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Put Down The Razor Blades!

Posted by Phoenix Woman on April 12, 2008

There are some people who need a bit of cheering up. This post is for them, courtesy of John Cole’s blogging partner Tim F. over at Balloon Juice:

Things That Weren’t Supposed To Happen
By: Tim F. April 12, 2008 at 5:36 pm

* Democrats stood up to the president on wiretapping and held firm. Republicans went mad with glee, ran a media blitz attacking the defeatocrats, staked a special election on the issue and lost. Now the GOP is giving up entirely.

* Apparently there is a way for a GOP loyalist to fail so spectacularly that nobody will hire him. Heckuva job, Gonzo!

It feels like I fell asleep and woke up somewhere else.

Yeah, like the country that existed pre-Reagan.

5 Responses to “Put Down The Razor Blades!”

  1. Michael said

    Wow, I was nine years old when Reagan was elected; I don’t have much of a political memory before that.

  2. It was a nice place, Michael. It was possible for someone like Molly Ivins to have a career with a major newspaper and as a nationally-syndicated columnist, and the few right-wingers that had opinion columns were of the William F. Buckley mold, not the Charles Krauthammer mold.

  3. Michael said

    Well, you should also take into consideration that I grew up in a Republican household.

  4. Michael said

    It’s a new territory for me, I mean. I have nothing to go on but the knowledge that the values that I was raised with are not my values, and finding people that share better ones is part of finding myself.

  5. Michael said

    Sorry to go on, but I don’t think I can say what I did without more, and I do not devalue my family, they are good people who are part of a system, and the system is what I think is wrong.

    Everyone is part of a system, and we as Americans are part of a system that has done some very bad things.

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