I've heard and seen it all over the place in recent days: Deranged right-wingers such as Rush Slimebaugh trying to credit the good ol' American capitalist system for rescuing the trapped miners, while loony left-wingers such as MSNBC's Chris Matthews dispute that point and claim that if we had a "Tea Party America," the miners would now all be dead (the linked column is one example of some of the back-and-forth).Enough already! Can there ever be even one natural disaster or tragic (or near-tragic) event domestically or worldwide that the two American political extremes will not try to politicize, take credit for and/or assign blame to the other extreme? It's pure mindlessness. I have little doubt that I could go do a Google search right now and probably find whackjobs trying to blame Bush for the Chiliean miners being trapped or trying credit Bush or some right-wing policy for saving the miners.
And these partisans actually sit around wondering why so much of the electorate (including many Independents) distrusts and is thoroughly fed up with both parties these days and is ready to kick the leftists dems to the curb in a few weeks just two years after kicking a rather pathetic republican party to the same location. They just don't get it. Well, we Independents (the ones who control your election outcomes) are going to be more than happy to keep showing your slimy partisan asses that very same curb, election cycle after election cycle, until you finally stop representing only the minority slivers of the population that constitute your so-called "bases."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-k-black/capitalism-would-have-kil_b_764948.html
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