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Nice try.

Tom Brosz — 7/15/2006 5:13:23 PM (archived)

I know what the people who call themselves "progressives" today believe and stand for, what ideas they espouse, and what the exact same organizations called themselves ten or fifteen years back.

I know which people and organizations I'm talking about when the term is used, and despite your pretended ignorance, so do you, and so does everyone reading this board. When people in Congress join the Progressive Caucus, they know damn well what the agenda is.

Trying to whitewash these people with our long American tradition is as lame as someone who calls himself a "clansman" in modern America trying to cover his ass with a long treatise on Scottish social organization.

This "what leftists?" crap got old a long time ago, and your cartoonish idea of conservatism packaged in with your lecture on not having cartoonish ideas is hilarious.

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Typographical Digression - ER - 7/14/2006 8:53:27 PM
- My best friend... - alcaray - 7/17/2006 9:50:10 PM
- Vehicle - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/15/2006 7:51:02 AM
  - The Last Word - ER - 7/15/2006 12:46:43 PM
    - What do they know? - Eri - 7/16/2006 12:43:12 AM
    - It was worth a guess. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/15/2006 6:13:39 PM
      - re: It was worth a guess. - Eri - 7/16/2006 12:56:33 AM
- re: Typographical DigressionAnd, with apologies to Marge Simpson, colourful leaves on trees are not foilage. (n/t) - Tony - 7/15/2006 1:43:15 AM
- I must confess.. - FrankC - 7/15/2006 12:59:35 AM
  - Like fingernails grating on blackboard (n/t) - Eri - 7/16/2006 12:55:35 AM
  - I don't think vee hick ull is an accent or regional thing... - ER - 7/15/2006 1:15:09 AM
    - I reckon you is right. - REB - 7/18/2006 8:18:30 PM
    - I think we've been here before, but... - Fox - 7/16/2006 1:42:38 AM
    - I thought the English plural was "You guys" ;-) (n/t) - Eri - 7/16/2006 12:57:56 AM
    - My favorite redneck phrase - FrankC - 7/15/2006 4:19:03 AM
- re: Typographical Digression - Tom Brosz - 7/14/2006 10:59:24 PM
  - I know it's meant to be an insult, but I just couldn't figure out how. (n/t) - ER - 7/14/2006 11:04:07 PM
    - Not really. - Tom Brosz - 7/14/2006 11:41:56 PM
      - re: Not really. - ER - 7/15/2006 12:10:04 AM
        
        it's a deliberate reframing - Robert - 7/15/2006 3:29:26 AM
        
        We've been framed! - ER - 7/15/2006 4:04:43 AM
        
        Unfortunately the concept of the loyal opposition..... - Publius - 7/15/2006 1:32:36 PM
        
        You're preaching to the choir, Mr. Publius. - ER - 7/15/2006 3:01:11 PM
        
        Very good perceptions ER - Lindy - 7/15/2006 3:18:18 PM
        
        By any other name... - Tom Brosz - 7/15/2006 8:38:41 AM
        
        "Words mean what I want them to mean" - Robert - 7/15/2006 4:25:42 PM
        
        re: "Which principle...?" - Fox - 7/16/2006 2:57:53 PM
        
        Nice try. - Tom Brosz - 7/15/2006 5:13:23 PM
        
        "Tom, please tell me: Which of those principles is not under attack by the radical Right?" - Robert - 7/15/2006 7:18:14 PM
        
        Devil, details, etc. - Tom Brosz - 7/16/2006 6:28:06 AM
        
        Burning the straw man - Robert - 7/16/2006 10:06:16 PM
        
        LOL! - Tom Brosz - 7/17/2006 2:15:49 AM
        
        I'm right behind you in line, Robert! (n/t) - Eri - 7/16/2006 1:21:34 AM
- I don't want a pickle... - Fox - 7/14/2006 10:34:02 PM
  - Now you are reaching into regional linguistic sub-.standardisms....... - Publius - 7/15/2006 12:44:20 AM
    - *Snicker* (n/t) - Eri - 7/16/2006 1:23:10 AM

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