Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/nyregion/democrat-capture-house-seat-in-special-election.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05...ion.html</a> Good luck privatizing Medicare! It turns out Americans only hate government programs that help other people. The ones that help them, they're a-okay with.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 It looks like the Repubs are going to get their butts kicked over the Ryan kill Medicare bill. They just lost in an incredibly red district. The great thing is that they are refusing to admit that the Medicare issue was was they lost...even though it became the main issue of the campaign after the Republican candidate said she would have voted for the Ryan bill. They won't back down from this and they are going to end up regretting it.
Originally Posted By mele <<Good luck privatizing Medicare! It turns out Americans only hate government programs that help other people. The ones that help them, they're a-okay with.>> Ha. Shocking.
Originally Posted By BPSJP Probably all illegals who voted, you know how demoncrats are. And if NY times reported it you know there is an angle there not reporting .
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Probably all illegals who voted, you know how demoncrats are. And if NY times reported it you know there is an angle there not reporting." What an idiotic thing to say.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Probably all illegals who voted, you know how demoncrats are." Wow. Just wow.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 "Probably all illegals who voted, you know how demoncrats are." That statement is wrong on so many levels, but I have to ask, just how many illegal aliens do you think are in that teeny tiny Republic district in Upstate New York?!
Originally Posted By gadzuux Republicans may not want to admit it was a referendum on Medicare, but their stated reasoning isn't much better. They're saying that the loss was due to a 'third party' candidate. The third party here is the TEA PARTY, which is really just a more fashionable term for republican. The real problem for the republicans now is just how far they've gone out on a limb rhetorically. It's hard to imagine them trying to soft-peddle their support for the Ryan plan now, after they've been so emphatic about they need to rally around the bill. Hell, the GOP House already voted nearly unanimously in favor of it. They're surgically attached to this political stinkbomb, and they know it now if they didn't before. I predict they'll say that they have a "messaging problem", and that voters will come around if they just explain it better. Remember it was only a few years back that Bush had his hat handed to him by his own base when he was trying to sell the idea of "privatizing" social security. A year later Wall Street imploded and Bush looked even less credible than usual. I say this all the time, but it reveals itself almost daily - with republicans it's ideology over reality.
Originally Posted By gadzuux I've been beating this same drum for years now - go tell it the mountain!
Originally Posted By Labuda "I have to ask, just how many illegal aliens do you think are in that teeny tiny Republic district in Upstate New York?!" Depends... how big is the average household staff there?
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Probably all illegals who voted, you know how demoncrats are. And if NY times reported it you know there is an angle there not reporting ." LOL, please...that's the best you could come up with? Try harder...
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>They're surgically attached to this political stinkbomb<< LOL! Gadzuux, you really should have your own column. You've got a great way with words.
Originally Posted By alexbook Let's see: 47% Democrat, 43% Republican, 9% Tea Party, 1% Green. That's 52% conservative, 48% progressive. Hardly an endorsement of Democratic policies.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan And just when you think the GOP can't sink any lower, they're now demanding that any aid to tornado victims be offset by budget cuts. America, this is what happens when you sit out an election and let the looney birds win. They want to dismantle Medicare and won't even step away from the talking points to help Americans in the heartland. Hopefully people will remember this crap next election and send them packing.
Originally Posted By gadzuux >> they're now demanding that any aid to tornado victims be offset by budget cuts. << Amazing, isn't it. These folks are standing there in the ruins of their lives, and Cantor is saying to them - "we'll get back to you, once we've slashed some more spending". And then they congratulate themselves on what fine upstanding americans they are.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>And just when you think the GOP can't sink any lower, they're now demanding that any aid to tornado victims be offset by budget cuts.<< I guess the GOP is still the "Stupid Party"
Originally Posted By gadzuux One more - republicans are practically wetting themselves over Netenyahu's speech to congress yesterday. He essentially flipped his middle finger to the US, and they're standing and cheering him on. This, after he gave the president a pedantic lecture - in the white house.
