Zombies! Zombies!
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/03/armey-conspiracy-theory/
Well, the voter fraud lie was working pretty good for them for the last decade or so. They’re conservatives, 'luci; they’re not gonna change tactics that fast.
Well, they’re right. Couldn’t these people do the very least they could do and die for their country ? The selfishness of those people beggars belief. I mean, really. If you went and got shot at when your country asked you to, you can go and fuck yourself when the country sort of would like you to.
(we really need a Colbert crossed arms smiley)
Senate Republicans say they’ll raise taxes on America’s poor and middle class families
Or, using a slightly more honest spin than the pubbies have given the issue:
Senate Republicans go to the mat on tax cuts for billioniares
Even if the Dems wimp out on message, Bubba in the Red States’ll likely notice how the GOP does not have their back on taxes.
No, the Dems will wimp out on message, AND the Bubbas will not notice how the GOP does not have their back on taxes. Count on it.
Sometimes its not so much what you say, but instead how you say it, for example, Phil “I!!! WILL!!! NOT!!! APOLOGIZE!!! FOR!!! MY!!! TONE!!! TONIGHT!!!” Davison.
Dey back to back, and dey belly to belly
Dey don’t give a damn, tighty-righty awready…
Anti-Muslim speaker to join Romney, Gingrich on stage
It is either brain-numbingly stupid, or they really know their constituency.
I suppose any reminders about Jeremiah Wright would be completely lost on them.
Absolutely not. Bubba believes that at some point is his life, he’ll become a millionaire and therefore he should support economic policies that favor millionaires over his current tax bracket.
It’s the drawback of the American Dream - every numbskull with a high school diploma thinks that eventually he or she will be richrichrich, regardless of how unlikely that is. Therefore, they’re fine with voting against their current interests in service to that future.
Not just “eventually” — any day now the “showers of blessings” that Reverend JoeBillBob has promised them in return for their generous “love offerings” to the Big Honkin’ Gospel Church and BBQ Emporium will descend upon them. Any day!
(Yes, that’s a ridiculously broad brush; but you’d be surprised how prevalent this attitude is among some demographics. Or maybe not.)
Stupid Republican Tea Party idea of the day for 9/14/10: “Let’s nominate a horse porn aficionado for Governor of New York!”
That frantic clickety-clacking you hear is Andrew Cuomo drafting his victory speech.
You can be sure the media will nag him about it.
Tea Party Darling Christine “Masturbation Is Bad” O’Donnell in Delaware has apparently won the GOP Senate nomination, as well.
He’s had it written for months. Andrew isn’t just an Anointed One. He is, mind you. But he’s not just one. He’s worked very hard as an Atty. General, he’s kept his name in the news properly, and he’s worked the streets and the people.
Best part is, as far as I can tell, he’s not evil.
I never quite got this line of thought. As a Constitution-huggin’, rights-embracin’, freedum luvin’ individual, I’m all for voting in (or in the case of judicial results, cheering on) laws and holdings that place significant limits on police powers; that bolster the 4th, 5th, and 8th, Amendments; that preserve every last bit of privilege and protection society has against state intrusion…
…regardless of how unlikely it is that I’ll ever need to avail myself of those protections. It’s just my concept of a fair and just society (and a lot of other things too, but that is a driving force).
I may not agree with Bubbah et al about what makes a fair society, but I don’t think the tenuous connection between beneficiary and voter is a fair criticism.
While this year I wouldn’t consider anything a slam-dunk, Cuomo vs Paladino should be high entertainment with no real risk of Cuomo losing. Then again, unless the state senate can be fixed, I’m not sure any legislation will get passed anyway. (Damn you local paper for having no real results anywhere.)
Hey, Espada lost! That’s something at least. I was hoping for Martland to win locally, but I can live with Breslin.
A good chunk of it is also about making sure that “those people” don’t get something for nothing. Even if they need that same something themselves.
I have a friend who is as anti-welfare as you can get. Didn’t stop him from claiming unemployment while working under the table for his new job, of course.
-Joe
The difference in your analogy is that giving rights to the accused doesn’t take away rights for me. I mean, I suppose in you could make a slight claim if I’m serving on a jury and saying to myself “god, why are we bothering with this? Let’s just find him guilty already!” Or maybe I can make a claim for the dime’s worth of my taxes that funds public defenders in this country, but somehow I struggle through.
But with taxes there’s really no way around it. To have a functioning government, you MUST do at least one of two things: 1) cut services or 2) raise taxes. It’s really that simple. So by saying that the rich don’t need to pay as much in taxes will absolutely -directly- affect the middle and lower class because someone’s gotta pay for it.
This, and thanks for saying it WAY better than I would have.
For me, this attitude was perfectly typified by an experience I had when I was a case manager at a community correctional facility, a program that allows non-violent offenders to avoid prison by providing intensive supervision in the community, in hopes that they may learn skills and ways of coping that keep them living a non-criminal lifestyle.
On my caseload was a woman serving a sentence for…shoplifting and check fraud, I think?..who at the time was homeless and crashing (with her four children) at various friends’ houses. She was receiving ADC (the old version of TANF), Medicaid for her children, free health care at the medical school, free dental care at the dental school, GED education, job retraining, etc.
She came in for one of our weekly check-in appointments, and in the course of our conversation ranted about the elections that year. She stated that she was going to vote for the Republicans, because “the Democrats can’t do anything but screw things up, and screw over people like me with their tax hikes and spending too much money.”
It was at that moment that I came to the realization above - that Bubba (or Bubbette, in this case) assumed that the programs that were keeping her and her children fed were okay for her, not for others, and didn’t need to be funded after she was out of them, and that she was going to be in a tax bracket one day in which she would have to be worried about her tax rate.