On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:15:46 -0500, BAR wrote:


If your party has to destroy the other party in order to impose your
will on the people then you need to take a hard look at your party's
ideology and principles.

I would argue the Republican Party is destroying itself. It needs new
leadership, and new ideas. Deregulation has been a disaster, as the
current fiscal crisis shows. Republicans have lost touch with there
fiscal conservative roots for decades now. They are a party in
disarray. The American people have spoken, and it isn't with a
Republican voice. I believe in a strong two party system, but
"government is the problem" isn't cutting it, anymore.


When you pull in NPR which to any objective listener is left of center,
left, and far left and it is supported by US government dollars. Would
NPR still be broadcasting if they had survive without government footing
the bill?

If I'm not mistaken, government funding is somewhere between 2-6% of
NPR's funding. Corporations and charitable foundations, however, are
major donors. Considering how "leftist" you consider it, at least one
survey has PBS and NPR the "most trusted" news source.