Republican/ Tea party platform (Have I got this right?)

[Indus]

 

[rudeguy]

 

[Matt1970]

The Republican alternative was to not kick 10 million off insurance this year, 93 million next year, not make you lose your doctor and not make your premiums go up.

 

[Sonikku]

Liberal fools. They act like they have all the ideas on healthcare, but they have NONE. It is the Republicans with all the ideas.

Prescription part D? Our idea. Obamacare? Yep. That came from our side too. Stop plastering the presidents name all over it like he conjured it up all by himself.

 

[Texashiker]

Disaster usually follows liberal agendas.

What happens in wake of disaster? Blame someone else.

Typical liberal response

 

[Atreus21]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDvgfsnSoeM

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Mindless liberal drivel and no commentary to boot. Worthy of thread lock on both counts imo.

 

[DesiPower]

Republicans are history, they are done, start thinking about how to build you life and live in the socialist USA. 8 years of Omaba had sowed the seed, Clinton will grow on that for 8 years and then another 8 years of Obama changing US for ever.

You see, with all the ever growing out sourcing, poor and jobless people will grow, more and more would like to feed on the rich pushing the market to new all time highs. And the Dems will always be there to do nothing about outsourcing and keep growing their vote banks. This the reality of the new USA, accept it, instead of trying to speak out again what OP has posted, read it, let it sink in, and think about how to live around these people and sill bring food to the table with dignity

 

[brandonb]

Someone actually spent time making that useless cartoon?

Sounds like someone needs a real job. Like where you actually have to work and do something and make money. And if they did, they probably would have healthcare and wouldn't be making that stupid cartoon.

Such is life.

 

[Texashiker]

You see, with all the ever growing out sourcing, poor and jobless people will grow, more and more would like to feed on the rich pushing the market to new all time highs. And the Dems will always be there to do nothing about outsourcing and keep growing their vote banks. This the reality of the new USA, accept it, instead of trying to speak out again what OP has posted, read it, let it sink in, and think about how to live around these people and sill bring food to the table with dignity

The people who vote for a living are having more kids than those who work for a living.

Its just a matter of time before the ship sinks.

 

[rudder]

Someone actually spent time making that useless cartoon?

To the creator it is not useless. So many people get their news from the daily show and comics like this and these people need something simple to understand. In the case of comics like this... to most people this is laughable... but to the comic's long time readers... this is what they actually believe and understand.

 

[Moonbeam]

Competition has driven us to hate folk who fail and failure is a given in our system. Best to tax the rich so the poor have something to spend to keep the rich rich and to keep the poor from killing them. That will keep the money in the economy instead of massive estates. We can have middle class neighborhoods instead of slums and mansions. We wouldn't want to become the nation with the finest healthcare only for people with gout.

 

[Texashiker]

but to the comic's long time readers... this is what they actually believe and understand.

I wonder how many people who believe the cartoon have ever had a blue collar job? How many have ever broke a sweat, or worked a dangerous job a day in their lives?

I am willing to bet people who actually work for their money lean to the right.

People with office jobs and welfare lean to the left.

At least that is my opinion.

 

[brycejones]

People with office jobs

Well I'm glad to know I don't work for my money.

 

[Texashiker]

Well I'm glad to know I don't work for my money.

Not that you do not work for your money, you just work in a different way.

The harder you work for your money, the more likely you want to hang onto it.

Some pencil pusher making $100k a year, yea, take some of my money for welfare and abortions.

Someone working construction making $40k a year, do not take my money, learn to take responsibility for your actions.

 

[HumblePie]

People really don't understand the parties or the system history...

Really sad.

The republican party used to dominate, but had many sub factors. The sub factors dealt with mostly the social stances.The main stance of the republicans was conservative government in both size and spending. The original basic precept of republicans was that the role of the government was to be as big as needed to make sure that people were fair to each other and that anything bigger was wasteful. There were originally a lot more socially liberal republicans back in the day. Republicans were for the abolition of slavery and such for example. Of equal rights and more.

Democrats were for more spending, and wealth redistribution. They were a very socialist party and haven't changed on that aspect.

However, the republican party changed during the cold war and mccarthism. Very hard line religious people infiltrated the party to combat the "atheist communist scum" of Russia during the cold war. Anyone seen to be liberal in the Republican party was ousted at the time. The party has never really recovered. It has been held by very religious factions that are very socially "conservative" although I hate to use the conservative term in this regard. Basically at one point the republican party would have been divided on issues such as gay rights or abortion back in the past. With the majority of republicans more than likely for gay rights for example. When those people and divisions of the party got ousted, most of them went over to the democratic party.

The problem is we have today religious republican majority still, and socialist engineering democratic party that has the old social views of the republicans as their main campaign front.

Really though, the original republicans are what many would term modern day libertarians. I really wish the would come about a completely separate party called the libertarian party that went back to the old republican majority view. Being liberal on social issues, and conservative on big government issues. Any true libertarian that actually promised to go back to those ideas, which were majority ideas this country was founded upon, would certainly always get my vote.

As it is now, I have to picked between shitty candidates from either the Republican or Democratic party that just don't follow everything I want from a political party.

For those interested in what republicanism definitions actually is and the founding principle of what the Republican party was suppose to be based upon, just read think like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_States

Here is the excerpt

Republicanism is a political values system that has been a major part of American civic thought since the American Revolution.[1] It stresses liberty and "unalienable" rights as central values, makes the people as a whole sovereign, rejects aristocracy and inherited political power, expects citizens to be independent in their performance of civic duties, and vilifies corruption.[2] American republicanism was founded and first practiced by the Founding Fathers in the 18th century. This system was based on Ancient Greco-Roman, Renaissance, and English models and ideas.[3] It formed the basis for the American Revolution and the consequential Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution (1787), as well as the Gettysburg Address (1863)

That view that all men are created equal. That the government is subservient to the people. That people are inherently good and should strive to help themselves as well as those around them to be better as a society. That corruption and greed is the source of all evil and should be fought tooth and nail. Those are the foundation for the original republicans. Not this horrible bastardized current standard that the modern republican party currently stands as.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Competition has driven us to hate folk who fail and failure is a given in our system. Best to tax the rich so the poor have something to spend to keep the rich rich and to keep the poor from killing them.

That only works if the rich lets you do it. When faced with subsidizing the third or so of America who have failed to be competitive in the global labor market then maybe just moving to a Caribbean Island fulltime doesn't sound so bad.

 

[HomerJS]

The Republican alternative was to not kick 10 million off insurance this year, 93 million next year, not make you lose your doctor and not make your premiums go up.

you mean that shit already happening for years??

 

[Agent11]

Republicans are history, they are done, start thinking about how to build you life and live in the socialist USA. 8 years of Omaba had sowed the seed, Clinton will grow on that for 8 years and then another 8 years of Obama changing US for ever.

You see, with all the ever growing out sourcing, poor and jobless people will grow, more and more would like to feed on the rich pushing the market to new all time highs. And the Dems will always be there to do nothing about outsourcing and keep growing their vote banks. This the reality of the new USA, accept it, instead of trying to speak out again what OP has posted, read it, let it sink in, and think about how to live around these people and sill bring food to the table with dignity

So you are saying that it is an elaborate socialist conspiracy?

 

[gingermeggs]

That only works if the rich lets you do it. When faced with subsidizing the third or so of America who have failed to be competitive in the global labor market then maybe just moving to a Caribbean Island fulltime doesn't sound so bad.

maybe not so clever- seems they've even poorer people living there, that have nothing to lose and would shank a "fatcat" to get off!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-couple-murdered-Caribbean-holiday-home.html

 

[tracerbullet]

People really don't understand the parties or the system history...

Thank you for that.

I'm sick of always voting for the least of the evils. I hate the Democrats but I hate the current Republicans slightly more. Doesn't leave a socially liberal, fiscally conservative person anyone to vote for. Makes it hard to figure out why anyone can love one party and hate another, whichever party those are.

 

[trenchfoot]

Very simple to extrapolate the current economic/demographic trend. The rich are getting richer as everyone else gets poorer. The main variable is the rate. Just from perusing some easily found stats, it's obvious the rate is not only rising, it's also accellerating.

Let's throw in how this almost paranoic push for smaller gov't, this wholesale gerrymandering, rampant voter suppression/disenfranchisement/corruption is defeating simple majority rule and quite logically, we end up with having a plutocratic/oligrachic gov't structure pathetically disguising itself as a model Republic guided by democratic principles.

It's inevitable unless......

 

[Agent11]

Thank you for that.

I'm sick of always voting for the least of the evils. I hate the Democrats but I hate the current Republicans slightly more. Doesn't leave a socially liberal, fiscally conservative person anyone to vote for. Makes it hard to figure out why anyone can love one party and hate another, whichever party those are.

For me it would be a toss up but for firearms and immigration. . . I had deluded myself into hoping the democrats would be forced into the correct position on these issues. . . That didn't work out so well.

I had hopes for healthcare reform as well, turns out they didn't know about half of what was in the bill!

I wish that the Republicans would embrace the libertarians and drop the religious right, or at least stop giving them a figurative loudspeaker.

 

[Incorruptible]

OP is a clear idiot and troll. You should be ashamed of yourself for attacking the Tea Party and the free market. The free market would fix the healthcare problems but too many idiots can't accept the free market.

Also tax cuts are good and necessary. The money is better spent by the private sector than the government.

 

[brycejones]

The free market would fix the healthcare problems

How exactly? This is a really nice platitude that is frequently trotted out but specifics are usually lacking.

How do you see a free market health care system working? Do I get to chose from a selection of hospitals based on cost and success while I'm in the ambulance?