Comments on: Why Karl Rove Will Always Be With Us http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/159 "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:34:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: john http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/159/comment-page-1#comment-1304 john Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:23:20 +0000 http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/159#comment-1304 Just the day before yesterday the Dems started a reverse GeneralBetrayus attack. They are teeing off on some remark Rush Limbaugh made about "phony soldiers." As you say the shouting match may be required to fight back, but the escalation further destroys civic discourse. I really don't know what to do. The bully-boys in the Republican party have to be punished for what they have done to governance and civic life, not to mention the mere people they have killed. Sending them to jail sounds about right to me, but the current Dems do not have the stomach for it, and anyway Bush is going to pardon everybody, possibly including himself. Just the day before yesterday the Dems started a reverse GeneralBetrayus attack. They are teeing off on some remark Rush Limbaugh made about “phony soldiers.” As you say the shouting match may be required to fight back, but the escalation further destroys civic discourse. I really don’t know what to do. The bully-boys in the Republican party have to be punished for what they have done to governance and civic life, not to mention the mere people they have killed. Sending them to jail sounds about right to me, but the current Dems do not have the stomach for it, and anyway Bush is going to pardon everybody, possibly including himself.

]]> By: cinea1 http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/159/comment-page-1#comment-1300 cinea1 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:18:08 +0000 http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/159#comment-1300 A more rigorous attempt to distinguish between the thinking patterns of liberals and conservatives was made by Stanford and Berkeley professors in 2003. A summary of their findings: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml Their conclusions do not flatter conservatives any more than the recent study. It does leave one feeling somewhat baffled as to how to manage lies. Perhaps an obvious solution is to shout out the truth as soon as one is aware of it and after that as often as possible. Too bad that public discourse seems to be doomed to a prolonged shouting match.... A more rigorous attempt to distinguish between the thinking patterns of liberals and conservatives was made by Stanford and Berkeley professors in 2003. A summary of their findings:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml

Their conclusions do not flatter conservatives any more than the recent study.

It does leave one feeling somewhat baffled as to how to manage lies. Perhaps an obvious solution is to shout out the truth as soon as one is aware of it and after that as often as possible. Too bad that public discourse seems to be doomed to a prolonged shouting match….

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