Limousine Conservatives at it Again....

wealthy man imagesRepublican Sen. Jim DeMint has used the attempted attack on a airplane bound for Detroit to go after working-class Americans. He told Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday, "We have to outthink the terrorists and when we formed the airport security system, we realized we could not use collective bargaining and unionization because of that need to be flexible. Yet, that appears to be the top priority now of the administration."  In other words, Limousine Conservative and multi-millionaire Senator DeMint is telling us that working class Americans can't be trusted to keep our nation safe, particularly if they have the right and power to bargain for better wages and working conditions.  And the Republican Party wonders why Americans don't trust them.

--Thom

Comments

Zero G. (not verified) 13 years 13 weeks ago
#1

Jim DeMint should be challenged by the union members of the fire, police and all other first responders to emergencies.

DRichards (not verified) 13 years 13 weeks ago
#2

I just started reading "A God Who Hates" by Wafa Sultan. (It's a pretty quick read at 244 pages.) It is a window into the world of Islam, as viewed by a Muslim woman. A real eye opener as to what Arab Muslims living in the US and other "western" counties really think & say to their fellow muslims about the US and the west.
A recommended read.

A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam
By Wafa Sultan

Zero G. (not verified) 13 years 13 weeks ago
#3

Break the CIA in Two
By Ray McGovern
December 22, 2009
http://consortiumnews.com/2009/122209a.html

Zero G. (not verified) 13 years 13 weeks ago
#4

DRichards,

Humans appear to define things in polarities; hate/love, black/white, left/right, ad infinitum. My question, then, and not limited to Islam, isn't any creator deity capable of love also, by definition, capable of hate?

Nels Nelsen (not verified) 13 years 13 weeks ago
#6

Democratic Presidents and serious candidates have been pretty centered the last 30 years or so. They get corporate backing. It'll be this way until the corporate money is removed from campaigns.

IRV IRV IRV....

Nels Nelsen (not verified) 13 years 13 weeks ago
#7

Ever get the feeling that the Democratic party is filled with a pack of wolves dressed as a herd of sheep?

Nels Nelsen (not verified) 13 years 13 weeks ago
#8

Obama's strongest and most favorable characteristic during the campaign (for me at least)... not Sara Palin

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