And we better protect our wallets because the way this government is going you can expect them to be picking it every day with new tax schemes because their printing press is running at warp speed. Inflation is around the corner.

I am not the one out on a purity war – that would be the far right. Who have also succeeded in helping bring this country down.

Problem is they are too damn arrogant to admit their mistakes and blame everyone else but themselves.

I think AJ makes a fight where there doesn’t need to be one.

Bush was always pro life. As a matter of fact he is socially conservative.

That is not true, most people are not ideologues. In fact most people consider themselves centrists. That is why so many politicians go to the center when they campaign for office.

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Stuck in the Middle was by Stealer’s Wheel, vocals by Gerry Rafferty. Written by J. Egan and Gerry Rafferty.

That nit aside…

When in our history has the United States not been subject to the political pendulum sweeping first one way and then another? As well complain that water is wet or demand that the tides cease ebbing and flowing.

Centrism cannot govern effectively.

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Centrism cannot govern because it cannot please enough of the electorate.

In other words, the ones cheering the demise of our economy basically either have no investment in it, or they aren’t fully aware of their investment in it until their trust fund is gone. I have yet to meet a hard working person with kids who has worked their way from nothing who wants to see the economy fail.

I would take that green anti-industrialism with a grain of salt as it emanates from a very small, albeit very vocal, group of people. In fact, Sweden has decided to crank their nuclear program back up and Germany is giving their decision to shut down their nuclear program a second look. Other countries in Europe have also vowed to restart or expand their nuclear energy programs.

LOGIC is found some where in the middle, not on the left or right, this is why rushing is a bad idea, cutting off debate is a bad idea, using strawmen and political lies are bad ideas. Bad ideas because rushing or cutting off debate cuts off logic and middle of the road solutions.

Let’s take the war in Iraq as an example. There was plenty of discussion, there was the opportunity to look at very secretive intelligence (6 members looked at it), there was Powell spending 3 days and nights at CIA, there was the discussion in both houses of congress as well as the UN. One and a half years passed before operations started. Many influential politicians voted for the war including Hillary Clinton, Rockerfeller, and others. We went to war. It was tough. Bush was reelected because Americans wanted to win and we as a people had input through discussion and being exposed to the process. The Democrats in the interest of politics pretended through lies and claiming a rush to judgment that they never supported the ill-founded war. We the people reelected Bush because we were part of the discussion, and we knew what was true.

Obama claims that he wants to fundamentally change the way America functions. He wants to expand medical care to all those who have problems paying for medical insurance and help businesses by taking over medical insurance for those companies.
He wants to save the planet by supporting solar and wind energy as our primary source of energy to replace oil. He suggest the way to afford these changes is to tax the rich, those earning $250,000 a year and I might add by cutting defense spending. He pushed an emergency spending bill of $867 billion as a down payment, little discussion, and I might add tons of lies. It has brought the far left and right in droves both exaggerating positions and scare mongering bigger then the next side to make a point.

If we are going to go to war or fundamentally change the countries financial structure then every point needs discussion at length. Many don’t like “no child left behind”, or drugs being added to Medicare, but nobody can claim they were not part of the discussion or that they were not bipartisan.

So I think the way to quiet the two extremes is to find the logical middle and allow us to participate.