New Rule: You can't use the statement "there will be no cooperation for the rest of the year" as a threat if there was no cooperation in the first half of the year. Here's a word the president should take out of his teleprompter: bipartisanship. People only care about that in theory, not in practice. The best thing that's happened this year is when President Obama finally realized this and said, "Kiss my black ass, we're going it alone, George W. Bush style."
Two months ago, conservative Fred Barnes wrote, "The health care bill is dead with not the slightest prospect of resurrection." Well, if it's dead, you just got your ass kicked by a zombie named Nancy Pelosi. Seriously, the last time a Democrat showed balls like that John Edwards' girlfriend was filming it. Make all the botox jokes and she-shops-too-much jokes you want, but this is the biggest political victory a woman has ever achieved in America. Yes, Nancy Pelosi likes nice clothes. So does Sarah Palin. The difference is Nancy Pelosi pays for hers.
But even before the Democrats got to take a single victory lap they were already being warned not to get used to the feeling, and not to get drunk with power. I disagree. All you Democrats: do a shot, and then do another. Get drunk on this feeling of not backing down and doing what you came to Washington to do.
Democrats should not listen to the people who are now saying they shouldn't attempt anything else big for a while because health care was such a bruising battle. Wrong -- because I learned something watching the lying bullies of the Right lose this one: when they're losing, they squeal like a pig. They kept saying things like, the bill was being "shoved down our throats" or the Democrats were "ramming it through." The bill was so big they couldn't take it all at once!
And I realized listening to this rhetoric that it reminded me of something: Tiger Woods' text messages to his mistress that were made public last week, where he said, and I quote, "I want to treat you rough, throw you around, spank and slap you and make you sore. I want to hold you down and choke you while I fuck that ass that I own. Then I'm going to tell you to shut the fuck up while I slap your face and pull your hair for making noise." Unquote.
And this, I believe, perfectly represents the attitude Democrats should now have in their dealings with the Republican Party: "Shut the fuck up while I slap your face for making noise -- now pass a cap-and-trade law, you stupid bitch, and repeat after me: 'global warming is real!'"
The Democrats need to push the rest of their agenda while their boot is on the neck of the greedy, poisonous old reptile. Who cares if a cap-and-trade bill isn't popular, neither was health care. Your poll numbers may have descended a bit, but so did your testicles.
So don't stop: we need to regulate the banks, we need to overhaul immigration, we need to end corporate welfare including at the Pentagon, we need to bring troops home from... everywhere, we need to end the drug war, and we need to put terrorists and other human rights violators on trial in civilian courts, starting with Dick Cheney.
Democrats in America were put on earth to do one thing: drag the ignorant hillbilly half of this country into the next century, which in their case is the 19th -- and by passing health care, the Democrats saved their brand. A few months ago, Sarah Palin mockingly asked them, "How's that hopey-changey thing working out for ya?" Great, actually. Thanks for asking. And how's that whole Hooked on Phonics thing working out for you?
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Every day in every way I try to say the same thing. "Ram it in by reconcilia
Then I go home and watch the Democrats become the very definition of pusillanim
Nooooooooo
" So you think America is the best country in the world but you don't think we can have a better Health Care system than Costa Rica. Really!!"
"You don't think we have money for hospitals and schools but we can spend 200 Million plus on a really cool fighter jet. Really!. You spent hundreds of millions on stealth technology to fight people whose defense consists of the waiter at the corner restaurant giving the enemy a heads up in case something suspicious pops out. Really!"
"So your the party of family values. Really? Because last time I checked strip clubs in LA have a limited kids menu. Really.!"
Bill you are my hero...
A butt kicking offense ,is much better than a prevent defense.
My 90 year old mother in law referred to Obama when first elected as (can't put in print), after the healthcare bill she refers to him as her beautiful son.
Come November a lot of the dissenters will side with my mother in law.
WRONG.
Bigots, Repblican'
Since the great migration from the South, segregatio
You think these people you defend ever had an intention of helping the poorest people get better education and health care?
More money has been thrown at education than you care to admit here. New school buildings, massive increases in teachers pay (who in my district do not want to work in the summers), the newest equipment: with all that a failing district.
Simple: The majority of the school systems are concerned about one thing: protecting their jobs, NOT to teach.
Welfare in the "Great Society" programs is what kept poor people down and now we see the results.
Also, not all money is spent equally. A well-spent dollar carries more weight than a few bucks "thrown at" something.
But know one thing, and it is not often said, but the welfare system was designed to keep a certain class of people in poverty - no education, lots of drugs and alcohol, in a police state,
These people will never compete for spots in college, or the job market, or qualify to live in your exclusive neighborho
The truth is, poverty costs; and if they want to see people stay in poverty you have to invest in the enterprise of poverty. Complain about your taxes all you want, but if they took your tax dollars and really improved the system, then people would have another problem, with all these educated, refined, and qualified Negroes who want to move to Long island
Civil Rights: First of all, MLK was anything but a "progressi
As for all the great social programs that the "progressi
As for the bank bail-outs, you can blame the "progressi
And by the way, "progressi
Last but definitely not the least. How in the world can you call taking the life of YOUR OWN CHILD "PROGRESS" for the human race.
Wake Up all you so called "Progressi
But the bank bailouts? Um... that whole thing was started by President Bush, you idiot. Remember TARP? The second half of that was handed out when Obama took office because it had already been set into motion by the Bush administra
Believe me, under Obama, it will not happen again.
With Freddie Mac and Freddie Mac bleeding red ink, I am sure he will do nothing to bail these quasi government run companies. Wait a minute that is exactly what is going on!
Silly me if I don't believe you.
Some conservati
And remember, conservati
And yes, it's nice to oversimpli
To start out with "You're an ignorant sob" and "You need to read, son" really emboldens your argument? Do you think it might be possible to present your points without this? A little sarcasm is one thing, but what you are doing takes points away from the case you are trying to make.
And sorry, Martin Luther King was assassinat
Humanity isn't very humane.
My feeling is that there's so much in the way of anti-Obama
Save your breath.
Yes King Hardy, King George III of Great Britain would of loved your philosophy
Point out such activity. Raise the issues and abuses regardless from which side of the political spectrum it comes from. Hyperbole is not the solution. It is the problem.