Stupid Republican idea of the day

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Bosstone said:
Do I agree that a national poll reported nearly 25% of Americans want more socialism?

Do I agree that nearly 25% of Americans want more socialism?

Do I agree with the nearly 25% of Americans who want more socialism?

I'm so confused.
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It doesn't matter. It's all code for "Do you agree to be totally batshit insane and stupid?" Yes? Sign here! Then give us money!
 
ElvisL1ves said:
Maybe you should check Biggirl's. ;)

Maybe that's one of many words that have different connotations and usages in different countries that use nominally the same language?
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Cant check her location, it does not show in "guest" users.

And of course words have different connotations and usages in different countries, but she said "In Spanish, negrita/o is an endearment.".

Since I speak Spanish, I know thats not true :), perhaps she meant to said "In Honduran Spanish"?
 
Kobal2 said:
If that's what you believe (and there's nothing wrong with that, mind you), simple question for ya : why do you vote ? Assuming you do, obviously.
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Why do I vote?

Why, to keep liberals out of office, of course. :D

Seriously though, I know what you're driving at but electing a government does not mean we are the government. And it doesn't mean we have much more control over government than to set the general direction it takes. Most people by far disapprove of Congress and what it does. So does that mean that Congress and the laws it passes are following the will of the people? Of course not.

Why do you think so many people are so angry and why so many people oppose government health care? The country's population is aging so you'd think there would be lots of support for it, but there isn't. Older Americans have been around long enough to see how this country's government operates and they want nothing to do with it calling the shots when it comes to their health care.

It is a misnomer at best and silly and naive at worst to make no distinction between us and our government. This isn't an eighth grade social-studies class, it's the real world; and in the real world the government is not us and it rarely does what most of us want.

But really, we are getting two different types of government conflated here. There is legislative government and there is administrative government. Administrative government is where my main gripe is concerned when it comes to governemnt health care, and administrative government where we have the least control when it comes to the voting booth. And administrative government is where the decisions would get made that directly impact our health care and what we are allowed to have. (Get that? Allowed? Being 'allowed' things by the government is not a good thing and it sets up all sorts of dangerous precedents. Again, I don't want the government telling me what I'm 'allowed' to have. Government's role should be to create an environment where we are free to govern our own lives and provide for ourselves, and not to take on the role of some sort of
 
Well, in fairness, it turned out Terri Schiavo was brain dead, so they were really just standing up for one of their constitutents.










Too soon?
 
Frostillicus said:
Enough of this Republican bashing. GOP Chairman Michael Steele has single-handedly solved the health-care crisis:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/20/744744/-Michael-Steele-Solves-The-Health-Care-Crisis



Now why didn't Obama think of that? Huh?

PS Clearly, this is good news for the McCain campaign.
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I really wish the federal government would stay the fuck away from everything and anything to do with health care.
 
Eternal said:
I don't understand how that's an offensive stereotype. Isn't frugality and financial planning a good thing?
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That's an excellent point. Like, I was just pointing out to some black people how I'm like blacks because I've got rhythm, and you'd think I'd said something offensive! I mean, having rhythm's a good thing, right?
 
Starving Artist said:
Why do you think so many people are so angry and why so many people oppose government health care?
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Because they're gullible dummies who listen to right-wing radio demagogues with no sense of conscience or truth?

No, seriously. When you have senior citizens waving signs that say "Keep your government off my Medicare!", I truly can't ascribe anything even resembling intelligence or understanding of current events to them.
 
To me, its mostly about priorities. First take away all the guns, then force Eagle Scouts into gay marriages, and then universal health care.
 
Equipoise said:
Are they the same species? (What's phylum?)
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Comes after kingdom and before class.

For example, humans are in the kingdom animalia (animals, duh), the phylum chordata (vertebrates and a few creatures with spine-like structures), and the class mammalia. Sean Hannity appears in the kingdom animalia, phylum chordata, and class douchebaggia.
 
BrightNShiny said:
I think it's time we start calling things for what they are. Anyone who killed the heads of our two legislative bodies would be a traitor, not a patriot, and we need to point out what is the logical conclusion of the statement. He is claiming that our military would behave in a traitorous fashion.
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I agree in absolute terms with what you say. But I don't think HE means that. I think Feherty thinks that Pelosi and Reid are the traitors, and real patriots want to kill them.

Which I believe is a traitorous sentiment, but not far off what what some wingnut suggested about Obama back during the campaign. Wasn't there somebody in Congress who said something of the lines of, "He better not come down here..."? I can't recall who or the details, but it was close to an implied death threat.
 
jayjay said:
... the most popular First Lady in more than 40 years.
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Burt Prelutsky would like to have a word with you.

Asswipe Prelutsky said:
Take Michelle Obama...please. Every time I turn around, there she is on a magazine cover. Now, normally, like the Mafia, I lay off the spouses, but inasmuch as this particular spouse attended the same racist church as her hubby for 20 years, I'll make an exception in her case. After all, in spite of the fact that affirmative action got her an Ivy League degree and a $7,000-a-week salary and, moreover, has sent billions of dollars for no particularly good reason to Africa, she insists this is a mean country. The burning question in my circle is: if the First Family gets a female dog, will she be the First Bitch or will she have to settle for second place?
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Score!

Tammy Bruce too:

Discussing the first lady's visit to a Washington D.C. classroom last week, Bruce incredulously recalled [Michelle] Obama's story about wanting to get A's in school and called out her use of a "weird, fake accent."

"That's what he's married to," Bruce said. "...You know what we've got? We've got trash in the White House. Trash is a thing that is colorblind, it can cross all eco-socionomic...categories. You can work on Wall Street, or you can work at the Wal-Mart. Trash, are people who use other people to get things, who patronize others, who consider you bitter and clingy..."
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Score!

I thought about starting a thread called "What kind of an asshole hates Michelle Obama?" but I guess wouldn't have been able to use the word asshole in the Subject Line and no other word fits the description.
 
Death of Rats said:
The RNC drafts a new resolution to define what a Republican is now.

I think the text of the draft speaks for itself.
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Allow me to be the first on the boards to predict that the RNC will pass this or something very similar, and their national campaign money will only go to candidates who 'sign the pledge'.

This going to worsen the intramural war between the national figures and local party organizations. Which is all gonna look pretty strange because the Pubs have traditional supported "states rights", except of course when the locals disagree with the national party.
 
I must confess I'm at a loss as to how you might refer to somebody you didn't know as "a little black man" and mean it nicely.

I mean, "cute little darkie" may nominally be a term of endearment, but...
 
Fear Itself said:
Every other time this has happened (there have been at least three), they just brush off criticism, citing isolated human error, nothing deliberate. Funny, they never mis-identify Dem miscreants as Republicans.
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Nobody ever has (T) or (F) after their names, and those letters have more border space with R. Also, nobody in the news for a good reason ever has their affiliation changed.
 
Broad brush much? Both sides have their ignorant, gullible dingbats. People in this country have been resisting attempts at government health care for many, many decades. This same debate was going on in the early sixties and it was decades old then. So you can't blame modern-day Republican rabble-rousing (tactics picked up from the left, btw) for the problems that exist in getting government health care passed. People have properly been leery of getting the government involved in their health care ever since it was first proposed.
 
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