Comments on: Comment soliloquy http://monoblogue.us/2008/10/11/comment-soliloquy/ I've presented news and views from Maryland's Eastern Shore since 2005, but my writing can be found at several conservative websites. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:28:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://monoblogue.us/2008/10/11/comment-soliloquy/comment-page-1/#comment-95573 Michael Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:57:47 +0000 http://monoblogue.us/?p=2194#comment-95573 You're confusing lack of regulation with writing regulations to suit one particular company or group. I know you read here a lot so you know this, but I believe that the problem doesn't lie in Democrats being more like Republicans (at least in your view) but Republicans being more like Democrats and centralizing power inside the Beltway. They're the ones who abandoned principle, sad to say. Unfortunately. both parties have a population of power-hungry big-government types - there are more on the Democrat side, but as I see it one is too many for the GOP. I contend that getting the money out of Washington would solve a LOT of these problems. You’re confusing lack of regulation with writing regulations to suit one particular company or group. I know you read here a lot so you know this, but I believe that the problem doesn’t lie in Democrats being more like Republicans (at least in your view) but Republicans being more like Democrats and centralizing power inside the Beltway. They’re the ones who abandoned principle, sad to say.

Unfortunately. both parties have a population of power-hungry big-government types – there are more on the Democrat side, but as I see it one is too many for the GOP. I contend that getting the money out of Washington would solve a LOT of these problems.

]]> By: Final Frontier http://monoblogue.us/2008/10/11/comment-soliloquy/comment-page-1/#comment-95563 Final Frontier Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:40:41 +0000 http://monoblogue.us/?p=2194#comment-95563 To McCain's credit, he did ask his more nutty supporters to calm down this week--it made me get back a little of the respect for him that I lost as he turned his campaign really nasty. He still has his surrogates doing the dirty work, but maybe he can change the tone to lessen the chance for violence. As for responsibility for the financial mess we are in, I completely agree with you that the guilt is widespread. The difference is this: the Democrats temporarily lostt their values, and the Republicans were following their values! The Republican mantra of deregulate, deregulate, deregulate is a significant part of the problem. The Democrats started acting like Republicans, and that is why the mess was allowed to spin out of control. Now it is time to go back to the real Democratic Party platform, to watch out for the middle class, and to fight the misguided notion of "trickle down" economics. To McCain’s credit, he did ask his more nutty supporters to calm down this week–it made me get back a little of the respect for him that I lost as he turned his campaign really nasty. He still has his surrogates doing the dirty work, but maybe he can change the tone to lessen the chance for violence. As for responsibility for the financial mess we are in, I completely agree with you that the guilt is widespread. The difference is this: the Democrats temporarily lostt their values, and the Republicans were following their values! The Republican mantra of deregulate, deregulate, deregulate is a significant part of the problem. The Democrats started acting like Republicans, and that is why the mess was allowed to spin out of control. Now it is time to go back to the real Democratic Party platform, to watch out for the middle class, and to fight the misguided notion of “trickle down” economics.

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