Republicans wachagua Black wa kwanza kukiongoza chama

Nyani,

Rush Limbo alikuwa wapi 2000 wakati true conservative Alan Keyes alikuwa akigombea goli na Liberal Maverick McCain na George IdonotknowmmyID Bush?
 
Sasa tuje kwenye itikadi. Ndio, Republican wana itikadi lakini kwenye miaka hii ya karibuni walibweteka na madaraka, wakawa watu wa big governement, incompetency, na mengineyo kama hayo na matokeo yake wamelipa gharama kwenye sanduku la kura. They lost their way and now they are trying to find it. Democrats have been there too. It is just a fact of life in American politics. Usidhani hata kidogo kuwa Democrats watakaa madarakani milele. Bush 41 alishinda majimbo 40 kati ya 50 mwaka 88 na baada ya Operation Desert Storm approval rating yake ilifikia asilimia 90 na kitu only to lose Bill Clinton the following year....


Kama kweli mna itikadi Republicans mlikuwa wapi kukemea uwongo wa Kichaka kulazimisha uvamizi wa Iraq pale alipoidanganya dunia kwamba Iraq wana WMD na wanajua zimefichwa wapi? Baada ya kugundua kwamba sababu zilizotolewa ili kuivamia Iraq zilikuwa ni uwongo mtupu mlikaa kimya kabisa.

Mlikuwa wapi kutetea itakadi yenu ya "Fiscal rensponsibility" pamoja na kuona jamaa yenu aliyerithi budget surplus toka kwa Clinton akianza kufuja mapesa kwa kuwapunguzia matajiri kodi na hatimaye kuitafuna budget surplus yote na kuacha Budget deficit ya $700 billion?

Mlikuwa wapi Kichaka na uncle wake Cheney waliposema uwongo kwamba uvamizi wa Iraq utaisha baada ya mwezi mmoja tu na ungegharamu $30 billioni? Kumbe ni uwongo mtupu waliosema kweli wakafukuzwa kazi kama Republicans mna itikadi si mngesimama na kuukataa uwongo wa Kichaka na uncle Cheney? Matokeo yake vita miaka sita sasa na imekwishagharimu $700 billioni and counting? Kweli mna itikadi nyie!!!!? :)



Kama unabisha hawana itikadi, hebu rudi nyuma kidogo uangalie bigest landslides katika historia ya Marekani. Hivi unadhani zilipatikana bila kuwa na itikadi yoyote, bila kusimamia kanuni zozote zile? Hivi unadhani Reagan kushinda majimbo 49 kati ya 50 ilikuwa bahati nasibu tu? Halafu eti unadai ushindi wa Obama ni wa Ki-Tsunami...Bubu, you can't be serious dude...Nixon na Reagan walipataga 500+ electoral votes....now those are landslides of Tsunami proportions. Blueprint ya landslides wanayo Republican...Democrats hawana.

History ya Nixon tunaijua nadhani umewahi kusikia kashfa ya Water gate na yule mcheza sinema Reagan naye alikuwa anapunguza kodi kila kukicha matokeo yake akaacha budget deficit ya hali ya juu na alikuwa na kashfa ikiwemo ya Iran contra. Alileta mambo ya Hollywood WH na Wamarekani wakamwamini na kumkabidhi nchi lakini hakuwa na rekodi nzuri hata kidogo katika utendaji maana aliacha budget deficit kubwa tu. Hivyo itikadi yenu ni maneno matupu lakini ikija kwenye utekelezaji ni ZERO.

Nchi iko kwenye vita, nchi wakati Kichaka anaingia ilikuwa na deni la nje $4.5 billioni wakati anamaliza awamu yake aliongeza deni na kufikia $11 billioni, nchi ilikuwa na budget surplus wakati kichaka anaingia baada ya kumaliza awamu yake kaacha budget deficit ya $700 billioni. Wakati anaingia nchi ilikuwa na reputation nzuri miongoni mwa nchi mbali mbali duniani, wakati anamaliza muda wake reputation ya US ilikuwa imeanguka vibaya sana duniani kote. Kama haya ndiyo yaliyomo katika itikadi zenu basi mna safari ndefu sana na hata kumchagua Mwenyekiti wa chama mweusi hakutasaidia lolote.
 
Scandals za Mcheza Sinema Reagan, Hmm! hizi ndizo itikadi zenu lakini mkazifumbia macho lakini mkaishupalia scandal ya Bill na Monica Lewinsky na kutaka kumimpeach Clinton!!!! Ama kweli mna itikadi!!!!


Iran-Contra Affair
Main article: Iran Contra Affair
In the Iran-Contra Affair, several administration staffers were convicted of crimes ranging from lying to Congress to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. The scandal involved the administration selling arms to Iran and using proceeds from the sales to fund the Contras, a guerrilla insurgent group in Nicaragua.

Elliott Abrams agreed to cooperate with investigators and in return was allowed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges instead of facing possible felony indictments. He was sentenced to two years probation and one hundred hours of community service. He was pardoned by George H.W. Bush on December 24, 1992 along with five other former Reagan Administration officials who had been implicated in connection with Iran-Contra. [2]

National Security Advisor Robert C. McFarlane, pled guilty to four misdemeanors and was sentenced to two years probation and 200 hours of community service and was ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.[2] He was pardoned by Bush.

Alan D. Fiers was the Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's Central American Task Force. He pled guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information from Congress and was sentenced to one year of probation and one hundred hours of community service. He was pardoned by Bush.[3][2]

Richard R. Miller - Partner with Oliver North in IBC, an Office of Public Diplomacy front group, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States.[4][2]
Clair George was Chief of the CIA's Division of Covert Operations under President Reagan. George was convicted of lying to two congressional committees in 1986. He was pardoned by Bush. [3][5][2]
Richard Secord was indicted on nine felony counts of lying to Congress and pled guilty to a felony charge of lying to Congress.[6][2]
Thomas G. Clineswas convicted of four counts of tax-related offenses for failing to report income from the Iran/Contra operations.[7][2]
Carl R. Channel - Office of Public Diplomacy , partner in International Business- first person convicted in the Iran/Contra scandal, pled guilty of one count of defrauding the United States[4][2]
John Poindexter, Reagan's national security advisor, was found guilty of five criminal accounts including lying to Congress, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. His conviction was later overturned on grounds that he did not receive a fair trial (the prosecution may have been influenced by his immunized testimony in front of Congress.)[8][2]
Oliver North was indicted on sixteen charges in the Iran/Contra affair and found guilty of three - aiding and abetting obstruction of Congress, shredding or altering official documents and accepting a gratuity. His convictions were later overturned on the grounds that his immunized testimony had tainted his trial.[9][2]

[edit] Department of Housing and Urban Development grant riggingThe HUD controversy involved administration staffers granting federal funding to constituents, and defrauding the US government out of money intended for low income housing. Judge Arlin Adamns obtained the following convictions:

James WattJames Watt, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior was indicted on 24 felony counts and pled guilty to a single misdemeanor. He was sentenced to five years probation, and ordered to pay a $5000 fine.[10]
Philip Winn - Assistant HUD Secretary. Pleaded guilty to one count of scheming to give illegal gratuities.[10]
Thomas Demery - Assistant HUD Secretary - pleaded guilty to steering HUD subsidies to politically connected donors.[10]

Deborah Gore Dean - executive assistant to Samuel Pierce - indicted on thirteen counts, three counts of conspiracy, one count of accepting an illegal gratuity, four counts of perjury, and five counts of concealing articles. She was convicted on twelve accounts. She appealed and prevailed on several accounts but the convictions for conspiracy remained.
Catalina Villaponda - Former US Treasurer, HUD[10]
Joseph A. Strauss - Accepting kickbacks[11]

[edit] Lobbying Scandal
When an administration staff member leaves office, federal law governs how quickly one can begin a lobbying career.

Michael Deaver, Reagan's Chief of Staff, was convicted of lying to both a congressional committee and to a federal grand jury about his lobbying activities after he left the government. He received three years probation and was fined one hundred thousand dollars after being convicted for lying to a congressional subcommittee.[12]

Lyn Nofziger-White House Press Secretary - Convicted on charges of illegal lobbying after leaving government service in Wedtech scandal. His conviction was later overturned.[13]

[edit] EPA controversy
The Environmental Protection Agency Scandal arose when it was discovered that the administration was releasing Superfund grants for cleaning up local toxic waste sites to enhance the election prospects of local officials aligned with the Republican Party.

Rita Lavelle was convicted of lying to Congress and served three months of a six-month prison sentence.[14]

[edit] Savings & Loan Bailout
Reagan's "elimination of loopholes" in the tax code included the elimination of the "passive loss" provisions that subsidized rental housing. Because this was removed retroactively, it bankrupted many real estate developments made with this tax break as a premise. This with some other "deregulation" policies ultimately led to the largest political and financial scandal in U.S. history: The Savings and Loan crisis. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around USD$150 billion, about $125 billion of which was consequently and directly subsidized by the U.S. government, which contributed to the large budget deficits of the early 1990s.

An indication of this scandal's size, Martin Mayer wrote at the time, "The theft from the taxpayer by the community that fattened on the growth of the savings and loan (S&L) industry in the 1980s is the worst public scandal in American history. Teapot Dome in the Harding administration and the Credit Mobilier in the times of Ulysses S. Grant have been taken as the ultimate horror stories of capitalist democracy gone to seed. Measuring by money, [or] by the misallocation of national resources...the S&L outrage makes Teapot Dome and Credit Mobilier seem minor episodes." [15]

John Kenneth Galbraith called it "the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance and larceny of all time."[16]
 
Shouldn't "The Greatest American Ever" Have Been Someone Who Actually Helped People?

By Timothy Sexton​

President Ronald Reagan was given the honor of The Greatest American Ever as the result of a poll conducted in cooperation with a Discovery Channel presentation that narrowed down the candidates for that particular honor. According to many of those who defend this choice, Reagan deserves this honor in part because he brought back a sense of respect to Americans following the Vietnam War, Watergate and the Iran hostage crisis. According to Reagan's own campaign slogan for the 1984 election, thanks to the previous four years of his Presidency, it was morning again in American.

Maybe someone just misspelled "mourning." The budget deficit explosion that occurred during the 1980s were a direct result of President Reagan's tax cuts, and the resulting lack of available funds that could have been earmarked toward social programs contributed to the continuing deconstruction of American social programs. Reagan's assault on these programs took as its starting point the conservative ideological foundation that if people rely upon government welfare strategies to provide them with such things as food, housing and help taking care of their children it will serve as a disincentive for them to work; therefore the less the government helps the poor, ultimately the more they will help themselves and the better off they will be.

President Reagan was a firm believer in this methodology and almost from the moment he took his oath of office set to work dismantling government entitlement programs. The first major step toward rolling back opportunities for those not lucky enough to be born into wealth took place when he signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA). OBRA served to cut federal funding programs for the poor as well as inducements for states to provide funding. Unfortunately, cutting funding for programs was not enough to revolutionize the welfare programs in the way that conservative ideologues desired. In order to completely undermine the progressive system of entitlements to the poor, the Reagan administration began to use tax reform as a method of undercutting welfare.

By cutting taxes and instituting such concepts as the Earned Income Credit, Reagan-always the actor-gave the outward appearance of helping poor families. Unfortunately, those measly tax cut gains madebarely a dent in the overall loss in benefits the poor were no longer receiving because of cuts and changes to entitlement programs. Throughout the Reagan presidency cuts and rollbacks to welfare programs were systematically enacted even as the income gap between the richest and poorest Americans reached peak proportions. While the wealthy were unquestionably benefiting from their huge tax cuts, the poor were actually losing ground because of them. When Reagan finally left office and his Vice President George Bush ascended to the Presidency in the election of 1988, Bush inherited historic budget deficits of over 3 trillion dollars. Deficits like these left little opportunity to increase spending on social programs even if he had desired to do so. Which, of course, he didn't. After all, there was a war to be waged in Iraq. Remember, I'm talking about George Bush the First. Sometimes, it seems like the country went through a time machine and we're reliving 1989-1992 all over again.

Because the enormous deficit threatened all spending programs, a budget compromise deal was cut in Congress. The compromise contained provisions to increase funding for many social programs that had been assaulted during the Reagan presidency. Despite the best efforts of the social progressives to spin these gains into a success story, the compromise required to ensure these budget increases came at the price of effectively undermining completely the very structure of program funding. For one thing, any budget gains that resulted from a reduction in spending on defense programs-which had skyrocketed during the Reagan era and therefore represented a potential goldmine-would go toward deficit reduction and would therefore not be eligible for spending on domestic programs. And secondly, any increase in spending on domestic programs would have to be offset by a reduction in spending on another domestic program. In other words, the government had to steal from Peter to pay Paul while Caesar sat around spending billions on lances and spears.

Without most people even realizing it was taking place, a profound shift in the paradigm toward government entitlement theory was created by the Reagan policies of tax cuts and deficits. Although no one in the Reagan/Bush administrations came out doing high-fives and boasting that they had undone the New Deal and Great Society efforts put forth by FDR and LBJ, that is essentially what happened. The exploding deficit led to an unavoidable clash of ideologies resulting in a compromise plan to cut the deficit that has left funding for social programs almost irrevocably altered to the detriment of the welfare state. Meanwhile, people like Jack Abramoff are giving our highest-paid federal employees-who were all wealthy to begin with-paid vacations and parties and dinners and gifts to ensure that what money isn't being spent on the military and space programs designed to line the coffers of Bush's big business buddies is going to whatever precious pork plan our leaders desire and not toward taking care of people who aren't lucky enough to have born in the same class of wealth that they were.

So, one of the legacies of President Reagan-the Greatest American of All Time-was the significant deconstruction of the American social policy of taking care of those least able to take care of themselves.
 
Nyani,
Better get used to it. Obama is going and will succeed. The Conservatives will be in the wilderness for the first 8 years and another 4.
 
Limbaugh resigns over McNabb comments
Thursday, October 2, 2003 Posted: 2:27 PM EDT (1827 GMT)

(CNN) -- Amid a storm of controversy over his racially charged comments on a weekend TV show, conservative commentator and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh announced on Thursday that he had resigned from his post at ESPN.

[the "Rush Limbaugh Show."

BABU,
Hii source ni very reliable
 
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