leland Yee story appears nowhere on CNN’s website,” the outlet explained that the decision was “in line with us covering state senators & state secretary of state races just about never.” “You see another conspiracy?” the account asked its inquisitor, snippily.

There is a lot of space between bias and conspiracy, and one does not have to believe that CNN’s editorial staff is sitting around stroking white cats and cackling for its explanation to remain unsatisfactory. A search for the words “state senator” on CNN’s website returns more than 2,800 results, the vast majority of them stories about . . . state senators. “Wendy Davis” — one such state senator — yields 168 entries, many of which predated Davis’s running for governor; “Stacey Campfield,” a Tennessee state senator who has made some choice comments about homosexuals, returns five; and “Ted Nugent,” who is not an elected figure of any sort, returns 186, a substantial number of which relate to comments he made while supporting Texas attorney general and gubernatorial nominee Greg Abbott earlier in the year. For his part, Yee’s name returns just one result, a video in which, per the outlet’s own blurb, he “discusses a bill to help prevent children from having access to violent video games.”

If we were to take CNN at its word, then, we would conclude that state senators are unusually fascinating when discussing video games, homosexuality, or abortion, but utterly unremarkable when indicted by the FBI for negotiating with Muslim separatist groups in the Philippines and conspiring to put missile launchers and fully automatic weapons into the hands of the Mafia. “Conspiracy”? Nah. That requires self-awareness.

 

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[Adre]

Then how can you support Obama who is all about how he thinks things should be, instead of how they really are?

I was discussing what I believe, not what Obama is all about as you put it. Just because I voted against Flip Romney does not indicate that I support all of Obama's decisions or ways of thinking. I would have thought you were bright enough to know that a vote does not mean absolute fealty. Perhaps not.

 

[miles]

They definitely put the clamps of that story. Democrats and their media don't want to talk about their brethren going to jail just before the election.

Justin Beiber will be bigger news in the corrupt media.

 

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[Adre]

Obviously you thought Obama's Marxist background trumped Romney's free market background.

No, I thought Obama's consistency trumped Romney reversing his opinions on nearly every major issue of the day.

See post 84.

 

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[Adre]

So you thought Obama's "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan," trumped an alleged reversal of opinion by Romney? So instead of supporting Romney and his free market solutions, you decided the double down on the demonstrable failures of integrity and economic theory on the part of Obama?

Did you lose your doctor? Didn't think so. Health plan? Didn't think so. Is the US outperforming Europe and Asia by a long shot right now? Thought so.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Radio Silence on Leland Yee
He stands accused of conspiring to arm the Mafia, but the media won’t say it.
Charles C. W. Cooke, NRO
APRIL 2, 2014

"Anytime a Democrat is in trouble, particularly a minority Democrat, Glibertarians will always whine that the perpetrator is getting a 'free pass' from the press". - Abraham Lincoln