http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/11/13/can-we-stop-with-the-reconstruction-reference Comments On: Can we stop with the Reconstruction reference? by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
And that is why the Republican Party will continue to shrink as the old white men that constitute 70+% of their voters do the honorable thing and die off. And while they are doing that, they continue to dissuade the younger voters that they want nothing to do with organized religion, no matter which brand it is. The Huckabucks and RC bishops didn't help their case with their vote "Republican or go to hell" 2012 campaign talk because most figure that if these are the type of people you meet in heaven, then hell had to be a better place.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:08:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:49:32 -0600 Arkansas Times
Frankly, I don't expect much from the small minds in the U S House but if the country's debt rating get downgraded and everyone's house notes on ARMs and credit card interest rates go up, we will be sure that everyone know that the Republican Party did it as they don't really give a S**T about anybody but the rich (and that includes them not really giving a damn about you either). You are just a cheap date-used and left behind at the dance but enjoy the clean-up.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:16:15 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Polecat]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:39:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Here’s the bottom line: There is no practical way to get a good deal from either the Democrats in the Senate or the Obama Administration. Notwithstanding the good intentions of some people, any grand bargain would be a failure that leads to higher spending and more red ink, just as we saw after the 1982 and 1990 budget deals. The tax increases would not be relatively benign loophole closers. Instead, the economy would be hit by higher marginal tax rates on work, savings, investment, and entrepreneurship. And the entitlement reform would be unsustainable gimmicks rather than structural changes to fix the underlying programs. Ironically, when a columnist for the New York Times complained that Republicans were being unreasonable for opposing tax hikes, she inadvertently revealed that the only successful budget deal was the one in 1997 – the one that had no tax hikes!

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However, he did give credit to Clinton:

Some people try to argue that Bill Clinton’s 1993 tax hike deserves some of the credit, but I previously showed that the Administration’s Office of Management and Budget admitted – 18 months later! – that the nation would have triple-digit budget deficits for the foreseeable future.

What changed (and this is where Bill Clinton deserves credit) is that the nation enjoyed a multi-year period of spending restraint in the mid-1990s.

And when policy makers addressed the underlying disease of too much government spending, they solved the symptom of red ink.
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:26:47 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:54:25 -0600 Arkansas Times >I am hopeful that our Congressmen will stand up to President Obama concerning his effort to raise the debt ceiling limit.<<

Salty, how many times did you write to any Congressman regarding Bush's SEVEN DEBT CEILING INCREASES?
Posted by eLwood]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:52:17 -0600 Arkansas Times
While I doubt that will happen this time, at least the killing part....you just never know. If you remember all the wacky or hateful things said in public by Arkansas Republican candidates or office holders in the last 4 years it might be a good idea if you're a Democrat to start buying extra locks for yer doors.

The dim Arkansas voters just elected into the majority many unknown unknowns who might be capable of doing anything! Of course they'll probably just flock to LR to feather their own nests or clear the way for many more Christian day care centers with lily white Jesuses looking down on the little kids thrown into the clutches of their government funded day care centers.

Well, we survived Powell Clayton's Re-constructionists, we'll survive the new crazies, but it will be 2 more years of (r) misery and embarrassment and don't know about you but I don't have a lot of 2 more years left in me. Google up the DIY for hunkering down cause we gots a lot of hunkering in our future.
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Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:25:28 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:41:27 -0600 Arkansas Times
But take heart. The Republican majority won't last long because they won't be able to stand prosperity. In short they will screw this up. It truly is just a matter of time.
Posted by HolyGuano]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:10:29 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:09:52 -0600 Arkansas Times