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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:33 PM
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48% of The 2 Percenters are going to Fight the Obama Agenda as if their way of Life Depended on it!
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 02:23 PM by FrenchieCat
Unfortunately for us, that 48% of the 2 percenters own the Republican Party, the corporate Media and most Corporations, i.e., they have got quite a bit of power to marshall, and they will.

Part of their army is comprised of big mouths like Little Ricky the Ranter of CNBC Wall Street fame, Rush 400-Million-dollar-liar Limbaugh, Joe the Plumber and Gov. Booby imploding-like-a-Volcano Jindahl.

They have also marshalled the forces of Anderson I'm-worried-about-the-death-tax-cause-my-mom-is-a-Vanderbilt Cooper, Contessa I'm-a-real-princess-Goddammit Brewer, Andrea My-husband-was-the-biggest-one-to-blame-for-this-debacle-but-so-what Mitchell, Morning I'm-a-Republican-who-fucked-up-in-the-90s-and-then-retired Joe, Pat I'm-still-a-racist-and-get-paid-for-it Buchanan, and the little people who are too ignorant to do anything other than to vote against their best interest.

In otherwords......we must get ready to rumble with a bunch of unpatriotic buffoons in order to save our Nation! :patriot:

Why 48%? because



In the aftermath of the 2008 presidential election, exit polls showed that 52 percent of voters who make $250,000 a year or more voted for Barack Obama.

In a recent article for Slate and Newsweek, Daniel Gross pointed out that in doing so, those affluent voters went against their economic self-interest, since Mr. Obama is likely to raise their taxes.

This is unusual. As Paul Krugman argued in a blog post last year — contrary to popular belief — the wealthy do not always vote against their economic interests. In fact, far from it.

Yet there is a strange paradox. In response to Mr. Krugman’s post, a reader pointed out that when you look at the data on the state level, wealthy states do tend to vote for the Democratic Party, which has the reputation of raising taxes on the wealthy.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/how-did-rich-people-vote-and-why


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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:40 PM
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1. LOL! You portrayed them perfectly.
The MSM talking heads are pretty useless for the most part.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:42 PM
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3. What they are is obvious to anyone paying attention.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:40 PM
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2. the 2% had no trouble finding trillions to spend on Iraq
now we are in debt while the bushes, cheneys and halliburtons prospered.
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4lbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:50 PM
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5. That's because they knew their businesses would benefit from all the monies spent in Iraq.
It would go mostly to their pockets.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:52 PM
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6. it did and the 98% don't realize what is going on
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firedupdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:45 PM
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4. Perfect ! n/t
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:54 PM
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7. K&R Big Time....good one....ya nailed it
:kick:
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:55 PM
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8. LOL!!!
That about sums it up, Frenchie!

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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:00 PM
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9. So far they're still 21 percenters
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx But give Obama another month or so and they'll be 2%ers eventually
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booksenkatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:07 PM
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10. K&R... nice! NT
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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:17 PM
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11. You're lumping in too many people in here.
There are plenty of wealthy Democrats and Republicans who voted for Obama, my father being one. My dad told me that he expected his taxes to go up under Obama, but that he was going to vote for Obama because our country was in desperate need of hope. Don't underestimate the hearts and souls of many rich folk.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:20 PM
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12. You are quite correct......that's 1% , not two!
I stand corrected!
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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:23 PM
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14. I'm just saying,
it is disingenuous to say that wealth = GOP voter. This may have been true during George Bush's reign, but Obama won across every demographic (excluding southern whites.. big surprise).
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:24 PM
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15. I changed my op to include your observation.....
Which is quite correct!

I had made this observation just a couple of days ago, in fact: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8225801&mesg_id=8225801
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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:31 PM
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16. Thank you very much!
It gets a bit grating to have people assume somebody is republican because of the money they make. I hope to make as much money as possible in my life, but that will never change the strong liberal social policies I have. If I make a lot of money in the future, will I be excited about paying more in taxes? No, but I understand it is my responsibility to ensure that the least amongst us has a decent standard of living. If we don't have that, our country will never be the greatest country on earth.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:21 PM
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13. How is this for ammo...KO's piece about Michele Bachmanns rant
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 02:22 PM by opihimoimoi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y165e1YXK0s

Priceless clip of a deranged woman on a GOP Rant...This is their Best??? Oh Lordy...ain't much of a fight we have here...like shooting fish in a 5 gallon bucket.....
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