Originally Posted By skinnerbox After watching GOP leaders in Congress these past two weeks, blocking bill after bill, holding the unemployed hostage in order to secure tax cuts for the top 2%... I would like for those who participate in WE, who voted for Republican candidates for Congress last month, to defend your votes to me. Why did you vote for Republicans? Do you condone their actions and what they've been doing since the election? Do you condone their abuse of anonymous holds in the Senate and threatening to filibuster at every turn? Do you want this country to completely fail by sending tens of millions of Americans into abject poverty in order to make Obama look like a failed President? Is getting Obama out of the White House that important to you? Do you honestly not care who suffers along the way, that unemployment remains high or people continue to lose their homes, just as long as Obama takes the blame for it all and gets kicked out by a Republican? Is making Obama fail so important to you, that you voted for politicians who obviously only care about the super rich in this country and no one else -- INCLUDING PEOPLE LIKE YOU? I just don't see how you folks can look yourselves in the mirror each morning or sleep at night, knowing that you helped create this monster. Come on, GOP voters... please defend this to me.
Originally Posted By Mr X As far as I know, there's only one regular poster who admitted to voting mostly Republican last month, and I think he might have gotten banned recently anyway. So unless one of the trolls shows up to vomit up whatever garbage Rush Limbaugh instructed them to spew, I predict this'll be a pretty short thread.
Originally Posted By Mr X Given the trouncing that Democrats took, I would also predict that there are at least 1-2 folks out there who voted Republican but won't cop to it (I've only known one person to actually admit voting "with the winners" for some sort of bizarre self-satisfaction reason that's beyond me, but it certainly does happen whether people admit to it or not). There's just no way the rabid teabaggers were the *only* ones voting GOP, the numbers were far too significant for that. (here in WE, for the most part we seem to have a fairly liberal crowd with a few moderates, I tend to think the moderates are just as disgusted with matters as the rest of us, but if 1 or 2 went the other way it wouldn't particularly surprise me)
Originally Posted By Mr X I dunno, I missed it except it's a topic that got closed and someone mentioned that some really bad stuff was said. ??
Originally Posted By mawnck Now, X, don't forget the smiley. 2oony was still posting as of Friday morning. DAR, on the other hand, has been AWOL from WE since he monster mashed all over the community standards a few days ago. I no longer participate much in the theme-parkier sections, so I don't know if he's still there or not. I hope he can get his head together soon.
Originally Posted By Labuda 2oony is the most sane of all the moderates here in WE! No way would he get banned. And, if ti doesn't get yanked, I posted a message that DAR emailed me.
