Lunatics Now Totally Running The GOP Asylum
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Tea party nutters are creating mob events at congressional townhall meetings that make those Code Pink demonstrators look like a senior citizen’s social. We elected a black president, the right lost their minds.
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That was fucking awesome! It’s great to live in a country where free speech is tolerated.
Yeah, problem is the conservative mob isn’t interested in allowing the reps they gang up on to speak.
Yup. All to do with having a black president.
Gabriel and SFC, the connection between the opposition to the greatest government takeover in American history and racism becomes more apparent every day.
Just look at … err … umm … ahh ..
And then there’s that
O, wait!
Ink is black!
Racism … birthers … one tablespoon each. Mix well every day for four years. This magic potion will get you in the White House.
“I had felt they would be pointless,” said Congressman Bishop adding that “there is no point in meeting with my constituents and [to] listen to them and have them listen to you if what is basically an unruly mob prevents you from having an intelligent conversation.”
looks like he has totally forgotten that he is a representative of the people.
Congress won’t last much longer until they are done away with and we just vote directly, we have the technology – they are obsolete.
Teaparty members are mostly 3rd party. Quit being a DNC tool.
“That was fucking awesome! It’s great to live in a country where free speech is tolerated.”
I have to point out again and again that too many Americans (normally right-wingers) confuse Freedom of Speech with “freedom from consequences.”
Like you can say and do whatever you want and noone is supposed to respond to it or you should face no negative consequences. And heaven forbid someone counters your ignorance with criticism. That’s “impugning on your right to free speech! They’re trying to censor me!”
Sigh..
And notice how the right-wing trolls are ALWAYS the first to bring up racism in a stupid attempt to claim that racism has nothing to do with anything.
It’s as if racism is at the front of their minds when it comes to anything to do with Obama. As if his race is the biggest factor when discussing him. Sure they’ll say they’re just trying to head off cries of racism, which is noble….
Live-action trolling. Interesting.
Luv, responding to Oliver’s insulting implicit accusation of racism, “We elected a black president, the right lost their minds” makes a person the first to bring up racism?
There’s no point responding to such shameless accusations, though. Some people will always see racism when they want to see it, and that’s one of the reasons it will always exist.
Highest. Form. Of. Patriotism.
Just not since January 20 at noon.
It all depends who gets to be the tyrant.
“The people are revolting!”
Stupid proles, they should just shut up and go home and let their betters run everything…
J.
Well at least it’s nice to see right-wingers caring about the First Amendment again. Now they just need to work at actually having something to say.
Barrack’s color is irrelevant, only Sharpton, Jackson and people who stand to profit through racial turmoil even consider it an issue. Most people who voted for O saw him as the next JFK, not Carter 2.0
If we learned anything from the financial meltdown it should have been to streamline our companies and government; but O and Congress are doing the exact opposite by claiming powers that are not even granted to the federal government.
“Stupid proles, they should just shut up and go home and let their betters run everything…”
Well, most Americans realized that stupid people had their shot the last eight years, and consistently failed to return on investment. So smart people are now in charge. Pretty rational, I’d say.
Stick that in your loyalty oath.
Mr. Willis was the first one to bring up race in this thread by saying the entire opposition the Administration started because he’s black.
I “stupidly” pointed out that nothing in the linked story mentioned one thing about the President’s race, and all seemed to be focused upon the actions of the elected representatives in pursuing an agenda their constituents don’t support.
Again. First person mention race here is our host.
It would be nice if the host of this website wouldn’t imply people who disagree with their congresspeople and are trying to petition them for redress are doing so because they’re insane racists who didn’t care about anything until a black president was elected.
Amazing how in just 15 weeks the Tea Party protesters have gone, in the collapsing burned-out, abandoned squatter’s shack that passes for Oliver’s mind, from an astroturf group fully funded by the GOP…
to running the show.
First they ignore you.
Then they ridicule you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
And the progression continues apace…
Oh man, I forgot about Ghandi’s frustration with a 39% tax bracket.
“Well at least it’s nice to see right-wingers caring about the First Amendment again”
Tens more trillions in debt and 16.5% unemployment will do that to people.
Cons heart 30 percent in administrative costs for private insurance
And oddly enough, william, for left-wingers it seems that their concerns actually decrease when the situation worsens…
J.
And oddly enough, william, for left-wingers it seems that their concerns actually decrease when the situation worsens…
No, you moron: they decrease when we have a patriotic president who isn’t intent on destroying the country.
the greatest government takeover in American history
Someone has yet to point that out to me. Sorry. You guys are scared of your shadows.
You said nothing when the largest government agency in US history was formed and created (Homeland Security) and said nothing when said agency started listening to everyone.
I fail to see how affordable government FUNDED health care=Anarchy.
Sorry, just don’t see it.
I’m not the slightest bit interested in curtailing the 1st amendment rights of these bozos. Imagine all the loverly mediamatters videos we’ll get out of these rallies. They do more to marginalize the right than anything we could do. I bet we can catch at least one of them saying “..and hands off my medicare!!!!”
It is important, though, to point out who’s footing the bill for these “spontaneous expressions of the people’s will”. Those are the real villians in this drama.
Quite right, jr. Because we KNOW that in a government-run system, 30% will seem like NOTHING. Either it’ll be a higher percentage, or a lower percentage of a vastly higher total.
The one thing for sure is that it will be a cluster-fuck.
As P. J. O’Rourke put it, “if you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free!”
Amazing… jr, like the proverbial blind squirrel, found a nugget of truth.
J.
Tea Party protesters have gone, in the collapsing burned-out, abandoned squatter’s shack that passes for Oliver’s mind, from an astroturf group fully funded by the GOP…
to running the show.
Except Oliver didn’t say that. It ain’t the Tea Baggers© runnning the show, it’s the lunatics.
Okay, so maybe they’re right wing shitbag loonies, and I certainly want them to join the teabaggers and birfers in scaring people away from the 28%-er Party of the Republican Confederate Dixie Baptist Uprising, but at least they get out there and fight for their lunatic fantasies of 1890′s revivalism.
Suicida|: looks like he has totally forgotten that he is a representative of the people.
Yes, but he’s also supposed to be a leader. That means you listen to responsible, reasoned voices from all sides (because we are a democracy, do believe in free speech and recognize the value a diversity of views) and then determine what is the best course of action.
I would not want to be a part of any family where the children get to decide what is done because the parents give into them every time they throw a tantrum. Same goes for a country.
Jay Tea: Stupid proles, they should just shut up and go home and let their betters run everything…
No, they should come out, voice their opinions, redress their government for grievances. But do so as adults, not petulant children.
Either it’ll be a higher percentage, or a lower percentage of a vastly higher total.
Well here’s at least one Princeton economist who disagrees. What’ve you got?
I would not want to be a part of any family where the children get to decide what is done because the parents give into them every time they throw a tantrum. Same goes for a country.
Yeah, I think we’ve seen what happens in California when things that shouldn’t be put to a vote are put to a vote. To paraphrase Bill Maher, they’ll vote for no taxes and free beer thursdays.
Jay Tea: Either it’ll be a higher percentage, or a lower percentage of a vastly higher total.
So… you’re opposed to administrative costs in a gov’t run health care plan being lower than those of private insurers?
Jay Tea: Either it’ll be a higher percentage, or a lower percentage of a vastly higher total.
Which is why we spend up to twice as much per capita for health care than other countries that have national health systems – and we still can’t cover all the people.
Jay, your disinformation has already convinced the morons – you’ll have to come up with something better if you want to convince people who actually use their brains for something besides a beer sponge.
Highest. Form. Of. Patriotism.
Just not since January 20 at noon.
It all depends who gets to be the tyrant.
Where have these downtrodden subliterates been a victim of the new socialist tyranny?
Try here.
here
here
or here
See anything like that now, Matt?
The very minute any tea-bag slinging anti-gubnit’ sod even so much as breaks a nail during one of these ginned-up confrontations, they’ll be shreiking about their First Amendment rights being violated or they’re a victim of a Muslim-ACORN-DHS profiling conspiracy.
You’re not living in tyranny, Matt, you’re whining.
JayTea,
Individual income tax receipts are down 22 percent from a year ago. Corporate income taxes are down 57 percent. Social Security tax receipts could drop for only the second time since 1940, and Medicare taxes are on pace to drop for only the third time ever. And Obama and the Democrats want to raise taxes on the middle class to pay for Goldman Sach’s bonuses, union bailouts, and a single payer heathcare plan that nobody wants.
All of this on top of 16.5% unemployment and $12 tillion of debt and we need to just shut up and stop whining?
This long national nightmare has just begun.
And Obama and the Democrats want to raise taxes on the middle class to pay for Goldman Sach’s bonuses, union bailouts, and a single payer heathcare plan that nobody wants.
I wish. I want a single payer healthcare plan, but so far, no one has actually proposed one.
“no one has actually proposed one.”
No worries. Once the tax payer subsidized option runs the private insurers out of business, you’ll have it.
That is the plan my friend.
Once the tax payer subsidized option runs the private insurers out of business, you’ll have it.
Private insurance exists in countries like Canada and France which also have national health insurance.
Why do you think it will be any different here?
That is the plan my friend.
*insert Dr. Evil laugh here*
Getting so sick of these defeatist assholes who say we can’t do what every other industrialized nation has done. We pu people on the fucking MOON!. Stop telling me it can’t be done. That’s not how America operates.
Why do you think it will be any different here?
Probably because Hannity said so. Just a guess.
william: And Obama and the Democrats want to raise taxes on the middle class to pay for Goldman Sach’s bonuses
I call bullshit.
Call.
That is the plan my friend.
Is that before or after O’Bammy institutes one-world government?
How about I tell you it shouldn’t be done because it is going to be far more expensive and deliverer poorer results than even the status quo. Would you prefer that?
Yup. The government put people on the moon and then spent the intervening decades ratcheting us back to a low orbit space station. Let’s put them in charge of healthcare!
Yup. The government put people on the moon and then spent the intervening decades ratcheting us back to a low orbit space station. Let’s put them in charge of healthcare!
Yup. Low orbiting space stations suck. I mean who couldn’t put a space station into low orbit?
Thanks for low orbiting stupid,sfc.
How about I tell you it shouldn’t be done because it is going to be far more expensive and deliverer poorer results than even the status quo. Would you prefer that?
Then how can other countries spend far less on health care per capita, cover all their people, and achieve comparable health outcomes? What is wrong with the United States of America that keeps us from doing that? I say nothing except the lack of will and insidiously powerful industry lobbies. What say you?
I’ve yet to find any of these people who say “it’s gonna be a disaster!!!!!!” who can answer this question cogently.
Compared to colonizing the Moon or Mars, yes they do. It’s a shame it took so long until President Bush came along to envision pushing mankind beyond our orbit again. I sure hope that President Obama will support President Bush’s vision of continuing into space.
By rationing care, free-riding on medical advances made in other countries, and using their monopsony power to dictate prices. Heck, some countries will simply produce their own versions of patented products rather than pay for it.
I’m yet to find anyone who wants to reform healthcare who is willing to reform malpractice law, the medical licensing lobby, and income tax law. We’d be getting a lot better health care for cheaper if we didn’t have artificial restrictions on medical practitioners, excessive insurance fees being paid by those we had, and a whole swath of health care users who will not be paying anything into the system they will be using.
By rationing care, free-riding on medical advances made in other countries, and using their monopsony power to dictate prices. Heck, some countries will simply produce their own versions of patented products rather than pay for it.
And yet, we still manage to have the worst health care of all the industrialized nations in the world (except for Turkey — thank god for Turkey, huh?). Gee, it’s almost like you’re totally wrong, and just regurgitating Corporatist talking points.
Jay Tea, how much was the Socialist health-care that saved your life?
Genuinely curious.
Gabriel and SFC, the connection between the opposition to the greatest government takeover in American history and racism becomes more apparent every day.
So Obama winning the 2008 election was a “government takeover”? Yet another thing to chalk up to Frank’s “List of Loony Lies”.
The government put people on the moon and then spent the intervening decades ratcheting us back to a low orbit space station. Let’s put them in charge of healthcare!
True, and who’s been running the government for the past 40 years? Here’s a hint: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, & Bush II.
Republican’s haven’t proven that government can’t do shit. They’ve only proven that Republicans can’t do shit.
And oddly enough, william, for left-wingers it seems that their concerns actually decrease when the situation worsens…
That’s because YOU think it’s worsening, and everyone knows that you guys are wrong on EVERYTHING.
How about I tell you it shouldn’t be done because it is going to be far more expensive and deliverer poorer results than even the status quo. Would you prefer that?
Wow, can I borrow that crystal ball when you’re done? How are the Knicks gonna do next year?
It’s a shame it took so long until President Bush came along to envision pushing mankind beyond our orbit again.
Mmm-hmmm. Pretty words.
Just pipe down, Eeyore. It’s gonna happen and we’ll be fine.
Frank, guys on government assistance probably shouldn’t bitch about government assistance.
But it does make you a member of the Jay Tea Hypocrisy club.
By rationing care
One of the big things driving our unsustainable growth in health-care costs is the uncontrolled over-use of medical facilities and resources. “rationed” health care in other countries means you get the treatment you need, but getting vastly more than you need is very difficult and expensive. Ask the people in Canada or France if they would rather abandon their “rationed” care for our “unrationed” system, and watch them laugh in your face. Look at the stats to see if those countries get worse results with their “rationed” care. Also, of course, we “ration” care in this country in a different way: the rich get what they want, and the poor get what’s left over.
free-riding on medical advances made in other countries
You mean like these medical advances?
in vitro fertilization: england
first CT scanner: england
heart transplant: south africa
cyclosporine: switzerland
face transplant: france
gamma knife: sweden
mri: US and Britain
coronary bypass surgery: argentina
and using their monopsony power to dictate prices.
And this is bad because…? Oh yes, it reduces the profits of the health care providers. Silly me, I thought the purpose of health care was to keep people healthy, rather than maximize the profits of big health and big pharma, and to ensure a Porsche and a Jag in every MD’s garage.
Your objections say a lot, SFC: they’re all about profit and nothing about health. Maybe you should examine your priorities.
Compared to colonizing the Moon or Mars, yes they do.
Because America’s current health care system is like warp drive!
Way to bring your A game, SFC.
Let me be SFC for just a moment – “Profits are healthy.”
“As long as rich people are healthy, good health will trickle down to the commoners.”
And if health care passes, it’ll be torches, pitchforks, and a tax revolt.
Watcha gonna do about it? Write a snarky blogpost???
LOL!
SFC B: It’s a shame it took so long until President Bush came along to envision pushing mankind beyond our orbit again.
That’s right. Until Bush nobody ever even thought about going to Mars. He was the first person with that idea. Why, if it wasn’t for him pushing to actually institute a program rather than just spouting words, we wouldn’t be having the Ares missions already working on getting us there.
Oh, that’s right. He wasn’t, he didn’t and we don’t.
And if health care passes, it’ll be torches, pitchforks, and a tax revolt.
Watcha gonna do about it? Write a snarky blogpost???
No, we’ll just tell your mother.
The republicans are in love with stupidity….Palin, limbaugh, colter, Malkin and many others that spew lies and hatred on a daily basis. They do undermine democracy when they lie about the issues that are important to this country. They lied about going into Iraq and now there pissed off they lost the election so they try to undermine anything this President is trying to pass.