Showing posts with label Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reagan. Show all posts

Sunday, January 1, 2012

FRAK ME!!!

Ken O'Brien

Thirty years of the dominance of the  Reagan reactionary movement has reduced Americans to sniveling serfs hoping that crumbs will drop to their feet from the bountiful tables of their "betters". That is the legacy of trickle down economics, endless foreign military adventurism that matches anything envisioned by George Orwell, and the ascendancy of the rights of corporations over those of individuals.

Americans no longer dream big dreams.

The American dream is no longer a home with a picket fence and a dog in the yard.

The American dream is no longer a better future for our children and our grandchildren.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Spend And Borrow Conservatives Created This Mess

Kenneth M. O’Brien

After decades of listening to the epithet “tax and spend Liberals” the truth has become clear.

Anyone who can divorce themselves from their ideological (dare I say religious) biases need only look at the facts.

From the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 to the election of Barack Obama in 2008, Republicans controlled the White House for twenty out of twenty-eight years.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Cult Of Republicanism

Kenneth M. O'Brien


The party of Lincoln is no longer a political party.

It has devolved into a religious cult.

Reasoned debate, the fundamental basis of a democratic society, no longer exists.

The Republican cult has proclaimed its articles of faith. Those who fail to conform are subject to excommunication.

The Nicene Creed of the Republican Cult has the following tenets:

1) Under no circumstances will we raise taxes. All Republican members of the US House and Senate have signed a pledge by Grover Norquist that they will not raise taxes under any circumstances;