Un****ing the Donkey ( Rick Perlstein Says Free Republic More Crucial than Heritage Foundation)

The Village Voice ^ | Thursday, July 28, 2005 | Rick Perlstein

[kristinn]

Great thinking Rick! Promise voters free taxpayer money forever!

The only problem is, folks ain't buying it no more. This ain't the glory days of the New Deal and the Great Society. Folks are, how should I put this.....more sophisticated than back then. They've learned from experience that government healthcare sucks and that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.

Please Rick, don't ever change. Like Rush Limbaugh says, we'll need a few liberals left to remind people of the bad old days when liberals ruled the world.

[dirtboy]

There is a website that thousands of committed Republicans spend hours on, giving and receiving marching orders.

Talk about a terminal case of projection.

[Tijeras_Slim]

What's the deal? Almost 5 years here, and a dollar-a-day FReeper and I've never gotten marching orders. Am I missing something? :)

[cripplecreek]

Ricky sent me a FReepmail one day that would make a sailor blush.

[Keith in Iowa]

Like Rush Limbaugh says, we'll need a few liberals left to remind people of the bad old days when liberals ruled the world.

Like Rush Limbaugh says, we'll need a few liberals left to remind people of the bad old days when liberals ruled almost ruined the world.

Better...?

[dirtboy]

The most glorious thing about congressional Democrats is that they have drawn the line and said: No further. Don't. Touch. Social. Security. It is a heroic stand. What's more, it's been enormously politically effective.

Who cares that the surplus has been spent and the Trust Fund is a fraud that dwarfs the corporate accounting scandals for which the Dems get their undies in a mega-twist. As long as it's "enormously politically effective", morality need not be considered.

And then they wonder why they're losing.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>What I call "superjumbos"—grand policy commitments that span generations—add value by the very credibility of the commitment


That's true until one actually goes broke. At that point, NOTHING! the government touches will have ANY credibility.

[RichInOC]

Sorry, but I have no interest in un****ing the Donkey. As far as I'm concerned, the Donkey can stay ****ed. Or better yet, go **** itself.

[alisasny]

.....only 30 percent of Americans call high taxes a very serious problem

Kristinn, this is the most comical line in the piece..... Ask those in the top 10 percent about HIGH TAXES... Or better yet us middle classers who make up the majority of the revenues...and got next to nothing back.

[MarkeyD]

If the Democrats succeed in redistributing economic power, we're screwed.

Ricky, Ricky, Ricky. We don't EVER worry about that. We know it will never work!

[cripplecreek]

Rick must have missed the immigration and CAFTA threads.

[houeto]

Sorry, but I have no interest in un****ing the Donkey. As far as I'm concerned, the Donkey can stay ****ed. Or better yet, go **** itself.

LMFAO!!!

[Bahbah]

Bump to read at home.

[UCANSEE2]

Republicans want you to work for the AMERICAN DREAM, Democrats want to SELL IT TO YOU.

The price from the DEMOCRATS???? Neverending payments for which they are not required to provide the actual item purchased. It is not within their ability or power to provide it anyway. We all know that.

But they still manage to SELL IT to much of the public.

[Tijeras_Slim]

He's probably scared of any thread other than the Hobbit Hole, Morford's articles.

[dirtboy]

Am I missing something? :)

The morning conference calls with Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh channelling the ghost of Lee Atwater. That's where us insiders get our GOP marching orders and directives on how to both subliminally sway the other freepers and spot and ban any heretics who perceive our dastardly plot.

Plus the donuts aren't bad, either.

[snarks_when_bored]

kristinn, you write an e-mail to Rick and tell him what a putz he is.

dirtboy, you sponge the drool out of your buffer.

—End of marching orders transmission for today.

[Panerai]

Must be talking about those trolls from DU.

[A. Pole]

Please refer to your handout. The first column records some typical things "Freepers" say. The second records what the same Freeper said after the Senate voted cloture on the president's bankruptcy bill. Column A: "We are going to see a day, in our lifetimes, when schools force children to engage in homosexual acts as 'projects' or 'homework' for sex-ed." Same guy, column B: "The newly amended bankruptcy law is a criminal act perpetrated, bought and paid for by commercial pirates masquerading as legitimate businesses."

I won't belabor the point that I believe that the Democrats pay a huge long-term price for those Democrats who let that bankruptcy bill go through. The Republicans understand us better than we understand ourselves. When we are not credible defenders of the economic interests of ordinary Americans, we amount to little. When we are, we're a nuclear bomb to the heart of their coalition.

See my tagline

[dirtboy]

dirtboy, you sponge the drool out of your buffer.

Kinky...