While Democrats sweat it out in their khakis and jeans, hoping all those newly minted young voters actually show up at the polls this fall, a new generation of freshly suited Republicans sit patiently on the sidelines waiting for the old guard to leave so they can take over, and shape a party more to their liking.
These little Reagan lovers, forgetting I guess that Reagan was put into office by Hollywood and the mob, just can’t wait to bring things back to what it was back in the day, even though they can’t really remember the day, but they’ve heard about it. Can’t wait for the day when they will not be talked down to and discounted. Besides that McCain and this party are just not technologically savvy enough, and McCain is an old fogey, or at least his website it.
Young Republicans, Blue About the Prospects Ahead
I loved that article, it made me laugh for the first time today.
Don’t wish it away
Don’t look at it like it’s forever
Between you and me
I could honestly say
That things can only get better
and I guess that’s why they call it the blues
ah a trend once written about as women going back to the home and hearth is really nothing more than a fact of economic times. .…“oops we goofed”, they say. We assumed it was because women decided they wanted to be home with their children, standing by their man.
What are we gonna do with all though Phyllis Schlafly books now?
In case you didn’t hear, it is THE JALEPENO’s FAULT.
This has been a mere lovely links edition.
peace
And you remember the Reagan era, Coop?
I was born in the middle of it, isn’t that enough?
If those were the blue states we’d be billions of dollars more solvent as a country.
It was humorous, even if it was supposed to be serious.
The humorous part was that is was supposed to be serious.
I read this last night but was too brain dead to comment. I still am.
It did make me laugh. Wish there was an OTN Cooper School of true snark. Or how not to be overly overtly sarcastic. The Phyllis Schlaphy line, among others, is classic Cooper.
McCain says he has Cindy to understand the Internet and I guess all new technology for him. I don’t know much about her but she does look like a Barbie doll, and I have never heard her say anything intelligent so that’s scary. It’s scary that he doesn’t take the time to learn something so important to all of our lives – no matter what our age
I know she does some kind of car racing, she is a bit of a dare devil and I don’t think she spends that much time around him usually. I heard her a couple of times early on, she sounded much smarter than him really.
I like these little tidbits from Austin Walne, YR, 22: “People that didn’t grow up under Jimmy Carter don’t remember the stagflation of the ‘70s or the Iran standoff. Our job is to educate them on the failed policies of the past.”
(A 22 yr. old educating us on Carter — while ignoring Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I and II. Carter didn’t (and couldn’t) get anything done. Carter spent the last year on a hostage crisis in Iran because we propped up the Shah in the 1950’s. (And Nightline’s birth told us plenty…) “Stagflation” started under Ford. Nixon took us off the gold standard and froze prices/wages to get reelected in 1972, assisting Ford in the financial wrecking of America. Nixon had “Reagan Democrats” before Reagan did — carrying the South.)
Compassion Conservative: One who takes away your aid, but tells you, “it’s for the best.” Then takes (your taxes), because, hey, you paid, and gives tax breaks to the wealthy or a new program to a defense contractor or a pet project that will go nowhere.
Taxes on the uberwealthy in the 1940’s were in the realm of 70% for anyone making over $100,000. (500,000 in current cash.) As they gradually came down from the peaks, the deficit we began to run, grew. Reagan started his “no tax, but spend” philosophy right out the gate.
Cut social “safety net” programs, increased mil. spending to “put pressure on the USSR” that was all ready going broke itself. Marginal tax rates for people making under $20,000 grew significantly, while the money people got their taxes back. Supply-siders justified it as “trickle-down” effect.
The stock market, and those eager beaver, no-tax paying, brokers had a party in the 1980’s. Deregulation, what little regs. remained, has only made a mockery out of OSHA, EPA and other alphabet soup orgs. Companies didn’t care — and made bank on it.
(I just had to write this…)
Yeah, that is what made the whole thing worthy of a good laugh.
Late on this, but thanks for the laugh.
Knew it wasn’t the tomatoes — and not just because they’re red.