From U. S. News:
You can cry me a river, Dr. Dobson. I don't recall you mewling like a stranded kitten about checks and balances when your ilk had a strangle-hold on power for six years, so you can just sit back and ponder that your side lost. Because you're right that the country apparently is no longer interested in your particular brand of reactionary theocratic political demagoguery, and good riddance to it. You chose to tie your wagon to the political fortunes of a swaggering incompetent, so them's the breaks.I want to tell you up front that we're not going to ask you to do anything, to make a phone call or to write a letter or anything.
There is nothing you can do at this time about what is taking place because there is simply no limit to what the left can do at this time. Anything they want, they get and so we can't stop them.
We tried with [Health and Human Services Secretary] Kathleen Sebelius and sent thousands of phone calls and emails to the Senate and they didn't pay any attention to it because they don't have to. And so what you can do is pray, pray for this great nation... As I see it, there is no other answer. There's no other answer, short term.
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I've been on the air for 32 years and I've never seen a time quite like this. It just illustrates what happens when we don't have what the Founding Fathers referred to as checks and balances, where the excesses of one party or one branch of government limit the reach of power hungry and self-serving people and keeps them form doing things that are harmful to the country. That's the way the system was designed. We have 2 major political parties in this country, not one. And bipartisanship is a media creation that's designed to promote one point of view instead of the debate that should occur. And that's why media doesn't talk about bipartisanship when conservatives are in power...
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you tell em danny. At the same time, I am mindful to listen to legitimate dissent since there is no reason to make the same mistakes as the Bushies did. So far Obama has been doing so, hence his recent decision not to release the torture porn pictures.
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Yes, thank goodness for the wisdom of Obama; now we have military commissions to try GITMO prisoners, we have UAVs hunting down terrorist leaders inside Pakistan, we have warrantless wiretapping, FISA, the Patriot Act, renditions, secret abductions, and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States, just to mention a few of President Obama's New Smart Foreign Policies. Where would we be without the scary-smart Obama to figure out all this stuff and overturn the criminal Bush policies. Oh, wait...
ReplyDeleteI've rarely enjoyed anyone's depression so much.
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