Virginia News Headlines: Wednesday Morning

Progressive Point (0.00 / 0)

Keeping your vote from counting

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by: ProgressVA @ Wed Aug 01, 2012 at 11:09:17 AM UTC

I can't wait to hear the excuse for this one! (0.00 / 0)

The Romney plan has long been shown to increase the taxes on the lowest 20% of Americans, which most of the fanatic Right have suggested was fair, since "the lower 50% doesn't pay any income tax" (BS).

Once this report comes out, I can't wait to hear the spin on the claim that the lowest 95% will see their taxes increase slightly. Will the T.E.A. (taxed enough already) Party continue to support the guy raising the taxes? History says, yes; they are a bunch of hypocrites.

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by: playnotwork @ Wed Aug 01, 2012 at 11:55:41 AM UTC

Tea Party=Tool Party (0.00 / 0)

Tools of the corporations, tools of the Koch brothers, etc. I believe people like this were once called "useful idiots."

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by: lowkell @ Wed Aug 01, 2012 at 12:05:40 PM UTC

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Video: Gore Vidal vs. William F. Buckley (0.00 / 0)

Vidal calls Buckley a crypto-Nazi, and Buckley calls Vidal "queer" (also threatens to punch him), which in that day and age, was what passed for acceptable political discourse by right wingers like Buckley. Come to think of it, some things never really change, do they?

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by: lowkell @ Wed Aug 01, 2012 at 12:17:10 PM UTC

By the way, Vidal became more and more of a "crackpot" as he aged (0.00 / 0)

I tend to agree with Christopher Hitchens on this point:

As literary feuds go it has the all the hallmarks of a classic. In one corner, the journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens. In the other, America's great man of letters, Gore Vidal.

The latest salvo is in this month's Vanity Fair where, in an article headlined "Vidal Loco", Hitchens launches a stinging attack on Vidal, claiming that the events of 9/11 "accentuated a crackpot strain" in the author. He claims that Vidal's work after the terrorist attacks consists of "a small anthology of half-argued and half-written shock pieces [which] either insinuated or asserted that the administration had known in advance of the attacks."

"He openly says that the Bush administration was 'probably' in on the 9/11 attacks, a criminal complicity that would 'certainly fit them to a T'; that Timothy McVeigh was 'a noble boy', no more murderous than generals Patton and Eisenhower; and that 'Roosevelt saw to it that we got that war' by inciting the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor," Hitchens writes.

Either Vidal was just being provocative (for the sake of it? for no good reason?), or he was just completely off his rocker in his latter years...

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by: lowkell @ Wed Aug 01, 2012 at 12:22:32 PM UTC

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