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2005-03-04 Britain

What have the Americans ever done for us?

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Posted by Pappy 2005-03-04 1:03:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 âShake it and see. Thatâs what we are going to do.â

Scientific method for $500!

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-04 10:18:13 AM|| 2005-03-04 10:18:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 THAT is the "cowboy" attitude that scares the crap out of the left.

Because, in an odd flip-flop of roles, the Republicans have become the ones saying "Why Not?" and changing things to better enable individual freedom, and the Democrats are digging in screaming "why" - to preseve the power they have and fight any sort of change counter to their collectivist tradition.

If anything, the Conservatives are being seen for acting on their principles of free market capitalism and the free individualsm it requires, whereas the liberals are seen as dragging their heels trying to maintain the status quo and state influence and control - theirs is the status quo circa 1976, with the US in retreat from SE Asia, the military despised and shrinking, the Soviet Union and its client states on a roll, and Democrats in charage of everything.

Compare/Contrast to Reagan or W in terms of "shaking things up".

Odd world we live in.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-03-04 6:38:40 PM|| 2005-03-04 6:38:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 THAT is the "cowboy" attitude that scares the crap out of the left.

Because, in an odd flip-flop of roles, the Republicans have become the ones saying "Why Not?" and changing things to better enable individual freedom, and the Democrats are digging in screaming "why" - to preseve the power they have and fight any sort of change counter to their collectivist tradition.

If anything, the Conservatives are being seen for acting on their principles of free market capitalism and the free individualsm it requires, whereas the liberals are seen as dragging their heels trying to maintain the status quo and state influence and control - theirs is the status quo circa 1976, with the US in retreat from SE Asia, the military despised and shrinking, the Soviet Union and its client states on a roll, and Democrats in charage of everything.

Compare/Contrast to Reagan or W in terms of "shaking things up".

Odd world we live in.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-03-04 6:38:40 PM|| 2005-03-04 6:38:40 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2005-03-04 6:38:40 PM|| 2005-03-04 6:38:40 PM|| Front Page Top

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