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When I was a middle school kid, I played Pop Warner Football. I was small and not very good, but enjoyed it. I was a linebacker, which meant I grabbed on to other boys' legs as they ran over me. Anyhow, we practiced and practiced and finally played a game. We got beat. All of a sudden one of the husky kids on our team started crying, then a whole bunch of others joined in. I was a pencil neck, but I knew that was pathetic. I just walked off the field shocked. It is a game, you lose sometimes. Sheesh.
We are seeing the same thing now. The gun-toting, firebreathing, ultra macho Tea Party has proven to be a bunch of cry babies. Shocking really.
So a bill you don't like is passed by Congress and then signed into law by the President. You try to stop its passage, but a few of your fellow Republicans vote in favor of it. Then you try to get The Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional. But despite having a conservative majority on the Court, the law stands. You vote to repeal the law, not once, not twice, but 40 times!!! Finally, you try to elect a Republican President, but that too fails. At what point do you acknowledge that you've lost?
Republicans keep saying Obama should compromise. Well here's a news flash. He already has! Obamacare IS the compromise. In order to get the votes needed for its passage, in order to get it even out of committee, Democrats had to make HUGE concessions. No single payer, no public insurance option, no lowering of the eligibility age for Medicare, no being able to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. And yet despite making all these concessions, Republicans still claim Obama is unwilling to compromise. I thnk conservatives don't even know what the meaning of the word compromise is. Then again, they don't know the meaning of a lot of things, like socialism, freedom of religion, etc.
Republicans are like sports fans who complain about the refs when their team loses. If the media asks them a "gotcha" question or doesn't devote enough time to long-debunked conspiracy theories, conservatives accuse the media of having a liberal bias. When a judge rules a way they don't like, they accuse him of being an activist judge.
I'm convinced that conservatives are basically children trapped in the bodies of adults. They throw temper tantrums when they don't get their way, they cling to 2000 year old fairy tales to give them comfort, and they cry when someone threatens to take away their toys i.e. guns. As any parent knows, you don't give in to children. But one thing's clear. If you have the mentality of a child, then you have no business being in government or holding any leadership position.
Lastly, I'm sure conservatives will respond to this thread by claiming it's progressives who are the sore losers acting like children. But that just proves my point. Your best response is tantamount to "I know you are but what am I." Sad.
They did the same with Women's rights,Slavery and CRA.....etc.
So a bill you don't like is passed by Congress and then signed into law by the President. You try to stop its passage, but a few of your fellow Republicans vote in favor of it. Then you try to get The Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional. But despite having a conservative majority on the Court, the law stands. You vote to repeal the law, not once, not twice, but 40 times!!! Finally, you try to elect a Republican President, but that too fails. At what point do you acknowledge that you've lost?
Republicans keep saying Obama should compromise. Well here's a news flash. He already has! Obamacare IS the compromise. In order to get the votes needed for its passage, in order to get it even out of committee, Democrats had to make HUGE concessions. No single payer, no public insurance option, no lowering of the eligibility age for Medicare, no being able to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. And yet despite making all these concessions, Republicans still claim Obama is unwilling to compromise. I thnk conservatives don't even know what the meaning of the word compromise is. Then again, they don't know the meaning of a lot of things, like socialism, freedom of religion, etc.
Republicans are like sports fans who complain about the refs when their team loses. If the media asks them a "gotcha" question or doesn't devote enough time to long-debunked conspiracy theories, conservatives accuse the media of having a liberal bias. When a judge rules a way they don't like, they accuse him of being an activist judge.
I'm convinced that conservatives are basically children trapped in the bodies of adults. They throw temper tantrums when they don't get their way, they cling to 2000 year old fairy tales to give them comfort, and they cry when someone threatens to take away their toys i.e. guns. As any parent knows, you don't give in to children. But one thing's clear. If you have the mentality of a child, then you have no business being in government or holding any leadership position.
Lastly, I'm sure conservatives will respond to this thread by claiming it's progressives who are the sore losers acting like children. But that just proves my point. Your best response is tantamount to "I know you are but what am I." Sad.
You really hit the nail on the head and said it very well.
We see that in the nations that have single-payer.
How so? Those countries are getting the benefit of subsidized U.S. medical equipment/pharma R&D costs. Who's going to subsidize those costs for the U.S.?
NEWSFLASH: ZERO....as in NONE...NADA...ZILCH....NADIR....Republicans voted for the Affordable Care Act.
How could the OP forget that this is one of the very reasons the GOP took the House in 2010 and remains a formidable opponent of the President as a result of that dastardly, bribe-riddled law to this very day?
No, they are not an essential part of the military. And yeah, that's exactly what the military needs. More bureaucrats. They don't even go through basic training, so they don't even make good POGs.
All officers go through the Academy and are trained to use firearms much like the enlisted.
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Since you never served, you would not know this.
US Navy Veteran here. Served from 2007 - 2011 onboard the USS Arleigh Burke DDG51 that was stationed in Norfolk, VA. Was discharged honorably after four years of service.
Any other assumptions you'd like to make about me? Didn't think so.
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Back on topic: if the muslims and Christians get their own chaplains, why not Scientologists? Why not the followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Even atheists (which I consider myself to be) are now demanding to have their very own chaplains. lol
Scientology is not a religion. It has no place in the military nor would it ever be viable enough to have its own Chaplain.
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The Chaplain Corps is unessential, and should be eliminated. The military does not need more "bureaucratic" career fields.
The bureaucratic portion of the Chaplain Corps is only PART of they're job. Did you miss the part where I said they also perform religious duties and help maintain the mental health and stability of the service men and women? I guess so.
Okay then, humor me. Since you seem to have all the answers concerning this, then how would YOU handle the process of abolishing the Chaplain Corps?
"They refuse to compromise because, to them, compromise is capitulation. If you go back to Hofstadter’s work when he’s talking about when the John Birch Society rode high, he talks about how conservatives would see people who disagree as political opponents, but reactionary conservatives saw them as evil. You can’t capitulate to evil."
The right got used to winning everything since Reagan. That's why they turned into unrecognizable monsters when Clinton was elected, and got even worse when Obama was elected. They have a sense of entitlement to the highest offices and are outraged when we lesser people dare to take the White House.
This has been discussed by political observers ever since the Clinton administration -- the first time they overreached themselves in a mouth-frothing, desperate attempt to punish an uppity Democrat. Remember the first government shutdown followed by the midterm GOP slaughter and Clinton re-election?
Wonder how it will turn out for them this time?
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They don't even go through basic training, so they don't even make good POGs.
