The Kubler-Ross model, first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book "On Death and Dying", describes, in five discrete stages, a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness or catastrophic loss.
1) Denial:
"I feel fine."; "This can't be happening, not to me."
2) Anger:
"Why me? It's not fair!"; "How can this happen to me?"; "Who is to blame?"
3) Bargaining:
"Just let me live to see my children graduate."; "I'll do anything for a few more years."; "I will give my life savings if..."
4) Depression:
"I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"; ... What's the point?"; "Why go on?"
5) Acceptance:
"It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it, I may as well prepare for it."
Often, people will experience several stages in a "roller coaster" effect - switching between two or more stages, returning to one or more several times before working through it.
Significantly, people experiencing the stages should not force the process. The grief process is highly personal and should not be rushed, nor lengthened, on the basis of an individual's imposed time frame or opinion
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SO let's see if we can find some evidence that the Grand Obstructionist Party, is really on that "emotional roller coaster" Ride, of Shock and Denial. Afterall, Losing can be SUCH a terrible thing!
1) Denial:
Republican Norm Coleman said today a three-judge panel was "simply wrong" when it ruled unanimously that he had lost the U.S. Senate race
Sounds like "GOP Sour Grapes", and denying the Inevitable, in spite of "Franken's Clear Victory"
Michele Bachman: "I'm not a kook ... the United States ready to abandon the dollar as our native currency"
Few examples of Denial, could be clearer!
Except for maybe Governor "we don't need no stinkin' Volcano Monitoring" ...
BATON ROUGE — Two Democratic lawmakers filed bills today that would let Louisiana tap into $98 million in federal stimulus money to expand unemployment benefits over the objections of Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal.
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Jindal said he'll veto such a bill if it passes. He has refused the unemployment money because he said the dollars would force businesses to pay more taxes.
2) Anger:
Tea Parties: The quintessential expression of Anger ...
In Kansas City, keynote speaker Chris Stigall was one of many speakers who rebutted outside criticism.
"There are some that call this a gathering of hate. If you’re talking about high taxes and government spending, then you’re... damn right. We hate ’em both," he said. "We can’t spend our way out of a problem caused by irresponsible spending."
In a more "muted form" these two anger-mongers, whine about NOT having a Voice: (this is rich)
From the April 9 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
BECK: This -- this is why you are number one and number four. Because what the rest of the media doesn't understand is, this -- these tea parties, again, it's not about Obama. It's about, "Wait a minute. Nobody is listening to me."
O'REILLY: Right. We want a voice.
BECK: Nobody. When the left lost with Al Gore, they had Michael Moore. They had everybody there. We've got nobody --
O'REILLY: Nobody.
3) Bargaining:
People will say the darnest things for a little extension on their "15 minutes", or for just a little respect or even some credibility ...
GOP Budget Plan:
Released today, April 1st, the more detailed GOP budget estimates prompted one White House budget office spokesperson to describe it as an "April Fools joke."
Early analysis of the Republican budget alternative suggests that their plan is based on pretending that neither the economic stimulus package nor the 2009 budget omnibus bill were passed in Congress – or at least that they will be repealed somehow. Their proposal is to freeze all spending at 2008 levels, even as billions of dollars are heading to states to create jobs, shore up state budgets, keep schools open, fix roads and bridges, expand unemployment benefits for the growing numbers of jobless workers and provide some key health care modernization.
The deficit projections in the Republican budget appear to be based on the impossible fantasy that the first three months of this year and the year-long recession never happened.
In Austin, Texas Governor Rick Perry said, "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their noses at the American people, who knows what may come of that?"
Is Sarah Palin looking for "some anti-acid relief" from from her own weaselly rhetoric?
In her Indiana speech Thursday, Palin described "why I have such heartburn over the feds’ economic stimulus package."
She said that "states enticed with federal dollars that have strings attached to them" may eventually "realize that those dollars can actually be bad for our states."
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Palin can veto parts of the stimulus money if she chooses to do so. She also can, on her own, decide not to apply for a $113 million portion of the stimulus money for education and other programs, no matter what the Legislature does.
4) Depression:
Finally a lone voice of rationality -- too bad he's too far out in front of the Pack to be heard ...
Obama Derangement Syndrome
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com - March 30, 2009
I have been watching an interesting phenomenon on the Right, which is beginning to cause me concern. I am referring to the over-the-top hysteria in response to the first months in office of our new president ...
Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.
5) Acceptance:
Perhaps this idle dialog is a small indication, that the Right will eventually come to accept the inevitable, and the obvious --
That they Lost the Last Election!
On Friday, Rush descended to analyzing the "Meaning of Blue Jeans" as a an Indicator of the State of America
OMG -- could he be anymore pathetic?
Rush Limbaugh Radio Show Fri, Apr 17, 2009:
Another break and Rush offered a full-throated endorsement of George Will's latest Washington Post column, in which he decried the pervasiveness of denim in America. Rush proudly declared that he never wears jeans or white T-shirts (although colored T-shirts aren't as bad, Rush thought), and he didn't even wear them in the '60s because he didn't want to be identified with "those in his generation who were bombing buildings." You could always tell a Weatherman by the jeans
Or as George F. Will contemplates the loss of the last 8 years of power (which he helped to enable)
Demon Denim
By George F. Will
April 16, 2009
It is, [Writer Daniel Akst] says, a manifestation of "the modern trend toward undifferentiated dressing, in which we all strive to look equally shabby." Denim reflects "our most nostalgic and destructive agrarian longings -- the ones that prompted all those exurban McMansions now sliding off their manicured lawns and into foreclosure."
Coming to terms with their own irrelevance, has got to make the GOP go through the whole gamut of Emotions --
Why Me? What'd we DO wrong? -- It must be those Damn Libruls! ... it's just gotta be!
Here's New Flash Gophers! -- It's called Democracy!
As it was expressed so succinctly by Jon Stewart recently:
Republicans are confusing "Tyranny" With "Losing"!
Perhaps those in depth commentaries about "Blue Jeans", are an important sign that the Acceptance Stage for the GOP, is just around the corner? ... let's hope so.
Face it GOP -- Losing is NO Picnic! ...
(just try it for 8 Years, see how you like it!)
Quit acting like Spoiled Brats, and try bringing something constructive to the Table next time!
Oh Yeah, one more thing GOP -- GROW UP!
you LOST -- Deal with it!