NationStates Jolt Archive


The GOP: Party of the people??

Unabashed Greed
20-12-2005, 23:15
It's amazing how some still cling to the notion that the democrats are rich elitists with no connnection to the "common man", while republicans do shit like this...

From the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/20/AR2005122000714.html)

"As Tom DeLay became a king of campaign fundraising, he lived like one too. He visited cliff-top Caribbean resorts, golf courses designed by PGA champions and four-star restaurants _ all courtesy of donors who bankrolled his political money empire.

Over the past six years, the former House majority leader and his associates have visited places of luxury most Americans have never seen, often getting there aboard corporate jets arranged by lobbyists and other special interests.

Public documents reviewed by The Associated Press tell the story: at least 48 visits to golf clubs and resorts with lush fairways; 100 flights aboard company planes; 200 stays at hotels, many world-class; and 500 meals at restaurants, some averaging nearly $200 for a dinner for two.

Instead of his personal expense, the meals and trips for DeLay and his associates were paid with donations collected by the campaign committees, political action committees and [a] children's charity the Texas Republican created during his rise to the top of Congress."

The bold is by me. It seems that conservatives are more upset about alleged charges of Air America doing something similar, though it was without their knowledge, AND despite the fact that they actually promised to pay the money back.
Avertide
20-12-2005, 23:45
Well, anyone with half a brain knows that both political parties are corrupt beyond redemption, the major movers and shakers have little scruples at best, and that if they actually cared about the people instead of just POWER, RAW POWER TO CRUSH THAT ACCURSED X PARTY THAT WE HATE BEYOND ALL REASON BACK INTO THE DEPTHS, well, they'd actually gey something right for every great once in a while.
Bolol
20-12-2005, 23:52
Merriam-Webster Online

Main Entry: hy·poc·ri·sy
Pronunciation: hi-'pä-kr&-sE also hI-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -sies

Etymology: Middle English ypocrisie, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Greek hypokrisis act of playing a part on the stage, hypocrisy, from hypokrinesthai to answer, act on the stage, from hypo- + krinein to decide -- more at CERTAIN

1 : a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion

*Examples: Politicians

*Used In a Sentence: All politicians are hypocrites!!1!

Synonymous With: cant, dissembling, dissimulation, insincerity, piousness, sanctimoniousness

*Inserted by Bolol, Webster is not to be held accountable for my actions.
Linthiopia
20-12-2005, 23:52
GOP, the party of the people...
*giggles*
*walks out of the topic shaking his head*
Neo Kervoskia
20-12-2005, 23:54
To be fair Republicans are people, so it's a party for a people.
Korrithor
20-12-2005, 23:56
Do you honestly see no difference between a children's charity donating money to a campaign and a certain ratings-and-advertising-starved radio station outright stealing money from a children's charity?
Bolol
20-12-2005, 23:58
To be fair Republicans are people, so it's a party for a people.

Yeah, the people with 6+ figure incomes.
Dragons with Guns
20-12-2005, 23:59
Do you see no difference between politicans and pure evil? :)
Neo Kervoskia
21-12-2005, 00:00
Yeah, the people with 6+ figure incomes.
As opposed to the party with people with 5+ figure incomes.
Ashkenazi Jewry
21-12-2005, 00:00
When it comes to being connected to the people, the Republicans are in no way worse than the Democrats, who pretend to support minorities by taking advantage of the fact that most minorities will vote Democratic REGARDLESS of the situation. Yes. The Democratic Party exploits the minority vote to its advantage. Condaleeza Rice once said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that she would rather be a Republican and be ignored than be a Democrat and be exploited.
Bolol
21-12-2005, 00:04
As opposed to the party with people with 5+ figure incomes.

The libertarians?
Neo Mishakal
21-12-2005, 00:07
Neither party is "For the People", they never have been and never were for the people.

A political party is an organization that seeks to Win Elections, that is it.

Bottom Line.

As long as the Sheeple continue to vote for their political party no matter how much corruption there is why should the Political Parties even care about the people?
Neo Kervoskia
21-12-2005, 00:12
The libertarians?
No the Democrats. The libertarians make 8+. :D