XPost: alt.alt.spamtrap, alt.stupidity, talk.politics.guns
From: webmasta@whatsamattayou.edu
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> On Mar 19, 4:23 pm, "ubermutant" wrote:
> > wrote in message
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> > news:1174340632.898383.226450@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
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> > > On Mar 19, 10:43 am, "ubermutant" wrote:
> > > > "wrabenator" wrote in message
> >
> > > >news:1174246078.452846.235790@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
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> > > > > On Mar 18, 12:08 pm, "Nebuchadnezzar II"
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > "Patriot Games" wrote in message
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> > > > > >news:pufLh.15020$yj7.2072@trnddc02...
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> > > > > > > "What Me Worry?" <__@____.___> wrote in message
> > > > > > >news:lfSdnXy4YuehwmDYnZ2dnUVZ_rSjnZ2d@insightbb.com...
> > > > > > >> Or did they impale themselves on his spear?
> >
> > > > > > > The Number One candidate for 2008 is a Republican....
> >
> > > > > > > So the answer to your question is No.
> >
> > > > > > America's choices for the 2008 President.
> >
> > > > > > 1) The most charismatic Senator in congress.
> >
> > > > > > 2) The wife of the most popular President since JFK.
> >
> > > > > > 3) A crossdresser who married his cousin and left one of his
wives
> > to go
> > > > > > live with two gay guys.
> >
> > > > > > 4) A flip-flopper who can barely remember what day it is.
> >
> > > > > > Have a nice day.
> >
> > > > > Re the title of this thread: "Did Bush Kill the GOP?" an
appropriate
> > > > > response might be "If so, it will be in name only."
> > > > > As long as politicians can be bought or rented, the United States
will
> > > > > have a money party, dedicated to the interests of the rich,
> > > > > individual, familial, or corporate. Whenever the voters learn the
real
> > > > > aim of that party it changes its name: from Federalist to National
> > > > > Republican to Whig to Republican. As long as we tolerate robber
> > > > > barons, robber barons will control at least one major political
party,
> > > > > regardless of its name.
> >
> > > > Why in the world would a robber baron buy only one party and roll
the
> > dice
> > > > on getting what he wanted? Wouldn't you suppose it'd be a better
deal
> > to
> > > > buy both and get the guarantee?
> >
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> > > Haven't they got that guarantee from time-to-time? But every now
> > > and then the ordinary people raise hell about the corruption and the
> > > barons are stuck with one party, rather than both. When the public
> > > understands the money party's real aims, the party goes briefly out of
> > > existence, soon returning under a new name, same game.
> >
> > Yep, that was the point. Clearly, they DO buy both sides, and by all
> > accounts it's out of petty cash. The great unwashed rarely get hip to
the
> > game, and when they do some character like John McCain will publish
another
> > set of 'reforms' aimed at fixing the problem (ie, plugging the leaks).
And
> > America snoozes on.
> >
> > Still, it amazes me that some will perceive, correctly, that party A or
> > party B has been bought but they simply refuse to consider the
possibility,
> > in the face of all the evidence to the contrary, that 'their' party is
paid
> > for too.
> >
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> Maybe we owe some praise, albeit faint, to those crooked politicians
> who, once bought, don't stay bought, and, occasionally, vote their
> constituents' interest, at least until they get the next installment
> of bribe money.
Your call, you can grant them whatever you want. As for me I don't owe them
any more than I would a thief who left me 50 cents for a phone call.
> You're certainly right about bribes' coming from the barons' petty
> cash. Corporations hire CEOs as errand boys and investigation-
> deflectors for $20 million a year. That'd buy a lot of curruption.
>
Indeed it does.
b.
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