Harris Sherline: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Part II

» publius with a small p on 03.08.10 @ 10:20 AM

You’d think Harris Sherline never heard of all the dirty tricks Richard Nixon’s team implemented.  As if Donald Segretti and Dwight Chapin never existed… written out of Harris Sherline’s history

Not to mention the break-in at the Watergate HQ of the Democratic National Committee, where Nixon’s operatives committed burglary.

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» AN50 on 03.08.10 @ 01:28 PM

Small P, I think Sherline was trying, in some weird attempt, to be nonpartisan. You obviously in your typical partisan rants can’t wait to “blast the other side”. Take a chill pill dude and calm down. There are plenty of other posts where you can go all psycho on the right.

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» AN50 on 03.09.10 @ 09:54 AM

P, quit pissing on everything like a dog marking his territory. The article is about dirty tricks and both sides are abundantly guilty. If you want to turn this into another us vs them thing, then fine, quit smoking crack and get yer story straight first.
GW did not give trillions to “republicans” on Wall Street. He gave billions to Wall Street banking firms, many of whom supported Obama in the election. The cost of the Iraq war is some 900 billion, just short of a trillion, not trillions. And Obama’s heath care plan will cost some 4 trillion to 6 trillion in the end not one trillion as advertised by your messiah. But don’t forget the “stimulus package” this 800 billion dollar ear mark bill is the most extravagant waste of taxpayer money in the history of the union. All that on top of GWs gift to Wall Street. Plenty of blame to go around on both parties P. But hey if starting squabbles over who’s worse is how you want to spend your intellectual pursuits then knock yourself out. I would rather argue the merits of democrat led socialism verses republican led efforts at capitalism. Let’s argue the policies rather than which idiot politician is lying, cheating or stealing this hour. You can squeal all day long about “republican obstruction” to Obama care but you have all the control and the reason you don’t have Obama care now has nothing to do with republicans and everything to do with your own party not buying what the president is selling, got it? Argue the policy P. Why do so many in your own party reject what your president is doing? Let’s have that discussion.

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» AN50 on 03.10.10 @ 09:02 AM

We went to Iraq under the UN resolution requiring Saddam Hussein to allow UN inspectors access to suspected facilities. He did not obey and we went in. That is the reason. You anti-war hippies can dream up all the conspiracies you want, it doesn’t change the facts.
You can inflate the cost of the war all you want and rationalize it in your mind, but it still does not justify spending 1, 3, 5 or 9 trillion on entitlement programs. Simply screaming “well you paid for a war I don’t like, so now you owe me free healthcare” doesn’t pay the bill. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
The best way to cap salaries of corporate CEO’s is to open up competition and allow faster better companies to eat their lunch. But we don’t do that here. We instead regulate the snot out of industry then watch in confused amusement as they slowly trickle offshore. “Gee what’s that all about?” wonders the idiot democrat hippy environmentalist. “Greedy companies won’t stick around and let us suck off them while we exert our hatred upon them with more regulation” screams the democrat liberal/progressive capitalist haters. The insurance industry is the most heavily regulated in the country. It is regulated by states and its competition is severely limited. The cost escalation is typical of a “protected” industry that has no real market competition. The democrat solution – a public option from the most inefficient organization and the most indebted institution on earth, the US government. Whoa, really? That’s what you come up with? Jeeze, what over dramatized solution is this? Why not take state regulations down a notch or two and allow more insurance companies into the business and let them compete with each other? Why is this such a hard concept for you European socialist worshipers to handle?
That partisan enough for you P?

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» AN50 on 03.11.10 @ 08:43 AM

P, that is the resolution. It recalls several earlier resolutions as the basis and allows for “any means necessary to” achieve the goals of these recalled resolutions. So technically you are right that the language does not specifically state we go to war, but it is implicit none-the-less.
I am truly sorry you anti war hippies cannot let go of this. I’m sorry the war in Iraq and Afghanistan are a terrible distraction from your local efforts at moving America toward European socialism at a time when Europe is moving away from socialism. I’m sorry your over worked hatred for Bush, conservatives, the GOP, Christians, rednecks, the military, white people including yourself and anything, anything not totally immersed in liberal/progressive ideology have blinded you to reality. I have watched the party of compassion, the ideology of fairness and the passion to do good on the left taken over by some of the most vitriolic hatred I have witnessed since my experiences with racism in the south. It is remarkably shameful and distressing. However, P, if you look at the roots of radicalism in this country you begin to see why hatred and fear have become the motivators behind liberalism today. Let it go P and then we can explore what solutions we have out there that don’t involve trapping an entire population in dependency on government.

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» AN50 on 03.11.10 @ 05:15 PM

In spite of the mess we made out of the post war occupation, we were fully justified going in.  I don’t care what Russia, China or any European country has to say about it. The fact that you do, tells me you care more about the appearance of things than the substance, being liked by some mook over doing the right thing. “Ooooh, if I spank Iraq will Germany still like me?” you muse. No they won’t because they are really into supplying our enemies with weapons and don’t want us to find out. Then you have the gall to say I am making light of it. It is you and your anti war hippies that make light of it. And don’t give me that crap about law and order, you big phony. Just because you want like mad to prosecute anyone on the right does not make you “law and order”. Jeeze, I try to have a civil conversation with you nuts and then you come back with this half baked rubbish. Like I said, GET OVER IT. Move on and discuss the other crap I laid on you, p (aka lockjaw).

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