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How Many Communists Are There In The U.S. Government?

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Joe McCarthy never gave a clear answer to that question. But we do know for sure that, today, the answer is "at least one."

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REP. MAXINE WATERS, D-CALIF.: What guarantees are you going to give this liberal about how that will reduce the cost of gasoline at the pump if we let you drill where you say you want to drill?
JOHN HOFMEISTER, SHELL OIL PRESIDENT: I can guarantee to the American people because of the inaction of the United States Congress ever increasing prices unless the demand comes down, and the $5 will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies.
WATERS: And guess what this liberal will be all about? Thios liberal will be about socializing--would be about, basically, taking over and the government running all of your companies.
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I'm sure there's a youtube of this available; I heard it on the radio yesterday driving home. In fact, Waters doesn't quite get the whole word "socializing" out; she catches herself just before she finishes, obviously aware she's let everyone have a peek under the rock she lives under, stammers a little, then completes the sentence.

So now there are two huge industries the communists "liberals" in congress want to socialize.
 
Oh, you've got to be kidding.

Red-baiting? I mean, seriously?

That's the political equivalent of jumping the shark.
 
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Cleon said:
Oh, you've got to be kidding.

Red-baiting? I mean, seriously?

That's the political equivalent of Fonz jumping the shark.
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Well, when your position is intellectually and morally bankrupt, red-baiting probably seems like a logical move?
 
Well, the Shell guy was flat-out lying about the cause of price increases, so I see this as two badly behaved maroons, myself.
 
Cleon said:
Oh, you've got to be kidding.

Red-baiting? I mean, seriously?

That's the political equivalent of jumping the shark.
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JoeEllison said:
Well, when your position is intellectually and morally bankrupt, red-baiting probably seems like a logical move?
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:)

''You never need think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming of the horrid little population that dwells under it." Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
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BPSCG said:
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''You never need think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming of the horrid little population that dwells under it." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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:rolleyes:

This is really not something to be proud of yourself over.
 
Socialising as in making a responsible member of the community or nationalising the assets and taking into the common good of the community?

either would be good :)
 
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The oil companies charge as much as we will pay. That is capitalism.

The best way to lower the price is to encourage competition. It's time to break up the oligarchy AGAIN. Maybe this time, break the vertical monopoly as well as the horizontal one?

While we are at it, we ought to put a stop to mergers in the rest of the commercial world too. No more having Microsoft gobble up it's competitors. Or to expand horizontally either. Maybe disallow mergers that would create any company from getting bigger than a 5% market share? Or is the potential for 20 companies still Oligarchorous? 2% maybe? The SEC could do this easily, they already have to approve buy-outs.
 
Nationalizing companies constitutes being a communist?

Wow, then I guess that the airport security industry being nationalized under the Transportation Safety Administration in 2001 marks a precipitous slide into Mao jackets and sowing seeds in snow.
 
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The OP is a joke. It's a parody. It has to be; the alternative would drive man into insanity.
 
Am I really the first person who's going to chime in and say, "Yeah, that Maxine Waters woman is a complete nutjob"? I guess so.
 
If anyone would like to make the case that Maxine Waters is not a communist, I'd be happy to hear it. Note that continuing to make ad hominem arguments doesn't get you any closer. :)
 
BPSCG said:
If anyone would like to make the case that Maxine Waters is not a communist, I'd be happy to hear it. Note that continuing to make ad hominem arguments doesn't get you any closer. :)
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FAIL.

You make the case that Maxine Waters is a communist. No one has to prove a negative. You didn't even offer an argument. You offered Red Baiting. The person who began the ad hominems was, wait. . . let me review. . .


YOU.
 
Ziggurat said:
Who said anything about persecuting anyone? But when people advocate stupid ideas, isn't it rather appropriate to criticize them?
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Well I'm not the one referencing to McCarthy and trying to snuff out the commies.
 
Is it a crime to be a socialist in the US?

It seems to me to simply be a reasonably common alternative viewpoint found in many a developed pluralist society. Is it not?
 
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