# Liberals, "progressives", Democrats, and other pansies - SUCK IT !! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688 "2010-01-20T13:56:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/41 "2010-01-20T17:18:41Z")
OK, Republicans. Now that you have your victory, let’s see you put your money where your mouth is. Since you have said that Americans don’t want ‘government-run’ health care, I expect to see you introduce bills to abolish Medicare. I’m waiting… ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/42 "2010-01-20T17:30:02Z")
> [@Slappy\_the\_Clown](#): > > The fools you fools foolishly voted into office are being revealed as the fools they are. > > Go fool yourselves. > [@Slappy\_the\_Clown](#): > > 12 views, 11 replies. Can’t get much better than that. Reminder: > [@](#): > > No trolling > > By trolling, we mean posting of inflammatory comments solely to get a rise out of people. If we feel your primary goal as a poster is to make people mad, you’ll quickly find yourself on the road to banning. On the flip side, the fact that a poster consistently makes you mad doesn’t automatically make them a troll. > **[Revised Forum Rules for the BBQ Pit: read this before posting](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=507985)** > > The BBQ Pit is the forum for rants about the outside world or quarrels between posters - often the first turns into the second. Although the standards of discourse are looser than in the other forums, the Pit is NOT a free-for-all - you don’t have to... Please don’t start threads just to get a rise out of people. It’s bad karma. **Gfactor** Pit Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Slappy\_the\_Clown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Slappy\_the\_Clown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slappy_the_Clown)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/43 "2010-01-20T17:47:28Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > Reminder: > > Please don’t start threads just to get a rise out of people. It’s bad karma. > > **Gfactor** > Pit Moderator Understood. I thought what I did was standard pit fare. And not trolling. But you da mod. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/44 "2010-01-20T17:50:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > OK, Republicans. Now that you have your victory, let’s see you put your money where your mouth is. Since you have said that Americans don’t want ‘government-run’ health care, I expect to see you introduce bills to abolish Medicare. > > I’m waiting… You’ll be waiting a long time. Even if they wanted to, taking away a long-established entitlement is next to impossible. In fact, I can’t think of a single instance of this happening. So in that respect at least, it’s not the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/45 "2010-01-20T17:57:33Z")
Eh? What about Reagan’s welfare retrenchment? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/46 "2010-01-20T18:04:19Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > You’ll be waiting a long time. Even if they wanted to, taking away a long-established entitlement is next to impossible. In fact, I can’t think of a single instance of this happening. So in that respect at least, it’s not the same thing. Government-sponsored health care is bad, right? If it’s bad, then it should be gotten rid of. VA is government-sponsored health care. Therefore it is bad and should be done away with. Same with Medicare. Let people receiving VA and Medicare benefits buy private insurance. Either government-sponsored health care is bad and should be abolished, or else it is not bad and the Republicans can’t say that it is. ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/47 "2010-01-20T18:14:31Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Government-sponsored health care is bad, right? If it’s bad, then it should be gotten rid of. VA is government-sponsored health care. Therefore it is bad and should be done away with. Same with Medicare. Let people receiving VA and Medicare benefits buy private insurance. > > Either government-sponsored health care is bad and should be abolished, or else it is not bad and the Republicans can’t say that it is. you haven’t figured out how this works, have you? (i realize that, like me, you are being facetious) ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/48 "2010-01-20T19:36:15Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Potatoe. “Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.” Ahh, sometimes I really miss the [former junior Senator](http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dan_quayle.html) from Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/49 "2010-01-20T19:44:36Z")
What I want to say here is [summed up in this other post of mine here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12017347&postcount=105) I understand it. Really, I do. But I’m not sure it’s the right thing for Republicans to do. I can see many getting complacent real fast. “Oh, we don’t need to campaign against the President’s health care bill. Brown being in the Senate will take care of that.” (I know it really doesn’t work that way, but by reactions I’m seeing out in the general public, some people seem to think it does.) ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/50 "2010-01-20T19:59:45Z")
Oh look, a join date of Dec 09. I didn’t see that coming at all. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/51 "2010-01-20T20:01:53Z")
Fool you, you motherfooler. Fool. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/52 "2010-01-20T20:04:00Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Oh look, a join date of Dec 09. I didn’t see that coming at all. I totally missed it. I was expecting Jan '10. ---
**Author:** ![Slappy\_the\_Clown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Slappy\_the\_Clown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slappy_the_Clown)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/53 "2010-01-20T20:06:17Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Fool you, you motherfooler. Fool. Oh yeah? Well _forget_ you! ---
**Author:** ![Slappy\_the\_Clown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Slappy\_the\_Clown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slappy_the_Clown)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/54 "2010-01-20T20:07:42Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Oh look, a join date of Dec 09. I didn’t see that coming at all. Really? How long to I have to be here to be as big a jackass as you? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/55 "2010-01-20T20:09:06Z")
> [@Slappy\_the\_Clown](#): > > Really? How long to I have to be here to be as big a jackass as you? Apparently just 1 month. Got any more softballs to lob? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/56 "2010-01-20T20:11:21Z")
Six weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Slappy\_the\_Clown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Slappy\_the\_Clown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slappy_the_Clown)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/57 "2010-01-20T20:13:44Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Apparently just 1 month. Hard to tell who you’re insulting, me or Idle Thoughts. Got any more softballs to lob? ---
**Author:** ![Slappy\_the\_Clown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Slappy\_the\_Clown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slappy_the_Clown)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/58 "2010-01-20T20:14:45Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Six weeks. Wrong. Four weeks. One month. See above. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/59 "2010-01-20T20:19:21Z")
> [@Slappy\_the\_Clown](#): > > Wrong. Four weeks. One month. See above. Who gives a shit. You’re a mental defective. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688/60 "2010-01-20T20:26:57Z")
> [@Slappy\_the\_Clown](#): > > Hard to tell who you’re insulting, me or Idle Thoughts. Got any more softballs to lob? Oooooooh, you totally pwned me on that one! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-democrats-and-other-pansies-suck-it/525688.md?page=4)