Yes, some blame should be spread all around becaus...

2006-08-07T22:17:00.000-06:00

Yes, some blame should be spread all around because everybody is angling for partisan advantage.

But the Democrats don't claim to be the righteous. They don't hold idolatrous national political conventions that are basically thinly veiled "Christian" worship services dedicated to political power. They don't base their political power on the straightforward abuse of the Christian faith. That earns 'em some slack.

I just think bumping up the earning power of the poorest of the working poor in the current American economy is obviously a higher priority than further feathering the nest of the wealthy.

Well off folks are getting wealthier and leaving behind the poor and the middle class in a unique way historically right now. Lots of reasons for that, a few of them pretty immoral.

I understand all the arguments about the private sector and why government is bad and why supply side economics is good and all the other stuff that was originally cool and important in the 60’s and 70’s but is becoming pretty tiresome now.

Important efforts at change eventually run their course and then become increasingly dysfunctional ideologies.

The current political circus pits a lot of folks holding onto really old political and social ideas that don’t work on the one hand and lots of the folks full of zeal and religious indignation holding onto newer ideas that don’t work either on the other.

But at some point you’ve got to cut through all the ideology and get back to some basics.

The fact that supposedly “Christian” Republicans would hold a minimum wage increase for the poorest of the working poor hostage to a bump up for a group of wealthy people riding one of the greatest periods of inequality in American history is outrageous. I don’t know any other way to say it.

whether or not republican strategy will work, isn'...

2006-08-07T14:27:00.000-06:00

whether or not republican strategy will work, isn't it okay to be really upset at the democrats on this one too? Since when was a compromise bill evil? A 55% estate tax seems like an odd thing to justify, and I fail to understand how allowing a cut in it would desperately hurt the poor, especially when it affects so few people.

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Yes, some blame should be spread all around becaus...

whether or not republican strategy will work, isn'...