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July 19, 2011

Beyond raising the debt limit: What a Republican government would be like

By Raphael J. Sonenshein

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The battle over raising the debt limit has raised a lot of concern about how Republicans act as an opposition party. They have shown that they are willing to risk crashing the economy to get their way with a Democratic president. But they won’t be in opposition forever. We have to start thinking about what they would be like if they were actually in charge. 

If Republicans win the White House in 2012, hold the House of Representatives and either win the Senate or get close to a majority, they will be able to carry out their agenda without worrying about either side of Pennsylvania Avenue. (A slim Democratic majority in the Senate will fold like a house of cards if Democrats lose the White House.)

If you want to know how the current iteration of the Republican Party might act in power in Washington, just look at the states in which Republicans won big victories in 2010. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once famously referred to the states as “laboratories of democracy.” Republican governors and legislatures are moving with ruthless speed to impose their visions on state after state, and the results are not pretty. It’s easy to see these approaches appearing nationally should they enjoy a big political win in 2012.

First, a number of Republican governors have engineered fiscal crises in their states by cutting taxes. In Wisconsin, Scott Walker opened his governorship by pushing through a series of tax cuts, and then used the budget deficit to cut education and other social programs and to attack collective bargaining. Ohio’s John Kasich eliminated the estate tax that had funded local governments and also ended a moratorium on a cut in the personal income tax rate, worsening the state’s deficit. 

Should Republicans win greater national power, they will have an opportunity to create the mother of all fiscal crises. They are likely to immediately make all the Bush-era tax cuts permanent, which would create a massive fiscal crisis that they could use to justify cuts in social programs beyond anything we have seen. If you actually care about deficits and debts, you will pray that the Bush tax cuts expire next year before there is even a chance of Republicans getting into power. Beyond that, I expect a tax-cut frenzy leading to a bidding war to see who can cut the most. Forget about any further talk of debt and deficit, except as an argument to defund programs Democrats favor.

On another front, Republican-led states have been working overtime to narrow a woman’s right to choose. Anti-abortion laws in state after state are edging ever closer to testing Roe v. Wade. Operating largely under the national radar, the anti-choice forces have placed pro-choicers on the defensive. A Republican Congress and president could adapt these laws nationally.

Third, these states have been working effectively to undermine the ability of Democratic-leaning groups to vote, by creating new requirements for voters to show picture IDs at the polls. This bogus reform, based on the mythical existence of voter fraud, is aimed directly at minority, elderly and working-class voters. Voter ID laws are spreading through the states like wildfire, without any pushback from the Obama administration’s Department of Justice. It is easy to imagine a Republican national regime that would immediately create a national voter ID law, and that the Supreme Court would uphold it. A new Justice Department would, like the Bush version, actively and enthusiastically support voter disenfranchisement.

Republicans don’t dislike governmental power. They only dislike government when Democrats run it. Then it is tyranny, and Republicans are Jeffersonians. Republicans like power and believe they are the only ones legitimately entitled to exercise it. They will not hesitate to carry out their policies, even in the face of unpopularity. The new Republican governors have been charging headlong to get their way — the opposition and the public be damned. When they are in power, they are pure Hamiltonians.

Do you think Republicans are big advocates of states’ rights and the 10th amendment? Fasten your seat belts. A new Republican regime will pass laws to restrict states from passing laws that are more progressive than national law. The first casualty will be the global warming law in California, but you can expect other laws in big blue states to be preempted.

Check out Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. He has basically taken over local government in Michigan through a law giving him the power to appoint fiscal administrators to void contracts and privatize city services without any role for the voters. So, once the Republicans get back into power, all those brilliant insights into the Jeffersonian roots of the Tea Party movement can best be used to line your birdcage. 

We don’t know what else ascendant Republicans would do, but they will certainly make a serious effort to repeal the Obama health care law. In that case, we would return to the pre-2009 system of private insurance, largely unregulated. Interstate deregulation of health care plans will take its place as the main reform, and insurers will migrate to states with less regulation. In any case, new national legislation will preempt much state regulation of health insurers. And presumably, the first steps toward privatizing Medicare will be on the table.

The modern Republican Party is a fairly strange creature, despite the fact that most Republicans voters are not strange at all. The advent of Tea Party conservatives, who control the primaries and therefore the party itself, and their rejection of compromise, have changed the rules entirely.

Today’s Republican Party is blisteringly angry in opposition, calling Obama, who has proven to be a mild, consensus-oriented Democratic president, “Hitler” and threatening to tear the house down if he does not comply with its members’  demands. When they hold power, they seem more unwavering in their certainty than any major American political party with which we are familiar, believing that their way is the only way and everybody else had better get out of the way.

The next generation of Americans will have to figure out how to bring this Republican Party back into the world where the rest of us live. This angry, alienated party, bolstered by talk radio and Fox News to only one point of view, is a challenge for a generally mild and pragmatic democracy to accommodate. We face a continuing cycle of out-party rage and in-party bullying that makes politics and government a rockier road than it should be. We are foreclosed from considering a vision of better schools, repaired infrastructure, fair taxation, health care for all, and all the other things that most Americans think are pretty good ideas because, as with the debt crisis, we are constantly putting out fires set by today’s Republican Party.

Raphael J. Sonenshein is chair of the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice at California State University, Fullerton.

A version of this article appeared in print.

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Typical Liberal scare tactic trying to make Republicans look like heartless buffons. Not understanding that you can’t just spend and raise taxes to make things work.

Comment by Ron on 7/20/11 at 3:12 pm

Is there something wrong with an effciant wellrun state government that does’t tax its citizens to death,protects the young and allows on legal voters to vote

Comment by Honey Bee on 7/20/11 at 3:21 pm

Note to Jewish Journal, not all Jews are strident left leaning Democrats. Please stop alienating Jewish conservatives. Allow us the pleasure of a Jewish on line magazine without insult and bias politicking.

Comment by Steves on 7/20/11 at 3:28 pm

This not a democratic response but a Leftist, Marxist, Socialist share the wealth diatribe.  This kind of thing that shows what is wrong with America and no understanding that America is Broke and we need jobs from the private sector and not grow the government as the writer would like to see obviously.  All I got to say its shameful and sickening.  Spend, Spend, Spend and print more money without regard and money we don’t have.

Comment by Jerry Robinson on 7/20/11 at 3:37 pm

Look we all know the Jewish Journal is, by and large, a left-leaning publication, but this a blatant hyper-partisan political article that is frankly, quite offensive to we Jews who believe in limited government and personal liberty.  Suggestion to JJ.  Why not stay out of politics and discuss Jewish issues?

Comment by Gary Aminoff on 7/20/11 at 4:10 pm

Raphael this is the 21st Century. These are the same things left leaning Dems have been saying for 4 DECADES. Abortion (your holy grail) is still legal nationwide. At every national & local election, Dems roll out the abortion card & drone on that the right-wing is going to roll it back. It hasn’t happened. We are all waking up to the reality that the only way the left can win elections is by demonizing the right. It has worked from Marx, Stalin, to Alinsky. The comments herein are a great sign that the tactic is becoming less effective. Ron, Honey Bee, Steves, Jerry, & Gary kudos to you all. Your comments give me hope that there are sensible people on either side of the political divide.

Comment by Todd Rubinstein on 7/20/11 at 4:16 pm

All this goes on while the Chinese, Brazilians and Indians laugh at us and are set to surpass us soon.

Comment by Lamar on 7/20/11 at 4:27 pm

I have not read as much BS in one article as this one.
The title should have been “Scare Tactics 101”
The writer believes he is a ‘mind reader’ and knows how things will play out. Of course he suffers from selective memory, the left’s motto.

Among many of his skewed points, he says: that “the republicans are calling Obama, who has proven to be a mild, consensus-oriented Democratic president, “Hitler”.

He conveniently forgets that Pelosi called the tea party people ” astroturf and little Nazis” for expressing their view, and for daring to want to knowt what was in the health bill. Little did we know that we had to pass the bill first, in order to find out what is in it!, Duh!

Comment by Bill on 7/20/11 at 4:31 pm

What a loon.

Comment by Hal on 7/20/11 at 5:29 pm

The world must be close to ending, since Republicans can not see what is real and happening before their eyes.  They spend and create deficits and say that they are meaningless until a Democrat is president.  Republicans took a balanced budget with no need to increase the debt limit, destroyed jobs loosing as many as 3 million before the Republican turn was up, then look the other way and blame it all on somebody else.  Senator McConnel states on national television that his number one task is to make Obama a one term president.  Is this working for the sake of heaven that the Sages speak about in Pirke Avot?  Republicans, please look into the mirror and see who you have become!

Comment by David on 7/20/11 at 5:34 pm

Please give us all a break.  Do you really want to discuss how Democrats have ruined Illinois, Massachusetts, California, Nevada, etc.etc??  Wisconsin is now running a budget surplus thanks to the hard decisions that Governor Walker made!  Republican states and especially “right to work states” continue to operate in the black while the Democrat controlled states continue to spiral into a black whole never to be seen or heard from again!

Comment by Linda on 7/20/11 at 5:38 pm

I agree with most of the above!!! AND, how long do you think we can keep borrowing $0.40 of every dollar to fund government spending? Hyper inflation or national bankruptcy will reduce all spending to ZERO if we don’t get our financial house in order. GET REAL!!!

Comment by Rich on 7/20/11 at 5:41 pm

So far, every comment that I have read here proves that his hypothesis is correct!!! One can not write an alternative view point that does not incur the wrath of conservatives. I find it ironic that their every response to another point of view reminds me of the way the left responded during the 60’s. Degrade and demean the opposition. Try to make the opposition look like buffoons, i.e. the way Coulter, Beck, Hannity, and O’Rielly do. Their best response is ” Ya, well the other guy said it so I can say it too. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Oh, where is William Buckley when they need him.

Comment by RF on 7/20/11 at 5:48 pm

Not raising the debt ceiling will not “crash the economy”. Obama’s drunken spending will though. Stealing GM and Chrysler from the rightful (stock) owners sent shock waves through the business world. If you want to hear the truth about the US economy and why with Obama at the helm it will never improve listen to the Democrat and Obama supporter Steve Wynn. Everything he says is true. Your false ad hominem fallacy rhetoric blaming Republicans is juvenile and ridiculous. Obama owns this economy and his policies have been disastrous for Americans. November 4th, 2012 is going to be a great day for America and the world, shellacking number two is on the way!!

Comment by Tedd on 7/20/11 at 6:14 pm

If you want to know how the current iteration of the Democratic Party acts while it’s in power then all you have to do is look at the states with the worst fiscal records and happen to have been solidly Democrat for the past 40 years! The five states in the worst financial condition—Illinois, New York, Connecticut, California and New Jersey—are all among the bluest of blue states.

Comment by Tedd on 7/20/11 at 6:16 pm

So it it all Republicans, or just the Tea Party, who threaten your socialist utopia? And seriously, you are ‘constantly putting out republican fires’? Has it occurred to you that your ‘vision of better schools, fair tax…’, may not be everyone’s vision? Your generalizations are so broad as to be comical.

Comment by Amy on 7/20/11 at 6:19 pm

Typical angry rant by an Obamunist/Democrat propagandist.  Socialism, now called “progressive,” has never worked anywhere its been tried.  The Republican governors are simply repairing the damage done by Democrats by bring fiscal sanity to their states.

Comment by Howard Epstein on 7/20/11 at 6:30 pm

Someone needs to point out to this guy that education and schools in Wisconsin are already better off, just two months into the new administration of the schools.  They are doing the same job for $150 million better and fired incompetents and levels of bureaucracy.  Teachers can actually teach now, administrators can actually administrate and without the unions getting in the way, kids have more time and resources to learn… yet on March 15th he claimed that none of this would be possible if the union was busted.  He’s dead wrong.  Again.  At least he documents his idiocy.

Comment by Christopher on 7/20/11 at 6:39 pm

Mr. RAPHAEL J. SONENSHEIN could not have expressed my own apprehensions better.  I salute him for telling the story precisely as it could unfold.  Only American repudiation of their anti-People policies at the next and subsequent ballots can return the real conservatives to run the GOP.

Comment by He'Ary on 7/20/11 at 6:50 pm

Where is bumbler O’s plan? Where is the democratic budget? How have they been so incompetent to allow this situation to fester?  The republicans have submitted plans that will reduce the deficit and protect the US, while the democrats are still talking about spending.
There are plenty of opportunities to stop the waste starting with shifting congress to the same retirement and health care benefits systems we all have.
As for this article it’s business as usual for the far left, create a target, attack it, degrade it and then continue to spend tax payer money same as before While the media is still the democratic news/drug pusher, many of us now see are no longer addicted to the lies.

Comment by Lou Adams on 7/20/11 at 7:14 pm

Dr. Sonenshine has chosen to drink the Kool-Aid, so here are a few pertinent facts.

Obama and Clinton have given the Palestinian Authority and Gaza 1.3 BILLION dollars in the past 2 years. Seniors have been denied Social Security COLAs the past 2 years.

Obama is threatening to deny Seniors their checks, in doing so he tries to smear Eric Cantor. Anyone with common sense would be insulted by Obama but not those who would vote for anyone were he a Democrat.

Obama knows how to take more Golf Vacations than Bush ever did. He knows how to fly to Hawaii. When will HE tighten his own belt? Ditto Debbi Wasserman, Harry Reid, and Pelosi?

Something is rotten in D.C. - It isn’t Eric Cantor.

Comment by Alan on 7/20/11 at 7:19 pm

I live in a liberal state that is ruining all prosperity.  The liberal agenda does not look or care for good results.  Only domination and bills that make them look good.  They make people poor by destroying their jobs then say look how good we are we want to help the poor.  Dont you dare say that Republicans destroy anything.  It is the liberals who destroy freedom, destroy jobs, destroy free speech, destroy the family and destroy morality and common sense.

Comment by LInda on 7/20/11 at 7:24 pm

Linda,

Spot on.

Obama - and the new regime in Sacramento, not saying pervert Arnie was better - are hell bent to destroy America. Change our textbooks while the state is disintegrating so rapidly before too long only the filthy rich or the dirt poor on welfare can afford to live in California. Many of my friends have moved to Arizona and Texas because people were stupid to vote for Jerry Brown, Boxer and Kamala - I LOVE ILLEGAL CRIMINALS - Harris.

What this bunch of degenerates and regressives are doing to California is what Obama is doing to America every time a tax dollar goes to Gaza or Pakistan.

The sooner we rise up, point fingers at the Democrats and vote ‘em out, the better.

Comment by Alan on 7/20/11 at 7:34 pm

This is not true at all. The Conservative party knows that without constraint on entitlement spending…and that is not referencing SS and Medicare…Entitlement spending is all the “Shctuff” that doesn’t need to be funded…a long list of stuff to many organizations that could afford to be cut…one of them 90 million per year to black universities to provided non paid back loans as long as their students go into government employment..and yep..they will not agree to “equal opportunity for jews, caucasians, hispanics or muslims”...this president is all about advancing the “black caucus”...not the jewish…nor anyone elses, in fact we know that he is very anti-Israel

Comment by Sandy on 7/20/11 at 7:36 pm

This is why Judaism is becoming irrelevant.  There already is a cult with a similar set of beliefs, called the Demagogic Party.

I didn’t leave Judaism, it left me when it turned left.

Comment by Joe Bidenmytime on 7/20/11 at 7:44 pm

@Joe: come on back, Judaism didn’t turn left, a lot of its former members left the religion and replaced Judaism with Liberalism.  Try any orthodox synagogue in the country (and you don’t have to be observant, go to Chabad, they’ll welcome you with open arms)and you’ll see Judaism lives.

Comment by George on 7/20/11 at 8:16 pm

Reading most of these comments do give me a sense of hope for our people, because honestly we Jews are going to be destroyed again if we don’t wise up.

First, in Israel when Iran does get the bomb and uses it while shuckle and jive in the White House grins and sucks an Ice Cream cone like he did when Neda Soltan was butchered on the streets of Tehran.

Then here, because of the Liberal mindset. Remember this - if Adolf was a Democrat, our JINO Liberals would still vote for him. Otherwise, kindly explain the bigot Obama.

Comment by Alan on 7/20/11 at 9:18 pm

Choosing Raphael S. to pen article defining a GOP gov’t. bit like conscripting B. Bonds & R. Clemens to co-chair a national commission to rid pro-sports of performance enhancing drugs. Fact an educator so radically imbued and sworn to influence young minds,  is chilling.

At finale he describes Obama as ...mild & census-oriented ..  with eyes wide-shut to not witness 2010’s writing on wall.

Suggest Raffi Google Bush/Hitler and download all before he once again encumbers the national dialog.

Cheers here is response from center and right readers. Everyone from JJLA staff and present investors must be smiling.  Aunty Mame

Comment by Mr. Againster on 7/20/11 at 9:31 pm

Sonenshine was actually a slightly decent prof about 30 years at CSUF. Never had a class with him but met him once or twice. Didn’t strike me then as a partisan piss-carrier but that comes out of the woodwork.

As said earlier, if we Jewish Americans don’t wise up and recognize Obama as being exactly what he is - a Jew-hater (except for those like the ones who served Uncle Joe Stalin - before he butchered ‘em), then we are lost. The Democratic Party will crap on us - and we’ll end up on the trains with Soros grinning.

Comment by Alan on 7/20/11 at 9:41 pm

What Republicans will do when they get majority in the Senate and in the White House is reduce the size of government Yes he would obliterate Obamacare.  Every dictator wanabe uses the banner of socialism to take complete power from the people under the guise of helping them.  History has shown us that when the government is allowed to “take care of the people” they get enslaved.  WE have seen this in all socialist states.  Like a cancer ravaging a body socialist dictators eventually bring the economy and quality of life down.  A Republican victory in the Senate and white House will bring back freedom and liberty to America by way of a smaller less intrusive government.

Comment by Vladimir Val Cymbal on 7/20/11 at 10:00 pm

this nation was in it’s best shape, before we even had any income tax. income tax, has only become a con job. as they keep raising the celling, so they can dictate more taxes on us. socialism against G-D, does not work. taxing the hard working, to protect the lazy. is going to, destroy us all.

Comment by jimmie c boswell on 7/20/11 at 10:23 pm

i don’t care how much you raise the debt limit and taxes. it’s not going to fix, what is wrong in this world or this nation. more or less what is wrong, with our elected village idiots.

i say kick em all out of office. untill they start paying attention to the tax payers. and reverse their, runaway overspending. and quit giving the keys, to the cheese cabinet. to the rats, the emperor rats. and let them know, we the people are in charge. according to, the constitution.

Comment by jimmie c boswell on 7/20/11 at 10:34 pm

You seem to cover most of the Marxist talking points here, disguised as THE Jewish agenda.  The problem is that it is all rubbish that history has shown, over and over again, always leads to economic disaster and tyranny.  Your Marxist scare tactics will not work, and you do NOT represent the Jewish point of view!  Indeed the agenda that you advocate is just as strongly against the Jewish interest as it is against the interests of anyone who values liberty, security, and prosperity!  Where is your criticism of the Obama regime’s lack of transparency, attacks on our liberty (including free speech!), failed economic policies, and (by a US president) unprecedented hostility towards Israel???

Comment by e r on 7/21/11 at 5:17 am

Are yuo also on the payroll of Soros and the unions?
Youar supposed to be balanced
Goodbye Israel if Obama gets reelected. Mark my words.
Even handed or I am blocking you after shabbat for good
as I did with the Herald after 50 yrs.

Comment by charles waserstein on 7/21/11 at 7:08 am

What do you expect from the “Jewish” Journal.  It mo more reflects the position of most Jews than does the Christian Science Monitor, when it comes to politics.  It is filled with a bunch of leftist writers (with the exception of Suissa, and occasionally, Prager).  The Democratic Party of today is NOT the Democratic Party of Truman/Kennedy.  The Democratic Party today is the what would have been called the Socialist Party during that time.  It would be nice though if the journal that is supposed to represent the Jewish community in Los Angeles reflected the position of ALL Jews in the community and not just half the community.

Comment by Proud Jew on 7/21/11 at 7:56 am

Vincero:  What a stupid statement about the USA military. No hace un piaso.

Comment by Honey Bee on 7/21/11 at 9:35 am

Honey Bee
Just what would that statement be? You sure you are on the right blog? The right planet? This is my first post on this blog.

Comment by VINCERO on 7/21/11 at 11:21 am

Vladimir Val Cymbal: Well said

Comment by Mini on 7/21/11 at 12:45 pm

I used to think the JJ was the face of the Jewish community in the general public. Now I get it is an arm of the Demoratic Party into the Jewish community.

Comment by Harvey on 7/21/11 at 12:49 pm

Sonensein’a article: “Some views are so dumb, only an intellectual could come up with them” (George Orwell)

Comment by Avi on 7/21/11 at 12:52 pm

@Harvey,

Sad to say, you’re right. But it always has been. Even under Gene Lichtenstein. Gene at least was a decent guy. I expected better from Eshman, but he’s a joke.

Furthermore, look at who one of Eshman’s wingnuts is. Yehuda Lev might be long gone (thankfully) but now we have Mister Susie Ostrich aka Estrich, the formerly - (and they truly deserve each other)married to Susan the demagogue Marty Kaplan - who even tried to call former Vice President Cheney a “war criminal” when a pisspot like Marty isn’t fit to shine his boots. The JJ - Jewish rag wing of the L.A. Demorats.

Comment by Alan on 7/21/11 at 1:06 pm

In this country, politics and elections are just another major league sport. It doesn’t seem to matter who is elected, just that someone wins and someone loses. They are all criminals, liars and perverts.

It was obvious that the GOPs knew they were going to lose, so the put a moron and a geriatric as candidates and focused on the congress. The Dems, knowing they would win, put a girl and a negro as candidates. With the Negro unrest growing in this country, they figured a black president would placate them, and it did.

Comment by VINCERO on 7/21/11 at 10:09 pm

Vincero: You can’t stop yourself, and stupid statement.No se hace un piaso.

Comment by Honey Bee on 7/22/11 at 8:01 am

Vincero, take care of your soul. You need some serious help.

Comment by Mini on 7/22/11 at 8:28 am

D- on your paper, Raphael, I hope you’ve got tenure cause I would fire you for this drivel. Nothing but opinions, no citations of facts given, a screed of rhetoric

Comment by David Dean OKeefe on 7/22/11 at 5:50 pm

Vincero: Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us. I rest my case.

Comment by Mini on 7/22/11 at 6:24 pm

mini: Besides you adn the mouse in your pocket, no one is listening and no one cares.

so, you and your mouse win.

the US goes down in flames.

Comment by VINCERO on 7/22/11 at 11:54 pm

Oh Vincero, dear heart, Against all my best advice, you have made a clown of yourself.  MIMI your wonderful.

Comment by Honey Bee on 7/23/11 at 7:48 am

Thank you Honey Bee. I was saddened this morning to find Vincero doesn’t love me, but now you lifted my spirit. Shabat Shalom

Comment by Mini on 7/23/11 at 7:53 am

MINI: Thank you.  Should we be typing on the Sabbath?

Comment by Honey Bee on 7/23/11 at 8:06 am

Sweetheart, I am saying Shabat, but you—whatever makes you comfi. May I make a wild guess: You are not Jewish? (Not that there is anything wrong with it…). Anyway, let it be peaceful. Shabat Shalom my friend.

Comment by Mini on 7/23/11 at 8:40 am

Sorry to dissapoint you MiNi, but I’am Jewish.  I live in an area tat has very few Jews and JJ is my soure amd outlet.  My grandparents came from Lodz, Poland. Peraps I should say Sabato.

Comment by HoneyBee on 7/23/11 at 3:13 pm

Sweetheart, me disappointed that you are Jewish? No sweetheart. I love everyone, even Jews! BTW, my mother was from Kalisz, just east of yours. Not much left there. Never been there, I don’t even eats polish food…

Comment by Mini on 7/23/11 at 3:25 pm

Nobody is remains in Poland.  My mother, a convert, is Swedish from Geatland.  Scrach me and you find a Viking, that why I like to tangle with Vincero.

Comment by Honey Bee on 7/23/11 at 3:35 pm

Oh Honey, that might explain why you are so sweet—Improved gene pool… And you must be pretty too… I’m green with envy!

Comment by Mini on 7/23/11 at 9:11 pm

Wake up! All Jews are not Democrats by birth. Those Jews who stubbornly cling to some delusions about the Democrats need to start using their brains. I just don’t understand why any Jew, in 2011, would ever vote for a tax and spend, Israel hating socialist Democrat.

Comment by Leslie on 7/25/11 at 11:07 pm

My parents were tax and welfare hating GOP jews. Jews care about Jews and Israel? Christians care about christianity and both care about more money in their pockets. Neither care about the USA. The majority of US citizens are parasites, taking from the host and giving nothing in return. Little or no nationalizm or patriotism in the US and being a soldier and going to war is not, in this day and age, patriotism.
Politicians are not nationalizts or patriots. Just parasites.

Comment by JEWISH BY BIRTH on 7/25/11 at 11:21 pm

So Professor Sonnenshein please show me the quote where the “The Republican Party” called President Obama “Hilter.” I mean come on…this is way beyond Democrats and Republicans. Are your parents proud of you? ...a professional demagogue living off tax dollars coming from hard working people. What could anyone learn from you in the classroom that puts principle and professionalism before partisan politics and ideology? Look in the mirror man - Lots of heat, no light and all at the taxpayers expense. Have you ever rethought a thought or are you liking your free ride too much to rise to the level of decency and principle? Sad.

Comment by Rafael Guber on 9/18/11 at 3:50 pm

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