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yeah, maher is generally an idiot. biased snotty opinion. I did enjoy it when ron paul came on his program and made him look like an idiot, but ron paul does that to everyone.
not the ron paul you see in the debates. he made everyone he debated look foolish. I can only imagine what he would have done to obama. wish he would have won the nomination for the entertainment of the debates alone.
Yea, because someone who is politically astute cannot possibly have an informed opinion, can they?
Psst: It's even better when it's humorous. Humor is your friend.
I like Bill Maher, but he's hyper partisan to the point that he's not politically astute. Have you ever seen him on This Week With George Stephanopolous? He likes to say things that he can get away with unchallenged on his show, but gets schooled by the other panelists on George's show. He actually claimed once that Brazil was "off oil," only to have George Will challenge him on that fact, saying he believes Brazil still uses oil and has offshore drilling.
yeah, maher is generally an idiot. biased snotty opinion. I did enjoy it when ron paul came on his program and made him look like an idiot, but ron paul does that to everyone.
I'm glad that you have that memory...the sun has set on Ron Paul.
I like Bill Maher, but he's hyper partisan to the point that he's not politically astute. Have you ever seen him on This Week With George Stephanopolous? He likes to say things that he can get away with unchallenged on his show, but gets schooled by the other panelists on George's show. He actually claimed once that Brazil was "off oil," only to have George Will come back and say that Brazil has expanded offshore oil drilling and is #7 in the world in oil consumption.
brazil does do a good job producing ethanol using sugar though. so good in fact that I believe we have a large tariff on it.
He wouldn't have fit in nor would he have been a part of it. I am pretty sure he would have been sickened by the behavior of both parties today.
I can understand your sentiment, mainly because politics in the House and Senate was still conducted in a bi partisan manner under his watch.
The truth is Reagan implemented divisive politics in this country, and his "legacy" reverberates throughout the halls of Congress today because of the ideology advanced by Reagan and his circle.
The "Moral Majority" was only the beginning in making wedge issues part of daily life. When he continually denigrated the government, the same one he was in charge of, he was planting the seed that "Government is bad" for a reason: So that government could focus on helping corporations, not mainstream America.
And by instilling a huge divide between the people, the goal was to essentially make government impotent, with one side continually blocking the other. Republicans knew that, eventually, Democrats would seek payback. And it has been part of their daily platform since November 2000, where bi partisanship is essentially killed by Republicans, when they were not distracted by impeachment proceedings.
brazil does do a good job producing ethanol using sugar though. so good in fact that I believe we have a large tariff on it.
I edited my earlier post since it was inaccurate in what George said (though not inaccurate with the facts of Brazil's oil consumption). But they do produce a lot of ethanol with sugar cane. We also produce a lot of ethanol with corn, but I hate corn ethanol. It's more destructive than oil in my opinion. Too much energy to grow corn, and too much of this food crop is devoted to ethanol, driving up the cost of food and hurting starving people around the world. We'd do better to use sugar cane ourselves, but the corn lobby in the Midwest states are too powerful.
not the ron paul you see in the debates. he made everyone he debated look foolish. I can only imagine what he would have done to obama. wish he would have won the nomination for the entertainment of the debates alone.
Ron Paul. The rejected "hands-down" Ron Paul.
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