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POPSHating Taxes for Anyone Obama's populist rhetoric about taxing the "rich" is just that. People hate taxes not because they hate funding good programs or paying off the debt or social justice (whatever that means). They hate taxes because they get so little value for their money.
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POPSOil Companies Site Dead consultant in Response Plans Are these guys for f---ing real? They all cut and pasted the same disaster response plan. The same one that BP had. The one with Walruses (absent from the gulf for 3 million years) and dead consultants. And People wonder why the American public is so angry.
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POPS"Anchor" baby legislation is just wrong I will say up front I am not opposed to Arizona's SB1070. It asks people if they are complying with the law. But this? This is just wrong. It is unconstitutional and it negates all of the principle on which we are founded. A person born in this country is a citizen. Pure and simple, no question, no denial, no controversy. Everyone born in this country, everyone. Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Ethiopian, Irish. Everyone. Without exception. To try and make it hard for them to prove is evil, wrong, unconstitutional, and exhibits nothing but anger, resentment and meanness. It is a terrible idea. And it will not garner sympathy on the part of many who don't think 1070 was wrong. There may be much confusion and many flaws and gray areas in immigration laws. This isn't. Born here = citizen. No ifs ands or buts.
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POPSBPs Larger Platform Lacks Certification The British government defends these guys and our government does little if anything to impose consequences for their actions. And people want us all to be calm and rational and not frustrated with them. Carville has it right, somebody needs to take a baseball bat to these guys.
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POPSBP - The worst record of any Oil Company Nuff said. The problem is that $730 million is just over a weeks profit for the 4th largest company in the world. And that total spans several years. Basically unless the penalties are much stiffer, they don't care.
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POPSThe Brits should shut up about BP There is no special relationship with people who completely fail to understand the issue. How happy would they be if due to shoddy safety an American company dumped nuclear waste in The City? Would they say "Oh, it was just an accident, we see no reason their stock should go down." An entire way of life, billions in natural resources and an entire ecosystem could be destroyed by an avoidable accident and they wonder why we're pissed?
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POPSBush is doing very well in the Transition Whatever you think about him and however much you may dislike him and disagree with his handling of his presidency, he is handling this transition in a very classy manner. He's doing better than the Clintons did to him and he is to be commended, at this historic time for stepping up.
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POPSGuilt By Association in North Carolina First its the McCain campaign. Now its Elizabeth Dole. How shameful and how shameless. These tactics are wrong, they degrade the so-called "conservative" movement. In this case they debase Christians and God fearing people generally. Kay Hagan is a Sunday School teacher. This kind of campaigning is disgusting. Do they not know how damaging this is to themselves and to the political process? How can they look themselves in the mirror? These people are destroying American values so much they might as well be terrorists themselves. Joe McCarthy is hootin an hollerin in his grave.
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POPSObama - Damned Socialist If he's a socialist, Karl Marx is rolling over in his grave. But wait words don't count....no wait, they do count...no wait they only count when he says them...no,no, I mean when I say them..., I'm confused.
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POPSHow has McCain been "tested?" And so, the point is even more clear-cut than it might seem at first glance: Just because "John McCain sat in a cockpit on a flight deck during the tensest five days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, that doesn't mean he absorbed the slightest bit of wisdom about how to handle a crisis from the top." Just being a fighter pilot or a POW doesn't mean you are ready to be president. Nobody really is and this whole experience thing, on both sides, is an enormous red herring.
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POPSTired of Divisive Whining - Not John Do these guys have anything to say? Even republicans I know who are voting for them think this is divisive and bad for the country. What really disturbs me is the continued mantra - "the full extent of the relationship with Senator Obama is not known." In his mind no explanation will be good enough. It is the most despicable, divisive and detestable kind of attempted smear. Forget that Obama, the campaign, FactCheck.org, and many media outlets have said that the relationship consisted of participation on the charitable
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POPSDemocrats are Worried Have you ever watched a baseball game where every time the announcer says a good thing about your team or player you spend the next ten minutes spitting, throwing salt over your shoulder, knocking on every available piece of wood and crossing all available appendages? That's how the Democrats feel right now. It ain't over.....
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POPSWho is Obama? A radical? A centrist? A reconciler? This is an interesting take and I would recommend the whole article.
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POPSA Woman of the People How many of her constituents get to shop at Needless Markup? How many Joe Six Pack wives do you know who do?
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POPSPeggy Noonan is Spot On What I like about this clip is the fact that she says that even though experience may be a red herring, Sarah Palin isn't qualified.
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POPSPalin's Failure to Talk to the Press Why hasn't she? It is wrong and frightening. No one is allowed to question her. The press is not yelling and screaming and they should be. This is as much a failure of the press as it is a scary tactic by the campaign.
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POPSThe real Presidential Competition I am convinced now that the real competition here is to see who can be the most disingenuous. McCain seems to be winning in that regard. He is willing to say absolutely anything to win. Obama keeps screwing up and saying things he actually believes.
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POPSThe right answer on Acorn Forget the partisan bull. If ACORN is paying people based on either quotas or the number of registrations submitted, that is wrong, stupid and bad policy. And if they are on Obama's side, they aren't doing him any favors. Stop whining about partisan politics and being defensive, tell us how you operate and what you do.
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POPSRace in the race One wonders when people (on both sides of the aisle) will realize that skin pigmentation has nothing to do with brain function.
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POPSObama on Abortion Instead of screaming at each other and calling each other murders, why can't we discuss where we can actually agree? What I like about Obama is that he doesn't just leave it with no common ground. There is common ground if you look for it and understand your opponent. If you refuse to understand you will only gain victory through destruction. That is where we are now. Each side generally is out to destroy the other on this issue. Obama understands that it isn't necessary and that even on the most divisive issue of our time, we can find something. Others refuse to even look.
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