FAR LEFT LIBERAL

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Posted on 30th January 2013 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

Michael Ramirez Cartoon

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  1. flash says:

    The GOP has moved farther to the right?

    It’s all one big head fake.You’ll never vote the fascists out , because they’re in he business to make sure you don’t.
    And , legitimatizing the “culturally diverse” illegal alien invasion is one way to assure you the principled and fiscal responsible will always be defeated at the polls.

    It’s over…and the two parties of fascist fucks won.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-embraces-principles-of-senate-immigration-reform-plan/2013/01/28/a539c44a-6974-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html
    Bipartisan group of senators unveils immigration reform plan
    At a joint news conference, five of the eight senators who signed on to a detailed statement of principles to guide the effort portrayed it as a way to resolve the plight of millions of undocumented immigrants living illegally in society’s shadows and to modernize and streamline the legal immigration system.

    “We have a long way to go, but this bipartisan blueprint is a major breakthrough,” said Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). He expressed hope that the Senate could pass a bill by late spring or summer.

    Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) vowed that the overhaul would not repeat “the mistakes of 1986,” when, he said, an amnesty program legalized millions of illegal immigrants but created conditions for the illegal entry of many millions more.

    The other members of the group behind the proposal are Democrats Richard J. Durbin (Ill.), Robert Menendez (N.J.) and Michael F. Bennet (Colo.), and Republicans Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.).

    The White House embraced the immigration proposal Monday but stopped short of pledging President Obama’s signature, noting that legislation on the issue has yet to be drafted.

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    30th January 2013 at 8:32 am

  2. Thinker says:

    You have to laugh… on the progressive message boards, they see Obama as a “moderate” because he hasn’t ended the wars, put bankers in jail or improve civil liberties (i.e., overturn the Patriot Act). All were hot-button issues for them in 2008, but somehow they’ve managed to convince themselves that Obama had to “move to the right” to get anything done while the Tea Party caucus exists.

    Little do they realize, it’s all just fascism. Of the soft variety… for the moment.

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    30th January 2013 at 9:32 am

  3. card802 says:

    Thinker,

    I agree. The left is full of reasons or excuses about why their leader has failed them. And this constant blaming of the Tea Party. Do they even exist anymore? Fuck them all, both parties.

    I give up, the last posting Negotiating with Evil said what I also believe. We can’t fight what will happen, we can’t change what’s going to happen, all we can do is try to prepare for what is going to happen.

    And live. I used to be angry and frustrated, but that’s no way to live a life, and there is a certain calmness or peace that comes with trying to be more self reliant.

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    30th January 2013 at 10:31 am

  4. card802 says:

    Lot of news today.

    Consumer confidence hit a 14 month low.
    GDP went backward from government economists predictions.
    Bernanke has promised to keep QE3 cranking out $85 Billion per month.
    States with severely underfunded liability’s are going critical and will soon request taxpayer bailouts.
    Sequestration this March will probably not happen.

    Gold and Silver are once again heading up in price.
    The commodity backed currency’s are rebounding vs the dollar.
    Inflation in emerging economy’s is falling.
    China is slowly creating a stronger middle class.
    China is slowly creating trade agreements with other nations to not trade in the reserve currency.

    But women can now fight on the front lines and lets make illegals legal………

    Such a circus.

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    30th January 2013 at 10:45 am

  5. napari says:

    moderate liberals really hate the right. They keep giving bad behavior on the left a pass and have this pollyanna attitude of nothing to worry about.. Theres going to be a day when the moderate liberals wake up but I’m afraid by the time the day comes it will be to damm late. They’ll reach out with the hand of compromise for some help only to get it crushed by the oppressive communist/marxist government.
    What a laugh…the moderate liberals are actually sawing off the tree branch that supports them.

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    30th January 2013 at 10:49 am

  6. Eddie says:

    I will admit to surprise about how Obama has come out of the closet since the election. He sure does want to give away all my money before he retires to that mansion in Hawaii we’re buying him.

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    30th January 2013 at 10:58 am

  7. AWD says:

    I just don’t think calling somebody a “liberal” covers it anymore. Liberals, by and large, are not evil; stupid, misguided, clueless, lazy, entitlests, yes.

    It’s the (liberal) progressives that are dangerous. They’re the ones pushing for regulations, less freedom, doing away with the constitution and bill of rights; they are socialists, fascists, and wanna be communists. They will be happy with dictatorship to get their agenda forever pushed Forward! They are trying (and succeeding) in fundamentally changing this country. They control the media and the legal system. Their propaganda is very effective. And they have a 100 million parasites at their beck and call.

    They are as dangerous now as Nazis, communists and dictators in the past.

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    30th January 2013 at 11:25 am

  8. Christopher Harrison says:

    The terms “liberal” and “far left” are not even close to equivalent. This much should be obvious to anyone who has read Chris Hedges over the past 10 years. Hell, he wrote an entire book about how liberals were co-opted into whacking mass movements on the left (which he correctly characterizes as the driving force behind most socio-economic change in US history).

    I consider myself to be a left-wing conservative — anti-statist but more communitarian than libertarian in my outlook — who can’t stand modern-day liberals. And I don’t even consider Obama to be a liberal. He’s a neoliberal corporate statist who finds liberal rhetoric to be a useful tool in gaining the support of unwitting liberals. Just like George W. Bush was a neoliberal corporate statist who found conservative rhetoric to be useful in gaining the support of unwitting conservatives.

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    30th January 2013 at 11:33 am

  9. flash says:

    You’ll know them by their rotten fruit..

    Churchill the Socialist

    Churchill made a name for himself as an opponent of socialism both before and after the First World War, except during the war when he was a staunch promoter of war socialism, declaring in a speech: “Our whole nation must be organized, must be socialized if you like the word.” Of course, such rank hypocrisy was by now Churchill’s stock-in-trade, and not surprisingly, during the 1945 election, Churchill described his partners in the national unity government, the Labour Party, as totalitarians, when it was Churchill himself who had accepted the infamous Beveridge Report that laid the foundations for the post-war welfare state and Keynesian (mis)management of the economy.

    As Mises wrote in 1950, “It is noteworthy to remember that British socialism was not an achievement of Mr. Attlee’s Labor Government, but of the war cabinet of Mr. Winston Churchill.”

    Churchill was converted to the Bismarckian model of social insurance following a visit to Germany. As Churchill told his constituents: “My heart was filled with admiration of the patient genius which had added these social bulwarks to the many glories of the German race.” He set out, in his words, to “thrust a big slice of Bismarckianism over the whole underside of our industrial system.” In 1908, Churchill announced in a speech in Dundee: “I am on the side of those who think that a greater collective sentiment should be introduced into the State and the municipalities. I should like to see the State undertaking new functions.” Churchill even said: “I go farther; I should like to see the State embark on various novel and adventurous experiments.”

    Churchill claimed that “the cause of the Liberal Party is the cause of the left-out millions,” and attacked the Conservatives as “the Party of the rich against the poor, the classes and their dependents against the masses, of the lucky, the wealthy, the happy, and the strong, against the left-out and the shut-out millions of the weak and poor.” Churchill berated the Conservatives for lacking even a “single plan of social reform or reconstruction,” while boasting that his “New Liberalism” offered “a wide, comprehensive, interdependent scheme of social organisation,” incorporating “a massive series of legislative proposals and administrative acts.”

    Churchill had fallen under the spell of the Fabian Society, and its leaders Beatrice and Sidney Webb, who more than any other group, are responsible for the decline of British society. Here he was introduced to William, later Lord Beveridge, who Churchill brought into the Board of Trade as his advisor on social questions. Besides pushing for a variety of social insurance schemes, Churchill created the system of national labor exchanges, stating the need to “spread . . . a sort of Germanized network of state intervention and regulation” over the British labor market. Churchill even entertained a more ambitious goal for the Board of Trade. He proposed a plan whereby the Board of Trade would act as the economic “intelligence department” of the Government, forecasting trade and employment in Britain so that the Government could spend money in the most deserving areas. Controlling this pork would be a Committee of National Organisation to plan the economy.

    Churchill was well aware of the electoral potential of organized labor, so naturally Churchill became a champion of the labor unions. He was a leading supporter of the Trades Disputes Act of 1906 which reversed the judicial decisions which had held unions responsible for property damage and injuries committed by their agents on the unions behalf, in effect granting unions a privileged position exempting them from the ordinary law of the land. It is ironic that the immense power of the British labor unions that made Britain the “Sick Man of Europe” for two generations and became the foil of Margaret Thatcher, originated with the enthusiastic help of her hero, Winston Churchill.

    We can only conclude by Churchill’s actions that personal freedom was the furthest thing from his mind.

    http://mises.org/daily/1450

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    30th January 2013 at 11:40 am

  10. KaD says:

    Flash, I read another take of legalizing the illegals:

    But near as I can figure it, the “real deal” has more to do with demographics than fairness since the Baby Boomers are retiring at a 10,000 per day clip. They need fresh meat to pay into the failing Social Security pool and illegals have so far mostly avoided that trap. Enter carrots and sticks.

    By bringing in lots of family-forming young immigrants some of the ‘anchor baby’ pressures might be eased, new workers would buy more products and maybe some day buy a home, if they can avoid the student loan debt trap which has left a generation more or less in the poorhouse. At minimum they’ll need roofs and calories and there’s a business model in there somewhere.

    Sure, immigration reform is needed. But could we please get the dialog focused on the true economic realities which are driving it? The US needs cheap labor to make corporate profit targets and what better source than to inshore a few jobs to a new lower strata of production workers?

    Not that I wouldn’t love to believe the myth that border-runners are smarter than Border Patrol; frankly that just ain’t so. If illegals are coming in it’s because of a de facto tolerance policy because so many business models are supported. Workers in fields, meat processing plants, and the whole marijuana distribution industry. It all smacks of intellectual dishonesty not to focus on the real agenda: Fiscal solvency on the backs of immigrants who will be hitched up as a new tax class to the burden under the tax yoke.

    So the yoke’s on them, or will be soon enough. And the MSM-fed sheep are going to buy the wrapper and not bother understanding the contents. But I’m here to tell you, it’s a bum wrap. The driving layer is dollars and that’s how immigration is wrapped up in real life.

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    30th January 2013 at 11:45 am

  11. AWD says:

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    Putting an end to the spate of recent unexpected discoveries by otherwise loyal journalists that he may be to the left of the county’s political center, President Obama today signed an executive order moving the country’s political center to the left, approximately two feet away from where he was sitting.

    Many political commentators praised this as a “brilliant move,” which promises to bring them back right into the mainstream. In addition, in the words of a newly centrist pundit Ed Shultz of the suddenly middle-of-the-road MSNBC network,” this decision cements Obama’s position as president of all the people, at least all the ones that count anyway.”

    Democratic Senator John Kerry thanked the President for giving him the opportunity, for the first time in his life, to experience being a centrist politician. In an interview aboard his yacht, “Tax Escapist,” soon-to-be-Secretary-of-State explained that he was thrilled his ideas would finally fit the definition of sober and moderate policies instead of wild fantasies out of left field. “My dreams have come true!” he admitted over a tray of truffles.

    The unilateral decision to move the center leftwards followed two years of frustrating lack of compromise between the President and the now reclassified ultra-radical far-right-wing Republicans in Congress.

    “With the center moved to its proper position, the public can fully appreciate the President’s earlier assertions that his opponents are way outside the mainstream,” said senior presidential advisor Valerie Jarret. “From the new vantage point, the Republicans appear so far to the right, they’re practically invisible.”

    In addition to marginalizing the GOP, the move allows the President more elbow room in settling many of the currently divisive, hot-button issues. According to inside sources, the President is now ready to compromise on gun control with a new bill that will keep so-called “assault weapons” legal as long as they are only used to perform third-trimester abortions.

    “This plan will please everyone within the redefined coordinates,” stated presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney. “All sides – far left, moderate left, center-left-left, center-center-left, center-left center, and moderate center-right will get something out of it. The only ones complaining will be those on the extreme-ultra-far-right fringe.”

    “This glorious compromise will give us a five-year quota of political progress ahead of schedule,” said a spokesman for the newly redefined center-right Communist Party.

    In yet another far-reaching compromise, the President is expected to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline on condition that, instead of oil, it would transport non-polluting solar panels from China.

    “It’s a great bargain for everybody except Big Oil”, noted environmental activist Al Gore, who recently sold his non-polluting Current TV network to Al Jazeera – a channel that will bring us the current truth from the peaceful producers of environmentally friendly fuels in the Middle East. “President Obama’s political shift reveals many previously unacceptable common points that all sides can now accept, while rejecting the divisive partisan trivia that the broad center of the country doesn’t care about.”

    Scientists believe that the long-term implications of the President’s executive order go far beyond politics. If Obama can just as easily move any other center, this could make cosmology a lot more interesting, not to mention easier for the scientific community to control in the interests of the common good.

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    30th January 2013 at 12:37 pm

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