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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vvvvvvv" data-source="post: 1799250" data-attributes="member: 5151">Most of the arguments at the Capitol center not around principle, but around credit. Some prime recent examples are Obamacare (thank you, Heritage Foundation 15 years prior), the Patriot Act (doesn't matter who controls the legislative branch - renewal comes "sharply divided along party lines"), the current Republican House - including every "conservative" delegate from Oklahoma (and also both of our "conservatives" in the Senate) - voting overwhelmingly in favor of declaring your doorstep a "battlefield" for international law purposes in addition to military detainment without due process for the mere accusation that you may have some remote connection to "terrorism" (active or passive, financial or otherwise).In Oklahoma, we have a Republican-controlled legislative and executive branch. We get to see fun things like pushes to further limit access to effective medication (pseudoephedrine) under the guise of "curbing meth", when the reality is that at least 95% imported according to OBNDD. The only things that putting pseudoephedrine (which does occur naturally, contrary to what that Michael Savage guy who supposedly has a Ph.D in nutrion claims constantly on his radio show) behind the counter accomplishes is opening a market for a much less effective product for those with legitimate allergy needs and inflating the black market for pseudoephedrine-containing medications. Or we get to see things like 2010's SQ755 because by golly if you're Muslim you should not have equal access to Oklahoma courts because you obviously must be a "terrorist" or are at least of a lesser class. Or we get to see massive financial irresponsibility like using 100% of the Rainy Day Fund, which is meant to be used to shore up accounts in the event that the bottom drops out of the oil/gas market that provides a large source of anticipated revenue, in order to increase a budget rather than make much needed cuts. Or we get to see things like further promotion of abstinence-only sexual education while we ironically have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country. Or we get to see things like further demonization of people who don't fit the Christian-heterosexual mold on the grounds that they allegedly can't provide a "safe and stable environment for children", while we ironically have one of the highest divorce and single-parent-on-welfare rates in the country. Or we get to see even more asinine laws relating to alcohol and other vices.I'm not sure who really had Alzheimer's - Ronald Reagan or the GOP as a whole. Look at Reagan's support of terrorism around the world with American tax dollars. Look at Reagan's tripling of the national debt (and near-doubling when expressed as a percentage of GDP). Yet according to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and (depending on the day) Glenn Beck, Ronald Reagan is who we should look to for handling government finances and terrorists.People who blindly buy into the polarized left-vs-right paradigm are one of the main reasons why we are where we are now in this country - point blank and simple.</blockquote>

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