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David,

This is both wacky and very disturbing. What is it about Texas these past few years? How does the average Texan react to these kinds of things? Are there a lot of outraged letters to the editor in your newspapers?

Regretfully, no, not outside major metro areas like San Antonio. The GOP is like a religion in this state. Kinda’ funny actually that Republicans here would never admit to ever having been Democrat, when in fact, this was a Democratic state for most of its history.

Oil and ranching and hi-tech are major players in this state, and employers down here have no compunctions about revealing where their political loyalties lie - hint, hint to those who want to keep their jobs. Oil, ranching and hi-tech all have vested interests in business having carte blanche in our society including exemption from prosecution.

Republicans always look out for No. 1 .

It just occured to me that what the TPPF is trying to do is straight out of Aldous Huxley’s Animal Farm, Republicans say the laws should apply equally, it is just that some Republicans and businesses are more equal than others, so the laws should not apply to them (as they reserve the right to send others to prison for stealing a loaf of bread or selling a little pot.)

These folks need to be stopped.

David,

Seems ok to me. What’s wrong with freedom?

There isn’t even enough information here for you to characterize this seminar. At least pull out a quote or something that supports your point.

Here’s a wacky quote for you:

“There is a struggle of individuals to assert their sovereignty as freestanding citizens for democratic society,” Morehouse said. “We need to grasp understanding of history, and we need to try and examine ways to build a truly democratic society.”

As globalization continues, the concentration of ownership and control of power becomes continually centralized. The largest entities are not nations, but corporations, with accumulating increase in world wealth, he said. thelantern.com

I’m rather new to this blog. When I came across it I thought the format was a great idea. That is until this morning when I actually scrolled down the supposedly middle section to find every post on the front page decidedly anti-Republican or anti-Bush. What gives?

Note: I personally am a conservative but I try to remain objective on issues. This is why I’m so disappointed about this section of this forum.

Middle in composition doesn’t mean middle in politics. Some on the Green Column are Far Left, some Far Right, and some Far Center ;-).

The key to Watchblog is not just that it provides space for the whole spectrum of politics in America, but that the rules dictate a minimum of trollery as well.

Don’t judge Watchblog on the fact that Bush love is mainly restricted to the right. The past four years have made certain that Bush is not all that popular among Democrats and Third Party folks. Watchblog may just be confronting you with a political reality that more conservative Blogs may not have seen fit to inform you of.

Eric, freedom to rob, steal, lie, cheat, injure and kill in the name of profit without being subject to the laws and consequences of those laws? Nothing, not a thing, if you are ultra-conservative in the Republican Party, apparently. These are the kind of people who brought us tort reform negating class action suits by consumers…

Mike, check out the archives, there are libertarians in this column too. They just haven’t posted anything in the last couple weeks. There is some amount of common ground between our Libertarian writers and the Bush administration.

If there was a Democrat Congress and President, most of the articles here would be critical of them as well, especially their willingness to be bribed by deep pocket lobbyists, and anti-democratic, anti-third party power moves, and inability to balance a budget.

If there was a Democrat Congress and President, most of the articles here would be critical of them as well, especially their willingness to be bribed by deep pocket lobbyists, and anti-democratic, anti-third party power moves, and inability to balance a budget.

In short, the reality is that the three columns can be defined as:

LEFT = anti-Republican
MIDDLE = anti-Current Administration
RIGHT = anti-Democrat

If Kerry had won, we’d be bashing him in the middle column, probably for many of the same reasons that we’re bashing Bush now.

We’re in the middle because neither extreme appeals to us. On any given day, we’re most vocally opposed to the extreme that is in power on that day.

Mike,
You wrote..

“I’m rather new to this blog. When I came across it I thought the format was a great idea. That is until this morning when I actually scrolled down the supposedly middle section to find every post on the front page decidedly anti-Republican or anti-Bush. What gives?”

I was also new to this site a few yrs ago, and I’m quite conservative on many issues.

Stick around awhile, you’ll find that opinions from ALL sides on an issue makes it a much more interesting debate, even at times when it seems that the D’s and I’s are opposed to the view of the R’s.
If you can find a more balanced political website than watchblog let me know, good luck in your search, it took yrs. for me to find this one!

Mike, this is the third party/independents… There really aren’t that many conservative independents/third parties out there… It’s just kind of logical that this should be a more “liberal” column despite the fact that it’s in the middle.

David,

Eric, freedom to rob, steal, lie, cheat, injure and kill in the name of profit without being subject to the laws and consequences of those laws? Nothing, not a thing, if you are ultra-conservative in the Republican Party, apparently. These are the kind of people who brought us tort reform negating class action suits by consumers…

Rob, steal, lie, cheat, injure and kill? Show me where they are advocating any of these things.

Since when is failure to recycle any piece of electronics equipment, placing a business sign on a rural road, and leaving a dog tethered to a tree for a total of eight hours in a 24-hour period, unethical and illegal business and management practices (I actually read the highlighted research)?

You make some pretty bold (totally unsupported) statements as fact and everyone hops on the wagon with you.

Does any reasonable person actually believe that the “evil Republicans” oppose criminalization of business practices so they can keep stick’en it to us? Give me a break.

Eric, what would be the point? It would be like my attending that meeting to point out the long litany of how some corporations and businesses and the folks who ran them (starting with Ford and the Pinto) lied, cheated, maimed and killed American consumers and got lesser sentences, if any, than some regular Joe caught with pot in his pocket.

Their invitational email says it all. They don’t want government regulating them, they want the free-market and civil courts to resolve such issues. The Free Market can be manipulated through hype and marketing and advertising as we see everyday on TV and in newsrags. And of course they would love civil courts to handle aberrant behavior because of the recent tort reform legislation which knocked the teeth out of class action civil suits and capped them.

Frankly I am not surprised by this, saddened, but not surprised. They (Republicans) will not be content until they ruin they banish the rule of law altogether; it obviously getting in the way of their greed and need to control the lives of others. And they claim to be Christian; PLEASE!