"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
...
> >> No Child Left Behind
...
> >Faith-Based Initiatives
...
> >> AIDS Fund
> >Oh yeah we heard about that last year. Where is the money?
> >
> >> Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
...
> >> Promotion of Abstinence-Based Education
...
> Bob:
>
> I was not providing a list of policies that you would agree with.
>
> Rather, David Brin made the following pretty baseless assertion:
>
> >That the current GOP is dominated by
> >kleptocratic frat boys with NO other agenda but
> >stealing 4 TRILLION DOLLARS from our grandchildren.
> >You will find NO policy of theirs that violates this
> >fundamental principle. Not one.
>
> I provided the above list of policies, all of which violate that so-called
> "fundamental principle." Say what you will about whether or not you
> agree with them, but these policies certainly do not fit David Brin's
> partisan mockery of Republican Party that I quoted above.
>
> JDG
You are right, these are not the policies of kleptocratic
frat boys. These appear to be the policies of the social and
religious conservatives who are periodically thrown a bone by
the frat boys. (Except for the AIDS fund, which liberals would
also support.)
Since Brin specifically said "dominated by ... frat boys",
this is not a very powerful refutation. : )
---David
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