CA Lt. Gov. Garamendi: GOP an infection 'spreading across the nation' : Updated
By John Amato Wednesday Feb 18, 2009 2:10pm
The Republicans in the California legislature are trying to close down the entire state. As everyone across America watches with awe how f*&ked up these idiot Republican politicians are acting, finally we hear someone step up to the plate and get at the root of the problem.
Lt. Gov Garamendi: I've been listening to what you had to say about Republicans in the Senate and Congress, we have an infection here and it's a Republican infection that's really spreading across this nation. Just what do they propose to do? Shut everything down? They did that with Newt Gingrich. They seem to want to do that in California and we're saying no way. no how. We're gonna build, we're going to go with Obama.
He linked these dead beat Republicans to the Newt Gingrich led Congress that got embarrassed by shutting down the federal government.
And Arnold Schwarzenegger gets a free pass from the California and national media time and time again. He was Enron's chosen boy to oust Gray Davis and he's almost single handedly led us down a path to ruin. The CA media needs to start looking in the mirror on this one.
And as the Garamendi explained, California has this super majority requirement on any vote that entails raising taxes in place that stalls all legislation.
We do have a two thirds vote....And then when you have Republicans that have taken a no new tax pledge and seem to just want to throw this state and really the nation into chaos and further decline in the economy, then we have the gridlock that we see. We need to change our constitution.
We need to hold these Republicans accountable...
It's a joke. California residents need to start taking action. We can't just sit around and watch these morons sleeping in their chairs because of obstructionist Republicans.
As Julia points out:
The 2/3rds rule is the reason why we can't pass a budget. We are one of three states that requires a 2/3rds vote. If we don't change that rule we will be right back here in 2010.
Cox and Moldanado are the ones to call. Here is our Moldanado action: http://couragecampaign.org/action/229/save-california-tell-senator-abel-maldonado-to-vote-yes-on-the-budget
They've received over a thousand calls. We can do better than that. Flood their lines.
UPDATE:
Sign the pledge to repeal the 2/3rds rule to pass a budget
Garamendi's plan of a 55% vote is way off base too.
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d-day has an excellent post up about California's situation.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is irrelevant and a failure. State Democrats are spineless jellyfish. The death-cult Republican Party is a collection of flat-earthers bent on destruction. All well and good. Yet all of these discrete groups are enabled by a political system that does violent disservice to the people of the state and the concept of democracy. We must have a return to majority rule as soon as possible. For the sake of accountability...read on
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I've got to ask, because I remember reading on C&L comment threads at the time, how many democrats voted for Ahnolt. I remember a lot of comments to the effect that he wouldn't be that bad. I'm wondering how many of those who acted on that belief are sorry now that they did.
Glad to see somebody step up to the plate and name the game, especially the part linking Newt to the problem.
And I voted for the Porn Star.
I figured if you're going to get screwed it might as well be by a professional.
And she made more sense than the republican's. This was a woman who came from a u-hum, business background; and knows you can't get something for nothing.
Because ENRON and Bush's republican theives decided to screw California by messing with the power grids and turning off enough electricity for phony reasons to cause a major crisis in California, running up the costs and causing people to freak out. Then they pushed for ARNOLD, the celebrity Republican to ride in on his white horse and rescue suffering Californians! How did that work out for ya???? What set voters over the edge was Gray Davis trying to make ends meet, by raising auto licensing fees. Guess who is now going to raise auto fees???? Arnold! Meanwhile, Republican NO MORE TAXES, idiots are pushing us all off a cliff! What a clusterf@ck government we have. Withe Prop 13 AND 2/3 majority for any tax increases in place, we can all kiss our collective ass@s goodbye until we get over 2/3 majority of democrats in both houses. Good job, voters, voting for all these Republicans in the first place!!!!
I disagree. The NCSL has data on supermajority states -- may be out of date a bit -- but they show 14 states with a supermajority requirement -- http://www.ncsl.org/programs/fiscal/suprmajr.htm
And some research has shown that states with a supermajority requirement for raising taxes tend to significantly reduce taxes. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstra...
Now depending on your POV, this may be a good or bad thing. I don't think the problem is the supermajority reuiqrement, which is a good policy to protect minority interests, the problem is that California has bad legislators and a bad governor that Californians foolishly elected.
2/3 vote for raising taxes is idiotic!
They sure don't need a 2/3 vote when they are cutting them for the aristocracy. How do you think they stole 25% of all wealth and assets from the middle class since 1980? That's why they are so psychotic about opposition to taxes. They are evil greedheads, who have no intention of sharing the wealth.
You are always going to have a certain portion of the populatoin that is brain dead and will fall for the G.O.P. tax scam everytime. Why should a small group of NUTS dictate to the rest of us what we can and can't do?
Frankly, I am sick of these fascist goon asshole republicans. They are a desease in this land, and if legislation required 100% passage, and there was only one republican psycho left in the government, that one asshole would obstruct.
You may be ok withn laws that lead to a banana republic, but I will pass.
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Plutocracy is a bitch. We live in a Plutocracy. Money is power.
It takes these big meltdowns to get Joe Blow to see it.
It sucks but I am glad people are getting it.
Why is it that Pluto doesn't speak, whereas Goofy does
When they're both dawgs?
... the Republican Party is a terrorist group, a cancer on the body politic. They're actively trying to destroy the country.
Period.
here, here!
I live in California and I can tell you that the media are just following the citizens.
But I think it's payback time for that "don't be an economic girlie-man" comment AS made at the 2004 Republican convention.
the entire nation is suffering from the policies he stood up for!
that now enables the GOP obstruction
I know we have this 2/3rds rule here in CA that's causing our problems. I'm just wondering, with CA being known for all its Ballot Initiatives, can we put up an initiative that does away with the supermajority requirement? Or does that have to be fixed by the legislature?
require a 2/3 vote.
Good to hear a Dem in a position of power say it:
"Republican Infection"
The battle lines are drawn and it's time to come out in number. After 8 years of total, internal destruction to this country, the republicans won't quit until WE EAT THE RICH....But we will have to go for their throats. They don't earn their money...they do it the old fashion way...THEY STEAL IT. Bank robberies, lying,stealing and blaming the other guy is their MO...Look at any of them. They are obviously wrong. Obviously!
I work with them. I once was one of them, but when their JESUS didn't come, like promised, and they voted in the devil (Ronald666WilsonReagan) I knew this time would come. Get ready. Hold on, throw down your books and pick up your gun...the republicans are picking the fight for civil war.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
maybe these same (R) should NOT accept the stimulus/Recovery package. i'm waiting to see if the (R) complained/complaining about the package will take money for their states.
of course they will take the money.....
that's what they do.......
seriously, what the gop is doing in calif and in
washington dc is as dangerous as any terrorits can
do to the nation. this makes the gop who want to
shut down the calif and national govts nothing less
than ENEMY COMBATANTS.....time to seek rendition
of these bastards.
Is why they proudly compare their tactics to those of the Taliban.
Unfortunately there are those Christian conservatives that are little better than the Taliban when it comes to theocratic ideas.
The GOP is an "infection" spreading across the nation. I wish I had thought of that.
The media seems to be paying some attention now, and is finally calling the GOP talking heads out on some of their most wild-assed assertions about the economy. Too bad that it may be too little too late for most Americans.
Republicans are more like Fecal Coliform bacteria..
Bacterium are orders of magnitude more complex than viruses FYI.
Well, California should have elected someone more qualified to run their state. But apparently they do love their actors out there.
As for the "Republican Infection," if their inaction and, as it seems in California, their outright hostility to anything other than the far-right politics then they should be held accountable.
Now, I would like to address some of the comments made:
dadams--> you compare the GOP to terrorist and enemy combatants. They are no such thing. If this trend of non-compromising continues then yes it will be detrimental to the country and I will be standing alongside you if and when that happens. However, they are not terrorist. They are not flying planes into building or driving trucks full of fertilizer bombs. And they are not enemy combatants. To say so just shows how you feel about anyone with a different opinion. Am I an enemy combatant or a terrorist because I don't agree with your assertion the GOP is not (and before you lump me in with the GOP let me say that I am a moderate and have not registered with either party). Your inability to tolerate differing opinions leads me to my next comment
ez2rock2--> I saw these battle-lines being drawn up since 2000. The battle-lines are as follows: the Democrats control urban areas and the Republicans control rural areas. This is why in Virginia in the 2004 election (I use VA because I lived there at the time) the Democrats won three areas of the state (the Tidewater, Richmond and Northern VA) the rest went red. This leads to an almost fifty-fifty split. However, Washington warned us about how political parties would come to represent geographical regions and not the country as a whole. The best example of this is the political build-up to the Civil War. Lincoln's platform was to limit slavery to where it was, letting the increasing immigrant population to populate the newly acquired territories from the Mexican-American War. The South felt that if such a platform were enforced it would have the effect of disenfranchising them because up until the Civil War there had been a political compromise, an equal number of slave and free states. This caused a balance of power in the Senate. The South felt that to lose the equality would lead to the free states asserting levies that would protect the fledgling industry of the north but hurt the agricultural economy of the south. The result: the combination of Lincoln's Platform and the opinions of Southern politicians caused an actual Civil War (ammuses me when we label Lincoln as the greatest president when he had just as much blame for destroying the country. his real test of greatness would have been how he handled the reconstruction but unfortunately we will never know). In short we are repeating the mistakes of the past and ignoring the advice of one of America's greatest heros.
If both sides cannot find middle ground it is the average American that will pay the price. And if both sides are arrogant enough to think that the American people don't matter and their petty power struggle is more important then it is the average American that will have to stand up and make the changes themselves. And that my friends starts right here with discussing issues with people of different opinions, so that if need be we can provide a unified front.
you need to bone up on your definitions.
ter⋅ror⋅ist–noun
1. a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
2. a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
3. (formerly) a member of a political group in Russia aiming at the demoralization of the government by terror.
4. an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
–adjective
5. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of terrorism or terrorists: terrorist tactics.
terrorist
noun
a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities
Sounds like the GOP to me...how about you?
I personally don't thing the GOP are terrorists. That doesn't mean I agree with what they are doing.
Out of all the things I said you can only respond with an unoriginal thought, you quoted a dictionary, most of which don't support the assertion that the GOP are terrorist.
You may want to update your political map from 2000.
Several states have turned blue, and I expect several more will also flip. Now that the few remaining dupes from 2008 have seen the repukes give the finger to the american people and the country, I expect them to lose another 6-8 senate seats next year.
If the GOP doesn't sound like the definition of a terrorist group from the dictionary quoted above, I don't know who does!
True, more states have turned blue because suburban areas started voting blue instead of red. the battle-line is still essentially the same.
Ok. I guess I am going to have to debunk each definition because you can't think rationally.
1. an advocate of terrorism. Tell me which Republicans are saying lets blow ourselves up and kill as many Americans or Democrats as possible. answer. none.
2. Frightens or terrorizes others. They are benig obstructionists right now and a result is that they are behaving in a way detrimental to America, yes. Are they saying that if you pass a tax raise we are going to blow up the capitol or behead the govenenor. no.
3. and 4. pertains to Russian and French groups during those countries history. By all means apply those definitions to the GOP by making political cartoons. It would be funny but not true.
5. terrorist tactics. again are they blowing anything up, killing any innocent people or are they using constitutionally legal means of blocking legislation they oppose (no matter how wrong you or I find it). the answer is the latter. so the GOP fails the terrorist litmus test on that definition.
Lastly, "a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities"--> the GOP is not using terror as a political weapon (think the Madrid train bombings and how that affected the election in that country) the GOP is no small cell in hiding (doesn't pass) and while they are religious they are not saying hey we don't want tax hikes because God said so (again fail).
any logical or rational thought would have easily allowed you to see that the GOP are not terrorists. You may not like them but that does not mean you can smear them with the name terrorist or facist (but that is another discussion).
Each and every one uses a restrictive, narrow-minded example of what constitutes "terrorism". See the dictionary for definitions of "terrorism" and "terror". Until you expand your vocabulary and look at terrorism with a more critical eye, you'll continue to be lumped in with the neo-cons.
Have a nice day.
so reading the definitions you provided literally and not imaginatively, as you have done, I need to improve myself? Afraid that ain't going to happen.
But let me ask you this:
Should you be considered a terrorist because you didn't like the way he was growing his flower bed and wouldn't let him change the communal fence or something. NO.
Just like the GOP are not terrorists. Their actions right now may be despicable but not terrrorists.
You ARE NOT entitled to YOUR OWN FACTS.
He used a DICTIONARY for the DEFINITION of a terrorist.
A DEFINITION is a FACT.
And considering the definition of a terrorist, one could make a case that Republicans / conservatives / wingnut radio talkers ARE terrorists.
the GOP does not fit any of the definitions for terrorists. you are simply saying that because it makes you feel good.
That's what a dictionary is for: to give the meaning of words. and by the definitions I quoted, the republicans ARE terrorists. Their modus operandi is fearmongering; everything is "be afraid, be very afraid" of whatever bogeyman is currently hiding under their beds: gays, arabs, liberals, etc.
But you'll stick your head in the sand and pretend they are "reasonable" people. Good luck with that, skippy.
[Deleted. The topic of this thread is: CA Lt. Gov. Garamendi: GOP an infection 'spreading across the nation.' It is not all about the definition of a terrorist. Stop now-Sitemonitor]
I wasn't the one who started it.
Much as I gnashed my teeth when Obama decided to follow Lincoln' example (work with them) instead of FDR's (ram it down their throats) I do recognize that the upside of this decision is that he has given the ReThugliScum plenty of rope to hang themselves, and they seem to be working overtime to oblige him.
And the media are reporting it.
If you mean invading a sovereign nation as working with them. But somehow that doesn't seem like working with anyone.
ps
I think that the Confederate States of America was a sovereign nation because it had a Constitution, political leadership, currency and trade. We celebrate the birth of America on July 4 1776 not January 14 1784 when the Treaty of Paris was ratified.
I wish they would secceede again. Please, take all of your idiot republicans with you. Think of what the rest of the country could accomplish without the republican goon squad working to derail anything that might possibly benefit the people?
In five years, when the rest of us were prospering under a 21st century government based on science and technology, the red state morons would all be starving, and homeless. But at least their trillionaires - like the Bushies, wouldn't have to pay any taxes!
They could sit around all day cursing us libruls for having a beautiful country with a thriving populace, instead of praisin' guys like Pastor Ted and Rush.
You fail to realize that there are red areas in blue states and blue areas in red states.
And I really freaking hate being clumped in with the GOP. If you read anything I write you would realize I am not a member of "goon squad". You are seemingly incapable of distinguishing between a conservative and the GOP/Neo-con.
If there were, we would have seen some of these mythical "conservatives" during the past 8 years stand up and say "NO" to the Patriot Act, illegal wiretapping, or maybe even torture.
But they marched in lock-step with the neos, and they'll suffer the same fate.
take a look at the roll call for the Patriot Act both in 2001 and 2006. I could tell you but it would take away from the fun you have from tracking down facts.
What happened in the past is in the past. There is nothing that you or I can do about it. But I am more conservative than most of the bloggers here and I seem to grasp the fact that in order to move on we need to work together. So ya I don't want the government to regulate the economy too much and yes I personally believe that more money in everyone's pocket, not just the rich, is a good thing but am i opposed to tax hikes when they are needed (california) no.
In short I am willing to compromise. It is you and your ilk that aren't. They continue lump everyone not like them into a group image and say "we hate you, we hate you" but not really trully getting anything done. What you and your ilk are doing is pretty much political racism
One can read that on a federal level, at this time, I'm a socialist, but California is too socialist. I have lived in California for most of my last 43 years. California has been steadily increasing taxes, forcing people and businesses to leave the state. I can't truthfully say I've ever personally seen any benefit from this excessive taxation. I suspect it is those 'on the dole' and socialistic pressure groups that always want more handouts from the California state budget. In times like these cutting back is better than raising taxes on those already heavily taxed. I think the budget blockage in caused by an unwillingness of the democrats to compromise.
The opposite is the case on the federal level and the republicans are definitely the 'blockage' there. They are not terrorists in any way! I doubt if there is much 'migration' from the federal to the state. California has always been in its own world. Arnie doesn't resemble the remaining conservative senators from back east. California Democrats! get responsible!
I don't understand. You've explained how socialism didn't work yet you claim that you remain a socialist.
Actually the confederacy was never recognized as a sovereign nation by anyone. Great Britain was prepared to, but Lincoln pulled a fast one by calling it sedition (which it was), and did not declare war on them, which would implicitly recognize such a status.
By that time the Brits were no longer interesting in Southern cotten but moved on to getting a greater supply from India, where they already had a presence.
And the US is recognized as being born in 1776 because that's when the Revolution was declared, but for awhile the US was an ineffective Conferation of States, but because Governors refused to have their state militias fight in the revolution, a constitutional convention was called to amend the articles of Confederation, but it turned into drafting an entirely new constitution.
Since then, no one has had a constitutional convention to draft amendments, a proviso present in the constitution, in favor of amendments voted on by 2/3'rds of each house of Congress, and 3/4 approval by the states, so to avoid another convention, that to some went awry.
ok so Feb 6 1778, when France signed a treaty of alliance with us. you corrected a small point but the gist of the argument, which was in the post-script.
The CSA did everything the founding fathers did except win.
signed a treaty with us, with us?
So Chris, you're stating your not an American but a CONfederate?
Sorry you were born so late there bud and that ya missed the war Mr. CSA.
You conservatives really do hate AMERICA doncha.
is punishing California for passing Prop 8.
God must have a mulitple-personality disorder, since Robertson and Falwell told us God was punishing gays by having a hurricane destroy New Orleans.
God IS kind of a weirdo. We were also responsible for 9/11, but don't tell anyone.
Yeah, the God of the Old Testament is a real prick. (If I don't post any more comments, assume I was struck by lightning.)
Oh, wait, it's time to leave work!
What are these people's goal? Do they want to destroy their state as well as their own futures? Who the hell is going to vote for someone whose stubbornness ruined their own state? I just guess I don't get it.
Unfortunately, most of my idiot in-laws. Yes, the same ones who are ALL unemployed!
What is it with in-laws? Mine aren't idiots but they all brag about being "good republicans"
Good republicans are going to need a new party and unfortunately a new name. Bad republicans have the name and the party.
Hell anyone who is the least bit conservative in their views will have to have a new entity to identify themselves with.
Mine are idiots politically, not in other aspects of life. In general, they think repukes are moral because they have no idea what they are doing.
Yet, no matter how disastrous their lives become, they just can't put two and two together.
something not quite right about our representatives taking a "no new tax pledge" along party lines. Aren't they supposed to be representing the interests of their constituents--not party ideology? Is this even constitutional?
"It's just a god damned piece of paper." - G. Dub
Why are these CORRUPT Republican deadbeats allowed to participate in government activities? I mean really, what do people expect them to do, their job? They don't even believe in government, so they'll never actually do their job. In fact, all they do is sit around all day thinking of ways of 1) Subverting government programs, and 2) Making themselves rich at taxpayer expense.
"My job is to get the best deal I can for Republicans". Pretty well sums up the whole party first, state/country last attitude for me.
I don't know anyone in California so I have to ask this question here. Are the people of the state willing to pay more taxes if that's what is needed to basically save their state or are they supporting the republicans on this one?
if they spend the taxes on real things like roads, schools, free birth control and medical care, and not a damn dime for defense.
That'll be the day...
He's still shown more willingness to work with Dems than the Senate Republicans, which is why he comes off "clean" by comparison. I mean, what kind of a-holes do you have to be to block the only guy in your party who got the most votes in the entire state?
He's playing the Good Robo Cop to the Republican's Bad Robo Cop.
Besides, he didn't get that many votes, There were about 50 people on the ballot in that recall. So he got very few votes, just more than any one other of the other 49.
....the Pledge to Repeal the 2/3rds Rule.
Do I need to be a California resident to sign it? (Because I'm not. I live in Maine, but would like to help if possible.)
well that's for frickin' certain! Glad someone's calling those fucktards out on it... pathetic loser ba$tards! Everyone of these treasonous jerkoffs oughta find themselves in jail!
Is it treasonous for someone to believe something different from what you believe. Besides, as detrimental as the GOP actions may be they do not fit with the Constitutional definition of treason. look it up
They are enemies within.
They do not just believe something different, that is not the case. They believe in destroying our country.
I personally do not believe that. Disagree with what they are doing, yes.
However, they are not traitors. They cannot be tried as traitors. They cannot be executed as traitors.
So stop blowing hot air (figuratively speaking).
Sedition is a form of treason, and what the republicans have tried to do amounted to an attempt at a coup d'estat.
some reverse "McCarthyism" for back when those fucking assholes TERRORIZED liberal Democrats back in the fifties.
These fascist conservative Republican ASSHATS are doing MUCH MORE damage to this country than a few liberals accused of being Communists EVER DID.
McCarthyism was hunting communists and he was wrong in the way he did it.
He was wrong to do it PERIOD.
It was raw ambition by a mediocre politician
Perhaps an attempt to undo the New Deal
By wielding about pages of "evidence" which he never showed anyone
"Evidence" looking for a crime.
Essentially charging people with treason outside of the definition set by the US Constitution
Much like booshco has done for the last 8 years.
And now the precedent has been set.
mccarthy's methods was kind of like chainey insisting on a link between Al Qaeda and Saddam until the 9-11 committee essentially told him about his evidence, "Either put up or shut up."
No offense you trolling idiot.
But why are you here?
You hate America and it's obvious, so why are you here and not in France.
Didn't they sign a treaty with you?
If these losers are not pitched out of office in 2010 and 2012, they will succeed in totally destroying this country.
Their absurd obstructionism is indicative of a desire for this country to fall and fail. This is definitely NOT patriotic and surely NOT within the oath of office of these charlatan Repukes in congress.
It's time to bombard these "naysayers" and let them know that we intend to rid this country of their brand of disease.
Mr. Girly-Man Arnold has been kicked in the nuts. Maybe now he will see why Republicans are cannibalistic and eat their own? If not, there's no hope for him. The GOP is taking him under and he will soon be one of the most disreputable Governors in the country. His ignorance led him to the GOP; now the GOP will bury him.
But I think we can boil down the actions of GOP(as indeed the party itself has been reduced to its most elemental(read:extreme) components by stating the obvious.They are a pack of whining sore losers who now want to take the proverbial football and go home.
Arnold showed the California GOP how to win an election, by appealing to those outside the GOP.
They will never forgive him for it.
Arnold can kiss whatever presidential aspirations (which were never very good anyway, considering he wasn't born in the US) goodbye.
They ain't gonna amend the Constitution just for you, Arnold, especially now.
it will end up costing billions more than it originally could have cost.
Republicans are ecstatic about the money their projects will receive through the stimulus bill they voted against.
Can you BELIEVE this? What a bunch of bastards....
The Republican party is not an infection they are a disease! And infection is usually temporary and I believe the Repugs are going to be around a long long time...more like a disease...see?
republiturds have adopted the modern business model
Privatize the policy
Socialize the blame.
I'd love to see a recall of Ahnold, which would make Garamendi the Gov for a while...
How many times do we have to put up with these EVIL Obstructionist Republicans whose agenda got us in this mess in the first place. The Republican Party has turned into the Extremest party because they put failed self centered ideology ahead of the common good.
And then there is the Evil Neo-Con Schwarzenegger...
"Schwarzenegger Accused of Involvement in $9B California Swindle with Enron’s Ken Lay
Enronarnold1
Investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals how Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger is part of a larger scheme to help Enron and other power companies avoid paying back $9 billion in illicit profits by replacing Gov. Gray Davis. "
http://www.democracynow.org/2003/10/6/schwarz...
I think we can agree that both parties have changed over the centuries, At one time one could speak of "Radical Republicans," with a straight face.
Under Lincoln they were FOR a centralized government, preserving the Union above all else.
But by about 1890, republicanism became synonymous with Plutocracy, and the Democrats for the workers.
In the aftermath of WWII they both became a little nutty about national defense, but the republicans more so.
In the 60's the Democrats became essentially about Civil Rights, and the Dixicrats ran to the comforting arms of the republicans.
And around 1978 until the present, republicanism became more and more about Dominionism, culture war, and imperial presidencies (although LBJ helped pave the way on the latter.
Although I should add that LBJ's imperial presidency was more about insularitism, but republicans about consolidated executive branch power and an expansion of "inherent powers" of the Chief Executive, not present in the Constitution and threatening the Constitutional tripartite system of governance, as well as civil rights, and protections afforded by the Bill of Rights
what your saying is that neither party ever had any principles.
Substitute "Republican" for "human".
"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
the power centers of the GOP and its obstructionism
that will resolve this
Lt. Gov Garamendi is absolutely wonderful. It’s to bad the spineless coward Democrats in Washington cant speak with the same honesty, clarity and courage as Lt. Gov Garamendi. Great job finally a strong Democrat to stand up against these vile republicans. Can you imagine if we had this guy in charge instead of Pelosi and Reid. It would be a dawning of a brand new day for country.
Bravo Garamendi, for speaking the truth!
I have signed the pledge.
You better read it first
It may be a pledge to stay virginal.
" The Republicans are the arsonists standing in the middle of the road trying to keep the fire truck from getting to the fire , run em over ".
Which one has a bronze star? Which one is a deserter? California took the phony over the real and now they are paying the price.
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