And we have...what? More than twice the population of the UK. People here feel disconnected from their roots, often. Thus we get lots and lots of Highland games, bag pipers, even Irish-American transsexuals with shamrock tattoos (raises hand). Many of us are looking for ways to connect back to "the old country". Since most of us have been living in this country long enough to lose all real ties with our European roots, that doesn't mean we can't participate in contests that folks across the pond invented. With such a strong drive to connect back to who our people were, I'm surprised we don't have five times the number of Highland games that you do over there.

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I just love how that's always the first place that Conservatives go, every time!! "Oh, you are left wing...so you want government to do everything for you?"

I personally don't want government to do everything for me. But I do want my government to have a heart. Many, many Republicans in the US have a well defined agenda, ending Obama's Presidency as quickly as possible. That's it. No real policies of their own save obstruction. Check it out yourself. Check out how many filibusters the Republicans have used during this Administration. They passed the record for a single four year term filibuster record months and months ago. So when you say "You want government to do everything for you" I say "Oh. You don't want to do anything but keep this Administration from "winning." Like this is some kind of game instead of people's lives.

Aren't the GOP the same twits who think teh gay is evil and we shouldn't be allowed. And yes, I will say for the millionth time, you are voting against your own best interests. You are with a political group who wouldn't collectively walk across the street to piss on you if you were on fire.

The GOP doesn't want to increase the minimum wage. But they sure do want to give tax breaks to those making $250,000 or more. Because those people suffer so damn much. The GOP wants to raid the Social Security stores, even though that is supposed to be off limits. They want to privatize medical insurance and overturn health reform. Because poor people having acccess to health care is a terrible thing. Let them die and there will be less poor people. Kind of reminds me of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal". Perhaps the rich should just go the whole way and simply eat the poor.

Look at the deficit going back to Carter. It's very interesting. Each Republican left a much bigger debt than every single Democrat. Which flies in the face of what the GOP wants you to think, that they represent responsible spending. Obviously, the opposite is true.

When you talk about what the Republicans have done, remember these pesky details as well. Their only masters are corporations and the super rich. They care nothing for ordinary people. One final note, the Republicans were all ready to filibuster against extending the middle class tax cuts if we didn't also extend tax cuts to the rich. Which would add hundreds of billions to the deficit. Yep, reponsible spending. That's what the GOP is all about. *rolls eyes*

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