It’s unfortunate you have a hair up your Democrat about this, but you’re flailing about pretty bad.
Big words from a man who can’t admit that they brought it on themselves, even if they didn’t have some sort of vote straight out of early greek principles of democracy.
They wanted an imagination catching, inflammatory moniker. They picked one, and it grew, just not quite as they expected. That’s how language works. If they want to bitch about it, let em take it to the language purity board for binding arbitration.
nevermind
It’s Hebrew. I learned it as “it would have been sufficient.” Google has it as “it would have been enough for us” or “it would have sufficed.”
It’s from a song we sing on Passover. In part:
If He had brought us out from Egypt,
and had not carried out judgments against them
— Dayenu, it would have sufficed!
If He had carried out judgments against them,
and not against their idols
— Dayenu, it would have sufficed!
If He had destroyed their idols,
and had not smitten their first-born
— Dayenu, it would have sufficed!
And goes on for another 12 examples. We usually added," If this song had only 5 verses, Dayenu," because that’s the kind of Jews were are.
The amount of vitriol aimed at the teaparty movement is surprising to me. I joined this board a few weeks ago and mostly enjoy the discourse with intelligent people. However, as someone who has attended a teaparty (on Tax Day, April 15), I am disappointed to have some of you say that I may be smart or nice, but not both and others hurling vulgarities at me in questioning my intelligence.
I believe that the founders of our nation were the most intelligent men to live and we should be working our way back towards their ideals. We conservatives believe The People do better with their own money than the government will do. I am just floored that people look at me as a radical or some kind of fruitcake because of this.
So what did the caption on the picture of Obama with a bone through his nose on your sign say?
You must be confusing this thread with the one about Rush (decent chap that he is.)
I’m sure he shouted down all those who hurled vulgarities concerning the president, and firmly told those who held such signs that they should leave.
Right, Rafe?
There was no disrespect shown towards the president and there were no offensive signs.
Unfortunately I spent all my money training and equipping the soldier standing guard outside my house, so I don’t have enough to fix the holes in my road, so nobody can drive by my house. I also can’t pay my child’s teacher any more, so we had to send her packing.
At least there’s no government to get it’s hands on my money, because I know I can do better with it than they can.
Yeah right. I totally made that up.
Would you like to see pictures and videos of what vulgarities has gone on at various “tea parties”, so that you might better understand what is being talked about here, or would you rather pretend that most, if not all, of the other “tea parties” were also polite and genteel affairs?
Here are pictures of the one I attended. If any of you can find anything offensive in this story or in the series of pictures I am surprised.
http://www.joplinglobe.com/siteSearch/apstorysection/local_story_105152658.html
You cannot seriously think that conservatives believe government has NO role. Right?
“But I personally didn’t hold those signs up!”
“Did you ask them to put the signs down, or leave when things got nasty?”
No, no, no! He’s talking bout true tea partiers.
Different thing entirely.
Such principled conservatives deserve our respect, and yes, our Awe.
I was speaking of the one I attended. I have no doubts that it existed elsewhere. Just because conservatives may disagree with the administration does not mean we condone any type of vulgarities and disrespect shown towards them. Unlike what many of you have done against me.
That’s just such a trite saying. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t think that taxes should be as low as possible and that the got should only do what is needed. The only question is what are the right levels of taxes and spending. The problem with the tea parties is that there is little more than “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more”.
We started programs like Social Security and Medicare because there were real problems. These programs have been enormously successful in addressing those problems. Medicare has lower overhead than private insurance.
The bank bailouts came about because we were on the brink of a global financial crisis, and the crisis was caused by undoing all the lessons we learned in the 30s and 40s about the need to regulate banks.
The biggest problem we face right now is not that taxes are too high, it’s that taxes are too low relative to spending. The conservatives thought that lowering taxes would starve the got and stop it from growing has not worked. Right now an enormous percentage of the taxes we pay are just for servicing the debt that came about during the Republican administrations. Every day we keep taxes low we are adding to that debt. Deficit spending is just a deferred tax on your children.
Meanwhile the teabaggers hail as heroes people like Joe the Plumber who lied about their background and seem ti have no understanding of basics like gross vs net income or how marginal tax rates work.
So yes, we do hold you in disdain. If you had any real grasp of the problem you would have been out in the streets years ago, rather than waiting until Obama was in office. If you had any integrity you would denounce the birthers, and haters like Limbaugh, and morons like Beck.
The truth is that tax rates are really low right now on a historical basis. Sure we should fight govt bloat. I’d start by stopping the subsidies of Red states by the Blue states.
The irony, is that if we did what tea baggers say they want they’d scream bloody murder.
It’s kind of hard to read any of those posters, actually.
Probably because we are all a bunch of barely literate hicks.