Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Fifteen Differences Between Democrats and Republicans.

All credit goes to the Pragmatic Progressive:
  1. Republicans fear that the government has too much control over corporations. Democrats fear that corporations have too much control over our government. 
  2.  Democrats believe it benefits all of us to help the weakest and the poorest among us. Republicans believe it benefits all of us to help the wealthiest and most powerful among us. 
  3.  Republicans believe large corporations will always do what is best for the American people if the government stays out of the way. Democrats believe large corporations would disembowel you and sell your organs to the highest bidder if the government didn’t stop them. 
  4.  Democrats believe everyone is entitled to health care regardless of their ability to pay. Republicans believe everyone is entitled to jack squat if they can’t pay for health care. 
  5.  Democrats believe too much of our money goes to crooked corporate executives who take government subsidies and pay themselves $80 million salaries. Republicans believe too much of our money goes to teachers who make $30,000 a year. 
  6.  Democrats believe anything that helps the American people during a recession or a time of crisis is the true essence of patriotism. Republicans believe anything that helps the American people during a recession or a time of crisis is the true essence of communism. 
  7.  Democrats believe that we need to set high standards for clean air and drinking water. Republicans believe that standards for clean air and water are burdensome over-regulation. 
  8.  Democrats believe the President and Congress need to work together to create jobs during a weak economy. Republicans believe that Congress should do nothing to create jobs and then blame the President. 
  9.  Democrats believe that corporate polluters should be made to pay for the cleanup of their pollution. Republicans believe that making corporations clean up their pollution is burdensome over-regulation.
  10.  Democrats believe our health care system exists solely for the purpose of making people healthy. Republicans believe our health care system exists solely for the purpose of making a healthy profit.
  11.  Democrats believe Congress should be of the people, by the people and for the people. Republicans believe corporations are the people. 
  12.  Democrats believe that corporations have too much influence over Congress due to their lobbyists and huge campaign contributions. Republicans believe the middle class has too much influence over Congress due to their voting and paying taxes. 
  13.  Democrats believe we need to protect victims of corporate negligence by allowing Americans to file lawsuits against corporations. Republicans believe we need to protect large corporations from lawsuits by Americans who’ve been victimized by them. 
  14.  Democrats believe that the rich should be taxed more than the poor and middle class. Republicans believe that the rich should be allowed to keep all their wealth, except for the millions in campaign contributions they give to politicians. 
  15.  Democrats believe that too much money in politics produces corruption and destroys the American way of life. Republicans believe that money and corruption in politics are the American way of life.
 I could not have said it better myself.

13 comments:

  1. fromthediagonal5:40 AM

    Actually, there is a summation of the difference, as in Bedroom v. Boardroom:

    Democrats get out of the Bedroom and into the Boardroom.

    Republicans get out of the Boardroom and into the Bedroom.

    I do not know who first coined that phrase, but it has been around for decades, and it has not lost its relevance.

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  2. Randall5:50 AM

    Republicans believe that since they live in a mansion in the country where the air is clean and the water is pure - then it doesn't matter that everyone else has to live (and die) in the poison their factory produces.

    Democrats don't believe that's fair.

    Republicans believe that rich people deserve to be rich - that wealth doesn't have to be earned - that it can be inherited without being taxed.
    Democrats understand that we fought a revolution to get away from that paradigm.

    Democrats believe that the harder you work, the more you get to have. BUT - we're all in this together.
    Republicans believe that because their great-grampa was an evil bastard and cheated and/or stole a fortune, that they deserve their wealth and everybody else is on their own.

    Republicans believe that the meanest bastards should win - Democrats believe a government of the people is necessary to protect the rest of us from the meanest bastards.

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  3. Excellent summary. This needs to go viral.

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  4. Anonymous6:31 AM

    great list - I posted it to my facebook - spread the word far and wide!

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  5. Smirnonn6:42 AM

    Democrats are waaaay sexier. Who ever heard of a "fine piece of elephant?" :)

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  6. Anonymous6:50 AM

    Number 15 - Sarah Palin pretends she is 'above' this credo and that she 'slayed' this 'good ol boy network' of 'politics as usual' - but she pigs out at that trough without smearing her lipstick.

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  7. Anonymous7:16 AM

    Democrats don't fake pregnancy. Republicans do (Sarah and Arnold Swarchenegger)

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  8. Anonymous7:16 AM

    Sarah Palin has cancelled her Sept 3 Tea Party appearance in Iowa

    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/08/31/sarah-palin-cancels-appearance-at-tea-party-rally-in-iowa/

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  9. Breaking news. Sarah NOT going to appear in Iowa on 9/3, according to the WSJ:

    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/08/31/sarah-palin-cancels-appearance-at-tea-party-rally-in-iowa/?mod=WSJBlog&mod=WSJ_Election_Blog

    "Sarah Palin canceled her Saturday appearance at a tea party rally in Indianola, Iowa, a person close the former Alaska governor told The Wall Street Journal. The person cited “continual lying” from event organizers at Tea Party of America, including a recent mixup over whether former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell of Delaware would also speak."

    I can't help but think Anon238 -- and Gryphen, Laura, Malia and other bloggers & posters keeping the pressure on -- are the reason!

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  10. Anonymous7:18 AM

    The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the half term governor skank has backed out of her Iowa appearance.

    Bill

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  11. OT. (You're sure to get more commenters on this.)

    Sarah Palin Cancels Appearance at Tea Party Rally in Iowa
    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/08/31/sarah-palin-cancels-appearance-at-tea-party-rally-in-iowa/

    Also, this morning POTUS asked for an extension of Transportation Bill (support by uber-probusiness Chamber of Commerce). @NorahODonnell tweeted:
    Pres Obama pushes Transportation Bill and says a decade ago US infrastructure ranked 6th in the world. Today it is ranked 23rd.

    Tea Partiers want to take our country back to where it was, but won't acknowledge the damage done in the last decade, and won't acknowledge the solutions needed to fix the damage. Media (like Norah O'Donnell) need to work to open their eyes to the facts (as if the Minnesota bridge collapse weren't evidence enough).

    Tweet URL:
    http://twitter.com/#!/NorahODonnell/status/108915463026782208

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  12. Anonymous8:56 AM

    Too little. Too late.

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1845163

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  13. Anonymous8:04 PM

    I love it! It's so true!



    Bestest Comment in this thread:

    Democrats are waaaay sexier. Who ever heard of a "fine piece of elephant?" :)

    Can't stop laughing! For some reason, an image of one of Sarah's "Staff" came to mind.

    I know, my bad!

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