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I agree with your last sentence. And unfortunately, this also means that reasonable opposition to Obamacare is being lumped in with the crazies. Unfortunately, Obama doesn't appear to making any distinction, either, and deliberately so. It's easier to ram through your policies when you can just dismiss your opponents with a stereotyping wave of the hand.
But yes, where were these people decrying socialism and lost rights while Bush passed the Patriot Act, ran up the national debt, sent out stimulus checks, added prescription coverage to Medicare, supported No Child Left Behind, and started the national takeover of banks and mortgage lenders?
Some intellectual honesty and political consistency among the populace would be nice for a change.
Right. Because ALLl those people who were against Bush's ursurpation of power were dems, right? And ALL those who supported Bush were repubs, right? Party over policy? Is life really that simple? Bush supporters were not defending him when he was doing stupid. Can't say the same for the Obamanots.
Intellectual honesty and political consistency? Puh leeeze!
Wow, I guess I'm really out of mainstream society. Since when did the term "Teabaggers" become a derogatory term meaning genitals? I'm really getting old I guess.
Im in the same boat, I made the same mistake....I suppose Im getting old too, as I have apparently fallen totally out of touch with the hip lingo..*sigh* I can only imagine what 30 will be like..
Wow, I guess I'm really out of mainstream society. Since when did the term "Teabaggers" become a derogatory term meaning genitals? I'm really getting old I guess.
Me too. I thought it had something to do with the Boston Tea Party
Wow, I guess I'm really out of mainstream society. Since when did the term "Teabaggers" become a derogatory term meaning genitals? I'm really getting old I guess.
"teabagging is a modern sexual term often used in gay circles and in association with the tea party people, was first used in a joking manner on cable news outlets by Anderson Cooper who is gay and would know full well what the term refers to.
It is sick and disgusting that Americans would be subject to such demeaning vugarity simply for standing up for honest government.
I'm willing to bet, most of them have bought into the lies. It works! It has worked for eons. It worked for Hitler. It works for politicians today.
However, over 50% of us are against it. It makes no difference how we got there, we are there. The number is larger than it has ever been and as more and more people learn what all is in that thing the number will rise, I am very sure.
"teabagging is a modern sexual term often used in gay circles and in association with the tea party people, was first used in a joking manner on cable news outlets by Anderson Cooper who is gay and would know full well what the term refers to.
It is sick and disgusting that Americans would be subject to such demeaning vugarity simply for standing up for honest government.
Thanks for the explanation. I guess I mistakenly took the term "teabaggers" more literally, having to do with the Boston Tea Party.
I do think, though, that the President, and the people in the legislature, should be less quick to dismiss the tea party movement. Disaffected Americans deserve a more respectful hearing than I think they have thus-far gotten.
The only way they've been disaffected is that their party lost the election. It's difficult to give a "respectful hearing" to people who are calling you a nazi.
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