There are plenty of immoral things about Colorado’s Amendment 48, an attempt by the extremist right-wing to define a fertilized egg as a person, eligible for all the rights that those of us who are actually born enjoy. It’s an attempt to challenge Roe v. Wade in the long-term. As written, it will certainly be ruled unconstitutional if voters pass it this November. So the easy thing to do is vote against it. Here is one reason to do so: somebody is making anonymous donations to the campaign working to pass A48. Unfortunately for the donors, if they make more than $20 in donations, their names and addresses must be reported. Surprise, surprise, that hasn’t happened. A complaint has been filed to the Secretary of State’s office.
Republicans equal responsibility, that’s been one of their mantras for as long as I can remember. So why can’t Republicans practice taking responsibility for their failures, as they expect everybody else to do? In one of the more ridiculous statements I’ve heard Republicans make, Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, said that it’s Congress’ fault the federal government had to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this weekend.
Riiiight. In between all of the talk of how we should privatize everything and businesses are more efficient than government (false), I totally missed where the White House was warning the American public that Fannie and Freddie posed unacceptable risk to the housing market. In fact, it was quite the opposite: Republicans have obsessively talked about how good the housing market’s makeup has been for the past seven years. No warnings of any kind were issued by the White House, even when the sub-prime market started failing. No warnings of any kind were issued by the White House, even when the prime market started failing. The only warnings issued in the past two years were brought up by liberals. Once they did so, I’d like to point out, Republicans went into character assassiantion mode, calling anyone who thought the housing market was souring everything from traitors to permanent pessimists. It’s time Republicans took responsibility for their religious belief that markets should have no regulation. If they won’t, the American voter will do it for them in November.
Just what would an Obama economy look like? Well, for starters, Obama will increase work incentives for low-income workers by tripling the earned-income tax credit. More people working would result in … gosh, an expanding economy and a prosperous, growing middle class, two things that a John McCain economy wouldn’t produce.
Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is still to scared to talk to the media. Or is it that the media hasn’t shown her enough love? Sarah Palin was the only member of the major parties’ ticket to not show up on a network talk show yesterday. Why? A McCain representative gave one reason on the extremist Fox Network: reporters need to treat her “with some level of respect and deference.” The Republican ego knows no bounds. Somehow, Sarah Palin has been deemed to be more special than any other candidate. The McCain campaign is demostrating to Americans how undemocratic they really are: voters shouldn’t have the opportunity to learn who Palin is and what her policy stances are until the corporate media treat her like royalty. Our government is founded on the idea that elected officials are actually public servants. They serve us, not the other way around. McCain and Palin don’t agree with this tradtitional premise.
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