Does the fact that he opposes the drug war let the rest of the republican party of the hook? Of course not.

Not a position I hold (Rand Paul lets Repubs off hook for drug war). But, you used the least Republican Republican to make your point by comparing him (to his son) the Tea Party’s most famous and highest office holder. I’m not proposing it proves anything, but one is a corner case and the other is a corner stone.

The whole GOP=Scrooge/Dems=Santa Claus theme is complete and utter bullshit, as we’ve seen over the years. They’re *all* puppets of the same set of Puppet Masters; the primary difference is that the GOP seems to want to follow their ‘tax & spend’ instructions 20% slower, and maybe a little bit cheaper. Maybe.

Yet even now we STILL have slogan-chanting rubes mindlessly aping Teacher’s dogma by typing in horseshit like, “Send it to the Tea Party, dude!” – “thinking” they’re being nonconformist and edgy. Read a book, rubes. Look into Obama’s and, say, Chuck Schumer’s biggest corporate contributors. You’re gonna find LOT of big companies, especially banks….just like the other guys get. Again, if I’m full of shit, kindly point me to sweeping legislation passed by democrats and signed into law by a democrat President ending the Drug War. Or EO’s from a democrat President to that effect. Or mass Presidential Pardons of minor drug “criminals”. Can’t do it, can you. Ever wonder why, rubes?

#44 | Boyd Durkin

@#41 Upbeat99,

Is the Tea Party the group to blame for the war on drugs? Not even close. Democrats and Republicans have filled the prisons, murdered thousands, and increased the debt much, much, much, much, much, much, much more than the TP.

Let’s look at the most famous “Tea Party” member of Congress: Rand Paul. Google “Rand Paul on the war on drugs”..

Look at one of the more famous republicans: Ron Paul. Does the fact that he opposes the drug war let the rest of the republican party of the hook? Of course not. The Tea Party (assuming they are even an significant entity anymore) is basically a subdivision of the republican party and they sure as hell don’t speak with any plurality in opposition to the drug war.

Having said that, I have no clue what upbeat99 meant by his comment. He could just as easily have said “send this to the republican party” or “send this to the democrats” and it would have been equally meaningful (or meaningless).

Somebody please send this to the Tea Party

Why? Is the Tea Party the group to blame for the war on drugs? Not even close. Democrats and Republicans have filled the prisons, murdered thousands, and increased the debt much, much, much, much, much, much, much more than the TP.

Let’s look at the most famous “Tea Party” member of Congress: Rand Paul. Google “Rand Paul on the war on drugs”.

HOLY FUCK, Upbeat99! Google must be lying because he sure has a good track record when compared to the ass-hats in the Democrat Party and the rest of the Republicans.

Not a TP, but damn!

Now, you have a $1.5 trillion nipple that the state is not even close to considering giving up.

Good luck.

I’m sure “health care” isn’t going to end up the same way!

The drug war is about empire building, not making the world a better place (unless you’re talking about making the world a better place for all the government employees who are beneficiaries of it at taxpayer expense).

As it is, the graph is (unfortunately) a textbook case of lying with graphs for raw propaganda purposes.

The question that is relevant is “Who stands to make money by continuing the War on Drugs?”. Winning is a pipe dream, since it defines as a condition of victory one that has never existed in the history of human affairs – a total lack of drug abuse.

Also; you single out American society, as if the follow the money edict was peculiar to Americans. Can you name me a society to which ‘Cui Bono’ does NOT apply?

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/332822#ixzz29FJEK9Gr

Go work for Monsanto.

Oh, leave old Nixon alone. He never pretended to be anything but a Lawr ‘n’ Owda business as usual Republican. I never liked him much, and want no part of recent efforts (which I consider misguided) to rehabilitate the silly bugger, but at least he didn’t say one thing about Pot while he was running for election and then do another. You want to urinate on a grave, look up FDR’s. HE’s the one who let the experience of having to preside over the repeal of Prohibition slide right over his head.

Ol’ Tricky Dick is buried here: http://www.travelin-tigers.com/ztravel/prznixo.htm

Go on and give it a go. Couldn’t be any worse than when I banged a shoe on Brezhneyevs grave!