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[Phil Stracchino]

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> There is a whiff of Weimar about the USA at the moment.  Whether it  
> is temporary or not is hard to tell.  If Hillary gets and appears to  
> be able to actually wield power, I have the option of moving to Asia.

There's more than a whiff.  People with a historical perspective and a
knowledge of the world outside the US borders have been drawing Weimar
Republic analogies for years.

>> My prediction is  that if a Republican gets elected in 2008, then
>> they will go to 15% and if a Democrat gets elected, 21% like in
>> the Carter days. I'll go even further. If Ron Paul gets elected,
>> mortgages will go down to 5% because the Saudi's are prohibited
>> from charging "excessive" interest, but they will own your ass.
> 
> Biting the bullet would have meant issuing presidential directives  
> authorizing any and all oil drilling on Sept 12th, 2001 in ANWR and  
> the Florida Everglades; and the immediate granting of a permit for  
> longwall coal mining under the Grand Staircase Escalante area -  
> Clinton's parting gift to the Riadys and the Chicoms as he left  
> office, since it is a huge deposit of low-sulfur coal that has now  
> been locked away forever.

Sometimes I find it hard to decide which of Clinton or Bush actually
deserves the "Worst. President. EVAR." meme ...  granted Bush and Rove
have royally fucked us over, but so did Clinton, just in different ways.
 The Clinton Oval Office was for rent to the highest bidder.  I'm still
convinced the only reason Congress managed to avoid impeaching him for
*that* is that they knew they were as guilty as he was, and if they
impeached him on anything of substance their own corruption would come
out in public as well.


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