If Republicans do it, it's all right
By: Michael Rappaport Glendale : CA
There's a problem both political parties have, but Republicans seem to be taking it to a new level this year.
"When the (fill in name of party) do something, it's wrong. When the (fill in name of other party) do it, it's all right."
Let's look at an example:
When shoe bomber Richard Reed tried to blow up a flight and was stopped by passengers and crew, it was GeorgeGeorge W. BushBush keeping us safe from terror after 911.
When Captain Underpants tried to blow up a flight and was stopped by passengers and crew, it was Barack ObamaBarack Obama failing to keep us safe from terror on his watch.
Interesting, huh?
When Bush completely trashed the budget and the deficit with his ill-conceived prescription drug benefit in 2003, it was compassionate conservatism.
When Obama pushes for health-care reform the Congressional Budget Office says is relatively budget neutral, it's liberals and their wild spending.
How about that?
When teabaggers gather to complain about deficits, high taxes and our black president (yes, some of them do), it's Americans standing up for their patriotic right of free speech.
When protesters gathered to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration, it was treasonous and unpatriotic.
Hmmm, are we beginning to see a pattern here?
When Bush pushes through the $700 billion TARP program to keep the economy from imploding, it's the president standing up for the economy.
When Obama pushes through a further bailout -- Bush's wasn't enough, it seems -- that actually includes help for the unemployed, it's liberals blowing up the free-market economy.
When Democratic politicians speak out against the Bush-Cheney War on Terror, it's treasonous.
When Dick CheneyDick Cheney spends so much time attacking Obama's pursuit of the war that he appears to have verbal diarrhea, it's patriotic.
We appear to have a double standard here.
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Reply:
I agree there is a double standard, but it is not the one that you write about. The talking points that you mention and are always being repeated by the Obama Propaganda Machine, the Mainstream Media (MSM) are always distorted half truths and incomplete facts.
I could see that this was going to be a Liberal hit piece when you started calling Tea Party participants by the derogatory term, 'teabaggers'. Perhaps it's a term of something that you enjoy performing, IDK?
As for you trying to compare the actions of W., with Obama, for each' actions to the airline bombers, is ludicrous. The 911 attacks had just occurred at the beginning of President Bush's first term and the current safety measures were not in place. We have now been in a War footing since 2001 and our current President has tried to ignore it. This last attack, along with the Ft. Hood shootings are indicators that the Terrorists are in striking at us. They obviously believe that we are still in a state of war. President Obama has just declared war on one element of these terrorist, Al-Qaeda. I want to thank POTUS for joining us in that endeavor.
Conservatives were against the social reforms that President Bush was trying to enact during his terms. He was trying to reform the failed Medicare system. He also tried to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. These actions by the Republican Party would show them that the majority of it's members were not happy with the direction in which the party was trying to steer to, a Moderate posture. Senator McCain would bear the feelings that the members of the GOP had when they failed to support him.
Conservatives view Nationalized Health Care as another unnecessary program which is already problematic before it has even launched. It is an attempt by the Government to Socialize our country along with the banks, housing market and Auto Industries. The inefficient government programs like Social Security, Medicare and the Postal Service to name a few of our Governments failed institutions, leave us with little desire to add another program that will not work.
The Tea Party protesters will go down in history as a gathering of regular citizens without any support from any major organization or political party. These people saw our Constitution being trampled by a new political class in both parties. The antics that the Democrats have been trying to force down the American people will cause that party much in the future. These protesters were not all members of the Republican and many were patriots from the Democrat party.
As for the War on Terror, Democrat politicians have actively and constantly voiced their objection to it, including the then Senator Barack Hussein Obama. There has been no Republican that has voiced any objection to the war, the only one is that it is being conducted too hesitantly by our current POTUS. The problem seems to lie in how weak our President is and how this will encourage further attacks on the Homeland.
The bailouts and Stimulus package has not done anything to improve our economy other then to enrich many Obama supporters. We can not spend our way out of this recession and all we have to show for these efforts are record unemployment rates.
God Bless this country.
By: Michael Rappaport Glendale : CA
There's a problem both political parties have, but Republicans seem to be taking it to a new level this year.
"When the (fill in name of party) do something, it's wrong. When the (fill in name of other party) do it, it's all right."
Let's look at an example:
When shoe bomber Richard Reed tried to blow up a flight and was stopped by passengers and crew, it was GeorgeGeorge W. BushBush keeping us safe from terror after 911.
When Captain Underpants tried to blow up a flight and was stopped by passengers and crew, it was Barack ObamaBarack Obama failing to keep us safe from terror on his watch.
Interesting, huh?
When Bush completely trashed the budget and the deficit with his ill-conceived prescription drug benefit in 2003, it was compassionate conservatism.
When Obama pushes for health-care reform the Congressional Budget Office says is relatively budget neutral, it's liberals and their wild spending.
How about that?
When teabaggers gather to complain about deficits, high taxes and our black president (yes, some of them do), it's Americans standing up for their patriotic right of free speech.
When protesters gathered to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration, it was treasonous and unpatriotic.
Hmmm, are we beginning to see a pattern here?
When Bush pushes through the $700 billion TARP program to keep the economy from imploding, it's the president standing up for the economy.
When Obama pushes through a further bailout -- Bush's wasn't enough, it seems -- that actually includes help for the unemployed, it's liberals blowing up the free-market economy.
When Democratic politicians speak out against the Bush-Cheney War on Terror, it's treasonous.
When Dick CheneyDick Cheney spends so much time attacking Obama's pursuit of the war that he appears to have verbal diarrhea, it's patriotic.
We appear to have a double standard here.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/5013104-if-republicans-do-it-its-all-right
Reply:
I agree there is a double standard, but it is not the one that you write about. The talking points that you mention and are always being repeated by the Obama Propaganda Machine, the Mainstream Media (MSM) are always distorted half truths and incomplete facts.
I could see that this was going to be a Liberal hit piece when you started calling Tea Party participants by the derogatory term, 'teabaggers'. Perhaps it's a term of something that you enjoy performing, IDK?
As for you trying to compare the actions of W., with Obama, for each' actions to the airline bombers, is ludicrous. The 911 attacks had just occurred at the beginning of President Bush's first term and the current safety measures were not in place. We have now been in a War footing since 2001 and our current President has tried to ignore it. This last attack, along with the Ft. Hood shootings are indicators that the Terrorists are in striking at us. They obviously believe that we are still in a state of war. President Obama has just declared war on one element of these terrorist, Al-Qaeda. I want to thank POTUS for joining us in that endeavor.
Conservatives were against the social reforms that President Bush was trying to enact during his terms. He was trying to reform the failed Medicare system. He also tried to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. These actions by the Republican Party would show them that the majority of it's members were not happy with the direction in which the party was trying to steer to, a Moderate posture. Senator McCain would bear the feelings that the members of the GOP had when they failed to support him.
Conservatives view Nationalized Health Care as another unnecessary program which is already problematic before it has even launched. It is an attempt by the Government to Socialize our country along with the banks, housing market and Auto Industries. The inefficient government programs like Social Security, Medicare and the Postal Service to name a few of our Governments failed institutions, leave us with little desire to add another program that will not work.
The Tea Party protesters will go down in history as a gathering of regular citizens without any support from any major organization or political party. These people saw our Constitution being trampled by a new political class in both parties. The antics that the Democrats have been trying to force down the American people will cause that party much in the future. These protesters were not all members of the Republican and many were patriots from the Democrat party.
As for the War on Terror, Democrat politicians have actively and constantly voiced their objection to it, including the then Senator Barack Hussein Obama. There has been no Republican that has voiced any objection to the war, the only one is that it is being conducted too hesitantly by our current POTUS. The problem seems to lie in how weak our President is and how this will encourage further attacks on the Homeland.
The bailouts and Stimulus package has not done anything to improve our economy other then to enrich many Obama supporters. We can not spend our way out of this recession and all we have to show for these efforts are record unemployment rates.
God Bless this country.
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