[Update: see below]
On my blog, mnblue.com, I posted a call to action to contact Rep. Michele Bachmann and ask her to reconsider her vote and vote to override President Bush's SCHIP veto. In the comments, I got this from a Replubican troll:
That you feel the compulsion to propagate these lies and media fallacies. Either you haven't done your homework or you simply buy into the liberal media campaign against President Bush. Either way, it's really rather shameful that you would show support for such an underhanded and flawed program that uses children as a shield for a larger agenda.
I couldn't resist and had to respond ...
-- cross-posted from mnblue.com, home of the Norm Coleman Weasel Meter --
Ahh ... a straw man argument from a Replubican troll. His reasoning is either I have no idea what I'm talking about or I have no idea what I'm talking about so I just related 'liberal media campaign' talking points? Wow. Your inability to construct a logical argument is so typical. Why don't you just accuse me of hating our troops or something? Oh ... right ... this issue isn't about our troops. It's about protecting children. So you accuse me of shamefully supporting an 'underhanded and flawed program'. Yup.
Isn't it shameful that I support protecting children before protecting Replubican sacred cows like privitization is the cure for everything. Look how well our privatized insurance companies are doing ... their executives are making MASSIVE salaries denying coverage to millions upon millions of patients while 47 million Americans go uninsured.
You are correct that I have a larger agenda. It's more accurate to say that I would like to see a single payer healthcare program for the US. SCHIP is a step in the correct direction. Healthcare is a burden on our industries. Take GM as an example. They are spending a ever-increasing percentage of their budget on healthcare. The expense is making them uncompetitive. We spend the most of any industraliazed nation, yet have by far the highest number of citizens without access to preventative healthcare.
It's more accurate so say that I support poor kids getting healthcare.
It's more accurate to say that I see a Replubican Party that is strategically stupid enough to follow a well-despised, lame-duck President off the cliff when it comes to issues that are important to Americans and Minnesotans. Issues such as bringing the troops home (well over 60% and getting higher every day). Issues such as supporting our troops once they're home. Bush and The Replubican party have repeatedly cut the funding for the VA when in control of Congress. Issues like spending billions and billions per day in Iraq through mortgaging our future to the Chinese and then hypocritically turning around and denying a mere $35 billion over five years to add 4 million uninsured kids to SCHIP. That's not fiscal responsibility -- Bush has never been fiscally responsible --you Replubicans have misplaced priorities.
The fact that the Replubican party has split over this issue says even more. Many Replubicans up for reelection and in tight races are NOT supporting His Shrubness. They do not want YET another issue to help sink their reelection campaigns. Furthermore, if you read what all these Replubicans who 'shamefully' support "such an underhanded and flawed program that uses children as a shield for a larger agenda", they are saying that they decided to support the children if they said anything at all.
That we both feel no shame says more about you than it does about me. I am ashamed, ashamed of a long list of things.
I am ashamed of a President that has lied us into war.
I am ashamed of a President who could not help the people of New Orleans.
I am ashamed of a President that cannot speak coherently in public.
I am ashamed of a President who promotes torture.
I am ashamed of a President who will destroy the Constitution for short-term political gain for the Replubican party.
I am ashamed of a President who continues to fail to fight the reall terrorists in Afghanistan.
I am ashamed of a President who enriches the wealthiest Americans with tax cuts yet denies poor kids insurance.
I am ashamed of a President who is completely unwilling to admit that his policies are damaging America.
I am ashamed of the worst President in the history of the United States.
I am ashamed of these things for you, Arclightzero, since you are a conservative and completely incapable of being ashamed of anything His Shrubness has done including denying healthcare to millions of ininsured kids.
Keep on drinkin' the kool aid ...
[Update]
What really fascinating is the right wing trolls have descended upon mnblue.com. If you think I'm long-winded (I certainly can be ...), read their comments here.