I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Last one for now:

Sunny, no matter how plain and simple the language, teacrazies will never get it, because they don't want to. I really think these thugs want to shut down the government. In a way I hope they do, because then Dems will probably take back the House in 2014. At that point maybe our government can get something done! 

Here in simple English is what the regressives fail to understand:



The Republican nominees for President lost in 2008 and 2012.



More than 50% of the voters rejected their ideas and their plans.



Voters did not like the ideas and plans of the Republican nominees for President.



Voters did like the ideas and plans of the Democratic nominee for President in 2008 and 2012.



More than 50% of the voters voted for President Obama.



Barack Obama won the Presidency twice with more than 50% of the vote.



Republicans are in the minority in this country.



Their ideas have been rejected by more than 50% of the voters.



Democrats running for Congress actually received more votes than Republicans, but through gerrymandering, Republicans were elected.



Republicans in Congress do not represent the will of the majority of the people.



More than 50% of U.S. voters rejected Republican ideas and policies in two elections since 2008.



There is a process for repealing laws that is outlined in the Constitution.



The constitutional process is that both houses of Congress pass a new bill repealing the old bill. The president either signs or vetos the new bill. Congress can override the veto with a 2/3 majority in both the House and the Senate.



The Republican Party is in the minority. It only controls one half of one third of the government. It cannot muster enough votes to complete the process to repreal the Affordable Care Act.



To shut down the government or cause the government to default on the debt because they are in the minority and cannot do what they wantis subverting the Constitution. That is sedition at the very least.



And I don't give a steaming pile of crap what the ignoramuses say. It is entirely their problem if they don't know the difference between communism and socialism. I am quite sure they think that socialism is a political system. Just makes them look wilfully ignorant. If you are taking advantage of Social Security or Medicare, if you have ever availed yourself of police or fire protection, if you went to public school or sent your children to public school, your opinion of socialism is irrelevant and you are a hypocrite. If you think that poor people should not have adequate nutritition or access to healthcare or health insurance, you are a monster. If you hate the president because he is a black man in the White House, if you call his daughters (little girls!) gangstas or trash or you call the First Lady names like Moo Moo, you are a racist. In any case, I am not interested in anything you have to say.



End of my rant.

ETA: And just for good measure, there is no war on Christianity. If government troops aren't padlocking chuchrs or burning them down, there is no war on Christianity. If you aren't thrown in jail for showing up at church or praying in public, there is no war on Christianity.

And President Obama isn't a tyrant, as has already been pointed out. He is not acting like a king. If he were a tyrant, you would be in jail for calling him the names he has been called. The very fact that you can critize the President and the government without being disappeared or executed means he is not a tyrant and this is still a democracy. Until, of course, the Republicans destroy the Constitution and with it the Republic.

Thanks, notself. I just appended a little more rant. Apparently I am rant-y today. :-)

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RANT ON.

btw, I just learned a new word...

are ya ready?  Maybe it ain't new to all, but it is to me:     Teahadists

Again, I think the word is descriptive - but I also think we can elevate the discussion by simply stating the facts - as RL has just done quite eloquently. Let us not stoop to the level of discourse shown in other places. 
So sayeth the teacher of English and the mother of a philosopher.

ETA - stepping away from the lectern now and I promise to not mention this again.

Lassie - oh English teacher, help!!  Being essentially orphaned at 15, having no parents to correct my speaking of English, and living in ruralsville for nearly 40 years, I have picked up a horrible habit!  How do I correct it???? I say "Her and her husband."  I do not say "Him and his wife."  As far as I know, from my friends, this is my only speaking faux pas.  I have asked my close friends to correct me (and they do), but it's not like correcting "Yeah" into "Yes."  It appears to be much more difficult to self-correct.  Should I say it correctly 100 times a day.  Any suggestions?

RL...everything you said.

Jackie

Some people do notice when they have been lied to and abandoned.

Hi everyone:

    My Dad is back home, doing pretty good, and I'm doing much much better.  He's still 94, still very weak, but he's talking  and he's improving.

     Regarding what everyone on this thread has said about the Republicans shutting down the government and Obamacare - i say - ditto.

    For light relief - check out Jon Stewart and the Bore-Ax.  http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-25-2013/healthcare-bill---ted-s-excellent-adventure---the-bore-ax

Dear Alyson, having had the great pleasure of meeting you, I am sure you were beyond polite with those idjuts, and probably have a sore tongue from biting it so often!

They are filled with hatred for anything and anyone that doesn't agree with the garbage they have learned from their own RWNJ media.  They believe only what they want to believe.  They care only for others who think as they do, others who look like them, others who "worship" as they do.

I have very frequently disagreed with some of our Prime Ministers and their party in power.  I have never, ever, wished my country ill through the issues or bills they have endorsed.  My hope, always, has been that those bills (and eventually, acts of law) would succeed, even though I disapproved of them.  To me, that's called "love of country".

That is why I just find it so incredibly difficult to understand that the GOP is so willing to risk "the full faith and credit" of their very own country because of ideological disagreements.  While it may not be the law, I would consider the GOP's behaviour to be acts of treason, if not simply sedition, against their very own country.

Then again, the GOP has done just about everything in its power to keep the U.S. from improving in the face of the worst recession the country has ever experienced.  That, again, is beyond all rational comprehension.  Although there are many in the U.S. who do not have any desire to see outside their  own borders, the rest of the world (at least, those who actually matter most) are appalled and aghast at what is happening, not least because a government shutdown has major economic and legal concerns for those who trade and contract with the U.S.  And a refusal to increase the debt limit will have beyond major implications for the worldwide economy.

But I'm afraid the GOP and, more especially, the Teahadists, coudln't care less about their very own country.  They can fool themselves into thinking that their ideology will produce  a country that they, and their kind, (and only their kind) will eventually enjoy.  But they are extremely short-sighted, and are being lied to and conned by the very folk they are now idolizing.

Alyson -- safe journey home!

Bon Voyage Alyson!

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