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Oct 19, 2012

Same Shit, New Day

Repubs absolutely adore this play.  They run it all the time.


hat tip = Addicting Info

In 2004 and 2008, RushBo and Cheney at al were telling us that if we voted for the Dems, al-Qaeda would get us.  Now it's "Vote Republican or lose your job".  There's just always a boogey-man du jour.  But, Repubs (generally) use threats that aren't firmly anchored in a little thing called objective reality.  We elected Obama, and none of the bad things they told us would happen happened.

  • no concentration camps
  • no confiscation of guns
  • taxes are down, and the Dow is up
  • oil and banks and telecomm weren't nationalized
  • no forced gay marriage (or whatever the fuck that one was about)
  • kids are still reciting The Pledge in school every day
  • and on and on and on

But - throwing a bone to the centrists in the crowd - yes, the Dems play the same game (tho' with one notable difference).  The Dems have been trying to warn us about the Repub agenda:

  • kill the unions
  • overturn Roe v Wade
  • defund the safety net
  • de-regulation
  • cut down on competition and accountability
The difference being that the Dems are warning us about real problems with a Radical Right agenda, and the Repubs are mostly just makin' shit up.
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