Just in Case You're Thinking About Voting Republican...

Just in case you're thinking about voting for a Republican this fall, consider these latest salvos. In an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, House Minority Leader John Boehner, (R-Ohio), said that the retirement age should be raised to 70, because social entitlements will have to be trimmed to help pay for the war. Wow. Really, John? Hey, we've got an idea for you, how about we get the hell out of the war? Boehner went on to say that we need to be honest with the American people, that the country is broke, and we can't keep paying Social Security in the way that it's structured now. We wonder how many more years of Social Security could have been funded with the trillions we have, and will, spend in Iraq and Afghanistan? Just saying.
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And if that's not enough to make you run for the nearest voting column to vote for anyone with a "D" beside their name, there's more. Crazy Tea Bagger Sharron Angle, who will be the Republican nominee in the Nevada senate race against current U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, spoke with Bill Manders, who hosts a Reno, Nevada-based radio talk show. In her interview, Angle and Manders began to discuss the topic of abortion, at which point Angle made it clear that she was "pro-life". Manders asked her if there were any reasons for an abortion. Angle replied, "Not in my book." Manders continued, "So, in other words, rape and incest would not be something?" And Angle answered, "You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things." So the woman who wants to be a United States Senator believes that rape and incest are okay because they're part of God's plan. Really, Nevada, is this who you want to represent you? Really?
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But back to Boehner and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan; we're going to have to decide, once and for all, what our strategy is in the Middle East, and then make a plan and stick to it. We never should have gone into Iraq, almost everyone agrees on that point now, but the problem is what to do with Afghanistan. We should have gone in and come out in a short amount of time, but we didn't. Bush and Cheney sold us a bill of goods based on fear, that if we didn't stay over there, "the terrorists would come over here". Well, now we've been there for almost a decade, we've spent a trillion dollars, lost thousands of lives, and we're no closer to achieving our goals there than we were years ago. Actually, back that up, we never had any measurable goals there, and it's lunacy that we're still there. The main argument against pulling out now is that the country would devolve into civil war, and that thousands of innocent people would be slaughtered. You mean the way that thousands of innocent people are dying now, in the middle of our "war"? We can't be the world's policeman, we can't referee other country's civil wars. But if you disagree and think that we should stay in Afghanistan to protect the people from a civil war, then you're going to have to explain why we don't intercede in other countries where thousands are being slaughtered, i.e. Sudan, North Korea, etc. Let's face it, we have no real plan for Afghanistan; we're just ambling about, hoping to kill a few more "terrorists" and somehow hope that "everything will get better". Don't hold your breath. Meanwhile, get ready to tell grandma and grandpa that they have to keep working, because, according to John Boehner, they're going to have start helping to pay for that war in Afghanistan.