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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2009 : 10:33:05 [Permalink]
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| Nice one... The GOP is looking more like some desperate raft every day. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
| Edited by - Simon on 03/25/2009 10:33:39 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 03/25/2009 : 11:20:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Nice one... The GOP is looking more like some desperate raft every day.
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Thanks!
You know, I always felt sorry for those poor shipwrecked bastards in the Géricault painting you linked to. The GOP folks, on the other hand, remind me of people who have discovered leaks in their boat, and are trying to eliminate them with shotguns.
I just want them to hurry up and sink to clear the shipping channels.
Oh, I'll have to redo the above image, as zombified reactionary Fred Thompson has just just joined the FAIL Boat. (Dig the comments there!)
I never much liked the Republican Party, but I will miss it when it's gone, because there needs to be a place to send the worst Democrats.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2009 : 12:22:02 [Permalink]
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I think at this point Republicans are playing off the two senses of the word "fail." Fred Thompson said:| I want [Obama's] policies that I believe take us in the wrong direction to fail. If he takes us down the road of tripling our national debt in ten years and making us vulnerable to higher interest rates and higher inflation, and things of that nature, I want all those policies not to succeed. |
On the one hand, Thompson can be read as saying he hopes Obama's policies are not implemented--that they fail to become actual policy. On the other hand, he could be saying that if Obama's policies are implemented, he hopes they fail to achieve success--which is a far more insidious, immoral, and unpatriotic sentiment. It's also the sort of hateful partisanship that the Republican base thrives on.
So I think they are trying to have it both ways. They want to give the appearance that they are acting on what they feel are the best interests of the nation, but simultaneously letting their constituents know that they place the interests of the Republican party above national interests. For my part, I hope Obama's policies are a smashing success. We've had 8+ years of Republican leadership. Their policies didn't work then and there's no reason to think anything's changed now that they're out of power.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Ship of FAILS
