Comments Posted By Richard Bottoms
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'THE COST OF DYING:' FALSE CHOICES OR THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN HEALTHCARE?
I can’t stand people who approach these issues as if there is no real moral or ethical dilemma; that people should either be forced to die or that they should get any care they wish in order to hang on to life even after hope for recovery has expired.
And yet that's the box we're in.
Democrats (from their perspective) tried to do the right thing on gun control for 25 years. The minute we said the hell with it, let them keep their damn guns we started winning elections.
Perhaps Obama in 2014 can do something, but it means the Democrats and the Republicans are going to have to hold hands and jump off the bridge together. As long as we have "Death Panels" and concentration camp talk from the adorable Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann, things won't move an inch. But you know you're self you are as much pi**ing in the wind in this one.
Not if in another decade these decisions will be made for us by out of control budgets and massive debt.
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Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 23.11.2009 @ 11:47
COULD WE WIN IF WE HAD TO FIGHT WORLD WAR II TODAY?
Richard: I’ll be charitable, but the fact you are oblivious to the train coming straight at you warms my heart.
We have demographics on our side.
Eighteen year olds who don't give a damn about gay marriage become 24 year olds who won't respond to the dog whistle when used.
Hispanics who hate being called names and used as fodder for scare tactics about stolen elections will put their vote with the Democrats, not the frothing militia nuts of the far right ho have taken over immigration debate.
Gays, well sure there are self haters among every group. Blacks, we've been hip to the Neo-Confederate bent of the party for 30 years. You'll never get us back.
act is every metric about where the country's population lives, what ethnic make we have, and the general insanity of the Teabagger's running the GOP push people away from that party to ours.
Please nominate the Moose Hunter and the Exorcist in 2012 and we'll see what's what.
Palin/Jindal
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 21.11.2009 @ 13:32
Moose & Squirrely/2012
The slow, elongated death of the Democratic Party began in earnest in 1980 and will be completed with the crushing defeat of Obama in 2012.
In what universe will the party that puts Sarah Palin as potential leader of the free world crush a siting president? I know that if you listen Glenn Beck it's the patriotic teabaggers against Marxist enslavement, but on this side of the looking glass the GOP is still the party of a single idea -- tax cuts as solution to every problem.
They're busy fainting over actually bringing the men who inflicted 9/1 on this country to trial.
It's the party of global warming denial. It's the party of the status quo for health insurance, which is a principle reason we are uncompetitive with other countries when it comes to labor.
It's the party of weapons that are overpriced and unneeded, enriching Haliburton and Raytheon instead of preparing for the real threats of the future.
The GOP has staked it's heart and soul on trying to recapture a past that never existed, a rosy America where those with the right colored skin ran everything instead of dealing with the demographic reality of black and Latino swing voters who will run away from freaks like Palin in droves. The young are not obsessed with abortion and whether homosexuals can marry, but the GOP is, so it will not be the party of the young.
You have at best one more election cycle, 2010 where the Republicans might stave off disaster but that's it.
So enjoy your tea, you'll need all the calming come election night three years hence.
Palin/Jindal
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 21.11.2009 @ 00:16
Moose & Squirrelly/2012
Everyone on the Left and Mushy center have done eveything possible to prevent there from ever being another Generation like that. We are being rotted from the inside.
Bring back segregation, the pill -- gone, Mexicans back in their place, women barefoot and pregnant, darkies deciding elections -- the hell with that, and queers getting married, Jesus H. Christ!!!
The world was better when you could just lynch them and be done with it.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 20.11.2009 @ 19:44
A <em>ROGUE</em> REACTION: PALIN IS NO REAGAN
And, before you repeat Palin is no Reagan, I am not asserting that she is.
I detested Regean, everything he stood for, or at least how he stood for it pretty much.
But he was governor of the largest state in the union with an economy that rivals most countries. Palin? Puh-lease.
You people are dreaming.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 20.11.2009 @ 14:29
By subtraction, you get a picture of who she does NOT represent- nonhunters, non-Christians, non-whites.
Being a non-hunting, non-white guy I don't fit the mob she's assembling. The rage at the elites (**cough, jews**), it is pretty typical of evangelistic Christians whose only use for Israel is as cannon fodder for the Anti-Christ at the fulfillment of the End Times.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 20.11.2009 @ 13:44
That means a majority was carved out that agreed to a massive expansion of government and fiscal insanity.
You are talking about the years 2000-2008 correct?
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 20.11.2009 @ 12:00
SUPERBLY OBLIVIOUS TO HIS OWN IDIOCY
Has such a moment arrived for Sullivan? Has he gone so far off the deep end with this Trig birther nonsense that his credibility has been shot even on the left?
Maybe. But since as far as I am concerned he is only voting with the Democrats because he can't stomach a few particular Republicans at th moment, his opinion doesn't sway me much.
John Cole is a much better picture of a real convert from the GOP to the Democratic fold.
Having been the recipient of more than a couple of STFU Richard Bottoms rants in the run up to the Iraq war, long before Cole saw the light, I truly believe in the agony of his loss of faith with the Republican Party.
Thus I take his criticisms of the Democrats with a lot more seriousness than anything Sullivan has to say.
The recent rants about the disappointment with Obama on gay issues for one. What, John McCain and the GOP better for gays? In what universe.
In short, it matters a damn to me what John Cole thinks. What Andrew Sullivan thinks does not, and never has.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 19.11.2009 @ 15:13
PALIN AND HER SUPPORTERS IN A TIME WARP
If unemployment indeed hits 12% as Rick suggests, that will spell “Doom” for the Democrat majority in Congress in 2010.
We'll lose seats, but Doom. Un uh, not hardly bub.
As long as the GOP insists on sending the most conservative (read crazy) politician you have up against your moderates in primaries you'll continue to get smoked in the general elections.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 18.11.2009 @ 20:58
Actually, Reagan did NOT cut spending; he massively increased military spending while also cutting taxes.
Revising the myth of Saint Ronald is not allowed.
As I pointed out, our taxes are already lower than during his terms; So another round of tax cuts won’t help us.
No, no, no. The line is Obama raised taxes the day he was sworn in. Everyone knows their taxes have gone up.
Every unemployed worker in America needs to see Warren Buffet get his taxes cut. That way they'll feel better about the not having a job thing.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 18.11.2009 @ 17:50
