"More government isn’t going to help you get ahead...."

[GordonGecko]

..."I couldn’t have gone to college without it."


---Marco Rubio, in the SAME speech, last night.

 

[Craig]

..."I couldn’t have gone to college without it."


---Marco Rubio, in the SAME speech, last night.

The Craig T. Nelson School of Mendacity...

I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No...


[video=youtube;yTwpBLzxe4U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTwpBLzxe4U[/video]

 

[GordonGecko]

Guarenteed....Rightwing Media supporters of Marco today....WANT to talk about him drinking a lot of water, rather than him blatently contradicting himself last night.

 

[Bo-4]

One of his more delicious contradictions.. caused by dry lips.

 

[GordonGecko]

While they may want to talk about him drinking a lot of water....I'll bet the fact he figured out he was contradicting himself was WHY he was drinking a lot of water.

 

[Arkady]

Phil Gramm is my all-time favorite right-wing politician when it comes to that kind of rhetoric. He bashed government relentlessly, but had essentially spent his entire life sucking at its teat. You'd be hard pressed to find many people in America the American taxpayer had sent more money to than Phil Gramm.

The lack of self-awareness among conservatives is hilarious. I recently had a conservative Facebook "friend" supportively post a vile right-wing screed where half the talking points actually attacked her, but she just wasn't self-aware enough to see it. She'd had MASSIVE help from the government, but thought of herself as a self-made woman... probably because, at some subconscious level, for her the "leeches" are black inner city people, and she's white and rural, so all that Reagan-style anti-welfare rhetoric couldn't possibly be referring to the kinds of government benefits she has depended on from time to time.

 

[GordonGecko]

Phil Gramm is my all-time favorite right-wing politician when it comes to that kind of rhetoric. He bashed government relentlessly, but had essentially spent his entire life sucking at its teat. You'd be hard pressed to find many people in America the American taxpayer had sent more money to than Phil Gramm.

Gramm was a Dixiecrat. He had to spout the "cut Government" "Government is bad" stuff for the Northeast Repubs....in return the NE Repubs stopped pushing civil rights.


Regardless, the FIRST people who are going to use that Rubio quote (as well as the water bottle video) are NOT going to be Democrats....

but Marco's 2016 Republican PRIMARY opponents. And some of the folks defending him here today?....will support that, coming from "a real conservative" Republican doing it.

 

[MaryAnne]

Gramm was a Dixiecrat. He had to spout the "cut Government" "Government is bad" stuff for the Northeast Repubs....in return the NE Repubs stopped pushing civil rights.


Regardless, the FIRST people who are going to use that Rubio quote (as well as the water bottle video) are NOT going to be Democrats....

but Marco's 2016 Republican PRIMARY opponents. And some of the folks defending him here today?....will support that, coming from "a real conservative" Republican doing it.

Phil Gramm was a Democrat? News to me. He was a die hard muckraker,no Democrat.

 

[GordonGecko]

Not "Democrat"...."Dixiecrat". Same kind of thing as Trent Lott.....guys from the South who LOVED the New Deal and Government spending, but didn't want "those people" in their schools or being able to compete for jobs.

NCMusic supports "Medicare for All".....is he a "Democrat"? No.....because he has ANOTHER agenda that is more pressing to him and the GOP panders to that.