Moyers: Conservatives had their chance and Blew it!


	Moyers: Conservatives had their chance and Blew it!

papananook

7-14-2008 1:16 PM

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papananook says:

On top of such bungled calamities as Iraq and Katrina…

GEORGE W. BUSH: Again I want to thank you all for- and Brownie you're doing a heck of a job.

BILL MOYERS: The conservative regime sent spending into the stratosphere…borrowed trillions from the future to pay for their agenda, and rewarded their wealthy base with huge tax cuts. Earmarks and contracts fattened lobbyists on K Street, which Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay honed into a ruthless shakedown machine exploited by conservative movement stars like Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed, and Jack Abramoff.

JACK ABRAMOFF: Senator, I respectfully invoke the privileges previously stated.

SEN. KENT CONRAD: And I'd say to you Mr. Abramoff, shame on you.

BILL MOYERS: And after crusading for the impeachment of Bill Clinton, conservatives pushing family values turned out to be their own worst enemies. Some of their foot soldiers in politics and the religious right were outed for adultery, stalking Capitol Hill pages, soliciting sex. Be

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7-14-2008 9:14 PM

meancookie89

dude corruption starts from the top and thus this is not surprising at all! hmmmm Cheney and friends knew exactly what they wanted it was money and power bush was just a prop the whole thing is a freak'n facade that is so destroying my country from with in how nice awwww

these republicans are so repressed and sadistic ....!!!!!!

7-15-2008 2:52 AM

papananook

uhm...dude...? Pleez!

7-15-2008 5:42 AM

cabanaben

Pappy, sometimes history speaks for itself, training under Nixon was not the start for Cheney and Rumsfield, just a chance to get their claws in the American and Global public. Dollar after dollar with such control.

7-15-2008 8:19 AM

LoPhatt

I just hope we can separate them from their power this time. Even through the Jimmy Carter presidency they had the last word, rising their ugly head again with Bush and his little Shrub.

We have an opportunity to move in a new direction. Government is for people. This alliance is to protect and facilitate it's constituency.

The major political threat today comes in the form of major corporations. the problem lies in allowing these giants to have equal status of that of a person in our government, They have taken control through lobbing and contributions and of late the media. Their control has been on the rise for many years. What we have ended up with is a government that protects a...

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Government is attempting to do things today that properly belong either at a lower echelon of government or belong in the hands of the people. I believe that government exists to protect us from each other not to protect us from ourselves.
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Now, controlling the party, the Presidency, and Congress, conservatives had what historian Rick Perlstein describes as their first chance in the modern era to govern on their own terms - to prove themselves. They were euphoric.  And they blew it.   
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