Edwird -> RE: Republicans selling your private browser history to all comers (4/17/2017 7:50:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SecondBestBoy As to your OP, I'm just tired of all the partisanship, and especially the lazy people who blame all troubles on one side or the other. It is quite disingenuous to accuse an independent thinker of "intellectual laziness" when the accuser relies on a cookie cutter ideology or standard party platform himself. It's true that I have voted for more Democrats than Republicans historically, but I have seen the Democrats doing none of us much good for some years, now. The ONLY reason, the only purpose of your OP was to make claim or give example that Republicans were the only cause for our downfall. You found convenience to that purpose by way of one of the few instances where the vote went by strict party lines. How often does that happen? OTOH, there are plenty of instances of Republican sponsored (written by ALEC or whatever lobbying firm or think tank) legislation voted for by a number of Democrats, and some of that even opposed by some Republicans. I know that Obama was incessantly obstructed from the few good things he tried to push across (the Republicans pulled the neat trick of eviscerating anything good about the ACA in committee, then not showing up for the vote), but then he also had an agro-chem guy as "food safety csar" (Micheal Taylor- Monsanto) and pushed Larry Summers to be head of the Federal Reserve. If one or both of those items wouldn't make you want to smash your computer against the wall throwing it into the next room, I don't know what would. I still have that computer, but it was a close call. What I do find hilarious in any case is Republican acolytes carping when a Democrat holds to the Republican platform and looks after business interests, which has been done numerous times over. Some idiot here kept referring to "Hillary Goldman Sachs Clinton" ignoring the R's history on that, until Trump hurriedly got six GS people in the process as soon as elected. Haven't heard it since. Don't be that guy.
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