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2005-06-22 Fifth Column

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Posted by Steve 2005-06-22 10:37|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No Qurans were abused during the manufacture of this article.

Posted by Raj 2005-06-22 12:08|| 2005-06-22 12:08|| Front Page Top

#2 The health care fight is a good indicator of how this communist left has withered in the US. I carefully noted how many democrat leaders insisted that there *has* to be national health care, vs. those that are willing to bargain, and seem to be afflicted with less than a burning breast. The hard corps were very upset that they could only muster perhaps a dozen (led by Ted Kennedy).

However, at the same time, there is still some hard corps discipline. For example, Durbin's big mistake was not coming out with an empty apology quickly. Importantly, it was a mistake not for any ideological reason, but because it showed that he was standing up for something. Good apparatchiks are *not* supposed to stand for *anything*, except for the official party line, and be willing to change their stance at a moment's notice. Only "the enemy" takes principled positions and sticks to them, no matter what the party thinks. A good member of the socialist left must be a herd animal--all is for the herd. Only a barbarian free-thinker has firm opinions, ethics and a sense of personal responsibility.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-06-22 12:24|| 2005-06-22 12:24|| Front Page Top

#3 "Only a barbarian free-thinker has firm opinions, ethics and a sense of personal responsibility."

Well, that leaves Turban Durban out, 'Moose.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-22 13:17|| 2005-06-22 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Lawyers will do anything for money.

Posted by RWV 2005-06-22 14:43|| 2005-06-22 14:43|| Front Page Top

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