What's in the water in USA?

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the lesser of two weasels

That's "the lesser of two weevils" EL.

I didn't want to insult weevils.  They are a bigger voting block than weasels.

SAY WHAT?
""I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.""
—Mitt Romney in stump speech

Talking Without Saying Anything is a very old and common political tool. But I gotta admit...Romney raises it to a true art form, at levels one would have never suspected even possible.

... you ain't never heard Bermuda's (present) Premier   She's a corporate lawyer by training, who swallowed a dictionary and washed it down with a thesaurus.

Talking Without Saying Anything is a very old and common political tool. But I gotta admit...Romney raises it to a true art form, at levels one would have never suspected even possible.

Yeah, but Bush did it without trying. That has to be worthy of some sort of award.

Bush is just stupid. I think he probably talks like that naturally.
Romney, on the other hand, truly is a weasel...a corporate-owned simulacrum programmed to spend hours talking a lot and saying nothing.

What bothers me most is this reverence the country has for business and business people. The free market is today's temple, Adam Smith the prophet. That and the reflex-contempt for anything to do with government.  As if business never fu*ks up royally and government has never done a bit of good. Romney is the bland product of the national marketing department and his "corporations are people" slogan a natural byproduct of the whole concoction as well as a sign of things to come.  If you aint corporate, you aint $hit. And your breathing rights are under review to ensure that you are providing an adequate ROI to the system.

Amen, brother.

What bothers me most is this reverence the country has for business and business people. The free market is today's temple, Adam Smith the prophet. That and the reflex-contempt for anything to do with government.

What's really bad is that the less someone has benefited from the free market, and the more they've benefited from the government, the more likely they are to feel that way.

Oh dear.

SAY WHAT?
""Who let her slip or pushed her underneath that water?...Who let Whitney Houston go under her water?""
—Nancy Grace on CNN

 

Recent quote from one of the front-runners of the Republican Party, Rick Santorum:

"President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college, What a snob."
"Oh I understand why he wants you to go to college, he wants to remake you in his image."

You poor people who live in Holland!!

“In the Netherlands, people wear different bracelets if they are elderly. And the bracelet is: ‘Do not euthanize me.’ Because they have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands but half of the people who are euthanized — ten percent of all deaths in the Netherlands — half of those people are enthanized involuntarily at hospitals because they are older and sick. And so elderly people in the Netherlands don’t go to the hospital. They go to another country, because they are afraid, because of budget purposes, they will not come out of that hospital if they go in there with sickness.”

— Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum,

When his media representative was questioned about this - because it was not true, She told the reporter that he was just speaking from his heart.  Therefore, whatever Santorum says, whenever it is illogical or untrue is just cuz he is speaking from his heart. 

just speaking from his heart

Is that because he has no brain to speak of..or from??........or does he just talk out of his arse!

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just speaking from his heart

Is that because he has no brain to speak of..or from??........or does he just talk out of his arse!

Quick!  Call all the media and let them know that this guy has an obvious heart defect, so shouldn't be elected.