I've made the mistake again of visiting Redstate.
First observation: if the HCR bill is causing this much top-down think-tank-approved propaganda-fed hysteria, I count myself as a wholehearted supporter. I have never seen the right wing in this country throw such an infantile temper tantrum as they are over this bill.
More importantly, I've never seen a bigger bunch of loser crybabies in my life. In particular, I guess I keep running into the same gigantic loser crybaby on RS, but maybe that's because he's one of the only 3 or four people on the site allowed to post diaries. I don't know. Anyway, let's go over the fold to read the incomparable E Pluribus Unum's diary confidently and stridently titled: "If you try the Slaughter Rule, you'll lose the country. Not in November. In March."
E makes some truly astonishing claims. And by astonishing I mean "fucking head-crushingly stupid."
1. The Supreme Court will strike it down within days.
I don’t remember which of the 3 authors I cited said this (or maybe I heard it on the radio), so I don’t know who to cite. But every American has standing here, due to the exceedingly far reach of the Health Care Takeover bill. Somebody will sue. I predict GOP members of Congress will, and it will go straight to the Supreme Court. They will strike down the whole caboodle, and they will do it almost immediately. Probably 6-3, with Breyer and Kennedy voting with the originalists. Their ruling is very likely to include language extremely damning of the behavior of Democrats.
What I love here is how E thinks this is going to fly in a nation where like 70% of the country is in favor of reform. Go ahead. Let the Roberts Kangaroo Court do some more from-the-bench legislating, and let's see what the hell kind of faked-up fucking pretext they use to rule it unconstitutional.
I think the left would respond with a petition drive to add two more SC justices to the court to correct the balance. That's how I would do it.
I also love that he calls Scalia and Co. "originalists." I am pretty sure the Founders did not mean for huge foreign corporations to have unlimited power to buy America's government to act on their every whim. I'm sure there are a lot of powder-wigged corpses rotating briskly in their graves at every single utterance of the Roberts Court.
2. Numerous states will declare statutorily under the 10th Amendment that this law will be unenforceable within their borders.
I’m guessing 20 states. The move has been afoot for awhile anyway, and this blatant flouting of the Constitution will trigger the America-loving, freedom-loving instincts into bold (if rash) action. And while they’re at it, they’re going to say the same thing about everything emanating from the EPA.
Really? I'm guessing ZERO states. It would be awesome to bet E a large sum of money that he's wrong, but he would probably just not admit that he made such a bet.
And, let's ask again where the HCR bill "blatantly" flouts the Constitution. Mr. E, like Inigo Montoya, I don't think that word means what you think it means.
3. There will be public anti-government outrage so great that it will boil into violence.
I do not condone this;
Let me stop you there, Mr. E Pluribus Unum. You just fucking did. Be a man and stand by your own god damned words or shut the hell up. You are now the permanent owner of all violent acts that follow the passing of this legislation, motherfucker.
it will be ugly and more than a little scary.
See, you're not wishing for it or anything. And I'd like to ask E what he knows about 'scary.' Scary is wondering whether or not cancer is going to kill you or put your family in the streets begging first. But you don't give a fuck about that because you're not a fucking human being. Cocksucker.
Lest I give anybody fresh ideas, I will not expound upon it other than to say it will be directed, not generalized — directed at objects, property, and symbols of government, not at people.
E, are you planning to do some vandalism, or are you just frantically trying to spin your just-now-articulated calls for violence by trying to direct the violence that you didn't call for?
Although those who voted for this Slaughter Rule would be wise to perhaps hang around in Washington for awhile.
Is that a threat, you stuttering coward? Why the fuck don't you hang around Washington for awhile if you're so eager to see blood?
What a fucking asshole.
4. (Even more) new candidates opposing incumbent Democrats will come out of the woodwork.
Before you continue, E, I would just like to quote a famous Republican:
Bring it on.
Many already have, but many good ones have considered, then declined.
Could that be because they can read polls, E, and realize that running against HCR (and on behalf of the very-widely-hated health insurance companies) would be the sting of electoral death?
I can only conclude that the diarist at Redstate cannot read. Polls, or much of anything else. There would appear to be a huge problem between the chair and the keyboard. Like a giant fucking howling emptiness of stupid.
Many of those will change their minds, even in blue states. And new ones will pop up like dandelions. And a whole bunch of them will win. The leftist partisan national media currently think Republicans might, juuuuuuuust MIGHT, get 40 seats and the House back. Idiots. It was already going to be 80 and 8. But after this stunt, it might be 120 and 14. This is what happens when the entire center turns on a party.
Howling. Emptiness. It's cold there, too.
5. State AGs will bring charges against sitting Congressmen for whatever they can plausibly pin on them.
Here, E admits that Republicans use the justice system for political revenge. It's not surprising that he's not smart enough to realize that actually saying such a thing just erased all the credibility he ever might have had, but he continues digging as if he didn't just admit that his party engages in such blatant abuse of power. Of course, I recall that there is a certain ex-Governor who is still trying to get some justice for being railroaded out of office by a corrupt justice department.
But E goes on, after admitting and wishing for something blatantly illegal and abusive to happen, to attempt once again to salvage what he just said by trying to pull a thin, feeble shroud of legality over it.
Sedition is the actual crime (IMHO), and that’s a federal charge. But no USA will touch this, since they work for the president. Because members of Congress cannot be recalled, citizens will be thirsting for vengeance. Very loudly. State AG’s will be chomping at the bits to exact SOME form of payback, encouraged (or pushed) by their citizenry. Things like corruption, conspiracy, bribery, racketeering, tax fraud, and so on, will be easy indictments. As the last few months have shown, congressional Democrats have been so thoroughly corrupt for so long, nobody will even have to trump up anything.
I had trouble following this until I realized I had to immerse myself in the fog of Redstate Stupid. Apparently, voting for a bill that the minority opposes is "Sedition." I was unaware that a Congressman doing his job was a traitor.
Of course, Bush scribbling all over the bills that he signed in a lame attempt to re-write them after the Legislature did their job wasn't illegal or unconstitutional, and I guess E is unfamiliar with the edict that "If the President does it, it's legal." Why is it ALWAYS with you Repukes that you have to have it both ways?
Once again, we see how little respect Republicans have for elections, Democracy, or the will of the people. That would be ZERO. Republicans only like elections when they win. Just like most spoiled rotten crybabies who have never had to actually work for anything in their worthless lives. Full of self-entitlement, and a bunch of pathetic sore losers to boot.
6. Republicans will shut down business in Congress until January 5.
Then it will REALLY get fun.
Yes it will, E. Because the Democrats will spend the remaining months of 2010 highlighting how the Party of NO is so petulant, whiny, and such a bunch of pathetic sore losers that they respond to not getting their way by trying to burn the house down.
It will be really fun, because after (slippy quickly counts on his fingers) five months of Republicans sitting in Congress and saying NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, Democrats will just need to roll the tape and ask America to vote for who they think is interested in DOING THE FUCKING JOB OF GOVERNING AMERICA. Clearly, Republicans are applying for another job entirely. I say they can go have that job anytime they want.
Bitches.
Democrats will lose the country days after they pull the Slaughter Rule. They’ll have their illegal law both flouted and overruled, their members will be subject to investigations and indictments, and not a single item of interest will be signed into law, nor will any appointment be approved, before January 5, when a hundred or more of them leave Washington for good.
It is amazing the level of self-delusion over there. I think more than anything else this points up how toxic the echo chamber of right-wing news is to Republicans. They are so convinced of their own bullshit talking points and biased, one-sided reporting and completely phony polling that they are going to go into this fight based on that quivering mass of stuttering nonsense and they're going to run right into a mother-fucking BUZZSAW.
I would like to close this diary by pointing out that E Pluribus Unum is the lowest piece of filth on the planet. I wish Keith Olbermann would give these bastards an award.
And I look forward to seeing the insufferable smirk permanently ripped off Erick Erickson's face when the Democrats steamroll his stupid, worthless party.
Open your mouth, Redstate. We're about to JAM THIS FUCKER down your throat. SUCK IT DOWN.