What Comes Round After Going Round Seems Different Now

Guess who said the following?
"The GOP has changed. Under the influence of the neoconservatives, the GOP is becoming a Brownshirt party. 
I am a constitutionalist, a civil libertarian who believes that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the FIRST things to be defended, not the last to be defended or that can be pushed aside in the name of "national security." Without the Constitution and the civil liberties that it guarantees, there can be no security.
When it comes to the market economy, I am a realist. I understand that, compared to a nation of farmers and artisans, a market economy--especially under free trade, jobs offshoring globalism--subjects people to massive economic insecurity and requires a strong social safety net. The idea that Republicans are espousing that the social safety net can be sacrificed in the name of deficit reduction in order to pay for wars of hegemony is insane, inhumane, and evil."

Are you ready??

Paul Craig Roberts!

He was one of Ronald Reagan's original group and the main inventor or Reaganomics. I don't know about you but I find it scary that I'm agreeing with him, at least in this case. I, personally, hope the Republicans and the Democrats spontaneously immolate and weaken themselves to such an extent as to allow a strong third party to emerge in this country; and I'm NOT talking about a gathering of rabble like the Tea Party.

In any case, Dan Froomkin over a HuffPo wrote an interesting column on Roberts. You might want to migrate over there and give it a read.


Roibeard Padraig McBlather
The Gentleman Anarchist

They Got It Right???????

If Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Glenn Beck and all the Tea-Party folks think that the founding fathers got it right the first time with regards to the Constitution then they should mull this over:

1. The Constitution we currently adhere to is not the first one, it's the second one we have developed: See Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. Got the first one right did they?

2. If the founding fathers got it right the first time how come the Constitution as been amended 27 times. An additional six amendments failed to pass; that would be 33 attempts to change the document. 10,000 amendments have been suggested but only those 33 made it to a vote.

3. When the Constitution we currently have was first passed, slavery was allowed, and no women had the right to vote. Do you think they got that right the first time?

You people show unconscionable ignorance every time you open your mouths. As for Ms Bachmann the US representative from Minnesota...she should have been required to pass a civics test before being allowed to run for office.

Roibeard Padraig McBlather
The Gentleman Anarchist