Chris Christie - Killer Speech.

Here's Chris Christie's Keynote from the 2012 Republican National Convention. (Full Speech Courtesy of NBC) There are some very important points here including some not very subtle slams at the intractability of Republican Congress and the doctrinaire ideology of the Tea Party. Interesting was the delayed reaction from the delegates at a number of the more non-partisan and apolitical valid visions for America and the denial of the targets of some of his observations. He did not toe the party line, he makes sense expounding basically sound principals of government, it's a damn shame that the Republican Party will, divisively ignore the basic common sense inherent in his comments and doubtless revert to the intractable positions they have taken for the last 46 months. I'm glad it's Romney who's running and not Christie.

We STILL don't learn shit from history

Part 2.

The following is from Democratic President Harry Truman, while on a cross country campaign tour in 1948. On September 19, Truman said: "You stayed home in 1946 (referring to the mid-term Congressional election) and you got the 80th Congress, and you got just exactly what you deserved. You didn't exercise your God-given right to to control this country. Now you're going to have another chance."  

Then on September 20th: "Understand me, when I speak of what Republicans (The 80th Congress) have been doing. I'm not talking of the average Republican voter," Truman told the twenty-five thousand people spread across the lawn of the State Capitol at Denver.

      "Nobody knows better than I that man for man, individually, most Republicans are fine people. But there's a big difference between the individual Republican voter and the policies of the Republican Party. Something happens to Republican leaders when they get control of Government.

      Republicans in Washington have a habit of becoming curiously deaf to the voice of the people. They have a hard time hearing what the ordinary people of the country are saying. But they have no trouble at all hearing what Wall Street is saying. They are able to catch the slightest whisper from big business and the special interests."       

Sound familiar?