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Here it is: The article every liberal needs to show a conservative

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How many times have you been in a conversation with a conservative on Twitter, Facebook, face-to-face, on the phone, or just standing in line somewhere, and you blank on an easy to understand, informative comeback? Need a handy dandy guide that sums it all up beautifully? Why, here’s one now!

Here are a few excerpts from a substantive post that includes gun rights, marriage equality, “Christian values,” fiscal responsibility, “small” government, abortion, the debt ceiling, spending, and tax cuts. Thank you, Forward Progressives:

Marriage is a Sacred Bond Before God: [...]

[I]f you feel your religion should control all others, and all Americans, you then support a theocracy and apparently oppose the United States and our Constitutionally protected freedoms. [...]

I Want Big Intrusive Government–That Never Does Anything Good–Out of My Life!

Did you drive today?  Did you take your children to public school?  Did you enjoy a safe commute as you traveled thanks to traffic signals and signs?  Did you whisk through your city or state on an Interstate Highway?  Did you enjoy running water and plumbing that properly, and safely, disposes of waste?  Did you get a college degree at a public university because it was much cheaper than a private one?

Hey genius, that’s all government.

Republicans: The Party for Christian Values: [...]

If you want to say you’re the party of “Christian values” and you worship Jesus Christ…

Start by helping the sick, the poor, the needy—not opposing programs that do. [...]

Republicans are the Party of Small Government

Big government regulations, they’re un-American!  They’re unconstitutional and ruining your way of life!

Unless that big government regulates:

  • What language to speak

  • Religion to follow

  • When life is created

  • Who can marry

  • Who can serve in the military

  • Invasive health procedures on women

  • That we have prayer in school

  • Mosques aren’t built in certain locations

  • Corporations are people

  • The Patriot Act

  • Unions don’t have rights

  • When alcohol can be sold

  • The requirement of an ID to vote

Those were but a few of the responses that Forward Progressives provided. Please follow the link for more.

The post was written by Allen Clifton who has a degree in Political Science. He is the founder of the popular Facebook page “Right Off A Cliff,” on which he routinely voices his opinions and stirs the pot for the Progressive movement. His work has been featured on many sites online, and on Current TV’s popular “The Young Turks” program.

How DARE Los Angeles pass laws to “force” more earthquake safety measures?! Saving lives? Pushy, pushy, pushy!

oyToday’s Los Angeles Times had this headline: San Francisco OKs quake retrofitting for at-risk buildings. It caught my eye because we’ve done a lot of retrofitting here in the Los Angeles area, plus on a personal level, my family and I are huge San Francisco fans and travel there often. We’re even thinking of moving there one day, and it would be reassuring to know it will be made safer.

And after having lived through countless L.A. quakes, I can attest that that kind of added security is more than welcome.

According to the article, property owners would be required to reinforce wood-frame soft-story buildings with parking garages or storefronts on the ground floor built before 1978.

Sounds reasonable. It’s always a good thing to make every effort to be prepared, improve the structural integrity of buildings that people work and live in, and, you know, keep people alive.

Added benefit: More employment.

So as I’m reading this encouraging news, this caught my eye. Before you read the next part, grab some Pepto and a Valium:

Some landlords in Los Angeles remain firmly opposed to the type of retrofitting now required in San Francisco. Dan Faller, president and chief executive of the Los Angeles-based Apartment Owners Assn. of California, said he does not believe the government should force property owners to make upgrades.

They’re telling businesses how to run their business — after the city has already given approval to the building the way it is and after the owner has purchased the building the way it is. If they want to make a requirement like that, make the city pay for it,” Faller said. “Don’t pass a law that forces me to spend $100,000 on my building.”

Damn that Big Government doing what it’s supposed to do!

Why, if I didn’t know better, I’d think that Los Angeles is… concerned! About safety! And lifesaving measures! And planning ahead! And even saving some of the money and effort that would be required to clean up after a disaster! In an earthquake-prone area!

Photo credit: Rolando Otero / Los Angeles Times

Photo credit: Rolando Otero / Los Angeles Times

Jan. 17, 1994: The collapse of the second and third stories onto the first story at Northridge Meadows apartments in the Northridge quake killed 16 people and crushed cars.

What could they be thinking?

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Quickie: Don’t tell the GOP, but Chris Christie defended the Big Bad Federal Government

Link.

Today’s Quickie:

Chris Christie reminds us why the Big Bad Federal Government isn’t so big and bad after all. In fact, it can save lives. Wait. Isn’t protecting U.S. citizens exactly what it’s supposed to do? Why yes. Yes it is.

Via NorthJersey.com:

“The gas situation should be figured out in the next 24 to 48 hours,” he said. “It’s not just a supply issue, it is a power issue and we were not frankly, in the private sector, prepared for this widespread loss of power.

That was today’s Quickie. Was it good for you?

CNN Poll: Big shifts on role of government

It makes perfect sense to feel that the government is doing too much if you also don’t think it should be promoting “values”, kinda like the Rachel promo on small government. Make it smaller, run it better.

The survey, released Wednesday, indicates that there have been major changes on attitudes toward the government.

“The biggest: The number of Americans who say that the government should promote traditional values has fallen to an all-time low, a finding that might benefit many Democrats,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

According to the survey, just four in 10 registered voters believe the government should promote traditional values, down from 53% in 2010 and 57% in 2008.

(snip)

But the poll also indicates the belief that the government is doing too much is also near historically high levels.

Six in 10 say the government is doing too much that should be left to individuals and businesses. That finding could favor Republicans.

Video- Fox News Highlights Anniversary Of Emancipation Proclamation With Discussion Of How “Government Is Enslaving People”

Stay Classy. Via MM.

VIDEO- Romney & Ryan’s GOP: Back to the Back Alley

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Starring: Lisa Edelstein

Only decades ago women suffered through horrifying back alley abortions, or they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse.

So when the Republican Party officially promotes forcing rape victims to bear the children of their attackers as part of its assault against a woman’s right to choose–we had to ask:
Why is Romney & Ryan’s GOP trying to send women back. . . to the back alley?

VIDEO- Republican Women for Obama: “Government shouldn’t be deciding what I can and cannot do with my own body.”

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Learn more: http://OFA.BO/WbWDgC

Republican women share their history with the Republican Party and how the party’s views are no longer aligned with their own. They don’t support Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and share how Romney and Ryan are wrong for women.

As they share:

“If you truly believe in a small government. That government shouldn’t be deciding what I can and cannot do with my own body.”

“There is no way on God’s green earth that I would consider voting Republican.”

“I don’t even want to think about them having control—as a woman I don’t.”

“If you’re a conservative woman, and you believe in small government, then Barack Obama is your candidate because he’s keeping the government out of the decisions that should remain between you and God, and you and your own conscience.”