Where were all these “freedom-loving” right wingers.....

flywallyfly
flywallyfly Posts: 1,453
edited April 2010 in A Moving Train
..during the Bush years? Brings up some interesting points .....


http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3099

Where were all these “freedom-loving” right wingers during the Bush years?

That’s a rhetorical question, of course. But one that should be asked of the morons now breaking windows and cutting gas lines, all in the name of “freedom from big government.”

Well an old gentleman from Chico, California is asking it. From what I’m told the fellow worked as a volunteer teaching retirees about Medicare and COBRA. Here’s his open letter to Republicans. Sorry, don’t know his name, but if you do, let me know. Pass it on to your favorite Republican/Tea Party member:

We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, but now you get mad?
•You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
•You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
•You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
•You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed..
•You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
•You didn't get mad when we spent $1 trillion on said illegal war.
•You didn't get mad when over $10 billion dollars (in hard cash) just “disappeared" in Iraq .
•You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
•You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
•You didn't get mad when they didn't catch Bin Laden.
•You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed hospital.
•You didn't get mad when they let a major US city drown.
•You didn't get mad when they gave a $1.6 trillion in tax breaks to the rich.
•You didn’t get mad when, using reconciliation; a trillion dollars of our tax dollars were redirected to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage -- which cost more than 20% more for the same services that Medicare provides.
•You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark, and our debt hit the thirteen trillion dollar mark.
No, but you did get mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans... oh hell no!
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I'd like to see some of the flag-sucking couch potatoes respond to this.
  • Pepe Silvia
    Pepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    flywallyfly wrote:
    •You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.


    the hilarious thing about this one is it was state law that there be a recount, that's why they had to go to the supreme court. then when that thing in california happened forcing the governor out, when it went to court the republicans cried about the democrats abusing the legal system to circumvent state law. make up your minds already
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

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    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,878
    they were too busy worrying about the next american idol and when they will get the next flame broiled whopper to give a shit....we were givin' freedom to some muslims that were too stupid to realize what they were missin' out on....

    that was a good post by the OP by the way. i'm sure someone will call us stupid liberals or something, but name calling is all they have. they get angry when confronted with the facts about how they got duped by the last administration...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Pepe Silvia
    Pepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    they were too busy worrying about the next american idol and when they will get the next flame broiled whopper to give a shit....we were givin' freedom to some muslims that were too stupid to realize what they were missin' out on....

    that was a good post by the OP by the way. i'm sure someone will call us stupid liberals or something, but name calling is all they have. they get angry when confronted with the facts about how they got duped by the last administration...


    it was funny when it got near the end of his 2nd term a lot of the rats jumped ship when it was obvious a lot of the country we fed up with their direction, like andrew sullivan. he was one of bush's biggest defenders until he had a year or 2 left and democrats took control in '06
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    Great read. Thanks to the OP for posting. I've often had similar thoughts, but could never get my ideas down on paper anywhere near as well as this.
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    Mohandas K. Gandhi

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  • Stypo420
    Stypo420 Posts: 519
    I enjoyed your post.


    YOU DID GET MAD WHEN YOU SAW THE NEW GUY WAS BLACK!
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    This thread must have a bug that only tea buggers get. :? :P
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I see that no right-wingers have responded to this thread. I wonder why?
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,249
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I see that no right-wingers have responded to this thread. I wonder why?

    I was going to say they won't touch this thread with a 10 ft pole.

    Peace
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  • Corso
    Corso so poor I can't afford to comment on the PJ forum Posts: 201
    No joke.. times are crazy....madness....
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    I'll tell you where this moderate Orange County Conservative was...
    Angry that the Republican Administration and Republican lead Congress was acting so irresponsibly after all that 'Contract With America' bullshit. They didn't bring 'dignity and responsibility to government... they did things that went against Conservative values that I believe in by choosing to go to a war of choice, not neccessity. Granting so much power to the Executive Branch, rather than maintaining the responsibilities assigned to them by our Constitution.
    I was angry about the ever expanding size of an intrusive government that shunned the principles of law and order with illegal wiretaps of Americans. if they want to wiretap my phone.. fine.. just get a goddamn warrant that is granted to me by our Bill of Rights.
    I hated the attempt to politicize the Judicial Branch by trying to slip in a political ally (Harriett Meirs) that was owed political capital. Sick of the way FEMA was dismantled by placing incompetent people in lead positions... sick of the way they shirked responsibility and accountability for poor decisions. Sick of the excuses, such as 'going to war with the Army you have' instead of doing whatever it takes to protect the lives of the men and women they sent into harm's way... and the disgraceful way war casualties were treated when they were deemed no longer suited to fight. And appalled by the way Conservatives attacked a decorated war veteran, in the name of political gains. If you question one Purple Heart and Navy Star recepient, you question them all. They don't just hand those medals of valor out to just anyone... like cheap Cracker Jack trinkets.
    The Republican Party drove me away... I did not leave. They continued to drive me further away with the Karl Rove never-ending campaigning that has divided our country in the worst way possible... along political party lines.
    I railled against all of this because i am not going to follow any political party agenda. And if it were a President Gore that did the same exact things... I would be saying the same goddamn things about him.
    ..
    And yeah... I supported President Bush (even though I didn't vote for him when he went to bed with the Conservative Christian coalition of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson) in the days and weeks folling September 11, 2001 and the war in Afghanistan. He lost me when he diverted focus and resources from Afghanistan and went into Iraq to settle a personal vendetta. And it was all downhill from there.
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  • aerial
    aerial Posts: 2,319
    This has been posted over and over and over :roll:

    a democrat threw the brick thru another democrates window...hmmmm wonder why he did that?
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    aerial wrote:
    This has been posted over and over and over :roll:

    a democrat threw the brick thru another democrates window...hmmmm wonder why he did that?

    Why don't you address the OP instead of talking about something completely unrelated? Did you even bother to read the original post?
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    It's funny how anyone who supports the TEA Party was for Bush. I voted FOR Gore and Kerry for President and FOR Obama for Senate.

    Use a real broad brush will ya?
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    unsung wrote:
    It's funny how anyone who supports the TEA Party was for Bush. I voted FOR Gore and Kerry for President and FOR Obama for Senate.

    Use a real broad brush will ya?

    The OP doesn't claim that you needed to have voted for Bush. This is what it asks: 'Where were all these “freedom-loving” right wingers during the Bush years?'

    Now how about you answer the question?
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    I was doing what I could to get Bush out of office. That included making phone calls and pounding the pavement knocking on doors trying to get out the vote.

    Why do you even care anyway?
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited March 2010
    unsung wrote:
    I was doing what I could to get Bush out of office. That included making phone calls and pounding the pavement knocking on doors trying to get out the vote.

    Why do you even care anyway?

    I don't. The original post asked where all the right wingers - now screaming about government corruption - were during the Bush years. It didn't ask where Unsung was during the Bush years.
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Well I'm going to my first TEA Party rally April 15th. So I'll be in the club bitching too.
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Clown's to the left of me
    Joker's to the right
    Here I am
    Stuck in the middle with you... :lol:

    Great old song !....timeless

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  • aerial
    aerial Posts: 2,319
    Byrnzie wrote:
    aerial wrote:
    This has been posted over and over and over :roll:

    a democrat threw the brick thru another democrates window...hmmmm wonder why he did that?

    Why don't you address the OP instead of talking about something completely unrelated? Did you even bother to read the original post?
    a democrat threw the brick thru another democrates window...hmmmm wonder why he did that?[/
    the morons now breaking windows

    Why do you libs keep asking where were the right wingers...over and over and over
    And it has been answered over and over and over
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln

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