Of ocurse I am going to take the opportunity to talk about the Hamas attack on Israel. First, I'd like to talk about my background, or baggage, regarding the country. I have lived in Israel, some years ago. This was not for religious reasons; I spent several months there working on a movie. During pre-production, weeks of location scouting and shooting the movie, I was all over the country, and spent a fair amount of time in the West Bank, where we also shot. This included a lot of places that normal tourists would not see, including predominantly Arab areas such as East Jerusalem, the Arab quarter of the old city, Ramla and the southern part of Jaffa, which is predominantly Arab. It also included heavily Orthodox areas like Mea Shearim. I dealt with Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and Bedouins. Here are a few things I believe I learned there: First of all, the Palestinians I knew were perfectly normal people with the same interest in living a safe, secure
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You have to understand that cutting taxes is literally the only idea that the GOP has at this point.
If I had cancer, they'd offer me a tax cut.
They've really given up on doing government at all. They fucking contracted out the Iraq war when they had the chance. They are running on empty.
You forgot slashing regulations, i.e. making criminal behavior by rich people legal. This includes, notably, the Dodd-Frank bill, which is all that prevented a 4,000 point collapse in the Dow today.