Tag: 2012 election
-
Voucher plans vs. Medicare: one more decision
The Republican platform and the Romney/Ryan ticket want to substitute Medicare with a voucher plan so that seniors can be empowered. Thanks,folks, but good health care and enough money to live on make us feel empowered. Having to make one more complicated decision does not.
-
God and Campaign 2012
10-0: the number of times Republicans mentioned God in their platform versus Democrats’ references to the Deity—until Fox News noticed the discrepancy. Which means Republicans are faithful to God, while the Democrats are guided by—Satan, I guess.
-
Civility in politics: Let’s keep Archie Bunker out.
Before Archie Bunker came along we Americans kept most of our bigoted thoughts to ourselves. Today telling it like it is has become a virtue, infecting our politics with an incivility unknown in recent memory.
Nancy Werking Poling 