Okay, then the USA now knows there are no exceptional leaders in the Republican Party anymore. I know I had that figured out.
Santorum is trying to Reagan in any way he can. He stated he doesn't understand why it is so difficult to bomb Libya as Reagan did.
Think about that a minute.
The attack began at 0200 hours (Libyan time), (click here) and lasted about twelve minutes, with 60 tons of munitions dropped. Eighteen F-111 bombers supported by four EF-111 electronic countermeasures aircraft flying from the United Kingdom bombed Tripoli airfield, a frogman training center at a naval academy, and the Bab al-Aziziya barracks in Tripoli. During the bombing of the Bab al-Aziziya barracks, an American F-111 was shot down by a Libyan SAM missile over the Gulf of Sidra. Some bombs landed off-target, striking diplomatic and civilian sites in Tripoli, while the French embassy was only narrowly missed. Some Libyan soldiers abandoned their positions in fright and confusion, and officers were slow to give orders. Libyan anti-aircraft fire did not begin until after the planes had passed over their targets. Twenty-four A-6 Intruders and F/A-18 Hornets launched from aircraft carriers bombed radar and antiaircraft sites in Benghazi before bombing the Benina and Jamahiriya barracks. A number of bombs missed their targets and hit residential areas, along with a number of Western embassies in Benghazi.
And after all was said and done, Gaddafi was still the dictator in Libya with two dead grandchildren.
The attacks failed to kill Gaddafi. Forewarned by a telephone call from Malta's Prime Minister, Karmenu Mifsud Bonncii, that unauthorized aircraft were flying over Maltese airspace heading south towards Tripoli, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his family rushed out of their residence in the Bab al-Azizia compound moments before the bombs dropped. According to Giulio Andreotti (the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy) and Abdel Rahman Shalgham (Libya's Foreign Minister from 2000 until 2009), Italian politician Bettino Craxi
was the person who actually warned Gaddafi.
The planes were spotted and reported to Gaddafi. Now, while it created remorse by Gaddhfi and the Lockerbee
While the bombing served a purpose and we are all grateful Libya is disarmed of its nuclear weapons, the idea the same tactic would result in better outcomes is nothing more than silly.
But, true to form, as long as a candidate sounds like Reagan 'enough' he won favor among those in Iowa. That is the rank of the Right Wing. They lie and deceive and 'find messages' that work to win votes regardless of the truth or their ability to carry out the realities of the words.
Bachmann found words in a law she should have read and debated rather than running around screaming there were death squads and Granny killers. But, she didn't. Santorum will seek to appear Reaganesque even though he hasn't got a chance at winning the Presidency. Why bother? Money. Fame. Temporary Power. Influence the elections across the country at all levels so people like Walker are elected that cater to plutocrats and rob the Middle Class of their integrity, values and power.
That is what occurred yesterday in Wisconsin. The integrity of the Middle Class was robbed, made to feel inadequate in their own defense through the only mechanism their democracy affords them. The Republican Party has no shame, they do not respect the lives of the Middle Class and will rob them of every nickel. Republicans love to demoralize the Middle Class right up to the point where they can lie to them for votes.
Why isn't Chrisi running? No surprise here.
...In fact, on the occasions (click here) when the Legislature granted the unions new benefits, it was for pensions, which were not subject to collective bargaining — and it has not happened in eight years. In reality, state employees have paid 1.5 percent of their salaries toward health insurance since 2007, in addition to co-payments and deductibles, and since last spring, many local government workers, including teachers, do as well. The few dozen school districts where employees agreed to concessions last year still saw layoffs and cuts in academic programs.
“Clearly there has been a pattern of the governor playing fast and loose with the details,” said Brigid Harrison, a political science professor at Montclair State University. “But so far, he’s been adept at getting the public to believe what he says.”...
The American electorate is chronically robbed of their dignity, it is just that they allow it so much they sincerely don't seek it anymore. The events in Wisconsin to demoralize the public actually plays into the strategy of Republicans. The more demoralize people become the easier they are to lie to because they don't care anymore.
Republicans, by methodology and track record, are not good people. The reason the Middle Class is facing their reality today is because for eight long and stupid years they were lied to, deceived, corralled like cattle to fear the unknown and then robbed of their treasury. The wealthy that reaped the riches sowed during that time needs to be taxed, but, are they? No. What is occuring is a 'moral tax' by the Middle Class and that is all that will occur.
The country is in trouble. The monies hoarded by the wealthy need to be returned to the USA treasury. If the Middle Class continues to be demoralized and continues to make the mistakes of believing the Republican manipulation of the truth, they will disappear. A nation of Plutocratic Peasants. That is what will be left if that isn't what exists already.
