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Marco Rubio Tries to Walk Back His Creationist Admission

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jvic12/05/2012 9:43:54 pm PST
And they got that because of progressive organization and dissatisfaction with working conditions, not because of a rising economy. And those movements did not achieve great success until the Great Deal era.

Jobs with those unsatisfactory working were created because of a rising economy.

Then goddamn chastise yourself for your original comment…Since the president obviously can’t do that alone, and he can’t do anything with the budget.

Fair enough; consider me mildly self-chastised. Nevertheless, the president has the tools of the veto and, perhaps, sequestration.

I view the taxation “debate” as a false dichotomy in which both parties collude.

Whatever. The GOP is completely fucking off the rails in Ayn Rand economic territory, but you’re deciding to futz around with “They both collude”.

I thought it was clear that “collusion” referred to setting the terms of the public debate; if not, please consider this a clarification..

I haven’t read Ayn Rand, but I suspect she didn’t advocate corporate welfare like the GOP practices.

And I guess this is you ignoring that the Democrats have pushed for more regulations, they objected to the breaking down of the walls that helped lead to the financial meltdown, and that the GOP has been blocking appointments to many positions that investigate and regulate financial institutions.

Seeing merit in the proposition that big businesses are better capable of handling regulatory burdens than small businesses are, I’d much rather see a push for more antitrust. As far as breaking down walls goes, weakening Glass-Steagall was a bipartisan effort; Robert Rubin was prominently involved, and Bill Clinton signed the legislation.

Anyway: Blathering about both sides colluding is fatuous in the current day, when the GOP is pulling shit like blocking the debt ceiling to extort spending cuts in a recession.

Apart from your inflammatory language, your remark about spending cuts in a recession is a reasonable point about which reasonable people can disagree. In no way do I exculpate Bush for his role in bringing us to the current mess.

Good night.