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Any time you hear the term bipartisan, check "your six" and check your wallet. It means the ruling class is united and on the move. Given the history of this term, I can't imagine why it doesn't send shudders down our collective spine. They call it bipartisanship; but it's more like The Bipartisan Ship -- the primary war vessel of the ultra-elite.
The Bipartisan Ship
Seeded on Thu Nov 9, 2006 4:26 PM EST
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The Bipartisan Ship is why we don't have universal health care. The Bipartisan Ship is why there is no meaningful right for workers to organize in most states. The Bipartisan Ship is why the two state-institutions that can openly engage in heterosexist discrimination are marriage and the military. The Bipartisan Ship is what gave us the "free trade" agreements that have gutted local enterprises, destroyed the trade union movement, savaged the economies of Latin America, Asia, and Africa, and reinforced overpriced war materiel contracts as a surrogate export market during an apparently permanent trade deficit. The Bipartisan Ship gave us the largest prison population on earth (raw numbers... China with 1.3 billion people has 1.5 million in lockup... we have 2.1 million locked up in a population of a mere 300 million). The Bipartisan Ship is the Death Star dressed up like the Love Boat.
Indeed!
Enjoyed reading this. :)
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#1 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 4:46 PM ESTIt's fantastic. As they say in the article, the bipartisan ship means the vested interests, the real power behind US politics, is at the controls.
It's why, I'm sure, if a couple of people died and Nancy Pelosi became President there would be a lot of lip service about the idea of pulling out of Iraq but no actual action. The bipartisan ship wants us there protecting Halliburton and so there is where we are.
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#2 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 5:21 PM ESTI am sure Hellory KKKlinton is chaffing at the Bi-partisan bit. Some one sahould split the Democrats down the middle.
#3 - Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:07 AM ESTIn the Rose Garden, flanked by his entire cabinet minus Donald Rumsfeld, the President pledged to rise above party politics to face the challenges in Iraq.
GEORGE W. BUSH: I'm open to any idea or suggestion that will help us achieve our goals of defeating the terrorists and ensuring that Iraq's democratic government succeeds.
He also asked the current Congress to pass new terrorist surveillance laws, and to finalise bills to develop civilian nuclear technology with India and normalise trade relations with Vietnam before January's transfer of power. There may have been a seismic political shift in Washington, but for the moment it's business as usual.
Notice that Bush is quite desperate about the wiretapping issue. He thought he was safely getting his get out of jail card from the Senate, but now it's likely that the house won't allow his lawbreaking to go unchallenged. *smile*
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The writer had an excellent point, and one I've been wondering about. The message was clearly get out of Iraq. Are the Dems missing this message? Or do they think getting out is the wrong thing to do, but let themselves be seen as the anti-war party anyway? The message was not about working in a bipartisan manner.
Too bad he couldn't use a spell checker. His spelling was pretty distracting.
#4 - Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:43 PM ESTHa, I found a great comment on that article:
This is so funny. Even when they win Democrats remain angry. Your lives must suck.
By: boblablah on November 09, 2006 at 10:07am
This is because Democratic politicians seem to have almost nothing in common with average, on the street Democrats. I don't know why that is though.
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