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That graphic is a little bit

Orion — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:05:49 +0000

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That graphic is a little bit off the rails, in my view. Fascism wasn't an anti-intellectual exercise. Quite the contrary. Fascism and German National Socialism took off where alot of academic eugenicists started.

Just one point regarding the

Elusive Trope — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:37:28 +0000

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Just one point regarding the rhethoric - in your blog you mention regarding the power seize, the "GOP, this party of "limited government."" I don't think I hear that as much as "this party of small government." In the case of Michigan, what you're getting is the logic of 'if you want small government, then you have to give over some less limited power to a few who can make that small government a reality."

viva la corporations!The Jews

Richard Day — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:18:11 +0000

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viva la corporations!

The Jews are getting a free ride this time; Hispanics and African-Americans and anything of the Muslim bent are the targets now!

And this is all done in the name of Jesus Christ!

oy

Bruce Levine — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:24:17 +0000

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Take them to court !If the

Beetlejuice — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:12:48 +0000

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Take them to court !

If the state's constitution is like the US constitution, then each branch, Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, check and balance each other. So if the legislature and governor are putting party politics before the interests of the public then let the courts do their job and check and balance the excesses of the other two. Just because the legislature creates a law and the governor signs it doesn't necessarily mean the public hasn't the ability to exercise other legal options to protest their actions. The courts need to be in the middle of it to ensure the rights of the public aren't being trampled over to push forward a political agenda that puts the public interest in jeopardy.

Just hope the state constitution isn't written too loosely to be wide open for individual interpretation as to meaning and intent.

Kinda sounds like Hitler

Tommy Holmes — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:09:00 +0000

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Kinda sounds like Hitler appointing Goreing and Himler to manage Germany. If people have not seen this coming, starting with Richard Nixon their either blind or just don't want to know. Yes we are headed toward Facism, with the Right using the old tactic of Divide and Conquer. Just listen to the devisive banter of the Right Wing through the pundiffs on Fox. They find anything they want to change to their liking and that has a controversial flavor to it, draw the line in the sand, and goad us into crossing it, discrediting each others believes. Simple; get us at each other and we don't take the time to examing the ramifactions of the proposals, or to look to the real problems, which is them. Agenda is the word. Whose agenda's ? Who do you think, the rich using the power and organizational powers of the corperations. Look to the essay's of Thomas Jefferson and a Frenchman I believe named D'Toquville written at the end of the 17th century. They stated in short; beware the corperations, or the trades as they were called then, they will steal you freedoms. The above video pointing to this kind of legistraion is a prime example of there practices. As Hitler villified the Jews to united Germany to back his insanity, so the Right uses bigitroy, discrimmanaiton, hatred, fear and now the spector of terror to gain control of our rights. Turn a blind eye if you will, but don't complain when there's nothing left to see !

Removing elected officials by

Gregor Zap — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:49:00 +0000

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Removing elected officials by decree? And why is this NOT fascism? How does this NOT resemble the rise of the Nazi's?

The remnants of the Communist and Socialist parties and members of the trade unions resisted the Nazi regime. Especially in the early years of the Third Reich, political prisoners were a significant portion of the concentration camp inmates. At the end of July 1933, about 27,000 political prisoners were being held in concentration camps in "protective custody." During its twelve year existence, Dachau was always a camp for political prisoners.

Also, "Intelligentsia, consisting of teachers, physicians, clergy, business owners, attorneys, engineers, landowners, and writers, were imprisoned in concentration camps or publicly executed."

Source: A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/people/victims.html

These are not new tactics the GOP is employing. They are right out of the nazi playbook and that's not hyperbole. I'm not talking the later years of the Rise of the Third Reich. I'm simply talking about the early years. I am not anxious to see what this could become. I would rather we disassembled it right now.

Republicans are the gangster

NCD — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:20:35 +0000

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Republicans are the gangster party, the party that, like the Mafia, has its own rules of conduct. One rule is to mess up the government so bad, cut taxes, lie us into wars, deregulate Wall Street and then raid the Treasury to pay them off, skim money from every patronage scheme you can imagine, pack the courts with the likes of Scalia, Thomas and Roberts as a protection racket, run black ops like the anthrax letters to Democrats Leahy and Daschle, encourage your ignorant mobs to a raging froth, gun waving, threats of violence against scapegoats and political opponents, tell lies and more lies, claim your opponents want to kill you in death panels and take your freedoms, do this and more so that no sane person of quality would want to enter politics to try to clean it up.

GOP objective: Drown in a bathtub of taxpayer cash at their disposal when they control the wheels of power. Like ship hijackers in Somalia they do not want any law enforced against them, they thrive in the crisis they created, and claim only they can save you and the country, while their only goal is to make things worse. The Bush administration response to hurricane Katrina was an example of Republican concern and capabilities. A city flooded over in a hurricane forecasted in advance to wreak havoc, days afterward there is no plan, no aid, just desperate people, and bodies floating in the city as MRE's for alligators, college kids from Maryland arriving with aid for NO residents before the feds showed up, Bush's horse show lawyer head of FEMA with no disaster experience and his head up his ass, and Bush doing photo ops saying 'Heckuva job, Brownie", and the world and America amazed at the incompetence of it all.

Only when Americans vote out the snake oil/flimflam artists who comprise 98% of the GOP, who more often than not cannot manage their own lives and the lives of their families in a safe or honorable fashion, and have no capacity to do anything good for this country, will this nation have the ability to select the right people for government to meet the challenges it faces.

Okay, Eric, now you've got my

Ramona — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:31:27 +0000

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Okay, Eric, now you've got my blood boiling! (Again) Great post. You know, when you put it all out there like that, it makes sense that the GOP is not ever going to let us get the upper hand. They're terrified that if we got powerful enough, those of us with a keen sense of justice might actually be able to make a Federal case out of their nefarious activities.

I'll believe we're on the right track when I see at least some of those people on trial. Instead, they get to go on national TV and give their opinions on how destructive the present administration is to our economy and--wait for it--to our reputation. They get to pretend they've authored books and they recieve huge advances and royalty checks. They get to stay rich while the entire country suffers because of what they've done.

How we as a country let this happen is still a mystery to me, but we don't have time to look back with regret. They've pushed us about as far as we can go, which is what it seems to take in order for a movement to finally start moving.

This is a concerted

Richard Day — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:28:36 +0000

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This is a concerted conspiracy on the part of the repubs and the very definition of fascism.

I think this fits right into Ramona's blog on Michigan today.

Scream about the Federal dictatorship and set up 50 dictatorships all run by the corporations!