tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post7371157177755000964..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-86974638554260822132014-02-26T16:02:16.520-05:002014-02-26T16:02:16.520-05:00Wll, thats the whole point of the bill, of course,...Wll, thats the whole point of the bill, of course, to be a provocation and a thumb in the eye of the federal state and of the national state--that is: another way of reminding certain voters that "local" feelings and standards are not being respected. aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-89467321941279207332014-02-26T11:41:45.120-05:002014-02-26T11:41:45.120-05:00Consider that this "war for religious liberty...Consider that this "war for religious liberty" is being fought primarily in the South and the heavily Protestant West.<br /><br />Consider that if these people are allowed to discriminate against gays on religious grounds it won't be long before somebody reminds us that for at least some brands of American Christians discrimination against non-whites would also be a free exercise issue.<br /><br />If they can refuse to provide services to same sex couples they can refuse to provide services to couples of mixed race.<br /><br />You think nobody today would insist that miscegenation violates God's law?<br /><br />Even the Supremes should be smart enough to see the connection, and unwilling to allow racial discrimination.<br /><br />Don't expect the federal courts to let this kind of nonsense stand, even if Brewer signs the bill.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-61214016207445564882014-02-26T11:27:59.463-05:002014-02-26T11:27:59.463-05:00I think this is apropos (from politico via someone...I think this is apropos (from politico via someone but I already can't remember who)<br /><br />The House Republican leadership has not yet weighed in on the details of this plan. This is not a fight they are relishing in the middle of an election year. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) all raise piles of money from Wall Street and their reaction will be watched closely by industry insiders.<br /><br />“Tax reform is hard,” one House Republican aide said. “This is why nobody likes to put these specifics on a piece of paper — you have to [screw] somebody. There’s a magical belief among some of our members that you can lower the rate to 25 percent by just eliminating unpopular deductions. The math doesn’t work. You have to end up [screwing] somebody.”aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-72380409170260262822014-02-26T10:00:58.991-05:002014-02-26T10:00:58.991-05:00What aimai said!
Brilliant!What aimai said!<br /><br />Brilliant!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-85273752998441767382014-02-26T09:23:08.083-05:002014-02-26T09:23:08.083-05:00Rush would know from bullying, that's for sure...Rush would know from bullying, that's for sure.Glennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03681336164718681936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-74578207951786323442014-02-26T09:14:37.753-05:002014-02-26T09:14:37.753-05:00There are crack ups and crack ups. The tea party w...There are crack ups and crack ups. The tea party will never turn against its corporate masters, but it might stop doing voter turn out if it dosn't get fed its hot mash of gay baiting/anti immigrant/anti black legislation. That's the only problem. The point of the tea party, from the viewpoint of corporate america, was that it was the outreach and mobilization arm of their extremely unpopular and unpopulist economic programs. It was too successful in that it let a large number of complete kooks into the congress--people who couldn't be fully controlled by the older guys who like to just to business like Boehner.<br /><br />At the state level there absolutely is a war going on between people who like to do business and people who like to tear down the house. The end result is going to be the tea party voting base taking their ball and going home, or going to even more extremist and fringe candidates,w hile the republican party and its owners try to play clean up and get in some people who are not completely crazy. <br /><br />The tea party won't turn against the top level in any obvious way because their entire focus is on the middlemen as traitors. Its like Corporations are not really visible to them except as icons of liberalism or icons of republicanism and for that they rely much more on media interlocutors and their daily news intake. If Fox news wants to whip them up against X corporation they can, easily, not qua corporation but qua the owner (Soros, some named person). Or in the case of the anti vaxxers they can easily believe any evil of "big pharma" but htat is collapsed into their anti government hate.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-69133891393132934412014-02-26T08:46:40.216-05:002014-02-26T08:46:40.216-05:00It don't matter what brand the lipstick is nam...It don't matter what brand the lipstick is named, it's still being applied to the lips of the same hate-and-fear-filled pig.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com