Shining example of right winger idiocy...

Originally Posted By disneydad109

I keep thinking about back in the 1990's when Newt & com went to DC and fell flat on their face. I don't care who wins cause I know it will not be us.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

<<I'm not interested in meeting bloviating right wingers, thanks. It's bad enough encountering you guys online!>>

You just gotta love any post that uses the word "bloviating". X gets my vote for post of the month!!

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

<No sense in trash talking yourself.>

At this point I think it's called "managing expectations." The party controlling the white house has lost seats in the midterms all but twice (IIRC) since FDR. The question then becomes how many seats.

With the way the media is talking, if the Democrats lose a bunch but still control both houses (or even one), it's going to be seen at least as a semi-"win."

 

Originally Posted By disneydad109

There for if I lose but not as bad as I expected then I win ???

 

Originally Posted By disneydad109

you couldn't make this stuff up. No one would believe it. What a way to run a country.

 

Originally Posted By Mr X

***You just gotta love any post that uses the word "bloviating". X gets my vote for post of the month!!***

 

Originally Posted By disneydad109

what's that mean ?

 

Originally Posted By gadzuux

>> Even if the Republicans get control of both the house and the senate, they won't have the votes to over-ride a presidential veto. <<

Exactly right - but, for obvious reasons, this is being treated like a big secret.

It's most galling when the right wingnuts talk about "repealing healthcare" - ain't never gonna happen and they know it, but they say it anyway as blatant pandering to the ignorant. And the ignorant think that sounds wonderful - let's repeal healthcare! Let's let insurance companies decide who does or doesn't get treatment, let them collect payments and premiums for years, and then drop people the moment they get sick. Great idea!

While we're at it, let's provide $700 billion in tax cuts to millionaires too! Sign me up.

And why are we regulating these multinational corporations like BP and Goldman Sachs? They never hurt anybody. We're just interfering with their ability to create jobs.

And who are these ivy league swells that are trying to solve this nation's problems? We need people who haven't got a clue about finance, bonds, regulation, taxation, and passing legislation to run the show - you just can't trust those smartypants.


The fact that this cynical strategy even works is too depressing to contemplete.

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

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NEW! disneydad109
Fri 10/15/2010 2:30p There for if I lose but not as bad as I expected then I win ???"

Have you never seen a NH primary?

That was probably the first place to exhibit the phenomenon consistently, but it's spilled into all elections now, pretty much.

And gad, you're right about healthcare repeal. Couldn't pass a Senate filibuster, and in the unlikely event it did, couldn't possibly get two thirds of both houses to override a veto. So one of the centerpieces of the "pledge to America" is a promise the Republicans can't possibly keep--and moreover, they know damn well they can't keep, but make anyway. The cynicism is overwhelming.

 

Originally Posted By fkurucz

>>what's that "" mean ?

Its an emoticon for a grin.

 

Originally Posted By ecdc

>>Its an emoticon for a grin.<<

Really? This whole time I thought it was Japanese for the middle-finger.

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

No that's .l..

 

Originally Posted By fkurucz

Speaking of Right Winger idiocy, the GOP challenger in the senate race here in Colorado won't stop yammering in his mud slinging commercials about how "Obama Nationalized Healthcare".

Nationalized Healthcare? Since when do we have a national health system? The last time I looked in my wallet I still had a card from my FOR PROFIT PRIVATE Health insurance provider and my doctor works for a private practice and the pharmacy where I buy my prescriptions is also a FOR PROFIT PRIVATE business.

But what really fries my bacon is when I see seniors who have their heathcare paid for by the government (Medicare) bitch and complain that they don't want the same benefit for other Americans. Many of these people even proclaim to be "christians" but the truth is they are more concerned with feathering their own nests than being their "brother's keeper".

It's simply despicable and disgusting. Of course these so called "disciples of Christ" have no problem with the country spending untold sums in fighting imperialistic wars of occupation. THAT'S OK, even if we have to borrow the money.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in Imperial Rome. I wonder who will be our Visigoths?

 

Originally Posted By pecos bill

Just like Rome, the American empire is on it's way out.
Our fiat monetary system is finally being exposed as a fraudulent scam of the super wealthy.
Political polarization is at the highest level since the Civil War, effectively crippling our ability to govern rationally.
Mired in a war with no end in sight.
Stuck in a tar-pit recession, with no end in sight.
Top it off with a majority of voters who seem to have a Chicken-Little mentality, too lazy or just plain stupid to educate themselves to the facts, poised to restore power to the party of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.
Optimism in this country is spread about as thin as the American dollar.
All empires crumble, it is a mathematical certainty that ours will too.

 

Originally Posted By disneydad109

on the other hand it's a lovely fall day and I think I'm going to go for a nice walk and then have lunch.
Maybe watch some football this afternoon !

 

Originally Posted By mawnck

>>poised to restore power to the party of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.<<

Which party was that again? It's so easy to get them confused.

 

Originally Posted By gadzuux

>> I think I'm going to go for a nice walk and then have lunch.
Maybe watch some football this afternoon! <<

And that's the myopia that makes the whole thing work.

 

Originally Posted By disneydad109

Works for me !I hope y'll get some bank.

 

Originally Posted By mele

<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/15/hannity-health-care-bankrupt/" target="_blank">http://thinkprogress.org/2010/...ankrupt/</a>

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

I've heard predictions of an imminent currency collapse and the breakup of the United States for several years now. Didn't happen then, isn't happening now, isn't ever going to happen. In the meantime, I will enjoy watching Favre and Moss take apart the Cowboys on a glorious fall day.