The Heartland Project

[barondave]

Partially sparked by discussions on LiveJournal and in MN-STF, I started collecting a list of plain, obvious truths that few if any Repubicans will ever accept. I've collected them in The Heartland Project. If anyone's not sure about these, do a Google search or otherwise do your own research.

The Heartland Project
Simple truths: A preliminary list

Cutting taxes and spending more money won't balance the Federal Budget.

This is one of the issues you can say unequivocally:

Democrats are right and Republicans are wrong.

Global Warming is a serious threat to human life on Earth, and we've known this for decades.

This is one of those issues you can say unequivocally:

Liberals are right and conservatives are wrong.

There were no WMD in Iraq.

Bush and most of the people around him knew there were no WMD in Iraq.

Before the invasion, Saddam Hussein granted UN Weapons Inspectors unrestricted access to suspected sites in Iraq.

John Kerry is a war hero.

George W. Bush went AWOL.

Al Gore served honorably in Vietnam.

Evolution is the only science that currently explains the world.

The Reagan/Bush administration was the dirtiest in US History, though the Bush/Cheney administration is making a strong push to out-sleaze Reagan.

The Clinton administration was squeaky-clean.

The US news media is not only conservative, it's very conservative.

Bush lied about not knowing Katrina would be serious.

Bush lied about not knowing Osama bin Laden was planning a serious attack on the US.

Criticizing political leaders is not the same thing as criticizing the military.

Criticizing military decisions is not the same thing as criticizing the military.

A soldier can fight honorably in a dishonorable war.

The company founded by George W. Bush's great-grandfather and managed by his grandfather had very close ties to Nazi Germany even while we were at war with them.

The Jack Abramoff scandal is a uniquely Republican scandal that shows the sordid inside mechanism of Republican corruption since 1994.

The Bush family has very close ties to Red China.

The Bush family has very close ties to the Saudi royal family.

Public health insurance achieves equal or better health care at much lower costs.

Michael Moore makes documentaries; Mel Gibson does not.

9/11 brought home an important point: The conviction of misplaced faith is as strong or stronger than the conviction of faith. Merely believing in your G-d does not make you a better person.

Comments

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I would disagree with these two points:

The Reagan/Bush administration was the dirtiest in US History, though the Bush/Cheney administration is making a strong push to out-sleaze Reagan. Warren G. Harding and Ulysses S. Grant's admins were dirtier than Reagan/Bush. No argument than Bush/Cheney is going for the title, if they haven't already taken it.

The Clinton administration was squeaky-clean. Not squeaky-clean, but cleaner than any admin since Carter's.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I haven't researched a lot about Harding or Grant, to be sure. They'd have to be pretty dirty to beat out Reagan/Bush. Carter's administration was pretty clean too, but I think Clinton beats him out.

Quibble

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

You said:
Evolution is the only science that currently explains the world.

I would say, science explains the world, evolution is part of science, therefore, evolution explains some important things about the world, or words to that effect. Astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, other topics of biology, also explain the world.

Re: Quibble

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I haven't researched a lot about Harding or Grant, to be sure. They'd have to be pretty dirty to beat out Reagan/Bush. Carter's administration was pretty clean too, but I think Clinton beats him out.

[joelrosenberg.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't think there's any question that Michael Moore is a very talented filmmaker. Perhaps, someday, he'll make a documentary. Maybe on the "squeaky clean" Clinton administration, where he could interview Web Hubbell, Mike Espy, Bruce Babbit, Roger Altman, Hillary Clinton, Henry Cisneros, and Hazel O'Leary, for starters.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Thanks for dropping in!

[davidwilford.livejournal.com]

FWIW, Bruce Babbitt came out of that Hudson, WI casino investigation in squeaky clean fashion. Mike Espy was not found guilty either, BTW. I wouldn't say the Clinton administration was "squeaky clean", for obvious reasons, but for all the time and money spent on investigations that were made, very little came out of them.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I think "squeaky clean" describes the Clinton administration. Lots of investigation wasting taxpayer dollars, no one found guilty of doing anything improper while working in the administration. (The closest they got was catching Cisneros on misdemeanor charges of not saying how much he had paid for something he did well before coming to Washington.) Of course, the sheer corruption of the Bush/Cheney administration is making some pine for the days of Warren Harding and Ulysses S. Grant.

[davidwilford.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, another Republican today looks like he's copping a plea:

Tony Rudy, a former top aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, has agreed to plead guilty to charges in the widening federal investigation of lobbyist fraud, a law enforcement official said Friday.

A hearing was scheduled Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, where Rudy was expected to enter his plea.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not yet been filed with the court.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

DeLay is in deep trouble, and knows it. Currently, he's trying to get his gun back. He's relying on the of sphincter conservatives to react to emotional issues and ignore what a scumbag he is. Ah, Republicans are always soft on crime when it's theirs.

[bchbum-98.livejournal.com]

I would add something about George W bilking the city of Arlington, Tx out of about $10 million after he bought the Texas Rangers and then used his political connections to have a new stadium built at taxpayer's expense.

See "http://austin.about.com/cs/bushbiographies/a/bush_background_5.htm"

The $10 million then went a long way toward financing his Governor's run.

[rutemple.livejournal.com]

Prescott Bush (W's grandpa) was found guilty at one of the smaller Nuremberg trials of being a traitor (that word precisely) for how his company happened to have bankrolled Hitler, and had said factory taken away, and was fined heavily for his actions.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Do you have a cite? Which one of the "smaller" Nuremberg trials?