JOPLIN, Mo. —
There are probably almost as many poor Republicans as poor Democrats, because there are 28 Republicans for every 31 Democrats. If poor Republicans can get voter IDs, poor Democrats can too.
Maybe Bill Clinton couldn’t have cleaned up Bush’s mess in four years, but he would have done a better job than Obama. Bill had to get around Newt Gingrich to work with Republicans in Congress. Newt was just as bad as the Archduke of Just Vote No.
If Mitt Romney hadn’t converted to “severe conservatism,” he would have walked right over Obama. Has Mitt truly converted? Well, it’s like what Nancy Pelosi had to say about foot-thick, blue-dog Democrat care that made Pelosicare 14 percent more expensive — you have to elect him now, and find out later.
Severe conservative Archduke Mitch McConnell needs Todd Akin in the Senate to help him pass the no taxes for plutocrats bill— now that’s severe conservatism.
Akin is spreading fairy tales about things he knows he can’t do. The Archduke isn’t fakin’ like Akin, he doesn’t need the approval of three quarters of the states to bankrupt the government.
Paying your debts isn’t charity, it’s morality.
Steve Goebel
Joplin
Opinion
Your View: Severe conservatism
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Our View: Setting standard
The sight of hundreds of young student volunteers walking across Moore’s Fourth Street interstate overpass had to be uplifting to the city’s tornado victims.
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Our View: Safer schools
Being able to see for ourselves what would have happened to our children had they been standing in the main hall of their schools during the May 22, 2011, tornado had a profound effect on our understanding of safe schools.
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Marilyn Beasley, guest columnist: Claiming responsibility for abuse of power
Over the past few months we’ve witnessed the abuse of power by President Barack Obama and his administration.
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Our View: ‘Why?’ has no answer
Just hours before, there was breakfast and laughter. There were pictures on the walls and memories in every room.
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Our View: Absent from House
We can’t figure out why two Missouri legislators think they should be elected to the U.S. House when it appears they can’t seem to show up to take care of business in the Missouri House.
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Your View: Terrible injustice
I see this Jasper County nuisance law as a terrible injustice on the rights of the residents of Jasper County.
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Your View: Should we be outraged?
Were there effusive apologies following the lockdown of Boston as most of the continent indulged vicariously in the ongoing manhunt?
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Your View: Terrorism is terrorism
In the May 13 issue of The Joplin Globe there was an Associated Press article concerning the New Orleans shooting.
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Phill Brooks, columnist: Missouri Senate did what Founding Fathers had in mind
George Washington once described the Senate as being like a saucer in which you pour coffee or tea.
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Other Views: Conflicts in SEC
Money talks. In the continuing dispute over the all-too-cozy relationship between the people who create and sell financial products and the people who rate their risk, the money says: Shut up and let us do what we want.
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