November 3, 2010, 8:00 AM
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Yes! Yes! YESSS!!! We DID it!!! All of us who stayed home from voting got it done!!!
The Democrats lost control of BOTH the House and the Senate!!!
That'll teach 'em. NOW we progressives of total ideological purity are going to get what we want!!
And if we don't ever get it, that's the price of having a government bought-and-sold by the corporations.
November 4, 2010
(diary on daily kos, 4:37 PM)
I am sick and tired of reading postings here by Obamabots blaming us true progressives with the loss of the house and the senate. If Obama and Congress had DONE WHAT THEY PROMISED we would have come out for them gladly. So what happened is their own fault -- if they had done enough to get us to the polls, they would have won. And by attacking us, you guys are just making sure we don't go the polls in 2012! (That'll teach you!)
Also, I really am sick of reading that comparison to the Bush/Gore election. That wasn't OUR fault. There was no difference between them, and if Gore had done more to win my vote, I would have voted for him. The fact that we had Bush had nothing to do with the fact that liberals didn't vote for Gore. It was GORE's fault. Besides, if all progressives had just kept the pressure on, he would have had to have done what we wanted.
I'm also sick of people trotting out that old "win the independent voters" garbage. Obviously, this is a liberal country, and if we simply ran on a pure progressive platform, all of those secret liberals who call themselves independent would have come to the polls. The fact that the Rethugs get huge turnouts of everyone -- their base, traditional conservatives and the independents who lean conservative -- only goes to show that, by staying home, we demonstrate our power. Because the independents won't get them in office.
And don't throw electoral math and logic in our faces again! Everyone knows that both math and logic are just ploys used by the corporate interests to keep down the progressive agenda. The fact that, by swinging completely our way, the Dems would lose more independent leaners than they would gain in progressives is just a myth! It's the same reason why the Rethugs (when they controlled both houses of congress and the white house) appeased their most right wing followers by making abortion a criminal act of murder -- because by appeasing the rightest of the right wing, they knew they wouldn't lose the conservative independents. (Oh, wait, they DIDN'T outlaw abortion? After everything they said? Well, that doesn't have anything to do with potentially losing the independent conservative vote. It's some sort of corporate thing, I'm sure.}
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March 21, 2011
4:15 PM
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Unbelievable!!! The rethugs not only took advantage of the dem split to get the bush tax cuts permanent, but NOW THEY'RE SHOOTING DOWN A MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT, PERMANENTLY!!!! A value added tax!!! Totally regressive.
NOW people will rise up against them!!
NOW the new progressive era will begin!!! I don't care if the rethugs are replaying the same song they have for two decades -- THIS time people will get it!!
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June 15, 2011
7:30 PM
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The rethugs are totally brain dead -- all they say, all the time, is "defund obamacare!" "Defund obamacare!!"
How can people be so stupid!!! What we have isn't even good enough!! And there are Beck and Hannitty and Palin arguing this BS all the time that Health Care Reform has destroyed people's ability to get treated for illnesses, and has led to the sick and elderly being killed. No one could believe that!!! And those stupid hearings they held in Congress trotting out every manipulated, misrepresented example they could to prove themselves right? No one would believe it!! Who would believe the insurance companies who testified that they had to increase rates by 75 percent because of HCR??? Everyone would notice that they did it right before the hearing!! It's a scam!
You KNOW we need the public option. That's what we're all fighting for!!! So, if we lose this imperfect HCR, well, I can live with that. I know, I know -- my next door neighbor can't (preexisting condition and all)
But his death is the kind of necessary. If we're going to fight for ideological perfection, there have to be some casualties.
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September 17, 2011
3:21 PM
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I am really sick of all of these "investigative"hearings into the Obama administration. It seems like all the rethugs care about is reliving 2008-2010, and ginning up all of these fake scandals.
I also find it outrageous that Obama hasn't been able to push anything through Congress in almost a year!! If he was REALLY dedicated to the progressive movement, he'd have adopted our agenda. I don't CARE if none of it would have a chance of success. Sometimes, symbolism is more important than success!
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March 15, 2012
1:45 PM
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Obama is a pussy. He should have kept fighting for his supreme court nominee, Strong Liberal, even when the rethugs refused to give her the thumbs up! It was really time for a smart, black woman to be on the court! And Obama backed down, just because he didn't have the votes!!
And this new nominee?? He's awful. Quite Conservative is just another member of the white male power structure, just a conservative democrat who won't be reliable in the future. What the hell!! It's tipping the balance of the court to being more conservative!!
We ALL should bombard the white house with emails and protest outside of congress. That will make me feel morally superior -- I mean, that will show them our point. They can't ignore us!!!
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November 7, 2012
4:15 AM
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Unbelievable! What is wrong with this country?
Mitt Romney had to be the weakest repthug candidate ever!! And couldn't those fools see that by pre-selecting Palin as his vice president, it was just a sop to the teabaggers!!! And all of those right-wing looney arguments -- putting more people in Gitmo, shutting down all programs for the poor, turning over social security to private industry -- who would want that??
And Congress!!! JEEZUS!! Couldn't anyone see how manipulated that all was? When the Rethugs started all the redstricting after the 2010 elections, everyone MUST have seen how they were working to disenfranchise minorities and pull new power into the white conservative areas. And so somehow, THESE CONSERVATIVE DISTRICTS VOTE REPUBLICAN??? Just corporate bought crap.
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May 15, 2014
3:34 PM
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Those BASTARDS!!! The bombing in Iran just started, I saw it on CNN!!! And now Palin is announcing that she's sending troops in!! And calling this "our just cause!!"
God, even Romney wouldn't have been this stupid!!! I wish he hadn't had that heart attack. Palin keeps babbling on about jews returning to Israel -- I know she said it before, like in 2009, but doesn't everyone understand that she is talking about the first step in the End of Times!! And now a new, pointless war in the Middle East!!!
Meanwhile -- I can't believe how awful the Supreme Court is. Quite Conservative turned out to be nothing more than a swing-vote with a conservative bent, and then, boom! Kennedy retired. and they replaced him with Robert Bork!! I mean BORK!!!! No one could possibly support him!!! He's too old! And nut-job conservative. I know that all the commentators were saying this was Palin basically trying to take revenge for her base by bringing bork back, but everyone must have seen that for what it was!! A ploy!! How in the hell did a republican senate confirm him!!
And we have to protest! In just two years, and they've already reversed Roe v. Wade!! EVERYONE certainly opposes that!!
So I'm dusting off my shoes, and getting out my signs, so I can stomp around and protest.
And I'm going to fight to make sure that we have a candidate for the dems who believes EVERYTHING i do. And if they don't nominate one, well, then I'll look for some third party. And if there isn't one....
well...
I just won't vote.
That'll teach 'em.
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(PRESENT DAY...COMMENT ON THIS DIARY)
That was unbelievable!! I am sick and tired of being smacked around by people like you. That's not going to get me to vote! In fact, now I'm REALLY not going to vote given the fact that you -- some anonymous person I have never met -- said mean things about me