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By: What, Exactly, Do The GOP Moderates And Centrists Believe? : Stop The ACLU

What, Exactly, Do The GOP Moderates And Centrists Believe? : Stop The ACLU — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:32:08 +0000

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:07:16 +0000

Colin Powell can say what he wants. I think Obama is screwing up the country just as fast as he can. The fact Powell judged Obama to be the best candidate, and given the fact that Powell thinks Americans all want higher taxes and big government, what Powell says holds no credibility with me.

I believe that decisions are best made by responsible people for themselves. Having a large central government practice social engineering with taxation and income redistribution is the antithesis of that. If believing that makes me a close minded, right winger, then I’ll wear the label.

By: Angie

Angie — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:49:08 +0000

That’s not the right whining – it’s the left projecting.

By: William Tell

William Tell — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:11:23 +0000

When did the right become so whiny?

By: William Teach

William Teach — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:26:45 +0000

Anything of substance to offer on the post, Ben? I thought not.

By: edward cropper

edward cropper — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:24:57 +0000

People like Colin Powell are so immersed in the “Washington” sphere of politics they have a hard time understanding common sense politics and party identity.
They have been blended into “bi-partisan baloney” for so much of their lives they honestly do not know what independent thinking really is or what a political party is supposed to be.
Powell is so institutionalized by liberal thinking he can’t see the dishonesty in his claiming to still be a Republican.

By: MarkJ

MarkJ — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:17:59 +0000

Ben,

Thanks for coming down from your usual low orbit around Neptune to bless us with your rant.

Let me address just one item in your screed:

“…an already bloated military budget…”

Defense spending as a percentage of the FY2008 budget: 21%

Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security spending as a percentage of the FY2008 budget: 44%

Defense spending in 1944 as a percentage of GDP: 37.8%

Defense spending in 1968 as a percentage of GDP: 9.4%

Defense spending in 1999-2001 as a percentage of GDP: 3%

Defense spending in 2008 as percentage of GDP: 4.6%

Even if you take into account off-budget funding for our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is appropriated in the form of supplementary spending bills, not to mention “black budget” items, we’re still proportionately spending way less than we did at the height of World War II and, very likely, even Vietnam.

I suppose we could significantly reduce defense outlays by going back to the draft, but, hey, the minute Lord Obama proposes that idea he might as well start raising funds full-time for his presidential library because he’s political t.o.a.s.t.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:45:06 +0000

After reading some of your blog entries, I have to say you are one of the most bass-ackwards person I’ve ever encountered. Your oversimplifications are misleading and the title of your blog (Stop the ACLU) is pretty ridiculous. The ACLU has to be one of the most important organizations of lawyers who care about civil rights out there. If your rights are being violated,they are an important check against the corruptions in our judicial system. You say things like “the government is taking my money” and fail to realize that without your money you wouldn’t receive Police, Fire, or other public services. You support wasting our money on an already bloated military budget but don’t seem too intent on paying for the education of all the illegitimate children that anti abortionists keep creating. You want drugs to be available for children, as evident by your drug war rant. I know I can’t change your opinions, I just hope that people learn to take what you write with a grain of salt.