Conservative Texas Democrat Talks Semantics
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General PoliticsThis entry was posted on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 and is filed under General Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.…there are a lot more people in the Democratic party who do what the Good Book says: Take care of the poor and the afflicted and the downtrodden. I took flak from some of my Republican colleagues for working with the mentally ill, for working with some of the underprivileged from the Children’s Health Insurance Program. That’s not liberal; that’s trying to use the assets of the state to produce the best economics you can.
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:54 am
Just typical repugNUT hypocracy at work against the less fortunate…..and they LIKE to call themselves “Christians”. Laughable in my opinion!
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:28 am
Hey qatwoman, this is a blog where that type of commenting is frowned upon. Make your point and make it well, but leave the name calling at home.
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:36 am
This guy is good. He articulates his position and that of his party in a way that makes his oponents seem shortsighted and heartless. Democrats on the national stage should take note, this is how you frame an issue. Whether or not what he’s saying is true, it’s at least compelling. I wish the rest of the Democrats were this good at articulating their views. Of course I live in NY and never heard of Pete Laney before so I don’t know if this is the exception of the rule for him.
March 22nd, 2006 at 10:30 am
Set up the straw man, knock him down! Only Democrats care about the poor and downtrodden, because the only solution to poverty is government mediated income redistribution.
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:30 pm
This just reminds me that at the place I work (which is for a state court of appeals), we are not allowed to belong to or promote any organizations that would be considered partisan. For example: I cannot donate money to the “One” campaign because it is considered liberal. If you haven’t heard of the “One” campaign, it is an organization to end world hunger, particularly in Africa. If I were a conservative, I would be angry about the obvious implications of that rule. As a liberal, I am frustrated that I can’t be involved in volunteer-type organizations because they are considered to be too liberal. However, what does this say about the state of our two-party system?
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Meredith, you point out the danger in the tactics I was admiring above. If beating up straw-men is an acceptable substitute for discussion of the issues, then there is room for dialogue. The result is absurd situations like the one you describe, feeding hungry people must be a “Democrat thing”. That said, I still wish dems were better at framing their positions and attaching the other side.