That should have been they’re not their - sorry.
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I feel sorry for the ones who are Democrats who voted against this insanity, but I can’t even squeeze out a morsel of empathy for the tea bagging morons who are sitting around with their buyer’s remorse hoping and praying Democrats will once again save them from their own stupidity so that they can get back to blaming Democrats for their misery.
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He wishes.
We’re just getting our voice. The number of people Republicans have upset vastly outnumbers the number of “Tea Party” clowns.
Republicans need to listen and stop dictating. The majority is speaking.
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Grassley
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“The vast majority of people are getting crushed by Obamacare,” said the human dildo.
Note to journos: ask who, how many, and where is he getting this from?
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This is what is killing us and is what elected Trump. It’s the rightwing radio hate screamers and Fox. They’ve created a different reality with a different America and I don’t know how you get people to believe in our reality when they don’t.
It’s an intractable problem. This was never about the economy. When those people say they’ve been left behind what they mean is not economics, it’s that their belief systems have been left behind because they are based on racial grievance and Jesus. They live in a different reality than we do and it’s based largely on hating us.
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“I feel you. I get it. I’m living it every day,”
…
“The vast majority of people are getting crushed by Obamacare,”
Bullshit.
That statement alone is proof you really don’t get it and live in a bubble of your own partisan divide.
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Now, For 25 cents and a chance at the 2001 Festiva, when is YOUR Congresscritter holding its next meeting, with you, the great unwashed public?
If you do not know or cannot remember the last time you saw the body rented for the name you see on your ballot, it has been too long.
CALL your Congresscritter and ask them when they are coming home, and where YOU get to ask YOUR questions.
What? You don’t know your Congresscritter’s phone numbers? Yep, most of them have at least two. One inside the Beltway, and one at least, in their home state or district, outside of the asylum.
Along with the number for the correct time and your parents, these are numbers everyone should keep on speed dial!
I think pretty much all Congresscritters have no other business than constituent response…
After all, they work fewer than 200 days a year, on average, and take month long vacations. When is the last time you got to do that?
If they spent more time talking to people in their States and Districts than they do fundraising, “Government” in America might just begin to work the way it should.
What a horrible thought!
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“There”, actually, but no biggie. Just close your eyes and you hear the right word.
I’d lend you some of mine, but it’s hard to divide with zero. 1000 likes.
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I’m proud of Team Resistance.
“I think everybody should calm down”
By that you mean we shut up. Fuck you. We won’t until morons like you shut the fuck up…
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Yeah Team Resistance is the only thing that keeps me from being so ashamed of America right now.
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Ok, granted. But just to provoke an argument, what are you doing about it? If more good people ran for office, fewer chickenshits would be making our laws, and lining their pockets.
(And I say that anyone who makes $176,800 a year (or more) and does as little as possible for it is, in fact lining their pockets with public money.)
I’m guessing you’re another Jacksonville resident. Yeah, our state went terribly wrong somewhere along the line.
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Is their politicians learnin’ yet?
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This is the conclusion part of “How to lose a constitutional democracy” published at Vox…
Whether or not the United States moves away from its best democratic traditions doesn’t rest on the Constitution or on simple fidelity to constitutional institutions. Those won’t be enough. Nor will it be enough to belabor the technical legal merits or demerits of specific executive actions, or their opponents’ responses. To do so misses the forest for the trees.
Rather, the degree to which democratic norms and practices are lost in the United States over the next four years will depend on how both politicians and citizens react. The quality of our democracy will depend on what happens on the streets, what happens in legislative backrooms (especially on the Republican side), and, most importantly, what happens at the polls. But it won’t depend, in any simple way, on the Constitution. And at least in this regard, there is nothing exceptional about our current predicament.
Surveying democratic backsliding around the world, the clear lesson is: Not every wolf threatening democracy howls and bares its teeth. Many threats are stealthy. The founders certainly knew that. They did not devise autocrat-proof institutions, but they were keenly aware of politicians’ autocratic tendencies, and felt a great trepidation about whether American democracy should endure.
We would do well to reject feel-good talk about American exceptionalism and embrace some of the founders’ trepidation.
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You really want me to trot out 65 years of liberal activist bona fides?
They are sufficient. That’s all there is to that.
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“The vast majority of people are getting crushed by Obamacare,” he said, without any explanation or explication. Just a gut feeling, so let’s run with it.
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Shows you how society has devolved,. In the greatest civilizations in the world, age used to count FOR you when you tried for public office. Now, in spite of a Congress filled to the brim with 80 year old mummies and ghouls who will only give up power when and if they pass on, age is a reason NOT to do anything.
How sad.
The American people really do choose to disenfranchise themselves.
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I really don’t know what you’re trying say - that I’m not doing my part because I don’t run for office?
If that’s what you think, have at it.
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