GOP’s ‘Repeal and replace’ slogan has no grounding in reality

I’m just shocked they didn’t revert to intoning the ability of the free market to make everything better.

What boobs.

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Wasnt individual mandates orginally a Republican idea? I believe they thought that up back in ‘93 when President Clinton was trying to get his health care reform plan passed. And now they are against something they were for. Why am i not suprised.

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Informative piece, Mr. B! I like it when reporters ask direct questions of our representatives. I noticed a similar dynamic from Rep. Tom Price (R-6th) at his health care town hall meeting last September. A constituent relayed the story of her family’s struggle to care for her daughter, who was refused insurance from birth due to a congential condition. They’ll never be able to save, retire, move, or know any of the rewards of a hard-working multiple-income family, as it’s all they could ever do to barely keep up with her medical needs. >>> How would Rep. Price address the needs of families like hers? Rep. Price regurgitated a party-sanctioned talking point about “government takeover,” then moved quickly to the next person in line. He demonstrated no concern and no intent whatsoever to address the troubles such families. Fortunately for Dr. Price, I believe “Bring Back Pre-existing Conditions!” will fit nicely on a bumper sticker, should he face a real challenger in this year’s election.

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LOL @ Jay.. Why expect anything.. there is a big difference between running on a platform and actually running on a plan.. could have been worse..

Pres Obama.. minus teleprompter.. 17 minute / 2500 word answer to a woman that asked a question about taxes.. I like the term that the reporter used to describe the audience.. “dazed and confused” at the end..

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I would think that the pre-existing condition part of the new law would remain on the books. A mandate on insurance companies is one way, a government program is another and the mandate on individuals as we will now be doing is the other. A mandate on private business is very unrepublican and is, in effect a tax. Will Republicans go for a government program? Maybe, Medicare Part D was a Republican idea and is now law.

This is why politics is fascinating.

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Jay, you were talking to politicians. They all gave up a long time ago on ‘dazzling them with brilliance’. All that is left is plan B, ‘baffling them with…’ It’s great to see our government at work.

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JAY

Surely you’re not that naive. You knew going in you wouldn’t get a straight answer. These are politicians.

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Frank Luntz survey talking points. The words mean nothing because they have basis in fact.

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Jay, just like McCain being a “maverick”, and Romney being against health care reform, and “Mission Accomplished” and “deficits don’t matter”, etc., etd. the “Repeal and Replace” is a nice slogan for the party of no. What they are really saying is let’s repeal this thing and then not replace. McConnell and Saxby couldn’t answer your question because they don’t have a clue. Let’s not forget they are the “just trust us” crowd. As in the past their slogans are just that, meaningless and designed to deceive.

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Jay.. did they take off their coats and roll up their sleeves so they could be like the “working man”?

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retiredds said, “Jay, just like McCain being a “maverick”, and Romney being against health care reform, and “Mission Accomplished” and “deficits don’t matter”, etc., etd. the “Repeal and Replace” is a nice slogan for the party of no. What they are really saying is let’s repeal this thing and then not replace. McConnell and Saxby couldn’t answer your question because they don’t have a clue. Let’s not forget they are the “just trust us” crowd. As in the past their slogans are just that, meaningless and designed to deceive.”

Real answers are not in their playbook. The drone of party ideology like Tinnitus in the ear is all we can expect from them.

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Look who’s the newest birther.

MICHELLE OBAMA: Surrounding HIV testing which is still plaguing so many of our communities, which you all know a lot of that is due to homophobia. Barack has led by example. When we took our trip to Africa and visited his home country in Kenya, we took a public HIV test.

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“the “Repeal and Replace” is a nice slogan for the party of no”

That’s absolutely correct. They have a SLOGAN, they don’t NEED a plan. They have a SLOGAN, and that’s all they need.

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theyeshaveit
April 6th, 2010
4:47 pm
“Whiner, can you for once try to get on topic instead of spitting your typical drivel?”

Drivel being.. Obama is lost and clueless without a teleprompter?

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RW, we are talking about the Republicans inability to discuss their ideas on the replace portion of their repeal and replace motto. Can you handle it? Get on topic why don’t you?

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Instead, he said, individual GOP candidates would each be offering their own ideas of what a good replacement might look like.

That’s what the American people wanted from the get-go….everyone’s thoughts but Obama and the dems saw it differently.

I find no fault in giving the people what they asked for. It’s all about the collective.

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We can’t all be on topic. Somebody has to be the ODD man/woman out!!

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Hi Paul

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GoingBroke, I will take a man who, originally from Hawaii, is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and former the president of the Harvard Law Review to your intellectual model, Sarah Palin. The very day Palin mentioned the words teleprompter she was writing the answer to a question that had not been asked yet on the palm of her hand. Ugh. I thought only grammar school kids did that. And how was it that she which question was coming up? But we digress. The topic is Repeal and Replace, I believe. Or do you wish to be as evasive as the folks that Jay interviewed?

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Paul
April 6th, 2010
4:57 pm

Being of Irish heritage.. does that mean I should start calling Ireland my home?

For some people.. they still want to strive to come into this county legally and become an American.. for some Americans.. they want to become something they are not..

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As usual, the republicans are all hat and no cattle. They tell their constituency what they think they want to hear with no actual plans to accomplish anything. Attempts to repeal will be just as effective as Bush’s attempt to reform Social Security…because most people like Social Security. What a couple of wastes of space!

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The three Rs.

Repeal and Replace the Republicans.

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Hi Midori!

Hi Paul – where you been lately?

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Geez! this is so unbecoming. All the leftists who jump to jay’s defense.

I thought chivalry was reserved for women?

jay, what color panties do you wear?

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On topic? How many more ways can you say, Jay, you expected something? Silly, boy…

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Bosch

Out on business travel.

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Bosch

Sorry, didn’t mean to be curt.

Hi!

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Doggone,

Yeah, I’m sure the pictures will be awesome!

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“I find no fault in giving the people what they asked for. It’s all about the collective.”

You mean like when the people (the majority of voting citizens) asked for health care reform via choosing the Presidential candidate (and a buncha legislators) who ran on that platform back in the ‘08 election? Nice to have you aboard!

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good point josef…

Paul

You also have to consider that for ages, Blacks here in the U.S. have referred to Africa as “the Mother Land”. Personally, as long as he’s human and American nothing else should matter.

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“Yeah, I’m sure the pictures will be awesome!”

Cute! Personally, I think they’re like anarchists…they know what they DON’T want, they don’t know what they DO want.

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Replacement Plan

Keep coverage for preexisting. Keep no dropping when sick. Claim you were for it all along. Include tort reform.

Cut welfare subsidies for families making upwards of $90K a year. Take a portion of the money saved and put it in a fund. Seed money. If someone gets sick and decided to not get insurance, use that money to pay the bills. Then bill the guy who got cured according to insurance reimbursement rates. Set up a repayment plan like a mortgage, unable to be avoided through bankruptcy. Say it’s part of the Republican ideal of self sufficiency. You want to take a risk and be stupid, don’t expect others to bail you out.

It’s about the only set of replacements that’s at all consistent with what they’ve said.

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Instead of focus on party out of power….why not focus on party that’s actual making law and forcing unfunded mandates…?

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SoCom

[[Blacks here in the U.S. have referred to Africa as “the Mother Land”. ]]

That’s interesting. Learn something new every day!

Bosch and I have been discussing the Mother Ship. Wanna join? He’ll help ya’ with the handshake -

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Well there was a plan but everything the idiot Republicrats offered up was shot down by the Dumbocrats.They had proposed: 1. putting people with pre-existing conditions into a government insurance pool aided and supported by federal funds along with their own contributions. 2. Allow private individuals to purchase their own policies with after tax dollars just like people who work for companies that pay for insurance premiums with aftertax dollars.3. Do away with cobra and allow people to keep their policies as long as they continue to pay the premiums.4. Forbid insurance companies to drop coverage on these individuals or to raise their rates beyond a certain point.
5. Streamline regulations and mandates for insurance companies and allow policies to be sold across state lines.6. Allow individuals to easily join and/or form larger insurance pools. 7. Some type of tort reform is needed so that Doctors are not overpracticing medicine to cover their ass in cse they get sued. Insurance reform should have started with some of these things rather than the poison pill we just got that virtually no insurance company can survive long term.

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Why would I bother to stay “on topic” when the columnist can’t even truthfully discuss the issue?-

As long as everyone is required to have coverage, nobody can game the system and there’s no longer any justification to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions

1) The obomination does not require everyone to have coverage. You can either buy a bloated government mandated policy for about 12 grand a year or take the “public option fine” and pay a measly 750 bucks. Why must you lie Bookman?

2) Of course we will never get a recording of this interview so we will never know if my boys were really stuttering or not, and the way dummycrats deal with the truth, I’m going with they did not. Go ahead and tell me Cynthia saw it too, that’ll make all the difference.

3) The real issue of pre existing is when you lose your job or try to transfer your insurance and they discover something in your health check up that they deny.

4) Even by the liberals own count, 44 million people do not have insurance, so taking into account how much a democrat lies, let’s say it is really 22 million. What are there, 20 million illegal aliens now? So now we have 2,000,000 deadbeats that are gaming the system, according to Pinocchio^^ anyway, and I’m thinking, I know that many young healthy adults who choose to not own health insurance, because they see no need.

Can you say fabrication?

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Paul

I don’t know about that Mother Ship. I’ve seen what those people look like. As the old saying goes, “Beauty is only skin deep.” But I’m game if there’s a secret handshake involved.

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Obama’s AWOL!

The bottom line is that apart from a new “resolution authority” used to take over and liquidate failing nonbanks—a power that is likely to affect what happens only after the next crisis hits—the Dodd bill is fast turning into a nonevent.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/235938

Obama did say he liked to delegate…less of a hands-on kinda guy. What that says to me is he doesn’t want his fingerprints on anything that could indict. Leaves him room to place blame…something that he’s well-versed in.

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Paul and josef, you know I respect the hell outta you guys, but DO NOT make me go all Belushi on you with that Abba stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9JYq-mXprw

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Pogo…ya have the answers…so why dont you sent your plan of fixes to the Republicans since they dont have any plan. Maybe you have a plan for resolving the abuses in our military spending too since savings there would be big.

Its a nice claim to say lets solve abuses but actually writing legislation to preclude any abuse is impossible. Abuse is the nature of any legislation. Legal loopholes and definitional issues. Those are covered by regulations, rules and amending legislation. There are always unintended twists and turns. There are always good exceptions that should be permitted but there may be restrictions that have the unintended consequences of blocking.

“throw them out” without a replacement plan is ridiculous. Health reform is a journey. This law is a beginning, not an end. But Republicans have no plan….and what is the Tea Party plan…or anyone elses?

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I wish democrats felt the same way about freeloaders when it came to the rest of society. Paying women to breed and paying druggies with Social Security money has not helped the cause, unless the cause was getting re-elected.

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“Obama did say he liked to delegate…less of a hands-on kinda guy. What that says to me is he doesn’t want his fingerprints on anything that could indict. Leaves him room to place blame…something that he’s well-versed in.”

He is a product of the Chicago machine.

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Obama where art thou indeed?

—all signs are that he continues to leave the issue entirely to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the administration’s chief economic adviser, Larry Summers. This duo, in turn, seems willing to let the Senate do what it wants as long as it doesn’t get too specific in placing new restraints on Wall Street. Rather than putting new rules into law that will break up the banks or restrict them from certain risky practices, Geithner and Summers are banking on the same financial regulators who fell asleep last time, expecting they will use their discretion appropriately to keep an eye on things in the future. As evidence, consider Geithner’s letter to Rep. Keith Ellison, who recently asked for advice on what kind of leverage requirements to put into the bill. None, Geithner replied. “We do not believe that codifying a specific numerical leverage requirement in statute would be appropriate,” Geithner wrote. To impose “fixed, numerical capital requirements in statute,” the Treasury chief added, would only create an “ossified safety and soundness framework.”

Do you leftists ever feel like…….?

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Oh, now we are getting to the bottom of the story-

Mitch McConnell Versus Barack Obama In A Pre-Existing Condition Smackdown- First, the AP, Kaiser Health News and Mitch McConnell are correct. Folks reassured by an appeal to authority will note that the AP has quotes from two Democrats supporting their interpretation:

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2010/03/mitch-mcconnell-versus-barack-obama-in-a-preexisting-condition-smackdown.html

Seems as though McConnell knows more about the obomination than obozo does and embarrassed the little socialist, which ain’t sayin much…

So now AJCStooge has been put on retribution duty by the Regime, hahaha, what third world clown show.

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Fundad….and now for the details? and how about cost?

Tort reform is another of those myths. Does not reduce costs and what about those doctors that are truly bad. Sure a doctor shooting you with silicone from Home Depot needs to be protected from those bad bad lawyers…..after all, its a shame he cant kill/harm more people.

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“Sure a doctor shooting you with silicone from Home Depot ”

Obama would appoint that doctor to be Surgeon General.

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Once again a really nice partisan try but it’s not about Republicans at least not at this point. It’s about public opinion that shows significant mistrust and skepticism about Obamacare and that fact is documented in every creditable poll. The first real test of the public’s opinion will be reflected in the upcoming November elections. If Republicans score big then the public will be measuring them on how they would address specific healthcare issues. Unfortunately for Democrats they are on the defensive and taking the offence against Republicans in an attempt to divert public opinion, probably won’t succeed but once again, nice try.

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Who dat–
Wright’s one thing, but Ima Gonna ain’t no Marxist…a left wing justicialist maybe, a Jacobin, definitely, but not a Marxist….

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He is NOT like the Queen of England and I resent that…star of a third rate drag show, yes…but don’t go giving him airs…

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“Wright’s one thing, but Ima Gonna ain’t no Marxist…a left wing justicialist maybe, a Jacobin, definitely, but not a Marxist….”

Sure he is.

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ATT took a One Billion dollar hit on future medical liabilities thanks to the obomination and the stooges harp in that tort reform wouldn’t save any money.

Have these people no shame?

You could you rent your skull cavities out dudes, just sayin…

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“I expected SOMETHING.”

I said the same thing when I went to see Avatar. Instead I got a crappy movie about Dances with Wolves.

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“The cons are not taking this report on their failed party too well.”

See ya’s in November!

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“Actually he is a product of Rev. Wright and Karl Marx.”
“You leftists do know that Obama is just window dressing for a corrupt congress, don’tcha?”

*****YAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNN!*****

Nope, no answers here, either. Just the usual mas-tur-ba-tory rile up.

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josef, just like your Jaden/Sybil, this one is fixated on me.

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This guy tried to eat a sandwich and he “double-dislocated” his entire jaw. Now the sandwich shop wants to re-name it… “Double-Dislocator”, “Jaw Wrecker”, “Lock Jaw”…. It happened here in metro Atlanta area. This is a funny story !

http://www.ajc.com/news/north-fulton/wicked-sandwich-leads-to-440313.html?cxntlid=thbz_hm

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josef nix

[[You leave Abba out of this… signed, Dancing Queen]]

Well, Knowing Me, Knowing You, it doesn’t have to be The Winner Takes It All. ‘Cause it’s never about Money, Money, Money, is it? And that, my friend, is The Name of the Game.

AmVet 5:25

Never knew you had such a temper! Does Your Mother Know? Keep it under wraps or somebody’s gonna call a Super Trooper and you’re gonna have your Waterloo!

But as you asked real nice, I’ll honor your request. ‘Cause that’s The Way Old Friends Do!

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josef:

I’ll take a man’s man any day of the week.

(ISH)

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ANA World’s Fair of Money in Chicago for 2013-2015–Summers Larry?

Kinda funny considering.

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WHo Cares

Thank you! This is just too good…and the fellow’s name! And to have such a sense of self-irony about it all….

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“I’ll take a man’s man any day of the week.”

Unmentionable says to tell you I’m already taken….

ISH

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PAUL
Thank You for the Music

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There’s just something very insincere about Obama. His cabinet members get recognition before the miners who lost their lives?

BTW, what is he doing talking about his faith?

Let’s hear the outrage from you leftists….the same outrage you displayed when Bush did it.

If, however, you feel he’s not being sincere, you get a passover.

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Very ecumenical of you.

Rather like the Pres’s Easter remarks.

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Yeah, I’m a leftist. I heard him on his faith, too. Prop 8. Him and Palin same song and dance…at least Cheney has stood up and said… jus’ sayin…

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Bosch

I’m not sure of her motives, but she is raising the level of conversation over there.

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Ask them…
Jay evidently ain’t goin’ anywhere near the illegal alien-undocumented worker one…and me and SoCo have been ready and rarin’ to square off…

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“Jay evidently ain’t goin’ anywhere near the illegal alien-undocumented worker one”

Maybe they cut his yard?

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josef,

Maybe Jay’s waiting until it comes back into the political arena. Who knows? But he’s definitely broached that topic before.

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Hi Bosch,

nearly impossible for me to participate in the “debate” during the day.

However, it’s a blessing as “Who Dat” is a complete moron who posts completely moronic crap.

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“However, it’s a blessing as “Who Dat” is a complete moron who posts completely moronic crap.”

Jay, I’ve asked you repeatedly what you consider to be a personal attack. Now, if I went and called Midori a complete moron etc.. you’d ban me.

Just curious because you once stated that personal attacks were not welcome here.

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“nearly impossible for me to participate in the “debate”

impossible for me to participate in the “debate”

FYT

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“Do I hear a whaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmbulance?”

Well, you do shoot yourself in the foot……..

Just sayin

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Who dat…
I don’t know if they cut his yard or not, but I do know they serve his meals and cook his dinners and clean up behind him (got my spies in his crowd!) and odds are they do the janitorial work down to the AJC…but before somebody calls me a hypocrite, I benefit from the Ole Plantation mentality, too…
As Al Stewart would say, “…ah, the more it changes, the more it stays the same, and the hand just rearranges the players in the game…”

Bosch–
It IS an issue…it’s been touted as next on Fierce Advocate’s agenda…

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josef nix

true.

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“Why is Mrs. G at Cynthia’s?”

Because commies like to converse with each other?

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“Well, she does like being around people who hate whitey.”

She ain’t overly sensitive to the Romany either…

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Commies like to converse with each other, others like to converse with themselves…

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Southern Comfort,

My man, as a true beer snob, I must say that is superb!

And a robust porter no less!

Kam, any guesses on the over/under this time?

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AmVet,

now why are you picking on that poor, misunderstood black man

you know, the one who has the revolving credit card?

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Boschie,

at least a foot fungus has interesting qualities

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I must add, a foot fungus probably is more literate as well.

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Awe, another bed wetting left winger bites the dust at PMSNBC.

MSNBC Suspends David Shuster ‘Indefinitely’

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/msnbc-suspends-david-shuster-indefinitely/

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A reporter even asking a federal politician about health insurance shows how far we have fallen.

Sad.

Regardless, McConnel and Chambliss are so full of federal corn subsidies, they will never answer anything coherently. If Jay were to ask the only honest federal politician, he would answer thus-

Frustratingly, this legislation does not deal at all with the real reasons access to healthcare is a struggle for so many – the astronomical costs. If tort reform was seriously discussed, if the massive regulatory burden on healthcare was reduced and reformed, if the free market was allowed to function and apply downward pressure on healthcare costs as it does with everything else, perhaps people wouldn’t be so beholden to insurance companies in the first place. If costs were lowered, more people could simply pay for what they need out of pocket, as they were able to do before government got so involved. Instead, in the name of going after greedy insurance companies, the federal government is going to make people even more beholden to them by mandating that everyone buy their product! Hefty fines are due from anyone found to have committed the heinous crime of not being a customer of a health insurance company. We will need to hire some 16,500 new IRS agents to police compliance with all these new mandates and administer various fines. So in government terms, this is also a jobs bill. Never mind that this program is also likely to cost the private sector some 5 million jobs.

Of course, the most troubling aspect of this bill is that it is so blatantly unconstitutional and contrary to the ideals of liberty. Nowhere in the constitution is there anything approaching authority for the Federal government to do any of this. The founders would have been horrified at the idea of government forcing citizens to become consumers of a particular product from certain government approved companies. 38 states are said to already be preparing legal and constitutional challenges to this legislation, and if the courts stand by their oaths, they will win. Protecting the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, should be the court’s responsibility. Citizens have a responsibility over their own life, but they also have the liberty to choose how they will live and protect their lives. Healthcare choices are a part of liberty, another part that is being stripped away. Government interference in healthcare has already infringed on choices available to people, but rather than getting out of the way, it is entrenching itself, and its corporatist cronies, even more deeply.

Ron Paul

And the left is cheering.

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Nice that who dat recognizes himself as a leg humping, swooning foot fungus.

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Bosch–
I think he’s waiting for his handlers to direct him…and they’re waiting to see which way the wind blows…

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Bosch, it is beyond comprehension to me that he would come back from his banishment to the blogging land of nod and do virtually the exact same cr@p all over again!

Call me crazy, but that’s crazy!

A bizarre blogging death wish…

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“This time next month, Jay will be writing an article defending the Tea Party. ”

But his boss Rahm Emanuel won’t let him.

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AmV

I’ve had my fair share of those. These, however, are my two favorites:

http://www.paulaner-kundenportal.de/191.0.12405fb8377d955e668620d87ef22332.html?PHPSESSID=12405fb8377d955e668620d87ef22332

and

http://www.stonebrew.com/arrogantbastard/

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Bosch

You left out “pearl clutching.”

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AmV

I’ve had my fair share of those. These, however, are my two favorites:

http://www.paulaner-kundenportal.de/191.0.12405fb8377d955e668620d87ef22332.html?PHPSESSID=12405fb8377d955e668620d87ef22332

and

http://www.stonebrew.com/beers/

The last beer on the year-round release list is the second. The blogonator didn’t like it when I linked directly to that page.

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Ha ha…

The moderator does indeed have good taste in beer!!

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Come on Midori, be a pro and throw out better insults. Let’s see how far you can go!

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“you could, at least, try to disguise your voice next time………”

That the best you can do? How about calling me a few names!

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Raising the level of conversation!!?!!

Granny Godzilla: I saw scuttlebut regarding a “tiger type” scandal brewing for one of the Fox personalities as well…..

More like getting off on the chance to peek into someone elses bedroom.

Really! Does anyone but you and Granny care about this kinda stuff, Kamchak?

I sure don’t.

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SoCo, I’m just so so with most of the German brews. (Sacrilege, I know!) Not a huge pilsner guy

But the Arrogant B@st@rd? Pure nectar. You sir know your beer!

And to double your fun, but shorten the party, if you catch my drift:

http://tinyurl.com/yzzl6lj

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Who dat said, ” ‘“Both are disgraceful excuses for “representatives” of we the people…’

Says the guy who thinks Los Angeles is a state.”

I hope you do not live in a glass house. Tell me. Does Palin still think Africa is a country, or has she managed to take a correspondence course in geography by now?

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“Two, Whodat, your entire purpose here seems to be to provoke others, Not debate”

Jay, when other “people” are calling Tea Party people racists, tea b@ggers, etc………. it’s kind of hard not to fight back. But guess what, I have NOT called ANYONE a name.

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“Tell me. Does Palin still think Africa is a country, or has she managed to take a correspondence course in geography by now?”

That has what to do with AmVet’s problem with state abbreviations?

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Red Sox-Yankees?

I can’t bring myself to watch any game that has that abomination from Hell, the DH, in it. I won’t even watch an inter-league game.

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“You know as I was reading through the posts most of the give and take was fairly civil until you showed up, then everything changed.”

Of course! It’s all my fault. Darn! Let me get this straight, it’s perfectly fine for left wingers to name call etc… but when someone confronts them by throwing their own hypocrisy in their face…it’s bad?

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who dat

There are people here who can agree to disagree without the condescending attitude and disrespect of one’s opinion.

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ROFL!!

And I’m not even Cajun

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Back to the Red Sox/Yankees?

Dagnabbit. I’m not at all into jealousy but I shore do wish I had MLBN!

Hillbilly, I love your baseball and music and history and overall life knowledge, but bro you gotta let up on the detestable going on 40 year DH.

Sure if either of us was King it would be gone, but we ain’t…

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“Does this look familiar?”

By that time she’d already called me fungus and a moron.

You were saying?

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“There are people here who can agree to disagree without the condescending attitude and disrespect of one’s opinion.”

Did you not say that I had lime disease this morning?

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Midori

I think I tried that one before. It gets harder to remember each day. The only continent I haven’t had beer from is Africa, unless you count Miller since it was purchased by SAB.

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Mcconnell and chambliss an undynamic duo if there ever was one. Kentucky had a chance to get rid of mitch but he scrapped out a win and the country is worse off for it. What kind of person is only interested in parliamentary manuevers just to obstruct? A loser who puts country last.

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For the lefties who attend their first tea party party.

1. Wearing Birkenstocks and smelling like Patchouli will arouse suspicions.

2. Do not wear Code Pink or GreenPeace shirts.

3. Racial slurs are to be avoided.

4. Do not be overly concerned about visible firearms.

5. Hat removed and hand placed upon heart required for National Anthem.

6. Unlike lefty events, civility and respect are mandatory.

7. Respect your elders.

I am just trying to help. We are all tea partiers now. Except Kamchak.

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“What kind of person is only interested in parliamentary manuevers just to obstruct?”

Pelosi

Reid

Kerry

Biden

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“Only because you said you had a tick…tick..tick”

AH, well I was just going off of what Kamchak wrote.

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“It looks like you could be banned due to the weak will of others. Doesn’t seem fair to me.”

That’s exactly my thought.

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I’ve found, when called on the carpet, sometimes the best response is no response.

Ain’t happenin’.

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Hi Kammie

oh well

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Okay, now, I already tolja…the SPDDDD takes high umbrage at the attack on Who dat’s monniker…
And Who dat is NOT Cajun..even though Cajuns use it…it’s origins are obscure, but most likely it comes from the jazz musicians and seems to have become a part of the popular language of ALL South Louisianans sometime around the turn of the last century.

I’m not for banning anybody—and I’m particularly thin skinned…

SoCo–
Try some of the South African ones…not a beer aficionado myself, but I’ve heard some speak highly thereof…

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“And Who dat is NOT Cajun..even though Cajuns use it…it’s origins are obscure, but most likely it comes from the jazz musicians and seems to have become a part of the popular language of ALL South Louisianans sometime around the turn of the last century.”

Once and for all, I am a SAINTS fan. Nothing more nothing less.

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SoCo, most people don’t know it but the tiny country of Belgium is arguably the world’s greatest beer nation. Countless renown breweries and beers. And if you like their doubles, triples and quadruples, you could easily die such that the mortician could not get the smile of your face…

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“most people don’t know it but the tiny country of Belgium is arguably the world’s greatest beer nation.”

Chimay being one of the best.

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Almost time for Lost.

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“Ah, don’t be so hard on poor who dat. Why don’t we take up a little collection and send him out to LA for a little R&R at the RNC’s favorite bondage club. I’m sure the ladies there will – ahem- whip him into shape.”

Yeah, maybe Bill Clinton and John Edwards could join me!

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don’t have it yet Mick — waiting for my bonus money

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“Why don’t we take up a little collection and send him out to LA ‘

Louisiana or Los Angeles? Someone was pretty embarrassed this morning when they found out Los Angeles was not a state. LOL

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Hiya Midori.

Me too. Please forgive me. With all of the “fun” going on here tonight I didn’t mean to ignore you.

Last year I gave you some advice on honey as a homeopathic treatment for pollen allergies. Did you try it? If so, has it worked for you this allergy season?

Kam, PLEASE share the love. Me and my sinuses are very interested!

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Mick,

Mike is my neighbor!!!! small world!!!

Not next door, but in the same neighborhood

A gang of us have met up several times at Manuel’s.

I adore Mike!!!

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@@

Quick question. Is that same blogger who infiltrated your personal e-mail address still on this blog? Just curious.

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Who dat…
Calme-toi, mon ami, I was defending you with that post…you were charged with being a racist for your use of the monniker and then it was decided it was Cajun–our great sophisticates of the opinion that Cajun somehow is anything identifiably Louisiana…just trying to defend my heritage
(It’s not Cajun…Unmentionable’s Chahta line is, yeah, Cajun Indians…)

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Southern Comfort said, “Midori, I think I tried that one before. It gets harder to remember each day. The only continent I haven’t had beer from is Africa, unless you count Miller since it was purchased by SAB.”

Got a recommendation for a good beer from Antartica?

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josef nix

Oh I know, and I just wanted to clarify that by stating WHY I chose that name.

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“Got a recommendation for a good beer from Antartica?”

Polar Beer.

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Who dat?:

There was no infiltration of my e-mail address. An invasion of privacy nonetheless.

Is that person here? I highly suspect she is incognito(s).

No biggie! It’s how they play the game.

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“But, really, he does have a point…it’s just an argument of form over substance…he’s no worse than the rest of us”

I’m actually pretty civil. Just ask HDB. We have plenty of great debates.

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josef

Blessed are the peacemakers…..

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AmVet

Yeah I remember; the NL was the low strike and the AL was the high strike. The AL had the old outside chest protector.

Remember how starters used to get upset at being pulled in the 7th or 8th?

Another thing I’d like to see is the same strike zone for everybody. If it’s a strike to a rookie, make it a strike to a star too.

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Who dat said, ” ‘Why don’t we take up a little collection and send him out to LA ‘

Louisiana or Los Angeles? Someone was pretty embarrassed this morning when they found out Los Angeles was not a state. LOL”

The land of the Angels not the Saints.

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“Another thing I’d like to see is the same strike zone for everybody. If it’s a strike to a rookie, make it a strike to a star too.”

The best person I have ever personally seen hit ANY strike zone perfectly is Greg Maddox. Best modern day pitcher.

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Jay said, “You guys are giving him exactly what he wants.

Sox 1, Yanks 1.”

But, Jay, is baseball still a man’s sport? I already miss college basketball.

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AmVet

Ingesting locally produced raw honey will help alleviate or eliminate allergy symptoms. Unfortunately in your case, it’s not a cure for what you’re going through. Start eating it now for the next round as it takes time for the body to build up resistance.

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theyeshaveit

If I tell you, the penguins will get me!!! I was sworn to secrecy.

AmV

Speaking of Belgians and leaving with a smile on your face, that sounds like the need for Delirium Tremens from Melle. The pink elephant on the label is what got me to try it, to much satisfaction I might add.

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Who dat—
Nah, this is Antarctica–let’s go with penguins maybe a little clip from “Happy Feet”

Mick
For they shall get shot in both cheeks!

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Who dat said, ” ‘Got a recommendation for a good beer from Antartica?’

Polar Beer.”

Who dat, I actually think that was funny and clever. Really.

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josef
**For they shall get shot in both cheeks!**

OK – so try not to sit down…

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“Watch the girly man stuff…”

Sorry, maybe I should have wrote, he throws WORSE than any girl I have ever seen throw a ball. At least he wasn’t wearing mom jeans.

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SoCo…I saw you were discussing beer. I’m not a beer drinker, but have you ever tried Rolling Rock?

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I like these:

New Belgium, Goose Island, Kona and Sweetwater.

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Kam, damn and thanks.

SoCo, the Tremens (and Nocturnum) are both exquisite.

And anything that means – (colloquially, the DTs, “the shakes”, “the horrors”, “the heebie geebies”,”the fear”, “the abdabs”, “the staggers and jags”, “the jimjams”, “jazz hands”, “the shakes and the heaves”, or “the rats”; afflicted individuals referred to as “jitterbugs” in 1930s Harlem slang; literally, “shaking delirium” or “‘trembling madness” in Latin) – is worth a try!

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Who dat?:

Goes beyond a game when they make it personal.

No harm (other than what had, up until then, been a somewhat congenial relationship). I never forget a wrong.

Gotta love the left wing crazies.

No I don’t. I just have to strive to be anything but….

To be perfectly honest, when I first came here, I held some of my own liberal tendencies. jay’s leftists have shown me that there is no value in holding onto them. If they ARE what I WAS then I have lost nothing.

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“I have not seen him pitch, but he sure does have a sweet shot from the corner.”

Well, I’d be happy to supply the presidents “awful” pitching style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSLmyEnzscU&feature=related

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Can’t even name one freaking player from his “favorite” baseball team, what a stooge.

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“What more could one need to know about that one. Yawn.”

LOL!!!!! Sure thing there TaxPayer.

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“To be perfectly honest, when I first came here, I held some of my own liberal tendencies. jay’s leftists have shown me that there is no value in holding onto them. If they ARE what I WAS then I have lost nothing.”

Interesting.

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AmV

I didn’t know that was the meaning of the name until after I tried it. I didn’t even associate the name with DT’s.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – They’ve been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement—and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation’s first black president.

Just sayin….

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IR/YW

Like I said earlier, keep your eye on McGlowan and Mississippi’s First…

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I’ll keep an eye on McGlowan, no problem wit dat, but Mississippi?

Not gonna happen…

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maybe it is possible to give healthcare insurance for pre-existing conditions, on condition, that the pre-existing conditions were from birth, and not the result of trauma. As example, if somebody sits on their hands until they have an accident, then the heck with them. If someone is born with a pre-disposition to cancer, or some other devastating disease, then they get help. I don’t see why pre-existing conditions exclusions can’t apply to those who willfully delay getting coverage. They do have some responsibility for themselves—or maybe I am old school in thinking that.

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IR/YW

Mississippi’s First District is a world unto itself…throw out everything you ever thought the state was, and start over…

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Who dat?:

Interesting.

Not really. Give ‘em an inch and they want you to walk the mile-long plank. Nothing short of that will suffice.

Be on your guard with their attempts at being nice. Wolves in sheep’s clothing.

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jay:

This in closing for the night–a comment from Cynthia’s:

Kamchak
April 6th, 2010
3:46 pm

You’ll be kicked off here and next door again long before then.

Do you really want a blogger being able to predict what you will do? What Cynthia will do? Making threats on behalf of the AJC’s liberal columnists?

I sure as hell wouldn’t.

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By the way, Bookman wasn’t lying when he said Sox 1 Yanks 1, it kinda surprised me.

That he didn’t lie.

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No plan at all is better than what just passed. For the first time, the federal government claims control of the people for FAILING to engage in interstate commerce. We are all becoming slaves to a master that we’re creating.

Here’s a few old but great quotes from Frederic Bastiat. Never heard of him? Why am I not surprised…….

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”

“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”

“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism.”

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The kindest word for all of this is fiasco. American troops are risking their lives to implement a counterinsurgency strategy that requires winning popular support in Afghanistan, and the main message from America’s Commander in Chief to the Afghan people is that their government can’t be trusted. That ought to make it easier to win hearts and minds.

Who will be the last soldier to die for obozo’s hissy fit?

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Another great one:

“Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times.

It is not considered sufficient that the law should be just; it must be philanthropic. Nor is it sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual, and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. “

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How’s that repealy replacey thingy working out for you sacks???

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There is a chance that electroshock therapy might deliver a slight improvement to the mental condition of some of these compulsive blog gnats, but don’t get too hopeful.

I actually knew someone who had shock treatments. He said, “They’re rough when you’re getting them but they’re actually good for you”. For whatever that’s worth.

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“How’s that repealy replacey thingy working out for you sacks???”

And here I thought Jay banned that word from being used.

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SoCo

But don’t go huntin’ gnats with elephant guns…

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The problem with Liberals is that their core, the very center of their ideology, hinges on violation of the most basic of human rights, as grounded in natural law: the right to property, or as worded by the founders, “the pursuit of happiness” (meaning labor, and the fruits of that labor).

It is wasted effort arguing with someone who disregards the basic rights to life, liberty, and property. Progressives, fascists, liberals, communists….democrats. Call them whatever you like….they all represent something which flies in the face of natural law. In the end, they all advocate what amounts to servitude at the altar of their flawed belief system, which they rationalize through “laws”, which invariably are illegal in that they infringe on basic human rights.

Modern liberalism is the worst type of mental incapacity.

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si, josef, what flavor you like?

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hey SoCo, if you can’t git ‘em with chop sticks.

you can’t git ‘em.

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I think soma means that liberals have the worst type of mental illness because its the type that harms other people, in mass.

Liberals are kind of like serial offenders.

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Liberals. Sucking the world dry, one “law” at a time.

Maybe we should change the name to something more descriptive… Moocher? Thief? Parasite? Yeah, thats it. Parasite.

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Whiner said, “I’m watching Hawaii myself, one of the most stupidly democrat districts on Earth and they have a spec elec comin up real soon like. We’ll see.”

But Rush Limbaugh just loved health care in Hawaii. LOL.

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/limbaugh-unwittingly-praises-socialized-medicine/

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josef

When the statement was made about people “clinging to their Bibles and guns”, I took great pride in that. I tell people to be careful how they treat those who do that because they don’t know which one they’re clinging to at that time.

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Bruno

I’ve never been a big Jay-Z fan. I should be especially since he’s family now.

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soma said, “Modern liberalism is the worst type of mental incapacity.”

Excuse me? When one conjures up a list of the paragons of mental incapacity in the political arena, I would think names like Spiro Agnew, Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin would make it to the top.

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HR3400, look it up people especially Southern Comfort. Obamacare is a joke and it gives the IRS power to take your tax return.

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That’s why I eat dressing instead of stuffing. Ain’t nothin’ in my turkey but air.

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Maniac said, “HR3400, look it up people especially Southern Comfort. Obamacare is a joke and it gives the IRS power to take your tax return.”

What is missing here? I would hope that you already send your tax return to the IRS every year.

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For those who think I only listen to 20th century stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlZxZ2n2zpw

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SoCo

That comment pretty much sealed his fate in my book…elitist to the very core in unguarded moments…I know a lot of my fellow liberals raise a c*ked eyebrow when I say this, but my liberalism is inspired by my study of the scriptures and I have no qualms about using a gun to defend it if called on to have to do so which, pray G-d, I never will.

Bruno–
As I said, that particular song is one of my “credos…”

” Let’s dance in style, lets dance for a while
Heaven can wait we’re only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you going to drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don’t have the power but we never say never …

…Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders we’re getting in tune
The music’s played by the madman …

…Sooner or later they all will be gone
Why don’t they stay young
It’s so hard to get old without a cause
I don’t want to perish like a fading horse
Youth is like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever

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The Republican plan is still the same…let the free market dictate healthcare costs.What stuns me is the regular working folk who vote Republican.Let’s see…give huge tax breaks to corporations so they can turn around and lay you off ..so they can continue to shed costs which leads to better stock prices for them.Yeah Reagan pioneered the “trickle down theory of economics(Yeah Ronnie the guy who couldn’t even spell his name by the time he left office)I guess the trickle is slowing to a drip now.It should been a crime for a company to get millions in tax breaks after laying off thousands while posting billions in profit.Yet there are some who will still vote against their self interest by following these clowns…the richest 10 percent.. sure the Republican party is the ticket..but those who make 60 grand or less are delusional….I guess you wont get the message until all of you have seen YOUR job eliminated.

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HD

Amen!!!

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Thanks for the music…nice…turkey…? Boar’s Head breast cold cut…you can have the rest of the nasty bird, stuffing, dressing and all!

As for the terms and what they mean…I am a liberal fundametalist and I have little problem entering into a rewarding dialogue with a conservative fundamentalist, or a Christian fundamentalist, Marxist fundamentalist or what have you…we are discussing the fundamentals…so many who go wearing this, that or the other label haven’t the vaguest notion of the -isms fundamentals and thus no starting point. But, given the use of Engrish, call yourself a fundamentalist and see what happens…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db1s-eV-Bd0&feature=related

yesssssssssss we can AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sssssssssssssssssssssssss

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Back at ya’ Bruno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZiPT1m-4c&feature=related

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Ahhh josef nix, don’t be such a moron. As you seem to have some understanding, you should very well know that “Modern liberalism” (as I’ve referred to it) is essentially the opposite of classic liberalism (which I think you must know).

So, yes, let’s speak the english language properly. Let’s start be reading it properly. And again, to keep the terminology clear, the liberalism you speak of is as far as could be from what a Modern liberal believes.

To be vulgar….read what’s written before posting bulls*%t.

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From CNNMoney.com:

Fed: Recovery may lose steam

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Federal Reserve policymakers are worried that the economic recovery may lose steam going forward, despite recent moderate improvements, according to minutes from their recent policy meeting released Tuesday. … “While participants saw incoming information as broadly consistent with continued strengthening of economic activity, they also highlighted a variety of factors that would be likely to restrain the overall pace of recovery, especially in light of the waning effects of fiscal stimulus and inventory rebalancing over coming quarters,” the minutes said.

How’s that Hope and Change working for ya?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHbVLTRuLkw

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Take…Stimulate

Take…Stimulate?

Take

Take?

Nothing to Take Anymore

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“Arc of a Diver” was the result.

Yeah, he hit a home run with it.

On the -ism’s, I don’t think there’s one that really fits me. Maybe we could become “The Ismless”.

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shows > be

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Liberals.

No amount of education can overcome that much stupidity.

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“Yeah, he hit a home run with it.”

As was the case with “Back in the High Life”. An (under appreciated?) sonic masterpiece…

“The Ismless”

Love that! (Count me in!)

B, been reading some about John Locke. Absolutely fascinating…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt3HXMS0EtE

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Bruno

I find the term “believer” fits me…I don’t claim to know and don’t trust those who do…but I do believe and express those beliefs in the terms and structures of the tradition in which I was raised…sort of the “fundamentals” if you will…

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Well, as usual, my post has been moderated. So what’s new? Nothing. Goodnight.

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We could start a chapter in Panama; call it “The Ismless of Panama”.

Yeah, I know; that was awful.

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leave it to a liberal to worry about how somethings being said, ignoring what is being said.

Only a liberal can think its reasonable to take one persons property and give it to someone else, because “they don’t have it and its not fair”.

Trying to reason with Liberals is worthless. They’re too stupid to argue with.

I love reading all of the comments posted after the ajc blogs. Its like seeing what happens in a 4th grade classroom when the teacher is out.

My wager is that 75 out of 100 posters on these boards either pay zero income tax, or are actually realize a net benefit from income tax. I’d also wager that 50% voted for Hank Johnson and think the guy is brilliant.

oy vey.

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Would someone please “get after” Bookman tomorrow for me? I will be out of town and won’t be here to tell him what I think of his “moderation”. Could it be “provocation” or “life, liberty , pursuit of happiness” ? I dunno. bye now..

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SoCo
Good night!

Fred–
How it’s being said is the key to understanding what is being said…jus’ sayin’

And, L-rd, I wish you’d talk to our accountant. Maybe I should have told him we’re liberals!

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DUSTY

I’ve got a few for him, too, but they’re on hold…he’s been costing me money…

Bruno–
I agree very much with what you say…as AmVet put it one night…just looking up at the stars and contemplating the immensity of it all…awesome in the truest meaning of the word. As for what I say when asked if I believe in G-d, I answer as Granddaddy taught me. “I’m far more concerned about whether or not G-d believes in me.”

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AmVet–I’m not sure how familiar you are with Winwood’s first solo effort, but here’s a smooth track from it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1osn_COoC4

“I’m far more concerned about whether or not G-d believes in me.”

Good point, josef. Every gambler I know has a close, personal relationship with the Lord (and Satan, as well).

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I guess this will be my swan song tonight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXf2PbEPQ-Y

Every night I say a prayer
In the hopes that there’s a Heaven
And everyday I’m more confused
As the saints turn into sinners

All the heroes and legends
I knew as a child have fallen to idols of clay
And I feel this empty place inside
So afraid that I’ve lost my faith

Show me the way, show me the way
Take me tonight to the river
And wash my illusions away
Please show me the way

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Putting the wingnuts away, one nutjob at a time:

Charles Alan Wilson Charged With Threatening Sen. Patty Murray’s Life
SEATTLE — A Washington state man has been charged with threatening to kill Democratic Sen. Patty Murray over her support for health care reform, leaving voicemail messages at her office saying she had a target on her back and “it only takes one piece of lead.”

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good morning 24-hour party people! TnG – you’re bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning!

happy belated Easter – I hope everyone is coming down from their chocolate and Peep highs without crashing too hard!!

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Here’s a morning thought for y’all…

Courage.

You’re a 19 year old kid.
You’re critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.

It’s November 11, 1967.
LZ (landing zone) X-ray.

Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 yards
away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.

You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you’re not getting out..

Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see them again.

As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

Then – over the machine gun noise – you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.

You look up to see a Huey coming in. But … It doesn’t seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.

He’s not MedEvac so it’s not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.

Even after the MedEvacs were ordered
not to come. He’s coming anyway.

And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you
at a time on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses
and safety.

And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!
Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs
and left arm.

He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho .

May God Bless and Rest His Soul.

I bet you didn’t hear about this hero’s passing, but we’ve sure seen a whole bunch about Michael Jackson, Jesse James and Tiger Woods.

Medal of Honor
Winner Captain Ed Freeman

Shame on the American media !!!

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A recent study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania estimated that over-$250,000 households earn 24.1 percent of all U.S. income and pay 43.6 percent of all personal federal income taxes.-AmSpec

And the libs want to suck on them some more, eewwwwww, just sayin….

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Jay, great article. The Republicans have been masterful at distorting the facts about health care and scaring the guts out of people. Now some, such as John Kyl, are asking people to tone down. Well, that’s like un-ringing the bell. The genie is out of the bottle, and as evident by some of the comments on this page, no matter what they say now, many of the gullible will continue to believe that the President is not American and is a socialist!

Furthermore, the Republicans are good at neutralizing the media by labeling them as Obama sympathizers. As a result, we all suffer through interviews from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN where reporters seldom challenge the lies being spewed by their Republican guests. Since when did being objective mean that you can’t follow-up a question when you know the answer contradicts a position held earlier by the individual being questioned?

When Michael Steele was elected to head the RNC, I decided that as an African American I would be open-minded, discard my previous doubts about this RN party, and wanted him to convince me that the Republican Party deserved and wanted the support of this minority. I am still waiting, but not so much.

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Also about Ed “Too Tall” Freeman-

“He served in World War II[2] and reached the rank of first sergeant by the time of the Korean War. Although he was in the Corps of Engineers, he fought as an infantry soldier in Korea. He participated in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill and won a battlefield commission as one of only 14 survivors out of 257 men who made it through the opening stages of the battle.”

What a life. And a great American.

RIP. You deserve it.

How do kids learn about this kind of man with only a single paragraph?
Don’t rely on the state to do it. YOU teach your kids.

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USinUK and jt,
Y’all are hight, of course. While I find it hard to talk to my Grand Kids about my personal experiences, we do talk about these things in general, but with enough emphasis on the times, political atmosphere, etc.

I have been talking with a friend about revisionist history and its impact on future generations who may never find out the truth.
But as long as we have “Harolds” to share the truth, there is still hope.

But still, Michael Jackson? Get real…

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Normal –

“I have been talking with a friend about revisionist history and its impact on future generations who may never find out the truth”

that’s why things like the Shoah project are so important – first-hand reports about what really happened, what things were really like help the truth from being buried.

as for history and how it’s taught, I feel sorry for teachers – they have to cover so much in so little time … they have to make sure their kids are ready for too danged many standardized tests (that really don’t measure knowledge, they only measure retention of factoids) … they are basically put in a position to force-feed snippets of history and literature without teaching them context. They teach that the Brits raised taxes on America without teaching WHY … they teach about Hitler and WWII, but skip over WWI … they barely even talk about Korea and Viet Nam … they don’t explain the middle east at all despite the fact that it’s one of the key drivers in the US’s current situation …

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AMAZING,,,,,,,Obama’s Atlanta-Journal don’t care what the people want……YOU know better what the people want………you tell the people what to think..

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repeal and replace will happen when there are 218 votes in the House, 60 in the Senate, and a republican president. so it will be 2013 at the earliest. and with the attention span of most amuricans, by 2013 the health care imbroglio will be long forgotten.

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thanks for the fantastic obit – talk about a hero!

um, UnU, did you see the last line?

Shame on the American media !!!

Didn’t that maybe make your BS detector go off?

more here:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

Yes, he was a hero. Yes, he deserved more attention than [fill-in-the-blank/missing-white-woman/celeb-scandal-you-hated-at-the-time].

But please, do not encourage the copy/pasters, the guys who get an email forward from their “buddy” that they just had to pass along, that they were too damn lazy to check out to see if it was even remotely current.

Which it wasn’t.

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Good bust dB.

Drudge would be proud.

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Bman – “You expected to get a straight answer out of a politician?”

I think he expected AN answer out of a politician – these guys had nuttin’

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dB – “These blanket condemnations of the “media” serve to denigrate people who are doing legitimate work, some of them risking their damn lives to do so.”

I understand and agree with you – however, we really weren’t engaged in that discussion – it was more about education and how to make sure guys like these don’t get lost in the mist of history

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For the gullible liberal fool who did not believe that the IRS woudl be hiring people to enforce Obmamacare’s mandates on us as individuals:
The IRS yesterday announced its plans to enforce fines against individuals who don’t buy health insurance up to 2% of their income.
Bet our medical records will never leak too.

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UnU, I get it. And I like “Normal,” generally.

But sometimes you gotta point out that someone peed in the punchbowl.

This man was feted at the White House with the Medal of Honor. He has a post office named after him. That is honoring the man’s service.

Screaming about the media attention given to “some Hip-Hop coward beating the crap out of his girlfriend” SIX MONTHS AFTER the man’s passing, and using it to stir crap up in Feb. 2009–gosh, what had just happened, then? Whatever could a guy screaming about a “Hip-Hop coward” be upset about, right about then? think think think…

–well, that’s something else. Certainly not honoring his service. And when an otherwise decent guy like Normal gets sucked into it, and you enable that behavior, frankly, it pisses me off.

Sorry to be such a douchebag about it, it’s what I am sometimes.

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Normal

Thanks for the story about Captain Ed Freeman, something positive and reinforcing to start another day in paradise..

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Vote out the incumbents and start over

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I thought the db stood for decibels.

har.

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I’m sorry I upset you, fair enough?

more than fair. (Hey, I’m the douchebag, here, remember?)

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How about “repeal and reform,” but after we address the issues that are really affecting the majority of Americans right now. And no serious health-care discussion can begin without tort reform at the top of the agenda.

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Replace republicans.

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So the “Birthers” argument is that Obama isn’t really the President because he hasn’t shown sufficient evidence that he is a U.S. citizen. So answer me this question – How is it Obama, running for office against a Republican candidate, under a Republican administration headed by Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, (who’s father H.W. was the former head of the CIA), was so skillfully able to hide his “true” origins from the CIA, FBI, INS, ICE, Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service,Interpol and pretty much every law enforcement agency in the free world? Either Obama actually IS a U.S. Citizen, or, the agencies that we entrust the security of the nation to are so inept that we should all be VERY AFRAID!

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sack

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You have to understand politics. If you are a Repudlickan, then you must necessarily disagree with a Democratic president. Period. You must call him a moron, and draw caricatures of his likeness to der Heetler. You must show how he’s really just a voodoo witch doctor. It’s the law. It’s a rule, like stepping on cracks makes your father brokeback (the gay rat).

In world war two, when the Marines engaged the japanese on all those islands, the japs would yell, “Fook Babe Ruth”, at night. They had to yell that, even if they liked Babe Ruth. It was rule of war, and that law is unbreakable. I wonder how many Marines cared. That’s how many democrats care that the pea-tards in the tea party are rascist secessionists. That’s how many peetards know what they’re saying. It doesn’t matter. They’ll parrot any slogan. it’s the law. it’s a rule. We’ve known that ignorance forms a new face every generation. . There is no question that the Tea Party is the new KKK. It just is. It’s part of the metamorphosis of hate.

It’s the law. Haters will persist in blaming those they hate no matter what the cost, because it’s all they know. Bookman asked the question, and these sophisticated politicians, the best and the brightest of the hillbilly right, had nothing to offer, and yet they still have careers? Yes! Because a nod is as good as a wink in a party of blind horse’s rear ends.

Born-again, flat-earther birther racist-secessionists are here to smear. (how queer).

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Tax problems:

Would no more tax holiday for GE really end up helping Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer? Doubtful. “The average Joe should be in favor of lower corporate taxes,” says Hodge, “because ultimately they are paying the corporate income tax. Either as workers, getting lower wages and fewer jobs, or as consumers, paying higher prices, or as retirees, getting lower dividends and earnings on their investments.”

In the same vein, JPMorgan Chase ( JPM – news – people ) Chief Executive Jamie Dimon has spoken out against an Obama proposal to levy a special tax on banks to recoup bailout costs. “Using tax policy to punish people is a bad idea,” said Dimon. “All businesses tend to pass costs on to customers.”

how will the prez solve the dilemma? why does the prez hate americans?

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Since I’m off today on the taxpayers’ dime (thank you, taxpayers!) I’ll take a minute here and address the question of teaching history. It’s not as hard as you might think, all you have to do is remember the biblical (in public schools? Ssh DADT) “and a child shall lead them,” Forget the textbook beyond it’s menu of terms/dates/key figures they’ll be tested on. Tell the students to memorize those, pop test ‘em on them daily and their scores on the standardized test of standardized humanity will keep the overseers at bay and you can get on with the task at hand. Then spend your time letting them run free in research, reading and written commentary. “What do you think and can you back that up.” You’d be surprized at just how many of the little b*ggers watch the learning channels, what they’ll find on internet, in the library, talking to granma and how excited they are to share that with others. “I was watching so and so and granma told me that and I found this on internet…” Then, the most important question you ask them, “why wasn’t that in the textbook?” Get ready…you’ll get an earful…

Those of us who have a love of history all remember that teacher who stepped outside the box and told us to look beyond the textbook and to look at our own stories from our own families, our own traditions and compare and contrast those with others and, when we said, “I’m confused…” told us, “good, Your’re supposed to be. History is confusing.”

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Jay, read Paul Ryan’s roadmap – GOP leadership will have to adopt that eventually.

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Doggone/GA said, ” ‘This is the only piece of major social legislation passed on a strictly party line vote’

And your point is? According to reports there were “hundreds” of GOP initiated amendements…so why did they then vote against it? If they weren’t going to bother to vote FOR it – which they didn’t – they why bother to propose amendments?”

Doggone, Republican ideas were included in the form of about 200 amendments. Wonder why the Republicans voted against it? The answer goes back to what Boehner said long before the vote. Republicans wanted to kill the bill (at the expense of the American people) because they wanted to make HCR Obama’s “Waterloo”. Politics anyone?

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Just curious, Jay…Were you as hard on candidate Barack Obama when he espoused basically the same position that Chambliss and McConnell are espousing now — no pre-existing conditions, no individual mandate?

It is a tough issue, and that’s probably why Obama campaigned deceptively about it. The Republicans are doing the same and they get (deserved) jeers. But Obama’s evasions inspired worship and got him elected.

Morally, ethically, journalistically, explain the difference.

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[...] Top Senate Republicans struggle with the logistics of repealing the individual mandate form the Affordable Care Act. (The Atlanta Journal Constitution) [...]

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[...] both houses of Congress (which is quite unlikely.) And replace? That’s fantasy, too, as my colleague Jay Bookman has explained: So if the GOP plan is going to ensure that pre-existing conditions are covered, as Chambliss and [...]

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