Publisher of the lefty New Republic is Marty Peretz and in a Nov 25 opinion (it is an opinion journal) he not only calls Jimmy Carter a dupe but a repeat dupe.
Here is how it starts,
"The former president has been gulled once again, this time by the Communist regime in North Korea, a very brutal system of control, indeed. It's not the first time that the Kim dynasty has taken him in. But it is the ex-president at his most outlandishly doltish...." Peretz ends his column by admitting that Henry Wallace was similarly a dupe at the time he was the editor of the New Republic.
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I like the ending where they call the communist party candidate on the "Progressive Party line". Of course this had nothing to do with the new progressive label on today's liberals or does it?
More than six decades ago, Henry Wallace, who was dumped from the vice presidency by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, went on a rampage of support for the Soviet Union.
Peretz goes on to note that: "By the way, Wallace was editor of The New Republic (which published this drivel)"
BRB gotta go teach a hog-dawg how to properly point, not sure the goldies can deal with flying pigs.
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Today's "liberals" are neither liberal nor progressive.
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Peretz is playing the ever-green game of "they were dupes; we're not".
Don't buy it.
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Whoa, this is huge - AFAIK the NEW REPUBLIC has always been one of Jimbo's biggest defenders.
IMO akin to KRUSCHEV + CPSU dissing STALIN back in the early 1950's.
Anyone who has dealt with a loved one deeply involved in some destructive behavior understands that there's only so much you can do until the person hits whatever low point is necessary to spark a commitment to turn things around.
I think of my beloved California in the same light. What a great state, but it remains on a collision course with reality. We can't keep spending money we don't have, punishing those who pay the bills and ignoring the advice of truth tellers. Californians are known for crafting new realities, but the financial markets are immune to Disney-like fantasies. Eventually, the fiscal self-destruction has to stop and adults have to step in with an intervention to divert our state from its dangerous path.
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There is no insanity here, well, not a lot.
We have 8 Billion in debt for the stem cell research program, which hasn't really produced anything, 10 billion in debt for the high speed rail network whose first priority is a high speed route from Fresno to SF, and the governor elect is reported in the Sacramento Bee this morning as wanting 10+ billion for a peripheral canal to move water to SoCal, despite the fact we haven't got storage to meet the demand now.
All this and 142 billion in existing debt and a chronic 20+ billion dollar budget shortfall.
So what did we do? Elected the entire state government from the one party that got us here. Yep, Democrats as far as the eye can see.
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I was looking at pictures of the protests in Ireland over the weekend and am completely amazed at how disconnected from reality these socialists are. They don't seem to understand the concepts that A: the government is out of money and B: the government is not their own personal piggy bank.
California has the same problem. There are many people here who believe the state government is their own personal income source.
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...because it has been and will continue to happen till the checks bounce. Even then, rather than face reality, their 'conspiracy' brain stem group will kick in and seek to blame anyone and everyone else for their situation.
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Hello Burgers and Burgetts!; As the Aussie says you are spot on. "'conspiracy' brain stem". When the checks bounce you will see an ugly American. Like the riots of the past in our country they will attack anyone who is perceived to have anything. They will attack their own, the weak and anyone. Why? no faith, no God which is the difference between us and the depressions past.
They have faith in people and Government and barely little of that (just for handouts).
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pictures of the protests in Ireland over the weekend and am completely amazed at how disconnected from reality these socialists are. They don't seem to understand the concepts that A: the government is out of money and B: the government is not their own personal piggy bank.
There's a bit more reality to Ireland's plight than that. Ireland's privately owned banks became insolvent & the gov't tried to bail them out, which proved impossible. Now the Euro bailout will force more debt on Irish taxpayers. One option not explored by the Irish gov't would have been to simply welsh on the debts owed between Irish banks and foreign bondholders and deal with the consequences of that, which many commentators have been saying was less expensive for the Irish than the Euro bailout will prove to be. Irish taxpayers are about to be turned into a piggybank for foreign bondholders. The Euro bailout is simply to benefit Euro banks that are considered too big to fail. Sound familiar?
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Don't feel too sorry for the Irish govt. They did very well out of the property bubble, thank you very much and thank your mother for the rabbits. 40% of the "wealth" created by the property bubble went to them via txes, rates, stamp duty etc. This money was used to pay ridiculous wages to public servants and create gold plated welfare entitlements for those lucky enough to be on the government tit.
With the collapse of the bubble, they are simply back to where they would be if it never happened. I agree with Merkel that those silly enough to lend to them should also take a haircut.
And so the pain goes on. European bank shares fell sharply last week as news of an 80bn-90bn (£68bn-£76bn) bail-out for Ireland sparked fears that senior creditors of Irish banks could soon be forced to accept losses.
Such concerns were particularly acute among investors in the UK and Germany exposed to 110bn and 102bn of Irish bank debt respectively. The third-most exposed country, incidentally, is the United States.
The centre of the turbulence on Europe's financial markets shifted last week, though, to Spain and Portugal, causing their governments' borrowing costs to soar. The reason is that the rescue package being finalised between Dublin, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund may impose "haircuts" on all those who leant money to banks in the Republic not just the "junior creditors".
That would all but guarantee the same principle being applied elsewhere a prospect that sent banking stocks spiralling downward across the eurozone's "periphery", as well as the UK, piling even more financial pressure on the governments so desperately standing behind them. The yield on 10-year Portuguese debt soared to 7pc, as unions staged the country's biggest strike in 20 years, while Spanish yields spiked above 5pc.
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