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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
"Robert Reich
Last night's Republican debate lived down to my expectations. Here were the ten leading candidates for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, displaying an ignorance and vacuousness unparalleled in modern times. The mere possibility that one of them might ascend to the highest office in the land, at a time when America is besieged by record inequality, grinding poverty, a shrinking middle class, billionaires who have more political power than at any time since the robber barons of Gilded Age of the 19th century, a world environmental catastrophe in the making, and the possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of global terrorists -- that possibility is almost as terrifying as anything I've ever witnessed in American politics. "
How does he list this string of problems 7 years into a Dem administration and blame the R's?
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Robert Reich is to the left of President Obama (as he was to President Clinton when he served as Secretary of Labor and lost the internal stimulus/budget fight in 1993 when Bill decided that he had to "keep the fucking bond traders happy"), so I suspect it was more of a those guys are even worse kinda thing.
