DEMINT: GOP should end affair with corporate elites

Seeded on Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:49 AM EDT (The Washington Times)

Conversative Republican Senator Jim DeMint, of South Carolina, says the first sensible thing I've heard from the GOP in ages -- on how to reform the Party.

politics, republicans, gop-party-reform

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Pick one word to describe Sarah Palin.
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- Simple. That's an old euphemism for intellectually-challenged.
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- Oops, here's a better link, that gives the whole text. Robert Heinlein on Patriotism, Baboons, and the Navy: "The Pragmatics of Patriotism</a>"
Conspiracy Theory About 'Secret Police Force' Ignites a Firestorm of Right-Wing Paranoia Thanks to Glenn Beck, the National Review, Newt Gingrich, and Others
Tue Feb 9, 2010
- Oops, here's a better link, that gives the whole text. Robert Heinlein on Patriotism, Baboons, and the Navy: "The Pragmatics of Patriotism"
Conspiracy Theory About 'Secret Police Force' Ignites a Firestorm of Right-Wing Paranoia Thanks to Glenn Beck, the National Review, Newt Gingrich, and Others
Tue Feb 9, 2010
- Oops, here's a better link, that gives the whole text. Robert Heinlein on Patriotism, Baboons, and the Navy: "The Pragmatics of Patriotism"
Conspiracy Theory About 'Secret Police Force' Ignites a Firestorm of Right-Wing Paranoia Thanks to Glenn Beck, the National Review, Newt Gingrich, and Others
Tue Feb 9, 2010
- Oops, here's a better link, that gives the whole text. Robert Heinlein on Patriotism, Baboons, and the Navy: "The Pragmatics of Patriotism"
Conspiracy Theory About 'Secret Police Force' Ignites a Firestorm of Right-Wing Paranoia Thanks to Glenn Beck, the National Review, Newt Gingrich, and Others
Tue Feb 9, 2010
- Reminds me of Robert Heinlein's short story "Coventry".If you haven't read it, please do.I also recommend his "Pragmatics of Patriotism". It's rather long, but a good read.
Unemployment Hurts Those At the Bottom Worst
Tue Feb 9, 2010
- Sorry about the repeats, folks. I got tricked by the XHTML mode and couldn't cancel them. So much for thinkin' myself such a smarty pants -- LOL.
Unemployment Hurts Those At the Bottom Worst
Tue Feb 9, 2010
- "Your distorted view that progressives are the good guys and conservatives could care less about the poor is a myth. ." Read my previous posts: #2-1 and #3-1.
Unemployment Hurts Those At the Bottom Worst
Tue Feb 9, 2010
- "Your distorted view that progressives are the good guys and conservatives could care less about the poor is a myth. ." Read my previous posts: #2-1 and #3-1.
Unemployment Hurts Those At the Bottom Worst
Tue Feb 9, 2010
- ""Your distorted view that progressives are the good guys and conservatives could care less about the poor is a myth. "Read my previous posts: #2-1 and #3-1.I lived through the Reagan Era. The money added to the top of the income pyramid stayed there.

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