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- utopian0
If I where to cast my vote for a Right Wing Nut Inbred Teabaggin' Republican, my dream ticket would be:
- PonyBoy0
"If they put nearly as much energy and effort into helping living children..."
Change that statement to "If PARENTS put nearly as much energy and effort into helping living children..."
Since when is it the communities job to raise your kids for you?
As for abortion - it's legal... publicans just don't want public funds paying for it as plenty of folks are against it...
- Since when? Since the dawn of civilization. It's called a community. We all live in one.luckyorphan
- "It takes a village"DrBombay
- it's takes responsible parents... the village has no business raising my child ;)PonyBoy
- +1 to PonyBoy
mathinc - So how do you make responsible parents?IRNlun6
- ukit0
He's got a point though, if you are against abortion, why would you be against banning insurance cos from treating preexisting conditions, for either kids or adults. Or the death penalty for that matter. Just be pro-life 100% instead of only applying it to the abortion issue.
- luckyorphan0
Scolding G.O.P., Obama Makes 15 Recess Appointments
by The Associated Presshttp://www.nytimes.com/aponline/…
''I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government,'' Obama said in a statement.
Kinda not too pleased about it, but I don't see any other way for him to keep things moving.
- Some interesting background on the Labor Relations Board http://en.wikipedia.…ukit
- ukit0
- Why are we still talking about this woman?luckyorphan
- Because she's a fucken ignorant disgraceBusterBoy
- ukit0
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/2…
To find a prototype for the overheated reaction to the health care bill, you have to look a year before Medicare, to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Both laws passed by similar majorities in Congress; the Civil Rights Act received even more votes in the Senate (73) than Medicare (70). But it was only the civil rights bill that made some Americans run off the rails. That’s because it was the one that signaled an inexorable and immutable change in the very identity of America, not just its governance.
The apocalyptic predictions then, like those about health care now, were all framed in constitutional pieties, of course. Barry Goldwater, running for president in ’64, drew on the counsel of two young legal allies, William Rehnquist and Robert Bork, to characterize the bill as a “threat to the very essence of our basic system” and a “usurpation” of states’ rights that “would force you to admit drunks, a known murderer or an insane person into your place of business.” Richard Russell, the segregationist Democratic senator from Georgia, said the bill “would destroy the free enterprise system.” David Lawrence, a widely syndicated conservative columnist, bemoaned the establishment of “a federal dictatorship.” Meanwhile, three civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Miss.
That a tsunami of anger is gathering today is illogical, given that what the right calls “Obamacare” is less provocative than either the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or Medicare, an epic entitlement that actually did precipitate a government takeover of a sizable chunk of American health care. But the explanation is plain: the health care bill is not the main source of this anger and never has been. It’s merely a handy excuse. The real source of the over-the-top rage of 2010 is the same kind of national existential reordering that roiled America in 1964.
In fact, the current surge of anger — and the accompanying rise in right-wing extremism — predates the entire health care debate. The first signs were the shrieks of “traitor” and “off with his head” at Palin rallies as Obama’s election became more likely in October 2008. Those passions have spiraled ever since — from Gov. Rick Perry’s kowtowing to secessionists at a Tea Party rally in Texas to the gratuitous brandishing of assault weapons at Obama health care rallies last summer to “You lie!” piercing the president’s address to Congress last fall like an ominous shot.
If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play. It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from.
They can’t. Demographics are avatars of a change bigger than any bill contemplated by Obama or Congress. The week before the health care vote, The Times reported that births to Asian, black and Hispanic women accounted for 48 percent of all births in America in the 12 months ending in July 2008. By 2012, the next presidential election year, non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. The Republicans haven’t had a single African-American in the Senate or the House since 2003 and have had only three in total since 1935. Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded.
- ill let you in on a little secret since you're obviously ignorant. 73% of America is white. Maybe you should just go back to Africa were you would have a better life? Idiot.********
- Africa where you would have a better life, Right? You idiot.********
- ill let you in on a little secret since you're obviously ignorant. 73% of America is white. Maybe you should just go back to Africa were you would have a better life? Idiot.
- luckyorphan0
GOP = Tea Party
http://www.salon.com/news/the_nu…
"...several polls released this week suggest that the only thing new about the tea party movement might be its name – and that the tea partiers themselves are simply the loudest, most revved-up subset of Republicans."
- The Republican party being deceitful and manipulative? No way.Josev
- lucky, just go to one of these rallies and see for yourself. The int3rw3b is no place for form an opinion.mathinc
- I'm no republican and I've been to one of these rallies.. it's not what you've been told it is.mathinc
- You went to one rally. So you know what they are all about.DrBombay
- ukit0
Obama visits Afghanistan
- Re: Last Picture...What's this? Military personnel happy to see Obama? How could that be?luckyorphan
- Maybe the armed forces are not entirely staffed by Republicans?luckyorphan
- BusterBoy0
@joeth "An honest question for the conservatives here...
If you could vote tomorrow for a new president, who would you want it to be? "That's the million dollar question. Most republicans are counting on some mythical saviour candidate and many of the polls are based on that. When you have to crystallise a name, it's pretty apparent they have nobody up to the task.
The most qualified probably won't stand a chance and the populists will burn out when they're scrutinised.
- ukit0
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Female suicide bombers blamed in Moscow subway attacks
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/eu…
Im sure if we just sit down and try to understand them and bring in dr. phil to talk to them, these terror....whoops....these fanatic mus...whoooopssss..i mean these peace loving, middle eastern people will leave us all alone!!!
But in the mean time, back to healthcare!!!!!- Chechnya isn't in the Middle East, Mensa.DrBombay
- Shows your prejudice pretty nicely though.DrBombay
- Holy shit what a simplistic worldview you've got there, is that really what you think anyone wants to do?ukit
- Putting aside the fact you got the part of the world and motivations for the attack wrongukit
- No Im pretty much right!!! ********
- Not geographically.DrBombay
- Yes, but i hate to tell there alllllllllllllllllll... the same!!!!!********
- Racism, with poor grammar and the ubiquitous their/they're/there mistake. hahaha.DrBombay
- I'm still right...don't care how I spell it!!! And you my friend are wrong!!!!! ********
- DrBombay0
Michael Steele - private jets and bondage clubs
http://www.americablog.com/2010/…
- DrBombay0
Federal prosecutors plan to unseal charges today against members of a self-described Christian militia arrested Saturday and Sunday in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
http://www.detnews.com/article/2…
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- Care to give one concrete example proving that?luckyorphan
- but Wall Street is still in chargeBattleAxe
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Max Baucus (D) admits: Health-care law is really about redistributing income
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/…
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Waster-in-chief blows $5 billion on empty 'stimulus' scheme
http://apnews.myway.com/article/…
- ukit0
Hutaree, the Christian militia in southeast Michigan reportedly raided by the FBI Sunday, was preparing to battle the Antichrist because "Jesus wanted us to be ready to defend ourselves using the sword and stay alive using equipment," according to its Web site.
What appears to be Hutaree's Web site features Youtube videos of heavily armed men in fatigues training in the countryside.
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