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Jeb Bush Defends Immigration Flip-Flop, Stays Mum On 2016 Run

Monday, March 11, 2013


Go back and look at the voting records of anything you far lefties  

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There's no "extreme" or "far left" in the Democratic­Party.  They left long ago, and can be found bombing animal testing labs and burning down suburban subdivisio­n sites being built on land where ancient forest have been clear cut.  If they vote at all anymore, it's as Independen­ts and rarely for Democrats.

I am an old FDR liberal Democrat.  If you think that's far left, then that's what you think about FDR. 

From my life's experience, my travels around the nation, my work and interaction with Americans from all walks of life, when informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies. Neither they (nor I) would characteri­ze themselves as far-anythi­ng or extreme, but mainstream­. For example, nobody likes the idea of abortion, but most Americans do not want the government involved if they find themselves in the predicamen­t of an unwanted pregnancy. And if you frame it as, "You like to kill babies?!?! ?!?!", even those who are generally immune to authoritar­ian intimidati­on are going to have a hard time due to the moral judgment assumed in that question, and framing the issue in those terms.

Real Democratic policies aren't that hard to sell to Americans.  When most Americans want Medicare and other government programs which they've benefitted from to continue and teabaggers shout "No government control of healthcare­; Get your hands off my Medicare", the answer is EDUCATION.  

 
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Jeb Bush Defends Immigration Flip-Flop, Stays Mum On 2016 Run


Bush had no independent knowledge of anything in Iraq, he had the same intel Bill Clinton had and even Bill clearly stated there were WMD's in Iraq.

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What I'm trying to explain to you is that they BOTH knew it was BS.  

The difference, however, is that Bush took the nation to war - Clinton didn't.  

That's a distinction between the two administrations' policies.   

What BushCheney did was not only to cherry-pick intelligence to tell a story about Iraq that wasn't true, but to also invent intelligence of nuclear activities (aluminum tubes) and fabricate evidence of a delivery system.

And never was the word 'conspiracy' more accurate than when BushCheney went about putting the plan to go to war in place, by leaking stories to Judith Miller of Iraq's nuclear efforts that were totally false and then Cheney going on Meet The Press to point to Miller's articles in the NYT as the "proof".
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Actor Ed Begley Jr.: Obama 'Should Die In His Boots' In Fight Against Climate Change (VIDEO)


What new weapons?

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What Obama also did during the same Town Hall time period? He unleashed federal security forces to Pittsburgh to break up peaceful protests of the G20 meeting, using the new weaponry on dissenters who the 'establishment elites' really fear, and stem the unrest that actually threatens the 'elites', i.e., the American people taking back their government. -http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2009/sep/25/sonic-cannon-g20-pittsburgh

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Actor Ed Begley Jr.: Obama 'Should Die In His Boots' In Fight Against Climate Change (VIDEO)


I think you've missed the point:  The Tea Party serves Obama and the DLC/Third Way/No Labels-controlled Democratic Party well.  It's a paper tiger, getting far more air time in the media than its numbers deserve.  You have to remember that Mitt Romney wasn't the Tea Party's choice as standard bearer for the Republican Party, yet he got the nomination.  The Tea Party makes up a sliver of the total number of Republicans.  

If you think the Tea Party is any kind of a threat, then the time to have put them down was during the healthcare debate, when members of Congress were canceling Town Hall meetings.  Shutting down Town Hall meetings served Obama and the Medical Industrial Complex (Big Insurance, PhRma, Big Hospitals) keep their lock on high-priced medical treatment.  It prevented rational discussion of how expanding Medicare, public healthcare, where the best medical care at the lowest costs are achieved and is what Americans want.  When tea baggers say, "No government healthcare, and keep your hands off my Medicare", the solution is education.

There are times when the interests of the right and the left converge, and that was one of those times.
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Japan Tsunami Anniversary: 2 Years After Disaster, Cleanup Effort Still Slow


It's not a choice between one or the other.

Both are unacceptable.
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Japan Tsunami Anniversary: 2 Years After Disaster, Cleanup Effort Still Slow


And when there's a meltdown, just where do you think the water to cool it down is going to come from?

There's a reason they're built on coastlines.  

Nuclear power is a bad idea no matter where they're built.  It's not cheap, never has been and never will be.  It's not safe, never has been and never will be.
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Japan Tsunami Anniversary: 2 Years After Disaster, Cleanup Effort Still Slow


Fukushima had 3 nuclear meltdowns, something that has never happened before

80,000 people, mostly children under the age of eighteen, have been examined in the Fukushima prefecture.  Medical authorities have done ultrasounds of the children's thyroid glands and found that 40% have thyroid abnormalities which is incredibly rare in pediatrics.  Some of these children almost certainly are bound to develop cancer of the thyroid, and indeed, one 12-year-old boy has already been diagnosed with it, and a girl, aged about 16, may already have developed cancer - They're testing her now.  

It took about 5 years for the children around Chernobyl to start developing cancer, but these children are showing symptoms and signs that they'll develop cancer in the future, indicating that they got a really high dose of radiation, higher than Chernobyl.

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