Now that’s ironic, because the Republicans sabotaged the Paris peace talks in 1968 because they didn’t want Johnson to get credit for ending the war, thus ensuring the deaths of many more Americans and Vietnamese until it was finally ended. Lucky for your brother he wasn’t one of them.

Eisenhower warned of the danger of letting the military industrial complex gain too much control in government. Now the Republican party has become the party of war. We have had wars under both Bushes and even a little one in Grenada under Reagan.

I too am disappointed with Obama for not getting us out of at least Iraq and preferably Afghanistan as well. In the case of the former, we had no right to go there at all. None of the 9/11 terrorists were Iraqis. No one has shown a connection between Iraq and 9/11. No one has found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Sodamn Insane was horrifically bad. The one thing we can be sure of though is that the mess we leave behind will be worse. Hussein was secular, which is more than we can say for our friends the Saudis, who were intimately connected with 9/11 and have Sharia law but escaped being blown to bits by us because the Bushies were too comfy being in bed with them.

Personally, I think W missed an enormous opportunity to find a more peaceful solution of going after the terrorists instead of starting full scale wars. Further, rather than take the opportunity to point out that the terrorists are funded by oil and that the best we can do to truly fight back is to implement a concerted effort to switch to renewable energy, thus cutting off the funding for terrorism, giving us clean air to breath (70-130,000 Americans die every year from air pollution), and giving us a strong new economy in new technologies.

All this while at the same time, keeping the sympathy of the world rather than making us the most hated nation in the world.

Our current state was completely foretold by Carter 28 years in advance. He also had the solutions. If you have the guts to think anew about things that you probably long ago solidified your mind on, read this great article.

http://tinyurl.com/99nye

The Contract with America was nothing more than RINO neo-con mess. The CwA was a welfare state/big government monstrosity prettied up by conservative cliche’s.

A report released in 2000 showed that “the combined budgets of the 95 major programs that the Contract with America promised to eliminate have increased by 13%.”

http://tinyurl.com/yeqaxb6

How bizarre that Richard Nixon is a flaming liberal by today’s standards. Strange times…

Please name some liberals in government. I’m not sure whom you’d like to boot.

The only one I can name is Kucinich.

All the rest that you think of as liberal lean farther right than Nixon, an icon of conservatism from when conservative still meant resistant to change rather than radical right wing nut job trying to borrow every dollar available from anywhere and use it to bomb the fuck out of people abroad while taking away the social liberties and rights of people at home.

http://tinyurl.com/yz5fkbu

The fact that there are no liberals is why no one is even seriously suggesting a real solution to the health care mess, a single payer system.

Through most of this year, I’ve heard Beck say more and more pro-Libertarian stuff.

As for Sean Hannity, he mentioned to a friend who called into his radio show a few weeks ago that he considered himself a social Libertarian.

If these guys are Libertarian, they’re certainly not progressive like Ron Paul.

2010 is going to be interesting.

The Liberals running the Democratic party are showing their true colors and turning off independents and non-liberal Democrats.

The Conservatives are trying to regain control of the Republican party.

And the Libertarian party is splintered between progressives (Ron Paul) and non-Progressives (Neal Boortz).

Whatever happens, 2010 looks to be an interesting year for congressional elections. Hopefully it will result in booting out more Liberals as they try to increase government spending and size.

Republicans endorsing Democrats, is that how it’s supposed to work?

In a word, yes.

It’s refreshing to hear a candidate think for themselves and cross the party boundary. Without that, they’re just a bunch of good little soldiers toeing the party line. And, who even knows where that line comes from?

Most self-proclaimed republicans do not agree with most of the policies of the republican party. So, who is making the decisions?

The same is likely true of the democrats. The difference is that democrats cross the party line all the time. That’s why we can’t get health care, even with a democratic majority. They just won’t toe the line.

If a republican or two crosses the line as well, maybe we won’t be as polarized as we have been.