Because all Republican rhetoric is about how the ELITE represses the PEOPLE and we should always side with the PEOPLE against the ELITE and their SINISTER GOVERNMENT, you might think that America's actual economic elite would be opposed to Republican policies. You would be wrong, though! For instance, over the course of this cycle rich dude Bob Perry has spread a cool $11 million around among Karl Rove's American Crossroads election cabal and the Republican Governors Association. Also, radical outsider Tea Party candidates are getting campaign money from rich Wall Street fat cats, via John Boehner
I always understood "elitist" as shorthand for "educated enough to know right from wrong and carry enough intellectual weight to possibly influence others to see it as such, and therefore cause ripples in my insatiable hunger for ever increasing profits"
"But... come on, Soylent Cinnabons are sooo DELICIOUS!"
Tio Thomás
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What, you expected consistency from the Republicans? That's so cute. When Jim Gilmore ran (and won) for VA governor his main platform as far as we could see was to eliminate a state-wide car tax. You saw "No car tax!" in yards with a shotgun shack or a double-wide in them. The car tax was reduced (not eliminated) but localities had to cut services or raise local taxes to generate revenue, so the debt pretty much got shifted, not cut. But there are people who remember him as the guy who got rid of the car tax.
I hear that China and Iran gave the Republicans Eleventy Gazillion dollars but the thanks to our Non-Activist Supreme Court™ we'll never know if that's true.
This video is probably the equivalent of Obama whispering in their ears "Psst! I'm going to overturn DADT and the federal restrictions on gay marriage in my last six months in office...you know, so that's my legacy but without any risk to my re-election or anything".
This has always been true...but now with Citizens United, we'll never know if we're getting good value for our money.
Funny how Repubicans seem to think Mexicans who come here are America hating narco-terrorists planting anchor babies and stealing Social Security in Spanish. While Cubans who come here are America loving freedom fighters building a new life while contributing to our economy and rich cultural tapestry.