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Level-headed Leadership
Thursday, September 7, 2006 6:32 PM
DREAMTROVE
Thursday, September 7, 2006 8:12 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Thursday, September 7, 2006 8:37 PM
SOUPCATCHER
Friday, September 8, 2006 2:24 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote: Who does everyone think would be a good level-headed type to steer America back onto a sane course, away from this trend of serial war, megaspending, and free for all corporate mergers, govt-corporate entities, civil liberty stripping, (or as I like to call it, anti-freedom) ... and back to (or forward to) and america in which people can swing their arms, the state doesn't drain 'em dry, and geopolitical stability is actually a goal of our foreign policy.
Friday, September 8, 2006 6:44 AM
MAVOURNEEN
Friday, September 8, 2006 10:32 AM
Quote:free for all corp mergers - Let the free market play itself out. We busted up Ma Bell, for example, and after yrs of smaller businesses, they've naturally gone back to the way they were.
Quote:civil liberties stripping - I've noticed none of my civil liberties stripped.
Quote:govt./corp entities
Friday, September 8, 2006 11:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by dreamtrove: Soup, I don't know enough about Schweitzer to make a judgment, I think he needs more of an introduction for the rest of us. People tend not to pay to much attention ot other people's governors except in the really populous states.
Friday, September 8, 2006 12:16 PM
Quote:Did we have a disagreement about something? I don't remember.
Friday, September 8, 2006 1:25 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: Soup ? Seriously, check out Ron Pauls' history, and consider your suggestion as a possible Veep ? It's a thought, I dunno enough about your guy to say whether it'd be workable or not, but just an idle thought.
Friday, September 8, 2006 2:28 PM
Quote: excerpted from http://www.billingsgazette.com/newdex.php?display=rednews/2005/04/21/build/state/64-gov-leg.inc # Promote the production of ethanol in Montana by mandating its use in fuel. # Require groceries to put up signs telling people the country of origin of most meat sold in stores, even as Congress had passed a similar requirement but postponed it and is considering making it voluntary. # Reinvest money in state's colleges of technology, the two-year schools. # Put $80 million into Montana's K-12 school funding over the next two years, which Schweitzer called one of the largest increases in state history. # Set a balanced budget that will have a projected surplus or general fund balance of about $80 million as of mid-2007, without raising taxes and that honors the spirit of the budget spending cap. # Eliminate the property tax on business equipment for some 13,000 businesses by raising the exemption from the tax to $20,000 in business equipment, up from the current $5,000. # Crack down on methamphetamine use in Montana through a series of measures that Schweitzer said amount to the strongest package in the nation, apart from Oklahoma's. # Help improve access for hunting and fishing by making permanent the Habitat Montana, block management and the fishing access enhancement programs. # Reinstate the Made in Montana program, which the administration of Republican Gov. Judy Martz had discontinued, to promote items produced and grown in Montana. Schweitzer listed two disappointments: One was a failure of his ethics bill to prohibit legislators, state elected officials and their top staff from becoming lobbyists until two years after they leave office. … His second disappointment was the defeat of his proposal to create a Corps of Discovery, funded by $400,000 of state money, to create a bipartisan committee of business executives and lawmakers to ferret out an estimated $60 million in waste and unnecessary duplication in state government.
Friday, September 8, 2006 3:03 PM
YINYANG
You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.
Friday, September 8, 2006 5:38 PM
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Saturday, September 9, 2006 5:26 AM
SERGEANTX
Saturday, September 9, 2006 6:57 AM
Saturday, September 9, 2006 8:33 AM
Saturday, September 9, 2006 8:41 AM
Saturday, September 9, 2006 11:26 AM
Quote:most of them seem to literally think that the libertarian party was the party of child molestors.
Saturday, September 9, 2006 11:59 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SoupCatcher: ... I could almost envision a hybrid system but I just can't make the leap to a complete system. It's probably due to my lack of familiarity. Am I off base here? Is there a debate in the Libertarian party about different strategies for rural and urban?
Saturday, September 9, 2006 12:05 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: He's a Libertarian ? weeeeird. Lemme clarify... I've been rooting for Ron for a long time, and he was a Republican at the time, a long-time Republican at that.
Saturday, September 9, 2006 2:18 PM
Monday, September 11, 2006 5:51 AM
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:39 AM
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:09 PM
MISSTRESSAHARA
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:01 PM
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:54 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2006 4:38 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2006 5:16 PM
Quote:republicans tried changing the rules to prevent him from becoming president, but with the vote of the ignorant, he got in.
Quote:Watergate wasn't a victory for law and justice, it was the adhoc creation of powermad agenda monkeys. And I'm absolutely sure that this is right, whether one agrees with the powermad agendamonkeys or not.
Saturday, September 16, 2006 5:47 PM
MISBEHAVEN
Sunday, September 17, 2006 5:12 AM
Quote:later to become the ReThuglicans we all know and 'love'
Quote: in the hands of Lincoln, lead to the greatest horror this country has ever known
Quote: Ironically.. Jackson was the beginning of the split that eventually created the Democrats and Republicans, he was often referred to his critics as "Jackass" and depicted so in political cartoons, and being amused as much as insulted, took the jackass as his personal symbol, later to be adopted by the Democratic party.
Quote:Quote:with the vote of the ignorant, he got in.Honestly dude - that's the most offensive thing I have EVER heard you say.
Quote:with the vote of the ignorant, he got in.
Quote:And it wasn't Jackson that lead to the civil war, although he did indeed express similar sentiments, it was that Rethug dictator wanna-be that symbolises everything that party stands for... Lincoln.
Quote: Then shut up and jump in with the Bush cartel where you belong, because Nixon fried for *exactly* the same crap this administration is in trouble for, starting with illegal wiretapping.
Sunday, September 17, 2006 9:30 AM
Quote:but there is a corruption here of trying to make a permanent senate majority
Sunday, September 17, 2006 1:22 PM
Quote:I DO know how bad it is
Quote: I also don't particularly care about the details even tho I know them, my primary concern is reversing the FUBAR things have become before things become... untenable.
Quote: I don't affix any political label to the cabal, none. Money and Power is all that it is, and they'll wear any mask that allows them to get it, from one end of the politican spectrum to the other, it matters not because in truth they BELIEVE in nothing but themselves.
Sunday, September 17, 2006 5:33 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:42 PM
Quote:Truthfully, if ENOUGH people want someone out of power, they're gone
Monday, September 18, 2006 7:01 AM
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