How to Respond Today to Your Republican Relatives

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 8:08 AM PST

2010/01/20 · 08:08

This morning I arrived at work to find an email from a staunch Republican uncle celebrating the Mass. election results.

The top of my head exploded for several minutes.

After several more moments spent stuffing what remained of my brains back into my skull, I rapidly dashed off a heart-felt response and hammered the send button.

I'm posting my response here in hopes it helps others respond to obnoxious family members. Sadly, we all have them, and days like today inevitably bring them out of the woodwork...

924birdhouse

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Tuesday December 23, 2008 · 8:53 AM PST

2008/12/23 · 08:53

During the campaign we heard a lot about lower income voters whose interests are traditionally catered to by the Democrat party but who instead vote Republican.

I just discovered how Comcast could be helping to steer lower income voters to the Republican party. More below...

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170 votes Show Results

I watch Fox News

170 votes Vote Now!

I watch Fox News

As often as possible - no one else delivers fair and balanced news quite the way they do

6 votes

When hell freezes over

124 votes

To avoid watching Pat Buchanan on MSNBC again

2 votes

To learn how the other half lives

38 votes

Could We Bailout Auto Workers, Not Auto Industry?

924birdhouse

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 2:55 PM PDT

2008/10/27 · 14:55

I'm sure you've read the heasdlines. The U.S. auto-makers want their turn at a federal bailout. They apparently have only a few months worth of cash on hand. They can't sell their cars - or if they could, people can't get financing to buy them. They bet all their money on gas-guzzling SUVs, spending untold lobbying $$$ to fight tougher fuel emissions laws and gas taxes, and this is where is brought them: to the brink of ruin. The ripples to the global economy from the failure of a US auto maker, they say, will make the failure of Lehman look like a splash in the pond.

So what if, for the sake of argument, we let them fail? What if, instead of throwing more good money after bad, we focused on creating a safety net for auto industry workers?

924birdhouse

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 8:15 AM PDT

2008/10/03 · 08:15

Reading this article by Stephen Labaton on NYTimes.com Agency’s ’04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt, and Risk I had an "Ah Ha" moment. I realized that McCain really does favor regulation...he's not lying when he says this.

He's being much more devious than that...

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 7:30 AM PDT

2008/10/02 · 07:30

I grew up in Michigan, but live on the East Coast now. Due to having a job & family, and the rising cost of airfare, I don't get back home nearly as much as I'd like. I think most people realize the economy in Michigan is really hurting, and that Michigan is one of those crucial states for Obama. All my family is still there, and thankfully they've been hanging in there ok, making do with less. In my mind, they're your typical Midwesterners, salt-of-the-earth types - hard-working, church-going, kind-hearted but generally resistant to change. Overall, they are probably slightly more Republican than Democrat. This year, they're split down the middle but increasingly leaning in Obama's direction. One stubborn hold out for McCain has been my 89 year old Grandma. My mom (a lifelong member of the teacher's union, big Obama supporter and campaign volunteer) has been working on her but told me she was getting frustrated. So, I offered to write Mor Mor a letter (in Swedish, we call grandma Mor Mor, which means "mother's mother") (this was right before Sarah Silverman came out with her hilarious video).

More below...

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40 votes Show Results

My grandma

40 votes Vote Now!

My grandma

is already voting for Obama - go Granny!

7 votes

may she rest in peace, would no doubt have voted for Obama

18 votes

thinks it's nobody's damn business who she's voting for

6 votes

is still on the fence but hopefully I can push her onto the right side

4 votes

is hopeless - she's so conservative, she makes Dick Cheney look moderate

5 votes

So, what happens next?

924birdhouse

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 7:20 AM PDT

2008/09/30 · 07:20

A lot of people on here are happy the bailout failed because it was flawed, others are upset that Congress can't get its act together and agree on a bi-partisan solution, and others don't believe we're in a crisis at all. I strongly believe that reasonable, well-intentioned people can disagree, and the truth is usually somewhere in the middle. However, all the signs at this point are telling me we actually are in a crisis, and any way you slice it, US taxpayers are going to be left holding the bag in a really big way. The question at this point for me is, can our Congress act quickly and smartly enough to have some positive impact on where this goes from here?

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 12:58 PM PDT

2008/09/29 · 12:58

This is my first diary post! Here goes :)

I work as an attorney in the arena of business loans. It's interesting stuff - and I've always felt relatively good about doing it because it's the heart of our nation's economy. These are the loans that manufacturing companies take out to build new factories, schools use to buy new school buses, that hospitals take out to upgrade their emergency rooms, that retail business take out to purchase merchandise as they gear up for the holiday season. When business loans are being made, almost always good comes out of it to local communities. But right now, business loans are not being made, and that is very scary to me.

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28 votes Show Results

What happens on Wall Street...

28 votes Vote Now!

What happens on Wall Street...

Stays on Wall Street, baby! It's just like Vegas!

2 votes

Is criminal! Lock up all those greedy Masters of the Universe! And cancel their AmEx cards, too!

3 votes

Means nada to ME. My town has no Main Street.

0 votes

Is giving me a massive headache. I've been researching Credit Risk Derivatives all morning and I still don't have a clue!

7 votes

Reminds me of that train-wreck called Sarah Palin... which reminds me, I meant to start a new diary about her because there really aren't enough

1 vote

Isn't bothering me too much. I've got a million Euros stuffed under my mattress.

1 vote

Is motivating me to finish building that emergency bunker in the backyard and stock up on MREs

14 votes

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