Palin's Prophesies

Palin's Prophesies

Ben Smith's

"Palin: Screw the Political Correctness"

in

Politico

June 5, 2009

Smith quotes from GOP Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's recent speech in Anchorage

mark my words, this is going to be next, I fear, bail out next debt-ridden states. Then government gets to get in there and control the people.

The government bail-out of GM means partial ownership. Michael Moore suggests we use the auto factories to build a passenger rail system for the US.

Palin seems to fear socialist advances. She said prior to the above comment,

We need to be aware of the creation of a fearful population, and fearful lawmakers, being led to believe that big government is the answer, to bail out the private sector, because then government gets to get in there and control it.

[For any reason, George Bush cut taxes for the wealthy. The markets crashed. Current take-overs are not the result of socialist ideology. They are an economic necessity. Bush's super-capitalistic policies necessitated a socialist rescue. If only Palin's prophesies came to her during the Bush administration, perhaps she could have saved capitalism, the governement, and her Rublican party from socialist advance.]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0609/Palin_Screw_the_political_correctness.html

Torturing Us "Intel firestorm: GOP reveals briefing info" Jared Allen, The Hill

Torturing Us

The Hill

"Intel firestorm: GOP reveals briefing info"

Jared Allen

Bush and Cheney tortured. Their Republican party shares the political consequences. Many Americans think about only their own country's safety. They would accept torture's illegality and immorality if it protected America. So one Republican tactic is to defend torture on these grounds.

Congress held secret hearings to discover truths about interrogation methods and their efficacy. Republicans then gave on-the-record interviews with The Hill describing how torture obtained information. They abused the hearing's confidentiality to promote their torture defense.

[American psychology grounds the "torture works" argument's efficacy. I suspect this cause: many Americans are not curious about the world outside their country. Indeed there are threats. But their origins are unknown and misunderstood. So many do not know the threat's realistic bounds and characteristics. For all we know, terrorists can do just about anything to us. So our response is to do just about anything to them, even if that means breaking laws and morals to do so.]

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/intel-firestorm-gop-reveals-briefing-info-2009-06-04.html