Comments Posted By Richard Bottoms
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GOP: OUT OF GAS, OUT OF IDEAS, OVER THE CLIFF
PolitiFact's account leaves out. (I guess they figured they couldn't include everything.) The provision to have Medicare cover voluntary end-of-life counseling between doctors and patients, which Palin described as a mandate for "death panels" and which then touched off a generalized Republican propaganda frenzy, was originally proposed by a Republican Senator from Georgia, Johnny Isakson. In an interview right after Palin's "death panels" assertion hit the airwaves, Isakson expressed some bewilderment about how this common-sense proposal could possibly be twisted or misconstrued into a scheme for government-enforced euthanasia:
How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts. You're putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don't know how that got so mixed up.
The modern GOP in a nutshell. We may get shellacked in 2010, but come 2012 it's over.
Interesting that you've identified the problem, but I doubt seriously anyone will be willing to do anything about it, which is great news for Democrats. For that, you have my sincere thanks.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 22.12.2009 @ 12:56
REFORM IS A TRIUMPH OF PROCESS OVER PRUDENCE
If the bill simply addressed the problem of insuring the uninsured and trying to “bend the cost curve” in health care spending, I have no doubt that many Republicans would have enthusiastically thrown themselves into the process.
I have no doubt you sincerely believe that.
But I just as sincerely believe that if Jesus Christ himself was at the negotiating table, the GOP to a man (or woman) would oppose any bill delivering of health care reform for one singular reason: the 2010 midterm elections.
The strategy has been vote no on everything and pray unemployment is over 10% next November and that the economy is still on life support.
I am telling you now, as a software developer, I have never seen such demand building on Craigslist. Not since 1997 have I seen a wave like this building, an come April it will be roaring like we haven't seen since the internet gold rush.
Can't speak for Regular Joe type jobs, but my gut says the worst IS over and all that's waiting is spring, for construction jobs to kick in fueled by stimulus money. That spark may just do it.
There is huge demand pent up for all the things people have not bought for nearly two years. If we have an economy that is showing signs of real resuscitation by summer the GOP is flat dead.
I don't think you're unaware of that very scenario playing out. Real jobs vs Teabagger Banshees, the Republicans lose.
I sincerely hope you're right - about the jobs thing. Lots of people have been hurting for a long time.
Most analysts don't agree so we'll just have to hope for the best.Sure, there would have been probably 3/4 of Republicans who would have voted no. But then, if the Dems had simply narrowed the scope of the bill, it would have been a helluva lot more popular with the people. They may be conservative but they wouldn't be stupid. A good bill where the hand of government was a lot lighter would have been supported by many in the GOP due to its popularity in their districts.
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Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 21.12.2009 @ 11:51
ABOUT MY DECISION TO LEAVE THE RIGHT
From now on, when you are unresponsive or post stuff non germane to what I’ve written, I am simply going to delete the comment - as I have begun to do in your more egregious cases.
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If I was responding directly to you instead of other posters, who it appears you have no problem with referring to me as both diseased and feeble, I could see where you might have a point.
But since I didn't. I don't.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.12.2009 @ 15:05
So tell us which of these planks of yours no longer apply!
And you people were what, vacationing in Aruba from 2000-2008, because the person you elected delivered on none of that and destroyed your party in the process.
Proof being we control the White House and all of Congress.
So spout all the platitudes you want, but when it comes down to it when you had the chance to do it your way for six out of those eight years you did squat.
Or rather, you did what you do when you squat, and were the recipients.
The fact that you either didn't read that "Creed" or didn't understand it is painfully, painfully obvious. Your response was cringe-worthy.
What in God's name does George Bush, the Democrats, Republicans, or anything you mentioned have to do with my personal beliefs? You only just showed yourself to be an idiot by spouting off about Bush in response to a listing of my political beliefs. Such have nothing to do with who is in office - I believe the same whether Obama or Bush is president - or which party controls Congress, or any other irrelevancy that you just spewed.
From now on, when you are unresponsive or post stuff non germane to what I've written, I am simply going to delete the comment - as I have begun to do in your more egregious cases.
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Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.12.2009 @ 14:10
What planet do you live on?
The one where Obama saved your tail by stopping the global meltdown George Bush skipped town on.
I don't really give a damn what Republicans think. You people voted for George Bush. Twice.
All that matters is the 2% swing vote, who you people will dutifully scare to death with handguns at town halls, talk of watering the tree of liberty with assassinated politicians, militia nuts, and the usual assortment crazies who will be back in forcce next summer.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.12.2009 @ 13:52
You’re a brave man to make any sort of predictions prior to the full results of 2010 being known.
I just thing all the signs point to industry having already cut into the bone. There's nothing left to do but add workers if they wan to meet growth, which I think is coming.
People have a new saving ethic, but they also have two years of not buying stuff. The first 2-3% that get jobs will shop and off it will go.
Plus barely a dime of the stimulus has really been spent on main street. Lot of roads and bridges to build next year.
If Cash for Caulkers is as big a success as the auto injection, we will see limited losses in the elections next year, not through Democratic brilliance but through GOP insanity.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.12.2009 @ 13:28
Care to make a wager on that one?
Without hesitation. The economy is going to take off in the spring and all you r dreams are going to disappear in a puff of smoke.
Whatever troubles we do have will be mitigated by the inability of the teabaggers to restrain themselves from outlandish, illegal, and downright scary behavior towards their own candidates (death threats for voting for taxes?)
You are a bunch of nuts and it will be shown clearly to the American public which party has the mental stability to run the country.
There simply will be no restraint on what these people say and do starting next spring and it will scare the shite out of swing voters.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.12.2009 @ 12:55
Too bad you bailed just before we kick the hell out of the left-wing for the next two or three cycles, but those Che t-shirts are fairly cool.
Actually you guys are in for four or five years of candidates getting death threats, unruly mobs at town halls, and protest with embarrassing signs, racist commentary, & freak show participants who will continue to remind swing voters that the GOP is insane.
The insular teabaggers are convinced the country is ready to throw out the Marxists, problem is here aren't any around.
If unemployment is below 9% by next fall we will kick you a@@es. Certainly if it's that number or lower by 2012 we'll be sending Palin/Jindal (aka Moose & Squirrely) to the bitter defeat in a walk.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.12.2009 @ 12:14
It's really fun watching you guys suffer.
More so since we have the White House and both Houses of Congress. We'll lose in 2010 and kick your a@@ is 2012. As Michale Steele might say, Peace Out.
Who's suffering? I'm having ball.
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Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.12.2009 @ 11:02
Congratulations on your stats.
Won't say I like your politics, but you do present your side well... given what you have to work with of course.
Sarah Palin? Bobby Jindal. You go to war with the conservatives you have, not the ones you want, I suppose.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 10.12.2009 @ 21:42
