tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post1940182249952901755..comments2024-02-08T07:32:20.315-06:00Comments on Steve Bates - Yellow Doggerel Democratic Views: God Damn Mitt Romney To The Hell He Proposes For The PoorSteve Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-17867319627676370062010-12-14T22:52:16.722-06:002010-12-14T22:52:16.722-06:00mandt, paintedjaguar...
mandt, spare me from Romn...mandt, paintedjaguar...<br /><br />mandt, spare me from Romney's magic underwear and its contents. I am really relieved that the federal line item veto didn't pass constitutional muster; it really is an extreme tool of executive power.<br /><br />PJ, I'm a UU, which means if I were to go knocking on doors and someone answered, I wouldn't be able to remember why I knocked. UUs traditionally disbelieve the whole notion of damnation; indeed, I'm such an unbeliever in perdition that I feel free to damn people to Hell with genuine confidence that what I say has no effect on them or on me.<br /><br />The last moderate Republican president, it pains me to say, was Richard Nixon. He was a goddamned crook, and a natural-born paranoid totalitarian, but he was less radical than Saint Ronald Reagan and every GOPer in the White House since then.Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-38795450891549446472010-12-14T19:48:03.877-06:002010-12-14T19:48:03.877-06:00The habitual mean-spiritedness of the "godly&...The habitual mean-spiritedness of the "godly" is just one of the many reasons I'm an atheist. I do find it interesting, though, that even animals have been shown to have a sense of fair play. Maybe that means Xtian fundies are right after all... they really aren't in the same class as animals.<br /><br />As for the concept of health savings accounts, and now unemployment savings accounts benefitting the common worker... any other <i>Firefly</i> fans out there? Remember the bit from the pilot episode where Jayne is figuring the crew's potential profits? "Lemme see, nothing minus nothing, carry the nothing..."<br /><br />The "moderate" Republican is of course a mythical beast, in the same category as "socially liberal but economically conservative" progressives.paintedjaguarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-54229034619022589762010-12-14T15:35:19.408-06:002010-12-14T15:35:19.408-06:00When Romney was Governor, he line item vetoed comp...When Romney was Governor, he line item vetoed compensation for in-home care workers amounting to little more than minimum wage. As an elder Mormon he believes in magic glasses that read mythical gospels and is one of a piece with the greatest religious fraud of the 19th century.mandthttp://adgitadiaries.blog-city.comnoreply@blogger.com