I do enjoy psychological analyses of right wingers, even if they’re just pop-psychology.
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And a presidential election.
You are very foolish if you think the GOTP has given up on getting rid of Obamacare. They will by fair means or foul (mostly foul) keep trying to eliminate it.
If you doubt it, just look at Social Security and Medicare.
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I have still not hear a single cogent, rational reason to be against healthcare. Why is it conservative for the minimum amount of people to have healthcare? What’s the right wing ideology on unhealthy, uninsured people everywhere? I just never understood why they picked this fight. It was pointless.
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They basically worked themselves up into a frenzy over the notion that this was a government takeover of health care and socialism. I think they convinced themselves that this was so awful, that they denied any objective reality.
The Republicans found themselves in a morass of cognitive dissonance thanks to their lazy over reliance on contradictory Luntzisms.
When you let young people access private insurance on a moderately regulated exchange, that’s socialism and a government takeover of healthcare. On the other hand, when the government doesn’t pay the entire bill for an 89-year-old coma patient’s unnecessary heart transplant, then that’s a death panel.
Access to insurance on private exhange for everybody= socialism
Not paying for unnecessary treatment for some people= death panel
Thanks, Frank Luntz!
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First, the Teabaggers loathe ANY kind of compromise, which is what our entire government is based on.
Second, Teabaggers believe that Democrats are not just wrong, they are EVIL too. How do you even BEGIN to work with that?
Third, Teabaggers are convinced that Democrats are not only wrong and evil but that they are cowards too. If you just hold firm, they will cave.
Fourtn, Teabaggers are convinced that government is not about getting things done, it’s about BLAME.
Fifth, Teabaggers believe with all their heart and soul that once they get elected, the job is done and strongly disagree that no, that’s when the job BEGINS.
Sixth, the rest of the country simply does not share the Teabaggers’ paranoid fears. So when the Death Panels don’t appear or Obama’s birth certificate shows he was born an American, or Mittens gets the everlovin’ shit beat out of him despite assurances he would win big, they look ridiculous and the people who took them seriously start wondering “what the hell was I thinking?”.
Therefore, voting for a Teabagger may FEEL good for the moment but in the long run they are useless when it comes to governing because not only are they inflexible, they are incompetent besides.
Obamacare is just their latest pratfall.
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I like Dylan Scott’s writing.
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[quote] Even though Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who fancies himself … [/quote] Yes, he does indeed fancy himself. It’s kinda like masturbating in public.
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Be sure to add the other wedge issues, especially the war on women.
The problem is that the fanatics aren’t interested in governing, period. Many of them are so fundamentally anti-government (unless it involves micromanaging the reproductive lives of women and imposing other theocratic values on personal lives) that the last thing they want is to concede even the possibility that the government, especially the federal government, can provide anything of value to people’s lives.
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Disbelief is surrendering midterm elections with less than 15% registered turnout.
Hey Teatard Jim DeMint over there at the Heritige Foundation! THIS could be your party’s …~wait for it!~…WATERLOO!
bwwaahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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Over the years I’ve seen several studies that show that self-described conservatives think different than moderate or liberal people.
They are not less intelligent than the general population in an IQ sense, but their thinking is what I call “binary” – yes/no, right/wrong/good/bad. They’re incapable of nuanced thinking. They’re also people more likely to lock themselves into their ideology and see moderate or liberal people as morally weak.
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While the Repubs can conjure up a multitude of things to piss and moan about when they are proven otherwise on a singular issue, their death spiral continues, justifiably so.
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Hey House Baggers! Time for another vote (what’s the count now? 54? 55?) to overturn Obamacare!
It’s really workin’ for you, n’est-ce pas ?
Since it’s the ONLY f’n’ thing you useless GOPutzes have done in 5 years…might as well not give up now! The American public just loves ya’ for it, huh?? LMAO
So Sarah Palin was right about Obamacare death panels? Obamacare seems to have killed off the GOP.
There are important lessons in evolutionary theory: An organism either adapts to changing circumstances or it becomes extinct. Fortunately for the world, Republicans don’t believe in evolution.
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They may yet gain temporary control over the Senate in '14 but that won’t last. Gramps and Granny are dying. No shows in '14 will probably be back for the main event in '16.
Wait 'till you see their plan. They’ve been spending years “working” on it, so its sure to be great!
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Eternal vigilance is the price of Obamacare (and Social Security and Medicare).
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Republicans did come up with their own. “better” plan. It was hatched by the Heritage Foundation and given a test run by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. Obama implemented “their” plan. But their hate for him and their lust for power forced them to mount an irrational attack on it. Now, in classic Republican free market style, new competitors are coming into the market and keeping prices down. And they can’t cheer for it because its not “their” plan anymore, its Obama’s. What a hoot.
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