Obama spanks Wall Street.

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

What do you mean by that?

I mean what passes for liberalism at Berkeley has zero to do with liberalism as understood by the founders and their contemporaries.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by TGRR

I mean what passes for liberalism at Berkeley has zero to do with liberalism as understood by the founders and their contemporaries.

You mean kind of like what passes as conservatism in the republican party today has zero to do with conservatism as understood by the founders and their contemporaries?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

You mean kind of like what passes as conservatism in the republican party today has zero to do with conservatism as understood by the founders and their contemporaries?

And who can authenticate that? You? For every opinion about what "founders" thought and believed there is a counter arguement.

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

And who can authenticate that? You? For every opinion about what "founders" thought and believed there is a counter arguement.

Nonsense. What passes for conservativism today was a philosophy mainly held by Alexander Hamilton and 300,000 pissed off tories.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by TGRR

Nonsense. What passes for conservativism today was a philosophy mainly held by Alexander Hamilton and 300,000 pissed off tories.

Cool, and the Liberals of 200 years ago are the same of today?

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Cool, and the Liberals of 200 years ago are the same of today?

You catch on quick, don't you?

Maybe it was those posts where I said that wasn't the case.

TGRR,
Will type slower, and use smaller words.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

And who can authenticate that? You? For every opinion about what "founders" thought and believed there is a counter arguement.

Oh good grief. Conservatism is supposed to be about fiscal responsibilty, and republicans, since Reagan, have been anything BUT.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

Oh good grief. Conservatism is supposed to be about fiscal responsibilty, and republicans, since Reagan, have been anything BUT.

So now you are going to tell me how Demoncrats are fiscally responsible with the latest spending package.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

So now you are going to tell me how Demoncrats are fiscally responsible with the latest spending package.

Well what would you suggest we do? We have to do something, and most economists are saying the package is actually not big enough.

If bush had not run our deficit into the stratosphere with his stupid wars, we would not be in this mess. We would have the money to handle the situation and wouldn't have to borrow it.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

Well what would you suggest we do? We have to do something, and most economists are saying the package is actually not big enough.

If bush had not run our deficit into the stratosphere with his stupid wars, we would not be in this mess. We would have the money to handle the situation and wouldn't have to borrow it.

The deficit has little to do with it. Of course we would still have to barrow it.

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

You mean kind of like what passes as conservatism in the republican party today has zero to do with conservatism as understood by the founders and their contemporaries?

Precisely.

Of course, back then, they called conservatives "Tories".