A portrait of the Grand Oil Party
Harry Hope
From The Los Angeles Times
By ERIC COHEN
A party at its crest, artificially held together by the issues of the
past and afraid even to attempt its own boldest ideas.
It is the picture of a party with two rival cultures:
the first a culture of religious believers, pro-life activists and
home schoolers, who believe America has lost its moral bearings;
the second a culture of oilmen and big businessmen, who believe
America's greatness rises and falls with the stock market and that all
virtue resides among the victors of the marketplace.
It is the picture of a party that has abandoned school choice,
hollowed out its faith-based initiative, appeased China and largely
avoided the most contentious social issues.
It is the picture of a party that acquired power by chance--losing the
popular vote in the presidential election;
staring straight in the face of a recession heading into 2002;
and wrong in the eyes of the public on wedge issues like the
environment and health care.
All it has is tax cuts, the one thing that holds all the party's
constituencies together, for now, but which most Americans believe
will favor the wealthy, not them.
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What a motley bunch!
Harry
``I'm here in my office early in the morning because I want to be, not
because I have to be. The president, it turns out, if he doesn't want
to be here, he doesn't have to be here. Everybody else kind of, you
know, shows up where he shows up.''
Georgie W. Dimwit - AP interview 4/25/01
JS
Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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>
> From The Los Angeles Times
>
> By ERIC COHEN
>
> A party at its crest, artificially held together by the issues of the
> past and afraid even to attempt its own boldest ideas.
>
> It is the picture of a party with two rival cultures:
>
> the first a culture of religious believers, pro-life activists and
> home schoolers, who believe America has lost its moral bearings;
>
> the second a culture of oilmen and big businessmen, who believe
> America's greatness rises and falls with the stock market and that all
> virtue resides among the victors of the marketplace.
>
> It is the picture of a party that has abandoned school choice,
> hollowed out its faith-based initiative, appeased China and largely
> avoided the most contentious social issues.
>
> It is the picture of a party that acquired power by chance--losing the
> popular vote in the presidential election;
Another psuedo coverup of Bushes illegitamacy. Bush didn't
just 'chance' upon a bunch of lawyers that ran to court to
stop Gore from getting a proper contest. Nor did republician
just chance upon a legistlator that would do there bidding
thereafter. Nor did minority veterans, jewish pensioners,
blacks and hispanics, just chance to find that they were
stopped whilst trying to vote whether it before, after or during
the voting process. Hell some even were call felons. The
allegations of a systematic republician deadrun around the
election go back well before election day. The republician
party, and Bush, have to start dealing with it, they can't
hide like cowards anylonger. Deal with the allegations,
what do they fear?
D.G. Porter
>
> Another psuedo coverup of Bushes illegitamacy. Bush didn't
> just 'chance' upon a bunch of lawyers that ran to court to
> stop Gore from getting a proper contest. Nor did republician
> just chance upon a legistlator that would do there bidding
> thereafter. Nor did minority veterans, jewish pensioners,
> blacks and hispanics, just chance to find that they were
> stopped whilst trying to vote whether it before, after or during
> the voting process. Hell some even were call felons. The
> allegations of a systematic republician deadrun around the
> election go back well before election day. The republician
> party, and Bush, have to start dealing with it, they can't
> hide like cowards anylonger. Deal with the allegations,
> what do they fear?
A world changing, a world where they're dearly-held core beliefs are
increasingly irrelevant, a world too sophisticated for them to control
with lies and spin, a world that will start laffing at them and nevre
stop, a world where entertainment is not limited by the churches to
watching paint dry and saying "yep," a world where people aren't ashamed
for having fun and enjoying themelves, a world where you don't live in
fear of burning in hell forever for feeling human feelings, a world not
afraid of different cultures, need I go on?
Bill Mech
Just more fiction.
--
Bill Mech
wm...@att.net
For info on politics, taxes, education etc., go to
http://home.att.net/~wmech
JS <t...@master.is.out> wrote in message
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D.G. Porter
>
> All anti Republican unfounded allegations with NO evidence to support them.
>
> Just more fiction.
Translation: "Even though you are holding up only four fingers, the
state says you are holding up five fingers -- therefore, I see five
fingers."
Bill Mech
D.G. Porter <dgpo...@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> Bill Mech wrote:
> >
> > All anti Republican unfounded allegations with NO evidence to support
them.
> >
> > Just more fiction.
>
> Translation: "Even though you are holding up only four fingers, the
> state says you are holding up five fingers -- therefore, I see five
> fingers."
Now this is real objective evidence! (of what???)
D.G. Porter
>
> Bill Mech
> wm...@att.net
> For info on politics, taxes, education etc., go to
> http://home.att.net/~wmech
>
> D.G. Porter <dgpo...@pacbell.net> wrote in message
> news:3AEF19...@pacbell.net...
> > Bill Mech wrote:
> > >
> > > All anti Republican unfounded allegations with NO evidence to support
> them.
> > >
> > > Just more fiction.
> >
> > Translation: "Even though you are holding up only four fingers, the
> > state says you are holding up five fingers -- therefore, I see five
> > fingers."
>
> Now this is real objective evidence! (of what???)
Obviously you have never read "1984."