Republican: "Thank God Bush lowered our taxes, or we'd all be feeling the pinch much worse now."

:puke:

Yep, I actually had someone say this to me.

I told them in no uncertain terms that we were all paying for those tax cuts dearly. At the gas pump. In the grocery store. When we go to the doctor, buy prescription drugs, or pay our utility bills.

I also told them the only ones who aren't feeling the pinch are the wealthy, who are receiving a disproportionate tax cut, compared to their earnings, and they are the only group who likely wouldn't feel the pinch of a tax increase at all.

Then I flat out told him that I was sick of stupid idiots like him defending a sinking ship. I told him if he and others like him were standing on the deck of the Titanic with water up to their knees, they'd likely say the ship wasn't sinking, and insist that the band continues to play and wonder where their drink order is.

And then I said that I was sick of people like him walking around pretending to be righteous and wearing blinders, and that if he'd turn off Rush and Bill and Sean for a change, and go find sources for REAL NEWS without the spin, he might learn a few things about the lies he's been fed all along.

I told him he disgusted me, and that I could no longer be his friend because he lacked the ethics, morals, and values that I find important in my life. And then I told him despite what he may believe, those values are sorely lacking in the Republican Party.

I told him Bush's view on supporting the troops was sending them off to their deaths based on lies, and then ignoring their health care issues when they returned missing body parts.

I told him the GOP's conservative values have placed the health of America's children secondary to military contracts in Iraq, again, a war BASED ON LIES.

I told him the GOP's fiscal policies have resulted in the highest deficit EVER, and the MOST WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT EVER.

And as for Bush being a good Christian man, I asked him to consider how a good Christian man could send these young men and women off to die without proper protection, a plan, or a valid reason to fight a war.

I concluded by telling him that if he continues to support these people, I cannot and will not be his friend because I find these people, who are corrupt liars and murderers, and the people who enable them to do these things by their support, offensive to the human race, and not worth the time of day.

As I walked off, he just stood there with his mouth open. Literally.

I HAVE HAD ENOUGH! WAKE UP, IDIOTS!! The rest of us have to suffer for your laziness and ignorance!!!

The Bush too-lazy-to-make-an-informed-decision voters are the worst thing that ever happened to the USA.
Somehow or other, they don't understand that THEY made the mistake.

War spending & keeping the interest rates artificially low are the only things propping up this whole stupid house of cards.

Anyone who supports that party and their filth is not and will never be a friend of mine.

Yes, it is harsh. But when my family members starting telling me I was going to burn in hell for eternity because I did not support Bush 100% I felt more like they were kicking me out of the family than me choosing to leave.

man in the WH.

I will insert this from Dr. Justin Frank author of Bush on the Couch, this cannot be ignored, this man is totally out of control. And even Dennis was questioning *'s mental state.

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/interviews/2006/3314justin_frank.html

just a snip but read the whole interview:

Frank: Well, my updated psychological assessment is essentially, that he is still very much the way he was: Which was that he suffers from a couple of basic things which I will describe. But I've gotten teh sense recently, that Bush is like a Rorschach test for the left: Everybody has a different theory about him.

My clinical sense of him is that he is a man who is compromised by a couple of things:

One is by learning disabilities, which makes it hard for him to read, and therefore hard for him to visualize and anticipate events.

He is also compromised by his long history of alcoholism. That has led him to see the world in black and white, and for him to have to use black-and-white thinking, in order to manage his anxiety—and everything makes him anxious. So, he has to surround himself with people who agree with him, who see things the way he does, and who never question him.

will be saying, no later then 1 February 2009, that everything wrong in America is the fault of whichever democratic candidate gets elected president.

I applaud your handling of the situation. Fuck them and their worthless fucking values. Ignorance, lies, never ending war, arrogance, corporate crime. Those are real by god conservative values.

After all, Idiot In Chief said it long ago, 'Either you're with us or against us.'

I was against the bastards long ago, and I ain't fucking backing down now or ever. A spade is a spade, and that is the bottom line. Any Democrat who wants to give any credibility to these evil bastards, is just as complicit as the rest of them.

when we encounter them. We should be marginalizing them like the criminal enablers that they are. Push THEM to the fringe of society where they can do less harm and gawk at them for being such un-evolved disappointments to humanity.

As I was reading your post, I (very sadly) couldn't help but think that those are the very same things I could say to my dearly-loved brother.

He says I'm "too smart to be a Democrat", and I have responded that he's "too kind to be a Republican".

I often wonder how two people raised by the same parents and taught to think for themselves can look at the same facts, and arrive at such diametrically-opposed conclusions.

I blame Karl Rove/Tom DeLay/New Gingrich for their win-at-all-costs, do-whatever-it-takes approach to politics. Their mantra is "family values", yet my family would have disciplined me severely, as a child, if I had pulled up/defaced/destroyed campaign signs of the political opposition. I have seen in my own neighborhood that this hooligan behavior is actually encouraged by "upstanding" Republican families.

We are destroying our society with a thousand small cuts, beginning with seemingly innocuous behavior such as this, and proceeding on to the "everyone does it" justification for almost everything they and theirs do. Family values my ass.

AndyA, your Republican friend's rants remind me of something I was reading just last night in MOYERS ON AMERICA--A JOURNALIST AND HIS TIMES. The Republicans have grossly misunderstood democracy and civilization:

"Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practiced. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power. Look around, if you would, to see what I mean. The web of cooperation is under siege, and in these pages I try to identify the most worrisome of the indicators: economic and political elites have created islands of gilded affluence surrounded by moats of inequality wider than any since 1929; a reactionary coalition has determined to dismantle the social safety net by bankrupting the federal treasury; I believe this unraveling of the social fabric through the growing corruption of politics by money and ideology threatens the very soul of our democracy.....Meanwhile, a handful of media moguls with their eyes on the bottom line, which measures Americans only as consumers and not as citizens, gain more control over what we see, read, and hear." (pp xii-xiii)

That was great - I have wanted to say those things for a while now, unfortunately, they are my parents. You did good!

Not because I'm an asshole, but because I found it impossible. I'm on Social Security. How do I remain "friends" with people who would like to literally yank the food right off my table so that they and their pals can save a few nickels?