UPDATE: Jay Inslee (WA-01) town hall: some rowdies; it's the deficit now

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Sunday August 30, 2009 · 4:49 PM PDT

2009/08/30 · 16:49

I just came back from a healthcare town hall held by Jay Inslee, WA-01. I'm in the adjacent 8th, but for some reason Dave Reichert (R in an almost 50-50 district) doesn't want to talk about his plans for healthcare reform. Fancy that.

The meeting was clearly majority pro, but the antis were a large minority. Two major take-aways:

Our side is winning, organization-wise.

The opposition is now focused on the deficit.

More, and pix...and now update below the fold

UncleDavid

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 8:40 AM PDT

2009/08/17 · 08:40

Before the "deathers’" lies meet their own timely end, let’s look at who invented them.

The mandatory government death panels were invented by free-marketers and promoted by true-believer conservatives. Their reasoning is that pure economic, utilitarian considerations would determine whether Grandma lives.

It is a classic case of projection or, in political terms, attacking your opponent with your own weakness. Conservatives have invented a mechanism that aligns with their amoral, market-driven thinking. That is why it gained such currency on the right: it made sense to them. That is why it was so hard for the left to challenge: it was simply so nonsensical.

Also note that, in everyone's favorite red herring, the British NHS, prescription medications are free for those economically worthless seniors and children. So much for that argument against socialized medicine.

When their argument makes no sense, look for a a projection of their own mindset.

UPDATE: links added as requested

Fun with Tea Party Facebook groups

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Friday April 10, 2009 · 9:06 PM PDT

2009/04/10 · 21:06

I just created a nonce email address and Facebook account and added a few innocent suggestions to my local Tea Party's Facebook wall. Suggested slogans like:
"America, Love it or Leave It"
"Opposing the President in a time of war is treason"
"Get over it"

And posting the Electoral Vote totals with a reminder that the Constitution cares about the EC.

I expect to be banned immediately, but it's been fun. Not as much fun as seeing Rachel wet herself though. And it only took a few minutes. I recommend it as a piece of harmless fun for a wet Friday night.

I think I'll close the email account before it gets filled with literally two pieces of hatemail (one of the local events has exactly one attendee).

Any other ideas for mischief? Or did I give the sanity-based community a bad name?

UPDATE: I forgot that one of my email addresses is part of my public info. Someone "reported" me to a long list of email addresses, including Coulter, Hannity, Malkin, O'Reilly, and Beck, and then sent me a message about increased gun sales. So, yes, I've been threatened.

Let them eat tax cuts

UncleDavid

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Thursday February 05, 2009 · 10:18 PM PST

2009/02/05 · 22:18

I have a Modest Proposal that should make everyone happy:

Any State that has two Republican senators shall get their tax cuts. And no stimulus spending. In fact, we can stop sending them net federal money completely.

They voted their leaders. Let them have the courage of their convictions. If tax cuts are what it takes to bring economic nirvana, give it to them. Their states' citizens, awash in unprecedented prosperity, will surely reward their wisdom.

Here's how...

UncleDavid

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Saturday October 25, 2008 · 4:48 PM PDT

2008/10/25 · 16:48

While we have all enjoyed the sport of tearing into Sarah Palin for making fun of what appeared to be research that benefits her pet issue, it turns out that the earmark in question was about the Olive Fruit Fly, Bactrocera oleae, not Drosophila sp. It was not about their use as a genetic laboratory, but about the fact that they are flies that, um, eat fruit.

This was particularly stupid of Richard Wolffe, because that detail about "Paris, France" should have set off loud alarm bells before he went on with such intensity. He should have at least realized something very specific was being cited, and looked into what it was.

More thoughts below...

UncleDavid

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 5:41 PM PDT

2008/09/29 · 17:41

In the latest attempt to rescue Sarah from herself, John McCain told Katie Couric in his most condescending tone:

Governor Palin and I agree you don't announce that you're going to attack another country.

Well, I suppose, unless that country is Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or Iraq-occupied Kuwait. Or Iran.

Does he even care how much sense he is making?

Palin = Agnew: her own words

UncleDavid

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 10:58 AM PDT

2008/09/12 · 10:58

When Charlie asked Sarah about meeting foreign heads of state, she claimed that many Vice Presidents "may" (the weasel word here, by the way) have had the same answer.

The point is not to prove her wrong by listing those who did. The point is to list those who didn't.

The conclusion is obvious...

UncleDavid

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 5:25 PM PDT

2008/03/14 · 17:25

I've had it up to here with so many people here, elsewhere on the net, and even in my own households, echoing TeacherKen's recent jeremiad and threatening me "stop supporting Hillary Clinton, or else".

The "or else", of course, is that in the (increasingly unlikely) event of a Clinton nomination they will sit on their hands and deliver me, and you, and your loved ones, up to a McCain presidency and the Supreme Court from Hell.

I don't like being bludgeoned out of my preference.

UncleDavid

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Monday March 03, 2008 · 11:37 AM PST

2008/03/03 · 11:37

You know, there are still some Hillary supporters who are just as fully members of DailyKos as you are. Yet over the past few weeks we have been pushed around by the total identification of this community with Obama. For a while I was getting won over, but this assumption that "we" are all Obamaniacs has really, really got me pissed.

It feels like venturing into talk.politics.guns, where "we" is all the gun nuts, and all meaningful discussion is closed off.

Let me say now: I think Hillary Clinton will make a far, far better President in 2009 than will Barack Obama. I've never stopped believing it, even when I have been impressed by his charm and openness. Do you really think the Republicans will be so easily toppled by his smile, given their recent no-compromise history?

Go Hillary!

I'm a New Republican

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Friday February 22, 2008 · 10:35 PM PST

2008/02/22 · 22:35

I have to admit it; I'm really a Republican and a conservative. But, like so many Republicans of my age, I am in despair at the gang of authoritarians and proto-fascists who have taken over the party, abused its defining principles, and made the party of my past unrecognizable. So, like many of my peers, I'm looking and hoping for others to join me in re-creating my party, a new Republican party that harks back to our great leaders of the past.

Here are our bedrock principles...

UncleDavid

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Tuesday August 07, 2007 · 3:35 PM PDT

2007/08/07 · 15:35

We should have learned by now the value of framing - of consistently using favorable terms as a way to bend the arguments. For years, the Republicans’ message discipline has been reinforced by strong frames. If we had used constant repetition of phrases like "Iraq Invasion" and then "Iraq occupation", we might be in a different place now. But, no, we have to continue to call it the "Iraq war", and it's imperative that wars have to be won. So we are never able to deepen the debate.

The same can be said of our continuing to frame universal healthcare as an insurance policy. More over the flip.

UncleDavid

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Thursday July 26, 2007 · 10:45 AM PDT

2007/07/26 · 10:45

As I noted in a comment, Bill's front page links (still) to this diary, by occasional diarist Justina, for defending Hugo Chávez. Nothing wrong with that, per se, but of course to his readers that's reason enough to prove his point.

Whether intended or not, it was an pretty good honeypot, because the first couple of pages of comments take the diarist to the woodshed. If his readers click on the link, and if they read the diary, and if they go on to the comments, then... oh, damn, all those filtering "if"s have probably ended up with a statistical 0.1 person.

Better ideas? More discussion below.

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Stop threatening me, Kossacks!

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