...I present Ben's More-or-Less-Fair-and-Balanced (MOLFAB) Table of Political Put-downs!
| Republicans say Democrats support... | Democrats say Republicans support... |
laziness | in poor people who don't have to get jobs. | in middle- and upper-class people who sit in front of TVs watching NASCAR all day. |
handouts | to poor people in the form of welfare and similar programs. | to rich people in the form of tax breaks and subsidies to undeserving corporations. |
corruption and pandering to special interests | such as the labor and environmental lobbies. | such as the aforementioned corporations. |
wasteful spending | on social and environmental programs. | on the military and the aforementioned subsidies. |
halting progress | in development of new technologies due to unfounded worries about harmful side-effects. | in achieving truly equal rights and opportunities for all, both in America and globally, as well as developing renewable energy sources to replace our obsolete fossil-fuel-based system. |
racism | or at least anti-Semitism, in the form of opposition to Israel's policies. | in the form of opposition to affirmative action and other civil-rights programs. |
third-world dictatorships | who harbor terrorists and are developing WMDs and should therefore be invaded. | who have low wages and few environmental protections, facts which should be changed rather than exploited. |
terrorism | by refusing to support the Iraq war or the PATRIOT Act, and offering to capitulate to the terrorists' demands. | by supporting foreign policies that result in extreme anti-American sentiments, and underfunding their own Homeland Security department. |