re: #1040 Sharmuta

But Rahm Emmanuel said the same thing a couple weeks back. I think it will be their new talking point in the hopes we won’t listen to them. I think we should take it at face value, because the simple fact of the matter is they’re not wrong.

My problem is with the hypocrisy of her statement:
“Take back your party. The party of protecting the environment. The party of individual rights. The party of fairness. This is not the Grand Old Party.”

Environment: yes the GOP should get on board with some of the philosophies of smart environmental policies. Although I’m not convinced the dems know what they are doing with respect the the environment. It’s a talking point for them, mainly. The dems see everything through a prism of raising taxes and cutting their perceived demons off at the knee caps. (Oil, coal etc…) The GOP would be wise to take a more moderate stance and out-wit the dems at their own game. We must progress into a future that includes wind, solar and nuclear energy - some oil and a phase out of dirty coal. But not until we have what we need on-line.

Individual rights: The democrats do not see the individual - they see the collective. so what the hell is Nancy talking about? The GOP does need to work on the social-con stuff: standard gripes: keeping religion private and not shoving it into every political corner, keep creationism out of science class, understand that abortion will more than likely stay legal.

Party of fairness: Yeah - the dems are just so freaking fair…. with other peoples money. and lets not forget the fairness of Barney Frank, Franklin Raines, and Jamie Gorelick, Chris Dodd et al.. the dems say they want fairness, but it’s just a deceptive empty talking point - all smoke and mirrors. No way in hell is Nancy Pelosi in change of a party that cares about fairness.